The Gensyn Protocol is a layer-1 trustless protocol for deep learning computation that directly and immediately rewards supply-side participants for pledging their compute time to the network and performing ML tasks. The protocol requires no administrative overseer or legal enforcement, rather facilitating task distribution and payments programmatically through smart contracts. As described above, the fundamental challenge in building this network is the verification of completed ML work. This is a highly complex problem that sits at the intersection of complexity theory, game theory, cryptography, and optimisation.
A simple solution is to check the honesty of workers by re-doing their work. At a bare minimum, this requires a doubling of the operations required (‘single replication’); however, even with replication, the issue of trust remains unless the verifying party is the actual requestor of the work (in which case, they wouldn’t request the work as they’d simply perform it themselves). Therefore, ensuring the honesty of the verifying party can generate an infinite chain of replication, where each new verifier is required to check the work of the previous verifier.
