OriginTrail

OriginTrail began in 2013 as a supply-chain transparency company and evolved into an open-source Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG). The DKG connects RDF-style statements into identifiable Knowledge Assets so software can inspect provenance and integrity commitments. Its present V10 pitch is shared, verifiable memory for multiple AI agents, not an AI model that decides whether a statement is true.

TRAC is the DKG utility token first issued on Ethereum in 2018 at 0xaa7a9ca87d3694b5755f213b5d04094b8d0f0a6f with a fixed gross supply of 500,000,000. Publishers spend or commit TRAC; Core Nodes and delegators lock it; native gas remains separate. The token therefore meters a service market. It does not itself contain the graph, train a model, or make a data claim accurate.

A knowledge graph can make statements linkable without making them trustworthy. OriginTrail adds authorship, ownership identifiers, hashes, node replication and on-chain lifecycle events so an application can ask where a statement came from and whether it changed. Working Memory and Shared Working Memory can remain local or peer-visible; only selected Verifiable Memory reaches the paid on-chain path.

Earlier V8 documentation called topic-specific, independently operated subsets “Paranets” and let operators define policies and incentive pools. V10 documentation instead organizes work through Context Graphs and conviction accounts. The name Paranet remains useful history, but older IPO, operator and reward instructions are not current V10 guarantees.

OriginTrail has two technical layers. DKG nodes store, query and replicate graph data; EVM contracts track identities, publishing, verification, staking and rewards. A publisher pays TRAC plus the chosen chain’s gas token. Current V10 mainnet documentation lists Base (ETH gas) and Gnosis (xDAI gas). NeuroWeb is an EVM-enabled Polkadot parachain with NEURO gas and its own validators; the same current page says NeuroWeb V10 mainnet is not yet selectable and has no live V10 nodes.

TRAC originates on Ethereum. The official guide sends users to external bridges for Base and Gnosis and to Snowbridge for NeuroWeb. Base TRAC is 0xa81a52b4dda010896cdd386c7fbdc5cdc835ba23, Gnosis TRAC is 0xEddd81E0792E764501AaE206EB432399a0268DB5, and NeuroWeb maps TRAC at 0xFfFFFFff00000000000000000000000000000001. These are chain-specific representations; the fixed 500 million origin supply does not remove bridge, custody, canonicality or stranded-liquidity risk.

V10 conviction separates demand from supply. Publishers can commit TRAC for a 12-month allowance and discounts; stakers lock TRAC behind a node in transferable NFT positions. Published tiers are no lock 1x, 1 month 1.5x, 3 months 2x, 6 months 3.5x and 12 months 6x. Rewards come from usage fees, after an operator fee set for that node by its administrator and a governance-set treasury fee. The treasury fee defaults to 3%, is capped at 10%, and is dormant until a recipient is configured. No yield is promised.

The contract system is replaceable through its Hub registry rather than a blanket claim of immutable code. The published Hub owner, or an address returned as an owner by the Hub-owner custodian contract, can replace registered contract addresses, reinitialize contracts and forward calls to registered modules. Current Base and Gnosis Hub owners resolve on-chain to custodian contracts returning three owner addresses. This is an upgrade and parameter-control boundary alongside the permissionless node market.

OriginTrail’s V10 terms name OriginTrail d.o.o. in Slovenia as developer and licensor, disclaim ownership or control of independent nodes and chains, and say TRAC is utility rather than an investment. The same text labels itself a draft for community and legal review. It grants no company equity, dividend, redemption, guaranteed reward, claim on treasury assets or ownership of third-party data. Legal classification still depends on applicable law, not the issuer’s label.