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QRUCIAL DAO

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  • Team Name: QRUCIAL DAO
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Project Overview 📄​

This is our first time. This is not a follow-up.

Overview​

QRUCIAL DAO is a system for trustless audits, and certification using non-transferable NFTs, exogenous tooling and decentralized Consensus.

To us, it is ironic that web3 and trustless systems are trusting web2 auditors and legacy security companies to protect them from threat actors. This is the reason we want to build a system in which the community and the projects can trust that a security assessment has in fact been done professionally. Too often, security audits of web3 projects are performed in a way that relies on intransparency and blind trust in a company logo instead of a proof of computation as well as a proof that the auditor is knowledgeable of the task at hand. It seems that many auditing companies are not in security, but the PDF business. We want to change this.

Project Details​

We expect the teams to already have a solid idea about your project's expected final state. Therefore, we ask the teams to submit (where relevant):

  • QDAO is a multichain solution which brings security services and tools to the blockchain. Such services include automated smart contract audits and tools like symbolic analyzers. We are the first connecting defensive as well as offensive security tool execution to the blockchain. A Web3 Security Toolkit is to be built, and the tools inside will be executable on QDAO nodes. In the beginning, we will be focusing on auditing tools. The tooling itself is bundled in a container and is being developed and maintained and voted on by QRUCIAL and the DAO though the nominated proof of stake governance system. The distribution of the containers is done through decentralized means. Runtime upgrades are used to update the toolbox on each node.

  • Research and meeting notes to be added and their results

  • An overview of the technology stack to be used

  • Core components include Substrate, QRUCIAL DAO runtime, pallets and the ExoGlue.

  • PoC can be found in the reference QRUCIAL DAO repository below.

  • What your project is not or will not provide or implement

    • We won't solve business questions here, though we think our idea fill fit into the Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem.
    • This project won't save all the smart contracts or render manual auditors/hackers useless. Quite the opposite, by providing proven execution, we want to provide work to the manual workers who verify and validate vulnerabilities.

  • Main programming languages to be used: Rust, Python and JavaScript (for frontend)

What is ExoSys?​

ExoSys is the system that schedules audit requests and handles ExoTool connections. It is implemented as a combination of a pallet and a daemon, running on the same system as the blockchain node. ExoSys is also responsible for issuing the Non-Transferrable NFTs and keeps a track record of audit hashes and meta data.

What is ExoTool?​

Selected set of security auditor tools, packaged and adapted to be executed by the request of ExoSys.

What is AuditorRep?​

Élő's assumption is that the performance of an auditor in each audit is a random variable following a normal distributed bell curve over time. An auditor might perform significantly better or worse from one audit to the next. Using Élő their mean skill level would remain the same. The assumption here is that the mean skill level of an auditor changes slowly over time. Each audit can be challenged by other auditors with a high enough score, who can either find other vulnerabilities or remove false positives the original auditor has missed. If additional vulnerabilities are found or false positives are removed, the challenging auditor increase their own score and decrease the score of the original auditor. The increase and decrease of every individual auditor is relative to the Élő score of the original auditor and the one re-auditing a project.

High ranked auditor wins:

  • few points are transferred from the low ranked auditor to the higher rated one.

Low rated auditor wins:

  • a lot of points are transferred from the higher rated auditor to the low rated one.

What is the CCTF talent pool?​

CCTF provides a proven track record of hackers solving challenges and based on their reputation, they are awarded as manual auditors in the QDAO ecosystem.

Ecosystem Fit​

  • In the Polkadot/Substrate/Kusama landscape, this will be the first security toolkit that can be triggered by extrinsics. QRUCIAL DAO also want to improve the security of the whole ecosystem by providing automated audits and a talent pool through CCTF for manual verification of vulnerabilities/exploits.
  • The target audience is all the projects that need a security audit (in a healthy system, it would be all the projects).
  • We are already a participant in the web3 security space and want to move on, provide more to it than a security audit product.
  • We are not aware of any similar project right now, but heard that someone is trying something similar on Ethereum.

Team 👥​

Team members​

  • Web3 Architect: six / David Pethes - CTO of QRUCIAL, Founder of CCTF, Polkadot Head Ambassador of Eastern Europe
  • Runtime Developer: Wigy / - Senior Rust developer, Ex-Parity substrate core developer
  • Frontend Developer: kmildi / Ildiko Keleti - Senior Web3 Frontend developer

Contact​

  • Contact Name: six / David Pethes
  • Contact Email: six@cryptoctf.org
  • Website: qrucial.io
  • Registered Address: Harju maakond, Tallinn, Kesklinna linnaosa, Narva mnt 7-652, 10117
  • Registered Legal Entity: Crypto CTF OÜ, Registration number: 16156552

Team's experience​

QRUCIAL is a web3 security DAO.

This is the first time we apply for a grant.

Six aka David Pethes is a co-founder of QRUCIAL. He is a web3 researcher and security expert and founded the largest crypto hacking competition in the world – CCTF – two years ago. He has more than 9 years experience in IT penetration testing and got several global certifications. Since 2021 he is Regional Head Ambassador for Eastern Europe of Polkadot. Since 2013 he is into blockchain and keeps improving his skills through related projects since then.

ra33it0 aka Sebastian Kraus is a co-founder of QRUCIAL. He is also the founder and strategic mind behind a multitude of companies. His activities range from carbon-neutral real estate with OLYMP to Cryptocurrency Marketing with Elfzntrollz and information security QRUCIAL aiming to make Web3 more secure. Back in 2016, he became interested in blockchain and hacking and has since refined his skills in the field.

Wigy is an ex-Parity Substrate developer. He is working as a blockchain developer since 2016. His main interests are Rust development, architecture, incentive systems and wallet implementations.

Silur is working at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) as cryptographer, was an early Ethereum developer and still works on cryptocurrency projects.

knockoff is linux system administrator and junior rust developer.

Team Code Repos​

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Team LinkedIn Profiles (if available)​

Development Status 📖​

We have started the development already, details can be found under this repository: https://github.com/Qrucial/QRUCIAL-DAO

The PoC is working, and we want to move forward in developing a live testnet version.

Development Roadmap 🔩​

Overview​

  • Total Estimated Duration: 4 months
  • Full-Time Equivalent (FTE): 0.7 FTE
  • Total Costs: 40,000 USD

Milestone 1 — Implement substrate runtime and core modules​

  • Estimated duration: 2 months
  • FTE: 0.7 FTE
  • Costs: 20,000 USD
NumberDeliverableSpecification
0a.LicenseApache 2.0
0b.DocumentationWe will provide both inline documentation of the code and a basic tutorial that explains how a user can (for example) spin up one of our Substrate nodes and send test transactions, which will show how the new functionality works.
0c.Testing GuideCore functions will be fully covered by unit tests to ensure functionality and robustness. In the guide, we will describe how to run these tests.
0d.DockerWe will provide a Dockerfile(s) that can be used to test all the functionality delivered with this milestone.
1.Substrate runtimeThe runtime config and compilable code for QRUCIAL DAO.
2.Substrate pallet: ExoSysCore system that handles the extrinsics that request ExoTool execution.
3.Substrate pallet: AuditorRepReputation system for the manual auditors who verify the output recorded by ExoSys.
4.Substrate report storageIncludes the tools exogenous to the Substrate system, it is connected through the glue/proxy.
5.Substrate pallet: governanceWe plan to use a similar governance system as Polkadot, but plan to focus more on a meritocratic side. It needs to be decided if we use the democracy pallet as it is or we modify it to use reputation for weights.

Milestone 2 — Implement Exogenous tooling and hardened node system​

  • Estimated duration: 2 months (final delivery in 2023 June)
  • FTE: 0.7 FTE
  • Costs: 20,000 USD
NumberDeliverableSpecification
0a.LicenseApache 2.0
0b.DocumentationWe will provide both inline documentation of the code and a basic tutorial that explains how a user can (for example) spin up one of our Substrate nodes and send test transactions, which will show how the new functionality works.
0c.Testing GuideCore functions will be fully covered by unit tests to ensure functionality and robustness. In the guide, we will describe how to run these tests.
0d.DockerWe will provide a Dockerfile(s) that can be used to test all the functionality delivered with this milestone.
0e.ArticleWe will publish an article/workshop that explains QRUCIAL DAO (what was done/achieved as part of the grant). (Content, language and medium should reflect your target audience described above.)
1.ExoSys DeamonThis is the glue system which listens to events on QRUCIAL DAO and executes the requested tools.
2.QRUCIAL DAO FrontendFrontend development for accessing the functionalities. Design will look like this
3.ExoTool - CCAImplement Clippy and Cargo Audit as an exotool package for ink!/WASM smart contract audits.
4.ExoTool - OctopusImplement Octopus as an exotool for bytecodes (WASM and Solidity)

Future Plans​

  • In the short term, we'd like to have the grant, so development goes faster. QRUCIAL DAO keeps funding the project on its own.
  • CCTF (cryptoctf.org) is already a partner, helping to bring the best web3 hackers to the system.
  • After final milestone, we will start building a larger community for QRUCIAL DAO and improve our partnership with CCTF.

Additional Information ➕​

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