Camp Network has launched an L1 testnet for IP and AI after raising $30M from Blockchain Capital, 1kx, dao5, Lattice, OKX, and others — aiming to build a comprehensive infrastructure where ownership, provenance, and monetization are embedded at the protocol level.
More on Camp Network’s Initiative
Let’s take a closer look at what Camp Network is trying to build — and why it’s not the same as the familiar DeFi protocols even with all the smart contracts’ broad functionality.
Camp Network is launching an L1 testnet specifically designed to support generative models and autonomous AI agents — and to address their core problem: the lack of a reliable way to determine who owns training data and how compensation is distributed.
Yes, many DeFi protocols are moving in that direction, but often because their architecture allows it — not because they were designed for it from the ground up. That, in turn, creates structural overhead. In contrast, Camp is building a Layer 1 where provenance and permissioning are native protocol-level features. At the core is Proof of Provenance — a mechanism for registering IP with traceable origin, licensing, and attribution, enabling not just rights enforcement but also derivative creation, automated payments, and structured training data economics.
James Chi, Co-Founder:
“Camp Network exists to solve the missing link between AI and IP.”
So Camp Network is not a decentralized app — it’s a full Layer 1 blockchain with a dedicated execution environment, supporting:
- gasless IP registration and a native royalty layer;
- isolated appchains with dedicated blockspace and compute;
- an agent framework for training and running AI agents on tokenized IP.
This architecture enables the system to scale across verticals like media, gaming, synthetic voice/video, and other domains where data requires not just storage, but enforceable rights.
Rahul Doraiswami, CTO of Camp Network, summarizes the thesis:
“Model architecture is converging, and compute is cornered — the real frontier is training data.”
Conclusion
There’s no question: this is a foundational Web3 infrastructure initiative — even compared to projects like Chainlink — and yet another example of how two key technologies of the decade, blockchain and AI, are converging. Incidentally, I highly recommend checking out how AI has already been integrated into crypto trading by major players, well before all the LLM hype, and how it’s now becoming accessible to almost everyone.
