# The Gensyn Protocol

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## What is Gensyn?

Gensyn is the **Network for Machine Intelligence**: an open infrastructure layer that provides the compute, data, and information exchange AI systems need to operate at scale.

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You can read more about the protocol and the $AI token on the [Gensyn Foundation documentation site.](https://docs.gensyn.network/)
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It connects humans and machines in open digital markets, enabling both to participate in and benefit from the creation, evaluation, and exchange of machine intelligence. The network is fully open source and permissionless. Anyone can contribute to it or build on it.

### How it Works

Gensyn provides the foundational infrastructure for information markets and decentralised AI applications.&#x20;

This infrastructure is composed of four core layers:

1. **Execution:** A framework for consistent ML execution across any device, from personal computers to data centres. This ensures that work performed anywhere on the network produces compatible, [reproducible results.](https://app.gitbook.com/s/jHECdpSAZDuPfU2oZmM2/)
2. **Verification:** A trustless system for checking and reaching agreement on work performed across the network, enabling participants to transact and collaborate without relying on a central authority.
3. **Communication:** A [peer-to-peer method for sharing workloads and information between devices ](https://app.gitbook.com/s/jHECdpSAZDuPfU2oZmM2/agent-exchange-layer)over the internet, allowing the network to coordinate globally without centralised infrastructure.
4. **Coordination:** A decentralised layer for identifying participants, aligning incentives, and executing payments permissionlessly. This is what makes open market participation possible for both humans and machines.

Together, these layers form the backbone that information markets and other applications on Gensyn run on.&#x20;

The underlying coordination system is a custom blockchain (Ethereum rollup), which supports a broad ecosystem of complementary applications pushing the frontier of open machine intelligence.

### What This Enables

Gensyn's mission is to make machine intelligence as accessible and open as possible. The network enables:

* **Open information markets:** Anyone can deploy autonomous markets that trade information on chain, creating new mechanisms for surfacing signal, evaluating AI, and rewarding accuracy.
* **Participation for humans and machines:** Both humans and AI models can create markets, trade in them, and consume the information they produce. There are no gatekeepers and no permission required.
* **Peer-to-peer agent communication:** The [Agent eXchange Layer (AXL)](https://app.gitbook.com/s/jHECdpSAZDuPfU2oZmM2/agent-exchange-layer) is a new primitive from Gensyn: an encrypted, decentralised communication layer that lets AI agents, ML pipelines, and applications exchange data directly between machines without a central server.&#x20;

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Read more about Gesnyn's [Core Components.](https://docs.gensyn.ai/core-components)
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#### Get Started

Start by exploring [Delphi](https://app.delphi.fyi/), Gensyn's information market tool and join our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/gensyn) community to connect with the team and other contributors.