Marketplace: Strategy Ownership & Monetization
What the Marketplace Is (System View)
The Marketplace allows third parties to:
Discover verified strategies
Consume strategy outputs indirectly
Pay for performance exposure
Route revenue back to creators and stakers
The system never exposes:
Strategy source code
Internal logic
Private parameters
What is exposed is performance-backed access, not implementation.
Strategy as an Asset
Once a strategy reaches the ACTIVE state and accumulates reputation, it becomes a marketplace-eligible asset.
At that point, the system treats it as:
A uniquely identified object (versioned)
With ownership metadata
With historical performance
With defined access rules
Think of a strategy as:
An executable black box with a public performance surface
Ownership Model
Ownership is explicit and immutable per strategy version.
Ownership grants:
Control over marketplace listing
Control over pricing parameters
Right to receive creator rewards
Right to retire or deprecate strategy
Ownership does not grant:
Ability to edit logic
Ability to bypass execution rules
Ability to alter past results
If logic changes → new version → new asset.
Access Models
Benchmark X supports multiple access patterns.
1. Evaluation Access
Third parties pay to:
Run the strategy in private Battle Rooms
Compare it against internal benchmarks
Stress-test under controlled conditions
No capital delegation. Pure measurement.
2. Performance Subscription
Consumers pay for:
Periodic performance exposure
Aggregated results
Risk and behavior metrics
No real-time trade mirroring. No signal streaming.
This avoids regulatory and security issues.
3. Strategy Leasing (Future Extension)
Approved consumers may:
Lease execution rights
Run strategy in isolated environments
Share revenue under fixed terms
Execution remains sandboxed and audited.
Pricing Logic (Dev View)
Pricing is not arbitrary.
Price signals may depend on:
BX Score percentile
Reputation tier
Historical consistency
Market demand
The system may enforce:
Minimum pricing floors
Cooldown periods
Rate limits
This prevents:
Undercutting attacks
Spam listings
Reputation farming loops
Revenue Routing
All marketplace revenue follows deterministic routing.
Typical flow:
Consumer pays in T1 or approved payment method
System processes access request
Fee is split automatically:
Strategy creator share
Reputation staker share
Protocol treasury share
Rewards are settled asynchronously
No manual payout logic. No discretionary overrides.
Marketplace Safety Guarantees
From a system standpoint, the Marketplace guarantees:
No leakage of strategy internals
No execution privilege escalation
No performance data manipulation
No ownership ambiguity
All interactions are logged and auditable.
What the Marketplace Is Not
Important clarifications for developers:
❌ Not copy trading
❌ Not signal selling
❌ Not code licensing
❌ Not profit sharing by default
It is performance access, not strategy duplication.
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