Any chance of a quick tldr to pique our interest by explaining how exactly this works "and the protocol will reach consensus on whether the state reported by the oracle is correct" in presumably a permissionless, anonymous, decentralized fashion, and what caveats there are?
Regards, Andrew On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 4:06 PM Dr Maxim Orlovsky via bitcoin-dev < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Several years ago my team from Pandora Project working on > censorship-resistant distributed machine learning proposed Prometheus: a > protocol for high-load computing on top of Bitcoin. The protocol operates > as a multi-party game setting where an oracle ("worker") is provided with > an arbitrary computationally complex task (any Turing-complete computing, > machine learning training or inference etc) and the network is able to > reach a consensus on whether a result reported by the worker is true. The > consensus is reached via optional rounds of verification and arbitrage. The > protocol is cryptoeconomically-safe, i.e. has a proven Nash equilibrium. > The protocol was later transferred to LNP/BP Standards Association ( > https://lnp-bp.org) and was kept in a backlog of what can be done in a > future as a layer on top of Bitcoin. > > I'd like to emphasize that Prometheus works on Bitcoin, requires just > several Bitcoin tx per task, and _doesn't require any soft fork_. All > economic setting is done with Bitcoin as a means of payment, and using > existing Bitcoin script capabilities. > > Link to the paper describing the protocol: < > https://github.com/Prometheus-WG/prometheus-spec/blob/master/prometheus.pdf > > > > Only today I have realized that Prometheus protocol can be used to build > cryptoeconomically-safe (i.e. trustless) 2-way-peg on the Bitcoin > blockchain without any soft-forks: a "worker" in such a case acts as an > oracle for some extra-bitcoin system (sidechain, client-side-validated > protocol, zk rollup etc) validating it, and the protocol will reach > consensus on whether the state reported by the oracle is correct. > > In other words, this is an alternative to BIP-300 and other similar > soft-forks having the only purpose of doing 2-way pegs. It also enables the > two-way trustless transfer of Bitcoins between Bitcoin blockchain, RGB and, > in a future, potential new layer 1 called "prime" (to learn more about > prime you can check my Baltic Honeybadger talk < > https://www.youtube.com/live/V3vvybsc1A4?feature=shared&t=23631>). > > > Kind regards, > Dr Maxim Orlovsky > Twitter: @dr_orlovsky > Nostr: npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym > > LNP/BP Standards Association > Twitter: @lnp_bp > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >
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