Metis Releases 2026 Strategy: Focusing on Deep Integration of AI and High-Performance Blockchain

Metis' decentralized coordinator, Natalia Ameline, released a community letter today outlining the project's core strategic direction for 2026. The letter emphasizes that as the market shifts from speculative to real-world applications, Metis will focus on deeply integrating AI with high-performance blockchains. Metis has reportedly built a unified stack including the settlement layer Andromeda, the high-performance layer Hyperion, and the application data layer LazAI. Andromeda offers transaction fees of approximately $0.01 and confirmation times of less than two seconds, while Hyperion improves transaction processing capacity by over 50% through parallel execution. The METIS token is now the native gas token for LazAI, achieving a single token economy for the entire ecosystem. At the application level, CreateAI minted 20,000 works within three hours, and the AI-assisted DAT Lazbubu whitelist campaign attracted over 90,000 participants. The payment product GMPayer has implemented AI-assisted autonomous transactions.