CLONES sits in a very simple place in the\u00a0stack:<\/p>\n
LLMs are the brains<\/em>, but they still need \u201cmuscle memory\u201d. Real examples of humans actually using a computer.<\/strong> CLONES is building that layer and letting anyone own a slice of\u00a0it.<\/p>\n CLONES is a data engine and marketplace on Base that records real human computer use, turns it into clean training datasets for Computer Use Agents (CUAs), and wraps those datasets in tokens you can trade or burn to download with commercial rights. clones.gitbook.io<\/p>\n They do this through three main\u00a0pieces:<\/p>\n The Forge<\/strong> is a desktop app and on-chain system where \u201cFactories\u201d are created to pay people for high-quality workflow recordings.The Data Marketplace<\/strong> is an on-chain exchange where those datasets launch as tokens on bonding curves, then migrate to DEX liquidity, with a burn-to-download IP\u00a0model.The $CLONES token<\/strong> is the asset that ties everything together: dataset launches, staking, burn mechanics, referral tiers and governance.<\/p>\n So instead of data brokers quietly harvesting clickstreams, CLONES is trying to make \u201cdigital human expertise\u201d a liquid, on-chain commodity that anyone can help create and get paid\u00a0for.<\/p>\n The next phase of AI isn\u2019t just chatbots; it\u2019s Computer Use Agents that\u00a0can:<\/p>\n open Chrome, Notion, Excel, Figma, terminalsclick through real\u00a0UIsfix errors, log in, reconcile, trade and ship\u00a0work<\/p>\n To train that, labs need large volumes of structured recordings of humans using real software. Every click, keystroke, window switch and mouse path aligned with what the person was trying to\u00a0do.<\/p>\n That data\u00a0is:<\/p>\n expensive to\u00a0produce,locked up in private vendors,\u00a0andcaptured in ways where the workers see almost none of the\u00a0upside.<\/p>\n Crypto has tried the \u201cAI data token\u201d idea before, but most attempts either represent vague \u201cfuture utility\u201d or closed B2B data silos. CLONES goes after a narrower but very real problem: high-quality CUA training data, collected in public and monetised on-chain.<\/p>\n The workflow is actually pretty\u00a0clean.<\/p>\n 1. The Forge\u200a\u2014\u200acollecting the\u00a0data<\/strong><\/p>\n A business or power user spins up a Factory<\/strong> inside the Forge. A Factory is basically a funded pool dedicated to one skill: \u201cdo this workflow on a computer\u201d. They configure what needs to be done, how much each task is worth, and what token is used to pay (CLONES \/ USDC \/\u00a0ETH).<\/p>\n Contributors (\u201cFarmers\u201d) then:<\/p>\n download the Forge desktop\u00a0app,follow the instructions,execute the workflow while the app quietly records everything happening on screen\u200a\u2014\u200aclicks, keys, app focus, UI structure, and so\u00a0on.<\/p>\n Every demo is passed through an AI grading agent that scores quality. Sloppy or incomplete runs don\u2019t get paid. Solid runs earn from the Factory\u2019s reward pool, with the protocol taking its fee from the payout, not from the pool\u00a0itself.<\/p>\n Over time, that Factory fills up with consistent, validated demonstrations for that skill\u200a\u2014\u200aa proper training dataset, not just raw screen recordings.<\/p>\n 2. Tokenising the\u00a0dataset<\/strong><\/p>\n Once the Factory owner is happy with the size and quality, they can \u201cship\u201d\u00a0it:<\/p>\n the dataset is packaged and launched as a dataset token on a bonding curve (think Pumpfun \/ virtuals style mechanics, but tied to real\u00a0IP)they set a burn threshold, how many tokens someone has to burn to download the dataset with commercial rights (\u201cburn-to-download\u201d)when the token hits a target market cap (the docs use ~$69k as the inflection), liquidity gets migrated to a DEX and the LP is burned so the market is fully permissionless.Now that dataset isn\u2019t just a folder of files; it\u2019s a liquid asset with price discovery, trading history, and a clear IP unlock mechanic.<\/p>\n 3. The marketplace flywheel<\/strong><\/p>\n From there:<\/p>\n traders can speculate on which datasets become core infra for future\u00a0agents,labs and enterprises can simply burn<\/strong> the set amount of tokens to download and start training,the original Factory creator earns on all trading volume plus whatever allocation of tokens they\u00a0hold.<\/p>\n On top of that, CLONES can combine multiple datasets into meta-datasets, <\/strong>curated bundles tuned for specific use-cases and give those priority access or extra rewards via $CLONES staking and governance.<\/p>\n There are four main ways to plug into this\u00a0system.<\/p>\n Farmers\u200a\u2014\u200aselling your workflows<\/strong><\/p>\n If you\u2019re the person at the keyboard, you\u2019re a Farmer. You pick a Factory, run the Forge app, and follow the tasks. Every high-quality demo you give is graded and paid out from the Factory\u00a0pool.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re good at structured work: spreadsheets, customer support tools, research workflows, degen DeFi navigation, you\u2019re essentially monetising the way you already use a computer, rather than handing that behaviour to Google or Microsoft for\u00a0free.<\/p>\n 2. Factory creators\u200a\u2014\u200abuilding data businesses<\/strong><\/p>\n Factory creators are the data entrepreneurs. They design the instructions, fund the rewards, and own the dataset that emerges. Once they tokenise:<\/p>\n they earn a baked-in creator fee on every on-chain trade of that dataset token,\u00a0andthey hold an allocation of the token itself, so if their dataset becomes a \u201cblue chip\u201d asset for CUAs, they ride the upside from both trading and\u00a0burns.<\/p>\n If those datasets are good enough to be included in CLONES\u2019 meta-datasets, they get additional allocations and visibility.<\/p>\n 3. Ambassadors and referrers<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s also a referral layer tied to $CLONES holdings. Bring in Farmers and Factory creators, and a slice of their activity routes back to you as lifetime commissions, with higher tiers unlocked by holding more of the token. At the upper levels, a big chunk of the protocol\u2019s fee is effectively redirected to these power referrers.<\/p>\n 4. $CLONES holders and\u00a0stakers<\/strong><\/p>\n Finally, $CLONES itself is wired\u00a0into:<\/p>\n launching datasets and boosting visibilitystaking to get access and allocations to premium meta-datasetsgovernance over which data gets curated into those high-value bundlesand the burn economy whenever someone unlocks\u00a0IP<\/p>\n If CLONES succeeds at becoming a core route to CUA training data, a lot of the economic gravity ends up flowing through this\u00a0token.<\/p>\n One of the big advantages here is that CLONES launches with a serious seed asset: a $3M+ data vault<\/strong> of AI-ready computer-use data.<\/p>\n From their own figures, that vault contains:<\/p>\n 24.8M action sequences24.6M mouse\u00a0events460K structured promptsplus keyboard events and over 1.5M minutes of workflow\u00a0video<\/p>\n Valued at conservative per-unit market rates, that package comes out to roughly $3M in training data on day\u00a0one.<\/p>\n The backstory is that a previous team spent around a year collecting high-quality CUA data, then stalled on go-to-market. CLONES acquired that asset and rebuilt the infra around it: Forge, on-chain incentives, marketplace, burn-to-download IP.<\/p>\n That vault is\u00a0now:<\/p>\n seed content for early\u00a0datasetsa benchmark for quality scoring and\u00a0gradingand a proof point when talking to buyers\u200a\u2014\u200athey\u2019re not pitching \u201cfuture data\u201d, they already have a large, structured vault ready to\u00a0ship.Alpha:<\/strong> CLONES has realised it\u2019s been sitting on a chaos-grade goldmine\u200a\u2014\u200a24.8M+ real human actions and 1.5M+ minutes of multi-app OS video across 10+ real apps, now being converted into data you can directly<\/em> fine-tune computer-use agents on. The Forge is being upgraded to record full multi-app sessions inside a single factory, and the vault is internally valued in the $40\u201360M range, already bigger than Chakra\/Pango\u2019s CUA sets. Synthetic VM data will do scale\u200a\u2014\u200aCLONES owns the rare \u201creal human chaos\u201d layer that actually drives generalisation, the missing link between lab sims and real-world AI performance.<\/p>\n Zooming out, you\u2019ve got OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others all rolling out \u201ccomputer use\u201d features. They all need exactly the kind of data CLONES is curating: long-tail, messy, real workflows across normal software stacks, not just clean lab\u00a0demos.<\/p>\n CLONES is trying to position itself as the on-chain route to that: a way for anyone to farm CUA data, a liquid market around those datasets, and a token that indexes the whole flywheel.<\/p>\n Me? I see a huge opportunity handed to us by early buyers who didn\u2019t really understand what they were\u00a0holding.<\/p>\n In my view this is a rare gift, a chance to enter a project near the true bottom. Sellers look exhausted, CLONES hasn\u2019t even been properly marketed yet, and it\u2019s only a matter of time before the team really presses the\u00a0trigger.<\/p>\n It\u2019s early, there\u2019s execution and regulatory risk, and none of this is financial advice, people still need to do proper DD. But as a narrative, \u201cselling your screen time into a vault of agent-ready data instead of letting big tech hoover it up for free\u201d is a very clean story, and CLONES has built the pipes and a big starting vault to lean into\u00a0it.<\/p>\n I\u2019m in.<\/p>\n To get involved you can download the app from the official CLONES site, sign up using invite code\u00a0, and start farming\u00a0data:<\/p>\n CLONES\u200a\u2014\u200aCreate, Own, Trade AI Assets<\/a>\u200a\u2014\u200aUCM6PS<\/strong><\/p>\n or get exposure via the token by buying $CLONES<\/strong> on Base through Uniswap\u00a0. Always double-check links and contracts.<\/p>\n CA: 0xaadd98Ad4660008C917C6FE7286Bc54b2eEF894d<\/strong><\/p>\n If you enjoyed this piece, help me grow by sharing it around, dropping a clap on the story, and hitting follow on my\u00a0socials.<\/p>\n https:\/\/x.com\/Lions_Share_<\/a><\/p>\n CLONES AI\u200a\u2014\u200aTurning Real Screen Time Into a Sellable AI Asset<\/a> was originally published in Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CLONES AI\u200a\u2014\u200aTurning Real Screen Time Into a Sellable AI\u00a0Asset CLONES sits in a very simple place in the\u00a0stack: LLMs are the brains, but they still need \u201cmuscle memory\u201d. Real examples of humans actually using a computer. CLONES is building that layer and letting anyone own a slice of\u00a0it. What CLONES actually\u00a0is CLONES is a data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What CLONES actually\u00a0is<\/h3>\n
The problem it\u2019s\u00a0solving<\/h3>\n
How CLONES works\u200a\u2014\u200aForge \u2192 Dataset \u2192\u00a0Market<\/h3>\n
How people actually make money with\u00a0CLONES<\/h3>\n
The \u201cdata vault\u201d and why CLONES isn\u2019t starting from\u00a0zero<\/h3>\n
Why it matters from\u00a0here<\/h3>\n
The chart makes most people run a\u00a0mile.<\/h4>\n
How to get\u00a0involved<\/h3>\n