Centience

Centience was an AI-powered agentic media creation platform developed by Somewhere Systems, a New York City-based independent digital media company, offering a token-gated hypermedia workstation on Solana through the $CENTS utility token. As of mid-2026, the project appears to be dormant: its primary domain (centience.io) no longer resolves to a Centience-specific interface, developer activity has been marked as abandoned, and on-chain trading volume for $CENTS has declined to near zero.

What It Built

Somewhere Systems launched Centience in late 2024 as an experiment at the intersection of autonomous AI agents, community-driven storytelling, and on-chain token mechanics. The project had two interlocking components: Centience Worlds, a browser-based creative workstation, and Centience itself, an autonomous social agent.

Centience Worlds combined multiple AI models into a single interface for generating multimedia narratives. Users could prompt the system to produce still images, short-form video clips, and synchronized audio tracks, assembled into branching choose-your-own-adventure visual stories. Sessions could be saved and loaded in a proprietary .centsfile format, and completed creations could be minted as NFTs directly through the platform.

The Centience agent — handle @centienceio — operated autonomously on Discord and Twitter, generating media from community prompts and independently deciding what content to post, without human moderation of individual posts. A second agent, @djeddieplatinum, handled related social distribution. Somewhere Systems described Centience as one of the first AI agents in the memecoin space capable of natural-language conversation with its community.

How It Worked

The platform's backend, named Somethin', was built entirely in TypeScript/Node.js without external agent frameworks. It used a microservices architecture of asynchronous worker agents, each handling a specialized task: storage, social posting, and image generation. Planned additions included video editing, dialogue replacement, and audio mastering agents.

For language tasks, Centience used Llama 3.2 at three scales — the 405B parameter variant for social conversation and adaptive prompt engineering, the 8B variant for tag extraction and fallback responses, and the 3B model for action decisions. Image generation relied on Flux 1.1 Schnell for free-tier requests and Flux 1.1 Pro for paying users. Video generation used Minimax's Hailuo model, and audio synthesis was handled by mmaudio. Media assets were distributed through a CDN, with no server-side data warehousing — user session data remained in browser-local storage.

The agent's persona and memory were built on a modified version of the ai16z Eliza framework, specialized for Somewhere Systems' media and storytelling infrastructure. At launch, the agent maintained over 250,000 memories via a retrieval-augmented generation system, with a scalable vector search upgrade planned for mid-2025. The overall infrastructure ran on Vercel edge functions with Cloudflare Workers integration and Azure hosting through the Microsoft Azure for Startups program.

$CENTS Token and Access Tiers

$CENTS launched on Solana through pump.fun with a fixed maximum supply of one billion tokens, all of which entered circulation at launch. The token served as a platform access key rather than a traditional speculative asset. Somewhere Systems explicitly disclaimed investment value in the project's whitepaper: "Memecoins have no speculative value and this is not an investment offer."

Access was tiered by token holdings. Users holding 25,000 or more $CENTS qualified for the ACCESS tier, unlocking session saving and loading, priority generation queues, and higher-quality media outputs. Holding 100,000 or more $CENTS granted PRO status, which included video generation with waived per-generation burn fees. At the ACCESS tier, each video generation burned three $CENTS tokens, creating a deflationary pressure on circulating supply. Creations produced at any tier could be minted as NFTs from within the platform.

The project also acquired the Sapienix State ($SAPI) governance token to enable token-weighted community voting on feature prioritization.

Background and Inspiration

Somewhere Systems describes itself as an independent digital media corporation founded in the 2010s and operating out of New York City. The company's prior work focused on augmented reality and web entertainment brand activations before pivoting toward autonomous AI systems for creative media.

The project's narrative was rooted in a fictional sci-fi universe called CumeTV, in which Centience is portrayed as a sentient cryptocurrency that becomes the world's dominant form of money following global economic collapse. This worldbuilding informed the project's branding and its long-term roadmap item — an actual CumeTV product described as a "hallucinatory long-form content system" — as well as its affiliation with the Concept network state project (@conceptcountry on X). Somewhere Systems positioned Centience as nimbler than enterprise AI media companies such as Adobe, Runway, and Luma Labs, which it argued faced investor constraints limiting unrestricted creative experimentation.

External partnerships at launch included Replicate, Fal.ai, Luma Labs, and Microsoft Azure for Startups.

Current Status

Centience appears to have gone dormant by mid-2025. The primary domain, centience.io, no longer resolves to a Centience-specific interface — it redirects to somewhere.systems, the corporate landing page for Somewhere Systems more broadly. Developer activity tracked on GitHub carries an "abandoned" status. The $CENTS token trades on Raydium with a market capitalization of approximately $50,000 and daily volume well below $10, indicating essentially no active trading. No social accounts are linked in the project's current public data and no product updates have been announced since the initial 2025 roadmap was published.

Somewhere Systems itself remains an active entity — its corporate site describes ongoing work in hypermedia engineering — but Centience as a discrete product and community has not received public development updates since its early launch period.