October 19, 2025

Today, we’re excited to announce that VPNL is integrating with DIA Lumina, the first fully on-chain oracle network, to provide trustless, permissionless reputation verification for solvers in the Open Intents Framework.

This partnership transforms VPNL’s decentralization timeline, enabling us to eliminate centralization risks 6 months faster and 27% cheaper than building custom infrastructure from scratch—all while strengthening our security model through crypto-economic mechanisms.

When we launched VPNL’s architecture, we identified a critical tradeoff: Phase 1’s centralized verification was necessary for accuracy during the prototype phase, but represented a known weakness that needed to be resolved.

Our original plan involved building custom infrastructure over 6-9 months:

• Design zero-knowledge proof systems

• Build permissionless verification infrastructure

• Implement staking and slashing mechanisms

• Audit and deploy

Cost: $20k
Timeline: 6-9 months
Risk: Building unproven infrastructure

Rather than reinvent the wheel, we’re integrating with DIA Lumina—a production-ready, battle-tested oracle network that already provides exactly what VPNL needs:

DIA Lumina is the first fully on-chain oracle network with:

• Permissionless participation: Anyone can run feeder nodes

• Crypto-economic security: Staking + slashing model (not trust-based)

• On-chain computation: All oracle operations on Lasernet (Arbitrum Orbit L2)

• Cross-chain delivery: 140+ blockchains via DIA Spectra

• zkTLS integration: Cryptographic proof of off-chain data

Lasernet mainnet is live today with an active feeder community and production-validated security.

VPNL verifies solver reputation. DIA Lumina verifies oracle data. Both require:

• Trustless verification of off-chain information

• Permissionless participation

• Crypto-economic security

• Cross-chain distribution

• Privacy-preserving commitments

VPNL becomes DIA’s first non-price oracle use case, proving Lumina can handle any data type—not just price feeds.

Original Plan (Custom Build):

Month 0-4:   Phase 1 (Centralized)
Month 4-13:  Phase 2 (Build custom infrastructure) 
Month 13-19: Phase 3 (DAO)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Total: 19 months to full decentralization

New Plan (DIA Lumina):

Month 0-4:  Phase 1 (Centralized)
Month 4-7:  Phase 2 (Integrate with Lumina)
Month 7-13: Phase 3 (DAO)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Total: 13 months to full decentralization

Result: 6 months faster (31% improvement)

From trust-based to crypto-economic:

Phase 1 (Current):

• Single centralized verifier

• Risk: Single point of failure

• Duration: 3-4 months (short, mitigated)

Phase 2 (DIA Lumina - Month 4-7):

• Permissionless feeder network

• 10,000 DIA stake per feeder (~$10k)

• 20-30% slashing for fraud

• Multi-feeder consensus (3+ required)

• Risk eliminated

Instead of building trust, we’re buying security through staking.

Solver → zkTLS Proof → VPNL Feeder Node
                              ↓
                      [Stake: 10k DIA]
                              ↓
                      Calculate reputation
                              ↓
                      Submit to Lasernet
                              ↓
                      Multi-feeder consensus
                              ↓
                      Cross-chain delivery (140+ chains)

Honest Feeder:

• Stake: 10,000 DIA

• Rewards: ~20-25% APY

• Break-even: 2-3 months

Malicious Feeder:

• Stake at risk: 10,000 DIA

• Slashing: 20-30% ($2-3k loss)

• Detection: High (multi-feeder consensus)

• Expected value: Negative

Collusion (3+ feeders):

• Stake at risk: 30,000+ DIA

• Slashing: $6-9k loss

• Coordination: Complex

• Expected value: Highly negative

Result: Economic rationality ensures honest behavior.

VPNL maintains two-layer governance for clear separation of concerns:

VPNL DAO (Application Layer):

• Controls reputation methodology

• Sets risk parameters (α, β)

• Defines scoring weights

• Manages verification periods

DIA DAO (Infrastructure Layer):

• Controls feeder requirements

• Sets slashing percentages

• Manages consensus thresholds

• Oversees reward rates

Why this matters: Neither DAO can unilaterally compromise the system. VPNL controls “what is good reputation” while DIA provides neutral, secure infrastructure.

• Faster integration: DIA Lumina launches in Q1 2026

• Multi-chain reputation: Query VPNL data on 140+ chains

• Lower latency: <200ms cross-chain queries

• Redundancy: Dual-source (Arbitrum + Lasernet)

• Permissionless verification: No centralized gatekeeper after Month 4

• Faster processing: Automated feeder consensus vs manual review

• Privacy preserved: zkTLS proofs (don’t share API keys)

• Universal reputation: One verification, works everywhere

• Public goods collaboration: Two independent projects strengthening each other

• Credible neutrality: Infrastructure not controlled by VPNL

• Proven security: Battle-tested vs unproven custom system

• Network effects: Shared security budget, cross-pollination

• Smart contract audit

• Arbitrum mainnet deployment

• DIA integration research

• 2-3 pilot protocol integrations

Funding Goal: $15k

• Deploy VPNL feeder nodes on Lasernet

• Integrate zkTLS for exchange verification

• Enable permissionless verification

• Cross-chain reputation via DIA Spectra

Funding Goal: $8k (reduced from $20k)
Timeline: 2-3 months (reduced from 6-9 months)

• VPNL DAO launch

• Community-run feeders

• 10+ protocol integrations

• Ecosystem growth

Funding Goal: $10k

We’re incredibly grateful to the DIA team for:

• Building trustless oracle infrastructure for Web3

• Welcoming VPNL as Lumina’s first non-price use case

• Sharing technical guidance during integration research

• Demonstrating what credible neutrality looks like in practice

Special shoutout to the DIA community for building the feeder network infrastructure that makes this possible.

• Study the integration: docs/dia-lumina-integration.md

• Review updated architecture: docs/architecture.md

• Join DIA Discord: Get familiar with Lumina infrastructure

• Phase 1 integration: Available now on Arbitrum

• Phase 2 preparation: Plan for Q1-Q2 2026 DIA integration

• Reach out: Telegram @vpnlnetwork

• Learn the economics: 20-25% APY on staked DIA

• Study the requirements: Appendix D: Feeder Node Technical Specifications

• Prepare for Q1 2026: When VPNL feeders go live

• Fund Phase 1: Giveth GG24

• Spread the word: Share this announcement

• Join the community: Telegram

VPNL:

• 🌐 Website: vpnl.io

• 📚 Documentation: github.com/vpnlnetwork/vpnl

• 💬 Telegram: t.me/vpnlnetwork

• 📄 Whitepaper: docs/whitepaper.md

DIA Lumina:

• 🌐 Website: diadata.org/lumina

• 📚 Documentation: docs.diadata.org

• 💬 Discord: discord.gg/dia

• 📦 GitHub: github.com/diadata-org

By integrating with DIA Lumina, VPNL accelerates its path to credible neutrality while strengthening security through proven crypto-economic mechanisms.

This partnership demonstrates the power of composability in Web3: two independent public goods projects combining forces to deliver more value, faster, and more securely than either could alone.

Together, we’re building the trustless data infrastructure that the Open Intents Framework needs to scale.

Let’s make reputation infrastructure boring—so intent routing can be exciting.

About VPNL
VPNL (Verifiable Performance Network Layer) provides open reputation standards for solver performance in the Open Intents Framework, enabling protocols to achieve 45% capital efficiency gains while maintaining safety and permissionlessness.

About DIA
DIA (Decentralized Information Asset) is a cross-chain data and oracle platform providing fully customizable and transparent data feeds for Web3, with Lumina as the first fully on-chain oracle network powered by Lasernet L2.

Have questions? Join the conversation on Telegram or open an issue on GitHub.