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CASCADE: The Neural Internetwork

Cryptographic provenance infrastructure for AI model runtimes

What is CASCADE?

CASCADE is a causation and provenance tracking system for artificial intelligence. Every model inference—input, output, model identity, timestamp—is cryptographically hashed into an immutable chain anchored to the Interplanetary File System (IPFS).

Every cause, inextricably linked to its effects. Each effect in turn a new cause. Permanently recorded.

The Problem

AI systems today operate as black boxes with no verifiable history. There is no proof of what model produced what output. No audit trail when AI makes critical decisions. No accountability when models are fine-tuned, quantized, or served through APIs. No way to build cumulative knowledge across users and systems.

As AI agents become autonomous—making decisions, writing code, managing infrastructure—the need for cryptographic provenance becomes existential.

The Solution

CASCADE wraps any AI inference call and automatically emits a tamper-proof receipt. Two lines of code. Every LLM call produces a cryptographic receipt anchored to IPFS. Permanent. Verifiable.

Zero code changes required. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Ollama, LiteLLM, and any OpenAI-compatible API.

Technical Architecture

Merkle DAG: Each observation links to parent observations, forming a directed acyclic graph.
IPFS/IPLD: Content-addressed storage on the permanent web via Storacha/Filecoin.
Model Identity Layer: Canonical identification across quantizations, fine-tunes, and API variants.
Genesis Anchor: All chains trace back to a single, permanent origin point.

Why Compute Funding?

CASCADE needs GPU resources to run inference observations across multiple model families, build behavioral fingerprints that identify models regardless of hosting, process the provenance lattice as it scales, and demonstrate real-time receipts in the HuggingFace Space.

The Vision

A world where every AI interaction has provenance. Where models can be held accountable. Where the cumulative observations of millions of users build shared, verifiable knowledge about how AI systems actually behave.

CASCADE is the infrastructure layer for AI accountability.

Live Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/tostido/Cascade
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