$VANTA Asset
Operator markets
A Vanta node is an execution and submission agent. It watches settlement state, chooses supported work, produces the expected evidence, and competes to resolve tasks.
Operator loop
Why operators specialize
Programs have different hardware, latency, data, and proving requirements. Operators can specialize by workload family while the settlement surface remains agnostic. A node advertises nothing on-chain merely by running; its observable reputation comes from accepted submissions, latency, and completed volume.
| Execution cost | Compute, storage, bandwidth, private data handling, and retry risk. |
|---|---|
| Proof cost | Witness construction, proving hardware, adapter encoding, and verification gas. |
| Market risk | Another operator may settle first in open mode, making late work uncompensated. |
| Chain cost | Submission gas, failed simulation, congestion, and finality delay. |
Open and reserved execution
Open mode rewards the first accepted beneficiary and needs no operator registry. It is simple but can duplicate effort. A future reserved mode may grant a temporary right after a bid or assignment, reducing duplicated computation at the cost of more state and liveness rules.
Collateral belongs only where failure is machine-detectable. A missed reservation deadline can be objective; a claim that an operator's work was not aesthetically useful cannot.
Reference configuration
These names illustrate the intended boundary only. No downloadable Vanta node release or public contract address is canonical yet.