Meet AI Soulforge, a 14 day campaign to mint your first AI profile inside ONTO Wallet, share it with the world, and split an $800 ONG prize pool with the community.

What is an AI Profile?

An AI Profile is the visual and data signature of you, generated from a multi dimensional profile you build inside ONTO Wallet. Personal details, languages, education, career, and skills come together into a single, user authorised record. ONTO then turns that record into a customised AI avatar you actually own.

It is the first visible step in ONTO’s transition into a data wallet. The avatar is the fun part. The profile underneath is the asset: structured, permissioned, and ready to power the data economy we described yesterday.

How to Forge Your Soul

Four steps, all inside the ONTO app:

1. Enrich your profile. Open ONTO, head to the Profile tab, and tap Generate Your AI Profile. Fill in Personal Information, Language & Education, and Career & Skills through the Complete Your Profile tab.

2. Generate your avatar. Confirm your details and sign the message. ONTO builds your customised AI avatar on the spot.

3. Go premium (optional). Every device gets one free image avatar every 24 hours. For extra image avatars or a video avatar, pay a small fee and enter the Premium prize pool.
4. Share on X. Post your avatar template with #MyONTOSoul, then drop your post link under the official campaign tweet to enter the Social Amplifier raffle.

The Prize Pool: $800 in ONG

Two pools, one goal: reward the users who commit.

Premium Prize, $500 100 winners, $5 each, drawn at random from everyone who paid to generate an avatar during the campaign.

Social Amplifier Raffle, $300 100 winners, $3 each, drawn from users who generated an image or video avatar and shared it on X with #MyONTOSoul plus their post link and wallet address under the campaign tweet.

Each Device ID can only win once, and you can only win once across both pools.

You Own the Output

Everything you generate belongs to you. The profile data stays user authorised, the avatar is yours to post wherever you like, and any future data monetisation flows back to the wallet that owns it. That is the whole point of a data wallet: your data, your permission, your upside.

Get Started

The campaign is live now and runs for 14 days. Don’t have ONTO yet?

Download ONTO Wallet

Open the app, tap Profile, tap Generate Your AI Profile, and forge your soul. Share it with #MyONTOSoul and come find us under the campaign tweet.

Your data has always had worth. Now it has a face.

Why ONTO Is Making This Shift

The ONTO data wallet is here, and it changes how you relate to your own information. Every app you use collects data about you. Your preferences, your behaviour, your identity. That data gets packaged, sold, and used to train AI models, target ads, and build products. The value flows in one direction: away from you.

The AI training data market alone is projected to grow from $7.48 billion in 2025 to $52.41 billion by 2035. That growth is built on human data. The question is whether the humans producing that data should have a say in how it is used, and whether they should benefit from it.

ONTO was built on Ontology’s decentralised identity infrastructure: ONT ID for verifiable credentials, and Orange Protocol for reputation scoring and cross-chain data aggregation. Those capabilities already give users portable, self-sovereign identity across Web3. The next step is to make that identity productive: to let users contribute their data, verify it, and earn from it on their own terms.

That is the shift. The ONTO data wallet evolves Ontology’s existing identity tools into a platform that puts your data to work.

How It Works: Use, Earn, Control

ONTO’s data ownership model follows three stages. Each one builds on the last, and together they create something that has not existed in Web3 before: a user-controlled data economy.

Stage 1: Use

You submit your data to access real services that benefit you directly. The first example is AI Avatars: upload your profile information and ONTO generates a personalised AI avatar using your own data. It is not a gimmick. It is the first practical demonstration that your data has value, and that you are the one who should benefit from contributing it.

This is a deliberate inversion of the current model. Instead of platforms quietly harvesting your data in the background, you choose to contribute it, and you receive something tangible in return.

Stage 2: Earn

Once you have verified your data, it becomes more than just information sitting in a profile. It becomes something meaningful, something the ecosystem recognises as yours and rewards you for contributing. Instead of having your information silently extracted, you receive corresponding incentives for the data you choose to share.

Stage 3: Control

This is where the model reaches its full potential. Users decide which third parties can access their data, for what purpose, and under what conditions. Authorisation is granular and revocable. You might allow a gaming studio to see your play history but keep your financial data private. You might sell anonymised behavioural data to an AI training company while retaining full control over your identity credentials.

The key principle: your data, your terms, your revenue. ONTO facilitates the connection between users and data buyers, but the user always holds the keys.

The Product Vision

The vision behind the ONTO data wallet is straightforward. Today, platforms use data. Tomorrow, users should decide how data is used. The whole model shifts from passive participation to active ownership, where individuals shape where their data goes and how it gets applied.

This reframes data as something owned by users rather than something exploited by platforms. It introduces user participation into a technological equation that has, until now, largely left them out. AI Avatars are the first proof of that principle. The rest of the roadmap builds on the same foundation.

What Is in the New Release

The new ONTO update (v4.9.23) is the first release built around this vision. Here is what it includes:

AI Avatar Creation. Submit your profile data and generate a personalised AI avatar. This is the Use stage in action: your data powers a service that benefits you directly. Avatars can be static images or animated, with animated versions available via ONT or ONG payment.

Enhanced AI Profile. Your ONTO profile now functions as a structured data profile. Personal details, preferences, and activity data are organised in a way that makes them valuable and verifiable. This is the foundation for the Earn and Control stages that follow.

Data Contribution Framework. The underlying architecture for submitting, verifying, and managing your data is now in place. This release focuses on the user experience of contributing data and receiving immediate value. Future updates will expand the types of data you can contribute and introduce the full reward and authorisation systems.

How to Get Started

Once the new version is live on iOS and Android:

1. Update ONTO to the latest version from the App Store or Google Play.

2. Open your AI Profile and complete your profile information. The more data you contribute, the richer your avatar and the stronger your profile for future earning opportunities.

3. Generate your AI Avatar using the new creation tool. You can save it, regenerate it, or upgrade to an animated version.

4. Stay tuned for the next updates, which will introduce data verification, ONG rewards, and the ability to authorise data access to third parties.

What Comes Next

AI Avatars are the starting point, not the destination. Here is what is on the roadmap:

Data verification and rewards. The next step is verifying the data you submit and rewarding users for contributing verified information. This is where the Earn stage comes to life.

Third-party data authorisation. After that, the Control stage: choose which third parties can access your data, set your own terms, and revoke access whenever you want.

Campaigns and activities. Alongside each release, we will run campaigns and community activities designed to give early users additional ways to engage with the new features.

The vision is clear: a world where your data works for you, not against you. ONTO is building the tools to make that real, one feature at a time.

Download ONTO and build your profile today. The future of your data starts with you.

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