Are Providers required to run a specialized node or use existing public rest api

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Pro of asking providers to run a node :

• We can have customer signatures on every response.
• Every provider will have the same api making validatoin code very simple.

Con of asking providers to run a node ( we just use the providers existing REST API) :

• if there is no customer node provider side then Validators can test big providers natively without them having yet signed on to the network.
• More providers will sign up if they don't need to run anything new.
• If we have a validator side (aka client side) package that has done the work of standardizing the API calls to many providers this could be a seperate value add to the industry which may also get more adoption. Similar to what openRouter made for LLM's
• If we use their existing API's then it will be harder for providers to distinguish between validators and the public

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With existing REST API endpoints we can log the HTTPS signature of the response but this will often not include all information like what the prompt was before that.

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Jason: What if we just have validators check the prompt responses from each other. Simply resubmitting the same prompt if there was not hidden context should get the same response . Leaning towards putting everything on the validator no need for providers to run any code.