KGeN

KGeN (Kratos Gamer Network) is a verified-human data network powering Physical AI and Large Language Models across the Global South, and the operator of the KGeN Economy Protocols — a suite of developer APIs (Esports and Loyalty) that let game studios add leaderboard-based competitions and customizable reward systems paid in KCash, redeemable for real-world items at the Kratos Store. Server-to-server and per-user (JWT/OTP) endpoints cover sessions, tournaments, wallets, rewards, and rewardable events. Company revenue feeds $KGEN tokenomics, where every AI-data contract permanently retires token supply on-chain. Backed by Accel and Prosus Ventures.

KGeN is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Marketplace, Gaming, Esports, and Loyalty.

KGeN’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, authentication, sandbox, and 10 more developer resources.

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19.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 5/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 99/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Company Marketplace Gaming Esports Loyalty Rewards Web3 Ai Data Developer API

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 19.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 5/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

KGeN Economy Protocols

Developer APIs for the KGeN Esports and Loyalty protocols — sessions, tournaments, leaderboards, wallets (KCash), rewards, and rewardable events for game developers.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kgen Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Kgen Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

DataModel

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kgen
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kgen.png
name: KGeN
description: KGeN (Kratos Gamer Network) is a verified-human data network powering Physical AI and Large Language Models across
  the Global South, and the operator of the KGeN Economy Protocols — a suite of developer APIs (Esports and Loyalty) that
  let game studios add leaderboard-based competitions and customizable reward systems paid in KCash, redeemable for real-world
  items at the Kratos Store. Server-to-server and per-user (JWT/OTP) endpoints cover sessions, tournaments, wallets, rewards,
  and rewardable events. Company revenue feeds $KGEN tokenomics, where every AI-data contract permanently retires token supply
  on-chain. Backed by Accel and Prosus Ventures.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kgen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
- prosus-ventures
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Company
- Marketplace
- Gaming
- Esports
- Loyalty
- Rewards
- Web3
- Ai Data
- Developer API
tags_raw:
- Company
- Marketplaces
- Gaming
- Esports
- Loyalty
- Rewards
- Web3
- AI Data
- Developer API
apis:
- name: KGeN Economy Protocols
  description: Developer APIs for the KGeN Esports and Loyalty protocols — sessions, tournaments, leaderboards, wallets (KCash),
    rewards, and rewardable events for game developers.
  humanURL: https://docs.kgen.io/
  baseURL: https://stage-platform-protocols.kgen.io
  tags:
  - Gaming
  - Esports
  - Loyalty
  - Rewards
  - Wallets
  tags_raw:
  - Gaming
  - Esports
  - Loyalty
  - Rewards
  - Wallet
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kgen.io/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kgen.io/docs/Esport%20Protocol%20V1/Tech%20integration/api-usage
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.kgen.io/docs/Esport%20Protocol%20V1/Introduction
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/kgen-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/kgen-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/kgen-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/kgen-data-model.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/kgen-sandbox.yml
  - type: X-MCPServerCandidate
    url: mcp/kgen-mcp.yml
    note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list
      derived from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported
      mcp_server correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://kgen.io/blog
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kgen.io/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.kgen.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.kgen.io/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.kgen.io/docs/Esport%20Protocol%20V1/Tech%20integration/api-usage
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.kgen.io/docs/Esport%20Protocol%20V1/Introduction
- type: Blog
  url: https://kgennewsletter.substack.com
- type: Support
  url: https://discord.com/invite/kgen-904054419597955164
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kgen-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/kgen-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/kgen-error-codes.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/kgen-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/kgen-sandbox.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/kgen-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kgen-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kgen-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/kgen-well-known.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

KGeN API — frequently asked questions

Does KGeN have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from KGeN, including KGeN Economy Protocols.

How do I authenticate with the KGeN API?

KGeN uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Kgen Authentication.

Is the KGeN API ready for AI agents?

KGeN has a Kin Score of 19.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 5.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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