Measurement study·27 experiments·Not a product·Rev. 2026-09-02
A compute network pays a stranger to run a job it cannot watch. What is the cheapest honest evidence that the work was really done?
We measured it — always against the baseline every buyer already has, which is running the job again.
5 / 4machines, vendors — byte-identical logits
0.0integer divergence, every honest backend
+2.43%perplexity — the entire price
2.3%Freivalds, against re-execution
4.2%audit traffic to make cheating −EV
27experiments, failures written up
AboutThe question, the commitments, the eight falsifiable hypotheses, and the result that decided them.The programmeWhitepaperThe whole study as a preprint draft, rendered from the repository's own source.paper/paper.mdDocsNumeric contract, threat model, verification taxonomy, research log — twelve documents, verbatim.12 documentsExploreAll 27 experiments in discovery order, each with its hypothesis recorded before the run.27 experiments