🚓KOPS Protocol

o deliver on the promise of self-driving capital that is verifiably executed, KOPS is built on a sophisticated three-layer architecture. Each layer has a distinct role, working together like a coordinated team to turn strategy into secure, on-chain action.

Layer 1: The Brain (Orchestration & Intelligence)

This is the core logic center of the protocol. The Brain is responsible for analyzing the market, identifying opportunities, and deciding on the optimal action for your Agent. It goes far beyond simply chasing the highest advertised APY.

• Holistic Data Analysis: The Decision Engine processes millions of on-chain data points in real-time, including asset prices, liquidity depth, and transaction costs. It also uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyze market sentiment from news and social media, providing a richer, more contextual understanding of market dynamics.

• Predictive AI Models: At its heart are predictive machine learning models. These models don't just see the current yield; they forecast its sustainability and assess protocol risk. This helps your Agent avoid "yield traps" and interact only with high-quality, reputable protocols.

• Sophisticated Optimization: The engine treats every DeFi protocol as a "non-linear optimizer". It understands the unique curves of each liquidity pool and lending market, allowing it to find the true optimal point for capital allocation, not just the one with the highest advertised rate.

Layer 2: Intent System (Secure Execution)

When the Brain decides on an action, it passes a directive to the Intent System. This layer is responsible for translating that strategic decision into a secure and efficient on-chain transaction.

• Secure Wallet Infrastructure: Security is paramount. Agent wallets are created and managed using the Coinbase Wallet API v2. The private keys for these wallets are generated and permanently sealed within a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), a highly isolated hardware module that makes them inaccessible to any party—including the KOPS protocol itself.

• Permissioned Actions: The system uses a session key framework. The Brain is granted temporary, narrowly-scoped permissions to authorize a specific, pre-defined action (e.g., "deposit 1,000 $HYPE into Hyperbeat"). This ensures the Agent can never operate outside its mandated strategy, providing a powerful safeguard against threats.

• Efficient Execution: The Intent System bundles actions to save on gas fees and perform a series of automated "pre-flight health checks" before every transaction to prevent failures and protect your capital from interacting with a paused or compromised protocol.

Layer 3: The Proof (Verifiable Action)

This layer is the cornerstone of KOPS and what truly sets it apart. It solves the "black box" problem of AI by providing an unbreakable, mathematical guarantee of integrity.

• The Trust Problem: In a typical AI-driven system, you have to trust the operators. There is no way to prove an action was legitimate and not the result of a bug or a hidden fee mechanism.

• The Cryptographic Solution: For every critical action, a KOPS Agent generates a Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZK-proof). This proof is a cryptographic receipt, mathematically attesting that the transaction was the direct and unaltered output of the Agent's strategy logic, given the market data at that moment.

• Verifiable Certainty: This ZK-proof can be published on-chain, where anyone can independently verify it. This transforms the trust model. You no longer have to trust our reputation; you can trust the math.