Model Marketplace

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The IP Challenge

As AI models become increasingly valuable assets, there is a growing need for decentralized marketplaces that can:
  • Uniquely identify and track models on-chain
  • Verify model authenticity, provenance, and attest to correct inference execution
  • Enable model monetization
  • Protect intellectual property rights
  • Reward model creators for their contributions
  • Facilitate model fundraising, ownership, and trade
However, building such marketplaces presents significant technical challenges, particularly around model verification and IP protection.

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Ritual’s Model Primitives

Ritual introduces foundational primitives that enable verifiable model marketplaces:

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Enshrined AI Models

By natively enshrining AI models, we enable:
  • Models to become first-class citizens on the blockchain
  • Direct smart contract integration and ownership of models
  • Seamless, verifiable inference execution without relying on off-chain services
  • Native support for model versioning and updates, backed by blockchain provenance
  • Decentralized model registration and tracking
  • Model storage across multiple storage layers, ensuring consistency and accessibility
  • Native fundraising and monetization mechanisms
  • Enshrined fee distribution by model usage and ownership, with native DeFAI integration

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Verifiable Model Execution

Via Ritual’s advanced research into architecture primitives like vTune and SVE, we enable verifiable model execution:
  • Statistical verification of model inference, fine-tuning, and training
  • Proof of model authenticity and provenance
  • Protection against model forgery
  • Preservation of inference quality

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Model Monetization

Ritual introduces a new vault-like architecture for enshrining AI models and other IP primitives on-chain, in a way that is transparent, composable with DeFAI primitives, and builds an on-chain, verifiable tree of provenance and ownership:
  • Purpose-built to support community-owned model fine-tunes and variants
  • Trickle-up/down royalty distribution mechanisms from base models to child variants
  • Automated usage tracking and payment distribution for models
  • Enshrined representations of original models; prevents model piracy
  • Model governance and treasuries built on top of DeFAI primitives

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Empowering IP Protocols

Ritual’s architecture provides the foundation for next-generation IP protocols. Two examples of protocols that can leverage Ritual’s capabilities include Story Protocol and Sentient:
Story can leverage Ritual to:
  • Register AI models as IP Assets
  • Enable programmable IP licenses for models
  • Automate royalty distribution
  • Enforce usage terms on-chain