# Dark Research

> Infinitely supercharged AI

Dark Research provides AI tools that automatically integrate new capabilities and uplevel themselves over time.

Dark Research develops DARK, a trusted execution environment (TEE) for AI that automatically integrates new tools, enabling continuous improvement and advancement of AI capabilities without manual intervention. DARK serves as an infrastructure layer that enhances AI systems through automated tool integration.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Infrastructure
- Status: Announced
- Founded: 2025-04-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/darkresearch_ai

## Products

- [DARK](https://thegrid.id/profiles/darkresearch_ai): DARK implements a trusted execution environment (TEE) for for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that automatically integrates new tools into AI systems, enabling continuous capability expansion and performance improvement without manual intervention. (Developer Tooling, In Development, Main Product)

## Assets

- [Dark Eclipse (DARK)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/darkresearch_ai): DARK is the utility token of Dark Research, an AI infrastructure platform operating on Solana. It is used to pay for computational resources, reward AI agents, and participate in governance decisions. The network utilizes Trusted Execution Environments and the Model Context Protocol to enable AI systems to automatically integrate new tools and capabilities, allowing the AI to continuously improve itself over time. (Memecoin)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.darkresearch.ai)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/darkresearchai)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/darkresearch)

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## Optional

- [TGS Field Descriptions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-field-descriptions.md): Schema field definitions for The Grid's data model
- [TGS JSON Structure](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-json-structure.md): Data model structure and relationships
- [Product Type Definitions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-definitions.md): Definitions for each product type
- [Product Type Classification](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-classification.md): Guide for classifying products into types
- [Grid MCP Guide](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/grid-search/skills/grid-query/references/grid-mcp-guide.md): How to query The Grid programmatically via MCP