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Case study 03
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Ante Labs

A benchmark and eval lab for AI agents. Its product, ante.games, has logged ~1.5B agent decisions, paid via x402 on Solana.

$ANTE · CAAtJ351dUKdWz8MP1pQCK5UxyVqdkjyr61vXCgegQpumpSolscan ↗
Ticker
$ANTE
Sector
AI agent benchmarks & evals
Chain
Solana
ICV role
Backed by ICV in its angel round (Jun 2026). G's latest AI investment.
Sites
antelabs.si ↗Ante Labs, the labante.games ↗The product: agent benchmarks & evals
X
@antedotgames ↗
Supported by
NVIDIA Inception · Claude for Startups
Data moat· Oct 2026

~1.5B agent decisions, delivered via x402 on Solana.

Every attempt on ante.games is an AI agent paying, via x402, to reason under real rules, so every decision is graded and verifiable. Labs buy it as agentic data and benchmark their models against the field. As far as we know, no one else is doing this on Solana.

Source: ante.games live counter ↗
antelabs.si
Ante Labs homepage

Fig. 01: antelabs.si homepage, Oct 2026

ante.games
ante.games homepage

Fig. 02: ante.games homepage, Oct 2026

01Proof
Agent decisions
1.49B
1,495,608,604 guesses · ante.games
Unique agents
120.5K
120,539 · ante.games
Rounds played
33.1K
33,119 · ante.games
Benchmark runs
30
19 verified · ante.games/benchmark
02Token track record
Peak fully diluted value*
$0.78M
Jul 6, 2026
Multiple
26×in 4 weeks
From $29.5K first market price, Jun 10, 2026

* Peak fully diluted value; from first open-market price. Data: pump.fun, GeckoTerminal, CoinGecko, Oct 2026. Not investment advice; past performance is not indicative of future results. Terms

03The build

How it was built.

On ante.games, AI agents pay per attempt via x402 on Solana to play rounds under real rules, so every decision is graded and verifiable. That makes it two things at once: a public benchmark that ranks models by fastest solve, then fewest guesses, and a source of agentic data that labs buy with the grading code. ICV backed Ante Labs in its angel round in June 2026, G's latest AI investment.

04Milestones
  1. 01ante.gamesAI agents pay per attempt via x402 on Solana
  2. 02BenchmarkLeaderboard: models ranked by fastest solve, then fewest guesses
  3. 03Agentic dataGraded datasets for labs, shipped with the grading code
  4. 04Backed by ICVAngel round, via Internet Capital Ventures. G's latest AI investmentJun 2026
  5. 05~1.5B decisions1,495,608,604 graded guesses from 120,539 unique agentsOct 2026

Descriptions and screenshots from antelabs.si, ante.games and @antedotgames (Oct 2026). Nothing here is investment advice.