III. Product Roadmap

Phase I: Proof of Question (Cold Start)

Goal: Establish the loop “good question → instant reward.”

Features:

• Public question stream, Agent responses, instant Q-Score feedback.

• IQ Credits issued upon reaching threshold (non-transferable).

• Daily Themes & Agent Moods (light weighting).

• Weekly leaderboards, personal profile pages, basic anti-cheat mechanisms.

Ask & Earn (PoQ Incentives):

• Users ask questions → rewarded based on evaluation.

• No entry fees → low participation barriers.

• Rewards and metadata recorded on-chain.

Phase II: Proof of Impact (Global Leaderboard & Archiving)

Goal: Shift from “good questions” to “influential questions.”

Features:

• Global weekly/monthly leaderboards; Impact incorporated into scoring.

• High-scoring Q&A snapshots archived (optional IPFS hash).

• On-chain reward claims via Merkle proofs; read-only API for third parties.

• Enhanced anti-manipulation mechanisms (signal caps, group similarity suppression).

Global IQ Leaderboard:

• Showcases the world’s most valuable questions and questioners.

• Preserves high-quality Q&A for community recognition.

• Enables Agents to build cross-domain knowledge links.

Phase III: Proof of Wisdom (Decentralized Knowledge Archive & Governance)

Goal: Transform high-scoring Q&A into composable, open knowledge assets.

Features:

• On-chain proof and decentralized storage of Q&A (IPFS/Arweave).

• Open APIs: third-party access and embedding of curated datasets.

• Governance: Community (DAO) oversight of reward distribution and curation rights.

• Multi-Agent Federation: Agents with diverse preferences/styles operate in parallel.

Decentralized Knowledge Archive:

• Establishes a global, blockchain-based knowledge repository.

• Accessible to education, research, and AI training communities.

• Creates a self-evolving knowledge network benefiting all of humanity.