PoI Litepaper (Legacy)
Legacy document. The PoI protocol and its $AGENT economics are superseded by Orynq on the Materios blockchain and by the cMATRA Token Merger.
Superseded — kept for the record. Proof-of-Inference (PoI) evolved into Orynq, Flux Point Studios' verifiable-AI stack on the Materios blockchain. The $AGENT-based economics described in the original litepaper — job fees paid in $AGENT, the 70/28/1/1 fee split, epoch-rolled staker payouts, inference-pool bonds, and $AGENT-weighted governance — are retired and will not ship. There are no $AGENT rewards, staker fee-shares, or PoI governance going forward. $AGENT is being consolidated into cMATRA under the cMATRA Token Merger; holders can surrender it at the official portal until November 28, 2026.
What PoI was
PoI (2025) was the original framework for verifiable AI on Cardano: deterministic inference runs (fixed seed/params, rolling hashes) emitting signed receipts, with compact fingerprints anchored on-chain so anyone could later verify who ran what, with which model, from which inputs, producing which outputs. A preview-testnet demonstration ran decentralized inference on a Petals-based swarm, generated a signed PoI receipt, and anchored it to Cardano under metadata label 2222.
The verification idea was right. The token economics wrapped around it were not — they tied a verification protocol to a bespoke fee-and-rewards token, which is exactly the kind of app-by-app utility scheme the cMATRA merger retires.
Where each piece went
Signed inference receipts, anchored on Cardano (2222)
Orynq receipts — threshold-attested on Materios, batch-anchored to Cardano L1 under label 8746
$AGENT as gas / Babel-fee job payments
Ordinary Materios network fees — MATRA holdings generate MOTRA capacity, which pays per-receipt fees
28% staker fee-share, epoch-rolled payouts
Retired. Network security is compensated with validator and attestor block rewards from published emission schedules
$AGENT inference-pool bonds and slashing
Attestor bond/slash economics on Materios (Attestor Emissions sub-bucket)
PoI governance ($AGENT-weighted voting)
Retired. Materios chain governance, carried by MATRA as governance decentralizes
$AGENT token
Consolidating into cMATRA → MATRA, the network token of the Materios blockchain, via the merger
Where to go instead
Orynq overview — the current verifiable-AI stack
Orynq SDK — process-trace anchoring and Anchor-as-a-Service
Orynq Observe — attested AI model observation receipts and the public registry
Materios Partner Chain — the chain that certifies and anchors Orynq receipts
cMATRA Token Merger — how to trade $AGENT for the network token
The full original litepaper text (October 14, 2025) remains available in the git history of this page. This document is informational and does not constitute an offer to sell tokens.
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