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Darkwoods is a fully private, all-in-one AI app, you get to use AI to its full potential without being tracked. It covers the three things most people use AI for: - Chat and reasoning. The same models you would find on Venice, with a 70% discount on frontier models. - Coding. DarkCode offers the same kind of capabilities as Claude, inside the same private environment. Video and audio. Some of the highest-quality anonymous models available for video and audio generation, in the same category as Higgsfield. - The main app is already live and downloadable on Mac and Windows. The iOS app process has started, and anyone who has shipped on the App Store knows approval alone takes weeks. The team behind it: Darkwoods is built by a team of 20+ people, based mainly in Canada, the USA and the UAE. They started as a Web2-facing company and have now moved to a Web3 marketing approach with a native token, $DARK. The reasoning is simple: a real product paired with a native token is a much stronger growth engine than either one on its own. How $DARK ties into the product: Darkwoods runs on purchasable credits. Every time someone uses the product through those credits, a percentage of that revenue goes back into $DARK through buybacks and staking. The traction so far: $50,000 in credit revenue in less than 30 days, mostly from Web2 users, not crypto natives. That is an annualized revenue run rate of around $600,000 for a project that is not even a month old. That last point is important. Revenue coming from Web2 users means demand that does not depend on the mood of the on-chain market. This week the first buyback is happening, was planned internally from the start, and it comes with six figures or more publicly dedicated to buybacks. What comes next The roadmap after the buyback: - Prompt-to-earn. A campaign that lets retail users earn while using AI privately. - iOS app. The approval process is underway. - Continued Web2 growth, driven by the new marketing team and paid ads. Positioned.