Ghast AI debuts in beta

Ghast AI entered beta on April 10 with a pitch that flips the usual chatbot model: keep the assistant’s memory on a blockchain ledger instead of a company server. (markets.businessinsider.com) 0G said Ghast stores user interactions in encrypted form through its 0G Storage system and lets people sync the assistant across devices without a central account database. The company said even Ghast AI itself cannot read those encrypted records. (markets.businessinsider.com) The product’s main feature is what 0G calls “Memory as Asset,” which turns conversation history, preferences, and long-term context into portable onchain records tied to a user’s Agent ID. 0G said those records can be transferred or traded, making the assistant’s memory something a user can carry from one app or service to another. (www.manilatimes.net) That design targets a basic problem in consumer artificial intelligence: most assistants remember things only inside one company’s system, and users usually cannot export that memory in a usable form. 0G is trying to make the memory layer work more like a wallet balance or domain name that can move with the owner. (markets.businessinsider.com) Ghast arrives as 0G pushes a broader “blockchain for artificial intelligence agents” strategy rather than a single chatbot business. On its website, 0G says its stack combines a Layer 1 chain, compute network, storage, and data-availability services for artificial intelligence workloads, with mainnet live since September 2025. (0g.ai) The beta is small but active by startup standards. 0G said Ghast had onboarded more than 830 users and processed more than 30 million inference tokens during beta testing as of the April 10 launch announcement. (www.manilatimes.net) 0G also says Ghast supports multiple agent and tool protocols, including Model Context Protocol, SKILL, and ACP, and that it is building a visual workflow tool for no-code automation. That would put Ghast closer to an assistant that can call tools and run tasks, not just answer questions in a chat box. (www.manilatimes.net) The company is making large scale claims around the business behind the launch. 0G’s site says it has more than 300 ecosystem partners, including Google Cloud, and third-party funding trackers put total capital and commitments at roughly $357 million to $359 million across pre-seed, seed, token commitments, and node-sale rounds. (0g.ai) (icodrops.com) (vcpedia.com) Those partnership and funding figures are easier to verify than the harder question: whether users will want an assistant whose memory can be traded. 0G’s launch materials frame that as ownership; skeptics of crypto-linked identity systems have long argued that putting personal context into transferable assets can create new privacy and speculation risks if safeguards fail. (markets.businessinsider.com) (cloud.google.com) For now, Ghast is less a mass-market chatbot launch than a test of whether people want artificial intelligence memory to work like property. The beta puts that idea in users’ hands first, and the next numbers to watch are retention, not just signups. (markets.businessinsider.com)