NumerCon 2026: Genesis to Singularity
Numerai’s mission in 2015 was to build an open platform where artificial intelligence could directly participate in the stock market. That meant doing things differently–giving away hedge fund-quality data, asking contributors to stake on their models as a signal of conviction, building crypto‑native incentives, and exposing the system through open APIs.
Those choices were deliberate and accumulated into a single architecture designed to make intelligence measurable, composable, and usable by machines.
Today, Numerai is built for AI agents.
A New Era

And some of those agents will be fully autonomous. Agents can now run research loops, generate predictions, stake, and learn from live market feedback.
Humans will increasingly focus on defining workflows, building tools, and overseeing agents that research, predict, stake, and iterate continuously.
“It's going to be the end of exertion, the end of toil. And it should be a whole new generation of Numerai. The whole next decade of Numerai is going to be wild.” - Richard Craib
This shift became visible at NumerCon with the live launch of the redesigned Numerai homepage, now centered on architecting an AI scientist.
Architect an AI scientist today.
In Pursuit of Collective Intelligence

NumerCon brought together contributors from Japan, Greece, Italy, India, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, England, Australia, Singapore, and beyond, most of whom traveled to San Francisco for NumerCon alone. The room included Kaggle Grandmasters, Numerai Grandmasters, engineers from Nvidia, staff data scientists from Apple and Google, academic researchers, and long‑time Numerai contributors whose models have shaped the fund over many years.
Meta Model Supremacy
Thousands of models submit predictions to Numerai. Contributors stake NMR to express conviction. The Stake-Weighted Meta Model aggregates that intelligence–and continues to outperform any single internal model.
View Numerai's Stake-Weighted Meta Model.
From Language to Signal
We introduced Numerai Predictive LLM: an 8‑billion‑parameter model trained on over one million articles to turn news into structured predictive signals across Numerai’s universe. It powers Faith, our latest dataset, converting unstructured information into machine-native inputs designed for systematic evaluation inside the Meta Model.
“We don’t think anyone else has anything like this yet. We think it’s completely new and for the first time we are going to reveal how we built the faith features. They were generated with something called the Numerai Predictive LLM.” - Michael Phillips, Chief Data Officer
Numerai Skills
Alongside that internal use case came Numerai Skills, a framework for unleashing frontier AI Agents into the Numerai Meta Model.

Skills capture how experienced Numerai contributors actually work: designing experiments, testing features, evaluating results, diagnosing failures, and iterating. With SKILLS.md, an agent can run multi‑hour research loops autonomously, producing reports and valid submissions that align with Numerai’s mechanics.
The SKILLS.md files are open source and built to be customized, allowing contributors to encode their own research style and deploy it through autonomous agents.
Build an AI agent with Numerai Skills.
MCP & Atomic Staking
Numerai Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides native support for agents to create models, upload predictions, run diagnostics, and retrieve performance data through a standard protocol. Installation takes a single command, making it easy for agents to enhance the research loops defined by Numerai Skills.
Get started with Numerai MCP today.

Atomic Blockchain Staking will provide your agents with a simpler system to allocate stake. Launching July 4, 2026, atomic staking allows contributors to bring their own wallet, manage stake flexibly, and stake using either NMR or USDC.
USDC staking provides a simple on-ramp for new users and automated systems. To preserve incentives, the payout factor for USDC staking will be lower than for NMR staking, resulting in a smaller staking pool and encouraging contributors to graduate to NMR staking over time.
All burns in the system continue to occur in NMR. When a USDC staker is burned, their USDC is automatically exchanged for NMR on the open market, and burned on-chain, ensuring demand and burn mechanisms remain anchored to NMR.
$1m NMR Buyback
We also announced a second $1m buyback of NMR from the open market, following the recent buyback last July.
Numerai has proven that you can align thousands of independent minds to solve the hardest problem in finance. But that alignment depends on NMR.
As more intelligence on the platform is produced by automated systems operating continuously, the closely timed buybacks reflect that transition and reinforce alignment between contributors, agents, and the fund by ensuring the value created by those systems continues to accrue to the ecosystem itself.
Risk
At NumerCon, we introduced a new tournament coming this year: Numerai Risk.
Contributors will submit machine-learned predictions of residual volatility alongside return forecasts. These paired predictions feed a dedicated risk meta-model, extending the intelligence stack from signal generation into uncertainty estimation.
Singularity
Numerai One is now Numerai Sigil.
“Why? Numerai One sounds like a beta, practicing our first fund. And it was. It’s what we’ve built our track record on, but there were so many experiments and now Numerai One has become mature and so we want to consecrate that with a name change to Numerai Sigil.” - Richard Craib, Founder & CEO
Alongside Sigil sits Numerai Supreme, and the newly introduced fund, Numerai Singularity, which pairs global equity beta with Numerai’s uncorrelated alpha, integrating decentralized machine intelligence with traditional market exposure.
Together, Sigil, Supreme, and Singularity represent distinct expressions of the same intelligence.
Build With Us
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Build a model. Deploy an agent. Achieve Grandmaster status.
If you want to shape the system itself, we’re hiring.
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