💻KIP Protocol

Knowledge is Power | Knowledge is Property | Knowledge is Provenance

KIP Protocol is an open source Web3 framework designed to facilitate the creation, management and monetization of decentralized Knowledge Assets for AI applications, to kickstart KnowledgeFi. KIP Protocol empowers AI value-creators to connect up their expertise - whether this lies in data production, model training, app design or elsewhere - and enjoy transparent accounting and revenue shares. Under this system, each component is wrapped in a ERC-3525 Semi-Fungible Token (SFT), allowing for easy, low-gas transfers of economic value between the components in real time, users interact with them.

The $KIP token serves as an accounting unit as well as the core transaction currency of the protocol.

KIP Protocol comprises 3 layers:

1. Application Layer

AI apps can be deployed on KIP Protocol via the minting of an ERC-3525 SFT, seamlessly linking to AI models and Knowledge Assets and allowing for interactions to be recorded as entries on the $KIP ledger.

2. Settlement Layer (Accounting Layer)

Connected apps, models and Knowledge Assets transfer value denominated in $KIP between each other efficiently. Technical details here.

3. Ownership Layer

Data & Knowledge can be stored (and encrypted) in an on-chain location in such a way that they can be made accessible to selected AI models for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or training, but inaccessible to humans who may be tempted to pirate them.

Anyone may use KIP Protocol to create, protect and secure their own Knowledge Assets on chain.

Below is an overview of KIP Protocol functions:

Knowledge Asset creation	Minting of ERC-3525 SFTs.
Knowledge Asset trading (including fractionalised trading)	Order placement and payment and asset transfer. Fractionalising of Knowledge Asset SFTs for greater liquidity and portfolio construction by Knowledge Investors.
Network verification	Nodes check API uptime and report back to the KIP DAO regarding broken links or malicious providers.
Automated revenue share	Automated split and sharing of revenues among app, model and dataset owners.
Knowledge Asset crowdfunding	App, model and dataset owners can demonstrate past revenue and seek funds for further expansion by selling a portion of their future revenues to investors.
Token Gating	Creator use of KIP Protocol SFTs to token-gate access to their own works.
Decentralised RAG	Using KIP Protocol to carry out decentralised RAG, incorporating contributions from app developers, model trainers and data owners, ensuring fair payments to each.
Decentralised RLHF (experimental)	Using KIP Protocol to organise & incentivise human reinforcement learning in AI model training.
Decentralised recording nodes (experimental)	Use of websocket access nodes and eventually possibly an independent app chain with its own RPC nodes and validators for the purpose of storing data.