# (PROOF) Asset Validation Layer

### Asset Validation Layer (PROOF)

#### Validation Network Verifying Real World Assets

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The PROOF layer serves as the decentralized trust bridge between the physical and digital worlds of AI infrastructure. It is designed to verify, attest, and maintain the authenticity of all off-chain assets that enter the GAIB ecosystem. Architected as the GAIB Validation Network, an Active Validator Set (AVS), which leverages shared security from restaking protocols like EigenLayer and Symbiotic, PROOF ensures that every on-chain asset accurately represents a verifiable, productive, and legally recognized real-world counterpart.

By functioning as GAIB’s first line of defense against misinformation, PROOF preserves the integrity of tokenized AI infrastructure and ensures that all downstream activities — financialization, liquidity, and governance — are built on cryptographically attested truth.

The integrity of GAIB’s tokenized AI infrastructure relies on transparent and verifiable real-world data. To achieve this, the PROOF layer continuously validates that the underlying GPUs, robotics systems, and data-center assets are operational, correctly located, and actively performing. This ensures that every on-chain record corresponds to a living, productive physical counterpart — not just a static registration.

#### Validation Network

The GAIB Validation Network consists of multiple independent actor classes, each fulfilling a unique role in maintaining data integrity:

* **General Validators** — Open-access participants who stake $GAIB or restaked ETH derivatives to secure the network. They validate OAR data, maintain network liveness, and participate in consensus.
* **Specialized Attestors** — Credentialed experts contributing domain-specific verifications:
  * Legal & Regulatory Attestors: Law firms and compliance experts verifying ownership rights, lien positions, and regulatory compliance.
  * Technical & Operational Attestors: Certified engineering or auditing firms validating equipment status, uptime, and performance metrics.
  * Financial Attestors: Accounting and audit partners reconciling cash-flow, revenue, and performance-linked data.

Together, these participants form a stake-weighted, multi-layered verification system that reinforces both technical and legal authenticity.

#### Orchestration Network and Data Attestation

At the core of the GAIB Validation Network lies the **Orchestration Network**, a decentralized telemetry framework that connects directly to AI infrastructure nodes. Independent Orchestration Nodes gather and cross-validate operational data from GPU clusters, robotic units, and data-center systems, including:

* **Proof of Location:** Confirms the physical whereabouts of each asset in compliance with declared jurisdiction.
* **Latency:** Measures real-time compute response and network efficiency.
* **Bandwidth:** Evaluates GPU-to-GPU throughput and interconnect performance.
* **Memory Health:** Monitors GPU memory integrity and utilization.

Collected metrics are verified across nodes to reach consensus on each asset’s state. This creates a continuous on-chain telemetry feed, giving investors and stakeholders real-time visibility into the status and performance of the AI infrastructure that collateralizes GAIB’s tokenized assets.

#### Shared Security and Validator Integrity

To strengthen the economic security of the validation process, GAIB’s PROOF layer integrates with shared-security restaking protocols such as EigenLayer and Symbiotic.

* EigenLayer (Actively Validated Services): Allows GAIB to leverage Ethereum’s staked capital for validator security. Through restaking, validators use their existing ETH stakes to secure GAIB’s validation processes, inheriting Ethereum-grade trust without duplicating security costs.
* Symbiotic: Provides a permissionless restaking marketplace where multiple collateral types (ETH, $GAIB, or stablecoins) can be staked to secure validation. It enables flexible, modular, and capital-efficient validator participation across multiple networks.

Together, these integrations establish a multi-layered defense system that combines GAIB’s own Orchestration Network with restaked external capital, reinforcing validator honesty and ensuring that the attestation process remains both secure and decentralized across chains such as Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Base.

#### Validation Workflow

The asset attestation process within PROOF is structured, transparent, and cryptoeconomically secured.

1. **Request Initiation**\
   A validation request is broadcast to the GAIB Validation Network, triggering a predefined Attestation Window during which validators review the asset’s data submission.
2. **Validator Engagement & Confidence Scoring**\
   Validators analyze the submitted evidence (e.g., ownership documents, telemetry data, performance reports) and submit a confidence score (0–100), weighted by their stake. Honest and accurate participation earns $GAIB rewards.
3. **Signature Aggregation & Settlement**\
   When the Attestation Window closes, the system aggregates validator BLS signatures into a single `aggregatedSignature` and computes a weighted-average confidence score. The resulting payload, latestAttestation, includes:
   1. `timestamp` — time of final attestation
   2. `stateHash` — hashed snapshot of verified data
   3. `aggregatedSignature` — collective validator proof\
      \
      This attestation is transmitted to the Settlement Layer (NETWORK) for permanent on-chain record.
4. **Programmable Slashing & Dispute Resolution**\
   Validators that act dishonestly — by signing false or manipulated data — are penalized through stake slashing, proportional to the confidence score they provided. Disputes are resolved via governance-managed or cryptographic challenge mechanisms, ensuring the long-term credibility of the network.

#### On-Chain Asset Representation (OAR)

Each successfully verified asset generates an Onchain Asset Representation (OAR) — a structured, machine-readable digital footprint finalized on the Settlement Layer. It functions as the canonical link between off-chain physical assets and their on-chain identity.

**Core Fields:**

```
{
  "assetId": "bytes32",
  "ownerAddress": "address",
  "creationTimestamp": "uint256",
  "cumulativeRevenue": "uint256",
  "geolocationHash": "bytes32",
  "metadataURI": "string",
  "latestAttestation": {
    "timestamp": "uint256",
    "stateHash": "bytes32",
    "aggregatedSignature": "bytes"
  }
}
```

* `assetId`: A unique identifier generated during onboarding.
* `ownerAddress`: Current controller of the on-chain asset token, updated upon every transfer.
* `creationTimestamp`: An immutable record of when the asset was first brought into the GAIB ecosystem.
* `geolocationHash`: To balance transparency with operational security, the precise geolocation data (e.g., GeoJSON coordinates) is kept off-chain. Only its hash is recorded on-chain, allowing for verification while preserving operational privacy.
* `metadataURI`: Points to a decentralized storage location containing rich, human-readable data, including technical specifications, operational history, legal ownership documents, and insurance policies.
* `latestAttestation`: A nested record containing the last validated state, validator signatures, and timestamp - providing cryptographic proof of authenticity.

#### Settlement Integration

The **Settlement Layer (NETWORK)** interfaces exclusively with the PROOF layer to ensure that only verified asset states can be recorded or updated on-chain. Its secure contract exposes a single primary function `updateAssetState`(`assetId`, `latestAttestation`). This function executes successfully only when the aggregated Signature matches the active validator set’s public keys, guaranteeing that all updates to an asset’s OAR come from the trusted GAIB Validation Network. These attestations may originate from Orchestration Nodes or shared-security validators operating through EigenLayer or Symbiotic, ensuring that both real-world telemetry and economic consensus underpin every OAR update.

**Core Principles**

The PROOF layer embodies three core principles that underpin the trust model of GAIB’s Economic Layer:

* **Verifiability:** Every asset’s data is supported by cryptographic signatures and stake-weighted consensus.
* **Accountability:** Misbehavior results in deterministic and proportional slashing.
* **Transparency:** All attestation events are immutable, queryable, and publicly auditable on-chain.

Through these mechanisms, PROOF establishes an institutional-grade, trust-minimized validation infrastructure — ensuring that every tokenized AI asset within GAIB is verifiably real, operationally active, and transparently attested before entering the on-chain economy.
