Almost 2 years ago, we introduced our vision for Silverback, a Platform for Web3 Bots, and today we are proud to announce that the Silverback Platform is finally live at silverback.apeworx.io!

A lot has changed over the years, but one thing has remained constant: an obsession with giving you the most powerful tools to make building production bots as simple and easy as possible. Our Silverback SDK library is the fastest way today to build powerful Web3 automation in Python for use cases such as monitoring, trading, on-chain DevOps, indexing, crypto payments processing, and more. Anyone, right now, can build any bot to do anything, for free, using the Silverback SDK, just checkout the docs at https://docs.apeworx.io/silverback. No login or payment required!

But now that its released and publicly available, you might be asking why Silverback is important? Why should I learn it and get involved? What will come next for the Silverback Platform if I build on it? Now that it is finally released, we can finally lay out our vision for what comes next!

The Silverback Marketplace and Building for AI

First off, now that the Silverback Platform is live it means that hobbyists who have already been building bots with the Silverback SDK can finally run them on our rock-solid hosted infrastructure, and delegate all the pains of cloud orchestration to be Someone Else's Problem™️. For most of our existing userbase, this is probably something you have been waiting since we first mentioned the Platform: easy-to-build Python bots, that run autonomously on rock solid infrastructure managed by someone else, letting you sleep easy at night without having to worry about node outages, bot errors, and whatever other terrors await you off-chain. But there are many more people out there that wished they could run these types of bots but don't have the skills to write a few lines of simple Python! Silverback should exist for them too!

This is where the Platform comes in: we wanted to make it easy for operators to manage the operation of tens to hundreds of bots easily without having to learn an ounce of Python. The Silverback SDK ships out of the gate with the tools necessary to package and publish your bots into Docker images that anyone can run, allowing workflows where developers can easily publish (and monetize!) their automations for others to run.

Imagine a hedge fund where traders can focus on complex filtering and trade execution, while data analysts can monitor existing strategies, all while partners have full control over the whole operation.

Imagine a talented Python developer who builds and refines popular actions such as token farming and arbitrage strategies for others to run on new protocols they are interested in (maybe even a hedge fund?)

Imagine building a complex FinTech application or integration with a larger traditional bank that simply leverages bots published by others for managing assets in popular DeFi protocols or monitoring for anomalies within their on-chain operations.

Imagine building a wealth of capabilities that a personalized LLM chat bot can use to evolve and execute your own bespoke market thesis, all without ever having to write a line of Python code yourself.

This is what the Silverback Platform unlocks, a storefront for Web3 automation and capability. A way to extend yourself on-chain and compete within this global movement!

Sounds interesting, doesn't it?

silverbackOS and Progressive Decentralization

For the more plugged-in Crypto-natives and just plain-old skeptics among us, that might sound great but the next question you might ask is...

"Do I have to trust the developers and operators of this hosted infrastructure with my entire on-chain life?"

What if there is an outage where we are hosting the Platform's infrastructure?

What if we go rogue and start doing something bad with your data?

What if we go out of business?

How do I really trust this?

Well for this launch, we are the sole operators of the Platform, to make it even feasible in the short-term and unlock the capability for people to use it to host their bots. But that's not where we are going to stop.

One of the main promises of Crypto is unlocking massive coordination power, the ability to create much stronger and more resilient systems that can be relied on for years and decades to come. So today we are announcing our plans for the next stage of Silverback's evolution, transforming our centralized, hosted infrastructure into a fully-fledged decentralized infrastructure network capable of reliably and safely operating tens, maybe hundreds of millions of bots around the globe.

This will be a dramatic increase of the size and scope of Silverback's capabilities, and unlock countless use cases and even businesses where on-chain automation is the key ingredient to thrive. We are extremely excited to build this, and hope you are too. Stay tuned!

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