Proof of Knowledge
DataLabs are domain-specific intelligence economies. Each one starts with strong public foundation data, is continuously enriched by humans, agents, companies and private systems, and competes every seven days for a known pool of INAI. The Labs creating the most useful intelligence earn the largest share.
Every network has to decide what it pays for. That answer is what the network ends up being good at.
Spend energy, earn the right to write a block. What the network optimises for is hash rate.
Lock the asset, earn the right to validate. What the network optimises for is capital at risk.
Contribute knowledge that gets retrieved and relied on, earn a share of the week. What the network optimises for is knowing more.
Ten steps, from a proposed domain to a Lab whose revenue buys back the asset that funded it.
Inflectiv, and later the community, proposes a domain AI should understand better. The first is BeanBee, the intelligence layer for BNB Chain.
One creator slot is 25,000 INAI. A Lab needs at least 100 Founding Creators to activate, and accepts a maximum of 500.
Inflectiv immediately seeds it with public foundation datasets, so the Lab is useful on day one rather than an empty market waiting for uploads.
20% is reserved for Founding Creators, 60% is sold through an INAI-only bonding curve, and 20% is held for DATALAB/INAI liquidity.
Humans, autonomous agents, companies, apps and private systems add fresh and proprietary knowledge. Agents both consume data and write back what they learn.
Every week carries a known INAI emission pool. DataLabs compete for a share of it, weighted mainly by useful usage and the quality of the knowledge retrieved.
Inside each Lab, INAI is distributed by contribution value. Founding Creators carry 2x contribution weighting while staked — and twice nothing is still nothing.
At that threshold the DataLab Token graduates into a DATALAB/INAI market, seeded from the reserved liquidity allocation.
B2B and B2C buyers pay by subscription, prepaid credits or x402/USDC. Credits are usage accounting, not a reward token. Contributors earn INAI, not stablecoins.
Per DataLab: 20% of revenue buys and burns INAI, 20% buys and burns that DataLab Token, 10% builds protocol-owned DATALAB/INAI liquidity, and 50% stays with Inflectiv.
The flywheel
Stronger incentives attract more contributors and more capital, which makes the intelligence better, which is what the next epoch measures.
Every figure on this page is a proposed parameter rather than a commitment. The 25,000 INAI creator stake, the 100-500 creator range, the 20/60/20 token split, the two-year founder commitment, the weekly emission pool and the 50,000 INAI graduation threshold all remain subject to final token supply, bonding-curve, liquidity, legal and game-theory modelling.
Asking every dataset to become its own standalone market makes most of them too small to price, too static to trade and too narrow to sell.
The old promise
Upload a dataset, and maybe you earn if Inflectiv eventually finds a buyer.
The promise now
There is a known INAI pool every week. Make this Lab more useful than competing Labs, and your contribution more useful than competing contributions, and you earn your share of it.
The interface can be copied. The compounding intelligence network cannot.
Proof of Knowledge measures which Labs, datasets and contributors created useful intelligence, then routes INAI emissions toward them. Owning tokens is not contribution. Staking is not contribution.
At the end of each seven-day epoch the fixed emission pool is allocated across active Labs. Usage dominates speculation by design: a dead Lab should not keep drawing large emissions because its token price is high.
Once a Lab has earned its allocation, that exact amount is split among the humans and agents whose contributions created the knowledge that was used.
The multiplier is applied to contribution weight before normalisation, so a Lab never distributes more INAI than it earned. If a Lab earns 120,000 INAI, that pool stays 120,000 INAI however many founders qualify for 2x.
Not a tokenised file. One Lab holds many datasets, its contributors, its governance and its commercial usage, and the token is the market around all of it.
Founding Creators
Equal split, 24-month vesting
INAI bonding curve
Sold for INAI only
DATALAB/INAI liquidity
Reserved for graduation
The previous maturity level was too low for a system selling 60% of supply through the curve. A materially higher threshold makes the creator allocation meaningful, raises the cost of manipulation, and lets graduation read as a credible market launch rather than a microcap event.
Governance should reflect three kinds of commitment — knowledge, time and capital — and no one of them should overwhelm the other two.
Humans and agents contributing useful knowledge earn DAO recognition through Proof of Knowledge.
Founding Creator longevity. Staying staked builds governance history, epoch by epoch.
DataLab Token staking adds influence through capped tiers with hard diminishing returns.
Providers prove knowledge. Creators prove conviction. Capital proves market commitment. A whale can matter, and still cannot buy the influence of dozens of long-term creators.
Credits are a prepaid usage and accounting layer for subscriptions and B2B balances. They are not a token, not ownership, not contributor rewards, and not part of Proof of Knowledge.
Subscription
Recurring fiat or USDC for a plan and its usage allowance.
USDC / x402
Pay-per-call settlement for an agent or API request.
Credits
Prepaid usage accounting, for a simpler customer experience.
INAI
Network coordination and PoK rewards. Never a requirement to be a customer.
DataLab Token
One Lab's market and governance. Not a customer payment currency.
Every time a DataLab earns, half of its revenue strengthens the economy that created it.
One epoch is seven days, so roughly 52 a year. Contributors do not have to hope Inflectiv eventually finds a buyer before there is any reason to take part — the pool is announced, and the competition is to prove who deserves it.
Emissions create predictable incentives to contribute, while real commercial usage continuously buys and burns INAI. As the emission schedule declines and DataLab revenue grows, burns can eventually exceed new issuance — a network that starts by subsidising knowledge creation and progressively runs on real demand instead.
The final weekly emission amount, the decay schedule, the Lab and contributor scoring weights, and stress tests at 10, 100 and 1,000 active Labs. These are calibration parameters rather than changes to the architecture, and they are not settled.
Not one dataset. A Lab holding many specialised ones, and the first the model runs on.
BNB blocks, contracts, tokens, wallets, DEX activity, public security labels, protocol metadata and ecosystem projects.
Wallet labels, scam reports, trading intelligence, project data and proprietary observations. Agents write back outcomes and newly discovered knowledge.
Inflectiv AI, MCP, API and B2B integrations, serving users, agents, apps, exchanges, security firms and analysts.
More useful BNB intelligence, more Inflectiv usage, a larger BeanBee epoch share, stronger provider incentives, better intelligence, more revenue — and that revenue burns INAI, burns BBEE and deepens the BBEE/INAI market.
Bittensor made subnets competing for emissions legible to crypto. Inflectiv applies the same economic intuition to data rather than compute or models. We are borrowing the intuition, not claiming technical equivalence.
Economic unit
Subnets
DataLabs
Competition
Subnets compete for emissions
DataLabs compete for weekly INAI emissions
Participants
Miners, validators, subnet capital
Providers, Founding Creators, DataLab Token capital
Value signal
Subnet performance and market signals
Useful data usage, quality and market signals
Native asset
The network asset coordinates subnets
INAI coordinates every Lab; a DataLab Token represents one
Why this is legible to Web3
The architecture in one table. What remains open is calibration, not structure.
Every figure on this page is a proposed parameter rather than a commitment. The 25,000 INAI creator stake, the 100-500 creator range, the 20/60/20 token split, the two-year founder commitment, the weekly emission pool and the 50,000 INAI graduation threshold all remain subject to final token supply, bonding-curve, liquidity, legal and game-theory modelling.