Blockchain Threat Intelligence Consensus Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current watchlists for malicious internet-based threats lack consensus and historical context, leading to reliability issues and accessibility problems, with proprietary data being expensive and not widely available.
Innovation Solution
A blockchain network with smart contracts that transmit and validate threat intelligence requests through a consensus-driven process, utilizing oracles to gather data from nodes and store historical validation results, allowing users to stake tokens for validation or invalidation of potential threats.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If watchlists are curated and controlled by a single entity, then the watchlist can be maintained with centralized authority, but the data becomes proprietary and expensive, preventing widespread community access
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the watchlist curation function by distributing it across multiple autonomous nodes in a blockchain network. Each node independently validates and contributes to the watchlist, eliminating single-entity control and enabling decentralized access while maintaining reliability through consensus mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service through automated consensus validation. Nodes automatically verify threat intelligence entries against each other without requiring centralized authorization, allowing community members to access and utilize the watchlist freely while maintaining quality through peer-reviewed validation.
2Ease of operation
If watchlists are distributed to the community, then accessibility improves, but the community cannot reach consensus on contents and format
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where nodes continuously validate and challenge watchlist entries. This iterative feedback process allows the community to reach consensus on content and format through structured debates and voting, ensuring both accessibility and reliability simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameters of watchlist management by introducing cryptographic hashing and timestamping. These parameters enable immutable recording of consensus decisions, allowing the community to maintain both wide accessibility and strong consensus on watchlist contents through transparent, verifiable processes.
3Ease of operation
If threat intelligence data is made available to all users, then accessibility improves, but the historical context and validation quality may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by requiring nodes to perform validation and historical context analysis before entries are added to the watchlist. This pre-validation process ensures that all accessible data maintains high quality and historical context, preventing low-quality entries from being made available to users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates composite materials by combining multiple validation perspectives from different nodes into a unified watchlist entry. This composite approach enriches the data with diverse validation histories and contextual information, maintaining measurement precision while providing broad accessibility to enhanced threat intelligence data.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for utilizing a blockchain network configured to receive threat intelligence requests and validate or invalidate such threat intelligence requests based on a consensus response from a series of nodes on the blockchain network. According to the present disclosure, the method includes receiving a threat intelligence request at one or more smart contracts of a blockchain network. The method includes broadcasting, via the one or more smart contracts, the threat intelligence request to one or more oracles. The one or more oracles may broadcast the threat intelligence request to one or more nodes. The one or more nodes may gather threat intelligence data based on the threat intelligence request. The one or more oracles may determine if consensus is reached by the one or more nodes. If consensus is reached, then a threat entry may be submitted to the one or more smart contracts.