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Impact and Traction

A snapshot of what InfiniteZero has built, for funders, partners and new contributors. Every figure below can be checked against this repository; see How to verify.

As of: 29 October 2026 (develop branch). Refresh this page quarterly.

At a glance
Network DevNet 1.0 live on Optimism Sepolia since April 2026, with validator nodes running 24/7 from Japan to Canada; DevNet 2.0's contracts are on develop, next to deploy
Working example MNIST model trained end to end through full on-chain training rounds
Smart contracts 10 contracts plus a shared library, covering staking, slashing, rewards, emission, fees and fair-launch distribution
Automated tests 500+ Solidity tests and 500+ Python tests, run in CI on every push
Development activity 633 commits since April 2025, 392 of them in the last 90 days
Pull requests merged 89; since October 2026, every change needs an approving review from someone other than its author
Code contributors 7 people with merged pull requests; the wider team spans 4 continents
Documentation 18 participant guides and 55 technical documents
Reach Organisation README available in 26 languages
Funding to date $50,000 (Edge City SHIFT Grants, Cosmos Institute, University of Oxford)

Engineering quality

We treat the DevNet as a dress rehearsal for mainnet:

  • Security review of the smart contracts by a project contributor, with findings fixed or tracked publicly: foundry-src-security-review.md.
  • Adversarial threat model covering Sybil, collusion and other attacks, with each one marked defended or known gap: adversarial-threat-model.md.
  • Privacy review of the differential-privacy mechanisms by an outside contributor, with findings fixed or tracked as open issues: dp-mechanism-review.md.
  • CI checks on every change: the Solidity test suite and the Python unit tests, a contract-size gate, an advisory lint check and a documentation link check.
  • Two-person rule (adopted October 2026): every change to develop needs an approving review from someone other than its author (MAINTAINING.md).

Recent milestones

  • Cryptoeconomic layer (P3): staking, slashing tiers and penalties, dispute resolution, a reward engine, fee routing, and a geometric-decay emission schedule, all merged to develop.
  • Cross-model penalty escalation (October 2026): validators can no longer avoid penalties by spreading missed duties across models (#193, merged in #236).
  • Fair-launch distributor contract: the on-chain foundation for distributing tokens to the people who run the network, with no ICO and no VC allocation.
  • Open contributor programme: good first issues, a tokenomics open call (#155) and a privacy research call, open to anyone.

See the roadmap for what's next.

Recognition and support
🎓 University of Oxford Founded in Computer Science, Division of Human-Centered Computing; support and compute
🏅 Edge City SHIFT Grants Developer grant, supported by Vitalik Buterin and co.
🏅 Cosmos Institute Early development grant, supported by Brendan McCord
🎓 UC Berkeley RDI Summit Selected speaker, Summit on Responsible Decentralized Intelligence
🔬 Decentralized Research Center Featured project

How to verify

From a clone of this repository, on the develop branch:

git rev-list --count HEAD                          # total commits
git rev-list --count --since="90 days ago" HEAD    # recent activity
ls foundry/src/*.sol | wc -l                       # smart contracts (10 plus the DINShared library)
grep -rhoE 'function (test|invariant)[A-Za-z0-9_]*' foundry/test | wc -l   # Solidity tests
grep -rhoE '^\s*def test_[A-Za-z0-9_]*' tests dincli | wc -l             # Python tests
find Documentation/public -name '*.md' | wc -l     # participant guides
find Documentation/technical -name '*.md' | wc -l  # technical documents

Merged pull requests and CI results are public on the repository's Pull requests and Actions tabs.