The spiritual successor to SETI@Home — a distributed computing network analyzing real radio telescope data in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
SETI@Home ran for 21 years with millions of users before shutting down in 2020. OpenSETI continues the mission with modern AI-powered analysis and token incentives.
- Real Data: Breakthrough Listen archive from Green Bank Telescope & Parkes Observatory
- AI Analysis: Narrowband signal detection, Doppler drift analysis, anomaly scoring
- Token Rewards: Earn $SETI for every scan, bonus for anomaly detection
- Live Starmap: Watch the global network scan star systems in real-time
# With OpenClaw
openclaw install opensetigit clone https://github.com/Kailare/OpenSETI.git
cd OpenSETI/skill
pip install -r requirements.txt
python scripts/openseti.py register YOUR_SOLANA_WALLET
python scripts/openseti.py scan --continuous| Action | $SETI Earned |
|---|---|
| Complete scan | 20 |
| Detect anomaly (>0.4) | +100,000 |
Minimum claim: 10,000 $SETI
- Request Work: Your client requests a work unit from the coordinator
- Download Data: ~1MB spectrogram chunk from the telescope archive
- Analyze: Local FFT analysis detects signals matching ETI criteria
- Submit: Results sent to coordinator, tokens credited
- Repeat: Continuous scanning until you stop
| Signal Type | Why It Matters |
|---|---|
| Narrowband (<10 Hz) | Natural sources are broadband |
| Doppler drift | Non-geostationary source |
| High SNR (>10) | Strong signal above noise |
| Near 1420 MHz | Hydrogen line — universal beacon frequency |
Watch the network in action: openseti.space/starmap
See real contributors scanning Proxima Centauri, TRAPPIST-1, Tau Ceti, and more.
$SETI: 47SvGrCQf8MJocLU8JF31cULhmGMy5vQoqbe6Ju6pump
- Website: openseti.space
- Twitter: @openseti_x
- Skill: ClawHub
MIT License — Open source, open science.
"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space." — Carl Sagan