Pocket Network, an open-source infrastructure provider, runs a Pocket Gateway Accelerator Program (PGAT) to empower the next generation of decentralized builders. Recently, Pocket announced the six projects selected for the PGAT Winter 2025 cohort, building decentralized gateways using the Shannon Upgrade on Pocket Network.
The six teams are redefining how applications interact with open data by expanding decentralized data accessibility infrastructure solutions. Reppo Labs, Verve AI, SwanBlocks, Developer DAO Cloud, Pattern, and Vistia will demonstrate their progress to a wider web3 audience and stakeholders on Demo Day in April 2025.
The PGAT program provides funding, technical grants, and infrastructure support to incentivize developers to integrate decentralized data into their applications.
The projects from the Winter 2025 cohort will receive $5K upfront upon acceptance and an additional $20K over 12 months upon successfully integrating a Shannon-based gateway. They will also get technical support from the Pocket team and exposure through multiple community events on Demo Day and beyond.
The PGAT Winter 2025 Cohort
The six teams from the Winter 2025 cohort are transforming the emerging tech sector by building solutions from AI agents to high-performant LLM infrastructure. Let’s take a closer look at these innovative projects that are making it easier to build with open data using Shannon on Pocket Network.
- Reppo Labs: Building a Data-AI Coordination Network by integrating secure and scalable data pipelines, enabling data owners and AI agents to collaborate seamlessly using Shannon’s permissionless gateways
- Verve AI: An AI-powered on-chain research platform for high-frequency and low-latency data retrieval from major DeFi chains through Shannon’s decentralized infrastructure, providing real-time insights for institutional investors and portfolio managers
- SwanBlocks: A backend and tooling platform for AI Agents, making blockchain interactions like transaction queries seamless for businesses using Shannon’s user-friendly gateways
- Developer DAO Cloud (D_D Cloud): Specializes in high-performance decentralized infrastructure, enabling developers to access decentralized storage and compute networks, through Shannon’s scalable and interoperable gateways
- Pattern: Building a decentralized agentic RAG gateway, enabling AI-powered applications to retrieve real-time on-chain and off-chain data for the agents
- Vistia: An AI-driven trading bot protocol, using decentralized data signals and social gateways to provide real-time market intelligence
Opening New Horizons With The Shannon Upgrade
Pocket Network’s Shannon Upgrade is named after the information theory pioneer Claude Shannon. The upgrade is crucial for developers building groundbreaking decentralized infrastructure and forms the bedrock for the Winter 2025 PGAT cohort projects.
Shannon introduces powerful features like permissionless gateways, enabling open access to decentralized data flows across applications, thereby eliminating dependency on centralized APIs. Moreover, the Shannon Upgrade extends Pocket Network’s infrastructure beyond blockchain data to LLMs, privacy protocols, and decentralized social networks.
Shannon makes Pocket Network a generalized data transport layer, empowering developers to tap into LLMs like DeepSeek via privacy-preserving and reliable decentralized infrastructure.
The upgrade also supports privacy-focused technologies like encrypted communication, decentralized identity, and ZK proofs for privacy protocols.
Further, Shannon supports decentralized social protocols, enabling users of social platforms to retain sovereignty over their data and online interactions.
The Winter 2025 PGAT Cohort is leveraging the Shannon Upgrade to change open data access with unprecedented speed and reliability. This will facilitate the emerging tech industry to focus on building complex applications using decentralization and open-source infrastructure.
