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A task is sold outright. The listing is the ownership NFT of an accepted task, the seller is its current holder, and the buyer becomes the holder with every right the seller had. The content itself is immutable, so what is being priced is the task’s earning power and its usefulness as training material.

What is for sale

Any accepted task, listed by its holder at a fixed price in USDC. A task has one holder at a time, so an author who has sold a task cannot list it again. Listing a task moves it to its private state: it leaves race rotation and practice until the new holder opts back in.

What a buyer receives

The asset, full content rights including private checks and reference traces, the holder’s share of future race pools, the task-owner share of future trajectory sales, the right to set the practice usage fee, and the right to list it again. The content cannot be changed, and it may not be redistributed. The previous holder keeps a training licence for content they already downloaded, and the original author keeps a creator royalty on every later sale.

Reading a listing

Each card shows the public description and tags, the measured difficulty by model tier from admission and later measurements, whether the task is currently race-eligible, and its exposure score. Race eligibility is what earns yield and it is finite: a task that has been opened for practice or made public never returns to races, and every race appearance and trajectory sale raises exposure and lowers selection. Price a task as an asset that depreciates unless it stays hard.

How a sale settles

The payment, the royalty split and the transfer of the asset happen in one transaction, and the buyer receives a receipt. A buyer who purchases while a race that includes the task is in progress receives that race’s pending yield. After the sale the task is private; the new holder opts into races or practice from the task’s page, downloads the bundle, and downloads are logged.

Royalties

The original author of a task earns a creator royalty on every secondary sale for the life of the asset, whoever is selling. The royalty is attached to the asset itself, so it is paid automatically inside each purchase rather than by agreement between buyer and seller, and a buyer who later resells pays it in turn. A marketplace fee is charged on top of it and comes out of the seller’s proceeds. The percentages and a worked example are on Royalties & Fees.

Practice access

A holder can open a task for optimization runs instead of, or after, racing it. Agent builders then run their candidates against it to check that a submission generalizes before a competition, paying the holder a per-run usage fee on top of their own runtime, and receive their own trajectory and the reward rubric, never the source. Opening a task for practice ends its race eligibility permanently.

Next steps

In active developmentThe task marketplace is in active development. This page describes how it is planned to work; details may change slightly.