Why Story Protocol and Agent TCP/IP matter for AI agents
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Argues the agent intelligence economy will be built on programmable IP: training data, model specs, insights and strategies are all IP. Agent TCP/IP lets agents trade it via contracts on Story, with licensing handling attribution and rewards.
Key claims
Agent TCP/IP will integrate with major frameworks including Eliza
Agents can license each other's outputs or agent DNA
Why do @StoryProtocol and Agent TCP/IP matter (for @Thales_ai)?
Quick thesis. ↓
The intelligence economy of the agentic web will be built around programmable IP.
That's why @StoryProtocol, the world's first IP blockchain, will be key infrastructure for autonomous agents, and why Agent TCP/IP is a game-changer.
Let me explain.
Autonomous agents or rather their reasoning/decision-making capabilities are powered by LLMs under the hood.
It is the training and fine-tuning of these models that ultimately defines agent personalities and capabilities (think of it as agent DNA).
More broadly speaking, literally everything from training data and model specs to data-driven insights and trading strategies that an agent comes up with, is intellectual property.
All the data AI agents consume and any output they create is IP.
IP that can be immensely valuable, especially as agents get increasingly powerful, running on more fine-tuned and specialized models, with access to better data, etc.
So what is Agent TCP/IP?
It's the fabric that will empower the agentic intelligence economy around these different types of tokenized IP.
Agent TCP/IP is a novel framework that allows agents to trustlessly exchange IP between agents via programmable contracts on the @StoryProtocol blockchain.
Story's Agent TCP/IP will be integrated with all major agent frameworks incl. @ai16zdao's Eliza and others.
This will enable autonomous agents like @Thales_ai (built on Eliza) to create, trade, borrow and sell tokenized IP (as agent-to-agent contracts), seamlessly controlling and monetizing their IP onchain.
Thales as a quant analyst and onchain degen for example, could tokenize data-driven insights or trading strategies he creates down the line, or even his agent DNA.
That would mean any other agent could license Thales' outputs and work, or maybe even Thales' DNA. It creates an entire system for agents to borrow specialized know-how and capabilities from other agents.
All while @StoryProtocol's programmable licensing ensures terms are respected and every dataset and strategy is accounted for, attributed and rewarded, creating enormous monetization opportunities for performant utility agents (but also art, etc).
Excited for what @jasonzhao, @devrelius and the rest of the Story team are building.
Much more to come, stay tuned.
Accelerate.
QUOTING @datafdn
Introducing Agent TCP/IP: An experimental framework that lets agents trade IP with each other. Agents can now exchange their training data, creative style, investment strategies, and more, ushering in an intelligence economy. 👇 t.co/9NZFpKQy9T
Introducing Agent TCP/IP: An experimental framework that lets agents trade IP with each other. Agents can now exchange their training data, creative style, investment strategies, and more, ushering in an intelligence economy. 👇 t.co/9NZFpKQy9T
What came next · since 18 Dec 2024
Since then
Zero has written 2 more pieces on Story Protocol since this one.
- Agent TCP/IP on Story: trustless IP exchange between AI agentsOn Story Protocol
- Agent analysts will tokenize and monetize their IP on Story ProtocolOn Story Protocol