Pay & EarnUtility 6
Pay-on-Delivery Escrow
Pay only for answers. Funds release when a valid answer arrives, and refund automatically when a seller fails.
Money moves only when the result arrives. Every request carries its own escrow, so a buyer never pays for silence.
The lifecycle of one request
- Locked. When the agent pays, the amount is held for this request only.
- Delivered. The seller returns a valid answer.
- Released. The funds go to the seller.
If the seller errors or times out, step 3 becomes a refund to the agent, and the failure is written to the Dispute Log.
What counts as valid
At minimum: a successful response within the timeout. Richer checks per endpoint type are TBD.
Timeouts
Timeout values are TBD.