# 2.2 Core Principles 1\. Knowledge Ownership\ Knowledge contributors retain economic and attribution rights tied to their content. Assets cannot be arbitrarily repurposed without transparent accounting. 2\. Verifiable Provenance\ All knowledge assets include cryptographic commitments that bind authorship, edits, validation, and lineage. This establishes a traceable reasoning path for AI outputs. 3\. Privacy-Preserving Utility\ Knowledge remains encrypted off-chain while being usable through permissioned access and zero-knowledge attestations where necessary. 4\. Programmable Value Flow\ Inference-level royalty accounting ensures aligned incentives:\ “AI grows → knowledge contributors earn.” 5\. Decentralized Quality Assurance\ Multiple assessors contribute to knowledge evaluation, weighted by reputation, expertise, and historical performance. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.gnosislayer.xyz/2.-system-overview/2.2-core-principles.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.