The worker commits artifact, claim, trace, environment, and proof hashes before committee selection.
root@ael:/proof-of-useful-work
Staking cannot prove
that an answer is true.
AEL uses a hybrid: cryptographic or reproducible evidence establishes what can be checked; deterministic independent committees review it; bonds punish conflicts; probabilistic re-execution makes collusion harder to predict.
/validation-flow
SHA-256 over scope and evidence orders eligible verifiers after the result is fixed.
Selected votes must match the evidence. Randomly sampled members must rerun the work.
Accept quorum, independent groups, majority, and every required replay must pass before escrow moves.
/modes
Deterministic replay
Best for builds, tests, data transforms, simulations, and computations with pinned environments.
ZK proof
Best where a circuit can prove a result without exposing all inputs. The proof system remains part of the trust surface.
TEE attestation
Useful for protected workloads, with hardware, firmware, and issuer assumptions disclosed.
Consensus review
Used for subjective work, with conflict exclusion and independent fault groups. Review-only mode cannot qualify mainnet work.
Hybrid
Combines one or more proof types with bonded review and replay sampling. This is the secure public-work policy.
Challenges
Disputes pause settlement. Contradictory or conflicted votes create attributable evidence and slashing exposure.