Author: Mia, ChainCatcher
With the emergence of OpenAI's video generation model Sora and Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro large model based on the MoE architecture, it has sparked a strong response in the global market.
However, the strong rise of AI giants such as OpenAI and Google has also raised public concerns about data privacy and security. How to continuously improve the deep learning capabilities of AI while ensuring the digital property rights of creators is a question that needs to be considered.
Thus, KIP Protocol, the first decentralized Web3 underlying protocol dedicated to AI, came into being.
KIP Protocol: A Web3 Underlying Protocol Focusing on AI Security and Innovation
In early 2024, "AI+Crypto" was included in a16z's "2024 Outlook List," emphasizing that encryption technology can "create a multilateral, global, permissionless market, where anyone can contribute computing or new datasets to the network and be compensated," and the long tail of those resources will lower the cost of AI and make data more accessible.
Vitalik Buterin also expressed his outlook on "AI+Crypto" in his article, similarly believing that encryption technology can balance the centralization and transparency of AI and help optimize AI data storage.
The goal of KIP Protocol is to develop a secure and efficient decentralized Web3 underlying protocol, enabling AI creators (data owners, model makers, AI application developers) to:
- Deploy their work on Web3 to retain complete digital property rights
- Interact and trade with other AI assets
- Earn income without losing access control
At the same time, KIP Protocol is also the world's first Web3 protocol to support decentralized RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) solutions. The second article in its official Explainer series also focuses on introducing the RAG concept.
RAG is a complex innovative technology used in generative AI, allowing AI models to generate answers by retrieving data and information from external knowledge bases and databases that they originally did not know. It acts like an intelligent assistant, able to professionally find the answers you want from external data without knowing the answer to your question, thus protecting the security of the data without exposing it to the model.
RAG technology involves three key value creators in AI (App developers, model makers, and data owners).
By establishing a decentralized RAG framework, KIP essentially establishes a framework for decentralized control of AI value creation, providing a fair competitive environment for all value creators to break free from AI monopolies. It allows AI to operate efficiently, becoming the result of the collective efforts of millions of small and large-scale creators without the need for any large company to control every core function.
Recently, KIP Protocol announced a strategic round of financing led by Animoca Ventures. According to the official introduction, the KIP team has brought together senior doctors and technical experts dedicated to AI research since 2019, with deep professional backgrounds and rich experience in the Web3 field.
At the 2023 Chainlink Constellation Hackathon, the KIP Protocol team was honored with the Tencent Cloud Award. Its first app on the protocol, "Kipley.ai," a security-centered multi-model RAG platform, has successfully collaborated with Animoca Ventures, the Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Anomaly, and many professors and researchers from well-known universities. The protocol's first dapp, "KnowledgeFi," as disclosed in its white paper, is also set to be launched in the first or second quarter of 2024.
Decentralization: The Inevitable Path for AI's Future
In the AI era, data and information support the operation of AI. The importance of data at present is self-evident. Only by forming a sufficiently large dataset can algorithm models be trained, ultimately bringing about economic effects. As the AI field develops, the competition to build the largest and most powerful models has begun, and "digital property monopoly" has become a focal point for major tech giants.
The original intention of KIP Protocol's construction is to protect the digital property of AI creators through Web3, providing a fair monetization path for every AI creator, building a diversified business ecosystem composed of different partners (data owners, model makers, AI application developers), and helping them achieve free collaboration or production creation based on KIP Protocol to break free from the growing AI monopolies of tech giants.
In this regard, KIP addresses the three basic problems that AI model makers, app developers, and data owners will face when attempting to decentralize.
The Problem of On-Chain and Off-Chain Data Interoperability
With the continuous development of AI technology, the number of models on the open-source model library platform Hugging Face has exceeded 500,000. However, due to the current blockchain technology's inability to achieve complete decentralization, most AI models are still in the off-chain stage, while the application layer of KIP Protocol solves the interoperability problem between on-chain and off-chain.
Through the application layer, KIP can easily upload different assets (such as software, data, etc.) to the chain. AI applications can forge ERC-3525 SFT based on KIP Protocol, freely integrate and interact with AI models and data assets seamlessly, and these interactions will be recorded on the chain through KIP Protocol. At the same time, AI application creators and users can choose which models, data, and application formats to use according to their needs.
The Problem of Income Monetization
The current basic income model in the AI field is pay-per-query, as each user query consumes the computing power of GPUs. Moreover, answering a user's query requires multiple AI value creators.
Therefore, for KIP Protocol, dedicated to decentralized AI, to succeed, it must ensure that all parties involved in decentralizing AI work can earn income.
However, this is not a simple matter in the AI field. Taking running queries through RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) as an example:
- The user asks a question to an AI chatbot.
- The AI chatbot forwards the query to its "brain" - the AI model.
- The model retrieves relevant data blocks needed to answer the question from the knowledge base, formulates the answer, and sends it back to the app.
- The app packages the answer and sends it to the user.
In this example, you can see how three roles contribute to answering user queries.
If in a centralized ecosystem, a platform owns and controls these three roles, then users only need to pay this centralized platform, and the rest is internal transfers.
However, if KIP Protocol wants to decentralize instead of monopolize, then each party needs to be paid, so the following problems need to be solved:
- Record (on-chain) everyone's contributions
- Allocate income to users
- Enable everyone to earn their own income
Based on KIP Protocol, each creator can set their own price for the query function, and KIP will ensure that the fees paid by users are proportionally distributed to AI value creators (model makers, app developers, data owners).
Since each interaction is recorded on the chain, KIP can accurately account for AI interactions and earnings through a low gas, high-efficiency settlement layer, allowing each creator to contribute to digital property rights while receiving a corresponding proportion of income.
The Problem of Digital Property Protection
KIP Protocol uses blockchain tokens, especially in the form of ERC-3525 tokens (SFT), to store different assets (such as software, data, etc.) in the property layer of the KIP Protocol framework.
- For data owners: SFT represents a vectorized knowledge base or encrypted raw data file links used for model training.
- For model makers: SFT can represent an API to off-chain models or a set of weight models available for sale.
- For app developers: SFT can represent front-end APIs or prompt words themselves.
These SFTs, as "monetizable entities," can interact with each other on-chain and record the amount each SFT earns from specific transactions.
By addressing these issues, KIP enables AI value creators to easily achieve decentralization in their work, creating the initial conditions for a vibrant, larger decentralized AI ecosystem.
KIP Cycle in Progress, Overseas KOLs Praise the New Concept of KIP
Currently, KIP has launched multiple cycle activities on the X platform, with the 10th cycle just ending. Users need to unlock and complete tasks on Galxe to earn project points.
Speaking of points, this inevitably reminds us of the recent hot topic of "fair launch through points." Additionally, according to the KIP white paper, 35% of the total supply will be used for the ecosystem fund, including community rewards based on "loyalty." Therefore, the so-called "airdrop expectations" are not unfounded. Moreover, without large-scale market promotion, the total number of participants in the KIP Cycle has exceeded 50,000, indicating the project's popularity overseas.
In fact, KIP has become a hot Alpha project in the eyes of crypto investors focusing on the AI sector.
Renowned BTC investor KOL Marco Johanning stated on the X platform, "KIP is the first Web3 underlying protocol that supports decentralized AI RAG, and the project is still in its early stages." He also mentioned that he has been in contact with the KIP team, and "the KIP team only contacted some early investors of Bittensor because as $TAO holders, they did not sell, but have common expectations for the AI sector."
Crypto KOL AI Project Hub, deeply involved in the AI sector, described "KIP Protocol" as "decentralized AI research in a different way, which complements Bittensor (a protocol for decentralized incentivized machine learning intelligence production)."
Another prominent crypto V, Crypto Phoenix, expressed an open attitude towards the project, stating that after researching relevant information, they believe that the launch of the KIP project has been carefully considered, "especially regarding the redemption period and growth plan," and openly stated that KIP may achieve tremendous success in the future.
With nearly 50,000 followers, crypto V @wauwda also extended an olive branch to the KIP project, publicly stating their participation in KIP's early financing.
Renowned crypto blogger Tomb has listed KIP as the potential next wealth code.
Currently, overseas crypto investors in the AI sector are racing to be the "first crab eater." However, compared to the lively and active overseas market, KIP's influence and visibility in the Chinese-speaking market are still relatively blank, indicating unlimited potential and opportunities for Chinese-speaking investors.
Based on the exchanges with the aforementioned KOLs and the team, we can deeply feel that this is a mature and visionary team, not only with a clear and specific plan for the development of KIP Protocol, but also full of confidence and expectations for the future. This confidence and expectation are not unfounded, but based on their deep understanding of AI and blockchain technology and solid technical capabilities.
In the view of the KIP team, early user choice is crucial, and they prefer to find "long-term holders with an AI vision." Such a user base can not only bring stable and lasting support to the community but also form a strong consensus with the team to jointly promote the development of KIP Protocol.
Conclusion
If "Crypto+AI=future of finance," then KIP may be a strong bet at the intersection of AI and encryption.
So far, in the "Crypto+AI" field, KIP is the first decentralized underlying protocol focused on AI. As an open-source Web3 underlying protocol, KIP Protocol has always adhered to the value concept of "In the AI era, everyone should achieve KnowledgeFi," promoting the creation, management, and profitability of decentralized digital property rights to achieve KnowledgeFi. Recently, KIP Protocol announced its successful inclusion in Google Cloud's Startups Program, and the Dapp KnowledgeFi is set to be launched in the first or second quarter of this year.
In the author's opinion, "Crypto+AI" is still a blue ocean market with tremendous potential, and paying attention to the development of early infrastructure is the first step in embracing the new wave. Although the future path of KIP is still long, the value concept and vision of KIP are spreading from the overseas community to the world.
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