- The Honey Pot: Randomly (1 out of every 80–120 requests), the Orchestrator injects a Test Vector into the node’s workload. It looks and behaves like a normal request – the node cannot detect that it is a test.
- Ground Truth Known: Each Test Vector is generated from a known prompt and model state, allowing the Orchestrator to know the correct answer in advance.
- The Integrity Check: The system compares the node’s answer with the known solution. Deviations outside the threshold indicate the node did not compute faithfully.
- Automatic Penalties: Reputation drop, reward nullification (0 Npnts for the cycle), and automatic ban for repeat offenders.
Economic Security Without Staking
Because node rewards scale directly with Npnts, and cheating eliminates Npnts, the system creates a simple equation: Honest computation > Cheating. Always. Nodes maximize profits only by performing real work.
Because node rewards scale directly with Npnts, and cheating eliminates Npnts, the system creates a simple equation: Honest computation > Cheating. Always. Nodes maximize profits only by performing real work.