🔐Security

Compute Validation

All nodes providing compute capacity to the Giga network must undertake a rigorous Proof-of-Compute verification process, powered by our custom PoC algorithms built atop major crypto protocols. Nodes submit hardware attestations, stake a security deposit, and complete intensive benchmarking across variables like batch size, dataset type, and model complexity.

This benchmarking allows the protocol to calibrate node capabilities and antifraud mechanisms ahead of job allocation. Additional spot-checks are conducted periodically to ensure continued validity. Only nodes passing these gauntlets of cryptographic proofs and hardware/software attestations are certified as validated compute providers.

Ongoing compute jobs themselves utilize checkpointing, zero-knowledge proofs, and other rollup-based mechanisms for verifying correct execution without requiring validators to reproduce full-node behavior. Gas optimizations limit waste while retaining security guarantees. Together these constructs provide assurance for model developers and clients that all computations occur as agreed upon with validated nodes.

Data Integrity and Confidentiality

Smart contract + FHE + Auditing

End-user data, unfinished model states, node credentials and other sensitive information flowing through Giga are protected via encryption, sharding, and access control patterns. Data is split into segments distributed across decentralized storage built on reliable peer-to-peer filesystems.

Zero-knowledge cryptography again plays an important role, facilitating transmission and coordination without risk of leakage. Granular permissions, compartmentalization, and principles of least authority further restrict unnecessary exposure. Audits, bug bounties, and adversarial monitoring provide additional reassurance as techniques and threats evolve.

Together these technical and process-based controls provide multilayered security enforcing the confidentiality and integrity of assets essential to Giga's successful operation.