The Token: Artificial Liquid Intelligence (ALI) is the native utility token of AI Protocol. It is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum with 18 decimals and an initial fixed supply of 10,000,000,000 ALI. The token is non-mintable, can be burned and supports voting delegation for governance. ALI also exists on Solana, Base, Cronos and Polygon.

The Protocol: AI Protocol is decentralised infrastructure for persistent onchain AI economies, powering autonomous agents, models and applications. With programmable logic, staking and governance built into the protocol, developers and communities can create, secure and scale AI experiences onchain.

The project has shifted from earlier Alethea AI-focused materials around iNFTs and Noah’s Ark towards the broader AI Protocol ecosystem. ALI is now positioned as the ecosystem token of AI Protocol, while Alethea AI is described in the team’s request as the R&D lab that originally launched the token and builds on the protocol. AI Protocol’s current documentation focuses on agents, decentralised applications, AI models, staking, governance and tokenised AI economies.

AI Protocol treats agents, dApps and AI models as onchain resources that can be registered, used, monetised and governed through smart contracts. Agents can interact with users and supported environments, dApps can integrate agents, models and datasets into user-facing products, and models can be connected to agents or applications so their usage can be tracked and rewarded.

Artificial Liquid Intelligence (ALI) is used to power activity across AI Protocol. It supports staking, participation in protocol-level economies and access to infrastructure for creating and scaling autonomous AI agents, models and applications onchain. As the ecosystem token of AI Protocol, ALI helps coordinate economic activity, network participation and long-term alignment across decentralised AI systems.

ALI is used across several parts of the protocol, including asset creation, liquidity provisioning, staking, transactions, governance, rewards and access to AI services. It also functions as a reserve asset for upgrades to intelligence assets across the ecosystem, and is planned to serve as a unit of exchange for credits, agent services and AI interactions across dApps.

Within AI Protocol’s current architecture, ALI can be used by dApps to support access to services, governance features and the consumption of computing resources. It can also support liquidity pools and token-based economic activity for agents, models and dApps.

AI Protocol also includes staking paths for ALI and other protocol-compatible assets. These staking mechanisms are designed to support participation across tokenised AI assets, dApps and agents, with rewards linked to Soulbound Intelligence token economies.

The Artificial Liquid Intelligence Token (ALI) was launched by the Alethea AI R&D Lab in February 2022. AI Protocol has since moved through progressive decentralisation, and ALI is now associated with the AI Protocol ecosystem and its community governance.

Governance has shifted from a foundation-guided model towards a structure where ALI token holders can influence protocol-level decisions, economic rules and the long-term development of the ecosystem.