Ecosystem Development Budget Allocation #2

Requesting Organization: Roko Network Corp Grant Amount: $65,000 equivalent in TAO Proposal Date: September 2025

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Executive Summary

This proposal seeks approval for a $65,000 equivalent allocation in TAO from the Roko Network Foundation’s cold storage root staking wallet to Roko Network Corp. The funds will sustain ecosystem development, ensuring Layer 1 (L1) engineering continuity, ecosystem infrastructure, and hardware-level validation for fair and transparent computation measurement.

The Development Report and Future Roadmap highlights that Roko’s temporal architecture is now production-ready at the transaction and block level. The next phase focuses on advancing consensus, hardware-secured time attestations, validator sampling, wallet integration, and security modeling. This budget ensures the L1 team can deliver those critical milestones while maintaining operational momentum.

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Allocation Summary

Total Allocation Requested: $65,000 equivalent in TAO TAO Valuation: $340 (assumed for budget translation) Total TAO Allocated: ~192 TAO

Breakdown:

• Core L1 Team Development: $60,000 (~177 TAO)
• Website Redesign: $2,500 (~7 TAO)
• Power Audit (A100 Server): $2,500 (~7 TAO)

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Funding Breakdown

1. Core L1 Team Development — $60,000 (~177 TAO)

The $60k allocation will support four months of engineering dedicated to advancing Roko’s Layer 1, specifically around temporal consensus, runtime stability, hardware integration, and security.

Planned Goals & Deliverables (Month 1–4):

• Month 1 — Hardware Attestation Prototype

  • Integrate Zymbit hardware (HSM/timecard) for tamper-resistant proof-of-time.
  • Define attestation format (certificate chain, hardware quotes, nonce binding).
  • Implement runtime verifier to handle hardware-backed attestations .

• Month 2 — Consensus & Timecard Quorum

  • Introduce validator-level P2P gossip for timecard attestations.
  • Implement validator sampling and aggregation to form per-slot time quorums.
  • Wire quorum output into block production (pre-digest/inherent) to guarantee time correctness under consensus .

• Month 3 — Miner Proof-of-Time (PoT)

  • Activate block-level PoT, requiring block authors to include valid hardware attestations.
  • Establish a certification authority (CA) phase to bootstrap trusted hardware participation.
  • Begin limited rollout of PoT enforcement in testnet environments .

• Month 4 — Wallet & Security Layer

  • Deliver Roko Wallet alpha with TimeRPC client, hardware-backed signing, and preflight verification UX .
  • Conduct security reviews and threat modeling (clock drift, key compromise, CA trust).
  • Define slashing, fallback modes, and monitoring for validator integrity.
  • Prepare mainnet readiness criteria and economic analysis .

Impact: This funding ensures Roko Network can move from a working devnet prototype to a fully validated and consensus-integrated L1 with hardware-secured time attestations. The central outcome is L1 readiness for mainnet, with stronger guarantees of temporal correctness and operational reliability.

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2. Website Redesign — $2,500 (~7 TAO)

Funding a research-led redesign of roko.network to present a clear, modern, and adaptable knowledge hub that communicates Roko’s mission, technical progress, and ecosystem resources.

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3. Power Audit of A100 Server — $2,500 (~7 TAO)

An internal audit of Roko’s NVIDIA A100 development platform, using Timebeat and facility-grade telemetry, will:

• Capture high-precision, time-stamped measurements of compute, GPU utilization, and energy draw.
• Evaluate compute cycles at the smallest measurable unit.
• Feed proofs into the L1 for accurate tokenization of computation resources, ensuring fairness and transparency for node runners .

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Execution & Oversight

• TAO Source: Foundation cold storage root staking wallet.
• Disbursement: Converted to USDC as required.
• Unused TAO: Retained by Roko Network Corp, restricted to approved scope.
• Monitoring: Weekly progress reports aligned with dev milestones.

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Voting Options

• Yes: Approve the allocation of $65,000 equivalent in TAO from the Foundation’s root staking wallet to Roko Network Corp for ecosystem development and infrastructure initiatives as outlined.
• No: Do not approve this proposal.