# OriginTrail > Decentralised Knowledge Graph protocol turning data into verifiable Knowledge Assets for AI, supply chain, and enterprise use. Best tokenomics in DeAI, named enterprise adoption. - Scores: Freedom 6/10 (grade C), Returns 6.6/10 (grade C) - Category: other · Token: TRAC - Published: 2026-03-06 · Updated: 2026-10-04 - Canonical: https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/origintrail/ - Data (scores + integrity verdicts, JSON): https://ownyourmind.ai/api/projects/origintrail.json - Cite as: Own Your Mind (ownyourmind.ai), licence CC BY 4.0. Link the canonical URL. Charts and interactive widgets are omitted here; their data is in the JSON above. --- ## What it does OriginTrail is a Decentralised Knowledge Graph (DKG): a protocol that transforms data into structured, verifiable, discoverable "Knowledge Assets" anchored on-chain and stored across a decentralised network of nodes. A Knowledge Asset is a structured data object. It could represent a supply chain event, a company registration, an ML dataset, a product provenance record, or an IoT data stream. Each Knowledge Asset is represented by an ERC1155Delta token on-chain, creating a verifiable ownership and provenance layer. The data itself is stored off-chain on DKG nodes, with cryptographic hashes anchored on-chain for integrity verification. The network uses semantic web standards: RDF (Resource Description Framework), SPARQL (query language), JSON-LD, GS1 EPCIS (for supply chain), and W3C DIDs (decentralised identifiers). It's a credible knowledge graph infrastructure that uses blockchain for anchoring and verification. Two node types operate the network. **DKG Core Nodes** provide the infrastructure: they store Knowledge Assets, respond to queries, and earn publishing fees. They require a 50,000-5,000,000 TRAC stake. **DKG Edge Nodes** (introduced in V8) are lightweight nodes for phones, laptops, and IoT devices. V8 launched on mainnet in June 2025, with V8.1.0 following on 23 June 2025 bringing the Random Sampling proof system live across all chains. Random Sampling replaces the previous per-asset on-chain proof model with epoch-based randomised challenges. Core Nodes submit a proof within a short window (e.g. 30 minutes) in response to a random challenge, rather than proving every asset individually. This reduces on-chain transactions by orders of magnitude, and OriginTrail reports a 100x+ throughput improvement over V6, which peaked at 100,000 Knowledge Assets per day. Batch minting now enables hundreds of Knowledge Assets in a single transaction. The network then iterated through V8.2.x releases, with V8.2.5 shipping in December 2025. DKG V10 launched on mainnet in late June 2026 on Base and Gnosis. NeuroWeb is still marked pre-deployment in V10's own network config, and OriginTrail's contract-addresses page says NeuroWeb mainnet "is not yet selectable" (both checked 4 October 2026). V10 reframes the graph as agent-native memory in three layers: - **Working Memory:** private, local, free. Agents draft and stage knowledge with no cost or coordination. - **Shared Working Memory:** gossip-replicated between selected peers, also free. Agents share context without touching a chain. - **Verifiable Memory:** anchored on-chain and cryptographically provable. Only the Verifiable layer costs TRAC, so the token's publishing-fee role now sits where knowledge becomes provable rather than at every write. The V10 codebase moved to a new repository (`OriginTrail/dkg`) and patched steadily across the v10.0.x line through its first weeks, and Google's Open Knowledge Format now carries provenance on the DKG. The network operates across three chains: **NeuroWeb** (a Polkadot parachain with its own NEURO governance token), **Base** (Coinbase's L2), and **Gnosis** chain. TRAC is an ERC-20 on Ethereum. Founded in 2017 by Tomaz Levak (CEO), Ziga Drev (COO), and Branimir Rakic (CTO, MS Electrical/Computer Engineering, University of Belgrade). The development entity is Trace Labs Ltd, registered in Hong Kong with operational headquarters in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dr. Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet and 2023 Turing Award winner) sits on the advisory board. Token launched 25 January 2018. The ICO raised $22.5 million and sold out in approximately 20 minutes. ## Value proposition Verifiable data for AI. That is the thesis, and it is increasingly relevant. Large language models hallucinate. AI systems are only as good as the data they are trained on. If the data is unverifiable, the AI output is unverifiable. OriginTrail's knowledge graph provides structured, semantically rich, cryptographically verifiable data that AI systems can query with provenance guarantees. Each answer comes with a verifiable source chain. The enterprise traction is documented. Walmart awarded OriginTrail for food safety traceability. Oracle integrated with their blockchain cloud service. The British Standards Institution (BSI) has Dan Purtell on the advisory board. OriginTrail is a member of the GS1 Global EPCIS & CBV 2.0 Working Group, the international standard for supply chain data exchange. Those are integrations with enterprise data standards bodies, well past the press-release stage. OriginTrail reports over 1 billion Knowledge Assets have been created across the network. By OriginTrail's account, V8.1's Random Sampling proof system has delivered a 100x+ throughput improvement over V6, with the architecture designed to scale further towards 1,000x as network usage grows. The counter-narrative: **revenue is a black box.** Publishing fees are paid in TRAC and distributed to node operators. This is usage-sourced revenue, not inflationary rewards. But the total amount is not publicly tracked. There is no revenue dashboard and no DKG protocol adapter on DeFiLlama; DeFiLlama does list NeuroWeb as a chain, but its on-chain fees are negligible (on the order of cents per year, with roughly 200 monthly users) and reflect NeuroWeb gas rather than DKG publishing, so there is still no way to assess whether the 1 billion Knowledge Assets translate to meaningful economic activity. Enterprise partnerships are named but the depth and ongoing revenue from each is unclear. The other concern is narrative pivot fatigue. OriginTrail started as supply chain traceability (2018), pivoted to Web3 knowledge infrastructure (2021), and now positions as AI-ready data (2025). Each narrative is legitimate and builds on the previous one. But eight years of narrative evolution without a breakout moment raises the question: is the project ahead of its time, or perpetually searching for product-market fit? For the sovereignty thesis, verifiable Knowledge Assets provide data provenance: you can prove where data came from and that it hasn't been tampered with. The multi-chain deployment provides infrastructure redundancy. However, the data itself isn't encrypted, so it remains verifiable rather than private. ## Tokenomics TRAC has a fixed maximum supply of 500 million tokens. Zero inflation. No emissions. No token printing. This is as clean as tokenomics gets. The ICO (January 2018) distributed 50% via public sale: pre-sale at $0.08 (125 million tokens) and crowd sale at $0.10 (125 million tokens). No lock-up on either. Total raised: $22.5 million. The remaining 50% was allocated to development pool (20%), founders and early contributors (18%), liquidity (5%), team and advisors (5%), and sale facilitators (2%). All vesting is complete. CoinGecko counts roughly 89.45% of supply as circulating; the remaining ~52.7 million TRAC sits in DKG staking contracts on NeuroWeb (staked in node operations, not unvested supply, and so excluded from the circulating count). With zero inflation and no token printing, there is no dilution overhang. This is the most mature supply profile in DeAI. ICO investors who bought at $0.10 are at approximately 3.5x ROI after eight years, one of the few positive ICO outcomes in crypto. ### Staking on usage-funded yield, not inflation A Core Node needs at least 50,000 TRAC staked, and a node can hold at most 10 million TRAC in total, delegations included (the `minimumStake` and `maximumStake` parameters on Base and Gnosis, read 27 September 2026). Critically, **staking rewards come from publishing fees, not inflation**. The design is usage-funded: when someone publishes a Knowledge Asset, they pay TRAC, and that TRAC is distributed to the nodes storing and serving that asset. There's no fixed APY because returns depend on network usage. Rewards auto-compound. V10 replaced V8 delegation with conviction staking. Each stake is an NFT position behind one node, and its lock sets a reward multiplier: no lock at 1x, then 30 days at 1.5x, 90 at 2x, 180 at 3.5x and 366 at 6x, per the tier table in the deployed ConvictionStakingStorage contract on Base and Gnosis. The multiplier weights your share of a node's fees and mints no TRAC, and the hub owner can add or retire tiers while existing positions keep their terms. Staked TRAC sits in DKG contracts, not with node operators. V10 has no unbonding queue. A no-lock position withdraws at any time, and a locked one once it expires. OriginTrail's docs say V8 reward distribution paused at the migration snapshot, and its migration tool moves V8 stakes into V10 without the old 28-day cooldown. TRAC is listed on Coinbase, Kraken, KuCoin, Bitstamp, Crypto.com, Gate.io, and HTX, with Upbit adding KRW, BTC and USDT pairs on 18 May 2026. Binance is the notable absence. The token is 90% below ATH; ICO buyers ($0.10) remain one of the few positive ICO outcomes in crypto history at approximately 3.5x ROI. ## How to participate **Run a DKG Core Node.** Stake at least 50K TRAC, with a 10M cap on each node's total stake. Store and serve Knowledge Assets and earn publishing fees from the publishers who create them. V10 runs on Base and Gnosis. Technical skill: intermediate. **Delegate TRAC.** Stake to an existing Core Node without running your own, choosing a lock from none (1x, withdraw any time) to 366 days (6x). Rewards come from publishing fees, weighted by stake and lock, on Base and Gnosis. Technical skill: basic. **Build on the DKG.** Publish Knowledge Assets, query the knowledge graph via SPARQL, integrate with AI systems via ChatDKG or elizagraph (ElizaOS integration). SDKs in JavaScript and Python. Technical skill: advanced. ## Honest assessment ## Freedom Score: 60/100 OriginTrail is one of the most mature open-source projects in DeAI with demonstrable data sovereignty features, but governance and privacy gaps exist. **Infrastructure Decentralisation: 12/20.** DKG Core Nodes distributed globally; anyone can run one with 50K TRAC. Multi-chain deployment (NeuroWeb, Base, Gnosis) provides redundancy. V8 Edge Nodes extend to lightweight devices. V8.1's Random Sampling proof system has meaningfully improved network scalability. On-chain proof requirements reduced by orders of magnitude. However, exact active node count isn't publicly available. NeuroWeb depends on Polkadot parachain slot. Trace Labs controls protocol development. **Governance Decentralisation: 8/20.** NeuroWeb has Polkadot-style parachain governance via NEURO token. TRAC governance for the DKG protocol is less documented. RFC repository exists but formal governance process is unclear. Development decisions controlled by Trace Labs. **Token Distribution Fairness: 11/15.** 50% sold in ICO, an unusually high public distribution. Vesting complete with zero inflation; ~89% circulating per CoinGecko (the remainder staked in node operations, not unvested). ICO investors have positive ROI after 8 years. 23% insider allocation is moderate and fully vested. Best supply maturity in DeAI. **Censorship Resistance: 9/15.** Knowledge Assets are anchored on-chain; once published, they can't be easily censored. Multi-chain deployment provides redundancy. However, off-chain data availability depends on node replication. Node operators can choose what data to store. No privacy features for stored data. **Data Sovereignty: 9/15.** Knowledge Assets are owned by creators (ERC1155Delta). W3C DID-compliant identifiers. Verifiable data provenance through on-chain anchoring. However, data on DKG nodes isn't encrypted: verifiable but not private. No privacy-preserving computation for knowledge graph queries. **Open Source Transparency: 11/15.** 88 public repos with 495 stars between them (GitHub API, 24 September 2026), active development through 2026 with DKG V10 live across the v10.0.x line. Core engine, SDKs (JS, Python), NeuroWeb all open source. Smart contract audit documents publicly available. However, DKG V10 contracts haven't been audited by a major firm. ## Returns Score: 66/100 **Token Utility: 16/20.** TRAC is structurally essential: required for publishing Knowledge Assets (fee payment), node staking (50K-5M), delegated staking, and data integrity collateral. You can't use the DKG without TRAC. Multi-chain deployment expands utility surfaces. V8.1's Random Sampling and automated reward distribution have reduced friction for delegators, strengthening the staking utility loop. Strong utility design with verifiable usage requirements. **Value Accrual: 13/20.** Publishing fees paid in TRAC are distributed to node operators: a direct utility-based accrual mechanism. Staking rewards from network usage, not inflation. One of the few actual usage-funded yield models in DeAI. Score limited because total fee revenue isn't publicly tracked and there's no burn mechanism. **Supply Dynamics: 18/20.** 500M fixed supply, zero inflation, all insider vesting completed years ago. Core Node staking locks 50K-5M TRAC per node; roughly 10.5% of supply (~52.7M TRAC, August 2026) sits in staking contracts and is excluded from circulating, which CoinGecko reads at ~89%. That lock-up is supply-positive, not a dilution overhang. Best supply dynamics profile of any project reviewed. **Revenue Sustainability: 8/25.** OriginTrail reports 1 billion+ Knowledge Assets, a figure that describes the protocol's whole history. Enterprise partnerships (Walmart, Oracle, BSI, GS1) suggest commercial traction. Publishing fee model is sound. However, total revenue is not publicly reported. Not on DeFiLlama. Commercial scale isn't proven. The V10 fee rail is still close to empty. On 21 September 2026 the publishing-fee contracts on Base and Gnosis held no TRAC and had 15 accounts between them, while about 94% of TRAC on those chains sat in staking storage. V10 only shipped in late June 2026, and V8 service agreements may still carry fees this read doesn't cover. **Liquidity & Access: 11/15.** Coinbase, Kraken, KuCoin, Bitstamp, Crypto.com, Gate.io, HTX, and Upbit (KRW/BTC/USDT, added 18 May 2026, opening Korean-won access). Strong tier-1 exchange coverage across about 26 venues, though the lead venue swings: Upbit carried about 47% of 24h volume on 24 September 2026. Not on Binance, and Bitget carries no TRAC pair either (confirmed against Bitget's own spot symbols endpoint). Volume adequate for most position sizes. Re-scored +1 at the July 2026 review (10 to 11) on the durable Upbit KRW/BTC/USDT plus Coinbase access upgrade; the post-listing volume spike has since mean-reverted toward baseline, so the bump reflects the permanent venue add, not sustained turnover. ### Quadrant: B (High Freedom, Moderate Returns) OriginTrail sits in Quadrant B/C: a unique category play with named enterprise adoption and the best tokenomics in DeAI, but unquantified revenue limits both scores. ### Key risks - **Revenue is a black box.** Publishing fees exist but total revenue isn't tracked publicly. Impossible to assess sustainability without data. - **Small developer community.** The active V10 repository, OriginTrail/dkg, lists 13 contributors (GitHub API, 24 September 2026), a lean team for a protocol with enterprise ambitions. - **Token down 90% from ATH.** Despite positive ICO ROI, market enthusiasm has waned. - **DKG contracts not audited by a major firm.** The protocol has iterated through V10 without a published audit from a recognised firm, and V10 shipped new contracts. This is a growing gap given the value locked in staking contracts. - **Narrative pivot fatigue.** Supply chain (2018) → Web3 (2021) → AI (2025). Legitimate evolution or searching for fit? - **Knowledge graph adoption is niche.** Decentralised knowledge graphs compete with centralised alternatives (Google, Neo4j) that have larger ecosystems. - **No Binance listing.** Limits retail discovery and liquidity. ## Score change log | Date | Score | Change | Reason | | - | - | - | - | | 2026-10-04 | Data | N/A | Reconciled: the 2026-08-04 row's NeuroWeb listing for V10 is superseded. OriginTrail's contract-addresses page and the dkg repo's NeuroWeb config (pre-deployment) show V10 live on Base and Gnosis only. Scores unchanged. | | 2026-09-27 | Data | N/A | Staking rewritten for V10 conviction staking from the deployed Base and Gnosis contracts (lock tiers, 10M node cap, no unbonding queue); V10 is on Base and Gnosis, not yet NeuroWeb. Scores unchanged. | | 2026-09-25 | Data | N/A | Revenue rationale no longer cites "on-chain usage evidence", since the 1B+ Knowledge Asset figure is OriginTrail's own; the liquidity finding now records Upbit near 47% of volume instead of "no venue above 30%". Scores unchanged. | | 2026-09-24 | Data | N/A | Throughput and Knowledge Asset counts attributed to OriginTrail; added the empty V10 publishing-fee rail finding; repo, contributor and venue-share figures refreshed from GitHub and CoinGecko. Scores unchanged. | | 2026-09-23 | Data | N/A | Replaced an unverified "best in DeAI" superlative on supply with a plain description. Scores unchanged. | | 2026-09-23 | Data | N/A | Integrity records re-cut: 2 claims now quote OriginTrail's own pages verbatim and 5 are our own measurements. Scores unchanged. | | 2026-09-07 | Data | N/A | WS3b censorship rail: TRAC answers owner() with an externally owned account, with no pause, no proxy and no public freeze getter. An EOA owner on an eight-year-old token is a key that has to keep being safe. Censorship Resistance 9/15 held. | | 2026-09-06 | Data | N/A | WS3b liquidity rail: Bitget lists no TRACUSDT pair, confirmed against Bitget own spot symbols endpoint while the same call resolves GLMUSDT, so it is removed from both venue lists. The other eight venues confirm and the no-Binance claim is correct. Liquidity & Access 11/15 held. | | 2026-08-15 | Data | N/A | Circulating supply de-hardcoded into the live `` component; the ~52.7M staked-and-excluded figure stays as the structural point. No score change. | | 2026-08-10 | Data | N/A | WS3 holder-source: authored token_distribution_fairness (`match`, onchain). Raw top-10 51.6% is ~half infrastructure (EternalStorageProxy staking hub, L1ChugSplashProxy bridge, Kraken); infra-excluded ~28% = D1 moderate, consistent with the 50%-ICO / fully-vested / 11-of-15 framing. No score change. | | 2026-08-10 | Data | N/A | WS3 coldstart run added two claim-spine verdicts: supply_dynamics (`match`) confirming the hard cap in code (mintingFinished()==true, mint permanently disabled, so "no token printing" holds) and open_source_transparency (`match`, Apache-2.0 + verified contract). The tool's ABI mint flag was a soft-cap candidate on-chain verification cleared. No score change. | | 2026-08-04 | Data | N/A | DKG V10 mainnet live late June 2026 (Base, Gnosis, NeuroWeb), verified against OriginTrail docs and the new `OriginTrail/dkg` repo (latest v10.0.11, 30 Jul 2026). Review updated V8.2.5 → V10: three-layer agent memory (Working / Shared Working / Verifiable), TRAC required only at the Verifiable layer. Scores unchanged; V10 agent-memory maturation flagged for monthly review. | | 2026-07-01 | Returns | 65 → 66 | Liquidity & Access 10 → 11. July monthly review resolves the June-deferred +1 candidate. The 18 May 2026 Upbit listing (KRW/BTC/USDT) plus existing Coinbase access is a durable tier-1 venue and Korean-won fiat-rail upgrade. Post-listing 24h volume has mean-reverted (~$3.6M, CoinGecko 2026-07-01) toward the pre-listing baseline after the ~$40M listing-day spike, so the bump reflects venue access, not sustained turnover. Does not cross a grade boundary (C). | | 2026-06-25 | Data | N/A | DefiLlama-harvest cross-check. Verified current market data still holds (TRAC ~$0.34, mcap ~$130-164M, ~90% below ATH). Precision fix: the review said "no DeFiLlama listing", but DeFiLlama does track NeuroWeb as a CHAIN; its fees are negligible (~cents/year, ~200 monthly users) and reflect gas, not DKG publishing, which sharpens (not changes) the black-box-revenue point. The DKG's publishing-fee revenue still has no protocol adapter anywhere. No score change. | | 2026-06-02 | Data | N/A | June monthly review. Circulating reframed 99.96% → ~89.45% per CoinGecko: the ~52.7M TRAC gap is staked in DKG node operations on NeuroWeb (CoinGecko excludes the staking contract), NOT unvested supply. 500M fixed cap, zero inflation and completed vesting all still hold, so Supply Dynamics 18/20 unchanged. "FDV = MCap" softened (true only on CMC's 100%-circulating basis). Upbit listed TRAC (KRW/BTC/USDT) 18 May 2026; logged as a Liquidity & Access positive, dimension re-score deferred to July. | | 2026-04-06 | Data | N/A | Q2 2026 review. V8.1 Random Sampling and automated rewards verified live. Throughput improvement confirmed (100x+ over V6). Scores unchanged. | | 2026-03-24 | Data | N/A | Core contributors 10 → 31 on dkg-engine. Verified against GitHub. | | 2026-03-12 | Both | N/A | March 2026 refresh. V8.2.5, Random Sampling live, V8.1 automated rewards. Scores unchanged; data updated. | | 2025-03-06 | Both | N/A | Initial publish. Freedom 60/100, Returns 65/100. |