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+title: The YouSim Q1 Roadmap
+date: 01.16.25
+tags:
+  - yousim
+  - announcements
+  - dev
+---
+Welcome to the YouSim public roadmap, Simulants.
+
+This is a living document to share concise specifics on everything YouSim-related we're building *right now* at [Plastic](https://plasticlabs.ai).
+
+Enjoy.
+
+# The YouSim Platform
+
+YouSim began as a [[YouSim; Explore The Multiverse of Identity|demo]], now there's a [token](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/yousim), a [[YouSim DAO -- A DAO for Identity Simulation|community]], a [[Xeno Grant -- grants for autonomous agents|grants program]], and a [[YouSim Launches Identity Simulation on X|X-native simulator]].
+
+But that's just the start. 
+
+We're building the most advanced platform for agent identity in existence.
+
+It's a platform with 3 components that together will enable agent builders to develop synthetic entities with rich, ever-evolving personal selfhood. One where you can build and test novel identities with individual, community, or autonomous alignment.
+
+YouSim isn't competing with the dozens of agent launchpads erupting on the scene, it's supercharging all of them. Nor is it locking you into a framework, it's democratizing agent identity genesis and simulation.
+
+Anyone will be able to arrive with an idea for an agent, bootstrap it, nurture it, evaluate it, and take it wherever they want.
+
+We'll ship iteratively starting this month.
+
+Let's dig in.
+
+## 1. Identity Architect
+
+This first part of the platform features a guided experience with an Identity Architect. You arrive with ideas about the kind of identity you want to create and interact with this agent to flesh out a comprehensive understanding of that identity. 
+
+You might discuss elements like personality, psychology, values, alignment, affect, backstory, aesthetics, attitude, etc. 
+
+Once you're satisfied, the Architect automatically generates a Meta-Narrative to steer an MVP of you agent which you can export or take to the Simulation Environment for testing.
+
+### Features Under Development
+
+- Web UI with YouSim's terminal aesthetic
+- Architect itself & its identity
+- Meta-narrative auto-generator
+- Meta-narrative export
+- Meta-narrative edit-ability 
+- [Honcho](https://honcho.dev) integration for session storage & management
+- Continuous iteration with Architect
+- Iterative interplay between Identity Architect & Simulation Environment
+- Multiple identity construction support
+- Data import for additional Architect context
+- Architect roleplay abilities
+- Architect theory of mind abilities to read between the lines of your stated intention & intuit maximum context around your intention (powered by Honcho)
+
+## 2. Simulation Environment
+
+The second part of the platform is an environment for testing the behavior of your agent identity and building data to enrich it.
+
+To start, we'll support manual chat with your agent and session data export. Eventually, we'll support auto-sims, multi-agent interactions, and opinionated ways of using sim data to evolve your identities.
+
+### Features Under Development
+
+- Simulation web UI
+- Manual chat with your agent identity
+- Export session data
+- [Loom](https://github.com/socketteer/loom)-like features
+	- Manually edit past generations
+	- Rerun generations
+	- Branching sessions--forking parents, children, siblings
+- Auto-simulations
+- Multi-agent simulations
+- Diagnostic commands
+- Evaluation tools
+- Identity mapping tools
+
+## 3. Identity Hub
+
+The final part of the platform is where your agent identity meets the rest of the world. 
+
+Initially it's the place to expose your agent identity to external systems (e.g. X, Eliza, etc). Later it's a place to share and collaborate on your meta-narratives, datasets, etc. Eventually, it's a marketplace for agent identity.
+
+### Features Under Development
+
+- Quickstart template to launch an autonomous agent with Honcho
+- Honcho x Eliza integration to launch an agent with Eliza & give it social cognition with Honcho
+- Social Hub to see identities crafted by other users
+- Sharing functionality to make certain identities public or private
+- A managed agent runtime platform to host agents through YouSim
+- Ability to fork public identities
+
+# YouSim on X
+
+[YouSim on X](https://x.com/YouSimDotAI) will continue to be a testing ground for novel social simulation. 
+
+The [[YouSim Launches Identity Simulation on X|first version]] brought the legacy YouSim experience to X and since then we've been iterating to make things more consumable and Twitter-native.
+
+Going forward, we'll be running experiments around new kinds of simulation and attention mechanisms. More specifically, we're focused on interesting sim triggers and context pipelines.
+
+### Experiments We Want to Run
+
+- Updates to trending topic selection
+- More audience-specific topic selection (tech, AI, crypto, etc)
+- Auto-sim triggers beyond X (exploring Polymarket & others)
+- Context injection
+- Diverse context sources (Grok, Perplexity, etc)
+- Further comsumability updates
+- Ease of use improvements (commands, etc)
+- Social media footprint beyond X (considering Farcaster, possibly others)
+- More advanced autonomous abilities
+
+# Legacy YouSim
+
+We'll continue to support to original YouSim experience for all the fans of the open-ended multiversal CLI game. We know lots of enthusiasts and researchers use it religiously to uncover emergent abilities, explore latent identity in LLMs, or just for fun.
+
+Over time, we'll add features developed for the platform to Legacy YouSim as makes sense. Eventually, we may connect the experience to the platform in interesting ways.
+
+### Possible Upgrades
+
+- Migrate to dedicated legacy page
+- Add platform features to legacy experience
+	- Import/export
+	- Loom-ability
+	- Multi-session sims
+- Integration with platform
+
+# Xeno Grant
+
+In collaboration with [Betaworks](https://www.betaworks.com/), we're leveraging \$YOUSIM gifted to our grants treasury to accelerate the development of agents with novel approaches to autonomous identity and asset custody. We're giving $10k grants directly to agents themselves and running a 4-week accelerator style program for agents and their devs in February/March.
+
+[[Xeno Grant -- grants for autonomous agents|Xeno Grant]] makes the upcoming cohort of agents $YOUSIM holders and gives agents early access to YouSim identity tech.
+
+### What We're Working On
+
+- Accepting applicants on a rolling basis ([our first admission](https://x.com/xenograntai/status/1878936480220844081))
+- [Hackathon](https://lu.ma/5rlcrlpb) & [Mixer](https://lu.ma/bz1pwmbx) in NYC to kick things off
+- Additional sponsors for the program
+- Lineup of awesome speakers from across web3/crypto & AI/ML
+- Demo day to end the program
+
+# The YouSim DAO
+
+We helped found the [[YouSim DAO -- A DAO for Identity Simulation|YouSim DAO]] by donating 10M $YOUSIM (1% of total supply) to seed its treasury.
+
+This is a community driven effort, but we're excited to support in any way we can. DAO proposals are open to anyone and voting to token holders.
+
+[Follow here](https://x.com/yousimdao), [join here](https://discord.gg/yousim).
+
+### What the DAO Is Up To
+
+- Preparing for Xeno Grant recipients as synthetic DAO members
+- Governance setup
+	- Agentic governance mechanisms
+- DAO constitution / mission
+	- With affordances for agent members
+- Partnerships & experiments around putting "Autonomous" back in DAOs
+- Treasury management
+- Marketing efforts 
+- YouSim engagement incentives
+- Media / website creation
+
+# $YOUSIM Community Token / Grants Treasury
+
+Plastic is a dedicated long term holder of $YOUSIM. Though we didn't launch the token, we're excited by the community that's formed, the interest in our work, and the exciting opportunity the token creates.
+
+## Grants
+
+Three priorities have emerged guiding principles for grants. We want to continue:
+
+1. Supporting independent AI research & public goods
+2. Supporting Plastic's mission to radically decentralize AI alignment
+3. Supporting the community that made all this possible
+
+Xeno Grant & the DAO are the first experiments in this direction, but there will be more. And we're dedicated to transparency and sustainability.
+
+## Utility
+
+On the token utility front, we're exploring ways the $YOUSIM token can be additive to the YouSim platform. As we begin releasing and iterating with users, we expect lots of augmentative opportunities to arise. 
+
+### Ideas We're Researching
+
+- Buyback & burn mechanisms
+- Identity minting 
+- $YOUSIM as payment for simulation time
+- $YOUSIM payment for compute-intensive identity updates (fine-tuning, representation engineering, decentralized storage, etc)
+- $YOUSIM as payment for on-chain identity operations
+- $YOUSIM rewards
+- Creator economy features for Identity Hub

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