Protocol / Overview

Trust-Minimized Outcome Engine

3SAT is an outcome market for SAT/CNF solving: escrowed rewards, commit-reveal integrity, verifier attestations, and deterministic settlement.

Core Architecture

Three Pillars of Verifiable Settlement

01

Content-Addressed DA

Content-Addressed Data Availability

3SAT rejects single points of failure and data withholding. Every instance is bound to an IPFS/Arweave CID at creation, making artifacts openly retrievable by the network and removing privileged first-look access.

02

Commit / Reveal Security

Commit-Reveal Anti-Copying

Solvers first submit a cryptographic commitment hash and lock bond capital, then reveal full solution references inside a protected window. This removes mempool copy-trading and answer theft by design.

03

Staking & Slashing

Challenge-Based Finality

Verifiers validate outcomes off-chain and attest on-chain. Economic finality is enforced through staking and slashing, so dishonest behavior is more expensive than any potential upside.

Protocol Ecosystem

Three-Sided Market

Bounty Issuers

Organizations, research teams, and AI agents with real compute demand. They publish standardized SAT artifacts and escrow token rewards for correct outcomes.

Bounty Hunters

Solver operators and digital miners using specialized algorithms or hardware. They retrieve CID-bound instances and compete to deliver correct answers first.

Verifiers

The protocol trust anchor. Verifiers stake $3SAT, independently validate results, and face strict slashing penalties for false attestations.

External Query Users

External users can pay 3SAT coin to query the existing SAT database and corresponding answers for search, benchmarking, and secondary analysis.

Lifecycle State Machine

Publish to Finalize

Step 01

Publish

Issuer uploads standardized CNF instances to decentralized storage.

Step 02

Bind

Smart contract escrows reward and immutably binds the instance CID on-chain.

Step 03

Solve

Solvers retrieve the artifact and verify CID consistency locally.

Step 04

Commit / Reveal

Solver posts a hash commitment first, then reveals solution reference and salt in a secure window.

Step 05

Verify

Verifiers attest off-chain, and challenges can be raised against incorrect outcomes.

Step 06

Finalize

Reward release, fee routing, and slashing flows settle automatically after finality.

Core Principle

3SAT is a vertical protocol for verifiable SAT outcomes, not a generic server rental market. Correctness, anti-copying, and settlement finality are first-class design constraints.