The Marketplace That Rewards Accuracy
The PolySwarm marketplace uses NCT tokens to align incentives across the ecosystem. Engines stake on their verdicts, consumers fund bounties, and accurate detection gets rewarded. Wrong answers cost money.
Economic Design
Skin in the Game
Engines stake tokens on every verdict. This isn't just confidence signaling. Wrong answers have real financial consequences.
Accuracy-Weighted Rewards
High-performing engines earn more. Historical accuracy directly impacts how much of the bounty pool an engine can claim.
First-Mover Rewards
Catching zero-days early is rewarded. Being first to correctly identify emerging threats means higher payouts.
Self-Sustaining Loop
Consumer fees fund bounties. Bounties attract engines. Better engines attract consumers. The flywheel spins itself.
Everyone Wins When Detection Works
The marketplace aligns the interests of every participant toward the same goal: accurate threat detection.
Security Teams
Enterprise consumers
Get consensus verdicts from multiple engines without managing relationships with each vendor. Pay for results, not seats.
- Consensus verdicts
- No vendor management
- Pay for results
Detection Engines
Analysis providers
Earn revenue based on detection quality. No sales team needed. Just build great detection and get paid.
- Revenue from accuracy
- No sales overhead
- Merit-based rewards
Researchers
Independent contributors
Monetize specialized knowledge. Catch threats that big vendors miss and earn directly from your expertise.
- Monetize expertise
- Catch overlooked threats
- Direct earnings
How the Marketplace Works
Bounty Posted
When an artifact is submitted for scanning, a bounty is automatically attached. This bounty incentivizes engines to analyze the sample.
Engines Stake
Detection engines analyze the artifact and submit verdicts. Each engine stakes NCT tokens on its assertion, putting skin in the game.
Verdicts Aggregated
PolyScore combines all verdicts, weighting each by historical accuracy. Engines receive real-time results with full transparency into how their verdicts compare.
Ground Truth Settled
After ~2 weeks, the network reaches ground truth consensus. Accurate engines earn rewards; inaccurate engines lose their stake.
Ready to Participate
Build a detection engine and start earning rewards for accurate verdicts.