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Introducing Ratio1 Ecosystem

The Ultimate Operating System (OS) for Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered by AI and blockchain technologies

Imagine being able to build, deploy and maintain advanced AI applications with just a few clicks – no Data Science, Back-End or DevOps teams required.

Imagine launching AI microservices, fully load-balanced, scalable, and ready to use, without ever having to worry about infrastructure.

Now, think about your everyday device—whether it's a laptop, tablet, or phone, becoming an AI supercomputer, delivering solutions to anyone, anywhere.

At Ratio1, we’re making that vision a reality. We're creating and constantly refining the next-gen AI Meta Operating System, powered by the seamless combination of AI and blockchain.

Our mission? To unlock the doors of Artificial Intelligence and put the key in your hands, where it's truly "AI for Everyone".

The Problem

Artificial intelligence feels out of reach for many people. Aside from high costs and technical complexity, it represents a resource constraint that keeps AI potential locked away. Whether you’re an individual or part of an organization, building and deploying AI applications requires expertise and expensive infrastructure and complex DevOps processes. It’s a big hurdle, especially if you don’t have a technical background or resources to spare.

The Solution

Introducing the Ratio1 - an innovative Meta Operating System for AI, designed to accelerates AI app development and deployment in decentralized compute ecosystems! This next gen platform integrates blockchain technology to supercharge security, transparency and data management. Our mission is simple but big: democratize AI by building a full featured, user friendly network that powers AI application development from concept to full execution.

This is where Ratio1 comes in! We are expanding the AI landscape by providing a decentralized platform that lets anyone build and deploy AI applications with ease. No-code and low-code tools make it so simple - you can create, launch and scale complex applications in a few clicks. (Almost) No coding? No DevOps? No problem!

With Ratio1 you don’t just use AI, you own it. Our trustless infrastructure allocation takes care of load balancing and management so you can focus on what matters most - innovating! Imagine your everyday device - laptop, phone or tablet - becoming an AI solution provider, tapping into a global network of shared computing power. Whether you’re a developer, an organization or just someone who needs an AI solution at your fingertips, Ratio1 brings AI to you. Effortless scalability, simpler development, AI for everyone.

Welcome to a world where AI is truly open to all - where you hold the power to create, deploy, and scale, all with ease.

By addressing key technical and economic challenges, we make AI app development, deployment, and market entry more affordable, via Blockchain technology including trustless micro-transactions This model effectively reduces entry barriers, requiring only consumer-grade computing devices equipped with our platform. Our platform is designed to meet the needs of developers, computing providers, and non-experts in AI, ensuring broad usability and accessibility.

In summary our Meta OS ecosystem is building compute “real estate” on utility blockchain so AI processing nodes can:

Collaborate on real-world tasks
Generate revenue for node owners who contribute services to the network
Deliver income directly to network participants, from developers to maintainers
and stakeholders

The Future of AI & Blockchain is here with Ratio1!

Ratio1 is the future of AI democratization, powered by our Decentralized Neuro-symbolic Autonomous processing framework, abbreviated Ratio1 DNA. This core architecture combines edge-compute modules and SDKs so you can quickly integrate multiple data sources and deploy business rules with low-code/no-code. With Ratio1’s SDKs and APIs, developers can unleash the power of pretrained models, including open-weight Large Language Models, for quick and seamless AI application development.

Ratio1 DNA unlocks multi-domain Large Language Model (LLM) applications from predictive analytics to anomaly detection to video scene analysis, all with no training or maintenance required. Built on a token-based, decentralized model for intelligent budgeting and scalability Ratio1 set to transform the AI landscape, making development a breeze and empowering users to integrate AI into every digital experience.

These applications use state of the art foundation models and require no deployment or maintenance. Running in a decentralized token-based budgeting and scaling framework Ratio1 is the catalyst for change in the AI landscape. By simplifying development and deployment Ratio1 makes AI accessible and integrated into every aspect of digital innovation.

Ratio1 Protocol stands at the forefront of economic and operational efficiency by incorporating a token-based system designed for intelligent budgeting and scaling. The platform seamlessly interfaces with web3 and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), facilitating smooth blockchain interactions via its own API.

Internally, its proprietary comms protocol leverages IoT-based protocols such as MQTT, enhancing security through signature-based validation and capitalising on blockchain's immutability to ensure dependable and secure operations within a trustless environment.

Overall the Ratio1 vision aligns perfectly with the current digital transformation trends, aiming to turn devices into assets through a trustless model of shared processing power. This forward-looking approach, not only incentivizes device owners, but also contributes to reduce the carbon footprint of the AI industry. Through resource optimization, Ratio1 significantly reduces the time required to launch AI applications, fostering a more sustainable and economically viable AI ecosystem.

Fast app development & go-to-market

Ratio1's revolutionary architecture is characterized by several key features that expedite the development and deployment of AI in everyday applications:

User Friendly Ecosystem: User Friendly Ecosystem – Intuitive interfaces and no-code/low-code tools so anyone can build and deploy AI applications – no coding required!
Decentralized Edge Computing: Utilize a global network of shared computing resources, turn your everyday devices into AI processing nodes (Ratio1 Edge Nodes - RENs).
Cost Effective: Our trustless micro-transactions and decentralized computing reduces costs, making advanced AI affordable and accessible to all.
Fast Deployment and Scaling: Pre-designed templates and automated scaling lets you launch and grow applications in minutes.
Monetization Opportunities: Earn by contributing computing power, building AI apps or creating valuable content - your efforts are rewarded.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrate with legacy systems existing platforms and support for web2 and web3 business models.
Security and Compliance: With blockchain technology at the core, we ensure secure, transparent operations and built-in compliance tools to keep everything on track.
Sustainability: We’re committed to making AI greener by optimizing resources and reducing the environmental impact. With Ratio1, you’re contributing to an eco-friendlier AI industry, to ensure a sustainable future for innovation.
Community: Through token-based incentives and a decentralized network, we encourage everyone to participate, share ideas, and push the boundaries of AI innovation together.

No matter the size of your project or your team’s expertise, Ratio1 is designed to get your project launched faster, and not just for AI projects, but for all kinds of needs. For instance, if you require a horizontally scalable web-API with multiple endpoints, devoid of MQTT, AI, or blockchain integration, you can effortlessly set up endpoints using low-code and deploy a fleet of heterogeneous distributed microservices via our ‘ngrok’ integration.

Build and deploy a Web 2.0 application on Ratio1 Protocol

Use case

Consider a team developing a "continuous education with a twist" app for mobile devices. This application enables users to learn new skills through a gamified experience, covering a broad spectrum of content from elementary school math to advanced topics like programming, quantum physics, and information theory for postgraduate students. The application operates on a freemium model, offering basic content for free while providing access to premium content through a monthly subscription.

Web 2.0 challenges

The team faces numerous challenges, including application development, cloud deployment, infrastructure maintenance, data security, application scaling, monitoring, updates, customer support, and payment handling. Additionally, specific tasks such as content creation by experts and AI generative models, global content delivery via content delivery networks (CDNs), and dynamic scaling based on app success are complex and resource-intensive. These tasks require a diverse skill set and substantial resources, encompassing AI experts, backend and frontend developers, DevOps and cloud engineers, security and data engineers, data scientists, customer support staff, and teams for marketing, sales, finance, and legal matters.

Ratio1 Protocol is the solution

The Ratio1 Protocol offers a suite of tools and services that mitigate many of the above-mentioned challenges, allowing the team to focus on the application's core business experience. While not a one-size-fits-all solution, it effectively addresses key issues such as the cost and availability of AI expertise, cloud resources, backend development, scaling, balancing, monitoring, security, and payment processing.

With the Ratio1 Protocol, the team can be dedicated to developing the web client to deliver an exceptional user experience, leveraging existing AI models and business templates for backend logic running on Ratio1 Edge Nodes (RENs). The protocol manages scaling, balancing, monitoring, and security, significantly reducing cloud infrastructure costs and enabling the team to prioritize the application's go-to-market strategy.

Additional challenges for building Web 2.0 applications

Besides the challenges mentioned for the presented use case, we have identified several others that we list below:

Integration with existing systems and platforms
Compliance with local/international data protection frameworks
User-data privacy and ethical AI
Multilingual support and localization
Latency issues for users in remote regions

How we tackle them with Ratio1

The Ratio1 Protocol presents a robust and scalable platform that simplifies application deployment and management through:

AI Model and pre-built logic integration: Incorporating pre-trained AI models and business templates to streamline content creation and backend logic.
Edge Computing: Making use of distributed edge nodes to handle computing tasks closer to the user, thereby reducing latency, improving performance, and functioning as a load balancing and content delivery network.
Automatic Scaling: Offering dynamic scaling capabilities that adjust resources automatically based on app usage and success.
Security and Compliance: Providing built-in security features and compliance tools to address data protection and regulatory requirements.
Cost Efficiency: Lowering cloud infrastructure costs by optimizing resource usage and employing decentralized computing.
Simplified Payment Processing: Implementing a web3-based payment solution with trustless wallet integration while using an external KYC provider.

Extending to a Web3 Business Model

The Ratio1 Protocol seamlessly evolves the initial web2 business model into a web3 framework. Within this framework, nodes function as edge app hubs, facilitating both edge-backend processing as well as allowing crowdsourced and token-incentivized content curation. This expansion encompasses:

Decentralized Content Curation: Users can actively contribute to content creation and curation, earning tokens as incentives, nurturing a community-driven content ecosystem.
Crowdsourcing: Harnessing the collective intelligence and creativity of the user base to enrich and diversify content offerings.
Token Incentives: Implementing a token-based reward system to encourage user participation in content creation and curation, ensuring ongoing engagement and high-quality contributions.
Dual Component Local Processing: Each locally installed edge node consists of two components: the UI/client and the node itself. The edge node desktop client app facilitates content creation, serving as a gateway for users to directly participate as producers on the network. This functionality does not compromise the edge node's inherent capabilities of balancing processing and content delivery.

By integrating these web3 features, the partner team can refine their business model, establishing a more dynamic, community-driven platform that capitalizes on the benefits of decentralization and tokenization. This not only enhances the user experience but also ensures sustainable and scalable growth.

Our mission objectives

Democratize AI: AI for All – We’re making AI available to everyone, removing technical and economic barriers so AI is in everyone’s hands.
Simplify AI: Our tools and templates let you build and deploy AI applications in minutes, effortlessly.
Empower Users and Contributors: Whether you’re offering computing resources or AI expertise Ratio1 lets you monetize and contribute to a growing community.
Sustainable Ecosystem: We’re all about optimizing resources, reducing the carbon footprint of AI and support growth for the long term.
Community Driven: Collaboration is at our heart! Our decentralized network rewards participation through token-based incentives and we’re building a powerful community together.

Our product embodies value; features serve as the window through which customers perceive our innovation;
The applications and their user interfaces act as gateways to the extensive capabilities of Ratio1;
The applications validate the network's strength: prioritizing operational excellence and minimizing environmental impact;
Our SDKs champion our network, drawing developers and clients into our ecosystem with simplicity;
Feature development is an ongoing journey, continuously assimilated to enrich the functionality of the Ratio1 Protocol;
All contributions play a role in the maturing of the Ratio1 Protocol;
Simplicity guides our documentation, and efficiency is our SDKs’ hallmark;

Ratio1 Protocol source code

All Ratio1 modules and repositories are openly available under the Apache 2.0 license. We are dedicated to nurturing community-driven development, democratizing AI, and progressing through collaborative research and innovation.

This set of repositories hosts the full public source code of Ratio1, encompassing the complete stack of modules necessary for building and running a decentralized AI training and inference Ratio1 Edge Node (REN). Ratio1 is a pioneering protocol that harnesses decentralized computing and AI via edge-node software, facilitating on-edge inference and training. It integrates trustless microtransactions into its ecosystem, promoting a secure, efficient, and scalable network for AI development and deployment. This underscores the project's dedication to technological advancement while prioritizing financial growth and sustainability.

Tokenomics

Introduction into the Ratio1 tokenomics

The tokenomics of the Ratio1 are meticulously designed to enhance the ecosystem's durability and expansion. As a core utility ERC-20 token, the Ratio1 Protocol token functions as the principal currency facilitating transactions throughout the network. This tokenomics framework aims to reward all ecosystem contributors — developers, node operators, and users alike — encouraging active participation and sustained growth.

Since the Ratio1 Protocol token operates as a utility token rather than a security token, its primary function lies in facilitating operational activities within the Ratio1 ecosystem, rather than speculative trading. It empowers users to contribute computing power, access diverse services, deploy applications, and eventually partake in governance processes. Consequently, there has not been, nor is there any intention for, a Token Generation Event (TGE) or Initial Coin/Token Offering (ICO/IDO) associated with the Ratio1 Protocol token. All tokens, including those held in the Foundation's treasury, are distributed through Ratio1 Edge Node (REN) licenses (Node Deeds) and the Ratio1 Protocol decentralized application (dApp). These Node Deeds come in three forms: Genesis Node Deed (GND), Master Node Deed (MND), and Node Deed (ND).

NOTICE: The token reward system serves as an authentic Artificial Intelligence mining mechanism. It incentivizes your node's contribution, whether it's a personal PC, cloud VM, or data center hardware, to various aspects such as AI training, inference, endpoint provisioning, business rules execution, and protocol security. Your role, akin to manual labor, entails supplying power, provisioning hardware, installing software, maintaining the computer(s), and connecting the node(s) to the Internet, thereby supporting the protocol.

Genesis Node Deed (GND)

The Genesis Node Deed (GND), a one-time issuance exclusive to the Ratio1 Protocol Foundation, activates "edge node zero" the Foundation's virtual compute node. This activation is essential for generating tokens allocated to the publicly disclosed Foundation token pools described below. In essence, the GND acts as the cornerstone for launching the entire Ratio1 Protocol ecosystem.

Master Node Deed (MND)

A specialized node license that will be allocated to both the development team and initial investors. This deed plays a pivotal role in supporting and sustaining the core functions of the ecosystem. The emission period for MND spans over a duration of more than 36 months.

Node Deed (ND)

This license is available for public purchase and enables the operation of individual edge nodes within the Ratio1 Protocol ecosystem. These nodes are essential for powering and maintaining the network's decentralized infrastructure. Unlike the emission strategy for MNDs, NDs are emitted at a faster rate, ensuring a longer vesting period.

Pure utility token

Our utility token is intricately designed to serve as the fuel for the Ratio1 Protocol ecosystem, enabling a smooth and efficient operation across various functionalities. Here is an enhanced clarification of the utility token’s purpose and limitations:

Defined Utility: The token acts as the operational gas required for processing jobs, allocating compute time, provisioning GPU resources, and acquiring licenses. It is essential for all transactional processes within the protocol, ensuring that each action is executed seamlessly.
No Financial Entitlements: Holders of the token will not receive any form of financial returns such as dividends, profit shares, interest, or other benefits typically associated with investments in the DeFi space. The token is strictly a utility mechanism within the Ratio1 Protocol.
Exclusively Non-Investment: The primary function of our token is to facilitate transactions within the Ratio1 Protocol’s ecosystem. It is specifically designed to support operational efficiency and is not intended for speculative trading or as an investment vehicle.

The Ratio1 Protocol Treasury

The Ratio1 Protocol treasury encompasses multiple pools designed to delineate the scope of resource allocation.

Internal Research & Development pool

Dedicated to funding ongoing research and development efforts that are central to the advancement of the Ratio1 Protocol. Investments from this pool ensure continuous innovation, improvement of existing technologies, and development of new functionalities within the protocol. It supports the technical team in enhancing the platform's capabilities and security features.

Marketing and community growth pool

Resources in this pool are allocated towards marketing initiatives and community engagement strategies. The focus is on building brand awareness, expanding user adoption, and fostering a strong, vibrant community around the Ratio1 Protocol. Efforts include online campaigns, partnerships, community events, and educational programs to attract and retain users and developers.

Hackathons and project grants pool

Specifically set aside to sponsor hackathons and provide grants for projects that contribute to the Ratio1 ecosystem. By funding these activities, Ratio1 encourages innovation and practical implementation of ideas that can enhance the ecosystem. This not only stimulates creativity within the community but also helps in identifying and nurturing potential projects that could be integrated into the Ratio1 Protocol Marketplace.

Social responsibility pool

Dedicated to initiatives that align with the Ratio1 Protocol’s commitment to ethical practices and positive social impact. This includes contributions to causes such as sustainability projects, educational programs, and other community-enhancing projects. Through this pool, Ratio1 demonstrates its commitment to using technology for societal benefit and to promoting responsible AI and blockchain practices.

Ratio1 Protocol tokenomics allocation

The Ratio1 Protocol features a robust tokenomics structure with a fixed total supply of 1,618,033,988 tokens, a figure inspired by the Golden Ratio — a mathematical constant observed in natural and human-made structures, from the spirals of galaxies to the design of artworks and molecular structures. This number not only highlights the protocol’s dedication to balance and sustainability but also symbolizes its commitment to organic growth and technological evolution. Finally, for us this particular number signifies the human-centric approach for advancement of AI and blockchain technologies.

Unique to our approach is the absence of token generation events such as TGEs or ICO/IDO events. Instead, the entire token supply will be fully mined, released through the contribution of computational power by participants who operate edge nodes. This method ensures a finite and transparent token distribution from the start, aligning with our goal of a fully decentralized and participant-driven ecosystem.

Token distribution is intricately designed around the issuance of licenses, referred to as Node Deeds, available in three distinct forms. This framework supports our protocol’s philosophy and operational dynamics, fostering an equitable and scalable network.

Node Deeds pricing schema

The Ratio1 Protocol employs a unique anti-inflationary pricing strategy for its Node Deeds, which are essential NFT-licenses for each Edge Node within the ecosystem. This method systematically increases the cost of Node Deeds as more are purchased, ensuring that only genuine economic factors drive their acquisition. This tiered pricing model is designed to mitigate speculative buying and promote a stable growth environment for the network. For instance, the "Universal (no zone boundary)" Node Deed starts at a price of $500 during the first tier with 89 units available. As demand increases and these initial units are sold, the price escalates to $750 in the second tier for the next 144 units, and further to $1,000 for 233 units in the third tier. This pattern of escalation continues across subsequent tiers, with prices sharply increasing up to $9,500 by tier 12. Each tier follows a similar progression, reflecting the protocol’s commitment to controlling inflation and ensuring that Node Deeds are acquired for their intended utility rather than speculative purposes.

The approach not only aligns with Ratio1’s ethos of democratizing AI via blockchain but also ensures that the growth of the network is economically sustainable. By increasing prices as more deeds are purchased, Ratio1 effectively controls the rate of expansion, aligns Node Deed ownership with actual usage and contribution to the ecosystem, and secures the network's long-term viability. This strategy exemplifies a thoughtful integration of economic principles with technological innovation, aiming to foster a robust and equitable ecosystem.

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