Author: Nukri Basharuli, Founder and CEO, Super Protocol
True Web3 Games, with their potential for rich gaming experiences, advanced AI agents, and genuine digital asset ownership, can only reach their full potential through the implementation of Confidential Computing in a truly decentralized manner. The Confidential Computing Consortium, alongside its member Super Protocol, is at the forefront of this revolution, demonstrating how these technologies can unlock new business opportunities.
Super Protocol serves a dual role in the evolving digital landscape. As a confidential and self-sovereign AI Cloud, it focuses on decentralization, privacy, and verifiability. Its computing network of commonly adopted types of GPU and CPU operates in a confidential mode under the orchestration of Smart Contracts on the Polygon blockchain. This makes Super a decentralized alternative to centralized clouds like Amazon AWS for Web3 AI projects. Additionally, as an AI Marketplace, Super Protocol differs from traditional AI marketplaces like Hugging Face by offering AI models and Data owners the unique ability to share and monetize their assets in a fully confidential, self-sovereign mode. The value of Super Protocol is well illustrated by the examples of its clients.
In this blog, we’ll explore how Super Protocol’s AI cloud is set to transform the gaming industry, enabling a secure and self-sovereign experience that could redefine the future of digital entertainment.
Example: Veriplay
About Veriplay
Veriplay is a startup that is developing a gaming platform compatible with Immutable and Polygon. This platform will enable creating AI agents in Web3 Games that can be traded on the open market as dynamic NFTs.
The Veriplay team, with a proven track record of working with industry giants like Playrix, Warner Brothers, Google, and Crytek, is on a mission to revolutionize the gaming landscape by introducing verifiable and tradable AI agents.
This innovative approach aims to address the limitations of traditional gaming experiences and empower players with unprecedented control over their in-game assets.
Super Protocol and Veriplay research and testing efforts have utilized NVIDIA’s H100 GPUs, provided by the NVIDIA Confidential Computing team (more details in Super Protocol Press-release:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/superprotocol_confidentialcomputing-depin-nvidiainception -activity-7169336537371914242-LBV3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Project Goal
Veriplay’s goal is to give players the ability to truly own AI game agents. To do so, it aims to develop a reliable, Web3-compatible gaming platform for integrating verifiable tokenized AI agents into games with the following characteristics:
- Player AI Models are Protected from Unauthorized Alterations: Veriplay wants to protect player AI models from any unauthorized modifications, whether initiated by the game developer or external malicious actors.
- AI Model Training is Verifiable: This means that it is possible to verify how the AI agents were trained, which guarantees their fairness and transparency.
- Decentralization (Smart Contract Orchestration): Smart contracts will govern the execution
of AI computations and data storage, ensuring transparency and immutability, and eliminating human administration layer.
- Free trading of AI NFTs on marketplaces : Veriplay revolutionizes AI agent ownership by transforming them into tradable digital assets managed by players through dynamic NFTs.
It is evident that without AI computation privacy, verifiability of AI model training history, and smart contract management, the integrity of AI agents as digital assets will be irrevocably compromised, shattering market trust and leading to market rejection of such assets.
The Centralized Infrastructure Problem
There are several problems with creating trusted AI agents in centralized infrastructure, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud:
- Difficulty of Verification: It is difficult to verify that AI agents have been trained and operate according to the rules of the game declared by the developer. This is especially important when AI agents become tradable assets or when they are used in competitions with prize money.
- Risk of Developer Manipulation: Developers have the ability to alter or duplicate an AI agent trained by a player who has invested time and money into the training process. For instance, a developer could duplicate a successful model that frequently wins competitions and sell it to other players as this developer’s original creation.
- Player’s Inability to Own Agents: In centralized AI agent infrastructures, players lack true ownership of their agents, being confined to developer-defined capabilities and pricing models. While creating a simple NFT for AI agent ownership partially addresses this, it falls short of true self-custodial ownership. For this type of ownership to be achieved, the AI NFT must be dynamic, linked to all AI agent components, maintain security and verifiability, and prevent human administration access – all impossible within centralized frameworks.
To sum it up, centralized infrastructure poses significant risks that not only diminish the value of players’ time and investments in training their agents, but also severely restrict monetization opportunities for both players and game studios.
Conversely, with the implementation of trustless AI Agents in games, both players and developers could generate additional income by trading dynamic AI NFTs on marketplaces, renting out Agents to each other, ghosting and participating in the championships with cash prize funds, and more.
Super Protocol and Veriplay Solution
In contrast to AI agents confined within centralized infrastructures and under the complete control of game developers, Web3-compatible gaming agents powered by Super Protocol and the Veriplay platform will exhibit the following advantages:
- Confidentiality and Sovereignty of AI Agent – players retain exclusive sovereignty over their AI agents, encompassing models, data, and computational resources, effectively eliminating the possibility of third-party manipulation.
- Confidential Enclave Technology: Web3-compliant AI agents are computed in confidential enclaves. Confidential enclaves operate based on the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology supported by Nvidia H100 GPU chips. TEE allows creating a secure area inside the processor for safe storage, processing, and protection of confidential data. Even physical access to the server will not grant access to the applications running in the enclaves. No one except the owner of the Agent knows on which servers their data is being processed, as TEE ensures complete isolation of sensitive data and models.
- Access and control over the system are only granted to the smart contract and verified applications loaded into it. The computational resources used for the Agent’s operation are automatically authenticated by the protocol, ensuring the user that they are processing their model and data securely. By design, these resources cannot be tampered with or exploited maliciously. The owner alone manages the model, data, and interactions of their gaming agent.
As a result, users can be confident that the game developer cannot alter or copy the model since they do not have access to it.
- Verifiability of AI Agent training and game interactions – maintaining the verifiability of the Agent throughout the chain from the storage to the server is guaranteed by the following functions:
- The client application and the server are mutually authenticated on a TLS connection. They exchange messages signed with a secret key. Messages contain information about the hardware, application, and its settings.
- After mutual authentication, the game application computing process initiates. The outcome will be signed using the enclave key, maintaining the chain of trust. This trust continuity prevents unauthorized alterations, ensuring players can rely on the computation’s result.
Therefore, the verifiability of the AI Agent’s track record and its immutable nature reassure players that acquiring an AI Agent guarantees possession of an asset with the promised properties. Moreover, by investing in its continuous training, they can have confidence that the future market price of the Agent will accurately reflect their training endeavors.
- The decentralization and removal of human administration are achieved through orchestration by a smart contract system. Via smart contracts, Super Protocol entirely separates the gaming process from server and cloud owners, guaranteeing trust, flexibility and reliability.
- Smart Contracts oversee the distribution of the system’s computing resources, assigning confidential nodes for computing tasks.
- Supporting the necessary Service Level Agreement (SLA) and scalability is accomplished by grouping nodes into clusters and pools with automated Disaster Recovery (DR) mechanisms.
- Additionally, the capability to establish geo-distributed clusters with efficient local gateways is provided.
- The protocol also ensures secure storage through multiple network replication, encryption, and restricted access to trusted applications.
With these features, the capacity to deploy a fault-tolerant game server, storage, and agents without dependence on specific hosts is achieved, embodying the finest decentralized cloud architecture available today.
- Ownership management via NFTs and smart contracts is central to the project. The entire process of AI agents’ ownership management and the orchestration of the marketplace where they are traded, is exclusively governed by the project’s smart contracts.
Each agent consists of on-chain data — an NFT with its own wallet, and data in storage, including a model and game interaction history. Any modifications to the model are made within the chain of trust, beginning with the initial record. These changes are exclusively executed through a smart contract, with each alteration recorded in the agent’s track record and the blockchain.
Listing of an agent on the marketplace and transferring ownership is seamlessly and securely conducted through a smart contract, ensuring the safety of all participants.
To sum it up, the deployment of a seamless and secure confidential, verifiable, decentralized computing service, combined with state and ownership management through smart contracts, creates a competitive and fair environment for AI agents across diverse activities.
Uncompromised competition translates into value, meaning that an AI agent’s success in gaming tasks transforms it into an asset that accrues both the player’s time and money, along with the diversity and uniqueness of gaming scenarios it has encountered.
NFT integration grants the agent autonomy, meaning that it can be traded and rented. Moreover, the agent becomes capable of possessing its own assets and making decisions independently, acting autonomously without external influence.
The Rest of Web3 Infrastructure: Polygon and Immutable
Alongside the Super Protocol, the Veriplay team chose Polygon and Immutable X technologies, merging these three platforms to establish a resilient Web3-compliant ecosystem for training and dynamically tokenizing AI Agents. On a high level, each solution has the following functions:
- Super Protocol provides the decentralized and confidential verifiable computing infrastructure necessary for widespread adoption of AI agents and dynamic NFTs in games. Leveraging TEE technology, Super ensures data and algorithms are safeguarded against
unauthorized access, manipulation, and attacks, crucial for establishing trusted and transparent web3 games.
- Polygon offers a fast and scalable blockchain, delivering high performance and low transaction fees. This enables efficient management of AI agents and dynamic NFTs, ensuring a seamless and cost-friendly gaming experience. Moreover, Veriplay, with its focus on a multichain future, seamlessly integrates with other EVM-compatible networks through Polygon’s multichain framework. Additionally, Polygon’s compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine grants Veriplay direct access to the vast capabilities of the Ethereum ecosystem. This ensures not only smooth scaling but also opens doors to a wider range of opportunities within the Web3 space.
- Immutable X stands out as a premier NFT platform focused on gaming, offering scalability, low fees, and developer-friendly tools. These features simplify the integration of dynamic NFTs into games, requiring minimal cost and effort.
Conclusion
Super Protocol marks a new era in Web3 Games development, paving the way for innovative and immersive game worlds controlled by players and built on principles of trust and transparency.
By enabling exclusive ownership of confidential, verifiable, and transferable AI Agents through dynamic NFTs, players can fully trust the authenticity of in-game assets. Moreover, investors in the open market can confidently invest in NFT assets backed by real AI models, sought after by players for gaming applications.
