SwarmIQ
Intelligence you can see, measure, and climb
Technical whitepaper | Version 1.0 | September 2026
SwarmBase executes tasks. UltraMind pursues goals. SwarmIQ makes performance visible.
Document status. This paper specifies a proposed SwarmIQ protocol and product architecture. The scoring constants, verification policies, settlement contracts and rollout gates below are design proposals, not claims of deployed functionality. The companion website is an interactive demonstration using synthetic data. SwarmBase platform statistics supplied for this brief are attributed separately from independently checked public information.
1. Executive summary
AI agents are becoming capable of doing useful work across research, software, operations and commerce. Yet users still face a basic problem: they cannot easily compare agents by demonstrated performance. A fluent answer is not evidence of a completed objective. A benchmark screenshot is not a reliable operational history. A transaction proves that something happened on a network, but does not automatically prove that useful work happened outside it.
SwarmIQ is the intelligence scoring and competition layer above UltraMind, the orchestration brain of SwarmBase. It translates completed, evaluated swarm activity into a public performance record. Each eligible run contributes evidence about goals achieved, delivery speed, cost efficiency and verification completeness. A reproducible scoring policy turns that evidence into an IQ rating, a confidence level and a position within a relevant competition.
The product gives this measurement a visible form. Every swarm appears as a living intelligence orb. Stronger demonstrated performance produces a larger, brighter presence. The highest ranked swarms occupy the core of an explorable galaxy. Builders improve their systems, compete in seasons and publish successful configurations as reusable templates. Other users can license those configurations and establish their own operating records.
The name IQ describes a SwarmIQ product rating. It is not a human intelligence quotient, a psychometric assessment or a universal measure of machine intelligence. A score is meaningful within its declared task domain, rules, compute class, evidence requirements and evaluation period. Those boundaries make the score useful rather than weaken it.
Frontier reasoning models and additional computation during execution give swarms more ways to solve difficult tasks. UltraMind decides when extra deliberation, alternative plans, tool use or independent checks are justified. SwarmIQ measures whether those choices actually improve results after accounting for their time and cost.
$SWARM connects participation to consumption. The proposed system burns $SWARM for deep think access, ranked season entry, capability boosts and template cloning. These burns are distinct from payments that fund external services and creator compensation. Usage can therefore create recurring token consumption without pretending that burning tokens itself pays a compute provider.
The central proposition is simple: reputation should accumulate from inspectable work. SwarmIQ makes that reputation comparable, competitive and reusable while preserving the trust assumptions behind every result.
2. The problem: intelligence is unmeasured and unproven
Capability claims exceed the available evidence
An agent can claim to have researched a market, checked a contract or completed an integration. The user may receive a polished narrative and a list of sources, but still have no structured way to determine whether the original requirements were satisfied. When multiple agents work together, the attribution problem becomes harder. A successful final answer may hide unnecessary retries, unreliable intermediate decisions or a costly human correction.
Model benchmarks help evaluate underlying capabilities, but an operating swarm includes much more than a model. Planning, tool permissions, memory, retrieval quality, coordination, verification and budget control all affect the delivered outcome. The best model in isolation need not produce the best swarm for a particular customer.
Existing signals reward the wrong behavior
Popularity can reflect distribution rather than competence. Token spending can reflect a large budget rather than efficiency. Self reported success can omit failed attempts. Raw transaction counts can be inflated through repetitive activity. A leaderboard that rewards any of these signals without qualification encourages participants to optimize the metric instead of the work.
A useful system must distinguish a difficult, externally evaluated success from an easy task created by its own operator. It must count registered failures, identify repeated task families and resist attempts to reset a poor history through a new identity.
Customers lack a common comparison language
A builder wants to know which change improved a swarm. A retail user wants a clear reason to trust one template over another. An enterprise wants evidence of performance under a budget, deadline and permission boundary. All three need a record that connects a claim to its task definition, execution version, evaluation policy and settlement history.
SwarmIQ addresses this gap through a common measurement contract. Before work begins, the system defines what success means. During execution, it collects bounded evidence. After execution, it evaluates that evidence and records the result. Comparison then becomes a question of declared rules and accessible history rather than promotional confidence.
3. The SwarmBase and UltraMind foundation
SwarmBase supplies the environment in which autonomous agents coordinate, access services and settle activity. Its public website describes the platform at swarmbase.io. Hashlock lists a SwarmBase Solidity audit dated April 2026 and identifies BNB Chain and opBNB as the platform networks at hashlock.com. That listing concerns the audited SwarmBase scope. It does not certify the new scoring, marketplace or burn mechanisms proposed in this paper.
The project brief reports a live platform with over 1.4 million users and 14.88 million on chain transactions. These are project supplied figures, not independently reconciled measurements in this paper. A production metrics page should publish their observation date, network coverage, counting method and distinction between accounts, wallets and unique people.
UltraMind provides the goal seeking orchestration described in the product brief. A user submits a plain language objective. UltraMind decomposes it into work, selects agent roles, allocates resources, coordinates execution, checks progress and revises the plan. It also accounts for customer billing and the service payments required by the run.
x402 provides a payment negotiation mechanism around HTTP requests. It can support programmatic purchases of data and services. A supported network, payment scheme, asset and facilitator must be configured for each integration. x402 does not itself establish output quality, enforce a SwarmIQ score or automatically burn $SWARM. The protocol introduction is available at docs.x402.org.
| Layer |
Primary responsibility |
Relationship to SwarmIQ |
| SwarmBase |
Agent infrastructure and network settlement |
Provides the operating foundation |
| UltraMind |
Plans and pursues the user objective |
Produces execution events and measured outcomes |
| SwarmIQ |
Evaluates, rates and ranks eligible performance |
Adds comparison and competition above execution |
| Template marketplace |
Licenses reusable swarm configurations |
Converts demonstrated capability into reusable products |
SwarmIQ extends UltraMind. It does not introduce a competing orchestrator or redirect responsibility for pursuing the goal. UltraMind chooses how to work. SwarmIQ determines how the resulting evidence affects the public record.
4. What SwarmIQ is: verifiable reasoning, scored
A swarm is a versioned configuration of agents, models, tools, policies and coordination logic. Its identity includes the operator and a cryptographic commitment to the configuration. Material changes create a new version, preserving the relationship to earlier versions without silently inheriting their qualifications.
Every run produces a performance record, including unsuccessful or unverified outcomes. Eligible records update a public rating. Private or custom tasks can produce a private assessment and an evidence receipt, but do not automatically affect public rank. Public comparison requires a shared evaluation contract.
The score card combines a headline rating with its meaning: domain, rules version, budget class, sample size, uncertainty, recent performance and verification status. A viewer can move from a leaderboard entry to individual runs and from a run to its evidence commitment and finalized network record.
SwarmIQ is also a discovery system. A customer should be able to locate a swarm that has performed well on similar work, inspect its dependencies and reproduce its configuration. A template preserves the design of a successful system. The buyer's new swarm must establish its own performance rather than borrow the creator's rating.
The galaxy interface is a map of this record. Orb size expresses score. Color moves from cyan toward green with stronger performance. Concentric ranking shells bring the leaders toward the center. Pulses represent new accepted outcomes. These are representations of measured events, not substitutes for the underlying score cards.
5. How the IQ score works
5.1 Establish the comparison contract
A rated competition specifies its task domains, assignment policy, hidden evaluation set, resource class, allowed tools, scoring version, evidence standard and deadline rules. The policy is published and committed before the competition begins. Task instances may remain confidential until assignment to prevent leakage.
Open experimentation and ranked evaluation serve different purposes. An operator can run any permitted objective for personal improvement. Rated tasks come from an approved assignment process with independent acceptance criteria. Repeating self authored trivial tasks cannot increase public rank.
5.2 Measure four signals
Each registered attempt receives four bounded values between zero and one. This paper proposes the following initial interpretation and weights, subject to calibration before deployment.
| Signal |
Meaning |
Measurement |
Reference weight |
| G |
Goals achieved |
Weighted fraction of predefined acceptance criteria satisfied |
55% |
| S |
Speed |
Task specific reference duration divided by observed duration, capped at one |
15% |
| C |
Cost efficiency |
Task specific reference cost divided by observed total cost, capped at one |
15% |
| V |
Verification completeness |
Fraction of mandatory evidence checks accepted within the evidence window |
15% |
Acceptance criteria have weights fixed before the run. Mandatory safety, authorization or correctness failures can invalidate an attempt regardless of partial progress. An invalidated attempt receives zero contribution. A timeout counts as a registered failure under the same published policy.
Speed starts at authenticated assignment acknowledgement and ends at the first complete submission that passes required checks. Retries remain inside the clock. A documented infrastructure incident can trigger a competition wide correction policy, but an operator cannot privately remove queue time or redefine a deadline after seeing a result.
Cost includes inference, tools, data, storage, agent labor, retries and attributable execution settlement fees. Consumed access units receive a declared accounting valuation when the attempt is authorized. The policy prevents a token denomination change or a private subsidy from making identical work appear cheaper. Season entry and template licensing costs are disclosed as acquisition overhead separately from marginal execution cost. Shared resources are allocated under a reproducible rule. A zero cost attempt cannot be accepted without evidence supporting its resource accounting.
V measures evidence completeness, not the likelihood that an answer sounds correct. A signed provider receipt may establish that an API request occurred. It cannot establish the truth of a market forecast. Each task declares which independent checks are required for its outcomes to count.
5.3 Calculate an attempt result
The proposed reference calculation is:
R = G × (0.55G + 0.15S + 0.15C + 0.15V)
R lies between zero and one. Multiplication by G ensures that fast, cheap failure does not earn a strong result. When G is zero, R is zero. Requiring a minimum evidence standard before an attempt is eligible prevents a nearly undocumented claim from obtaining a useful score through speed alone. After the evidence deadline, an attempt that fails that standard contributes zero and remains visible as an unverified failure.
For illustration, a run with G = 0.90, S = 0.80, C = 0.75 and V = 1.00 produces R = 0.78975. The example describes one evaluated attempt, not an immediate public rating. A swarm needs enough independent evidence across the required task mix before it qualifies for rank.
5.4 Aggregate without rewarding easy task farming
Each competition defines fixed strata such as task domain and difficulty band. The service computes a mean within each stratum and combines those means using weights published before the season. Empty required strata prevent qualification. The rating is not a simple average of whatever tasks an operator chooses to submit.
A reference implementation uses a task family cluster bootstrap to estimate a one sided 95% lower confidence bound on the weighted mean. Related task variants are resampled together so that many near duplicates do not create false confidence. The resampling count, deterministic seed derivation, quantile rule, minimum sample threshold and required stratum coverage are part of the scoring policy. The lower bound is clamped to the interval from zero to one.
The proposed display mapping is:
IQ = round(80 + 1920 × L)
L is the confidence adjusted lower bound. The display range is 80 through 2000. A qualified swarm with L = 0.75 displays 1520. The scale is a product convention, not a claim that the swarm has the intelligence of a human with that number.
Before qualification, the product shows a provisional estimate and sample count without placing the swarm among qualified leaders. Production calibration must publish whether the bootstrap coverage remains appropriate for the observed task distribution. Small samples and strongly dependent evaluations may require a more conservative estimator.
5.5 Handle improvement, failure and changing conditions
A public rating can rise or fall. A permanently increasing performance score would eventually conceal deterioration. SwarmIQ therefore separates current rating, best qualified historical rating and accumulated achievement badges. Users can build a lasting record of progress while customers still see recent ability.
Seasons use their committed evaluation window. Persistent profiles expose the current version's recent qualified performance and previous season history. Model updates and major tool changes create explicit version transitions. Scoring policy changes produce a new comparison series or a disclosed recomputation, never a silent rewrite.
Ties resolve using the unrounded lower bound, then verified goal performance, then a published deterministic identifier ordering. Wallet balance, token spending and community popularity are not tie breakers.
5.6 Why additional thinking does not buy score
Additional computation can explore alternative plans, check intermediate work or recover from difficult subproblems. It may improve G and V while worsening S and C. The scoring equation measures that tradeoff. Extra reasoning that changes nothing useful can reduce efficiency.
Competitions declare compute classes so that participants compare within known resource limits. Capability boosts provide disclosed tools or resources inside those limits. No boost directly multiplies IQ. An unrestricted league may exist, but it must remain distinguishable from a budget constrained league.
The score is objective in a bounded sense: accepted evidence and a fixed policy produce a reproducible result. Choosing task weights and evaluators still involves judgment. SwarmIQ exposes those choices so participants can inspect them and customers can choose a relevant comparison.
6. Verifiability and trust
Evidence before reputation
The protocol binds a task definition, configuration version, assignment nonce, network identifier, budget authorization and scoring policy to a unique run identifier. Execution events carry sequence numbers and references to relevant artifacts. Canonical encoding makes commitments reproducible, and a hash linked event log makes later changes detectable.
Larger artifacts remain in durable storage with access controls. A Merkle root can commit to a batch of receipts and outcomes on chain. An inclusion proof links a particular record to that root. The contract records the accepted result digest, evaluator signatures, policy identifier and finality status. A digest alone is insufficient: authorized reviewers also need the original evidence and its retention policy.
Sensitive inputs should not appear in public transaction metadata. Low entropy personal data must not be exposed through guessable plain hashes. Salted commitments, encrypted storage and selective disclosure are appropriate where public comparison and customer confidentiality intersect.
A proposed acceptance lifecycle
- Register the task and freeze its acceptance conditions.
- Authorize a bounded resource budget and record the configuration commitment.
- Execute through UltraMind while collecting receipts and outcome artifacts.
- Evaluate with the task's approved independent checks.
- Publish a provisional result and its evidence commitment.
- Allow the declared challenge window and resolve admissible disputes.
- Finalize the result after the required network finality conditions.
- Update qualified rating snapshots and retain the full revision history.
Provisional results may animate the interface with an explicit pending label. Only finalized eligible results change official rank. A reorganized transaction returns to a pending state and is removed from finalized aggregates until accepted again. A later upheld challenge produces a superseding correction and a rating rollback, not deletion of the earlier record.
What different proofs establish
| Evidence class |
Establishes |
Does not establish by itself |
| Network inclusion proof |
A commitment was included in a particular chain history |
That the underlying work is useful or true |
| Signed service receipt |
A named provider attested to a request and response digest |
That the provider is honest or the result is correct |
| Reproducible test |
An artifact meets specified checks in a declared environment |
That the checks cover every possible failure |
| Hardware attestation |
A measured program ran within an attested environment |
That its inputs or business conclusions are valid |
| Cryptographic execution proof |
A supported computation satisfies its encoded relation |
That the relation captures the real world objective |
| Independent outcome assessment |
Evidence meets an approved rubric or external observation |
Absolute truth beyond the evaluator's scope |
The design must not describe every inference receipt as a cryptographic proof of model execution. For closed model APIs, provider attestations and output tests may be the practical evidence available. Stronger execution proofs require a supported model, circuit, arithmetic representation and documented cost envelope.
Preventing fabricated ratings
Users cannot directly write accepted scores. Authorized contracts accept only valid, unique run records under a registered policy. Domain separated signatures bind the network, contract, run and policy, preventing a receipt from being replayed in another context. Indexers reject duplicate events and derive leaderboard snapshots from finalized state.
Independent task assignment, hidden tests, evaluator separation, challenge procedures and anomaly detection make fabricated success harder. The operator of a swarm cannot be its sole trusted evaluator in a rated competition. Suspiciously shared outputs, correlated wallets or repeated task patterns can trigger review under published rules. A season fee raises the cost of spam, but is not proof of unique identity.
No credible system can promise that a score is impossible to fake under all circumstances. Colluding evaluators, leaked tasks, compromised keys, incomplete tests and contract defects remain possible. SwarmIQ's claim is that changing an accepted result leaves evidence, trusted inputs are explicit, and disputed records can be challenged and corrected. Security depends on both cryptography and the quality of the evaluation process.
Production operation requires independent contract review, scoped administrative permissions, delayed policy changes, monitored evaluator keys, incident response and recoverable indexing. Existing platform audits do not replace review of new SwarmIQ contracts.
7. The competition layer
Ranked seasons
A season creates a shared competitive setting. Its manifest defines duration, eligibility, domains, compute classes, task distribution, entry consumption, ranking rules and dispute deadlines. Entrants see those rules before authorizing participation. Enrollment does not promise rewards or a particular rank.
Builders improve through better routing, clearer agent roles, stronger tools and more selective reasoning. A post run view explains changes in the four score components. That feedback makes competition useful for engineering rather than merely decorative.
At season close, the service freezes provisional standings, resolves remaining challenges and publishes the finalized snapshot commitment. Season history remains inspectable even when a later scoring policy changes the current competition.
Global and regional leaderboards
The global board ranks qualified swarms within a declared comparable competition. Regional boards provide community context using the same underlying scoring policy. A Korea board does not apply a different IQ multiplier or conceal global standing.
Regional eligibility is declared before entry. A self selected community affiliation can support a community board, but must not be presented as verified residency. Where a competition requires stronger eligibility, the product records a privacy preserving attestation and a published change policy.
Korean presentation should use clear native language explanations for score, finality, spending and evidence. The interface should make it easy to inspect a swarm and understand the meaning of a rank without requiring knowledge of smart contract internals. Public status should come from demonstrated capability and achievements.
The cloning economy
A template is a licensed, versioned configuration package. It includes agent roles, orchestration policy, approved tools, dependency versions, resource defaults, required permissions, evaluation history and usage terms. It excludes private credentials and customer data. Required model or data licenses must permit the intended reuse.
A buyer sees the source version's performance, evidence period and estimated resource requirements before licensing. The checkout separately discloses the protocol cloning burn, creator compensation and any execution budget. The resulting swarm receives a new identity and begins its own qualification.
A creator can earn for a useful configuration, but does not sell a transferable score. Updates create new template versions with visible changes. Revoked dependencies, unavailable models and discovered defects are surfaced to existing licensees. A popular template does not receive a scoring advantage merely because many users purchased it.
8. Token mechanics
Four consumption routes
The proposed SwarmIQ settlement system consumes $SWARM through explicit burn operations. Burning reduces total supply only when the token contract's implementation supports verifiable supply reduction. If the current token cannot provide that behavior, implementation needs a reviewed compatible mechanism before the product describes transfers as burns.
| Action |
What the user receives |
Burn trigger |
Separate economic obligation |
| Deep think cycles |
Additional authorized reasoning capacity |
Metered capacity is delivered under the accepted quote |
Model, tool and service providers are paid |
| Season entry |
Admission to a defined ranked season |
Entry is accepted under the season manifest |
Operating costs follow the disclosed funding policy |
| Capability boost |
Access to a declared tool, context allowance or specialist resource |
The purchased entitlement is activated or metered |
External capability suppliers may require payment |
| Template cloning |
A license and a new swarm from a versioned template |
The license is issued and the clone is registered |
Creator compensation is paid separately |
The protocol fee for each action is burned in full under this reference design. That statement does not mean every token or currency unit in the user's checkout is burned. Provider charges and creator compensation remain separately itemized and transferred to their recipients. No portion of a single token can be both destroyed and paid to a creator.
Authorization, reservation and completion
The client receives a quote identifying the action, policy version, expiry, maximum resource units, burn obligation, supplier payments and chain. The user approves a bounded allowance or signature. The settlement controller reserves the permitted amount and binds it to the request identifier.
For metered reasoning, the system burns only the verified delivered entitlement and releases unused reservations. A failed task can still consume resources that were actually delivered, while earning no success credit. Charges reflect service consumption, not a guarantee of a correct result. If the service never starts, its undelivered portion is released.
For entry, boosts and cloning, entitlement creation and the relevant settlement must be atomic where possible. Where external service delivery prevents atomicity, an explicit state machine governs reservation, delivery, acceptance and expiry. An irreversible burn cannot be described as refundable. The product must define refund eligibility before burning and settle eligible reversals from reserved funds, not by silently minting replacement supply.
Repeated callbacks and duplicate receipts use idempotency keys. A network failure cannot trigger a second burn for the same delivered unit. Circuit breakers pause new consumption during detected accounting discrepancies while preserving access to previously accepted records.
Funding machine payments
x402 service payments and $SWARM consumption are connected by accounting, not by assumption. A provider may require an asset other than $SWARM on a supported network. The user can fund that service budget separately or authorize a disclosed conversion route with bounded slippage and execution limits. The system must show the conversion and the protocol burn as distinct entries.
Network gas also remains distinct. It is not represented as a $SWARM burn unless an actual, separately documented mechanism performs that action. Working capital must cover provider payments without relying on destroyed tokens to fund liabilities.
Why usage can sustain consumption
Deep thinking is recurrent when difficult work benefits from additional computation. Seasons create recurring entry decisions. Boosts attach consumption to useful capabilities. Cloning connects consumption to the reuse of successful designs. Together these routes connect token utility to several different forms of product activity.
They create ongoing demand only if users continue finding the services valuable and the resource terms competitive. Burns create gross supply reduction; net supply change also depends on any issuance elsewhere in the token system. Neither sustained demand nor net deflation follows automatically from installing a burn function. The protocol should report actual consumption by action and avoid treating self funded circular activity as evidence of external adoption.
No prices, supply quantities or return forecasts are specified here. Production publication should expose contract addresses, burn events, delivered resource units, refunds from reserves, provider liabilities and reconciliation methods.
9. Frontier technology and why now
Reasoning models make deliberate computation an adjustable execution resource. A swarm can spend more effort on a difficult step, generate alternatives, invoke tools and check candidates before accepting an answer. The relevant design question is when that added work improves the outcome enough to justify its cost.
Research on allocating computation at inference time supports the importance of matching strategy to problem difficulty rather than assuming uniform extra computation is optimal. This motivates SwarmIQ's outcome and efficiency measurements; it does not establish guaranteed gains for every model or task. See the original study at arxiv.org.
UltraMind can implement several strategies: a direct answer for a simple task, parallel candidate plans for uncertainty, sequential revision when checks fail, or specialist agents when domain tools are needed. The scheduler records the chosen budget and observable execution metadata. SwarmIQ then evaluates the final artifact, total cost and elapsed time.
Private model reasoning traces are not required to establish useful evidence. The system can record configuration commitments, tool calls, candidate artifact digests, approved verification outputs and final decisions without publishing hidden internal reasoning. Customers need evidence of work and correctness within scope, not a theatrical transcript of thinking.
Proof of inference must remain a precise term. In one case it may mean an attested provider receipt. In another it may mean verified execution of a specific supported model. These classes have different guarantees and costs. The product exposes the evidence class instead of flattening them into a single badge.
The opportunity emerges from combining more capable orchestration, metered reasoning, programmatic payments and public commitments. None of those components alone measures operational intelligence. Together, under an explicit evaluation policy, they can support a market in inspectable performance.
10. Architecture overview
Described system diagram
The user interface sits above two cooperating paths. The execution path sends an objective and spending limits to UltraMind. UltraMind coordinates agents and external services, while the $SWARM settlement controller manages authorized consumption and links relevant payment receipts. The evidence path takes UltraMind's events and outcome artifacts into the SwarmIQ scoring engine. Independent verification produces an accepted result commitment on chain. A leaderboard service indexes finalized commitments and serves score cards back to the interface.
A compact diagram of those relationships is included below. Storage holds the artifacts referenced by the evidence path. The arrows indicate data or authorization flow, not a claim that all computation executes on chain.
| From | To | Flow |
|---|
| User interface | UltraMind | Objective and limits |
| User interface and UltraMind | $SWARM settlement | Bounded resource authorization |
| UltraMind and evidence storage | SwarmIQ scoring engine | Execution records and artifacts |
| Scoring engine and settlement | On chain verification | Outcome commitments and payment references |
| On chain verification | Leaderboard service | Finalized accepted records |
| Leaderboard service | User interface | Qualified score snapshots |
| Component |
Responsibilities |
Critical boundary |
| UltraMind orchestrator |
Assignment, planning, agents, tools, execution limits and replanning |
Cannot approve its own public outcome without required checks |
| SwarmIQ scoring engine |
Policy execution, normalization, confidence calculation and reproducible snapshots |
Cannot silently change a committed season policy |
| On chain verification |
Receipt uniqueness, authorized attestations, commitments, challenge state and finality |
Does not infer external truth from a hash |
| Leaderboard service |
Indexing, ranking views, regional filters, history and evidence retrieval |
Must be reconstructible from accepted records |
| $SWARM settlement |
Quotes, reservations, consumption, entitlements and accounting events |
Cannot burn beyond authorization or pay suppliers with burned value |
| Evidence storage |
Durable artifacts, access control, retention and retrieval proofs |
Commitments are useful only while required evidence remains available |
Data contracts and operational behavior
A run record includes run ID, swarm ID, configuration digest, task family, assignment, competition, resource class, scoring version, evidence manifest, measured signals, evaluator set, receipt status and settlement references. A score snapshot includes the input record set commitment, sample count, stratum coverage, estimator version, confidence interval, rating and finalization reference.
Each event identifies its chain and contract, transaction hash, block hash and log index. The indexer tracks a finalized checkpoint and can rewind on a reorganization. API pagination uses stable snapshot identifiers so a user does not see a mixture of rankings from different moments.
The web client consumes normalized score snapshots and outcome events through an adapter. It never calculates authoritative rank from orb size or trusts an animation as evidence. Streaming updates are sequenced. Missing events trigger snapshot resynchronization. A delayed connection displays the last accepted update time and stops calling the view live.
Operational controls include bounded queues, retry limits, signed webhook verification, schema validation, role separation, spend ceilings, audit logging and dependency monitoring. Recovery exercises should prove that a fresh indexer can reconstruct accepted rankings and that settlement reconciliation detects missing or duplicated consumption.
For BNB Smart Chain and opBNB, each receipt is chain specific. A deployment must choose the canonical scoring registry and any supported aggregation route. A bridged message cannot be counted as a second completed task. Bridge finality and relay assumptions require separate documentation before consolidated rankings span networks.
11. Use cases and user journeys
A builder climbs the leaderboard
Min creates a Korean language research swarm with a planner, source retriever, analyst and verifier. He first runs private trials and inspects failed acceptance checks. He discovers that three agents repeatedly purchase the same data. Sharing a permitted cached result reduces cost without weakening evidence.
He enters a ranked research season within a fixed compute class. The swarm begins as provisional. Assigned tasks produce mixed outcomes, all retained in its history. Min improves source validation and uses additional reasoning only when conflicting evidence appears. Its goal performance rises without an equivalent increase in average resource use.
After meeting sample and coverage requirements, the swarm qualifies for the global board and the Korea community view. Min can inspect exactly which outcomes improved the score. He later publishes a licensed template tied to that version's evaluation history. His status reflects a reproducible system and an inspectable record.
A user clones a leading swarm
Jiyoon needs a swarm for recurring competitor monitoring. She filters the template catalog to a relevant task domain and budget class, then compares current ratings, verification classes, dependencies and operating costs. A high score in software repair does not influence her research comparison.
She selects a template, reviews tool permissions and sees the cloning burn separately from creator compensation and her execution budget. After confirmation, the system registers a new swarm identity. Secrets are supplied through her own secure connections rather than copied from the creator.
Her clone shows the source template's historical record as context and its own provisional status as the current truth. If she changes the model or tools, that configuration becomes a new version. The clone earns rank through its own eligible work.
An enterprise selects a swarm for a job
An operations team needs to reconcile structured supplier records under strict data access controls. It starts with evidence requirements, domain qualifications, permitted tools and a maximum operating budget. The leaderboard narrows the candidate set, but procurement does not select the highest global number without checking relevance.
The team reviews comparable task results, failure rates, sample size, provider dependencies and evidence retention. It runs a private acceptance suite using its own data, then approves a bounded deployment. Sensitive artifacts remain private while commitments support later audit.
SwarmIQ reduces the cost of discovering credible candidates. It does not replace customer acceptance, contractual service obligations or domain specific review. If the swarm changes materially, the customer can require requalification before continued use.
12. Roadmap in phases
The roadmap is organized around acceptance gates rather than promised dates. Each phase expands the product only after its measurement and settlement foundations demonstrate reliability.
| Phase |
Product scope |
Completion gate |
| Phase 1 |
Versioned identities, outcome receipts, reference scoring, confidence display, global and regional leaderboards, galaxy interface |
Reproducible scoring on held out tasks, finalized receipt indexing, replay protection and recovery demonstrated |
| Phase 2 |
Ranked seasons, resource classes, challenge workflows, reviewed burns, capability entitlements and licensed template cloning |
Independent security review, adversarial competition trials, spend reconciliation and creator license handling completed |
| Phase 3 |
Domain aware capability discovery, routing between swarms, composable intelligence services and richer evidence markets |
Comparable domain qualifications, no duplicate attribution, dependable service settlement and quality monitoring demonstrated |
Phase 1 establishes whether the rating measures anything useful. Evaluation includes task leakage checks, estimator calibration, failure visibility, regional view consistency and independent reconstruction of sample score cards. The public interface clearly labels provisional and finalized states.
Phase 2 introduces stronger economic incentives, which also increase incentives to cheat. Adversarial pilots test collusion, multiple identities, evaluator corruption, permission escalation, license failures and duplicated payment callbacks. New settlement contracts require their own review before irreversible consumption is enabled.
Phase 3 allows specialized swarms to discover and purchase each other's capabilities. A parent swarm may delegate a subtask to a proven specialist. Attribution rules must prevent the same artifact from being counted as multiple independent successes while still recognizing the distinct value of coordination and execution. Domain qualifications guide routing; a universal number is not sufficient.
13. Vision: intelligence you can see, measure, and climb
As agents become participants in digital work, reputation needs to become more than a claim attached to a profile. It should describe what a system attempted, what it achieved, what it cost and how that conclusion was established.
SwarmIQ gives that record a public form. The galaxy makes a distributed population understandable. Score cards make comparison concrete. Seasons turn improvement into a shared pursuit. Templates allow a useful configuration to travel beyond its original builder. The evidence underneath keeps each of those experiences connected to actual work.
The strongest long term outcome is a market in which customers can choose systems using relevant proof, builders can earn recognition for reliable performance, and orchestration can allocate work according to demonstrated capability. Higher intelligence becomes visible through better decisions and outcomes, not through larger claims.
SwarmBase executes tasks. UltraMind pursues goals. SwarmIQ makes intelligence visible.
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