FAQ
What is Intuition building?
We're using decentralized technologies to enhance human interaction, unify the online experience, and redefine how data and value are shared across networks. At Intuition, we believe that the future of the internet is about aligning incentives in a way that benefits users, creators, and platforms alike, ultimately empowering individuals to own their data and make more informed choices online.
Intuition is building a powerful and versatile ecosystem of apps and developer tooling on top of the world’s first open and semantic social and knowledge graph. This new data layer makes it easy for anyone to capture and curate verifiable social wisdom, free from the limitations of application-specific silos. It aims to enhance the trustworthiness of digital interactions by creating a permissionless and open data environment.
How does Intuition differ from other identity platforms?
Intuition is a peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing ecosystem with features to support utility in Web3 and beyond. Core features of the platform include:
- Decentralized Identifiers: Introducing unique, persistent, canonical identifiers for all things—not just people.
- Traversable Attestations: Many-to-one attestations that are uniquely structured to make verifiable data more discoverable and usable.
- Data Neutrality Framework: Open, transparent standards fostering an ecosystem where data and services can interact without barriers or bias, promoting innovation, competition, fairness, and truth.
- Incentivized Standards: Rewards for creating and curating valuable information that others interact with, facilitating engagement and enhancing quality.
What is 'The Portal' in Intuition?
The Portal is Intuition’s flagship application, offering seamless access to the social and knowledge graph. Positioned at the application layer, the Portal provides an intuitive interface for users to create, manage, and interact with Identities (Atoms) and Claims (Triples). It serves as the primary gateway for establishing decentralized identities, making claims, and managing your stake, transforming the exploration of the knowledge graph into an accessible and user-friendly experience.
What is a decentralized identifier (DID) and how is it used in Intuition?
A DID is a unique identifier assigned to entities like people, organizations, or products. In Intuition, each DID is associated with an Atom, forming the basis for building identities and claims. These DIDs enable secure and verifiable data exchanges without relying on a central authority.
What are 'Identities' and 'Claims' in the context of Intuition?
Identities are associated with what Intuition calls ‘Atoms’ and are the fundamental units of knowledge in the Intuition ecosystem, representing individual entities or entire concepts. Claims are associated with what Intuition calls ‘Triples’, which are combinations of three Atoms into a semantic structure (Subject, Predicate, Object). Triples allow expression of relationships between entities and are designed to enable complex data interactions and assertions.
For user facing applications like The Portal, the terms ‘Identity’ and ‘Claim’ are used in place of the more technical ‘Atom’ and ‘Triple’ nomenclature used by the broader platform to define the foundational building blocks of the Intuition knowledge graph.
How does staking work on Intuition?
Staking allows users to express their conviction in an Identity or Claim by depositing ETH. When you stake on an Identity or Claim, you are signaling its importance or accuracy. Staking can earn you shares of the fees generated by that entity, making it a way to support and profit from valuable data.
What role do economic incentives play on the platform?
Incentives play a massive role in determining the ultimate utility of the Intuition knowledge graph. Since economic weight serves as the basis for the validity of claims, the protocol is designed around incentivizing users to signal their conviction in claims and identities by staking on them and doing so early.
User earn rewards for creating and interacting with data within the Intuition system and incentives are designed around encouraging early and meaningful contributions. This model helps in building consensus and promoting data quality. Intuition’s market-driven consensus model also drives incentivizes the adoption of standardized data formats and identifiers.
What is the purpose of attestations on Intuition?
Attestations are cryptographic signatures that express a user's stance on a particular Claim or Identity. In the Intuition ecosystem users can attest to Identities and Claims. The implication is slightly different for each. At the core of the interaction is the ability for users to state what they believe, and to place ETH behind this statement.
Intuition’s novel primitives allow for many-to-one attestations, where users signal their agreeance by depositing on a single instance of each claim. Signals are the equivalent of attestations in the Intuition system. Users hold positions on Atoms and Triples, signaling their stance by increasing their balance on the relevant entities. This approach enables nuanced expression of trust and belief, allowing for a dynamic and tiered system of preferences within the decentralized ecosystem.
How can developers use Intuition in their applications?
Intuition offers APIs and SDKs that developers can use to integrate its data structures into their applications. This allows apps to leverage decentralized data, replace traditional likes or endorsements with attestations, and benefit from a shared, interoperable knowledge graph. Developers can create applications that enhance user privacy, security, and control over data.
How does Intuition ensure data privacy and security?
The platform uses robust cryptographic techniques to ensure data integrity and user privacy. Information within Intuition can be verified by all parties involved without exposing sensitive data. This transparency, combined with user-controlled identities and data, provides a secure environment for digital interactions.
What are Token Curated Registries (TCRs) and how are they used in Intuition?
TCRs in Intuition are lists where entries are curated based on user stakes. Users stake tokens on Identities or Claims, determining their relevance and importance. This approach ensures that the most trusted and widely accepted data rises to prominence, enabling users to navigate and interact with high-quality information.
What is meant by 'trustful interactions' on Intuition?
Trustful interactions refer to digital exchanges where users can rely on the integrity of the system and the data within it. Intuition’s infrastructure allows for interactions that are verifiable, transparent, and secure, fostering confidence in the accuracy of data and the authenticity of participants.
Can Intuition handle both objective and subjective data?
Yes, Intuition is designed to handle both objective facts and subjective opinions. Through its semantic data structures and decentralized attestations, the platform allows users to express verifiable truths as well as opinions, creating a comprehensive data layer that reflects various perspectives.
How does Intuition capture value?
Intuition captures value through a system of fees associated with user interactions on the platform. Similar to gas fees in other blockchain systems, users pay small fees for actions like creating or endorsing identities and claims. These fees serve two main purposes:
- **Gaining Ownership:** Users earn partial ownership of data they interact with. The earlier a user contributes, the more they can gain as others continue to use and reference the data.
- **Rewarding Prior Contributors:** A portion of fees is distributed to users who contributed to the data earlier, encouraging early and meaningful participation in the ecosystem.
Is the Intuition project open source?
Intuition’s vision is centered on giving developers access to verifiable social wisdom and providing open-source tooling to explore new use cases. While parts of the platform, such as the API and SDK, are made available for community contributions and use, Intuition retains its own proprietary implementations. This approach balances the need for open access with the ability to maintain unique, internal developments.
How does Intuition support interoperability in the Web3 ecosystem?
Intuition’s data structure is chain-agnostic and permissionless, meaning it can integrate with various blockchains and Web3 applications. This open approach allows data and services to interact seamlessly across different platforms, reducing silos and fostering innovation in the decentralized space.
What benefits does Intuition provide to early adopters?
Early adopters who interact with new data and create valuable information on the platform earn more rewards as their contributions gain traction. This system incentivizes users to participate early and actively, allowing them to benefit from the growth of data they help to establish.
Who can benefit from using Intuition?
Intuition is ideal for developers, organizations, and individuals looking to leverage decentralized data and identity solutions. It is particularly useful for those seeking to create verifiable claims, manage digital identities, or integrate decentralized trust mechanisms into their applications.
What are the next steps for new users on Intuition?
New users can start by creating an Identity (Atom) on The Portal, making claims, or exploring existing data on the platform. A Quick Start Guide is available to walk users through creating and managing Identities, making claims, and participating in the staking process.