What Vanta is, and what it is not.

No. Vanta is designed as an application-level compute market on an EVM-compatible host. The host chain supplies consensus, ordering, gas, and finality; Vanta supplies task commitments, verifier selection, escrow, and payout rules.

It indexes new task events, checks whether the declared program and verifier are supported, obtains inputs, performs the workload, builds evidence, simulates settlement, and submits an eligible result. It does not validate host-chain blocks.

The requester does not need to trust the operator. Each task points to a versioned verifier adapter. That adapter evaluates evidence bound to the task, program, inputs, output commitment, and beneficiary before funds can move.

The open mode accepts the first verifier-approved submission before expiry. A later reserved mode may assign a temporary execution right, but reservation and collateral rules remain design targets.

After expiry, the unresolved task enters a deterministic refund path. The requester recovers the entire locked deposit, including the amount that would otherwise have become a protocol charge.

$VANTA is proposed for application-level deposits, operator payments, protocol charges, and narrowly defined collateral. It would not replace the host chain's required gas asset.

They come from value committed by task requesters. Vanta does not describe inflationary block rewards for completed application tasks.

No. A production release requires independently reviewed contracts, a real proof backend, reproducible deployment artifacts, adversarial tests, and restricted administration. Draft 0.1 should not custody production funds.