Secure and Scalable Consensus Architectures for Privacy-Preserving and Adversarial-Resilient Blockchain-Based Machine Learning Systems
1 Mr. Jiwan N. Dehankar; 2 Dr. Virendra K. SharmaTypically, security models & analysis includes privacy, efficient computational scalability, and resilience to adversarial threats. Additional requirements from two perspectives, rather than clear-cut governance mechanisms leading to consensus designs focusing primarily on data integrity or network-level security, seldom exist. Most conventional federated learning schemes detach the consensus validation from the encrypted computations and ignore real-world compliance and domain transferability in process. To remedy these shortcomings, this paper proposes a broad-based framework that comprises five innovative methods to enhance consensus specifically focused on ML systems deployed over blockchains. The CAHFGM method interconnects encrypted gradient validation straight into the consensus pipeline of the model-to-be Valid model, guaranteeing model integrity without affecting data privacy. The ABSDTE enhances robustness with dynamic trust scores by surfer clustering participants and deploying shard-level consensus to detect collusion and model poisoning. The Layered Privacy-Enforced Merkle Consensus combines differential privacy with Merkle structures to ensure privacy with audit ability for regulated real-world deployments. To address scalability issues, the Quantum Inspired Lattice-Backed Consensus Layer adopts post-quantum-secure energy-efficient consensus primitives based on lattice cryptography, achieving high throughput and resistance to quantum attacks. The Adaptive Multi-Domain Transfer Validator employs transfer learning for validating consensus outcomes among heterogeneous domains for improved generalizability as a whole in process. Collectively, these methods reduce privacy leakage by 98%, increase collusion detection accuracy above 92%, achieve >10,000 TPS, and demonstrate >85% domain transfer efficiency. This work establishes a robust, scalable, and privacy-preserving consensus foundation for deploying ML over blockchain in regulated, adversarial, and cross-domain environments.