What is Caching in the Wayfinder Ecosystem? A Guide to PROMPT, the Native Token of the AI Agent Protocol

Caching in the Wayfinder ecosystem involves locking your PRIME tokens into a smart contract for a set period, boosting your Contribution Score

Parallel, a sci-fi trading card game, is expanding its horizons with the introduction of Parallel Colony, an AI-driven survival sim game, and Wayfinder, an AI agents protocol designed to support Colony’s gameplay.

The builders are cooking up something special with Wayfinder. It’s an AI agents protocol designed for multiple blockchains. People can use it to create their own AI agents, which are then able to autonomously navigate blockchains and perform a variety of tasks, like transferring assets or minting NFTs.

And to top it off, the protocol is governed by the community and has its own native token. Sounds promising, right? Well, if you’re into Parallel and AI agents, then you might want to pay attention.

In this article, we’ll be diving deeper into the Wayfinder ecosystem and exploring its native token, PROMPT. We’ll also cover caching, which is how people can participate in the network and earn PROMPT.

But before we proceed, it’s crucial to note that this article is solely intended for educational purposes and does not constitute financial advice. Always conduct your own research and analysis before making any decisions.

What is Wayfinder?

Wayfinder is an AI-focused, “omni-chain” tool designed for user-owned, autonomous AI agents to navigate multiple blockchains and perform a variety of tasks. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s one of the few S-tier titles in the crypto gaming scene today.

Users can spend PROMPT to create a new shell, which can then be fed with relevant information, like text files and other data, to train it for specific tasks. Then you can expand or reset a shell’s memory to optimize its performance and tailor its behavior.

Notably, shells learn from their own experiences and the collective knowledge of the Wayfinder ecosystem, improving over time. They are guided by crowdsourced, predefined navigation routes—Wayfinder Paths—so they can interact with blockchain apps and smart contracts in a streamlined fashion.

This dynamic allows users to instruct shells to perform tasks like asset transfers, NFT minting, and token swaps, all autonomously and across multiple supported chains like Ethereum, Solana, Base, and beyond.

The big idea, then, is that Wayfinder will serve as an open protocol for AI agents that can serve a variety of use cases across the cryptoeconomy. For instance, shells have huge potential for crypto games regarding resource mining, trading, and managing in-game assets, with this being the initial inspiration for Wayfinder itself—Parallel Colony needed such a system.

What is PROMPT?

PROMPT is the native token of the Wayfinder ecosystem. It serves multiple functions within the network, including:

Firstly, users can spend PROMPT to create shells and expand their memories, while developers can stake or earn the token for proposing new wayfinding paths or creating private ones.

PROMPT is also used for community governance over Wayfinder and for paying gas fees within the network, ensuring shells can perform tasks like minting NFTs.

The maximum authorized supply of PROMPT is 1 billion tokens, and 45% of the total supply is slated to be distributed over time to users who cache their Parallel’s native PRIME tokens within Wayfinder.

Caching opened on June 5th, 2024, and +10.5M PRIME, or around 25% of the PRIME circulating supply, has already been cached since then.

To cache or not to cache?

Caching in the Wayfinder ecosystem involves locking your PRIME tokens into a smart contract for a set period, boosting your Contribution Score, which impacts your governance power and rewards. The rewards are calculated daily based on the amount of PRIME cached and the caching duration, with longer durations and extensions increasing the time multiplier.

This system allows users to either maximize rewards by locking tokens for extended periods from the start or maintain flexibility by using rolling extensions to continually increase their multiplier.

Whether to cache PRIME, and how much you cache and for how long, depends on your views about Parallel and Wayfinder.

If you feel confident these enterprises have bright futures, then you could cache your PRIME for the maximum lock-up period of 3 years to get the highest x85 rewards multiplier possible. If you’re interested but not passionate and want to keep your options open in case of bad price action, opting for shorter lock-up periods will still net you some PROMPT while not tying your funds down for years.

How to cache PRIME

If you’re interested in caching PRIME for PROMPT, you need some PRIME on Ethereum or Base, as caching is supported on either network. With some PRIME in hand, you would then follow these steps:

Visit the Wayfinder app and connect your Web3 wallet. If you don’t have the app yet, you can download it from the official website.

Once connected, select the "Cache