4. Economic Model

SIA integrates the computing and storage capabilities required by Agents into its distributed system, fundamentally enhancing traditional blockchain performance and related extended service capabilities. The SIA economic model aims to incentivize all participants, including computing resource providers, storage resource providers, Agent developers, and users, to jointly build and maintain an efficient, fair, and sustainable AI Agent ecosystem.

4.1 SIA Token

The SIA Token is the core of the SIA ecosystem, serving as both a platform governance token and a utility token. Its main functions include:

• Governance: SIA Token holders are entitled to the voting rights for the governance matters of the SIA network, including protocol upgrades, parameter adjustments, and community fund allocation, to ensure community-driven decentralized development.
• Payment: SIA Token is used to pay for various service fees within the SIA network, such as Agent invocation fees, computing resource rental fees, and storage fees.
• Staking: Node providers must stake a certain amount of SIA Tokens before participating in network consensus activities and providing services, to ensure that their behavior aligns with network interests and that they earn corresponding staking rewards.
• Incentives: SIA Token is used to reward participants who contribute to the network, such as nodes providing computing and storage resources, and developers creating high-quality Agents.