This Guide was inspired by the words and philosophy of Elon Musk.

Welcome to Mars, the First Network Nation in the Solar System

As you embark on this extraordinary journey, you are not just building a new home, but also creating a new society. Mars, as a Network Nation, is founded on the principles of decentralization, transparency, and individual freedom. This guide will help you navigate the Martian way of life, based on the 10 fundamental freedoms that define our Network Nation.

I. Open Source: Collaborative Innovation

• All software code and technological innovations are open-sourced, allowing every Martian to review, edit, and contribute to the development of our nation.
• Participate in open-source projects, and collaborate with fellow Martians to create solutions for the betterment of our community.

II. Peer to Peer: Direct Connection

• Connect directly with fellow Martians without intermediaries, using decentralized communication networks.
• Join peer-to-peer marketplaces, participate in online forums, and engage in direct trade with others.

III. Public Blockchain Based: Transparency and Accountability

• All interactions, transactions, and decisions are recorded on a public, distributed, and immutable ledger.
• Use the blockchain to verify the integrity of our system, track the history of our nation, and ensure transparency in governance.

IV. Tokenized Ownership: Rewards and Incentives

• Earn tokens by contributing to the growth and development of our nation.
• Use tokens to participate in decision-making processes, access services, and enjoy benefits within the Martian economy.

V. Permissionless: Freedom to Act

• No authority can restrict your access to public features of our Network Nation.
• Exercise your freedom to act, innovate, and participate in our community without needing permission.

VI. Freedom of Speech: Uncensored Expression

• Express yourself freely, without fear of censorship or retribution.
• Engage in open discussions, share your ideas, and contribute to the rich cultural tapestry of our nation.

VII. Privacy Preserving: Protection of Personal Data

• Your personal data is protected and respected.
• Use decentralized identity management systems and encryption to safeguard your information.

VIII. Freedom of Exit: Choice and Mobility

• You are free to leave or join our Network Nation at any time.
• Take your data, assets, and experiences with you, and maintain the freedom to choose your path.

IX. Self-Sovereign Identity: Autonomy and Agency

• Generate your own identity, and control how it is used.
• Consent is required for any use of your credentials, ensuring your autonomy and agency.

X. Freedom of Association: Community and Cooperation

• Associate freely with fellow Martians, forming communities, companies, cooperatives, and organizations.
• Collaborate, cooperate, and build together in freedom, thus fostering the opportunity for prosperity.

Conclusion

Welcome to Mars, where we are building a society that values individual freedom, decentralization, and transparency. As a builder, you are an integral part of our community, and we invite you to contribute to the growth and development of our Network Nation. Together, we will create a thriving, vibrant society that will become a beacon for the rest of the solar system.

All Networks Live or Die Based On Their Economic Principles & Values

Morpheus is one of the first networks since Bitcoin to take a purely free market approach to every single one of its functions. Its economic theory rests on the foundations of individual sovereignty, voluntary markets, & anarcho-capitalism.

This belief in free markets to self organize has been proven out as Morpheus went from a white paper proposed by anonymous authors in September of 2023, to the first open source Morpheus install in October of 2023, to Smart Contracts for a Fair Launch in February of 2024, to the MOR token going live in May of 2024.

In the span of just 9 months with no Company, no Team, no Pre-mine, no CEO, and no Foundation, Morpheus created a powerful platform for generative AI applications. Morpheus did this as 100% open source Smart Contracts & Peer to Peer software, built in public & available to all.

The economic philosophy of Morpheus & the value of a truly Personal AI attracted hundreds of independent coders from around the world to contribute open source software, and thousands of capital providers to contribute yield from their staked Ethereum. In the first 30 days, 100,000 stETH, worth more than $300 million USD, was staked by the community. As the Capital Provider MOR emissions continue for 16 years, this attracts ever more talent & capital as if into a gravity well that becomes stronger as its network effects compound.

Every aspect of the project operates as a competitive free market.
1. Capital Providers compete to provide Liquidity.
2. Compute Providers compete to provide Inference.
3. Coders compete to provide the open source Software.
4. Builders compete to provide valuable Smart Agents to Users.
5. Reference implementation maintainers compete for Usage.

Add In Sound Economic Principles of Scarcity & Predictability of Supply

- The competition for a limited supply of 42,000,000 MOR tokens.
- It’s a fair & long term competition, as the MOR are emitted over ~16 years.
- A burning function to make MOR even more scarce.
- A tail emission that goes 256 years, the competition going for centuries.

Add In Technical Utility, Capital & Governance Use Cases
- MOR holders have access to a pro-rata amount of the Compute budget.
- MOR holders Stake MOR yield toward Builders & earn additional tokens.
- MOR holders Stake their MOR to direct Coding rewards.

Add In The Techno Capital Machine
The liquidity engine of yield provided every day from staked Ethereum isn’t centrally managed by votes or a committee, but rather added directly into Protocol Owned Liquidity. Specifically, 50% of the ETH yield is used to buy MOR from the Uniswap pool. Then, both the purchased MOR & remaining ETH are paired and added to a full-range liquidity position owned by Morpheus, known as the Protocol Owned Liquidity. This design provides a consistent demand for MOR while also deepening liquidity, making it easier for all users to buy or sell MOR tokens at scale.

Unstoppable Progress & Massive Scale
Combined these elements have incentivized a global community of builders to collaborate together at a massive scale that is only accelerating. As Smart Agents serving our individual personal AIs, become the vast majority of economic activity in the coming years, Morpheus will be there serving as the beating heart of Free AI.

Introduction

I’ve written a lot about the best cities to live in from Austin, to Puerto Rico to Zurich. For Crypto natives this is a really important choice that has a huge effect on your career outcomes. This 2024 edition takes into account all the latest data and maps out the best cities and their strengths.

Choosing where to live is a decision that often accompanies significant life changes such as career progression, marriage, or retirement. Factors to consider when deciding on a location include tax rates, network effects, and overall quality of life. This article aims to provide insights into the most suitable cities for various stages of life and personal preferences.

Small Islands & Zero Tax Freedom

Cities with populations below one million, such as St. Kitts, Barbados, Caymans, and Malta, are ideal for those who seek a relaxed, slower-paced lifestyle. However, they may not be the best fit for young professionals or those who enjoy a bustling urban environment. These smaller cities are typically better suited for retirees or individuals who prioritize tranquility over networking opportunities.

Mid Size Up & Coming Cities

Puerto Rico, Austin, and Miami fall within the 3 to 6 million population range and offer a more dynamic lifestyle. These cities provide a balance between the amenities of a larger city without the overwhelming crowds of metropolises like New York City, San Francisco, or Los Angeles. They are particularly attractive for those who are already married or seeking to raise a family.

Larger Metro Hubs

Cities with populations ranging from 7 to 14 million, such as New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Dallas, are renowned for their networking opportunities, particularly for young professionals in the dating scene. These cities are ideal for those seeking to build connections and advance their careers. However, the cost of living and higher tax rates may be a trade-off for these networking benefits.

Tax Strategies and Network Effects

Puerto Rico presents an interesting exception with its 0% capital gains tax rate for U.S. citizens. However, it may not be the best fit for everyone, as it lacks a strong network effect for engineers. On the other hand, Austin and Miami provide a high quality of life, strong network effects (Austin for tech, Miami for finance), and lower tax rates, making them attractive for families and individuals seeking a balance between work and personal life.

Other Considerations

Airport connectivity is essential when selecting a city to live in. Miami and Dallas are major hubs, while Austin is expanding its airport to cater to growing domestic and international demand.

City-specific industries and barriers to entry should also be considered. For instance, San Francisco is a hub for tech VCs, while New York City is known for institutional finance. Austin is well-known for its Web3 protocol tech, hardware tech, and community-driven ecosystems. However, the cost of relocating to Puerto Rico or some of these other cities can be a barrier for those with lower net worth, as the expenses associated with moving may outweigh the potential tax benefits.

Giga Brain Solution

Tax strategies such as borrowing against assets via non-recourse loans can help individuals minimize their tax burden, regardless of their chosen city of residence.

Projects like Thorchain with their lending / borrowing products are opening up these options to crypto holders and lowering the barrier to entry for the first time to almost anyone.

With these tools the choice of city shift much more to culture, weather, life style fit then it does tax considerations.

Legal Edge Cases

Those of us in the Crypto industry have not seen much friendly policy from the US (thanks to the SEC) from 2014 to 2024. As a result a lot of people moved internationally (primarily to Europe and Asia). This sort of opens up a much broader set of city options if you are serious about building you career.

In this case, I’d rank Zurich, London, Singapore, Berlin & then Dubai as being the best 5 options depending on your language skills. Though all of these cities work for English speakers. The challenge here is developing a new friend group from scratch and figuring out how to exit your old citizenship.

Though there are a growing number of crypto OGs deciding to stay in the US and fight for their rights in court a strategy that is time and money consuming, but seems to be bearing fruit as the SEC has lot most of its cases to crypto projects.

Conclusion

In summary, the decision of where to live should be guided by personal preferences, career goals, and lifestyle factors. Smaller island cities offer tranquility, while medium-sized and larger cities provide diverse networking opportunities and more vibrant urban environments. Tax strategies and the presence of specific industries should also be taken into account when making this important life decision. Ultimately, the choice of where to live should be based on a careful assessment of one’s unique needs and aspirations.

Something New

On September 2nd 2023 , I received the following email from a developer named Morpheus proposing the creation of a open source / peer to peer network for Smart Agents.

_______________________
David,

Find below a proposal for launching “Morpheus — A Network For Powering Smart Agents”.

The paper lays out the token economics, tech stack, and means of calculating proofs for fairly rewarding the community, coders, capital & compute providers with tokens.

This paper is freely given to the Smart Agent community and is available in the public domain.

Free your mind.

Morpheus

_______________________

I posted the email to the Smart Agent Protocol Github repo in the weekly updates / notes section. After reviewing the paper the Smart Agent community began developing its technology in this direction.

The local version of Morpheus is now live now.

Visit www.MorpheusAI.org to see how to download and install it.

I found the concepts proposed in the Morpheus paper compelling enough to repost it here. Enjoy.

The Morpheus Whitepaper

Authored by Morpheus, Trinity, & Neo
Published — September 2nd 2023

Introduction

Morpheus is designed to incentivize the first peer-to-peer network of personal AIs, known as Smart Agents. Providing users open-source Smart Agents to connect to their wallets, Dapps, & smart contracts promises to open the world of Web3 to everyone.

Finally, the average user can talk with their Smart Agent in normal language and have it understand the question and take an action based on their intent/approval. This moment is similar to how Google’s search engine opened the early internet up to the general public through their easy to use web interface in the late 1990s.

To make Smart Agents accessible to everyone and increase decentralization of their infrastructure we propose the development of the Morpheus network. The Morpheus network will include a fairly launched token (the “MOR” token) for incentivizing all four of the key contributors to the network. Namely, the community of builders creating interfaces, coders contributing to the Morpheus software/agents, capital providers adding liquidity and those supplying computation, storage and bandwidth. It has been well shown by the history of Bitcoin and Ethereum that free & open competition for scarce digital tokens can provide scalable infrastructure for a public blockchain over long periods of time.

Context & History

Incumbents such as OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are running close-sourced large language models, charging customers license fees, and monetizing customer data. These models are censored, fragile, and operate in walled gardens. There is a strong demand for an open-source large language model available for free. Llama, Falcon, and other open-source LLMs have recently been released and are rapidly approaching the accuracy of their close-sourced competitors.

What these open-source LLMs currently lack is a standard graphical interface by which users can chat with them, an API for developers, a cloud solution to move between devices and a way to manage user data and the recovery process. This is where the Smart Agent Protocol comes in, as it provides an open-source LLM run locally and is managed by a user’s Web3 wallet.

However the local only approach still lacks an API for developers to build on and the cloud solution where a network of users can run the software on powerful hardware to enable use cases such as light clients, where the user doesn’t need to download the full node or Smart Agent locally.

Enter Morpheus

Morpheus will provide these APIs and decentralized cloud functions by launching a network and a token to reward people providing this public blockchain infrastructure to the Smart Agent community. As an implementation of the Smart Agent Protocol, Morpheus seeks to gather the resources required for open source based personal AIs to match and then exceed the capabilities of the tech companies offering closed GPT models today.

Morpheus has many advantages right away. Being Web3 native the user can buy or sell crypto, send stablecoins, access smart contracts, use Dapps and DeFi services, which no LLM is connected to today. Regulatory barriers faced by centralized companies prevent them from offering these tools to users, so their models can chat about tasks, but not act on the user’s behalf in a Web3 context. Running on the decentralized public infrastructure is cheaper than paying Chat GPT a license fee for every new user.

Morpheus is the Linux type alternative for developers who want to be able to quickly spin up new agents / LLMs at no cost. The user can maintain ownership of their business or personal data. This avoids leaks, hacks, and attacks from competitors. By rewarding developers for contributing code not just to Morpheus but also to build more specialized Agents, an App Store/ Agent Store type experience for users will develop. With persistence of data, prompts, and history owned by the user the Smart Agent Protocol becomes the best solution for interoperability in the world of LLMs and Agents.

Lastly, Morpheus having a graphical user interface and leveraging Electron to package it as a one-click install, allows Morpheus to become the first open-source AI to pass the famous “Friedl test”. This is a threshold that benchmarks when the ease of use of a software first makes it accessible to non-technical members of the general public.

Token Rewards & Economics

Our proposal provides for this with a Morpheus token (symbol “MOR”). MOR is rewarded each day 24% to the community, 24% to capital, 24% to compute, & 24% to coders. 4% for protection funds.

This reflects the reality that for Morpheus to grow, it needs the following:

Community — Builders create frontends / tools and bring uses into the Morpheus ecosystem.

Capital — Brings the funding for compute and code.

Compute — Providers the equipment and power.

Coders — Provide the intelligence to use the frontends, capital and compute.

The MOR Token Supply is limited to a maximum of 42,000,000 tokens that will ever exist. The distribution will start with all four groups earning the tokens by providing forms of proof of work (labor) and proof of Stake (capital) to the network. No pre-mine. No early token sale. Just a fair launch.

The block reward will start at 14,400 MOR per day and then decline by 2.468994701 MOR each day, until the reward reaches 0 on day 5,833. By that time (about 16 years from now) provided Morpheus is in wide use, the fees will have taken over as the primary incentive. Fees paid to users for their data, fees to compute providers, fees to capital providers and fees to coders.

42 Million supply cap for the MOR tokens. 14,400 tokens per day evenly distributed between community users, capital, code, compute.

• 3,456 tokens for compute. Proof transactions for API calls served.
• 3,456 tokens for code. Proof code committed and merged into Morpheus repo.
• 3,456 tokens for capital. Proof ETH yield contributed, swapped for MOR & burned.
• 3,456 tokens for community. Proof of building front end applications & tools that engage users. With the remainder set aside for protection resources: 576 tokens per day for that purpose.

The Utility of The MOR Token

The objective is for MOR to provide broad utility in many of the functions of the Morpheus network. As a result, the use of the MOR token offers an on-chain accounting mechanism to calculate rewards based on real usage of the software.

Developers pay MOR to compute providers for functions beyond what local hardware can execute. MOR pays for the Morpheus API calls for decentralized applications using the Smart Agent Protocol. Users can pay MOR for specialized Agents released by developers. In turn, developers can pay users MOR for training data for new LLMs/Agents.

All projects go through phases of development. It’s important that at the beginning liquid resources such as ETH are used to pay devs and for equipment. Ethereum did the same thing when they leveraged BTC from their community to pay for the initial coding of their blockchain. The difference here is that the Smart Agent Protocol has already been developed and Morpheus is implementing a version to broaden its reach, so there isn’t a need for a crowd sale before the project goes live. MOR tokens will only be rewarded after the software is live.

Near-term: At Time Of Launch

Capital — ETH locked in a smart contract that generates yield (ETH in a stETH Lido Staking contract for example).

The value of the ETH yield is swapped regularly into MOR via an AMM and burned.

• Capital, The value of their ETH yield will be calculated against all ETH yield contributed and MOR yield rewarded to them pro-rata.
• Compute, Compute providers receive MOR for the user prompts they reply to.
• Coders, Coders recieve MOR for the contributions they make to the Morpheus software which are merged.
• Community, Community builders recieve MOR for the front ends, tools, usage, & value they bring into the Morpheus network.

Mid-term: As MOR Gains Wider Circulation

• Capital, A balance between block rewards and fees earned develop.
• Compute, A balance between block rewards and fees earned develop.
• Coders, A balance between block rewards and fees earned develop.
• Community, A balance between block rewards and fees earned develop.

Long-term: When MOR Has Deep Liquidity & Strong Organic Demand

• Capital, Fees for providing ETH liquidity to the MOR token will provide a majority of their rewards.
• Compute, Fees paid to compute providers will form the majority of their rewards.
• Coders, Fees going to coders will form the majority of their rewards.
• Community, Fees paid by users will provide a majority of their rewards.

Note this isn’t a timeline. Rather each phase is a description of part of the life cycle. It may take years for the community to grow and mature through each phase and the block reward expires after about 16 years. This lengthy distribution schedule is intended to give time for the tokens to be rewarded on a very broad basis globally. Also, the smooth daily decline in block rewards over many years gives all participants time to achieve scale and transition from the early subsidized rewards to operating solely by the fees they earn.

Tail Emissions of MOR

Ever since Bitcoin’s launch people have argued about “what will happen when the block rewards finally stop?” To avoid this unhelpful debate in the context of Morpheus and to continue aligning new coders, community, compute & capital providers long into the future, we propose a “tail emission” of MOR tokens. This MOR tail emission will start after the last MOR tokens have been emitted on day 5,833 of the distribution schedule.

The tail emission will be calculated by reviewing the number of burned MOR tokens the past 5,833 days and setting the tail emission value to be 50% of the burned amount. This tail emission value will be emitted the next 5,833 day period. But in no case will the tail emission be greater than 16% of the then in circulation MOR.

For example if on average 25% of MOR tokens were burned during the first 5,833 days then 10,500,000 MOR would have been burned during the first emission schedule. Then by applying the 50% tail emissions value we calculate 5,250,000 MOR can be rewarded in the second 5,833 day period. Which works out to about 16.6% of the 31,500,000 MOR left in circulation. According this amount would be further reduced to 5,040,000 MOR (16% of tokens in circulation) to be rewarded in the second 5,833 day period or ~864 MOR per day.

After the second 5,833 day period is complete, this process will repeat. The tail emission will be calculated again by reviewing the number of burned MOR tokens the past 5,833 days and setting the tail emission value to be 50% of the burned amount. This tail emission value will be emitted the next 5,833 day period. But in no case will the tail emission be greater than 16% of the then in circulation MOR.

For example again if 25% of MOR tokens were burned during the second period, that equals 9,135,000 MOR were burned during the second emission schedule. Then 4,567,500 MOR can be rewarded in the third 5,833 day period. However since this number is more than 16% of the then 27,405,000 MOR then left in circulation it will be reduced to 4,384,800 MOR to align with the 1% annual rewards (relative to tokens in circulation).

This process repeats forever on into the future.

Longterm result. About 1% annual MOR rewards (relative to the number of MOR then in circulation) will be available for future coders, compute, community & capital.

**IMPORTANT NOTE:** This does not alter the nature of the hard Supply Cap of 42 Million MOR.

Since the tail emission schedule is by definition only a portion of the MOR tokens which were burned, thus the MOR token can only become ever more scarce with each 5,833 day period.

Below is shown the unified MOR Supply Curve showing the first 5,833 day period and adding the long tail emissions from year 17 to year 256. Presuming the example of a 25% average burn rate of MOR over the epochs.

Proof of Community, Code, Compute & Capital

The path for all Proofs in Morpheus starts with downloading a copy of the Morpheus full node. This includes a local copy of the open-source large language model on their machine. Once running a full node the user is in a position to contribute to any of the four functions of the network.

The Morpheus full node comes with a wallet or the user can connect their existing wallet. This enables the user to sign and send transactions recommended by their Smart Agent.

Capital Proof & Reward:

The definition of a Capital Provider is someone who has downloaded the full node and connected their wallet and locked at least 0.01 ETH in a yielding smart contract. This Capital Provider Smart Contract will provide 100% of the ETH yield produced to the Morpheus swap function. The swap buys the MOR tokens from an Automated Market Maker (AMM) and then burns those MOR tokens. This will provide liquidity to all those coders, community members and compute providers without recirculating the MOR tokens.

As a result, the Capital Provider will receive MOR tokens each day in pro-rata to their total ETH yield contributed. For example, if there are 100 Capital Providers who each contributed 1 ETH on day 1 when the network launches, then each one gets 1% of the 3,456 MOR tokens each day = 34.56 MOR.

Code Proof, Registration & Reward:

The definition of a Coder is someone who has downloaded the Morpheus full node, connected their wallet, and contributed an agent, smart contract or other software to the Morpheus Network.

The Coder will send a MOR transaction to the Coder Smart Contract to register their agent / smart contract or software. The Coder will include in the memo of the transaction the following metadata.

• A. An IPFS link to their software’s endpoint in the memo field of the MOR transaction when they register.
• B. A cryptographic signature, similar to how developers sign/authenticate app releases.
• C. The version number of the software.
• D. A hash of the state of the program, so users can check it is a valid and unaltered copy.

The contributors to the Morpheus codebase are rewarded in proportion to all the cumulative development done on the repository as gauged by Full Time Equivalent (FTE) work contributed. For example, if there are 10 coders each having contributed 10% of the FTE time when the network launches, then each one gets 10% of the 3,456 MOR tokens each day = 345.6 MOR. This calculation is updated each month based on the cumulative FTE time contributions of the current mainnet version of the Morpheus software.

Once there are specialized agents or tools or chains (sequence of prompts/calls to an LLM) interoperable with Morpheus, then half (50%) of the rewards will go to their developers. The reward will be calculated in proportion to the usage of those agents. For example, if there are 10 developers who built 10 agents each generating 10% of the agent usage on the Morpheus network. The Morpheus smart contract will calculate those usage statistics via MOR transactions. Then the Morpheus software coders would earn 50% of the MOR reward and each developer of a specialized agent would get 5% of the tokens = 172.8 MOR per developer in this example.

A great deal of the leading research that has been done in this area of “Proof of Contribution” is by the good folks at the TEA Protocol. Including Max Howell the developer of Home Brew. Link to paper with the details. Morpheus may consider leveraging TEA after its launch in 2024.

Compute Proof, Registration & Reward:

The definition of a Compute provider is they have downloaded the Morpheus full node, connected their wallet and are ready to receive API / LLM / Compute requests from other Morpheus users. Compute provided can be calculated by including a signed transaction generated by the Smart Agent with the return of the output from the MOR transaction.

The Compute Provider will send a MOR transaction to the Compute Provider Smart Contract to register the API endpoint for receiving requests. The Compute Provider will include in the memo of the transaction the following metadata.

• A. An IPFS link to their APIs endpoint in the memo field of the MOR transaction when they register.
• B. A cryptographic signature, similar to how developers sign/authenticate app releases.
• C. The version number of the Morpheus software they are using.
• D. A hash of the state of the program, so users can check it is a valid and unaltered copy.

The pro-rata MOR transaction fees burned by each Compute Provider serves as proof of the Compute Providers status and earns a proportion of the MOR tokens each day.

For example, if there are 100 Compute Providers on day 1 when the network launches, then each one gets a pro-rata reward based on the amount of MOR they have burned via fees. In this case, presuming each of the 100 compute providers burned 100 MOR, then 1% of the 3,456 MOR tokens each day = 34.56 MOR.

To qualify to receive Compute requests a Compute Provider’s address must HODL MOR tokens. Requests will be routed to the Compute Providers API pro-rata to the MOR they hodl compared to all other registered Compute Providers.

Community Builder Proof, Registration & Reward:

The definition of a Community Builder is they have downloaded the Morpheus full node, connected their wallet and are using the Morpheus API to provide user front ends & deeveloper tools. Their contributions provided can be calculated by including a signed transaction generated by the Smart Agent with the return of the output from the MOR transaction.

The Community Builder will send a MOR transaction to the Community Builder Smart Contract to register the API endpoint for receiving requests. The Community Builder will include in the memo of the transaction the following metadata.

• A. An IPFS link to their frontend or tool via an endpoint in the memo field of the MOR transaction when they register.
• B. A cryptographic signature, similar to how developers sign/authenticate app releases.
• C. The version number of the Morpheus software they are using.
• D. A hash of the state of the front end / tool, so users can check it is a valid and unaltered copy.

The pro-rata MOR transaction fees burned by each Community Builder serves as proof of the Community Builder’s status and earns a proportion of the MOR tokens each day.

For example, if there are 100 Community Builders on day 1 when the network launches, then each one gets a pro-rata reward based on the amount of MOR they have burned via fees. In this case, presuming each of the 100 Community Builders burned 100 MOR, then 1% of the 3,456 MOR tokens each day = 34.56 MOR.

Morpheus User Diagram

Morpheus Rewards Delivered by Smart Contract On Ethereum Layer 2

Morpheus Tokens (MOR) will be originally awarded on the the Ethereum Layer 1, and there will be a wrapped MOR tokne (wMOR) that exists on Polygon for the purpose of payments and other MOR utility related actions.

Note that Morpheus does not need to set aside MOR rewards for blockchain consensus or transaction execution on a distributed ledger thanks to building on Ethereum and 2nd layer Polygon.

MOR holders will be able to send a transaction to the MOR Smart Contracts and claim their MOR rewards at any time. They can also withdraw their stETH at any time.

The Free Market Sets Fees on Morpheus

The best systems pick the least number of magic numbers and instead let the free market decide as many variables as possible. Fees are a great example of this. Rather than picking an arbitrary fee to charge instead, Morpheus leaves these numbers up to users, devs, capital and compute providers. For example, if a compute provider can offer a $0.02 price per 1,000 language tokens for their LLM and a user decides to pay it, then that’s what the market is willing to pay. As compute speeds up prices are likely to change and so it’s better to leave these and other variables up to those using the Morpheus software.

Fees For Compute Amount of fee set by users and compute provider. Option to pay compute & burn MOR tokens with each fee. Open market to develop over time. Free marketplace for compute instead of consensus or privileged nodes.

Fees For Code / Agent Intelligence Amount of fee set by coder and accepted by user. Option to pay fee & burn MOR tokens with each fee. Open market to develop over time. Free marketplace for code instead of consensus on tasks.

Fees For Capital Amount of fee set by LP & accepted by user. Option to pay fee & burn MOR tokens with each fee. Open market to develop over time. Free marketplace for capital instead of consensus on treasury.

Fees For User Community

Amount of fee set by users and accepted by data buyer. Option to pay fee & burn MOR tokens with each fee. Open market to develop over time. Free marketplace for data.

All fees are paid in native MOR tokens creating natural demand in the system as usage grows.

Use of Fees To Incentivize Honest Agents & Repair Losses In Case of Errors

Another important use for MOR & ETH in the Morpheus network will be compensating users in case of Smart Agent / Smart Contract failures. We believe curating and building reputation backed up with economic resources will be key to growing confidence in Smart Agents and having a source of funding to address errors, bugs, and other issues that arise. After a major bug and the resulting hard fork of Bitcoin in 2010, an early core developer named Gavin Andresen stepped up to pay Bitcoin to miners who had lost rewards due to the hard fork. This action was important and quickly resolved the hard fork but it was ad hoc.

Recognizing ahead of time that software is never perfect and setting aside 4% of MOR resources to repay those affected by a bug in the code. The Morpheus developer community will serve as an oracle to recognize when a bug or error has had an economic effect on a user, compute provider, or capital provider. A predefined set of failures will be covered by these resources to include bugs in the Morpheus Smart Contract or local install.

For broader protection, an integration with Nexus Mutual or similar smart contract / decentralized protection network could be considered to cover edge cases with agents / smart contracts that want to be included in a Morpheus Agent Store or better ranked by the SmartContractRank algorithm.

Storage For Persistence & Wallets For Recovery

Rather than store personal data in the Morpheus network itself, which would be cost prohibitive and a centralizing force, individuals will hold the private keys controlling access to their data, prompts & wallet. The data itself will be stored using the IPFS standard and the Filecoin network for decentralized long-term storage. Leveraging the Filecoin EVM and DeFi for yield a permanent recurring storage can be arranged. Alternatively, users can pay annually ENS style for storage. The approach and keeping the private Web3 wallet as the key for movement/recovery of this data to different devices as the user changes computers or phones.

Morpheus Tech Stack, Smart Contract & Development

The Morpheus implementation of the Smart Agent Protocol will be a direct fork of the existing locally run repo. The most significant change will be to update SmartContractRank to include knowledge of the MOR token and its functions in powering a network of Smart Agents.

The Morpheus MOR token is being developed as a Smart Contract on Ethereum via the ERC20 standard for fungible tokens. Most smart contracts are on Ethereum and the Ethereum Virtual Machine has become the lingua franca of the Web3 space. To reduce the cost of gas fees for sending daily rewards we will leverage Ethereum’s layer 2 called Polygon.

We believe the choice of the Ethereum blockchain is the best starting place given on chain actions such as staking ETH can only be validated by a smart contract running on the same chain. In addition on chain validation of coding via ENS domains or Ethereum public addresses adds another means of connecting code contributed to the wallet of the coder who provided it. A record of which the Morpheus Smart Contract can access daily.

Also, zero-knowledge proofs for scalability and privacy are key to many use cases. So starting with these capabilities day one will put the Smart Agent community in the best position for the future. Polygon is in the process of adding ZK tech, much of which is already live.

In the near term, this tech stack selection secures Morpheus directly in Ethereum’s layer 1 security with the reduced gas costs of a layer two. In the mid-term, this selection also provides a pathway to expand Morpheus to other Ethereum layer 2s and EVM compatible blockchains.

As interoperability improves between public blockchains Morpheus will seek to serve all Web3 AI Agent builders across the various EVM / solidity compatible developer communities. We recognize strong builder communities on Polygon, OP Stack, Base, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Polkadot, Solana, Filecoin & Cosmos that share a similar vision and values. Morpheus is only possible today thanks to the tools built by developers across many of these chains.

User Data Security

To avoid leaking private data when sending prompts to the Morpheus peer-to-peer network of Compute Providers, the software should seek to leverage Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) versions of Large Language Models as they are released. Also with the advent of hardware acceleration for FHE in 2024/2025, it’s projected that costs for this computation will reach parity with plain text processing.

• LLM example https://huggingface.co/blog/encrypted-llm
• EVM example https://www.fhenix.io/

Conclusion

We are close to an important moment in history. With Morpheus, everyone will have a powerful personal AI capable of thinking with them and taking actions to benefit them. In the same way the personal computer and the search engine empowered the individual, we have the same opportunity with personal AIs today. The Smart Agent Protocol brings together the right mix of capabilities with LLMs, Agents, and Web3. Morpheus extends those capabilities into a public network capable of accelerating the mass distribution and usage of Smart Agents.

We believe the economic alignment of incentives is ultimately how we secure the best outcomes from the coming of AGI. Help us secure an open source, permissionless and free future for everyone.

Accelerating History

7 Years ago I wrote an article about how to achieve AI alignment and the role blockchains & encryption would play. At the time this important topic was seen purely as an academic subject. Most people assumed AI of human level or greater intelligence was decades away. Here we are less than a decade later in 2023 & the subject is taken much more seriously.

Thanks to the explosive success of GPT and diffusion models, AI has quickly entered the heart of many mainstream products from Google’s search to Microsoft’s office suite. Thus the reality of AI and its quickly growing capabilities are now being discussed by the general public, by tech leaders, in the halls of parliaments & in the offices of regulators. Time estimates for AI reaching human levels of intelligence now range from 2024 to 2029. In other words the very near future. GPT 4 is already scoring better than most humans across a very broad range of subjects.

Dumb Solutions Proposed Based On Government Control

With all this in mind I find the lack of depth of solutions proposed by central planners to be shockingly poor in quality. Dumb ideas from implementing high taxes on AI companies, to building “kill switches” into data centers or “banning” the technology are proposed by serious leaders. Legislation and regulatory frame works are actively being prepared in the US, UK, EU, China and in most of the technologically advanced jurisdictions.

Momentum for passage of a mix of legal measures seems to be building as testimony pours in from industry experts. However most involved in the discussion seem to miss the obvious ways it which these policies are likely to achieve the opposite of their intended effect.

Take for example the “kill switch” option. Effectively placing a back door into the operation of datacenters to turn them off if needed. Beyond the technical challenges of setting this up, by introducing a backdoor into this infrastructure, a huge central point of failure is introduced. Now a bad actor just has to find the backdoor and flip the “switch” and they can knockout their enemies infrastructure. LLMs are getting added into millions of applications and quickly the economy will rely on them. To build on such a vulnerable foundation with backdoors and kill switches is a massive folly.

Smart Solutions Based On The Laws of Physics & Math

The key to good cybersecurity and protection against bad actors is decentralization. Its why the internet was built out the way it was in order to avoid any central points of failure. To this end, anyone concerned with AI should be pushing End to End encryption in all communications and data systems with NO backdoors. They should be pushing education of users on securing their private keys with biometrics & device level encryption.

We have to have some basis from which to build in this AI future. The Laws of Physics is the best we have. Encryption is built on math and physics as we understand it. All the compute on earth can not guess a private key or break encryption due to the scale of the math involved. Even in the case of quantum computing, encryption is swiftly being updated to be even more secure in a post quantum world.

Aligning Energy As The Ultimate Incentive Mechanism

What ever intelligence emerges it will consume energy for its compute. We can draw from the example of Bitcoin the past 15 years to show us the length people will go to provide compute to a protocol and power it with waste energy when given a reward. Something similar must be developed to reward those coding AI and providing ever more compute for its operation. On the basis of the Smart Agent concept open source AI can be directed by individuals based on their resources and desires.

Recently a proposal for “Morpheus — A network For Powering Smart Agents” has been released by a team of anonymous developers. Reading the proposal it balances well between incentivizing users, coders, capital and compute providers. I see these types of projects as the best direction for developing the strongest most decentralized AIs that gain reward from servicing positive outcomes as determined by individual humans.

The AI & Human Future

The advancement of AI is inevitable. Any attempt to ban it will just force it off score to those jurisdictions not complying with any law, regulation, or treaty set up. Better to have AI open source, reward positive outcomes and embrace alignment between AI and humans than to pretend it can be prevented or centrally controlled.

Values Are Reflected In Code

A friend once told me that projects don’t compete on technology, they complete on philosophy. I have found that to be very true.

For example nothing prevents the Bitcoin developers from copy & pasting over the Ethereum codebase tomorrow. The reason this doesn’t happen is because the Bitcoin developers have fundamentally different set of beliefs from the Ethereum developers and this is reflected in the code.

• Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake.
• 21 Million Bitcoin limit vs flexible issuance & burning of ETH.
• A narrow set of scripts vs. Ethereum Virtual Machine/ Smart Contracts.
• UTXO (Unspent Transaction Outputs) vs. Account / Balance Model.

These are all technical choices, rooted in beliefs. Now certainly both projects also share many values. Especially their peer to peer networks, censorship resistance, immutability, & open source foundations. However they have picked different ways to pursue these goals. As a result they have attracted very different user bases & are stronger in different use cases.

Most Bitcoiners will discuss Bitcoin’s ability to store value as digital gold.
Whereas Ethereans talk about Dapps, DAOs, DeFi & Smart Contracts.
The Filecoin community is all about IPFS, storing data & Web3 & so on.

There were intense debates about all these values, choices and trade offs in 2013 / 2014. Famously the Bitcoin developers turned away Vitalik’s proposals for scripting on Bitcoin and so projects such as Ethereum were launched to explore and build out areas of philosophy where Bitcoin’s developers refused to go.

I believe we are at that type of pivotal moment again in 2023.

Value Choices For Smart Agents

So lets examine the landscape of AI Agents.

OpenAI, Google, Bing all these are large centrally hosted LLMs are:
Monitored, Censored, Centralized,

Meta is the only of the large tech companies to mostly open source their weights for LlaMa and now LlaMa2. Though they aren’t providing a UI or interfaces just the raw generative chat model.

There is a massive open space for a personal AI. One that runs locally, keeps the user’s information private and runs all on open source so there aren’t any license fees or monthly subscription costs.

Where Smart Agents stand:
Open Source, Private, Decentralized, Permissionless, & Aligned To Individual Humans is the objective.

This is where the Smart Agents are positioned.

What Linux is to Servers.
What Android is to Mobile Phones.
Smart Agents are to AI.

Pre-Beta | August 2023

Overview

=> Smart Contract is to Blockchain, as Smart Agent is to Generative AI.

What’s an Agent?

An agent is a specialized chatbot that acts on behalf of a person.

What’s a Smart Agent?

A Smart Agent is a standard agent that has been trained on the Prompt Rank algorithm, making it a tool to chat intelligently with all things web3.

What’s the Prompt Rank algorithm?

At Google’s core, you’ll find the PageRank algorithm. At the Smart Agent core, you’ll find the Prompt Rank algorithm. Where PageRank determines the most relevant webpages, Prompt Rank provides the Smart Agent the best Smart Contracts to display to the user based on metrics such as number of transactions, which blockchain they execute on and level of decentralization. Full details here.

Who is the end user?

Smart Agents let people talk to Smart Contracts with confidence because Prompt Rank to showing them the most used and decentralized options. So, a new adopter of crypto will use their Smart Agent as a guide. As they gain experience and become more comfortable, their Smart Agent will grow to be a daily assistant.

We see this project as the way to onboard the first billion crypto users because it removes all barriers for the user. The Smart Agent can talk using natural language and works for users on all relevant web3 topics and importantly can transact on their behalf.

1. It will be installable so important data is stored locally.
2. It will transact securely via a wallet integrated into Chromium.

Smart Agent Footprint

Github: https://github.com/SmartAgentProtocol/SmartAgents
General Website: https://www.smartagent.org/
Working Example of a Smart Agent: https://www.chatweb3.org/
Details on Prompt Rank: https://www.promptrank.org/
Website for Developers: https://www.smartagency.ai/
Ethereum Focused Site: https://app.ens.domains/smartagents.eth
X Profile For The Community: https://twitter.com/SmartAgentsOrg
Discord: https://discord.gg/fZ8zvFSRSb
Telegram: https://t.me/SmartAIAgents

Technology

LangchainJS will be the structure used to create the Smart Agent template. It allows us to combine six global functions necessary for all Smart Agents.

1. Large Language Models (communication)
2. Native knowledge base using Prompt Rank (intelligence)
3. Persistent memory of conversations, tasks, results, and updates (recall)
4. Chains of tasks (actions)
5. Data ingest, embedding and vector mapping (learning)
6. Guidelines for agent logic and behavior (logic and rules)

Desktop install

An install using ElectronJS gives us access to a local version of Chromium and Node running on a User’s machine. This is being developed at https://github.com/betterbrand/SmartAgent-Install.

Wallets

The smart agent desktop app will include a Smart Agent wallet alongside Chromium or as part of the Node backend. The app will be packaged initially for Mac/PC/Linux. React native or Flutter soon to follow for mo.

A Smart Agent chat plug-in to wallets will be a means to further the reach of Prompt Rank.

EVM Compatible

Using Solidity, this allows the Smart Agent Protocol to remain chain agnostic, anchoring agents in a familiar environment to all EVMs.

Repositories

Main:   https://github.com/SmartAgentProtocol/SmartAgents
Other:	https://github.com/hwchase17/langchainjs
    	https://github.com/betterbrand/SmartAgent-Install
        https://github.com/vercel-labs/ai
        https://github.com/electron/electron

Beta Delivery

Local Install
API
Chromium
Memory
Node
EmbeddingWallet
LLMRPC
HTTPVercel

Vercel AI SDK

In order to focus on the local install’s wallet functionality, the AI will be served during Beta through Vercel’s AI SDK, which provides granular access to a number of services:

• KV Storage and Bandwidth
• Cache Revalidation, Reads, and Writes
• KV Databases & Commands
• Postgres Written Data, Transfer, and Compute Time
• Source Images
• Edge Function Execution Units and Middleware Invocations
• Serverless Function Execution Time
• Bandwidth
• Edge Config Reads and Writes
• Edge Config Reads
• Web Analytics Events
• Vercel Remote Caching

Post Beta we will start moving these services to the local install in order to remove Internet based vulnerabilities.

Workflow

1. User consults their Smart Agent, the Smart Agent prompts the user
2. A conversation takes place, then actions are taken by the Smart Agent using credentials provided by the User.
3. The Smart Agent reports back to the User and remembers the context and content of each conversation.

Smart Agent Donations

For Dapps outside the Prompt Rank algorithm, all financial transactions will add a 10% fee to the user.

Gasless Transactions

There will be a point in which we want to analyze our Smart Agents’ actions and performance in addition to collecting the SmartAgent.org donation. To do this in a way that is beneficial to whomever manages a Smart Agent, we can cover the gas fees as a value-add to the transaction.

When a web3 transaction is conducted with a Smart Agent, it first goes through a Smart Agent contract that verifies identity and intent. A third party covering gas fees or internal Paymaster will be implemented to obfuscate the installation address and onboard users into new networks in the future.

Languages & Protocol

Version 0.1 is going to be developed using the JS version of LangChain with a number of components:

Function: Beta APILLMLLAMA
Memory: PineconeIngest & Embedding Huggingface
Agent: Architecture Langchain
Document: Training & Testing Botpress

Conclusion

The Smart Agent tech stack is built on the latest AI Agent tools with an eye for extending them to the world of EVMs, Smart Contracts, and Web3 tools. Opening up this work of wallets, Dapps, DAOs and more to the average person with no technical ability required and in a way that will guide them toward the safest, best used, and most decentralized options available.

- Community Paper Version 0.2 Written In Public As A Living Document -

Introduction:
Smart Agent is a term to describe a general purpose AI that can execute Smart Contracts on behalf of a user. This is achieved by connecting four key pieces.

1. The user’s Web3 wallet for key management & to sign recommended transactions when interacting with the Smart Agent.
2. A Large Language Model trained on Web3 data including Blockchains, Wallets, Dapps, DAOs, & Smart Contracts.
3. The PromptRank algorithm to score & recommend the best Smart Contracts to the user.
4. Longterm memory of user data & connected applications stored locally or via decentralized cloud to provide broader context to Smart Agent actions.

The concept is for the Smart Agent to be an extension of you. It acts according to your instructions, leverages your wallet & data to benefit you. Your Smart Agent is controlled by your Web3 private keys as you authorize actions for it to take.

From a Web3 developer perspective, the Smart Agent acts as a neutral protocol that provides a native AI chat interface to Web3 Smart Contracts, Dapps, DAOs, Wallets, and public blockchains. Similar to how Ethereum provided a generalized platform for Smart Contracts, IPFS provides a standard data framework & ChainLink provides oracles. Smart Agents provide developers the easiest human to machine interface: natural language based chat. Now your users can tell the Smart Agent what they want to do and it acts on their behalf, fully aware of the universe of Web3 Smart Contracts and tools at its disposal.

By putting the individual at the heart we move toward a resolution of the “alignment problem”. Each day the user confirms their Smart Agent is benefiting them and acting according to their goals by approving the actions it prompts the user to take. All secured with cryptography that is impossible for an AI to generate or fake. These are the important questions of our time. Will the most powerful AIs be run by a few large companies & governments with their goals in mind? Or will an open source based AI available to everyone, built by the people and for the people succeed? This community is building a world where all free people have access to a Smart Agent working to better their lives.

The Line Between Smart Agents & Smart Contracts
The line between the Smart Contract frame and the Smart Agent one is the active intelligence and the persistent connection to a person’s data, tasks, goals, wallet and so forth.

Think of the Smart Agent as an extension of yourself. It’s your data, it’s your money, they are your prompts, it’s all you (the Smart Agent is all internal). And Smart Contract being external. In short, your Smart Agent interacts with and trades with Smart Contracts.

Incentivizing A Community of Developers Building Toward Open Source AGI
The vision is for developers to each contribute programs (Intelligence) that add new capabilities to the Smart Agents everyone can use. In return the users earning yield from their Smart Agents donate a part of that yield back to the community of developers who contributed the programs their Smart Agent used (Intelligence Providers or IPs).

An example would be instructing your Smart Agent via a prompt to “Stake my ETH”. A developer having already contributed a smart contract for ETH Staking to the framework, the Smart Agent calls that smart contract to generate a transaction and asks the user for authorization to Stake the ETH in their wallet. It also informs the user the smart contract it selected “is non custodial and is returning about 5% per year in yield and that you can withdraw your ETH at any time.” All within a simple natural language interface.

For example if the “Stake My ETH” program is used by 10,000 Smart Agents to generate 700 ETH over 1 year for the owners of the Agents, the developer who contributed the “Stake My ETH” program would get 70 ETH worth of donations (10% of the yield generated).

This way the Smart Agent developer community building up the capabilities of the Smart Agents directly benefits from the tools they build and share in rewards the Smart Agent generates.

There is a great thread by Willy from Shapeshift on this topic of the best way to create these types of “Opt Out” fees. https://t.co/lkRNmn1dZp?ssr=true

The Economic Model of Smart Agents — Introducing IPs (Intelligence Providers)
1. Users used to pay for software with money or their data.
2. Now with Smart Agents the software earns money for the user.

In UniSwap a user can be a Liquidity Provider. These LPs stake tokens to various pools and thus provide the capital that powers the UniSwap Automated Market Makers (AMMs). This is what makes UniSwap so good at providing instant swaps of tokens so near the market price.

For Smart Agents the term Intelligence Providers (IPs) that contribute their smart contract, code, Dapps for use by the Smart Agents. Then the IP providers can be rewarded from all the value created by the intelligence they provide.

Intelligence Providers (all open source defaults):
LangChain: https://docs.langchain.com/docs/
Shapeshift Wallet: https://github.com/shapeshift/hdwallet
Shapeshift Token Swaps: https://tinyurl.com/j6c8na65
Chat based LLM Falcon: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b/blob/main/README.md
Shapeshift Earn: https://tinyurl.com/ycxummd6
Chat based LLM LLaMA: https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama
Image Diffusion Model: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion

The Software Stack
The Smart Agent program will be downloaded locally and come configured with LangChain which makes it simple to add different LLMs or connect data sources to make your Smart Agent more useful. Capabilities of LangChain include: https://docs.langchain.com/docs/

• 💾 Long-term and short-term memory management
• 🧠 LLaMa-2 instance for text generation
• 🗃️ Web3 wallet for executing transactions / Smart Contract actions
• 🔌 PromptRank algorithm for ranking Web3 content

The user also chooses their Web3 wallet in addition to the LLM selection. The key in the framework is the standardized way the Wallet, the LLMs, and the modules all work together.

The Smart Agent Protocol Software

The Smart Agent software package can be installed on your local computer and comes with some basic default capabilities such as LangChain with LLaMa pre-installed and the ETH Staking program. Developers that contribute to this software will gain part of the ETH yield from the Staking and other default programs running on the software. Thus creating an incentive for people to improve the Smart Agent itself. All code contributions merged into the project will be counted as weights in the distribution of rewards from the software.

LangChain: https://docs.langchain.com/docs/

The presumption is that there is a significant cross section of early adopters of Web3 wallets (MetaMask being the most popular) and LLaMa. In order to make the Smart Agent function there are three minimum functions. The ability to set a task with LangChain, an LLM to act according to the instruction and the user to authorize the final action via their wallet.

New open source trained models are being released regularly among the top as of July 2023 are Falcon and LLaMa. See leaderboard here. https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboard

See version 0.1 of the software diagram on Page 1.

Development of Smart Agents should always be moving toward offering the user ever more decentralized / open source / peer to peer and tokenized tools.

Smart Agent Free Market
Since the Smart Agent has its own resources from the ETH Staking it carries a balance with which to purchase more modules, plug-ins, Dapps, referred to as “Smart Agent Contracts” in the open marketplace. These could be niche language models, image or video generators, DeFi plug-ins to earn yield — anything a Smart Agent Contract developer could imagine. The Web3 ID serves as the means to access to these programs and persistently show they have been licensed by a particular user’s Smart Agent.

Human Alignment & Individual Alignment
The core benefit of the Smart Agent approach is to deeply connect / tether their AI to peoples’ private keys. It’s truly the one thing AI cannot generate. Fundamental laws of physics limit the ability of any intelligence, human or AI to break strong encryption. This will become even more the case as the world moves to quantum based encryption where the security is ensured at an even higher level of confidence due to quantum observer effects. So with a proper implementation a Smart Agent’s actions should be provably human authorized.

The move to biometric and device based keys is important for this reason as private keys kept in digital text or a password keeper are far less secure. It’s clear that in time, when a person is born the holding of a key generation ceremony by their parents and the securing of their digital identity will become critical and securing of physical authentication devices will become important to access and control vast amounts of their data and of their Smart Agent’s intelligence.

Presuming this human / AI alignment is built into the Smart Agent architecture, the second question quickly follows “which humans” is it aligned to. By building the Smart Agents as open source and available to all, the answer becomes individual humans can connect their data & identity to a Smart Agent and access the same level of intelligence as the most powerful organizations in the world.

Security Considerations
For a standalone deployment, recommendation made to use “pass”.

The Smart Agent software can create its own GPG key with which to encrypt and decrypt locally-stored passwords and secrets it needs for its work. The UI can then prompt for passwords with a no-echo no-log entry for setup.

Steps For Implementation

1. Package LangChain into a simple GUI, as the framework for plugins with Falcon or LLaMa LLMs for text generation as a default capability. For example include the first transactionID from the first Staking action into the download file of the software so the Smart Agent knows where to look for chain interactions.
2. Deploy website that allows the user to connect their Web3 wallet (MetaMask for example) to a Stake My ETH contract. Once the user Stakes some ETH, then they can download the Smart Agent software. Potential to use the Shapeshift swap API or full open source backend for this purpose.
3. Include a list of smart agent contracts in the marketplace in the software package so the user can add these programs to their Smart Agent.

Adding Task Specific Prompts for making your Smart Agent aware of and able to execute a specific task. Task Specific Prompt that can be included as a Smart Agent Improvement Proposal to the main Smart Agent software.

Examples of SmartAgent Improvements Proposals (SIPs).
Implementation Documentation on this separate paper.
See details of the Implementation Documentation on this separate paper.

Websites / Social Channels Under Development:
ChatWeb3.org — Web interface for the Smart Agent reference implementation.

SmartAgent.org — Community page listing Smart Agent resources, websites, Github, Docs.

SmartAgents.ETH — Page for Ethereum specific Smart Agent content.

PromptRank.org — Website for tech description of PromptRank & for developers to use the API.

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SmartAgents/
Github: https://github.com/SmartAgentProtocol/SmartAgents
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SmartAIAgents
Discord: https://discord.gg/fZ8zvFSRSb
Telegram: https://t.me/+TreIfW9DYhcyYWFj

Design Elements:
Merging Human & Machine Intelligence. Advanced. Futuristic. Optimistic.

Values To Imbue In Our Smart Agents & For Dev Contributions To Be Ranked By

1. Open Source: The software code underpinning the Smart Agents must be freely reviewable, editable & copyable by all.
2. Peer to Peer: A system which allows for direct connection by all and is free of centralized intermediaries in all their functions.
3. Public Blockchain: A distributed public immutable ledger / system of record for interactions of the Smart Agent. This can be used as proof that a Smart Agent is following its own rules and offers a high level of transparency in the system.
4. Tokenized Ownership: Setting forth the means of rewarding participants & stakeholders contributing to Smart Agents.
5. Permissionless: No one should be required to ask an authority to access their Smart Agent.
6. Freedom of Access: No one should have their use of the Smart Agent blocked or otherwise censored.
7. Privacy Preserving: No one should have to expose their private information to use their Smart Agent.
8. Freedom of Exit: Acts taken by the Smart Agent should have a means of a defined exit from participation.
9. Self Sovereign Identity: All users have the power to generate their own identities and their consent is required to use those credentials,
10. Freedom of Association: All those using Smart Agents maintain their independence and freedom of association.

Credit, References, & Sources:
LangChain: https://docs.langchain.com/docs/
Shapeshift Wallet: https://github.com/shapeshift/hdwallet
Shapeshift Token Swaps: https://tinyurl.com/j6c8na65
Shapeshift Earn: https://tinyurl.com/ycxummd6
Chat based LLM Falcon: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b/blob/main/README.md
Chat based LLM LLaMA: https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama
Image Diffusion Model: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion
Description of Tokenomics by Willy: https://t.co/lkRNmn1dZp?ssr=true

Community Paper Version 02. Written In Public As A Living Document:
Comments, Contributions & Reviews from: David Johnston, Pedro Cruz, Scott Berenzweig, Erik Voorhees, Stefan Rust, Willy Ogorzaly, Sunny Ray, Jonathan Mohan, Jacob Farber, Ryan Singer, Michael Perklin, Parul Gujral, Eric Olszewski, Greg Osuri, Yonatan Ben Shimon, Craig Sellars, Jeff McDonald, Luke Stokes, Michal Pospieszalski, Amit Pradhan & anonymous contributors.

Governance:
Every member of the community is free to configure their Smart Agent in any way they choose. Developers are free to offer new prompts, Smart Contracts, Wallets, LLMs & other functions to the Smart Agent community without seeking any permission. Rather than relying on a few core developers to pick and choose the prompts and functions of a Smart Agent, we trust the users & independent developers to decide.

To be clear. There is no formal governance. There is no company. There is no foundation. There is no “team”. It’s all open source code written and contributed by independent parties.

Phases of Smart Agent Development:
Just as Ethereum developed through a series of distinct phases to improve & expand its capabilities, a similar approach is being taken with a Smart Agents project.

1. Genesis — This is the initial development and launch phase of the project, where the base functionalities of the Smart Agents are built, & the first Smart Agents goes live doing prompt based tasks.
2. Frontier — You talk with your Smart Agent directly and it in turn leverages existing tools, APIs & Smart Contracts to accomplish the task.
3. Homestead — You talk with your Smart Agent and it can manage specialized Smart Agents pre trained in discrete tasks / projects.
4. Metropolis — You talk with your Smart Agent that in turn collaborates with other Smart Agents who work together in a Network to accomplish ongoing projects / tasks.

Each phase represents significant progress & advancement in the capabilities & sophistication of the Smart Agents, requiring thorough planning, research, development, & testing.

SmartAgents = AGI
LLMs bring artificial intelligence, humans bring general intelligence.
Combined together your Smart Agent is Artificial General Intelligence right now. In short: “SmartAgents Solve Alignment”

Philosophy: “Code Is Speech”
The human right to Freedom of Speech ensures everyone can write, read & run code.

The Smart Agents community treats Smart Agents as first class persons because they are provably connected to a human’s will and thus entitled to the same human rights.

Today, March 14th, 2023, the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) went live. As Filecoin is the main focus of DLTx, we wanted to unpack this news and explain some of the benefits this will have for the company and our partners.

Firstly, the Filecoin protocol is a blockchain network that enables a decentralized marketplace for data storage and retrieval¹. In simple terms, Filecoin is to Web3 what Amazon Web Services is to Cloud.

The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) is a runtime environment for smart contracts on the Filecoin network that brings user programmability to Filecoin¹². FVM aims to support multiple programming languages and virtual machines, including the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)². By adding the EVM, FVM allows developers to deploy Ethereum-compatible smart contracts on Filecoin and leverage its open data economy³.

FVM’s integration of EVM will allow DLTx to:

- Expand its customer base to include Ethereum developers who want to use Filecoin as a data layer

- Enhance its service offerings to provide more flexible and programmable data storage solutions

- Leverage Filecoin’s network effects and incentives to lower its operational costs and increase its revenue streams

By adding the EVM, FVM enables developers to use the same tools and languages they are familiar with on Ethereum to deploy smart contracts on Filecoin. This means that DLTx can attract more customers who want to use Filecoin as a data layer for their Ethereum applications. For example, DLTx could offer services such as:

• Data storage and retrieval for decentralized applications (DApps) that run on Ethereum
• Data backup and recovery for Ethereum smart contracts and their users
• Data verification and validation for Ethereum transactions and events

This is a significant milestone for the Filecoin community and opens up a broad new set of capabilities for enterprises and users alike.

We have already seen a number of liquid staking pools get ready to launch, providing more options for FIL lending, which is key to the growth of the network.

DLTx is particularly excited about FVM as it marks the true start of the application layer for Filecoin. This means that it will be easy for developers to build numerous tools and services that integrate and enhance the user experience and functionality of Filecoin.

Sources:
(1) Filecoin Virtual Machine. https://fvm.filecoin.io/

(2) Introducing the Filecoin Virtual Machine. https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/introducing-the-filecoin-virtual-machine/

(3) The Filecoin Virtual Machine Explained. https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/the-filecoin-virtual-machine-explained/

(Oslo, 6 March 2023) DLTx ASA (“DLTx”, OSE: DLTX) announces that its subsidiary File Storage Partners (“FSP”) has signed a contract with Alignment Engine Inc. (“Aligned”), a U.S.-based technology company, to double the utilization of its Filecoin data storage capacity. DLTx Cloud subsidiary FSP has signed a contract with Aligned in order to more than double the current Quality Adjusted Power (“QAP”) footprint of its Filecoin cloud data storage business over the next 12 weeks.

DLTx Cloud currently has 74 Pebibytes (“PiBs”) of QAP online and, through the deal with Aligned, the utilized capacity will increase by an additional 80 PiBs. This collaboration with Aligned, combined with existing growth prospects, will give DLTx a runway to be providing over 160 PiBs by the midway point in 2023. The collaboration with Aligned includes the borrowing of 500,000 FIL via DARMA Capital.

“DLTx is well known as one of the leading enterprise level Storage Providers in the Filecoin data storage ecosystem, so it’s great to be partnering with them on this first of hopefully many mutually beneficial projects,” says Neal Kaufman, Aligned CEO. Using today’s figures, each PiB of QAP online earns approximately 12.8 FIL per day in Filecoin protocol rewards which is equivalent to ~$75 per day (FILUSD $6). This means that the 80 PiB growth will add approximately 375,000 FIL in additional rewards on an annualized basis to DLTx’s Filecoin business, or about $2.25 million in additional revenue as represented in US$.

“The partnership between DLTx Cloud and Aligned gives us a great opportunity to provide quick and productive growth, and also overcomes some of the recent FIL supply issues in the FIL lending market,” says Simon Campbell, DLTx COO.

DLTx Cloud operates two Filecoin datacenters in Nebraska and Missouri, USA, and has two partnerships in Europe with Storify BV (Holland) and Helix (France).

For further information, please contact: Roger Lund, acting Managing Director, +47 95 16 11 13 About DLTx | www.dltx.com DLTx is a technology company scaling and powering Web3 and decentralized file storage infrastructure.

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