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: DUCP v0.2.0 and the companion Quant (ℚ) v0.1.0 — both open Requests for Comments seeking scrutiny and collaborators, not yet shipped systems.

• 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.
• ℚ (Quant) — the companion efficiency unit: useful information resolved per joule, benchmarked against the Landauer limit; the quality axis to 𝕌's quantity. Published as an open RFC v0.1.0 (usable beyond DUCP; DUCP is the first reference adopter).
• 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.

Start with the white paper and the Quant (ℚ) standard RFC, then read CONTRIBUTING and GOVERNANCE. Critiques and proposals are welcome — especially on the open problems: trustless energy attestation and validated ℚ benchmarks, formal security analysis, the DVM and metering specification, and cross-paradigm normalization. Comment on Quant via quant-labelled issues.

© 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.