20,000 hours of licensed conversational Arabic
- speaker diversity
- recording quality
- metadata
- transcription accuracy
DPN is an open, decentralized procurement network for AI data. Buyers publish machine-readable requirements. Suppliers compete to satisfy them. Independent validators verify the result. Every completed deal leaves a signed record of provenance, licensing, validation and settlement.
No native token. No DPN blockchain. No central database that somebody owns.
See how a buyer request moves through supplier matching, validation, acceptance, licensing, settlement, witness checkpointing and Bitcoin anchoring.
DPN allows AI buyers to publish precise data requirements and let qualified suppliers compete to fulfill them.
20,000 hours of licensed conversational Arabic
2 million teleoperation trajectories for warehouse manipulation
500,000 appropriately consented medical images
Suppliers compete to satisfy the request. Independent validators verify the result. DPN records the transaction.
Illustrative requests only. These datasets are not currently available on the network.
The primary procurement object is a DataRequest. The buyer commits to the acceptance rules before any supplier submits an offer, so nobody can move the goalposts afterwards.
Commercial truth comes from signatures, object relationships, validation evidence and counterparty commitments. Ordinary transactions do not need global consensus.
None is required. Companies can earn from procurement fees, validator routing, hosted relays, managed procurement, analytics and dispute services.
Bitcoin serves only as an external timestamp. DPN is designed to anchor finalized checkpoints to Bitcoin daily. Bitcoin processes no DPN transactions.
Relays store, forward and index signed events, and relay operation is permissionless by design. Relays move signed facts; they do not decide truth.
Data stays in supplier infrastructure, cloud storage, repositories or controlled data rooms. DPN carries commitments, capped at 256 KiB per event.
Publishes requests and funds successful procurement.
Owns, creates or sources data and submits offers against open requests.
Sells verification as a service. Paid for running checks correctly, whether the result is pass or fail.
Re-checks a sample of validator decisions to catch collusion, false accepts and false rejects.
Untrusted transport. Distributes and indexes signed events, returning a signed receipt for each one it accepts. Does not decide commercial truth.
Attests to historical inclusion in the append-only transparency log. Does not determine whether commercial claims are true.
The initial network is designed around seven founding witness organizations with a 5-of-7 checkpoint threshold, and the initial protocol profile proposes hourly checkpoints. Any two groups of five share at least three members, so with up to two faulty witnesses at least one honest witness sits in both.
Each checkpoint is a provable append-only extension of the one before it, using a Certificate-Transparency-style Merkle tree. A witness that signs two conflicting roots has produced objective evidence of its own misconduct.
A proof package holds the receipt, signatures, inclusion proof, checkpoint and Bitcoin anchor. It can be verified offline, without contacting the operator that handled the deal.
Organizations sign with DIDs (did:webvh), using scoped operational keys that rotate without breaking old signatures.
Roles and qualifications travel as credentials, so a request can require a speech-validation credential without naming a validator.
No official score. Any indexer can rank participants from the same signed history: jobs, audits, disputes.
A signature proves who made an offer. It does not prove they hold the rights to sell the data, so rights evidence stays explicit: consent documentation, provenance and license representations.
DPN records a settlement reference in the receipt and is designed to leave the money movement to payment-rail adapters.
DPN is a specification in progress, and no part of the network is deployed yet. It is designed to launch as a federated consortium of seven witness organizations drawn from buyers, suppliers, validation companies, universities and infrastructure providers. The consortium exists so that nobody owns the network.
Permissionless at the relay layer, permissioned but plural at the witness layer, competitive at the validator layer, and cryptographically sovereign at the actor layer.
First milestone: one request carried end to end, from publication to a proof package that a standalone verifier checks offline.
DPN is being designed as an open procurement network for AI data. We are looking for organizations interested in participating in the initial network as buyers, suppliers, validators, infrastructure operators, researchers or founding witnesses.