Democratizing Sustainable Compute to Power Technological Evolution
An open, trustless protocol that mobilizes the world's compute into one market and a democratized, sustainable abundance — where verified work is the currency, efficiency is rewarded by the market, and governance is earned reputation, not wealth.
Status: current release — v0.2.0 (Request for Comments). A design seeking scrutiny and collaborators, not yet a shipped system.
- 𝕌 (UCU) — the Universal Compute Unit: a quantity of information processed, and the native currency. The same work earns the same 𝕌 on any hardware; efficiency is rewarded in the market, never baked into the unit.
- The DVM — a standard, deterministic virtual machine every task runs inside.
- Layered verification — run once, check cheaply: TEE attestation, ZK proofs, and sampled re-execution.
- Standing — a non-transferable, earned reputation that governs the network.
| Repo | What |
|---|---|
| spec | White paper, specification, governance, and proposals |
| ducp-node-rs | Reference implementation, in Rust — scaffold |
Start with the white paper, then read CONTRIBUTING and GOVERNANCE. Critiques and proposals are welcome — especially on the open problems: trustless energy attestation, formal security analysis, the DVM and metering specification, and cross-paradigm normalization.
© 2026 Pawan Singh. The white paper and specification are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; contributions are accepted under the project's CLA. DUCP is stewarded by its author through the pre-1.0 phase, transitioning to on-chain, reputation-weighted governance at v1.0.