# Tangle Network

> Infrastructure for AI services

Tangle Network is a decentralized protocol that provides sandboxed runtimes, unified model routing, and programmable billing for building and deploying AI services.

Tangle Network is a decentralized operating layer for AI services, connecting developers, operators, and stakers through a shared protocol. Developers publish service templates called Blueprints using a Rust SDK, which operators run on staked nodes and bill per execution through on-chain settlement. The platform also ships standalone AI developer tools including a sandboxed runtime, a unified model router, a browser automation agent, and a coding workbench.

- Type: Protocol
- Sector: Infrastructure
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2024-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/tangle_network

## Products

- [Blueprint Agent](https://thegrid.id/profiles/tangle_network): Blueprint Agent is an AI development workbench for scaffolding, testing, and deploying services on Tangle Network. Users describe a service in natural language and the workbench generates code against pre-configured SDK templates in a live editor, terminal, and preview environment. It supports multi-model execution across providers including Claude, GPT, and GLM, native GitHub branch and pull request creation, and starter templates for various blockchain and AI infrastructure ecosystems. An integrated model router provides OpenAI-compatible API access across multiple providers with automatic failover. A built-in evaluation mode supports prompt variant comparison and automated test scoring within the same workspace. (AI Agent Platform, Live, Main Product)
- [Tangle Sandbox](https://thegrid.id/profiles/tangle_network): Tangle Sandbox is a cloud runtime that provisions isolated Linux containers for AI agents. Users create sandboxes from any Docker image through a TypeScript SDK or CLI and receive a full Linux environment with root access, SSH connectivity, filesystem operations, and optional GPU support, with sub-second cold-start times. Isolation operates at three tiers: shared cloud containers for standard workloads, Firecracker microVMs for hardware-virtualized boundaries, and hardware trusted execution environments for attested isolation. Sandboxes support CRIU-based checkpoint and restore to S3-compatible storage, enabling session continuity across disconnects and parallel execution from a shared checkpoint state. (Compute Network, Live)
- [Browser Agent](https://thegrid.id/profiles/tangle_network): Browser Agent is an AI-powered browser automation tool that accepts natural language goals and executes them against a live Chromium session. Each turn of an agent run produces a screenshot, DOM snapshot, and reasoning trace as verifiable evidence of the actions taken. The tool supports E2E test runs, visual regression comparison against prior baselines, design audits with design token extraction, and parallel batch execution with self-healing recovery for stuck navigation states. It is distributed as an MIT-licensed npm package with a CLI for one-off runs and a TypeScript SDK for CI pipeline integration. (AI Agent, Live)
- [Tangle Network](https://thegrid.id/profiles/tangle_network): Tangle Network is a Substrate-based blockchain providing the economic coordination layer for decentralized service deployment. Developers publish Blueprints — Rust job specifications defining on-demand and background services — and operators instantiate them by bonding TNT. Per-execution fees settle on-chain through the x402 protocol in any supported asset, and operators failing service level agreements are slashed automatically. The network supports multi-asset restaking, accepting BTC, ETH, USDC, stETH, and other assets from external chains without wrapping. A Rust SDK (blueprint-sdk) with TypeScript bindings enables developers to author and deploy Blueprints for use cases including AI agents, oracles, bridges, threshold signature schemes, and distributed validator clusters. (L1, Live)

## Assets

- [Tangle Network Token (TNT)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/tangle_network): TNT is the governance token of the Tangle Protocol, an ERC-20 on EVM chains. It is used for voting on protocol parameters, operator self-staking as collateral for service-level agreements, and delegated staking to earn a share of service fees and inflation rewards. Slashing mechanisms apply TNT collateral against operators who violate service commitments, aligning incentives across operators, stakers, and blueprint developers. (Governance)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.tangle.tools)
- [Documentation](https://docs.tangle.tools)
- [Blog](https://tangle.tools/blog)
- [Media Kit/branding](https://tangle.tools/brand-kit)
- [Terms of Service](https://tangle.tools/terms-of-service)
- [Privacy policy](https://tangle.tools/privacy-policy)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/tangle-network)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/tangle_network)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/tanglenet)
- [YouTube](https://youtube.com/@TangleNetwork)

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