Introduction

⚠️ The Gator Protocol is still under development. Some things will likely break. ⚠️

The Gator Protocol is a decentralized inference network for AI models which serves as an aggregator of responses to ensure security and trust.

The current market for AI inference is dominated by centralized infrastructure, mostly controlled by companies such as Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI. This centralization forces high trust assumptions about the integrity of some companies and limits the free market's ability to decide prices.

The Gator Protocol is a decentralized inference marketplace for AI models, where computations are done off-chain and settled on-chain. For a node to participate in the Gator Protocol, they must stake a certain amount of $GTR tokens. These tokens can be slashed if nodes act maliciously. The software for completing requests and submitting them to the protocol will be fully open-sourced and user-friendly so normal people can rent out their idle hardware to the Gator Protocol and receive rewards. When someone creates an on-chain request to a certain AI model through the Gator Protocol, entropy for that request is made public, allowing deterministic results so multiple nodes can verify that the computation was valid. If multiple nodes return different results, some of their $GTR will be slashed depending on the magnitude of the difference in responses. To fairly allocate compute subsidies in the form of $GTR, we introduce the Gator Protocol DAO which can vote on giving out $GTR. 10% of $GTR tokens will be provided to this DAO and the rest will be used as subsidies for completing requests for the Gator Protocol, which can be related to the tokenomics of Bitcoin.