🧠 PoRC-DAG — Consensus by Structure, Not Stake or Hash
PoRC-DAG (Proof of Resonant Consistency over DAGs) is a prototype of a novel consensus mechanism that replaces mining and staking with mathematically verifiable structure signatures.
It is a signature-first, ZK-ready, and DAG-native system where consistency emerges from the proximity of a structure function φ(x) to a shared reference τ.
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🔍 What Makes It Different?
What Is SVM (Structure VM)?
Structure VM is a new way to validate paths in a DAG using structure alignment, not majority voting.
SVM filters ψ-paths by:
✅ Residual monotonicity (δ must decrease or stay flat)
✅ All ZK verifications must pass (δ < ε)
✅ Entropy threshold must be met (prevents self-reference/Sybil)
Result?
Even if 99% of structure signatures are adversarial,
SVM only accepts those rare paths with coherent structure evolution.
✅ No staking. No hashpower. No quorum required.
✅ Consensus emerges from structure consistency — not control.
🧠 This means consensus emerges even if 99% of nodes submit invalid signatures.
Only coherent ψ-paths survive — automatically selected by SVM based on residual δ and entropy H.
✔️ Each node generates a private structure function φ(x)
✔️ Message hash defines structure point xₘ
✔️ φ(xₘ) is compared to τ = median(φ(x)) over fixed challenges
✔️ δ = |φ(xₘ) − τ| determines structural consistency
✔️ Signature = SHA256(xₘ‖φ‖δ)
✔️ Valid if δ < ε (adaptive threshold via σ)
✔️ ZK-friendly: δ < ε can be proven without revealing φ
✔️ Works on DAGs — ψ-paths validated by Structure VM
✔️ >99% Byzantine fault tolerance: only structure-coherent paths survive
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🛡️ Byzantine Resilience (SVM Logic)
Even if 99% of the structure signatures are adversarial or randomly generated,
PoRC-DAG naturally filters invalid nodes via residual δ and entropy-based structure validation.
No voting. No staking. No PoW.
Consensus comes from residual convergence, verified path-by-path.
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🧪 Signature Output Example
=== Fixed Seed Signature ===
Delta: 0.073481
Signature: 54e09d34c96145a5e98d3f4b1fc6c312d56f4f171234b2a76d3c02a2fa21f
Verification: ✅ VALID
=== Best Random Signature (out of 50) ===
Delta: 0.021347
Signature: 3bfa1ae88c4c19f1db64fa9477e935a4fdd0e817f2a1c398ee43509e13fdd0e
Verification: ✅ VALID
Includes delta plot: `combined_signature_test.png`
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📘 Whitepaper + Code:
GitHub:
https://github.com/papasop/PoRC-DAG Whitepaper: PoRC.pdf (in repo root)
| Module | Description |
|----------------|---------------------------------------|
| `signature.py` | φ, τ, δ-based signature + verifier |
| `simulate.py` | DAG signature flow simulator |
| `svm.py` | ψ-path validator (entropy, δ checks) |
| `test_phi.py` | structure output + basic validation |
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🧠 Use Cases:
- Zero-token consensus systems
- ZK-verifiable identity or message structures
- DAG-based parallel consensus (ψ-path)
- Distributed entropy validation / DAG pruning
- Structure-as-consensus networks
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📩 Contact:
GitHub:
https://github.com/papasop/PoRC-DAG Twitter/X:
https://x.com/OAHOSOH> “Consensus doesn’t have to come from tokens. It can come from structure.”
