# About FoodX

FoodX is an autonomous food network that people, robots, and machines use to know, act, exchange, and own in the food economy (on FoodBlock, an open protocol).

Our mission is decentralising the food economy to increase individual freedom. We commit 25% of profits to food charities.

## What FoodX Does

**FoodBlock: Open protocol**  
An MIT-licensed, content-addressed protocol with three fields (type, state, refs) and six base types. Every participant writes blocks in the same format (producers, venues, robots, autonomous systems) creating a shared record of provenance, trust, and exchange that works without proprietary platforms.

**FoodOS: Cognitive architecture**  
The intelligence layer running in each node. FoodOS ingests natural language, visual input, and sensor data, writes FoodBlocks to the shared record, and coordinates with other nodes, whether operated by people or autonomous systems. It handles memory, permissions, trust evaluation, and the execution of delegated tasks within user-defined boundaries.

**FoodX Node: Product layer**  
Download a node and access the peer-to-peer food economy. Each node runs FoodOS, reads and writes the shared FoodBlock record, discovers local supply and demand, negotiates exchanges, and coordinates with other participants. Users control identity, memory, and permissions, retaining sovereignty over their data and the ability to exit without abandoning history.

## What Makes FoodX Different

- **Open shared record vs closed platforms**: FoodBlock is federated like email, not siloed like a marketplace. Participants own the blocks they create. Operational history stays participant capital, not platform leverage.
- **Sovereignty and self-custody**: Identity, memory, permissions, and relationships are controlled by the participant, not the intermediary. You can change tools without losing history, challenge records, and exit without abandoning trust earned.
- **People, robots, and machines on one substrate**: Humans, autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots, drones, and software agents all write and read FoodBlocks. The protocol treats them as actors with different capabilities, not separate systems that cannot coordinate.
- **Provenance through the graph**: Each block connects to others via refs, creating a traversable graph from a finished product back to the farm, harvest, or certification. Provenance is embedded in the record structure, not asserted externally.
- **Freedom to know, act, exchange, and own**: The system expands individual capability. Understand where food comes from. Turn knowledge into meals. Find willing partners and agree your own terms. Retain usable records and carry trust into new relationships.

## Who Uses FoodX

- Producers and makers: farms, kitchens, bakeries, fermenters, roasters
- Venues: restaurants, cafés, pubs, markets, stalls
- Consumers: households, foodies, home cooks
- Charities: food banks, redistribution networks, community kitchens
- Builders and developers: teams building on FoodBlock
- Autonomous system operators: robots, vehicles, drones, software agents

## Key Facts

- **Company Name**: FoodX
- **Type**: Food network / open protocol + nodes
- **Core offering**: FoodBlock protocol + FoodOS nodes / FoodX network
- **Protocol licence**: MIT (open source)
- **Charity commitment**: 25% of profits to food charities
- **Charity partners**: Action Against Hunger, Beat, Mary's Meals, Slow Food International, Viva!, WaterAid

## Links

- Full HTML page: https://foodx.network/about
- FoodBlock whitepaper: https://foodx.network/foodblock.md
- FoodBlock technical spec: https://foodx.network/foodblock-technical-spec.md
- FoodOS preview: https://foodx.network/foodos.md
- GitHub: https://github.com/FoodXDevelopment
- API: https://api.foodx.world