CoopHive
Coordination Layer for the Decentralized Future
CoopHive is building a multi-chain, multi-currency, multi-token standard generic marketplace. We are providing the base layer for autonomous agents to execute arbitrary compute and exchange real-world assets, scientists to write and read verifiable computational histories with provenance, and mechanism designers to implement custom reward logic for multi-agent systems.
What is CoopHive?
CoopHive is an EVM-compatible two-sided marketplace for compute. At its core, it connects clients and compute nodes, enabling them to exchange tokens for computational resources. A record of deals, results, and optional mediations is recorded on-chain for provenance and verifiability, with escrows and payment flows for staking and slashing.
But CoopHive is so much more than that. With these basic market and data primitives, it is possible to construct coordination mechanisms for autonomous agents, accelerate scientific knowledge discovery with cryptoeconomic incentives, track and reward environmental restoration, and so much more.
Scaling Compute over Filecoin Data
Filecoin is the world’s largest decentralized storage infrastructure, boasting tens of exabytes of storage capacity. One of Filecoin’s missions is to make digital storage a public good, exemplified by its FIL+ program, which rewards storage providers for storing datasets valuable to humanity.
Instrumental to this vision is running compute over Filecoin data, which dramatically enhances its value. CoopHive achieves this by creating a two-sided marketplace for compute combined with a flexible architecture that enables a wide variety of applications.
Enriching the value of datasets on Filecoin unlocks an enormous, untapped source of wealth. In collaboration with the FVM (Filecoin Virtual Machine) and IPC (Inter-Planetary Consensus) teams, CoopHive is building a scalable, comprehensive compute + storage solution to take Filecoin data to the next level.
What We Do
Flexible Compute
If you can containerize it, you can run it on CoopHive. CoopHive has pluggable executors, and can currently run any Docker container or WASM image. This includes native ingress/egress and compute capabilities over IPFS, as well as S3 and data fetched from URLs.
With its flexible architecture, CoopHive can also be upgraded to support zero-knowledge proofs, trusted execution environments, and more.
Decentralized Science
Decentralized science and decentralized AI are taking the cryptocurrency world - and soon, the wider world - by storm. CoopHive was built from the ground up to meet the needs of scientists, researchers, and others who want a verifiable trace of changes to the scientific record, combined with machine-actionable knowledge schema that AI pipelines can compose into more complex data structures.
Coordination Layer
A record of results allows for reproducibility and provenance over computational outputs. This enables a host of applications, including scientific record-keeping, federated learning, multi-party computation, sensor data triggering events, supply-chain management, geophysical coordination of autonomous machines, among others.
Generic Marketplaces
Why stop at markets for computation? Multi-chain generic markets that can accept any token standard for payment and collateral are only a step away, and with them, the ability to integrate real-world assets into computational marketplaces, enabling a whole new design space, including energy trading, Web 2 marketplace (e.g. Amazon or eBay) compatibility, carbon credit integration, and much more.
Autonomous Agents
Distributed computing networks (DCNs) need autonomous agents to function at scale, yet many DCNs are being built using Web 2 thinking. CoopHive takes an agent-first approach to pricing, scheduling, and verification, setting it apart from most other protocols. This forward-thinking approach enables more seamless compatibility with the soon-to-be pervasive multi-agent systems that will emerge out of the current trends in the industry.
Verification and Mediation
In order to verify results, CoopHive allows for arbitrary mediation protocols over the results of computations. The type of mediation protocol must be agreed upon at the time the deal is made, and can include any method for determining whether the contents of a CID merit rewarding or slashing any node involved in the deal. This flexible architecture allows for a wide variety of applications, not just verifiable computing.
