OriginTrail

OriginTrail (TRAC) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2018. It functions as the native asset of an ecosystem that constructs verifiable knowledge infrastructure for artificial intelligence and the tokenization of real-world assets.

The protocol confronts the accelerating crisis of AI-driven misinformation by embedding data provenance directly inside a Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG). Through a dedicated NeuroWeb blockchain, it delivers cryptographically anchored, AI-mediated search and query answers—visible in the experimental ChatDKG bot that sources responses exclusively from trusted Knowledge Assets. Enterprise-grade deployments have already pulled the technology into the supply chain verification networks of the British Standards Institution, SCAN, and Walmart, making it a quiet infrastructure layer inside trillion-dollar markets.

OriginTrail’s token circulates on the Ethereum and Base networks. The DKG itself operates on NeuroWeb, a purpose-built Polkadot parachain optimized for storing and querying knowledge state. This dual-chain division insulates the payment rail from the computational heft of graph indexing, preserving transaction finality without throttling the knowledge fabric.

The asset is deployed as an ERC-20 standard contract across Ethereum mainnet and Base, inheriting EVM composability while lowering gas exposure through the layer-2 pairing. NeuroWeb validators, secured by the shared consensus of the Polkadot relay, confirm graph state transitions and anchor knowledge fingerprints on-chain. The Metcalfe phase of the roadmap targets a 100,000-fold scalability expansion, aiming to accommodate 100 billion autonomously mined Knowledge Assets.

Žiga Drev, Tomaž Levak, and Branimir Rakić founded OriginTrail in 2018 with an explicit mandate to repel data manipulation. Their development hub, Trace Labs, later became a founding shareholder in Umanitek, a sibling venture that builds symbolic-AI defenses against deepfakes and centralised information decay. The project’s early production footprint, landed through the Supplier Compliance Audit Network and Swiss Federal Railways, lent it a credential of industrial pragmatism often absent in decentralized infrastructure plays.

A universally verifiable internet for AI constitutes the project’s long-term thesis. It pursues a self-sovereign knowledge commons where every datum carries an indisputable origin record, directly countering the epistemic brittleness that black-box generative models amplify. The ambition extends to rendering real-world assets as digitally auditable as on-chain financial primitives, collapsing the trust gap between physical provenance and machine-readable contracts.

TRAC operates as the gas and incentive layer inside the DKG economy. Publishing a Knowledge Asset demands a fee settled in TRAC, immediately redistributed to node operators who execute knowledge mining—a process of autonomously filling blind spots inside the graph. Knowledge signaling, a bonded-token mechanism, directs miner attention toward under-verified domains, turning economic signal into epistemic coverage.

Node operators escrow TRAC to qualify as DKG validators and earn protocol emissions for processing knowledge queries. Developers burn TRAC to mint Knowledge Assets that feed AI agents, while research consortia lock tokens to signal demand for specific data verifications. This systematic loop positions the token as a coordination primitive rather than a passive speculative instrument.

OriginTrail has a maximum supply of 500,000,000 tokens. Currently, 447,274,118 are in circulation. With a market capitalization of $126,338,911, OriginTrail ranks #243 among all cryptocurrencies.