2. Kairos Resource System Overview

Kairos is a DePIN‑based resource‑stack network that delivers flexible, efficient, incentive‑driven resource services in a Web3‑native manner. By offering a unified, composable, and extensible base layer, Kairos propels the sustainable evolution of decentralized intelligent systems and safeguards critical infrastructure across multiple domains.

The system consists of two primary components:

1. SoulBoundRing — a wearable smart‑hardware device.

2. Kairos Compute Network — the on‑chain backend stack.

Together they form an accessible, programmable, and incentivized platform for resource provision and collaborative computation.

2.1 SoulBoundRing Smart‑Hardware Ring

Kairos designs DePIN nodes as lightweight, wearable smart hardware—the SoulBoundRing. Beyond medical‑grade health‑monitoring features common to mainstream wearables, the ring integrates encrypted‑payment capabilities and serves simultaneously as a user‑identity credential and on‑chain resource gateway.

Essentially, every SoulBoundRing is an edge‑compute node in the Kairos network. Users can seamlessly connect local resources (home GPUs, ARM devices, personal data, etc.) to the compute network and earn on‑chain rewards for their contributions. Each ring is both a data/resource ingress and an incentivized edge node, embodying the synergy of “hardware‑as‑node” and “node‑as‑value.”

2.2 Kairos Compute Network

The compute network is the on‑chain backend stack that handles resource scheduling, task distribution, agent deployment, and reward settlement. Building on hardware‑resource onboarding, the platform enables no‑code AI workflow construction. Tasks are automatically decomposed and dispatched to multiple edge nodes, achieving efficient distributed collaborative computing.

An Agent‑as‑a‑Service mechanism lets users permissionlessly deploy agents and bind them to dedicated tokens, granting each agent both tradability and service‑pricing capability—effectively turning them into micro dApps. The platform also allows CEX APIs, DeFi protocols, and on‑chain analytics modules to be encapsulated into edge nodes, enabling decentralized financial agents and expanding the stack’s application boundaries.

2.3 Technical Advantages

• Low latency, local execution — Agents run directly on local or nearby edge nodes (GPUs, Raspberry Pi, smartphones, wearables), drastically reducing inference and response times—ideal for latency‑sensitive scenarios such as on‑chain trading bots, multi‑turn dialogue agents, and health‑alert systems.

• Scalable and decentralized agent deployment — The “atomic‑node” mechanism enables seamless deployment, rapid teardown, and elastic reconfiguration of agents across heterogeneous devices, supporting large‑scale parallel tasks, high‑frequency multi‑agent collaboration, and dynamic cross‑device scheduling.

• Privacy‑preserving computation — Sensitive information (private keys, API keys, identity credentials) never leaves the local device. Together with TEE‑based security, this provides hardware‑level isolation, preventing data leakage and ensuring safe task execution.