The 4K Protocol — A Decentralized Coordination Layer for the Physical World

We're building a new Web3 primitive, transforming the way physical assets can interact with the blockchain and enabling humanity to transact in trustless, permissionless, and never-before-seen ways.

Vision

Protocol Vision

Imagine a network with thousands of nodes, each responsible for ensuring that a physical asset stored on the blockchain is legitimate, accessible, and protected.

Guardians

Guardians are nodes on the network that store physical assets and approve minting of physically-backed NFTs.

Audit Oracles

Guardians supply proof on whether an asset is truly backing a physically-backed NFT through the audit oracle. These audits are used to hold guardians accountable for losing or damaging physical assets.

Physical Asset Pricing Oracles

Collect data from various sources and update estimated pricing of assets on a time interval basis.

Authenticators

The authentication protocol will coordinate a network of authenticators to determine whether an asset is actually what the original minter represented it to be.

Appraisers

Professionals or anyone the community designates as a credible appraiser for specific asset classes.

Interoperability

The 4K Protocol is the bridge that enables physically-backed NFTs to move across multiple L1s and L2s without a working bridge. Even on non-EVM compatible blockchains.

Anyone can become a Guardian, Physical Validator, or Physical Oracle

We envision a future with active Guardians in every major city and world-renowned brands participating as nodes within the network.

Developers

Build on 4K Protocol

The 4K Protocol empowers developers to leverage physically-backed NFTs across projects.

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Our Goal

Our goal is to build the foundational infrastructure to support a growing ecosystem of people, projects, platforms, and communities. User-driven governance will drive our network forward and scale 4K for global adoption.

Protocol Core Components

4K Enables Anyone to Bring Physical Assets On-Chain as Physically-Backed NFTs

With physically-backed NFTs, we are introducing a new composable primitive to the Web3 ecosystem and enabling humanity to use physical assets in unprecedented ways.

The 4k protocol

A Novel Approach for Bridging Physical and Digital Worlds

Previous attempts to create the physical-digital bridge have been centralized, ad-hoc, and rife with misaligned incentives. In comparison, the 4K Protocol is built to be:

Decentralized

Assets are brought on-chain through a decentralized network of guardians, physical validators and physical oracles.

Incentive aligned

Nodes in the network have a financial stake in the network and are incentivized to act in the best interest of protocol.

Chain agnostic

4K’s physically-backed NFTs can exist on any chain with an NFT standard - interoperability is a core to its design.

Transparent

Both the provenance of assets and the operations of guardians (including losses, damages, etc.) are publicly stored on-chain.

Generic

The 4K Protocol is a generic protocol for bringing any physical asset on-chain (e.g., watches, wine, art, real estate).

Composable

The 4K Protocol is built with compatibility in mind and is creating a shared framework for interacting with the physical world using NFTs.

Scalable

The 4K Protocol is designed to bring in millions of assets on-chain quickly and efficiently.

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