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Alethea AI Protocol (AI Protocol)

Alethea AI Protocol (Artificial Liquid Intelligence / ALI) — a reference card for a crypto project: what the product does and how verifiable the project’s key claims are; also — alignment with the Decentralized AI thesis (DecAI Fit).

Alethea AI Protocol — an AI/Agents | Metaverse project on Ethereum, token (symbol: ALI).

Disclaimer

Important: this page is a reference overview of the project. Within DecAIHub, we separately record a verification based on open sources within the AI thesis (what is real AI/onchain/why a token, and which sources this is based on).
This is not financial advice and not a recommendation to buy/sell/hold any asset. We do not assess price, returns, or entry/exit timing.
Conclusions are based on publicly available materials found as of the verification date. The absence of confirmation does not imply the absence of the technology.

TL;DR (for readers who are not into AI)

  • What it is: AI Protocol — a set of smart contracts and a product ecosystem for creating and monetizing tokenized AI agents and iNFTs (NFTs with “attached” AI functionality).
  • Who it’s for: creators of AI characters/agents and NFT owners, dApp developers, users of “intelligent” NFTs/agents.
  • Why onchain/token: onchain records ownership of AI assets/contracts and provides the economy/liquidity/staking/fees; the ALI token is the coordination layer (utility+governance+rewards).
  • What you can actually touch (Tier‑1): the ecosystem’s dApps and interfaces: https://aiprotocol.info (staking), https://ALIagents.ai, https://noahsark.ai, https://mycharacter.ai + the dev repository with contract addresses: https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/ai-protocol-v3-core.

How it works (very briefly)

  1. The user does: creates/configures an AI agent or “upgrades” an NFT into an iNFT (via a dApp), or stakes ALI/Pods.
  2. The system does: via smart contracts (ERC‑20 ALI, Pod ERC‑721, iNFT, Linker, bonding‑curve/shares, etc.) creates/accounts for onchain assets and the economy around them.
  3. The user gets: a tokenized AI asset (agent/iNFT), access to functions/the economy (staking/rewards/liquidity), the ability to interact via dApps.
  4. Where the blockchain is: ownership and economic primitives (contracts of the token/pods/iNFT/curves/fees) — onchain; part of the AI logic/multimodality — offchain (in the applications/the “intelligence layer”).
  5. Token role: ALI is used as the protocol currency/utility/rewards/governance; per the token code, it participates in the iNFT lifecycle (lock/consume) and supports vote delegation.

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Project passport

Field Value
Project name Alethea AI Protocol (AI Protocol)
Also known as (aliases) Alethea AI; Artificial Liquid Intelligence; ALI; iNFT
Logo (logo) ../assets/84_alethea-artificial-liquid-intelligence-token_logo.png
Token symbol (ticker) ALI
Category AI/Agents | Metaverse
Primary chain (chain) Ethereum
Type EVM
Network status mainnet
Consensus (consensus) PoS (Ethereum)
Launch date (launch_date) 2021-10-12
Project status (status) active
Token (standard) ERC-20
Token contract 0x6b0b3a982b4634ac68dd83a4dbf02311ce324181
Token model (token_type) utility (payments + staking + governance)
Max supply 10 000 000 000
Issuance capped (Max Total Supply; burnable)
Tokenomics (tokenomics, brief) ALI — protocol currency; staking/rewards; iNFT lifecycle (lock/release/consume)
Governance Alethea DAO (delegation in the token contract)
Admins/keys AccessControl roles in the protocol contracts
Audit yes
Bug bounty —
Team (team) Alethea AI / AI Protocol
Funding (investors/funding) funds/investors claimed on the website: Alliance, Binance, Bitkraft, Crypto.com, Galaxy, Multicoin, etc.
AI component (ai_component) tokenized AI agents + iNFT protocol
Use‑case (use_case) create/train/monetize AI agents + iNFTs
DecAI Fit — AI thesis fit 6/6 — high alignment with the Decentralized AI thesis
DecAI Fit component summary ai_score 3 / onchain_score 3 / token_score 3 / evidence_score 3
Last verified 2026-02-11

General project overview

Alethea / AI Protocol is an ecosystem that “packages” AI characters/agents and the assets associated with them into an onchain economy (tokens, NFTs, liquidity pools, fees and reward mechanics). In the whitepaper documentation, AI Protocol divides the system into “layers” (asset layer / settlement layer / smart contracts layer) and describes primitives such as Intelligence Pods, iNFT, as well as mechanics for launching “economies” for AI assets.

On the practical side, this manifests through a set of dApp interfaces (for example, for creating/managing agents, for turning NFTs into iNFTs, for generating AI characters), as well as through open repositories with code and smart contract addresses (ALI ERC‑20, Pod ERC‑721, iNFT, etc.).

Features/modules

  • Asset layer: Intelligence Pods, iNFT, other AI assets (ARKIVs, etc.) as onchain objects and “keys” to functions.
  • Smart contracts stack: ALI (ERC‑20), Pod (ERC‑721), iNFT, Linker, bonding curve / shares contracts, reward distributors (per the v3 repositories).
  • dApps/interfaces: ALIagents.ai (launchpad/operational interface), NoahsArk.ai (fusion NFT→iNFT), MyCharacter.ai (a text‑to‑character interface on CharacterGPT), plus staking campaigns/pools on aiprotocol.info.

Typical scenarios

  • Scenario 1 (agent creator): goes to ALIagents.ai → creates/configures an AI agent/associated asset → receives an onchain asset and access to the economy/liquidity around it.
  • Scenario 2 (NFT owner): goes to NoahsArk.ai → “fusion” (connecting an Intelligence Pod and the iNFT layer) → receives an iNFT that can be used interactively as a character/agent.
  • Scenario 3 (economy participant): stakes ALI or Pods → receives rewards/participates in the protocol’s security mechanics.

Getting started (wallet/network)

  • What you need: an EVM wallet (for Ethereum) for operations with ALI and the iNFT protocol contracts; access to the dApp websites.
  • Network/chain: Ethereum mainnet (the ALI contract and the iNFT contracts); the ecosystem also has “L2/side” ALI addresses (BSC/Polygon/Base) per the repository.
  • Fees: Ethereum gas for interacting with the contracts; dApp/protocol fees (if enabled) — depend on the specific operation.

Architecture/tech (non‑AI)

  • Components: a set of smart contracts (ALI ERC‑20; Pod ERC‑721; iNFT; iNFT Linker; bonding curves/shares; reward distributors) + dApp frontends.
  • Participant roles: creators of AI assets; dApp users; ALI holders; infrastructure providers (RPC/wallets/marketplaces).
  • Where logic runs: ownership/economy — onchain (Ethereum); AI inference/multimodal functions — offchain (via applications/integrations).
  • Dependencies: Ethereum infrastructure (RPC, wallets, explorer), external dApps/services, NFT marketplaces (for example, OpenSea — for collections).

Token/economics (expanded, no forecasts)

  • Token utility: the documentation describes ALI as a coordination/liquidity layer: staking, liquidity pairings, dApp services/premium features, rewards and governance.
  • Protocol necessity drivers: per the token code, ALI participates in the iNFT lifecycle (locked upon creation, released upon destruction, consumed upon upgrade) and also supports vote delegation.
  • Who pays fees: users of the Ethereum network — gas for transactions; also participants of protocol operations (depending on the dApp).
  • Where fees go: depends on the specific contracts/distributors (fee/rewards distributors are described in the v3 perimeter).
  • Issuance/burn: a fixed initial issuance of 10B (minted in the deploy tx), minting of new tokens is not envisaged; burning is possible (token burnable) → the total supply may decrease.
  • Security/incentive mechanisms: staking campaigns (on aiprotocol.info), reward systems/distributors in the v3 contracts.
  • Distribution and token issuance schedule: — (per Tier‑1, the distribution/vesting table was not extracted from the whitepaper).
  • Treasury: — (per Tier‑1, no description of a treasury process was found).

Governance

  • Who makes decisions: governance via ALI is claimed (Alethea DAO); technically, the token supports vote delegation.
  • How protocol parameters change: via contract upgrades/deployments and governance processes (the details of the procedure were not recorded per Tier‑1).
  • Where: —.
  • Keys/multisig: AccessControl roles (the breakdown of roles/operators for each contract was not extracted separately in this card).

Security and incidents

  • Audits: audits (PDF) and resolutions of findings are published in the v3 repository; an audit is separately mentioned for the token (HackMD).
  • Bug bounty: —.
  • Incidents: — (no public postmortems are recorded per Tier‑1).
  • Threat model: contract risks (bugs in bonding/rewards/ACL), risks of AccessControl keys/roles, risks of offchain AI inference (quality/injections/leaks), risks of the dApp frontends.

Project status and timeline

  • Current status: the protocol and token are active; public dApps and open‑source v3 repositories exist.
  • Key milestones: deployment of ALI ERC‑20 v2 on Ethereum (2021‑10‑12); the ai-protocol-v3-core/periphery repositories indicate version 3.0.1 and a set of contracts/addresses.
  • Roadmap: — (not listed in links_*).

Ecosystem/integrations

  • Integrations: dApps (ALIagents.ai / NoahsArk.ai / MyCharacter.ai), NFT marketplaces (for example, OpenSea for collections), DEX (Raydium — mentioned for the agent economy in the dApps documentation).
  • Partners/funds: the website lists “Backed by …” (Alliance/Binance/Bitkraft/Crypto.com/Galaxy/Multicoin, etc.).
  • Where it’s actually used: creation/management of agents/characters and iNFTs via dApps; staking campaigns on aiprotocol.info.

AI component of the project

  • What is real AI here? AI agents/AI characters and “intelligent” NFTs are described as interactive, multimodal entities (creation/training/interaction via dApps; CharacterGPT/the intelligence layer in the documentation).
  • What is truly onchain? ALI ERC‑20 (Ethereum), the Pod ERC‑721, iNFT, iNFT Linker contracts and the periphery contracts (shares/bonding curves/fee+reward distributors) with public addresses.
  • Why is a token needed? ALI acts as the protocol currency/coordination layer (staking/liquidity/services/rewards) and a governance instrument; per the code, it participates in the iNFT lifecycle (lock/consume) and supports vote delegation.
  • Red flags (based on the information found): the AI part includes offchain components (inference/multimodality), so it is important to look at where exactly the “intelligence” is executed and how it is verified; it is also important to assess the centralization of AccessControl roles in the onchain contracts.

DecAI Fit component summary

  • DecAI Fit: 6/6 — high alignment with the Decentralized AI thesis
Component Level Score
AI reality high 3
Onchain necessity high 3
Token necessity high 3
Evidence Tier‑1 present 3
Details

AI reality

AI_0 — AI intent (Tier‑1 roadmap) (1/0)

  • AI_0 (decision): 0
  • Claim (one line): the AI part is confirmed as already existing dApps/repositories, not only intent.
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/dapps-docs
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): there are described working dApps/interfaces, so we do not count this as an “intent”.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

AI_1 — what the AI does (1/0)

  • AI_1 (decision): 1
  • Claim (one line): the protocol and dApps describe the creation of/interaction with tokenized AI agents, AI characters and iNFTs (AI functions on top of NFTs).
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://docs.aiprotocol.info/ ; https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/dapps-docs
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): the whitepaper and the dApps docs describe the AI assets and their functions/interfaces.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

AI_2 — demos/examples (1/0)

  • AI_2 (decision): 1
  • Claim (one line): there are public dApps (ALIagents/Noah’s Ark/MyCharacter) and a staking interface that can be opened and where basic actions can be repeated.
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/dapps-docs ; https://aiprotocol.info
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): Tier‑1 describes specific dApps and their purpose, and the protocol website contains an accessible staking interface.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

AI_3 — metrics/quality (1/0)

  • AI_3 (decision): 0
  • Metrics: —
  • Context (version/date/how measured): —
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — — (no public measurable quality metrics/benchmarks of the agents/models were extracted per Tier‑1)
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): without quantitative metrics, AI_3 is not counted.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

AI_4 — tech description/architecture/versions (1/0)

  • AI_4 (decision): 1
  • Claim (one line): technical descriptions and the architecture of the onchain part (the ALI/Pods/iNFT/Linker contracts, etc.) and the “live infrastructure” addresses are published.
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/ai-protocol-v3-core ; https://docs.aiprotocol.info/
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): the README contains a description of the set of contracts, the version and the addresses; the whitepaper records the architectural primitives.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

Onchain necessity

OC_1 — contracts/addresses/chain (1/0)

  • OC_1 (decision): 1
  • Chain: Ethereum
  • Addresses/identifiers: ALI ERC‑20 0x6b0b3a982b4634ac68dd83a4dbf02311ce324181; iNFT Protocol (Ethereum) in the repository: AI Pod ERC721 0xDd70AF84BA86F29bf437756B655110D134b5651C, iNFT 0xa189121eE045AEAA8DA80b72F7a1132e3B216237, iNFT Linker 0xB9F02FC926b2ab66CAdd6eA1Ee90FB0D8698790b.
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://etherscan.io/token/0x6b0b3a982b4634ac68dd83a4dbf02311ce324181 ; https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/ai-protocol-v3-core
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): the explorer and the official repository confirm the chain and the addresses.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

OC_2 — onchain beyond just a token (1/0)

  • OC_2 (decision): 1
  • What useful logic is onchain: the Pod ERC‑721 + iNFT + Linker contracts provide onchain accounting of the “fusion” (binding a Pod to an NFT) and the iNFT recording interface; the periphery contracts describe bonding curves/shares and the distribution of fees/rewards.
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/ai-protocol-v3-core ; https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/ai-protocol-v3-periphery
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): the composition and purpose of the contracts are described in the repositories and backed by addresses/docs.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

OC_3 — onchain is critical (1/0)

  • OC_3 (decision): 1
  • “Replace the blockchain” test: without onchain, verifiable ownership/liquidity/fees/rewards and the iNFT/POD binding mechanics disappear; the protocol is described as smart‑contract‑based and as “tokenized collaboration”.
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://docs.aiprotocol.info/ ; https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/ai-protocol-v3-core
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): the Tier‑1 sources explicitly build the product around smart contracts, tokens and an onchain economy.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

Token necessity

TK_0 — no token (1/0)

  • TK_0 (decision): 0
  • Claim (one line): the project has a token, ALI (ERC‑20, Ethereum).
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://etherscan.io/token/0x6b0b3a982b4634ac68dd83a4dbf02311ce324181
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): the explorer confirms the token and the contract.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

TK_1..TK_4 (1/0)

TK_1 — payment for the service (1/0)

  • TK_1 (decision): 1
  • Claim (one line): the documentation describes ALI as the protocol currency and the access medium for dApp services/premium features and liquidity pairs.
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://docs.aiprotocol.info/
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): the whitepaper directly describes ALI as the coordination & liquidity layer for services/pairs/staking.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

TK_2 — incentives/collateral/penalties (1/0)

  • TK_2 (decision): 1
  • Claim (one line): ALI is used in the staking/rewards mechanics and in the iNFT lifecycle (lock/release/consume upon creation/destruction/upgrade).
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://aiprotocol.info ; https://etherscan.io/address/0x6b0b3a982b4634ac68dd83a4dbf02311ce324181
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): the website shows staking, and the verified source code of the token describes the lock/consume mechanics.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

TK_3 — governance (1/0)

  • TK_3 (decision): 1
  • Claim (one line): ALI is claimed as a governance instrument; the token contract supports voting delegation and mentions the Alethea DAO.
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://docs.aiprotocol.info/ ; https://etherscan.io/address/0x6b0b3a982b4634ac68dd83a4dbf02311ce324181
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): the whitepaper records the governance role, and the token code implements delegation.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

TK_4 — token is replaceable (1/0)

  • TK_4 (decision): 0
  • Claim (one line): in Tier‑1, the token is described as a fundamental primitive of the protocol (currency+liquidity+rewards+governance) and is “built into” the iNFT lifecycle.
  • Evidence: Tier‑1 — https://docs.aiprotocol.info/ ; https://etherscan.io/address/0x6b0b3a982b4634ac68dd83a4dbf02311ce324181
  • Why sufficient / why not (one line): the role of the token is specified at the level of protocol mechanisms and code.
  • Conflict note (if any): —

Evidence (table)

Tier Source What it proves
Tier‑1 https://docs.aiprotocol.info/ The AI Protocol v3 whitepaper: AI assets/agents/iNFT, the role of ALI as the coordination/liquidity/governance layer.
Tier‑1 https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/ai-protocol-v3-core The set of onchain contracts (ALI/Pods/iNFT/Linker) + live infrastructure addresses + the “On-chain Architecture” PDF + audits.
Tier‑1 https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/ai-protocol-v3-periphery Periphery contracts (bonding curves/shares, fee/reward distributors) as the onchain economic primitives of v3.
Tier‑1 https://github.com/AI-Protocol-Official/dapps-docs The existence and purpose of the dApps: ALIagents.ai / NoahsArk.ai / MyCharacter.ai; description of usage scenarios.
Tier‑1 https://aiprotocol.info A public staking dashboard (app) for staking ALI and Intelligence Pods — a reproducible artifact for the AI_2 demo‑sync.
Tier‑1 https://etherscan.io/token/0x6b0b3a982b4634ac68dd83a4dbf02311ce324181 The onchain fact of the ALI token: the ERC‑20 contract and max total supply (explorer).
Tier‑1 https://etherscan.io/address/0x6b0b3a982b4634ac68dd83a4dbf02311ce324181 Verified source code of ALI: lock/release/consume in the iNFT lifecycle + governance delegation (in the comments/implementations).
Tier‑1 https://etherscan.io/tx/0xdc90c052cdc5859a41ce83645ae6d5c4668336f84b8af2aed5132bf5f59f829d Creation date of the ALI contract and the 10B mint at deployment (2021‑10‑12).

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