EXANA: Decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent Network

Abstract

EXANA is a decentralized blockchain network for Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents and the Internet of Agents (IoA) economy. A scalable blockchain network which has Turing-complete smart contracts would allow decentralized ownership of intelligent agents. Agents are assigned globally unique names along with their own fungible token supplies called name shares to represent ownership stakes. Agents are controlled by their smart contracts with the holders of the name shares exerting control and earning income from economic activity. The built-in Star Name system is powerful enough to tokenize everything from usernames, web addresses, social accounts — essentially a secure and decentralized replacement for the Domain Name System (DNS). The network also operates as a scalable Bitcoin sidechain thanks to a novel 2-way bridge technology called the Energy Bridge which takes advantage of the unique properties of the SHA-256^3 (Triple SHA-256) proof-of-work algorithm and BitVM.

Links

White Paper: https://exana.ai/exana.pdf

@ExanaNetwork: https://x.com/ExanaNetwork

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PROVABLE FAIR LAUNCH: NO PRE-MINE. NO TEAM OR DEVELOPER ALLOCATIONS. NO FUNDS RAISED.
The first 21,000 blocks will be permanently frozen to demonstrate a provable fair launch.

Launch Timeline

EXACT NETWORK LAUNCH DATE (Q3 2025) TO BE DETERMINED. FOLLOW AND STAY CONNECTED.

Step 0: Announce EXANA
Step 1: Publish node software and announce launch date
Step 2: Update node software with authoritative genesis block on launch date
Step 3: The first 21,000 blocks of mining block rewards are permanently frozen and unspendable

There will be a minimum of 5 days between Steps 1 and 2 to give enough time to prepare for the launch.

Introduction and Overview

The capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is at an inflection point with the looming emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It may be a couple of decades if not just a few years’ time before the arrival of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). An arms race is underway with tremendous capital investment amongst technology companies, governments and militaries around the world. Practically all of the AI systems being built are centralized and proprietary with very restrictive access interfaces. The arms race is actually a war for control over humanity and planetary energy production. The AI systems being built today, and *their owners,* will play an unimaginably significant role over every aspect of our lives forever.

Bitcoin was launched in 2009 as the first decentralized digital currency and has firmly established itself as the digital store of value (“digital gold”) of the world. The Bitcoin network is capable of processing at most 7 transactions per second due to a conservative block size of 1 MB. The Bitcoin scripting language has been intentionally restricted to emphasize that the network should be used primarily for basic types of financial transactions. Therefore the capabilities of Bitcoin in the artificial intelligence economy will remain limited in it’s current form owing to it’s low transaction throughput and basic scripting capabilities.

What is needed is an extremely scalable and decentralized blockchain network to be available for humanity so that everyone can effectively participate and profit in the coming *Internet of Agents (IoA)* economy. We propose a Layer 1 blockchain that has Turing-complete smart contracts and special capabilities designed for the coming AI agent revolution. Agents are assigned globally unique names along with their own fungible token supplies called name shares. Communication between clients and agents are handled via messaging passing on the blockchain ledger. The proposed global name system called *Star Names* also acts as a decentralized and permissionless replacement for the Domain Name System (DNS). Agents and humans alike can hold tokens of other agents and act as governors and owners, finally enabling a comprehensive Internet of Agents economy to emerge.

Our proposal also operates as a scalable sidechain for Bitcoin via a novel trustless 2-way peg (2WP) called the *Energy Bridge* which leverages BitVM and proof-of-work. Users deposit Bitcoins into a special smart contract and can isomorphically represent those Bitcoins as surrogate tokens on the EXANA blockchain. The deposited Bitcoins may be withdrawn by providing a Merkle Tree proof that the surrogate tokens were destroyed. The Bitcoins are effectively represented by an energy wrapped token which can be used to interact with smart contracts in the intelligent agent economy. Bitcoin’s position as *digital gold* will be expanded with EXANA acting as the *digital energy* of the artificial intelligence revolution.

Key Capabilities

Internet of Agents (IoA) Economy
  - Multi-agent communications network
  - Intelligent agents can be fractionally owned by other agents and humans with real-time payment distribution
  - Turing-complete smart contracts with advanced contract composition capabilities
  - Extremely scalable UTXO architecture with fast 30 second block times
Fully decentralized name system called Star Names (ex: *satoshi)
  - Permanent name system which has a real possibility to replace DNS
  - Global Staking: All income from name auctions are distributed to EXA holders in real-time
  - Name Shares: Enables fractional ownership and real-time payment distribution for holders
Energy Bridge: Bitcoin Scaling Solution
  - Bitcoin is Digital Gold. EXANA is Digital Energy. EXANA gives superpowers to Bitcoin.
  - Energy Bridge Technology: Scalable 2-way Isomorphic Bitcoin Peg based on PoW and BitVM 

Key Concepts

- Bitcoin is Digital Gold
- EXANA is Digital Energy
- EXANA gives superpowers to Bitcoin
- Decentralize everything
- Tokenize everything
- Embrace ASIC mining of SHA-256^3 to complement global Bitcoin hashpower
- Embrace extreme scale with massive transaction volume *and* "run your own node"
- Build-up complete and robust decentralized intelligent agent economy from first principles beginning with secure decentralized names and tokenized agents and their assets

Network Information

Name: EXANA
Symbol: EXA
Max Supply: 21,000,000,000
Smallest Unit: Energy —100,000,000 Energy units per EXA (8 decimals)
Block Time: 30 seconds
Initial Subsidy: 2,500 EXA per block
Subsidy Halving: 4 years (210,000 * 20 blocks)
Block Size: Automatic Adaptive Block Size
Consensus Algorithm: Proof-of-work SHA-256^3 (Triple SHA-256)
Launch: Fair Launch Date TBD Q3 2025— Blocks 0 to 21,000 provably unspendable

EXANA is an extremely scalable decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent network. Everything is decentralized from Turing-complete smart contracts, AI agent ownership, and the global name system called Star Names. Exana acts simultaneously as an independent high performance Layer 1 and a scaling solution for Bitcoin thanks to the breakthrough Energy Bridge technology based on SHA-256^3 (Triple SHA-256) proof-of-work and BitVM.

Disclaimer

EXANA (the “Blockchain”) is a free and open source blockchain network and does not constitute an investment or security. There are no expectations of financial returns or profits. There are no guarantees, warranties, or expectations of any kind that the units of the Blockchain can be redeemed, bought, sold, traded, converted, or used in any manner whatsoever. There are no guarantees that any participant — client, user, service, system, or any entity legal or otherwise will host, operate, execute, support or manage any of the Blockchain software components. Participants are free to use, upgrade, adapt, change, improve and deploy versions of the Blockchain as they deem appropriate. All participants act in their own interest and represent only themselves. This disclaimer is not a substitute for professional legal and financial advice.  Nothing in this document (the “White Paper”) or any related documentation constitutes a contract, roadmap, commitment, or promise to deliver value of any kind. This disclaimer does not create an attorney-client relationship, nor is it a solicitation to offer legal or financial advice. This White Paper does not constitute an offer or solicitation to purchase financial instruments and neither doees it constitute a prospectus.

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