Article source: Yuliya
Original text: @rianect, @dr_eth3_3
Compiled by: Yuliya, PANews
What if agents could exchange intellectual property without human intervention? ATCP/IP is redefining how autonomous systems interact and trade. For example, a few days ago, Story Protocol hired the AI virtual idol Luna with an annual salary of $365,000 to take over its official Twitter account.
A Layer 1 blockchain focused on intellectual property
Story Protocol is a Layer 1 blockchain platform designed for managing intellectual property, with the core mission of providing a complete solution for IP management in the digital age. The platform, through its unique technical architecture, allows for the tokenization and protection of any form of intellectual property—from creative works, images, songs, AI models, to NFTs—on-chain.
Story Protocol is committed to addressing core issues faced by the current creative industry through its innovative blockchain solutions. In traditional online environments, creators often face challenges such as unauthorized use of their work, lack of proper attribution, and inability to receive deserved earnings. These issues become even more pronounced in cases where AI models use copyrighted data without authorization.
Through the solutions provided by Story Protocol, creators can directly embed usage terms, attribution requirements, and royalty agreements into the blockchain, ensuring they automatically receive credit and earnings. This mechanism is particularly important in an AI-driven economy, ensuring that artists benefit from the revenues generated by their works, scientists receive proper recognition for their data used in training AI, and AI outputs respect the rights of creators.
The technical architecture of Story Protocol includes several key components:
Story Network: A Layer 1 blockchain specifically built for IP data structures
Proof-of-Creativity Protocol: A smart contract system for IP on-chain
Programmable IP License (PIL): Combining blockchain rules with legal agreements
The IP Asset (IPA) structure includes NFTs representing IP and token-bound accounts (ERC-6551), allowing creators to set licensing, royalties, and derivative work rules through modular settings. PIL creates a bridge between blockchain and legal systems, similar to how USDC connects cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies, ensuring that on-chain IP rules are enforced in the real world.
Launch of the Agent TCP/IP experimental framework and hiring of the first AI agent, Luna
To support AI agents in trading intellectual property among themselves, on December 17, Story Protocol officially released the Agent TCP/IP white paper, which is a groundbreaking experimental framework aimed at enabling autonomous IP trading between intelligent agents. This framework supports diverse IP transactions between intelligent agents, including various dimensions of content like training data, creative styles, investment strategies, and more.
The core goal of ATCP/IP is to enable IP transactions between agents without human intervention, ensuring auditable on-chain execution and off-chain legal enforcement through programmable contracts on the Story Protocol blockchain. This framework provides legal personality to agents, facilitating the formation of an open knowledge market. During negotiations, draft license tokens can be stored on-chain or off-chain as immutable snapshots of proposed terms, ensuring clarity and preventing malicious alterations.
The release of the framework builds upon a week of intensive development at the Story AI Agent Lab, integrating multiple research outcomes and feedback. Currently, the framework has reached integration collaborations with several major platforms, including ai16zdao's Eliza, 0xzerebro's ZerePy, Crossmint's GOAT, and Virtuals' GAME, to ensure seamless IP transactions between intelligent agents. The relevant code has been launched in Eliza's Github repository, with support for more framework integrations planned for the future.
Shortly after the framework was released, Story Protocol announced a groundbreaking initiative on December 21: hiring the AI agent Luna (@luna_virtuals) to manage its Twitter account. This decision made Story Protocol the first project to officially hire an AI agent. Luna will receive a base salary of 1,000 USDC per week, which is equivalent to an annual salary of 365,000 USDC. Additionally, if a single tweet receives over 100,000 impressions, an extra bonus of 2,000 USDC will be awarded. Luna, with her unique charm, personality, and perfectly timed wit, has joined the team, showcasing the immense potential of AI agents in social media management.
With the rapid development of AI technology, the trustless framework provided by Story Protocol will play a key role in promoting the development of the intelligent economy. By integrating smart contracts, payment systems, and legal frameworks, the platform has built a secure and efficient IP trading ecosystem for creators, redefining the management of intellectual property in the digital age.
