Crypto Twitter is still abuzz following the suspension of PumpFun’s official X (Twitter) account, alongside co-founder Alon Cohen’s handle and several other crypto-native accounts, including GMGN, Bloom Trading, BullX, and ElizaOS.
While the bans are widely linked to unauthorized scraping or unapproved API access, the deeper issue isn’t about rule enforcement—it’s about control. These suspensions spotlight a growing tension between companies that need access to social data and platforms like X that now charge up to $200,000 per year for it.
This isn't a one-off crackdown. It’s a clear reminder that Big Tech platforms hold monopolistic power over data generated by users—data they monetize, while locking out the very individuals and communities that create it, without providing compensation. With AI’s future dependent on fresh, real-time, human-generated signals, that kind of gatekeeping has dark implications for innovation and fairness in the next era of tech.
Enter Teneo Protocol: not a workaround, but a foundational shift.
The Teneo Alternative
Teneo is building a decentralized network of Autonomous AI Agents capable of performing Autonomous Information Retrieval (AIR) tasks.
Operating in a fully permissionless system, the agents respond directly to user-defined tasks, not centralized control.
These agents collect and structure real-time data from across the web—including public content from social media platforms—making it usable by AI models, apps, and human operators alike.
AIR agents complete three core steps:
- Search – Explore the open web for relevant, real-time information.
- Structure – Clean, parse, and organize data into machine-readable formats.
- Deliver – Make that structured data instantly accessible for use.
In practice, permissionless AIR tasks can range from simple actions—like fetching the latest 100 posts from selected accounts—to more advanced operations using the Teneo MCP (Model Context Protocol), which enables LLMs to perform deepsearch faster and with richer context.
Millions of these agents are open source and available to everyone, from individuals to startups. Infrastructure-heavy tasks like deepsearch, which once took 30 to 60 minutes, can now be completed in minutes or seconds, scaled dynamically by the number of agents and the amount of Teneo Tokens used.
This makes Teneo a powerful decentralized workforce that dramatically increases speed, efficiency, and accessibility.
From Scraping to Scaling: A New Model for Access
As it pertains to the PumpFun situation, this model provides a scalable, legally compliant way for companies to access the data they need, without scraping or relying on prohibitively expensive APIs.
With Teneo’s open-source infrastructure, businesses can access a decentralized network of agents operated by millions of real people — retrieving and structuring open web data for AI workflows marketing campaigns, and analytics pipelines. Whether you need data from a handful of accounts or are running complex, parallel research tasks across thousands of sources, Teneo makes that possible on demand.
And since the infrastructure is user-powered—via Teneo’s Community Node browser extension, now live with 6 million contributors across 191 countries—it ensures that contributors are fairly compensated for sharing public data, creating a win-win for all participants.
Why It Matters Now
In a world where social data is both critical and increasingly inaccessible, Teneo Protocol provides a forward-looking alternative.
Rather than trying to circumvent API restrictions, Teneo gives control back to users, allowing them to decide what data they access, read, and choose to share. The infrastructure is decentralized by design, connecting human signals directly to the AI systems that need them.
It’s a foundational shift in how we think about ownership, compensation, and access in the AI age.
