Introduction

In the AI era, influence is king.

We stand at the precipice of a massive structural shift in the global economy. As Artificial Intelligence drives the marginal cost of content creation to zero, the world is being flooded with information. In this new reality, the scarcest asset is no longer production capability; it is Attention.

Simultaneously, global capital is in transition. Amid market volatility and an expected bear market, the nature of assets has changed fundamentally.

Smart money seeks sustainable Real-World Asset (RWA) yields, and asset providers are aggressively seeking to buy influence among the new generation to secure future growth.

Despite such natural complementarity between Capital and Attention, a fundamental disconnect prevents these two forces from synchronizing:

1. The Attention Trap: For assets, projects, and creators, capturing mindshare is harder than ever. Algorithms dictate visibility, and "virality" is often fleeting, untrackable, and impossible to monetize effectively.

2. The Capital Silo: For investors, capital is trapped in inefficient markets. It struggles to identify where real influence lies, and it lacks access to high-quality, real-world yield products that can weather market downturns.

The result?

Capital facilitates influence inefficiently through opaque intermediaries, while valuable assets starve for liquidity because they cannot prove their attention metrics to the market.

City Protocol is the Attention & Capital Infrastructure for Onchain Assets.

We are building the bridge that connects the demand for influence with the supply of capital. We believe that in the future, Attention will drive DeFi.

Our vision is to create a world where "Mindshare" is measurable and can bring impact. We are building the Attention Capital Market.

In this ecosystem, influence is not just a vanity metric; it is the collateral that unlocks liquidity.

City Protocol constructs a Dual Flywheel where these forces compound:

Attention creates Value: As assets gain verifiable mindshare, they attract more capital, spinning the flywheel faster and more efficiently.

Liquidity drives Attention: This capital is deployed to bootstrap distribution networks and incentivize community engagement.

Capital flows into RWA: Defensive capital seeks our fixed yield products, creating deep liquidity pools. The distribution built with the Attention infrastructure brings TVL to the Capital RWA module.

To realize this vision, City Protocol introduces a full-stack infrastructure for attention and capital:

1. The Distribution Engine (Viral City): In an age of AI-slop, human attention is premium. Viral City is a decentralized B2B2C attention network. It serves as an "Attention Engine" that incentivizes users to create and distribute content, turning passive consumption into active distribution. It doesn't just track views; it translates into verifiable Mindshare, providing the data layer necessary to quantify influence.

2. The Trust Layer (City ID): Capital requires verification. City ID provides the onchain infrastructure for reputation and attribution. It maps the flow of attention, identifying exactly who contributed to an asset's growth. This transforms anonymous traffic into "Proof of Contribution," allowing the protocol to reward the most effective distributors.

3. The Financial Rails (RWA & Capital Infrastructure): We democratize access to the "Experience Economy" and private credit markets. By tokenizing real-world cash flows, from concerts and festivals to creator financing, we create City Vaults. These vaults provide the sustainable, market-uncorrelated yield (10-20% APR) that institutional and retail capital craves, serving as the financial bedrock that powers the entire ecosystem.

City Protocol is establishing the standard for how assets are distributed and financed in the digital age. We are building a future where capital funds attention, attention generates a signal, and a signal attracts capital—a compounding loop where any asset with real traction can be discovered, financed, and scaled.

Welcome to the infrastructure of the future. Welcome to City Protocol.