Bitcoin Lightning Bounty Marketplace Paying Investigators in Sats for Catching Corporate Greenwashing
VERIDION-X is a gig economy for fraud detection — investigators earn Bitcoin for catching corporate ESG greenwashing. Oracle nodes reach cryptographic consensus via FROST signatures; verdicts are sealed on Bitcoin and published to Nostr. Submitted to MIT Bitcoin Hackathon.
Date
April 2026
Duration
48 hours
Team
Solo
Category
WEB3 & BITCOIN
The Problem
Most corporate ESG claims are never independently verified. Investors cannot distinguish genuine sustainability from marketing fiction. There is no economic incentive to find fraud and no global payment layer to compensate investigators without banks or KYC.
The Solution
Investigators claim bounties on posted companies. Three independent oracle nodes query live government data (EIA, EPA, SEC, NASA) and reach 2-of-3 FROST threshold consensus. Fraud detection triggers a real BOLT11 Lightning invoice — payment settles in under one second, globally, with no intermediary.
01
FROST 2-of-3 Oracle Consensus
Three independent oracle nodes use Flexible Round-Optimised Schnorr Threshold signatures — no single node controls the verdict.
02
Live Government Data Audits
Real-time queries against EIA renewable data, EPA emissions records, SEC EDGAR filings, and NASA POWER satellite imagery.
03
Sub-Second Bitcoin Lightning Payments
LNbits generates real BOLT11 invoices; investigators scan with any Lightning wallet and receive payment in under one second.
04
Permanent Nostr Publication
Verdicts are sealed via Bitcoin Taproot OP_RETURN on testnet and published to Nostr — permanently uncensorable and independently verifiable.
Blockchain
Cryptography
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Backend