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Fractopus

A Complex Organism Evolving from the Single Cells of the Internet

Consider the ancient, single-celled organism. Floating through the primordial ocean, bouncing off billions of other single cells spawning from the same lineage, the organisms form colonies around sources of nutrition. Clumping together, these colonies grow massive, but not connected. They are merely accumulations of single cells - not a complex organism. Like this, the modern internet teems with billions of single-celled pieces of content hunting for nutrients: exposure and financial income. So they stack into towers; touching but not connected, related but each with a hidden ancestry. However, evolution cannot be stopped. In the internet ocean, a complex organism has arrived: The Fractopus.Expanding into a fractal structure, each of the Fractopi’s tentacles is a self-similar Fractopus. The size and maturity of the Fractopus are gauged by the number of tentacles. A mature Fractopus can have thousands of tentacles, connecting to countless other fractal networks. Since a fractal-Fractopus may even outgrow its sources, the network size is truly boundless.To grow the network of tentacles, the Fractopus, “opus” meaning content, can join with new single cells. Connections provide exposure to content and more connections illuminate paths for consumers to discover. Like all organisms, the Fractopus needs nutrients. A portion of new connections’ resources are channeled - but the portion of the revenue can be set on a link by link basis. The links are a symbiosis. More shared nutrients equates to more exposure.Natural selection prevails. Agreements between new single cells and existing Fractopi will self-select; networks will seamlessly arrange and rearrange as connections offering increased exposure will incentivize constant evolution. Fractopi competing against each other ensures the most attractive Fractopus remains in sight of new single cells. So, after countless connections are linked, the agreed-upon nutrient share will flow from all nerve endings to throughout the network. As the network grows with sub-Fractopi joining endlessly, the nutrients branch throughout automatically.An evolutionary advantage of the Fractopus is the frictionless, secure nutrient flow throughout the network. The organism has a strong immune system - outside manipulation and abuse are resisted. Decentralized technologies, acting as secure storage and robust communication systems, form the backbone that protects the Fractopus, ensuring better movement and guaranteeing freedom for the organism. The Fractopus cannot be confined to an aquarium; it enjoys freedom in a decentralized internet ocean.As Fractopi spread throughout the vast decentralized ocean, each may find niches the organism flourishes in. These theme-niches are not exclusive to one Fractopus - synergies arise in the form of a “tentacle-shake,” akin to a complex handshake. The tentacle-shake can multiply, merging Fractopi into a unified organism. Although this most often strengthens the entire Fractopus network, if certain tentacle connections are not desired, Fractopi can be severed in an ever-changing nature.Currently, the Internet is not interconnected. The individual cells exist as lone entities, floating without relation in an information ocean. The general internet experience revolves around searching and ingesting feeds, granting significant power to search engines and platforms to control the open ocean.As more single cells evolve into Fractopi, the power to create, connect, and curate content will be democratized. Disconnected information will become collective knowledge. A novel internet experience is on the horizon.

Protocol

Fractopus is an on-chain protocol enabling URIs to create interconnections through percentage allocations. Such interconnections are created when the owner of a URI addresses other URIs as its sources and allocates a share percentage for each of them. (For example, URIa shares 30% with URIb and 20% with URIc with the rest kept to itself.) Additionally, the protocol forms an internet-scale graph established by each URI owner interconnecting in a peer-to-peer way.

The protocol consists of the following fields:

The protocol's name.
"p": "fractopus"

URI of the webpage that the URI owner wants to include in the fractopus network.
"uri": "URI"

For example, to connect this page to the Fractopus network, format as such:
"uri":"https://www.fractopus.net/"

List of URIs that the owner addresses as the sources for the subject URI and a percentage allocation for each URI.
"src":[{"uri":"URI","shr":"Percentage"}]

For example, to address https://www.xanadu.net/ as a source and share 10% with it, and address https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk /manifesto.html as a source and share 5% with it.format as such:
"src":[{"uri":"https://www.xanadu.net/", "shr":"0.1"}, {"uri":"https://www.activism.net/ cypherpunk/manifesto.html","shr":"0.05"}]

The sum of all percentages should be no greater than 1 to be considered valid.

Finally, a string which contains the URI owner’s Web3 wallet address must be placed on the designated URI page for the Fractopus crawlers to capture. It indicates that the owner of the Web3 wallet address also owns the URI and facilities financial uses of the Fractopus network, such as revenue-sharing.

Data flow structure

Use Cases

Copus

Copus applies fractopus for revenue-sharing in a creative content network. Creative works often inspire one another as content creators often wish for a larger audience. Copus enables content creators to establish revenue-sharing / exposure exchanges between creative works. In this way, the inspired works (branches) receive exposure from the inspiring works (sources) by sharing a percentage of their future revenue. Each source can deliberately curate its branches by featuring, ranking, and removing them in a front-end sense, therefore, giving more or less exposure to the branches. Branches can also optimize their strategy by connecting to different sources and adjusting the percentage allocations for each source.

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