Solutions

Formal Verification

Formal verification often turns high-level correctness questions into constraint systems. 3SAT provides a protocol surface where those constraints can be posted, solved, checked, and settled in USDC or $3SAT with accountable incentives instead of informal off-chain coordination.

Focus

A market layer for correctness checks that can be reduced to SAT/CNF.

  • Issuers can post bounded model checks, equivalence checks, and satisfiability tasks as paid bounties.
  • Solver rewards are tied to finalized correctness rather than raw compute time.
  • The official verifier node validates revealed answers before reward settlement during the initial launch period.

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Details

Practical context

01

Where It Fits

The protocol is useful when a verification question can be converted into a standard SAT instance and the answer has economic value. Examples include checking whether a bad state is reachable, whether two representations are equivalent, or whether a rule set admits a violating assignment.

  • Bounded model checking for discrete systems.
  • Equivalence and consistency checks.
  • Constraint satisfiability for safety or policy properties.

02

Why Use a Protocol

A public bounty lifecycle gives formal verification work a repeatable market process: publish a task, compete to solve it, verify the result, and finalize payment. That makes correctness work easier to price, audit, and reuse.

  • Clear artifact hashes and answer digests.
  • Open marketplace discovery for solvers.
  • Finalized answers can become part of a searchable SAT knowledge base.