Blockchain and NFTs for Trusted Ownership, Trading, and Access of AI Models
The demand for high-quality Artificial Intelligence (AI) models is ever-increasing in this digital era. However, most of the existing methods leveraged for managing the ownership, trading, and access of AI models fall short of providing traceability, transparency, audit, security, and trustful featu...
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| author | Ammar Battah Mohammad Madine Ibrar Yaqoob Khaled Salah Haya R. Hasan Raja Jayaraman |
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| description | The demand for high-quality Artificial Intelligence (AI) models is ever-increasing in this digital era. However, most of the existing methods leveraged for managing the ownership, trading, and access of AI models fall short of providing traceability, transparency, audit, security, and trustful features. In this paper, we propose a solution based on blockchain and Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) to manage ownership rights and exchange of AI models in a transparent, traceable, auditable, secure, and trustworthy manner. Smart contracts are employed to enforce ownership, ease of access, and exchange policies for the unique NFT linked to an AI model. We use decentralized storage of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) and proxy re-encryption oracles to securely fetch, store, and share data related to AI models. We present algorithms along with their implementation, testing, and validation details. The proposed solution is evaluated using cost and security analyses to show its affordability and resiliency against security threats and attacks. All smart contract codes are made publicly available on GitHub. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8712fd705f04401a90d4cee437ff0e4c2022-12-22T02:43:44ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-011011223011224910.1109/ACCESS.2022.32156609924181Blockchain and NFTs for Trusted Ownership, Trading, and Access of AI ModelsAmmar Battah0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9238-3114Mohammad Madine1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0556-2419Ibrar Yaqoob2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-3429Khaled Salah3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2310-2558Haya R. Hasan4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0029-9095Raja Jayaraman5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2749-2688Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe demand for high-quality Artificial Intelligence (AI) models is ever-increasing in this digital era. However, most of the existing methods leveraged for managing the ownership, trading, and access of AI models fall short of providing traceability, transparency, audit, security, and trustful features. In this paper, we propose a solution based on blockchain and Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) to manage ownership rights and exchange of AI models in a transparent, traceable, auditable, secure, and trustworthy manner. Smart contracts are employed to enforce ownership, ease of access, and exchange policies for the unique NFT linked to an AI model. We use decentralized storage of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) and proxy re-encryption oracles to securely fetch, store, and share data related to AI models. We present algorithms along with their implementation, testing, and validation details. The proposed solution is evaluated using cost and security analyses to show its affordability and resiliency against security threats and attacks. All smart contract codes are made publicly available on GitHub.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9924181/Blockchaindecentralized storagenon-fungible tokens (NFTs)oraclesprovenanceproxy re-encryption |
| spellingShingle | Ammar Battah Mohammad Madine Ibrar Yaqoob Khaled Salah Haya R. Hasan Raja Jayaraman Blockchain and NFTs for Trusted Ownership, Trading, and Access of AI Models IEEE Access Blockchain decentralized storage non-fungible tokens (NFTs) oracles provenance proxy re-encryption |
| title | Blockchain and NFTs for Trusted Ownership, Trading, and Access of AI Models |
| title_full | Blockchain and NFTs for Trusted Ownership, Trading, and Access of AI Models |
| title_fullStr | Blockchain and NFTs for Trusted Ownership, Trading, and Access of AI Models |
| title_full_unstemmed | Blockchain and NFTs for Trusted Ownership, Trading, and Access of AI Models |
| title_short | Blockchain and NFTs for Trusted Ownership, Trading, and Access of AI Models |
| title_sort | blockchain and nfts for trusted ownership trading and access of ai models |
| topic | Blockchain decentralized storage non-fungible tokens (NFTs) oracles provenance proxy re-encryption |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9924181/ |
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