What is AGTP?

The AGTP provides the benefits of trustlessness and decentralization to application- level data creation, user-level data ownership, and business-level data analytics. The system as a whole is architected as two distributed networks that operate in unison, and individual AGTP nodes are made up of three main components: the AGTP Ledger, the AGTP Artifact Network (AAN), and the AGTP Virtual Machine (AVM).

To keep all nodes in the network in agreement on what information is stored in the AGTP Ledger, the AGTP implements the new Delegated Asynchronous Proof-of-Stake (DAPoS) consensus algorithm. DAPoS is a Byzantine fault tolerant delegated transaction gossip protocol that scales to the capacity of the hardware validating the transactions. Rate- limiting is implemented as an alternative to gas to create a system with zero transaction fees for Stakeholders .

While all nodes maintain a full copy of the AGTPLedger, every node can keep a different subset of the AGTP Artifact Network (AAN). The AAN is comprised of a distributed network of Farmers , storing Artifacts, or Merkelized units of data. Using homomorphic encryption, data owners can opt-in to AGTPGuru which enables data researchers to trustlessly query fully encrypted, distributed data for valuable insights without requiring the data owner forsake their data sovereignty.

Finally, we introduce the AGTP Virtual Machine (AVM). To support the existing ecosys- tem of distributed applications (Dapps), the IVM supports nearly every opcode in the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) and therefore most Solidity smart contracts. The IVM extends the functionality of distributed applications with the ability to create, update, distribute, and analyze Artifacts in the AAN.