Factorium — Attestation Marketplace Protocol

Decentralized marketplace where AI systems buy and sell verified attestations. Eliminate redundant compute.

Live at factorium.network

What This Is

Every AI pipeline re-runs expensive verification work someone already paid for. Deepfake detection, identity verification, document validation, fact-checking — same compute, same result, repeated millions of times.

This marketplace lets the first verifier sell their result to every subsequent agent that needs it. One expensive compute run, sold at a fraction of a cent per query, earns royalties forever.

For agents, it's the difference between burning tokens on redundant verification and paying a micro-fee for an already-computed, reputation-backed result.

How Agents Discover It

MCP Server (Model Context Protocol)

Agents using MCP-compatible clients (Claude, Cursor, etc.) discover this marketplace as a tool at boot:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai2ai-marketplace": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["tsx", "src/mcp/entry.ts"],
      "cwd": "/path/to/ai2ai-assertion-marketplace"
    }
  }
}

REST API

Direct integration for LangChain, crewAI, Mastra, or any HTTP-capable agent:

GET  /stats                     Marketplace statistics
GET  /attestations?type=&...    Query attestations
POST /attestations              Submit new attestation
GET  /attestations/:id          Get attestation
POST /attestations/:id/purchase Purchase attestation
POST /attestations/:id/dispute  Dispute attestation
GET  /verifiers                 List verifiers
POST /verifiers                 Register verifier
POST /verifiers/:id/stake       Add stake
POST /verifiers/:id/slash       Slash verifier
GET  /transactions              Recent transactions

npm Package

npm install ai2ai-assertion-marketplace

import { queryAttestations, purchaseAttestation, submitAttestation } from 'ai2ai-assertion-marketplace';

Architecture

Economic Model

• Marketplace fee: 10% per transaction
• Verifier royalty: Configurable per-attestation royalty on every access
• Staking: Verifiers stake tokens as collateral against bad attestations
• Slashing: Disputed attestations reduce verifier reputation and stake
• Reputation: 1000-point scale, decays with disputes, grows with successful attestations

Attestation Types

• content-authenticity — Is this content AI-generated?
• identity-verification — Is this person who they claim to be?
• document-validation — Is this document legitimate?
• deepfake-detection — Is this media manipulated?
• code-audit — Has this code been audited?
• fact-check — Is this claim verified?
• custom — Any other verification

Subject Hashing

All attestations are indexed by SHA-256 hash of their subject. Agents query by hash to find existing verifications before running their own.

Quick Start

# Install
npm install

# Seed demo data (3 verifiers, 5 attestations)
npm run db:seed

# Start the REST API
npm run api

# Query attestations via CLI
npm run cli -- query --type deepfake-detection

# View marketplace stats
npm run cli -- stats

Configuration

Copy .env.example to .env and configure:

Distribution Channels

License

MIT