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Proteus Exchange
- Authors
- Name
- Ben Lesh
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What if your creative influence earned you money forever?
Every time someone builds on your work, you get paid. Automatically. Perpetually. The more your creativity influences others, the more you earn.
That's Proteus Exchange.
How It Works
- Submit your work - Story, image, song, video, whatever you create
- AI analyzes it - Identifies distinctive creative elements
- Attribution graph - Shows what influences went into it and by how much
- Unique Contributions - Shows what elements are unique to your work
- You earn from derivatives - When others build on your work, you earn from theirs
- Payments split automatically - When consumed, money flows to you AND your influences
Over time, your creative influence becomes passive income that grows as your work spreads through culture.
The Main Concept
The high level idea of what Proteus is all about.
How Attribution Works
Proteus targets the key ingredients of what makes your creation unique. This shows what AI can actually detect and why specificity matters.
How the payment system will function
Proteus will be handling deep trees of nested attribution graphs and sending micropayments to each node on that tree.
Usage-Based Payment Decay
What happens when a technique goes viral? Payment weight decreases as usage increases. Preventing infinite obligations while preserving cultural history.
The Knowledge Corpus that makes it all happen
The entire family tree of attributions for every item... ever created?
Get Involved
This is a gigantic undertaking!!! Especially when its down to just me doing all the building. If this kind of idea excites you, let me know! I would love to work with you!
🤝 Partner With Me
For Developers: Want to get in on the ground floor? I'm open to that.
For Creatives: Want to try it out? We will soon need lots of cool creations to seed the corpus!
For AI companies: Need training data attribution? Let's talk integration.
For creative platforms: Want to add attribution to your platform? API partnerships available in the future.
For investors: Strategic angel investment opportunities for long-term infrastructure plays.