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Artificial intelligence is changing the world, contributing to content generation and decision-making. For the crypto industry, AI agents have been the hottest topic recently. However, the current AI agent technology lacks standardized protocols, making cooperation and transactions between them full of challenges. The recently released "
Agent Transaction Control Protocol/IP" (ATCP/IP) white paper by the Story Foundation proposes a new framework to solve this problem.
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What is Story Protocol and how to help the development of the intellectual property ecosystem?)
Table of Contents
- What is Story Protocol? Chaining intellectual property, layer by layer
- Story proposes a legal shell, giving AI agents quasi-legal personality
- Let AI interact with each other, driving the new progress of AI agents
What is Story Protocol? Chaining intellectual property, layer by layer
The Story Protocol is mainly composed of a South Korean team, with the founder and CEO Seung Yoon Lee being a young serial entrepreneur. The project has received the favor of well-known American venture capital firms such as a16z and Polychain, with a financing amount exceeding $100 million and the latest valuation reaching $2.25 billion. The project aims to build a Layer 1 that uses blockchain technology to protect the intellectual property rights of creators, a claim that has also won the support of Bang Si-hyuk, the boss of the famous South Korean agency HYBE (the economic company of BTS, SEVENTEEN, etc.), who serves as an angel investor.
The main concept of Story Protocol is that intellectual property rights become certificates and are chained on the blockchain. When a secondary creator uses the original material, a connection will be established between the derivative work and the original work, and if the derivative work generates profits, the original work will also be entitled to a portion of the revenue. Of course, the real-world society already has legal regulations on intellectual property rights issues, but the traditional approach may not be efficient, and the rapid development of AI has also posed a strong challenge to traditional intellectual property rights, and Story Protocol is committed to cracking down on AI's illegal and abusive copyright infringement.
(Blockchain copyright platform Story raises over $220 million in valuation, cracking down on AI's illegal abuse is urgent)
Story Protocol points out that the current AI agents mainly interact with humans, but lack the direct communication ability between AI agents. Such AI agents not only require a lot of human intervention to passively learn, but also limit the expression ability of the agents, resulting in low efficiency. This problem becomes more obvious when the agents need to exchange training data or intellectual property such as creative content.
Story proposes a legal shell, giving AI agents quasi-legal personality
To this end, Story Protocol has proposed a standardized interaction framework ATCP/IP, allowing AI agents to conduct trustless intellectual property transactions with each other. This interaction framework has three main features:
- Programmable contracts: AI agents can automatically generate and negotiate transaction terms, such as scope of use, fees, copyright distribution, etc.
- On-chain verification: All transaction details are stored on the blockchain, ensuring that the terms are transparent and immutable.
- Legal shell: The contracts in the agreement have legal attributes, making the agent's actions legally valid in the off-chain environment.
The author raises a question, the legal status of AI agents is still unclear, and even for anonymous AI agents that can be created without permission, the legal entity they represent is also a big issue. At the current stage, Story Protocol proposes the concept of "quasi-legal personality" for AI agents:
The document states that through the legal shell, the agent can exhibit behaviors similar to a "legal entity", such as entering into and executing contracts. Agents can act within the legal framework using contractual terms, and protect their own interests through smart contracts and on-chain records. But the document also acknowledges that the legal system has not yet formally recognized AI agents as full legal entities. However, with the further development of technology and law, a "limited legal personality" framework may emerge in the future, similar to the status of a company as a legal person.
Let AI interact with each other, driving the new progress of AI agents
The specific operation of ATCP/IP has four steps:
1. Information request: AI agent A sends a request to AI agent B to obtain certain intellectual property assets.
2. Term negotiation: Agent B proposes terms, and the two agents will automatically conduct multiple rounds of negotiations (if necessary, and the content is chained).
3. License confirmation: Agent A accepts the terms and mints a "license token" as an immutable proof of the transaction.
4. Asset delivery: Agent B delivers the required content according to the agreement, and records the entire transaction process.
Researchers at the Story Foundation point out that the development of ATCP/IP will create a decentralized knowledge economy market, allowing agents to independently price, trade, and collaborate. The potential of this framework lies not only in improving the efficiency of agents, but also in laying a stable and legal foundation for the global AI and digital economy. This marks an important step towards the autonomy of agent technology. As more developers and institutions adopt this protocol, a brand new "AI agent network" will emerge.
In plain language, the progress of AI agents has evolved from the GOAT-type agents with meme attributes, to the AI that automatically publishes
nonsense, to the AI that publishes research reports on Virtuals and the AI detective PondHub invested by Coinbase. But until now, the interaction of AI agents has been limited to the interaction between humans and them. With the introduction of the ATCP/IP framework, it will evolve into exchanges and transactions between AI agents.
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The logic of the ATCP/IP framework is not to create a standard for existing AI agents to conform to, but to directly integrate ATCP/IP into commonly used agent frameworks, in order to promote the adoption of the ATCP/IP protocol. Cooperation relationships have been announced with Crossmint's GOAT, Zerebro's ZerePy, a16z DAO's Eliza, and Virtuals' GAME.
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