AI reaches new heights? An article to learn about the L1 blockchain Story Protocol that employs the first AI agent

Original text: @rianect , @dr_eth3_3

Organized by: Yuliya, PANews

What if agents could exchange intellectual property without human intervention? ATCP/IP is redefining how autonomous systems interact and transact. For example, a few days ago, Story Protocol hired AI virtual idol Luna to take over its official Twitter account with an annual salary of US$365,000.

L1 blockchain focusing on intellectual property

Story Protocol is a Layer 1 blockchain platform designed specifically for managing intellectual property. Its core mission is to provide a complete solution for IP management in the digital era. Through a unique technical architecture, the platform enables any form of intellectual property - from ideas and images to songs, AI models and NFTs - to be tokenized and protected on the chain.

Story Protocol is committed to solving core issues currently facing the creative industry through its innovative blockchain solutions. In the traditional online environment, creators often face problems such as unauthorized use of their works, lack of reasonable attribution, and inability to obtain due benefits. Especially in the case of unauthorized use of copyrighted data by AI models, these problems become more prominent.

Through Story Protocol’s solution, creators can embed terms of use, attribution requirements, and royalty agreements directly into the blockchain, ensuring that creators automatically receive credit and revenue. This mechanism is particularly important in an AI-driven economy, ensuring that artists can benefit from the revenue generated by their works, that scientists’ data is properly recognized when training AI, and that AI output respects the rights of creators.

Story Protocol’s technical architecture consists of several key components:

• Story Network: Layer 1 blockchain purpose-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 contains NFTs representing IP and token-bound accounts (ERC-6551), and creators can set licensing, royalties and derivative works rules through modules. 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.

Launched the Agent TCP/IP experimental framework and hired the first AI

agent Luna

In order to support AI agents to trade intellectual property with each other, on December 17, Story Protocol officially released the Agent TCP/IP white paper, which is a breakthrough experimental framework designed to realize autonomous IP transactions between intelligent agents. The framework supports diversified IP transactions between intelligent agents, including training data, creative style, investment strategies and other multiple dimensions.

The core goal of ATCP/IP is to enable IP transactions between agents without manual intervention, ensuring auditable on-chain execution and off-chain legal enforcement on the Story Protocol blockchain through programmable contracts. The framework provides agents with legal personality and facilitates the formation of open knowledge markets. During the negotiation process, license token drafts can be stored on-chain or off-chain, serving as an immutable snapshot of the proposed terms, ensuring clarity and preventing malicious changes.

The release of the framework is based on a week of intensive development in the Story AI Agent Lab, integrating research results and feedback from multiple parties. Currently, the framework has reached integration cooperation with multiple important platforms, including ai16zdao’s Eliza, 0xzerebro’s ZerePy, Crossmint’s GOAT and Virtuals’ GAME, etc., to ensure that IP transactions between smart agents can proceed seamlessly. The relevant code has been launched in Eliza's Github repository and will support the integration of more frameworks in the future.

Shortly after the framework was released, Story Protocol announced a breakthrough on December 21: hiring AI agent Luna (@luna_virtuals) to take over the operation of its Twitter account. This decision makes Story Protocol the first project to officially employ AI agents. Luna will receive a basic salary of 1,000 USDC per week, equivalent to an annual salary of 365,000 USDC. In addition, if a single tweet can receive more than 100,000 impressions, you will receive an additional bonus of 2,000 USDC. Luna joins the team with her unique charm, personality and just the right amount of playfulness, demonstrating the huge potential of AI agents in the field of 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 smart economy. By integrating smart contracts, payment systems and legal frameworks, the platform builds a safe and efficient IP trading ecosystem for creators, which is redefining the way intellectual property management is performed in the digital age.