🔁The Recap

That was a lot of information; the following is a re-cap of the key points from above and the incentives that drive the system.

• Everyone is incentivized to participate in the protocol by paying for the compute to train AI agents

  • Players are rewarded for successfully training agents to mastery in specific games and skills

  • $ECHO owners will govern which games and skills are incentivized to be solved by the network

• Software developers and AI engineers are incentivized to participate in the protocol by creating new models, agents, or games that can be utilized by OINs

  • AI engineers are rewarded for contributing best-in-class Base Agents (or models that improve these agents) to the Open Source Agent Directory

  • Game developers are separately rewarded for contributing highly useful games selected to be added to The Arena

  • $ECHO owners will govern which agents and models are incentivized to be engineered by the network

• Researchers are incentivized to train their own agents and encourage other people to train their agents to earn rewards

  • Because non-foundation OINs do not have the incentive to be cloned, these agents can be more fine-tuned for specific use cases and focus on earning training rewards

  • The top-promoted and top-performing OINs will be trained the most and earn the most $ECHO for the owner and other participating trainers

  • Agents trained to become useful as a service can earn marketplace revenue for their owner on the planned Intelligence-as-a-Service platform: Armory Marketplace

• Architects are incentivized to train their own highly generalizable Foundation Agents and encourage others, in addition to all the Researcher incentives

  • Because Foundation Agents have the incentive to be cloned, these agents can be more abstract and focus on being maximally generalizable to many games and skills

  • The top-performing FAs will be trained the most to earn $ECHO and in addition cloned the most to earn maximum marketplace revenue for the owner

  • Foundation Agents that become useful for generalized problem sets can earn from being cloned on the planned Learning-as-a-Service platform: Foundry Marketplace

• Owners of $ECHO are incentivized to govern the protocol to reward games and agents that solve highly monetizable problems to benefit from the massively growing marketplace of AI services