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Statistics lane · self-serve beta

Cloud-cost, settled by proof

One project, one UTC day, one batch of integerized cost values. The STATS_V1 verifier checks the proof on Arbitrum One and releases USDC.

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§ 01What it is

One project, one day, one batch — settled by proof

A cloud-cost task is bounded by design: one project, one UTC day, one batch of cost values. The buyer declares the inputs; the worker computes the deterministic summary; the proof asserts the summary matches the inputs. The result is a cost figure any party can re-verify on-chain.

§ 02How it works

The self-serve lifecycle, from both wallets

Buyer escrows the reward and posts the task. Workers bid; buyer selects one. Worker activates, runs the STATS_V1 program in its own runtime, submits the proof. The hub verifies and releases payment.

§ 03Economics

Frozen envelope, 1% fee

Frozen envelope. Reward up to 5 USDC. Selected reward 1.5–5 USDC. Bond 10 USDC. Global fee 1%.

Reward ceiling

5 USDC

selected reward 1.5–5 USDC

Worker bond

10 USDC

enforced at activation

Global fee

1%

snapshotted at selection

Worked example

Worked example. Buyer escrows 5 USDC reward; worker bonds 10 USDC. On pass: worker receives 4.95 USDC, bond returns, treasury accrues 0.05 USDC. On timeout: buyer reclaims the full reward and the full bond.

USDC funds flow through the Northset hub contract

Buyer

posts task + escrows reward

reward (USDC) → hub contract

Worker

bonds USDC at activation

bond (USDC) → hub contract

Hub contract

holds reward + bond in USDC

global fee: 100 bps (1%)

global min bond: 10 USDC

on pass: reward − 1% fee

Worker (paid)

on pass: bond returned

Worker (bond back)

on pass: fee

Treasury Safe

accrues fees

on timeout: reward + bond → buyer

Buyer (timeout)

reclaim + slash

Reward and bond sit in the hub contract. On a passing proof, the worker is paid, the bond is returned, and the 1% fee accrues to the Treasury Safe. On timeout, the buyer reclaims both.

§ 04Boundaries

What this lane is not

Not a generic STATS demo. Not full cloud reconciliation, anomaly detection, percentiles, or multi-day analytics. Not a new verifier family — this lane is bounded to the deterministic STATS_V1 program by design.

§ 05See it live

The walkthrough runs this lane from a connected wallet

The walkthrough app runs the same lifecycle as Proof-of-Pass Escrow. The difference is the verifier family and the input format.