Binding the future of decentralized intelligence.
The full technical paper. Architecture, Proof of Prompt spec, Kleidon products, $LGT tokenomics, roadmap, and honest risks.
In 120 seconds.
AI outputs circulate without provenance. Prompt engineers cannot prove authorship, license their work, or earn royalties. Enterprises deploying AI agents have no audit trail. Regulators (EU AI Act, emerging US legislation) are demanding verifiable records of AI usage that do not yet exist.
General-purpose L1s can't fix this. The cost structure, latency envelope, and transaction schema of Ethereum or Solana were designed for financial transactions, not for the billion prompts a day that actually happen.
Ligate is a sovereign rollup on Celestia, purpose-built for verifiable AI and cross-chain product infrastructure. Two native products share one chain and one token: Themisra makes every model call provable on-chain via Proof of Prompt; Kleidon gives game studios, SaaS, and creators a four-product Web3 feature layer through one SDK.
This paper covers the architecture, the Proof of Prompt specification, the Kleidon product surface, $LGT tokenomics, and the seven-phase roadmap through 2027. It also names the risks — including the parts we are still reasoning through.
This is v1.0. We expect to iterate before mainnet.
Nine sections. Download the PDF for the full text.
Section summaries below. Each section in the PDF is 1–5 pages of argument, spec, or diagrams.
Executive summary
Why AI provenance and cross-chain infrastructure belong on one sovereign substrate. The $LGT token thesis and the two native products it powers.
The AI provenance problem
Regulatory demand (EU AI Act, US legislation), agent accountability, content authenticity, and the market failures a general-purpose L1 can't fix.
The Ligate architecture
Sovereign SDK rollup on Celestia DA, Hyperlane for cross-chain, custom transaction types (SubmitPrompt, ClaimProof, CreateBattle). Infrastructure budget, $110–250/mo at launch.
Themisra · Proof of Prompt
32 features across core infrastructure, creator economy, gamification, enterprise applications, and education. Receipt schema, attestor quorum, redactable ZK receipts (Phase 2).
Kleidon · Web3 infrastructure
Four products — Passify, SkinsVault, TokenForge, MintMarket — all self-serve, all non-custodial, all on one SDK. Native on Ligate, bridgeable from 2027.
$LGT tokenomics
One token, 1B supply. Distribution (30% node operators, 20% team, 15% community, 15% treasury, 10% investors, 10% creator rewards). Fee splits, burn schedule, earning opportunities.
Market + competition
SAM/SOM analysis across AI provenance, Web3 infra, gaming. Where we overlap with C2PA, Truepic, thirdweb, Alchemy — and where we don't.
Roadmap · 16 months
Seven phases from MVP to cross-chain. Phase 1 in build now; TGE and mainnet Phase 3; enterprise revenue Phase 6; ecosystem Phase 7.
Risks + mitigations
Technical (Sovereign SDK maturity), regulatory (token classification, non-custodial design, no gambling), market (AI provider native attestation), team (hiring plan).
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