Agora: Verifiable Off-chain compute

[NikhilKottoli]

Project Abstract

Agora is a Polkadot parachain template extended with a verifiable computation marketplace. It enables parachains to outsource off‑chain jobs (API fetches, computations) to a network of staked workers. Results are verified on‑chain using a crypto‑economic commit‑reveal game. Cross‑parachain requests and result delivery use XCM.

By requiring workers to stake DOT as collateral, Agora rewards honest workers and slashes dishonest ones. The marketplace addresses a critical gap in Polkadot's infrastructure: while parachains excel at consensus and state management, they lack a standardized way to outsource computation-heavy or I/O-intensive tasks trustlessly. Rather than each parachain building isolated solutions or paying external cloud providers, Agora enables specialization and resource sharing across the ecosystem

Grant level

• Level 1: Up to $10,000, 2 approvals
• Level 2: Up to $30,000, 3 approvals
• Level 3: Unlimited, 5 approvals (for >$100k: Web3 Foundation Council approval)

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