AISecureFundDAO

AISecureFundDAO: Next-gen DAO governance combining encrypted voting, TEE-secured processing, and AI-driven insights for fully private, verifiable on-chain decisions.

🔒 Core Architecture

• Privacy-First Voting: Homomorphic encryption ensures votes remain confidential while enabling transparent tallying.
• TEE-Enabled Trust: Marlin’s Trusted Execution Environment processes encrypted votes/bids in secure enclaves.
• AI Governance: Nethermind’s agentic AI analyzes proposals/voting patterns for strategic insights without exposing sensitive data.
• Sealed-Bid Auctions: Confidential treasury allocation prevents front-running via encrypted bids decrypted only in TEE.
• Proof-Based Verification: Cryptographic attestations validate TEE computations without revealing raw data.

⚙️ Technical Implementation

• Modular Contracts:
  • ProjectRegistry | PrivateVoting | SealedBidAuction
  • ResultVerification | Treasury
• TEE Integration: Marlin’s secure environment handles vote/bid decryption, tallying, and attestation generation.
• Zero-Knowledge Storage: 0G ensures metadata persistence while maintaining encryption for auditability.
• AI Layer: Risk/benefit analysis via Nethermind’s models trained on anonymized governance patterns.

🛠️ Key Innovations

1. Dual Privacy: Votes/bids encrypted on-chain, decrypted only in TEE.
2. Cross-Protocol Security: Combines homomorphic encryption (data privacy) + TEE (compute integrity) + blockchain (immutable ledger).
3. Governance-as-a-Stack: Modular smart contracts enable custom governance flows (funding, auctions, verification).

Impact: Solves critical DAO challenges:

• 🛡️ Prevents voter coercion via full privacy
• 🔍 Enables auditability without exposing individual choices
• 🤖 Enhances decision quality via AI-powered insights
• 💰 Secures treasury allocation against MEV exploits

AISecureFundDAO was built using a multi-layered architecture that combines smart contracts, secure computing, and AI:

Smart Contract Layer

• Solidity (v0.8.26): Core contracts deployed on Arbitrum Sepolia
• Contract Separation: Five specialized contracts handle different governance functions:
  • ProjectRegistry.sol: Proposal submission and metadata management
  • PrivateVoting.sol: Encrypted vote collection with TEE integration
  • SealedBidAuction.sol: Confidential treasury allocation
  • ResultVerification.sol: Cryptographic proof validation
  • Treasury.sol: Fund distribution based on verified results

Privacy Layer

• Homomorphic Encryption: Custom implementation for client-side vote encryption
• Bytes32 Storage Pattern: Encrypted votes stored as bytes32 to ensure on-chain privacy
• Front-End Encryption: Vote encryption happens in the browser before submission

TEE Integration (Marlin)

• Marlin TEE: Implemented secure vote and bid processing within Trusted Execution Environment
• Attestation Generation: Created cryptographic proofs to verify TEE computations
• Challenge: Bridged blockchain data to TEE by developing a Python script that fetches encrypted votes directly from contract storage

Private AI Analysis (Nillion)

• Nillion SecretLLM: Integrated secret-preserving LLM to analyze voting patterns while maintaining privacy
• Confidential Insights Generation: Used Nillion's technology to process governance data without exposing sensitive voter information
• TEE-to-Nillion Bridge: Built connector between Marlin TEE outputs and Nillion's secret computing environment

AI Governance (Nethermind)

• Static Agent Implementation: Developed DAO-specific agentic AI specialized for governance insights
• React Integration: Built custom NethermindAIPanel component for the frontend
• Proposal Analysis: AI provides detailed risk assessments, benefit analysis, and strategic recommendations

Storage & API (0G)

• Key-Value Storage: Implemented persistent storage for vote results and AI insights
• Metadata Management: Designed schema for governance data with proper indexing
• FastAPI Backend: Created lightweight API to expose TEE-processed results

Frontend

• React/TypeScript: Built responsive governance UI
• Viem/ethers.js: Integrated web3 functionality for contract interactions
• TEE Visualization: Implemented animated component showing secure vote processing

Integration Challenges

• TEE Vote Parsing: The encrypted votes from the blockchain arrived as raw bytes32 values instead of JSON, requiring a custom parser to handle both formats
• Non-Checksum Addresses: Web3.py required proper checksum conversions for contract interactions
• Cross-Type Compatibility: Built adaptors between React frontend and Python backend

By combining these technologies, we created a governance system that maintains privacy, security, and verifiability throughout the entire voting lifecycle.