Hives
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A Hive is a multifaceted AI system that curates and delivers decentralized access to AI, storage, compute power and other resources to ALI Agents by enabling trustless coordination between various onchain and offchain components of the AI Protocol. In order for a Hive to perform its functions, it requires a variety of smart contracts and tokenized assets to self-execute a system of complex programs and on-chain events.
Hives are capable of curating the provision of GPU and storage power, represented by Intelligence Pods and ARKIVs respectively, processing complex AI systems, models, and data I/O, and in turn providing these AI Services to ALI Agents to consume. These same Hives are also capable of processing the complex transactions of AI Protocol-compatible assets, ALI, ETH, and Hive-Native Tokens, distributing them as rewards to the various participants in the Hive ecosystem in relation to the resources they provide and consume.
ALIagents.ai leverages the first Hive created and logged with the Hive Registry - Propolis AI. As the largest decentralized distributor of AI Services, Propolis AI can be used by anyone in the world to create ALI Agents, making it the genesis AI system for AI Protocol's Version 3 upgrade. All new Agents being created at Beta launch are generated and minted by the Propolis AI Hive.
Technically, a Hive is not a digital asset or a separate smart contract. The AI Protocol allows the creation and tracking of Hives via the Hive Registry Contract. This contract, among other things, keeps onchain records of which Hives exist, provides on-chain details of those Hives, tracks the various assets linked with them, and enables tokenized assets to register as ALI Agents.
As per the current upgrade of the AI Protocol to Version 3, the smart contracts that enable Intelligence Pods to function have been deployed on the Ethereum Mainnet, and Intelligence Pods are a necessary element in the creation of a new Hive.
Intelligence Pods are the native assets (NFTs) of the AI Protocol. Intelligence Pods have the capacity to be “fused” on-chain with other NFTs. This on-chain fusion record between an Intelligence Pod and an NFT enables the latter to offer various AI Services as an iNFT. The Intelligence Pods are already being utilized within the AI Protocol to create iNFTs on Ethereum, and before recently, Intelligence Pods have had the maximum Intelligence Level of 4.
To start with, Intelligence Pods can now be upgraded to have a Level 5 Intelligence Level. The AI Protocol V3 will be initiating a Governance vote in the future to determine how to adjust the ALI required to upgrade the Levels of Intelligence Pods in order to make upgrades logical and fair to Pod owners.
The Hive Registry Contract enforces that a new Hive can only be created by utilizing a Level 5 Intelligence Pod. Any ALI Agent fused with a Level 5 Pod can utilize the Hive Registry Contract to create one Hive.
The diagram below illustrates the process of creating a new Hive:
To learn more about how to create a Level 5 ALI Agent and to build a Hive, please visit the AI Protocol's Github
