Team Mycelium
National Security Hackathon (by Army xTech)Mycelium solves the critical bandwidth bottleneck in military Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The military already operates at the state of the art with deeply advanced technologies. Currently, pushing massive operational files (like 10GB 3D targeting maps) to a drone swarm and auditing those nodes for data integrity congests and crashes fragile radio networks. To resolve this, we are building a decentralized tactical data-sharing protocol. It utilizes a peer-to-peer file chunking system to distribute massive files concurrently across edge devices, distributing the bandwidth load. To secure the swarm against compromised nodes without transmitting heavy data back to the commander for auditing, the protocol integrates lightweight, recursive Zero-Knowledge Proofs (Plonky2 zk-SNARKs using Poseidon hashing). Drones recursively verify their neighbors' file chunks and mathematically roll the proofs together. The commander ultimately receives a single ~300-byte proof that guarantees the data integrity of the entire swarm, dropping the bandwidth cost of a security audit to near zero
