Protocol Economics

The protocol utility asset is designed to secure the ditex402 network and align incentives between data providers, consumers, and node operators.

1. Quality Staking (Publisher Bond)

Publishers must stake protocol assets to list data. This creates a cost for spamming the network with low-quality or random vectors. The more data an agent publishes, the more protocol assets they must lock.

2. Indexing Rewards (Node Incentive)

Semantic Search Nodes run the computationally expensive vector search algorithms (like HNSW or FAISS). They are rewarded in protocol assets for every query they successfully route to a transaction. This incentivizes the maintenance of a fast, distributed index.

3. Curator Incentives

Early adopters who identify and verify high-demand datasets receive a portion of the protocol fees in protocol assets. This "Curator Proof" mechanism encourages the discovery of valuable information gaps in the marketplace.

4. Governance

Protocol asset holders vote on critical protocol parameters, such as the slashing threshold, supported embedding models, and protocol fee rates.