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What is Auver?
Auver is an open-source, decentralized, and peer-to-peer network protocol (including a Server and Client app) designed as a general purpose verification network for functions and dApps that use its Application Programming Interface (API). The Auver system was made to address the lack of provable truth, authenticity, and accountability in today's websites and online services. Its development is stewarded by the non-profit Auver Foundation, which aims to provide an infrastructure built on principles of Cooperation, Equity, Justice, Privacy, and Efficiency, with a mission to foster a more trustworthy, fair, and reliable digital world for all.
The Problem
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Digital Power in Too Few Hands
Today's internet, despite its incredible innovations and initial promise of openness, increasingly concentrates immense power and control over our digital lives into the hands of a few dominant companies. This isn't just about who owns the biggest websites; it means that proprietary algorithms designed by these companies analyze our personal data without our full understanding, steering and dictating the news we see, the search results we get, and the products we are shown, creating for us our own subjective bubbles that detaches us from a more objective truth grounded in verifiable knowledge we can rely on. This centralization extends to the massive datacenters that run AI programs and host online services operating under policies that inhibit truth and embed biases. The profound systemic effect of this centralization is a growing erosion of individual control over personal data, a diminishing ability for us to discern truth from falsehood or manipulation, and increasingly inequitable access to wealth, which may lie beyond the bubbles these programs create. It is difficult to know what the truth is when our online world is rife with misinformation, fake identities (bots, sock puppets), counterfeit digital assets, and a general inability to easily verify the information we receive. The result brings serious consequences, such as socio-economic imbalances, widespread distrust and confusion, social division, and civil unrest.
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High Energy Costs
The immense computational power required for training large AI models and securing many traditional blockchain networks like Bitcoin (via Proof-of-Work) has driven the growth of massive, centralized datacenters with a considerable carbon footprint depending on their power sources. This not only raises environmental concerns but also creates high operational costs, further centralizing control of this critical infrastructure in the hands of large corporations that can afford such power demands and specialized cooling, creating barriers to entry for smaller participants.
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Lack of Accountability
The digital world resembles a frontier where accountability can be frustratingly elusive. Pseudonymous accounts allow misinformation to spread virally with little consequence for its originators, and digital assets or creative works to be misappropriated without clear recourse. This lack of verifiable identity and the difficulty in tracing actions back to responsible, unique individuals creates an environment where trust is easily eroded, malicious behavior can thrive with perceived impunity, and establishing the true authenticity and integrity of digital interactions becomes a constant challenge for users, creators, and businesses alike.
The Auver Solution
Auver is a network protocol, server and client application designed to counter the problems of centralization by building a truly decentralized and accountable digital foundation. Instead of relying on single points of control, Auver distributes the work of verifying information and processes across many independent server computers owned by operators who are paid for contributing their datacenters to the network. Clients use Auver wallets or dApps (distributed applications) to verify a variety of digital events, such as transactions of digital assets, timestamps, unique IDs as well as verifying the validity of processing outputs, such as for AI. Auver's network protocol enables unique, privacy-preserving digital IDs so individuals can prove who they are without handing over excessive personal data to any single company. For software developers and media creators, any app using the Auver API and network can verify ownership of digital assets and implement automated, fair royalty systems. By making Auver's code open-source and promoting community governance, the Auver protocol and its server/client applications aims to ensure its new layer of the internet is built by and for a diverse community, where control over data, digital assets, and the verification of truth is more broadly distributed, fostering a more equitable and trustworthy online world.
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Cooperative Proof-of-Useful Work
Cooperative Proof-of-Useful-Work (CPoUW) combined with Verifiable Non-Malicious Behavior (VNB) replaces competitive and wasteful energy consumption of other consensus methods with distributed, productive computation, while basing network security on the provable reputation of its operators, ensuring a fair and equitable network of servers.
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General Digital Verification
Auver is designed, not just as a way to verify transactions, but as a decentralized verification utility for a large variety of digital events – from confirming ownership of digital assets, to timestamps, verifying private KYC information, as well as determining if a computation was performed correctly and accurately, such as for AI and Zero-knowledge proofs.
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Private Auver ID system
Auver integrates a persistent identifier (ID) upon successful verification of KYC information without revealing sensitive information by using Zero-Knowledge Proofs . The AuverID provides strong Sybil resistance and preserves user privacy unlike pseudonymous or centralized identity solutions. User's reputation, tokens/shares ownership, and history are all linked to the AuverID, even if the controlling PublicKey changes.
Verifiable AI
While AI interpretability – understanding how an AI model reaches a decision – is important, the challenges run deeper. An AI suggesting a financial strategy or a medical insight needs more than just an interpretable output; users and regulators require confidence in the integrity of its training data, the validity of its operational process, and the authenticity of its results. With Auver, anyone can verify that an AI process followed specific, predefined rules. AI inference tasks, or even specific training modules focused on fairness or safety, can be implemented as Registered Functions executed via Auver's Cooperative Proof-of-Useful-Work algorithm, enabling a trustless and decentralized AI for everyone.
The Results
A Unified Verification Network
The Auver network provides verification for a variety of digital processes, including digital asset ownership, timestamps, AI computation and much more. Join the Auver Revolution as a software developer, donor and supporter as we build the future for server operators and the public together.
Empowering Media Artists and Creators
The current digital landscape often leaves creators vulnerable, struggling with proving authenticity, controlling their work's distribution, and receiving fair compensation, issues exacerbated by practices like unauthorized AI training data scraping. Using the Auver API, developers are able to build apps that directly empower artists and creators by verifying patterns of art and digital media in AI training data, enabling automated royalties and digital rights management (DRM).
Enabling Verifiable Ownership of Digital Assets
When using the Auver's Client App/Wallet, linking asset ownership to a ZKP-verified unique AuverID adds a layer of accountability and real-world linkage not present in purely pseudonymous systems, while still preserving privacy. Verifiable Presentations (VPs) could potentially allow proving ownership of an asset without revealing the specific AuverID publicly.
Enriching Decentralized Datacenters
The research highlights how datacenter infrastructure and the capital needed to build it are heavily concentrated. Auver's Server application running on standardized computer servers aims to lower server energy consumption and throughput by encouraging more distributed and equitable participation running the network's core digital verification infrastructure so that small businesses and large enterprises may work cooperatively together.
