Lightweight Volm Nodes

Volm Network's Lightweight Volm Nodes act as the blockchain agent of the device. They handle signing, submitting proofs, and interacting with Volm MetaVaults.

Implementation:

• Written in C/C++ for portability across ARM Cortex-M, RISC-V MCUs, and Linux-based IoT boards.

• Uses ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography, e.g., secp256k1) for wallet signing.

• Runs in low-duty cycles (e.g., 1% CPU usage, waking only for blockchain submissions).

• Can use ARM TrustZone or RISC-V PMP (Physical Memory Protection) to sandbox itself from OEM firmware functions.

Blockchain Compatibility:

• Ethereum L2s (Base, Optimism, Arbitrum) via lightweight RPC clients.

• Solana or Cosmos ecosystems via GRPC light clients.

• Pluggable backend for MetaVault integration (abstracts away multi-chain complexity).

Hardware Accelerator

For higher-end devices like drones, service robots, and industrial cobots, the Volm Network stack can include the Edge-AI Accelerator IP.

• This IP Core is licensed to OEMs to be integrated alongside their main SoC.

• It provides 140 FPS inference throughput @ 50 W, nearly 2× faster than an equivalent GPU at 60% less power.

• It's optimized for matrix multiplications (GEMM ops) common in CNNs (Convolutional Neural Nets).

• It interfaces with the Volm Compiler to accept quantized model binaries.

This gives OEM devices a dual purpose: they perform their primary function and generate financial yield through Volm tasks when Volm.