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SingularityNET: A Decentralized, Open Market and Network for AIs

Goertzel's 2017 proposal for a marketplace where AI services discover, call and pay each other. The paper is broad on purpose: discovery, reputation, inter-agent calls and a tokenised payment rail, sketched as one network.

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Authors: Ben Goertzel and the SingularityNET team
Date: 2017
Publisher: Ben Goertzel and the SingularityNET team
Version: Source cited by the 2017 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0051
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — SingularityNET white paper
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Author–date

Goertzel, B., & the SingularityNET team (2017). SingularityNET: A Decentralized, Open Market and Network for AIs. Ben Goertzel and the SingularityNET team. https://public.singularitynet.io/whitepaper.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{singularitynet2017,
  title = {SingularityNET: A Decentralized, Open Market and Network for AIs},
  author = {Ben Goertzel and the SingularityNET team},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {Ben Goertzel and the SingularityNET team},
  url = {https://public.singularitynet.io/whitepaper.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/singularitynet}
}

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AU  - Ben Goertzel
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PY  - 2017
PB  - Ben Goertzel and the SingularityNET team
UR  - https://public.singularitynet.io/whitepaper.pdf
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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