Semiotic AI is a CA-based software startup building a secure negotiation protocol to automate trading in decentralized markets. In what may be the first SBIR funding transaction of its type, the Graph Foundation - an Open Source No-Cost to Users entity offering development and distribution of graph technology in the areas of software, storage, networking, clustering, parallel and distributed computation, query processing, analytics, visualization, machine learning, artificial intelligence and cloud accessibility, while serving the community with mentoring, leadership and vision for a healthy graph ecosystem - awarded Semiotic AI Inc a $60M GRANT effectively ensuring operation of that firm without any need of SBIR (types of) support. Semiotic AI is a California-based software startup using reinforcement learning (RL) and cryptography to build autonomous decision-making tools for decentralized markets on the blockchain. Under the agreement, Semiotic AI will join as a core protocol developer in The Graph's ecosystem, which is working towards building a search engine for the decentralized internet of the future.