Camp Network: Building the Data and Intellectual Property Infrastructure in the AI Era

Core Viewpoints

• The development of artificial intelligence faces a data exhaustion crisis, with high-quality data expected to be depleted by 2026, severely restricting the advancement of AI technology.

• Camp Network proposed the "Proof of Provenance" protocol, allowing users to protect data ownership while enabling AI to pay for usage, achieving a win-win situation for technological advancement and intellectual property protection.

• By building a new type of economic ecosystem, Camp Network creates mutually beneficial opportunities for all participants.

Data-Driven AI Development Faces Bottlenecks

Artificial intelligence technology is developing at an astonishing speed, driven by massive amounts of data. AI models enhance their capabilities by learning from texts, images, and videos created by humans, essentially being intelligence constructed from data.

However, the data-driven development has reached its limits. High-quality data is being depleted, and mainstream foundational models have consumed most of the available internet data. Research shows that by 2026, human-generated data will be almost exhausted, including future content creation.

Some large tech companies are attempting to address shortages by unauthorized scraping of user data, raising ethical controversies. Most users are unaware and have not received compensation.

This creates a vicious cycle: Without new data, the development of the AI industry is hindered, and users are increasingly distrustful of unauthorized data usage. Companies craving data and privacy-protecting users are both dissatisfied, hindering AI progress while damaging data protection.

Camp Network: Infrastructure for the Intersection of AI and IP

Camp Network proposed a solution to this challenge. They initially enabled users to carry social platform data, using it in a blockchain environment like a "digital backpack," enhancing users' control over their data.

On this basis, Camp Network expands into a broader field of intellectual property. In 2025, they proposed the vision of "autonomous intellectual property layer" and secured $30 million in Series A financing, led by 1kx and Blockchain Capital.

Camp Network positions its independent intellectual property layer as an infrastructure at the intersection of AI and IP, with the core being the "provenance proof" protocol. Users register data on the chain through this protocol, and AI uses it according to preset conditions and automatically settles royalties.

To achieve this vision, Camp Network provides three main components:

1. BaseCAMP and SideCAMP constitute the blockchain infrastructure.
2. Origin framework handles on-chain IP registration and management
3. The mAItrix framework supports AI agent development.

These components work together to build a complete ecosystem from IP registration to utilization and monetization.

BaseCAMP & SideCAMP: Scalable IP Infrastructure

BaseCAMP serves as a "global state manager", centrally managing all network activities, recording IP registration, usage, and settlement situations. It prioritizes IP-related transactions and waives Gas fees.

SideCAMPs provide dedicated execution environments for individual applications, avoiding competition for resources with other dApps. They can optimize specific workloads such as AI inference, gaming, IP licensing, and more.

This architecture stems from Camp Network's recognition that the complexity of IP requires a specialized optimized Layer 1 infrastructure to support the needs of future AI agents running 24/7, utilizing real-time data and instant settlement.

Origin: Unified IP Registration Management Framework

Origin is the core IP framework of Camp Network, covering the entire process of IP registration, management, utilization, and revenue distribution.

Users upload content through various channels, recorded as ERC721-based NFTs. Licensing terms and royalty distribution rules are configured at the time of registration. When someone creates derivative content, the revenue automatically flows to the original author.

The characteristic of Origin is to construct IP relationships in a "graph" format. Derivative content becomes a new smart contract while maintaining a parent-child relationship with the original content. This allows royalties to be automatically allocated to the parent IP, enabling users to easily view the content lineage.

Origin SDK allows developers to easily build IP applications without complex blockchain knowledge. It also supports an on-chain dispute resolution mechanism to systematically manage complex IP issues.

mAItrix: A native AI agent development framework for IP

mAItrix provides an integrated SDK for the development, training, and deployment of AI agents, working in collaboration with Origin to connect the entire process from training AI models using on-chain IP to generating derivative content through AI agents.

mAItrix only uses licensed data obtained from Origin registration, ensuring that creators receive fair compensation and AI developers avoid legal disputes. This presents a new paradigm for the industry, similar to the fair payment system established by Spotify for the music market.

The AI agent developed by mAItrix can itself be tokenized and registered on the blockchain as an IP asset. When other users or agents use it, the developer automatically receives a share of the royalties.

The Camp Network plans to develop mAItrix in three phases, with the ultimate goal of providing intelligent routing services that automatically match suitable professional AI agents to user needs.

The Unique Aspects of Camp Network

Unlike Story and Soneium, which focus on managing traditional Web2 IP, Camp Network defines user-owned IP as a broader concept that includes all digital data and content. Camp focuses on integrating this user data with AI to build a complete value creation pipeline.

The ultimate goal of Camp is to build a new economic ecosystem where all participants fairly share value. It presents a new paradigm of creation and collaboration that is fully applicable to the AI era, rather than just simple digital management of IP.

The Future Outlook of AI and IP Integration

Camp Network proposes a fundamental solution to the issues of data depletion and legal disputes in the AI era. By establishing a new ecosystem centered around user data, integrating AI and IP, it transforms one-way data exploitation into a mutually beneficial system.

Currently, the Camp ecosystem has registered 300,000 unique IPs, created 4 million wallets, and over 60 teams are developing applications based on its infrastructure, with emerging cases that combine AI and IP in fields such as music, gaming, and sports.

With the popularity of AI agents, there is a need for infrastructure that can quickly track complex relational networks and manage them efficiently. Camp Network is prepared for this and hopes to become the core solution for data issues in the AI era and the standard for a new IP ecosystem.

By creating a mutually beneficial foundation, Camp Network is transforming the collaboration between AI and IP from concept to a functioning economic system, paving the way for the joint development of creators, developers, and AI systems.