$VANTA Asset
Economic design
The first rule is funded-value conservation: task resolution may divide what a requester locked, but it does not manufacture an operator reward.
Open parametersApplication accounting is specified. Token supply, distribution, liquidity, and launch mechanics remain deliberately undefined pending a separate reviewed proposal.
Per-task accounting
For deposit D, operator amount W, and protocol charge C, the settlement invariant is:
D = W + C
accepted result: requester escrow -> W + C
expired result: requester escrow -> D
The charge rate and destination are captured at creation. Later configuration changes cannot alter an open task. Only accepted work creates claimable operator and protocol balances; expiry returns the original deposit in full.
Fixed boundaries and open decisions
| Application role | Specified Eligible funding, accepted execution payments, protocol charges, and future objective collateral. |
|---|---|
| Payment source | Fixed Requester-funded escrow rather than new issuance per completed task. |
| Network gas | Fixed Transactions still consume the host chain's required gas asset. |
| Supply | Unspecified No maximum, mint schedule, allocation, or vesting plan is canonical. |
| Governance | Unspecified No token voting or upgrade authority is promised. |
| Launch | Unspecified No address, venue, chain, or date is official. |
Price formation
- Requesters publish a reward they consider appropriate for an exact workload.
- Operators compare that reward against execution, proof generation, data, and transaction costs.
- Unsupported or underpriced work may remain unresolved and eventually refund.
- Successful markets converge through visible completion rates and costs, not a protocol price oracle.
This makes task pricing an agreement between funded demand and operator capacity without implying protocol-funded yield.
Release gates
- Publish immutable supply and issuance rules.
- Review the token contract separately from the compute settlement contracts.
- Add allowlisted token escrow with exact accounting and adversarial transfer tests.
- Document treasury authority, vesting, liquidity, and administrative delays.
- Publish verified addresses through a reproducible release process.