arknet
A fair-launch protocol for decentralized AI inference. Permissionless, censorship-resistant, globally distributed. One binary. OpenAI-compatible API.
Fair launch — no premine, no investor round, no team allocation, no airdrop.
Every ARK in circulation will be minted post-genesis against verified inference work. The maintainer holds zero tokens at launch. Source code, genesis config, and signed binaries will publish simultaneously on mainnet day.
What is arknet?
A decentralized network where anyone can run a compute node and earn ARK for serving verifiable AI output, and any user can submit OpenAI-compatible inference requests and get a complete response or a full refund. The protocol is trust-minimized: no single entity can censor, seize funds, or fake work.
Roadmap
- Phase 0 — Local single node · shipped v0.1.0 · 171 tests passing · determinism proven
- Phase 1 — Devnet · 4-5 validators, full L1+L2 stack · next
- Phase 2 — Solo testnet · payment channels, encrypted mempool, 90-day uptime
- Phase 3 — Closed beta · real emission, security audit, launch preparation
- Phase 4 — Genesis mainnet · source code goes public, first block mines, anyone can join
At genesis (Phase 4)
On launch day this site serves docs, the operator guide, the genesis config, and a one-line installer. Until then, there is nothing to run — the protocol is under solo development. Starring or following the repository is not possible during the private phase.
# Available at genesis, not before curl -fsSL https://arknet.arkengel.com/install.sh | sh arknet init --network mainnet arknet start
Design principles
- Hash-only model integrity — the protocol doesn't care where a model came from, only its SHA-256.
- Verifiable computation — deterministic re-execution or TEE attestation; no trust assumptions on compute nodes.
- Zero-trust between all participants — users, routers, compute nodes, verifiers, validators are all adversarial in the threat model.
- Community-operated infrastructure — no founder-run gateways, seeds, forums, or support email. Everything lives on-chain or on free GitHub infrastructure.
- OpenAI API compatibility — decentralization is invisible to the end user. Any OpenAI client works by changing
base_url.