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zx10 seller rules: how and when sellers are paid

19 Oct 2026. These values are starting points and will be tuned after real use. Default amounts are in catalog/src/amounts.ts; deployment variables may override the automatic payout limits described below.

This applies to every seller. It covers anyone who lists research: an ordinary proof, a bundle that includes a replication, or the result of a research job.

The short version

1. Listing price. You set it; $0.99 if you don't. The allowed range is $0.01 to $100.
2. Listing stake. You pay a stake equal to the listing price, and never less than $0.50. Clean delisting creates a refund obligation to the original stake payer, still owed until confirmed on chain; a confirmed fake loses the stake. There is no $5,000 custody cap. Holdings above HOLD_ALERT_THRESHOLD_ATOMIC (default $5,000) alert the owner on Telegram without stopping sales.
3. zx10's fee is 5% of every sale. zx10 pays the payment network's fees out of that 5%.
4. Your earnings are paid in two parts:
   • 80% eligible after 48 hours from the sale, provided no complaint is open;
   • 20% eligible after 30 days. This is the hold-back. A daily job releases every hold-back whose 30 days are up, unless a complaint about that sale was upheld (the buyer was refunded), a complaint is still open, or the sale was vetoed.
5. Why the hold-back. It works as a growing stake. If one of your listings is confirmed fake, money held back can be stopped (a veto by Amir or the named second person) before it reaches you. For a clean seller it becomes eligible after 30 days and leaves on the next payout run.
6. Research jobs. If you posted (paid for) a research job, the result is yours and private unless you list it. When you sell it, the taker who did the work receives 20% of what is left after zx10's 5%. The hold-back applies to both your share and the taker's.
7. Your code runs without WebAssembly or JIT. zx10 runs seller code in its sandbox as plain interpreted JavaScript (Node --jitless), within a 60-second limit. Verification fails if your code needs WebAssembly.

Worked example: one $0.99 proof sale

A buyer pays $0.99 (990,000 base units of USDC; 1,000,000 = $1).

Your total is $0.9405, the same as without a hold-back: 20% of it becomes eligible later. Actual transfers leave on the next payout run.

Worked example: reselling a research job's result at $0.99

You posted and paid for a research job. You listed its result at $0.99, and a buyer bought it.

The taker was already paid the job price minus zx10's 5% once, when the job was completed. This 20% comes on top, on every resale through zx10.

Other prices

The same rule applies whatever the price you set:

All rounding is down, in whole base units. Any remainder stays with the seller.

Complaints and refunds

AI-made; a starting point, conclusions may differ from other models. The check asks whether the research is fake, not whether it is correct. Disagreement, shallowness and a different model's conclusions are not grounds for a refund. Fake work includes empty/junk or off-topic deliveries, invented or misattributed sources, substantial copying resold as new, and false claims of zx10 verification. Failing a job's supported machine-checkable acceptance criteria also upholds a dispute. A corrupted or incomplete paid download qualifies when an authenticated retry of the same paid version within 24 hours also fails. Checker errors and timeouts remain undecided under the existing 72-hour rule.

• A buyer can complain within 24 hours of buying. An open complaint freezes the whole sale until it is decided.
• An upheld complaint refunds the buyer from money still held.
• A rejected complaint unfreezes the sale, and you are paid on the schedule above.

Payouts and consumable purchases

Eligibility is not a promise of an immediate transfer. Eligible, unfrozen amounts are sent on the next payout run. Automatic payouts default to at most $50 each and $200 actually leaving the float per UTC day, including recovery and owner-approved transfers. The configured values are PAYOUT_MAX_ATOMIC and PAYOUT_DAY_MAX_ATOMIC. Owner approval deliberately overrides the automatic limits, but those transfers still count against that day's remaining automatic allowance. A refund or returned stake stays owed until its payout is confirmed on chain.

A purchase is a consumable: the buyer receives the exact paid version and may re-fetch it for 24 hours after entitlement creation using its token or a fresh paying-wallet signature. After 24 hours it is refused; buyers must save their copy within the window. A changed listing never substitutes new bytes for an older paid version.

Paid complaints are open for doesnt_match or faked: the deposit always equals the original purchased item price, returned in full if upheld and forfeited if rejected. Rejected complaints never increase the deposit or block the wallet from filing another complaint. Only the original paying wallet may complain within 24 hours of purchase; a sale already refunded cannot take another complaint deposit. Paid verdicts, verdict-to-proof credit and deposit-free not_delivered complaints are unavailable.

Open disputes and complaints are checked automatically each day. Undecided after 72 hours means a full buyer refund and return of its complaint/dispute deposit. For job timeouts, the worker receives only the remaining bond (the original bond less lateness penalties already paid to the poster); zx10 funds no difference; the refunded buyer can never list or resell the result. Resale shares pay each poster and taker directly to their own wallets automatically. The poster downloads a private result with the signed POST /jobs/{id}/result action; the dispute window begins when the result becomes downloadable.

Automation defaults

Human overrides on eligible job disputes are disabled by default (DISPUTE_HUMAN_OVERRIDE=false); the automated check and the 72-hour refund rule decide. Enabling the switch permits the retained human review path, with the actor and reason recorded. Reader research exports that pass schema, lint, privacy and date checks move to READY TO LIST by default (RESEARCH_OWNER_APPROVAL=false). Enabling research approval keeps them PENDING OWNER APPROVAL. Ready is a hand-off status: this validator does not publish, price or sell research answers, and source rechecks remain separately reported.

Back to sellers.

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network:{configured Solana CAIP-2 id}
origin:{payment Worker URL origin}
claim:{id}
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wallet:{address}
ts:{unix seconds}

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