⚒️Core Workflow Overview

The end-to-end process of ValidNet involves four seamless stages, leveraging AI Anchors, DePIN, and blockchain to deliver personalized, verifiable, and efficient AI outputs:

1. Query Initiation

Process:

• Users submit requests through ValidNet dApps, SDK, or directly to AI Anchors.

• AI Anchors parse the user’s intent and requirements, including output style, domain-specific rules, compute needs, and privacy preferences.

Technical Details:

• Anchors utilize natural language processing (NLP) to extract query parameters, converting them into a standardized JSON-based rule set.

• Users can specify task urgency, cost budgets, or preferred node locations, stored on-chain for transparency.

2. DePIN Resource Allocation

Process:

AI Anchors interact with the ValidNet decentralized compute marketplace to select optimal DePIN nodes for task execution, based on:

• Cost: Real-time bidding mechanism, inspired by Akash Network’s auction model, ensures cost-effective node selection.

• Capability: Hardware attestation via Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) verifies node specs.

• Reputation: On-chain performance history, including past validation accuracy and uptime, determines node reliability.

Technical Details:

• Smart contracts match Anchor requirements with node profiles, prioritizing nodes with high reputation scores and low latency.

• Nodes stake VAT tokens to participate, ensuring commitment and reducing malicious behavior.

3. Execution & Validation

Process:

Parallel Processing: The query is distributed to at least three DePIN nodes for redundancy, ensuring robust execution and fault tolerance.

Output Generation: Each node processes the query using multi-model AI, producing an inference output.

Cryptographic Validation: Nodes generate a hash-based commitment to prove correct processing, verified via multi-party computation (MPC) for integrity.

Proof-of-Validation (PoV) Consensus:

• Validators (a subset of DePIN nodes) compare outputs and commitments using a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus mechanism.

• Matching outputs are finalized on-chain, marked as “verified.”

• Discrepancies trigger slashing of staked VAT tokens from malicious nodes, with tasks re-routed to new nodes.

Technical Details:

• MPC ensures that nodes cannot tamper with outputs without being detected, thereby achieving distributed trust.

• BFT consensus requires at least 2/3 node agreement, balancing speed and security.

• On-chain reputation scores are updated based on validation success, incentivizing honest behavior.

4. Output Delivery & Monetization

Process:

Verified results are returned to the user via dApps or SDK, accompanied by a trust score.

Micro-payments in VAT tokens are automatically distributed via smart contracts:

• DePIN node operators: 70% for compute and validation contributions.

• Anchor NFT owners: 15% royalty for creating and sharing high-quality Anchors.

• Protocol treasury: 15% to fund ecosystem growth.

Technical Details:

• Payments are settled on Layer-2 Network to minimize gas fees and ensure scalability.

• Users can monetize Anchors by listing them on the ValidNet marketplace, where community validation enhances their value.