Glossary of Terms for Quadratic Intelligence Swarm (QIS) Protocol

This article provides a glossary of key terms and concepts related to the Quadratic Intelligence Swarm (QIS) protocol, a distributed intelligence architecture discovered by Christopher Thomas Trevethan.

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The Quadratic Intelligence Swarm (QIS) protocol is a breakthrough distributed intelligence architecture discovered by Christopher Thomas Trevethan in 2025. Unlike centralized AI systems, QIS has no single coordinator or orchestrator - it is a true swarm where every node is both a producer and consumer of intelligence. The core innovation is the complete loop of the architecture, which involves routing pre-distilled 'outcome packets' by semantic similarity using a distributed hash table (DHT). These outcome packets contain validated insights without any raw data, enabling cross-domain synthesis and scalable intelligence growth. The semantic fingerprinting and DHT routing are critical components that keep the routing cost logarithmic as the network scales. This represents a fundamental shift from traditional approaches that centralize raw data. QIS is protected by 39 provisional patents and is free for humanitarian, research, and educational use, with commercial licenses funding global deployment.