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Connect with builders, validators, and researchers building the future of verifiable AI through open collaboration. Join technical channels, follow ecosystem updates, contribute proposals that directly shape protocol evolution, and use the knowledge quiz to validate your understanding of the current protocol surface through the developer docs, the foundation governance process, and the open tooling stack.
Support Channels
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Governance
Shape protocol direction through proposals and open discussion.
Funding Pathways
Review the current grants framework for tooling, applications, and research. No public awards have been announced yet.
Developer Community
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Join real-time discussions, share ideas, and collaborate with ecosystem contributors.
GitHub
Contribute to the open-source protocol and ecosystem libraries.
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Run current protocol knowledge checks for PoUW, Digital Seals, tokenomics, and launch milestones using the latest source-backed question bank.
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Protocol and research deep dives
Technical write-ups on cryptography, consensus, governance, and implementation details.
February 2026
Implementing Post-Quantum Signatures in Production
How ML-DSA-65 and SLH-DSA-128s were deployed across validators while keeping backward compatibility.
Read →January 2026
How PoUW Repurposes Mining Hardware for AI Inference
A technical walkthrough of how Proof-of-Useful-Work directs compute to real inference workloads.
Read →January 2026
Building a Bi-Cameral Governance System on Cosmos SDK
Designing a two-chamber model with Validator Senate and Token Assembly for balanced decisions.
Read →December 2025
TEE Attestation: From Theory to On-Chain Verification
End-to-end verification of enclave attestations using zk verifier modules and on-chain registries.
Read →Contributing
Contributing to Aethelred
We welcome contributions from developers across all experience levels.
How to contribute
- Fork the repository and create a feature branch.
- Use commit format type(scope): description.
- DCO sign-off is required on all commits.
- Each PR requires at least one approving review.
Development setup
terminal
git clone https://github.com/AethelredFoundation/aethelred.git
cd aethelred
make build
make test
make installGovernance
Aethelred Improvement Proposals
Shape the protocol through open standards and improvement proposals.
| ID | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AIP-0001 | Purpose & Guidelines | Final |
| AIP-0002 | PoUW Consensus Specification | Draft |
| AIP-0003 | Digital Seal Standard | Draft |
Community grants
Building on Aethelred?
Review the Aethelred grants program to understand the current ecosystem allocation, governance controls, and pre-award intake path for tooling, applications, or research. When public cohorts open, teams should be ready to publish progress back to the community channels.