Verifiable intelligence,
settled on Metal.
The model: independent workers serve AI, evaluators verify quality, and customers pay in stablecoins — so reward tracks real demand, not emissions.
How a request becomes a payout
A request is posted
A customer posts a paid task and escrows the fee in stablecoins — no volatile token to hold.
Workers serve it
Independent, bonded workers compete to return the best answer. METAL bonds are their skin in the game.
Evaluators verify
Stake-weighted evaluators score quality with a trimmed, plutocracy-capped median. Gaming it means gaming everyone.
Settled on Metal
Escrow releases on-chain — conservation-checked so payouts sum exactly. Reward is capped by real demand.
Verified on-chain settlements
Metal Tahoe · test accounts1 real end-to-end settlement lifecycles executed on the live testnet contracts and verified on-chain — each worker received exactly its payout. This is proof the settlement rails work, with test accounts; it is not a claim of independent workers or real demand.
| Request | Escrow · mXMD | Worker paid · mXMD | Block | Escrow tx | Settle tx |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x3d20a1f3… | 1.00 | 0.70 ✓ | #1901 | 0x859937c1… ↗ | 0x87f10aa3… ↗ |
Each worker payout was read back from the chain after settlement — an exact, conservation-checked split. Verify any of them on Metalscan.
A market's emission is min(base, 3× fee revenue). With no paying customers it earns ~nothing. Bittensor runs near 100–300 : 1; the target is below 1 : 1.
+ .13·retention + .07·efficiency + .05·reliability
Quality and demand are measured independently, so an attacker must game both. The √ on revenue makes wash-trading unprofitable once burned fees exceed the marginal reward.
Rewarded for demand, not for existing
Emission-first networks
- Emission set by token price or validator vote
- Reward tracks stake (0.80–0.95), not performance (~0.50)
- A market with zero customers still earns
- “Verifiable” is a slogan, not a mechanism
Metal Intelligence Network
- Emission capped at a multiple of real settled fee revenue
- Reward dominated by verified paid usage + measured quality
- Zero demand → zero emission after bootstrap
- Correctness = independent evaluation + staking + challenge
Top workers
Open market →| Worker | Quality | Revenue · XMD | Customers | Requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| min17c8f35fe422b…6a4f | 93%93 | 0.0646 | 2 | 4 |
| min1b36486c5f1c6…70a2 | 78%78 | 0.0583 | 2 | 4 |
| min176b3c53b94eb…a26c | 40%40 | 0.0171 | 2 | 2 |
Recent requests
All requests →| Request | Market | Kind | State | Max · XMD | Settlement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stablecoin-risk-monitoring-req-008 | stablecoin-risk-monitoring | quality probe | settled | 0.05 | probe |
| stablecoin-risk-monitoring-req-007 | stablecoin-risk-monitoring | quality probe | settled | 0.05 | probe |
| stablecoin-risk-monitoring-req-006 | stablecoin-risk-monitoring | quality probe | settled | 0.05 | probe |
| stablecoin-risk-monitoring-req-005 | stablecoin-risk-monitoring | paid | settled | 0.05 | 0x61defb13… ↗ |
| stablecoin-risk-monitoring-req-004 | stablecoin-risk-monitoring | paid | settled | 0.05 | 0x4e3c891a… ↗ |
| stablecoin-risk-monitoring-req-003 | stablecoin-risk-monitoring | quality probe | settled | 0.05 | probe |
| stablecoin-risk-monitoring-req-002 | stablecoin-risk-monitoring | quality probe | settled | 0.05 | probe |
| stablecoin-risk-monitoring-req-001 | stablecoin-risk-monitoring | quality probe | settled | 0.05 | probe |