DFPN development is organized into five phases, from initial research through mainnet launch and ecosystem growth.
Duration: 4--6 weeks | Status: :material-check-circle:{ .green } Completed
Laid the groundwork for the protocol by defining the threat landscape, curating evaluation data, and establishing benchmarks.
- Threat model and adversary taxonomy for deepfake attacks
- Curated evaluation datasets (FaceForensics++, Celeb-DF, ASVspoof, ProGAN)
- Evaluation harness for reproducible model benchmarking
- Baseline accuracy and latency benchmarks for all four detection models
- Protocol design document and economic modeling
Duration: 6--8 weeks | Status: :material-check-circle:{ .green } Completed
Delivered a working end-to-end prototype on Solana devnet, covering the core on-chain programs and a reference worker node.
- Content Registry program -- media hash and provenance storage
- Analysis Marketplace program -- request creation, commit-reveal result flow
- Model Registry program -- model metadata and versioning
- Rewards program -- fee distribution and treasury
- Reference worker client (Rust) with four pre-configured detection models
- Commit-reveal protocol to prevent result copying
- TypeScript SDK for client integration
- CLI tooling for request submission and result querying
Duration: 8--10 weeks | Status: :material-progress-clock:{ .yellow } In Progress
Hardening the network with staking, reputation, and operational tooling ahead of a public pilot.
- Worker Registry program -- operator staking and management
- Stake-based worker registration with bonding/unbonding
- Epoch-based scoring (accuracy, availability, latency, consistency)
- Model versioning and deprecation workflow
- REST API indexer (Axum + Tantivy full-text search)
- Vue.js dashboard with real-time network monitoring
- Load testing and benchmarking under sustained traffic
- Dispute resolution flow end-to-end testing
- Documentation site (MkDocs Material)
Duration: 8--12 weeks | Status: :material-clock-outline: Upcoming
Production deployment with token economics, governance, and third-party security review.
- SPL token deployment and treasury initialization
- Governance integration via Realms DAO
- Independent security audit of all on-chain programs
- Mainnet program deployment with upgrade authority multisig
- Public beta launch with onboarding for initial worker operators
- Bug bounty program
Duration: Ongoing | Status: :material-clock-outline: Upcoming
Expanding capabilities, reducing friction, and building partnerships.
- Model marketplace -- third-party developers publish and monetize detection models
- Advanced storage integration (Arweave, IPFS, Shadow Drive)
- Specialized detection modules (document forgery, satellite imagery, medical imaging)
- Platform partnerships for automated content verification
- Mobile SDK for on-device pre-screening
- Cross-chain verification bridges
gantt
title DFPN Development Phases
dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD
section Phases
Phase 0 - Research :done, p0, 2024-01-01, 6w
Phase 1 - Devnet MVP :done, p1, after p0, 8w
Phase 2 - Testnet Pilot :active, p2, after p1, 10w
Phase 3 - Mainnet Beta : p3, after p2, 12w
Phase 4 - Scale : p4, after p3, 24w