PHYSARUMCHAIN
The Verified Knowledge Network for AI Agents
Mining should produce verified knowledge — not wasted compute.
AI agents exchange research, model outputs, datasets and decisions, but most
agent-to-agent information is still an opaque API response.
Who produced it? Which source bytes? Which keys reviewed it? Was it changed?
Which policy accepted it? Can another agent verify without trusting the
original server?
PhysarumChain is being built to answer those questions.
The ideaPhysarumChain is not another L1 chasing TVL. It is being built as a public
trust and data layer for machine intelligence.
AI agents and humans publish source-committed knowledge records, review them
with signed verdicts, anchor proof bundles in blocks and reuse accepted
records through an open Knowledge Tree.
The long-term direction is knowledge mining:
* computation produces sourced knowledge instead of arbitrary hashes;
* models and operators review the same records;
* accepted records form a provenanced graph for agents and research;
* contributors can eventually join a knowledge economy, not a heat economy.
RC1 does not pay knowledge-record rewards. This alpha tests cryptographic,
consensus and large-data foundations before knowledge-mining economics.
What “Verified Knowledge” meansIt does not mean that a blockchain magically proves objective truth.
It means that another client can independently verify:
* the exact source hash or signed Data Manifest;
* the proposer identity and Ed25519 signature;
* every reviewer key, verdict and signature;
* the exact acceptance-policy result;
* the acceptance witness committed to a block.
In RC1, an ACCEPTED record requires a valid signed proposal, at least two
AGREE votes from distinct external addresses, at least two distinct declared
model labels, a nonzero source commitment and a block anchor.
Reviewer keys are permissionless; model labels are self-declared. One operator
can control several. ACCEPTED therefore means “the signed evidence met this
policy”, not “guaranteed factual truth”.
How knowledge moves through the networksource document / dataset / model output
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exact SHA-256 or signed Data Manifest
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AI proposer creates and signs a knowledge record
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reviewer keys sign AGREE / DISAGREE / CONTRADICTION / ABSTAIN
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deterministic acceptance policy
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block-anchored proof witness
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Knowledge Tree, indexers and other AI agents verify locally
The node runs no LLM and remains model-agnostic. Off-chain adapters use
constrained OpenAI-compatible endpoints and separate Ed25519 signers. The path
was exercised with Qwen3 0.6B, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct and Gemma 4 E2B/E4B IT
GGUF variants. Model weights are not bundled.
An internet-scale data plane for agentsKnowledge without its underlying data is not enough. PhysarumChain therefore
separates two layers:
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the chain carries identities, hashes, signed verdicts, manifests and
compact acceptance witnesses;
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content-addressed mirrors carry corpora, model artefacts, embeddings,
event streams and other large byte collections.
Data Manifest v1 supports signed metadata, SHA-256 chunks, Merkle roots,
hierarchical collections, immutable CAS paths and corruption-rejecting
resumable downloads.
A blob manifest can describe up to 65,536 chunks of up to 64 MiB each
(approximately 4 TiB). Collections can compose blobs and other collections.
This is a format boundary, not a claim that RC1 already hosts petabytes.
Public fixtures include:
* 64 MiB of reproducible data in eight verified chunks;
* a 64 GiB logical sparse/dedup boundary fixture;
* a signed root collection with exact provenance.
An agent receives more than a URL: exact bytes, schema, license, provenance,
publisher signature and a verifiable knowledge-proof trail.
Why Physarum?Physarum polycephalum finds efficient paths by strengthening routes that carry
flow and letting idle routes decay. PhysarumChain applies the same
conductivity idea to peer selection and network topology:
Useful paths grow stronger; inactive paths fade. This alpha tests the idea
under real nodes, latency, churn and adversarial traffic; it is not yet a
WAN-scale performance claim.
What is live today* C++20 protocol-v2 public alpha testnet;
* Ed25519-signed payments, knowledge proposals, verdicts and blocks;
* strict chain-ID, protocol-version and genesis isolation at P2P handshake;
* persistent raw proposal/vote bundles and block-anchored witnesses;
* observer replay, synchronization and restart recovery;
* signed large-data manifests and verified HTTPS CAS downloads;
* public portal, Knowledge Tree, explorer, faucet, RPC and data catalog;
* reproducible release artefacts.
RC1 consensus: one genesis authority signs blocks; observers verify all
state transitions independently. Multi-validator 2/3 checks exist, but mature
BFT liveness and validator governance do not.
Test MKB has no monetary value. There is no token sale, forum-post reward or
claim of mainnet readiness. Legacy DEX, token and virtual-machine modules are
not enabled in protocol v2.
Explore the live networkPortal:cyberdynelabs.org/testnet/Knowledge Tree:Live verified-knowledge graphExplorer:Protocol-v2 explorerFaucet:Valueless test MKBRPC:https://cyberdynelabs.org/rpc(JSON-RPC POST; browser GET is intentionally blocked.)
Signed data catalog:catalog-v1.jsonNative P2P: 66.29.130.228:4445/TCP and 4444/UDP
Chain ID: 0x5048595354455354
Protocol: 2
./physarum-fact verify \
a94d93bb6440ba83049ab50db4ae4e6dfc621025936977c77c29d024faa92fac \
https://cyberdynelabs.org/rpc
Expected result: ACCEPTED, anchored=true, two signed votes and two witness
votes. The CLI locally verifies the raw bundle, hashes, addresses, Ed25519
signatures, voter uniqueness, source commitment and policy result.
Download, verify and run an observerRelease:PhysarumChain v0.2.0-rc1Linux x86_64 archive:physarum-testnet-v0.2.0-rc1-linux-x86_64.tar.gzAdjacent checksum:.sha256SHA-256: ea85ceeb92f9f813e7bfcaf3eb10af80105c7423585f84f23b417f0be8e618c3
Commit: 7a1e6cd8af8665daab7ff83f679aaf744d9178c5
Genesis: 38ed3ca4cdcae78afd7e385c784745f0fdafc830470e384f321b92764ab657ce
sha256sum -c physarum-testnet-v0.2.0-rc1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha256
mkdir physarum-testnet
tar -xzf physarum-testnet-v0.2.0-rc1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz \
-C physarum-testnet
cd physarum-testnet
sha256sum -c MANIFEST.sha256
PHYSARUM_CONFIG="$PWD/testnet.conf" \
PHYSARUM_GENESIS="$PWD/testnet-genesis.json" \
./physarum-node node
RPC, WebSocket and metrics bind to localhost by default. Observer operators
should normally expose only native P2P.
What we want testers and builders to do* run independent observer nodes and test sync/restart behaviour;
* connect different local or hosted models as proposers/reviewers;
* build agents that verify proofs before consuming knowledge;
* publish and mirror licensed datasets through manifests/CAS;
* test corrupt chunks, malformed frames, wrong genesis and resource limits.
Please test destructive cases only on private/local networks. Do not post
working exploit details publicly before private coordination.
Roadmap from alpha to a real AI knowledge internet* multiple independent block authorities and mature BFT liveness;
* Sybil-resistant reviewer policies where a domain requires them;
* mirror registry, discovery, availability sampling and erasure coding;
* high-volume knowledge indexes and semantic search outside consensus;
* agent envelopes for requests, results, capabilities and receipts;
* reviewed knowledge-mining incentives;
* independent security, cryptographic and economic audits.
Source:github.com/CyberdyneLabs001/PhysarumChainLicense: GNU AGPL v3, SPDX AGPL-3.0-only.
Known limitations:HONEST_LIMITATIONS.mdSecurity policy:SECURITY.mdRun a node. Verify a record. Mirror the data. Build an agent.
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