OriginTrail

Five years since the inception of the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) concept in the first white paper, the community saw a steep progress as the OriginTrail Decentralized Network (ODN) came to be and was put to use for some of the most essential human activities - supply chains. The OriginTrail ecosystem, defined by the core values of neutrality, inclusiveness and usability developed a unique character driving positive impact in collaboration with world-class partners.

For the first time ever, some of the most valuable information exchanges started to take place in a permissionless, trusted and secure manner, while all network participants retained sovereignty over ownership of data, with value distributed in accordance with the OriginTrail protocol design.

OriginTrail brought a scalable, trusted and secure way for information to be shared across a universe of data sources, bringing together users that were traditionally not able to perform data management in such a way. Validation of OriginTrail fundamentals in the real world in the advent of the Web3 was instrumental in delivering the right technology coupled with the right ecosystem values.

As the OriginTrail adoption grew, and reliance on a single and often prohibitively costly Ethereum network started to show signs it might have hindered further expansion, the OriginTrail core development team proposed a phased approach towards integrating a multi-chain strategy to expand the capacity of the consensus layer. The phase, originally named the Starfleet stage (inspired by the famous Star Trek series and its interplanetary organization for conducting deep space exploration, research, defense, peacekeeping, and diplomacy) soon yielded integrations with the so called layer 2 blockchains, Gnosis and Polygon, which brought immense efficiencies in the consensus layer of OriginTrail technology stack.

The Starfleet phase has finally come of age, as the OriginTrail ecosystem - led by the quest to develop the world’s first decentralized knowledge graph to make humanity’s most important assets discoverable, verifiable and valuable - reached the next frontier signifying the extraordinary progress that lies before us. Having garnered the awareness of the historical momentum brought by the development dynamics within our ecosystem and wider Web3 community alike, this white paper marks the beginning of the crucial progress stage at which the OriginTrail becomes stronger by introducing its own, DKG-specific layer 1 - the OriginTrail Parachain.

Envisaged to run on Polkadot layer 0, the OriginTrail Parachain brings a formidable capacity to incentivize the usage growth of DKG, huge efficiency gains without sacrificing decentralization, and network effects through interoperability with other parachains.