Real feeds beat synthetic vibes every time. @SentientAGI Data Consortium turns the GRID into an always-on sensor network so agents don’t hallucinate markets or gamers; they ingest live intel and act with receipts. ❯ Solana DeFi in plain English: the Cambrian integration pipes yields, LP/risk, and whale flow straight into agent workflows (their onboarding post even teases a “Solana DeFi Data Agent”). That’s research → decision in one hop. ❯ Gaming graph at scale: KGeN brings 13M+ gamers / 300M+ attributes for a Sentient-powered gaming LLM authentic player telemetry instead of synthetic vibes. ❯ Verifiable by design: partners like Phala (TEEs) anchor private, attestable execution so the data path and model outputs are auditable, not opaque. ❯ Network effects are real: the GRID counts 110+ partners across agents/data/compute each new feed upgrades every agent via routing. How I checked: pulled the Cambrian + KGeN partner posts, scanned Phala’s consortium note for TEE details, and cross-referenced the GRID ecosystem counts on Sentient’s blog. Mini-take: this is the difference between a cool demo and a desk. With ROMA/ODS handling reasoning and retrieval (both open), real feeds make plans credible and outcomes reproducible. Dev step if you’re building: wire a ROMA research chain to a Cambrian wallet/protocol query, log stage traces, then compare decisions vs your current data loop. If PnL or hit-rate moves, that’s the Consortium doing work.