If you're building agents, you've probably felt this already. The model is the easy part. The hard part is everything around it: where your agent keeps what it learns, how it talks to a blockchain, and how it looks things up on the live web.
Most of us rent all three from big providers. That works until a price changes, an account gets locked, or an export disappears. Then the work you built isn't really yours.
I wanted to own my data without running a server room. So I moved those three jobs to Bittensor subnets. Here's what I run, and why I'd hand it to a friend.
Hippius: storage that stays yours
Hippius (SN75, @Hippius_cloud) is decentralized storage. My own files live on the free Drive plan: 10 GB, no card, encrypted on my device before anything leaves it. Sign up through my link and you also get 5% off your first subscription.
For agents, Hippius speaks S3 at s3.hippius.com, so the AWS CLI, rclone and boto3 work as they are. Payments and storage delivery are recorded on-chain, so you can see what you're paying for.
Blockmachine: chain access without lock-in
Blockmachine (SN19, @blockmachine_io) is RPC for Bittensor, Ethereum, Base and eight more networks. One key works across all of them, and it's standard JSON-RPC, so your existing tools only need a new URL.
Independent node operators compete to answer each request, and every node is tested against known-good results. If a request fails, you don't pay for it.
You can try it right now with no signup: point a client at the public endpoint. When you want a key, the Free plan gives you 10K request units a month.
Desearch: search your agent can cite
Desearch (SN22, @desearch_ai) gives an agent eyes on the web. One API key covers web search, page extraction and Twitter search, and every result comes back with its source link. It can show where it found something, and you can open the page yourself.
Getting started costs nothing. Add a card in the console and you get $5 in credits; adding it doesn't charge you. The Earn Credits page lists up to $155 in one-time credits, that $5 included, for things like a GitHub star, an honest review or a workflow video.
It also connects to the tools you already use: a hosted MCP server for Claude Code, and a guide for GPT function calling.
Owning your stack doesn't mean trusting no one. It means you can verify the work and leave whenever you want. The Captain still checks.
Try them
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Question for anyone building agents: which part of your stack are you still renting that you'd most like to own? Storage, chain access, or search? Curious what's working for you.