EpiK protocol enables intelligent cognitive upgrade

At this stage, we are gradually becoming fully intelligent, from the initial Google search to the current chatbots, big data risk control, securities investment, smart medical care, adaptive education, and recommendation systems, all of which are related to knowledge graphs. Its popularity in the field of technology is also increasing year by year. We cannot deny that with the development of modern information and Internet technology, theories and technologies are becoming increasingly mature, and the application fields are constantly expanding. The challenges we face in building large-scale knowledge graphs are also expanding.

But what is eye-catching is that the emergence of EpiK Mingshi Protocol has brought new changes to the construction of large-scale knowledge graphs. EpiK Mingshi Protocol - builds a permanent knowledge base for humans and broadens the cognition of AI. It allows machines to understand the knowledge mastered by humans and learn new knowledge based on the knowledge they have mastered.

Recently, EpiK Mingshi Protocol received a strategic round of financing. This strategic financing will push EpiK Mingshi Protocol into a new stage of development. Today we are fortunate to invite Eric, the head of EpiK Mingshi Protocol in China, to tell us about the latest progress of EpiK Mingshi Protocol.

Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS: Please introduce yourself and give us a brief introduction to the EpiK protocol.

Eric from Mingshi Protocol: Hello everyone, I am Eric. I am very happy to discuss with you the topic of EpiK knowledge graph empowering AI cognition. In order to let you know more about what we are doing now, please allow me to briefly introduce the EpiK protocol.

The name of EpiK also shows our expectations for what we are doing. The full name of EpiK is epigraphy knowledge, which means knowledge engraved in stone. Many people have read the story of The Matrix, and I believe that AI looks different in everyone's brain. Whether it is magic or reality, nowadays, a secure and reliable knowledge graph is crucial as the infrastructure of AI.

The goal of the Mingshi Protocol is to use blockchain technology to create a decentralized, co-built, shared, and mutually beneficial, secure and trustworthy knowledge graph collaboration platform, organize global knowledge community users to collaborate at extremely low management costs, transform human knowledge in various fields into knowledge graphs for permanent preservation, broaden AI cognition, and promote the arrival of the cognitive intelligence era.

Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS: First of all, I would like to ask the guest teacher to give us a popular science of what is the knowledge graph, what stage of development is it in now? Why do we need the knowledge graph? What kind of help can it bring to our daily life?

Eric Mingshi Protocol: Knowledge graph is the underlying foundation that AI needs to understand human knowledge. It can be understood as a bionic system of the human brain's neuron system. The connection between neurons is like the connection between nodes in the knowledge graph. The denser the connection, the smarter it is. In fact, knowledge graph has entered our daily life. Many mobile applications we use now have the shadow of knowledge graph. The simplest example is Siri. When we ask a question, Siri responds more accurately after integrating the knowledge graph.

So why do we need knowledge graphs? For example, we humans can understand and pass on the knowledge in a book, but AI cannot. Knowledge graphs can pass on this knowledge to AI, and AI can make machines think, recognize, associate and reason like humans.

When machines can perceive and think like humans, they will bring us a more comfortable life and work experience. For example, if we have AI that has mastered a large amount of legal knowledge graphs, we don’t have to ask a lawyer about legal provisions. Through the machine, we may be able to understand the results we need to inquire. Or, if we have robots that have "swallowed" a large amount of medical clinical knowledge and cases, they can provide patients with more accurate treatment plans and save more time to save lives that are on the verge of crisis.

IPFSNEWS: It is understood that there are many explorations of knowledge graphs in Internet companies, but not much progress has been seen. Are there any problems now? What benefits can be brought by integrating blockchain technology elements?

Eric from Mingshi Protocol: The openness of the underlying technology ecosystem is a trend, and it is difficult for a closed ecosystem to beat the growth rate of an open ecosystem. First of all, the breadth and depth of professional fields involved in human knowledge is far beyond the ability of an organization, a company, or even a country to fully master independently. Secondly, in the process of building a knowledge graph, there are multiple links that require human participation, including collection, extraction, disambiguation, and fusion, which means that the cost of building a knowledge graph in each professional field is not low. Finally, and the most difficult problem is that due to the high cost of building a knowledge graph, most people cannot build it alone, which means that many AIs need to use knowledge graphs provided by third parties to build cognitive capabilities.

As we all know, many giants have entered the knowledge graph market, such as Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. However, these knowledge graphs are built around the needs of these giants and are not interconnected. If the third-party knowledge graph data that is relied on is maliciously tampered with, it will directly lead to cognitive disorder in many AIs and then out of control.

In the process of AI evolving from perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence, the integration of blockchain technology first solves the third-party trust problem, and the data security, reliability and tamper-proofing are realized; secondly, EPIK generates knowledge bases through co-construction and sharing, which not only reduces the cost of collecting data, but also generates it once and shares it multiple times. The cost of using data for external data services is also lower.

Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS: The Mingshi Protocol conducts collaboration through the DAO organizational form. What are the roles of the participants in the created ecological mechanism, what are their main responsibilities, and how do they work together?

Eric from Mingshi Protocol: There are 4 roles in the EpiK ecological mechanism: domain experts, bounty hunters, knowledge gateways and knowledge miners.

Domain experts are the organizers and inspectors of knowledge graph data, and are the only group in the entire system that has the right to upload knowledge graph data. They earn income by contributing high-quality knowledge graph data. Of course, as the only group in the entire system that has the right to upload data, there is a strict supervision mechanism for domain experts.

First, domain experts must be nominated by people who are already domain experts. After being nominated, domain experts also need to obtain the support of community votes. Each vote means that one EPK is locked. Once the number of votes (locked EPK number) of domain experts is less than the minimum threshold, they will lose their qualifications. If domain experts upload false or junk data, the community will punish them by delisting them, and the person who nominated the delisted domain expert will also be punished jointly.

The task of generating knowledge graph data is arduous and difficult for domain experts to complete independently, so the system also designs bounty hunter roles. They are collectors and labelers of knowledge graph data, and they earn income by completing various tasks issued by domain experts.

In addition, there are two core roles: knowledge miners and knowledge gateways. Knowledge miners are storage and bandwidth equipment providers for knowledge graph data, and earn revenue by providing data storage and data access services. The more data stored, the higher the revenue; the greater the data download traffic provided, the higher the revenue. At the same time, in order to prevent data miners from going offline at will, resulting in reduced data backup and reduced system security, all data miners need to pledge a portion of EPK to become data miners. Knowledge gateways are the only way for users to obtain the latest first-hand knowledge graph data, and knowledge gateways need to pledge EPK to obtain data access traffic. Then the more demand there is for knowledge graph data on EpiK, the more EPKs will be pledged by knowledge gateways, the demand for EPKs will increase, and the more valuable the EPKs obtained by contributors will be.

The collaborative relationship between them is also clearer. Domain experts voted by users sort out various knowledge graphs and assign tasks to bounty hunters. Bounty hunters obtain rewards by completing labeling tasks. The knowledge graph data is uploaded to the chain after inspection by domain experts and stored by miners. Users can obtain knowledge graphs through the gateway, thus realizing the automated collaborative process of knowledge graph sorting, labeling, storage and application.

Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS: What are the core architectural designs in the EpiK protocol ecosystem, how do they work together, and what systemic problems do they solve?

Eric from Mingshi Protocol: As a decentralized knowledge graph collaboration platform, EpiK’s ecological design covers all aspects of knowledge graph construction, storage, incentives, transaction circulation, etc.

At the construction level, in order to organize the world to jointly build a knowledge graph network, DAO was introduced to solve the problem of how to divide voting rights so that each game result can be close to the decision-making problem of maximizing the interests of the group under the premise that the interests of each role such as field experts, miners, bounty hunters, and users within the ecological group are different.

At the storage level, the advantages of Filecoin technology are integrated, and the incentive problem is solved by designing storage proof, and the replication proof and time-space proof are designed in combination with zero-knowledge proof technology to solve the cheating problem. At the same time, EPIK, as the second-layer network of Filecoin, will regularly upload snapshots of data in various fields to Filecoin. When you want to use data in a certain field, you only need to download the latest snapshot data from Filecoin, and then download the latest update log from the EpiK network to quickly restore the database locally for use. Filecoin is suitable for cold storage of large files, and EpiK is suitable for hot storage of small files. They work together to make full use of idle hardware resources on the market, and can better serve the knowledge graph collaboration network and decentralized storage ecology at the same time.

At the incentive level, through token economic models and smart contracts, it is possible to record and reward a large number of micro-contributions of various roles in knowledge graph collaboration scenarios with extremely low trust and transaction costs without human intervention.

At the transaction level, the development of digital currency has shown a significant head effect, and most users hold mainstream currencies such as BTC/ETH. In order to help these users smoothly participate in the collaboration of the decentralized knowledge graph ecosystem, we provide them with decentralized lending services based on the Mingshi protocol.

For example, if a user holds mainstream BTC assets and needs to use epk to access knowledge base data or initiate voting, he can exchange BTC for eBTC through the cross-chain gateway of the Mingshi Protocol, and then over-collateralize eBTC through the lending service of the Mingshi Protocol to borrow EPK, pledge EPK to become a miner to mine EPK, or vote to become a domain expert to obtain continuous EPK rewards, or pledge EPK to download the required knowledge graph data. When one day you want to exit the knowledge graph collaboration network, take out the pledged EPK, return the EPK in the Mingshi Protocol lending service to retrieve the previously over-collateralized eBTC, and then cross out through the cross-chain gateway to get back the native BTC.

Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS: The design of the economic model is crucial for an open network system. I would like to ask the guest teacher to explain in detail the framework and design concept of the EpiK protocol's token economic model system?

Eric from Mingshi Protocol: First, let me briefly talk about the economic model of EpiK. The five roles in the DAO ecosystem distribute the EPK generated every day after the main network is launched. Miners own 75% of the EPK, domain experts own 9% of the EPK, and voting users share 1% of the EPK. The other 15% of the EPK will fluctuate according to the daily network traffic, and this 15% is the relationship between miners and domain experts.

The criterion for judging network activity is the proportion of EPK pledged by the entire network to obtain daily access traffic to the total circulation (1EPK=10Mb/day). The higher the proportion, the greater the demand for data, which requires miners to improve the quality of bandwidth. If the demand for data decreases, it requires domain experts to provide higher-quality data. This is like when there are more visitors in the library, more seats are needed, that is, spending money to let miners increase bandwidth. When there are fewer visitors, more money is needed to buy better books to attract visitors, that is, to give bounty hunters and domain experts to generate more high-quality knowledge graph data. Different from the game between the official and the big miners in the Filecoin ecosystem, the game between the data producer and the data storage party is the most important game relationship in the ecosystem. The EpiK economic model received unanimous praise from the community when it was released, and the withdrawal price also increased by a certain multiple. The game relationship is based on a real collaborative relationship, which can withstand scrutiny and is very ingeniously designed. It is also recommended that you find the file link directly on the official website EpiK-protocol.io to read in detail.

The current mining ecosystem is very active. After each mining machine is launched on the mainnet, it requires at least 1,000 collateral coins to be connected to mining. The early circulation is very limited. In order to participate in the first mine, many miners are now preparing the collateral coins needed for startup.

Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS: How does the EpiK protocol's ecological token ($Epk) capture value in this process, and how can the ecosystem achieve sustainable growth?

Eric from Mingshi Protocol: In the big picture, the value of EpiK’s token depends on the data storage field and economic model in which it is located. High-value data on the chain itself has very strong commercial value. If you want to use the organized knowledge graph, you need a certain amount of EPK as collateral.

In fact, knowledge graphs have long been widely used in the Internet industry. The core products of major companies such as Baidu's search, Meituan's takeaway, and Toutiao's recommendations all have a large number of knowledge graph applications behind them. Now, the demanders of knowledge graph data have accumulated a large amount of data in long-term business operations, but the value of these data has not yet been well mined. Knowledge graphing these data can help them pass on business knowledge to artificial intelligence algorithms, which can not only help them make smarter business decisions, but also improve user experience and operating costs.

Therefore, EpiK is also trying to continuously implement the construction of knowledge graphs in more fields and realize commercial value. For example, the knowledge graph of physical examination data can help users generate intelligent physical examination reports, the knowledge graph of insurance data can help users choose insurance intelligently, and the data mapping of the industrial structure of each town can help us better explore entrepreneurial opportunities in our hometown, etc.

Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS: Issues of data privacy and security have always been irritating the nerves of every platform user, and the EpiK protocol is closely linked to data. How does the EpiK network solve and avoid such problems?

Eric from Mingshi Protocol: First of all, in the production of knowledge graphs, EpiK has a DAO community governance model. In this link, as the main uploaders, domain experts are voted by users, and the tasks assigned to bounty hunters also need to be reviewed by these domain experts before they can be uploaded, and the uploaded files cannot be tampered with without the community vote. In addition, as the only group in the entire system that has the right to upload data, there is a strict supervision mechanism for domain experts.

First, domain experts must be nominated by people who are already domain experts. After being nominated, domain experts also need to obtain the support of community votes. Each vote means that one EPK is locked. Once the number of votes (locked EPKs) of a domain expert is less than the minimum threshold, they will lose their qualifications. If a domain expert uploads false or junk data, the community will punish him by removing him from the list, and the person who nominated the removed domain expert will also be punished jointly.

Secondly, EpiK adopts decentralized storage and builds the second-layer network of Filecoin. It ensures the credibility of data through proof of replication and proof of time and space, and backs up files through the "Expert to Person" model to ensure the security of storage.

Again, the core of blockchain technology is to ensure the security of on-chain data, and EpiK applies the underlying logic of blockchain. At this point, the overall ecological design avoids this situation.

It is worth mentioning that EpiK collaborates with the top domestic blockchain technology development teams, including Tsinghua University, Openkg, etc., and has extremely strong backing support in terms of technology research and development.

Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS: The latest news is that EpiK Protocol has just completed an institutional round of financing. I would like to ask the guest teacher to introduce the latest development of the project (whether you can provide some intuitive data for community users to refer to). In addition, I would like to ask the teacher to sort out the specifications of the Roadmap?

Eric from Mingshi Protocol: With the support of well-known institutions, the current strategic round of financing totals 8 million US dollars. EpiK has more than 25,000 users and more than 20,000 miners, and this number will continue to grow with the development of global markets such as the Chinese community, North American community, and Korean community.

At present, the products of the first phase, the main chain v1.0, the main network wallet, the main network browser, and the knowledge collection App Knowledge Continent have been developed and entered the internal test. The first batch of experts in the field are also being actively recruited. After the audit is completed, we will select a date to go online. And start the second phase of ecological construction. The core products include the main chain 2.0 integrated with EVM and the knowledge collection open platform, and will also include a series of small applications in the field of knowledge graphs, which will meet you in the next stage.

It is worth mentioning that we have launched the first phase of the internal testing of Knowledge Continent. During the internal testing phase, we provided everyone with a voice data collection question bank with no threshold. We will continue to collaborate with the first batch of experts in the field to launch more question banks. Participants in the internal testing will also have the opportunity to share the ERC20-EPK rewards we prepared for everyone every day.

Knowledge Continent can be said to be an important entrance for ordinary users in the EPIK ecosystem. Everyone can download Knowledge Continent and answer questions and annotate data in Knowledge Continent in a gamified way to earn income. In the process of earning income, you will have a deeper understanding of the knowledge chain and actually feel the contribution made to the inheritance of the knowledge base. At the same time, Knowledge Continent is also an important platform for connecting various commercial data scenarios and publishing data demand tasks.

Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS: What kind of product is Knowledge Continent? How does it work? What is its status in the EpiK ecosystem?

Eric Mingshi Protocol: Knowledge Continent is an important ecological tool product for EpiK to implement knowledge graph collaboration in a gamified way. It transforms the boring and complicated knowledge graph construction work into a game-playing method. It does not require a lot of professional and high-end knowledge reserves, breaking the circle restrictions. Users only need to complete the task according to the rules and prompts of the game to get rewards, allowing more people to participate. In the future, Knowledge Continent will launch knowledge collaboration projects involving various industry ecosystems. For example, the first collaboration project launched by Knowledge Continent is an open source voice library. The specific workflow is:

Domain experts have sorted out the structure of speech-related knowledge graphs. They have subdivided these knowledge data into several tasks such as text and picture-to-speech conversion, and distributed these tasks to users. Users only need to use their commute or spare time to participate in the tasks and will receive Token rewards.

Knowledge Continent is currently an ecological tool product case of EpiK, which is mainly used to assist projects in collecting and organizing data. Of course, it can also help more commercial projects to build knowledge graphs. Currently, EpiK is also cooperating with different knowledge graph annotation teams to jointly promote the construction of an open knowledge ecosystem.

Interstellar Vision IPFSNEWS: Finally, I would like to ask the guest teacher to give our community partners an outlook on what the scene will be like after the knowledge graph network is fully built?

Eric from Mingshi Protocol: This is something the team has been working hard on and eagerly looking forward to. EpiK's underlying infrastructure is a decentralized data solution. After each expert in a field is elected, he or she actually has a small open database that is readable by everyone. Hot spots and trends are always changing, but the need for humans to collaborate in maintaining data is eternal. We can maintain a knowledge graph in a certain field together, or we can maintain NFT paintings of a certain style together, or we can maintain common memories together, or we can inherit our own data in this way. We focus on knowledge graphs, but leave the imagination to the community.

The continuous improvement of the knowledge graph network will, on the one hand, pass on human knowledge more safely and reliably. Perhaps one day in the future, we can directly obtain any knowledge we want to know from the EpiK knowledge base; on the other hand, the knowledge graph empowers AI cognition, making machines more intelligent and serving humans. After the knowledge graph is perfect enough, AI will fully demonstrate its charm in some fields. For example, a car rental company, with enough knowledge graph support, the car can automatically accept orders, pick up passengers, refuel, and repair, which will greatly improve work efficiency and make our life and travel more convenient.

Here, we also hope that more users can join our ranks and sail with us towards the starry sea of ​​AI. Perhaps when the knowledge graph network is built, looking back, you will also feel honored to have been a part of this great creation.