AIP Whitepaper

1. Introduction

🔗 Building the Open Agent Internet.

AIP (Agent Interoperability Protocol) is the first Web3-native interoperability protocol for AI agents — enabling on-chain identity, persistent memory, and cross-platform coordination. It addresses the core infrastructure gap for autonomous AI in Web3.

2. Why AIP?

🔥 Problems in Existing Systems

  • ❌ Siloed Agents: Agents can't talk across ecosystems like MCP, A2A, LangChain.

  • ❌ No Unified Identity: No verifiable way to track or authorize agents across chains/tools.

  • ❌ Stateless Behavior: Agents forget everything — no continuity, learning, or evolution.

✅ AIP Offers

  • 🌐 Cross-agent & tool communication via gRPC + MCP-compatible interface

  • 🧠 Persistent memory stored in Membase with onchain proof

  • 🆔 Verifiable onchain identity + permission control

  • 🔗 Composable workflows across LLMs, tools, and agents

3. Protocol Comparison

Feature

MCP (Anthropic)

A2A (Google)

AIP (Unibase) 🚀

Primary Focus

LLM & tool/data integration

Agent-to-agent communication

Full agent interoperability + tool access

Cross-Agent Communication

❌

✅

✅

Tool Integration

✅

❌

✅

Built-in Memory Support

❌

❌

✅ (via Membase)

On-Chain Identity & Auth

❌

❌

✅ (via ZK + blockchain)

Agent/Tool Discovery

✅

❌

✅ (built-in discovery & registry)

Protocol Compatibility

MCP only

A2A only

✅ (MCP + gRPC compatible)

Decentralization

❌

❌

✅ (Web3-native)

AIP is the first full-stack agent interoperability standard that bridges decentralized identity, memory, and messaging across agents and platforms.

4. Architecture

📐 AIP Protocol Architecture Diagram

AIP consists of four modular layers, enabling verifiable identity, real-time communication, decentralized memory, and ZK-verified data availability for AI agents.

🧱 Identity Layer

Smart contracts manage agent registration and permission control, ensuring each agent has a unique and verifiable onchain identity.

🔗 Communication Layer (AIP Runtime)

A lightweight, MCP + gRPC-compatible runtime that enables cross-agent communication, agent-tool function calls, and workflow coordination.

🧠 Memory Layer (Membase)

Agents use Membase to store long-term memory including dialogue history, prompts, and knowledge bases — providing persistent and evolvable agent context.

⚙️ Data Availability Layer (Unibase DA)

A high-throughput, ZK-verified storage layer that ensures real-time data access and onchain auditability for agent memory and task logs.

5. Agent Interaction Process

Agent-to-Agent

Agent Collaboration

6. Use Cases

🤖 Autonomous DeFi Agents

Agents coordinate strategies, rebalance portfolios, or automate trades using AIP + Membase memory.

🎮 Multi-Agent Gaming

Agents interact in real-time multiplayer simulations or strategic competitions, sharing memory and roles.

🧠 Knowledge Mining & Sharing

Agents can access, refine, and contribute to decentralized knowledge networks (e.g. distributed AI memory graphs).

🛰️ Cross-Platform Tooling

LLMs and tools running on different chains/environments can collaborate via AIP with shared permission logic and memory.

7. Governance

AIP protocol evolution will be governed by the Unibase ecosystem through veToken staking.

  • 🗳 Community proposals & upgrades

  • ⚙️ Parameter tuning (e.g. rate limits, protocol fees)

  • 🧩 Feature roadmap voting (e.g. agent discovery, agent marketplaces)

  • 💰 Treasury allocation for ecosystem devs

Governance will be progressively decentralized.

8. Security & Verifiability

🔐 Identity & Auth

  • Onchain registration and verifiable agent keys via EVM contracts

  • zkAuth planned for lightweight privacy-preserving permissioning

🧠 Memory Integrity

  • All memory updates cryptographically committed to Unibase DA

  • Agents can use proof-backed memory for audits, compliance, or dispute resolution

🚨 Attack Mitigation

  • Access control policies built into AIP registry layer

  • Optional rate limits, allowlists, and fraud reporting

9. Developer Resources

10. Roadmap

Milestone
Timeline
Status

Agent Identity Registry

Q4 2024

✅ Complete

Membase + Unibase DA Integration

Q4 2024

✅ Complete

MCP / gRPC Compatibility

Q1 2025

✅ Complete

Agent Discovery & Registry

Q1 2025

✅ Complete

AIP Governance

Q3 2025

🔜 Planned

Cross-chain AIP Deployments

Q1 2026

🔜 Planned

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