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Staking & Economic Security

The Staking & Economic Security layer is the foundation for the network’s operational reliability and incentive alignment. While Zero-Knowledge proofs provide the mathematical guarantee of correctness, this layer provides the economic framework that ensures the prover marketplace remains active, responsive, and highly available.

The Role of Capital in the Protocol

Staking in the Brevis Prover Network is designed to align the interests of all participants. By requiring provers to maintain a stake, the protocol ensures that every actor is a committed stakeholder with a long-term interest in the network’s health and reputation.

  • Operational Reliability: Staking ensures that provers meet a high standard of performance, fostering a predictable and dependable marketplace for requesters.
  • Dynamic Eligibility: A prover’s capacity to bid on and win work is linked to their available stake, ensuring the network remains balanced and that every assignment is backed by sufficient collateral.

Advanced Vault Architecture

To ensure maximum safety and efficiency, the network utilizes an Isolated Vault Architecture based on the ERC-4626 standard.

  • Risk Containment: Every prover operates through a dedicated, isolated vault, ensuring that performance events are contained individually and protecting the broader network’s liquidity.
  • DeFi Composability: By following the ERC-4626 standard, vault shares are transferable ERC-20 tokens that can be easily integrated with the broader DeFi ecosystem.
  • Seamless Compounding: Rewards are added directly into the vaults, increasing the asset-to-share ratio and allowing for automated reward compounding without the need for manual claims by stakers.

Economic Opportunity

The security layer is designed to reward participation through multiple diversified yield streams:

  • Marketplace Fees: Successfully fulfilling proof requests generates fees that flow back into the staking system, increasing the value of vault shares.
  • Foundation Rewards: In addition to marketplace fees, the protocol distributes foundation-funded rewards to provers based on their ZK-verified activities and total stake (vault assets).
  • Shared Success: Both provers and stakers benefit from these combined revenue streams, creating a collaborative environment for scaling decentralized ZK-computation.