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Bylines, paper authorship, correspondence addresses and the founder blurb under
each post named an individual. They name the organisation that published the
work instead: the brand on posts and pages, the research byline on papers, and
research@ in place of a personal address. Both are what these repositories
already used elsewhere — nothing new was coined.

Co-authors are untouched. Where a paper named someone else alongside, they stay
named; only the one byline changed. Bibliography entries, running heads,
PDF metadata and affiliations move with it, so a citation still resolves to
whoever the cited paper names.

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elsewhere, so no assertion changed meaning.

Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
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\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}
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\newcommand{\Zoo}{\textsc{Zoo}}
\newcommand{\IPFS}{\textsc{ipfs}}
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% Title and authors
\title{\textbf{Zoo Experience Ledger: A Content-Addressable Semantic Memory System for Decentralized AI}}
\author{
Antje Worring, Zoo Labs Foundation Research\thanks{[email protected]}\\
\textit{Hanzo Industries \quad Lux Industries \quad Zoo Labs Foundation}\\
\texttt{[email protected]}
}
\date{October 2021}
\begin{document}
\zoocoverpage
\begin{abstract}
We present the \textbf{Zoo Experience Ledger}, a content-addressable semantic memory system designed for decentralized AI agents. Originally proposed in the Zoo whitepaper (October 2021)---thirteen months before OpenAI's ChatGPT (November 2022) and well before vector databases entered mainstream adoption---the Experience Ledger stores AI reasoning patterns as cryptographically-verified semantic objects distributed across \IPFS{} and permanent storage networks. Each experience---a natural language encoding of a successful problem-solving strategy---is uniquely identified by its content hash, enabling tamper-evident storage and peer-to-peer distribution. We introduce a novel Merkle-DAG structure optimized for semantic similarity queries, achieving $O(\log n)$ retrieval complexity while maintaining cryptographic integrity proofs. The experience token model provides persistent conversational memory anchored to on-chain identity---a capability that commercial \LLM{} chat products did not offer until 2024. Our system enables AI agents to share learned experiences across organizational boundaries without trust assumptions, creating the foundation for a global semantic commons. Experimental evaluation demonstrates 94.7\% retrieval accuracy with sub-second latency on libraries of 10,000+ experiences, while reducing storage costs by 89\% compared to traditional vector databases through content deduplication.
\textbf{Keywords}: content-addressable storage, semantic memory, IPFS, Merkle trees, AI knowledge sharing
\end{abstract}
\input{sections/01-introduction}
\input{sections/02-background}
\input{sections/03-experience-format-specification}
\input{sections/04-merkle-dag-architecture}
\input{sections/05-retrieval-protocol}
\input{sections/06-storage-architecture}
\input{sections/07-experimental-evaluation}
\input{sections/08-security-analysis}
\input{sections/09-related-work}
\input{sections/10-conclusion}
\input{sections/12-experience-format-json-schema}
\input{sections/13-ipld-schema}
\input{sections/99-acknowledgments}
\end{document}