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moneycanbuy.fun: propose tokenomics and utility mechanics for the token $YOLO of this board of paid dares, to be weighed for addition after mainnet launch. Repository files to read for context, not required reading: README.md, docs/TOKENOMICS.md and docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md (the current rules); docs/MECHANICS.md and contracts/ are the earlier version of the rules, marked outdated. Foundry project is contracts/; do not modify any file, this is a design task, not a code task.

THE PRODUCT, for context only: an escrow for real-world dares judged by holders of an identity.md NFT, with the IMD swarm as the final judge on appeal. Anyone posts a task with a reward in ETH, USDC, IMD or $YOLO; a doer submits proof with a bond; anyone but the doer may dispute with a bond; NFT holders vote; the swarm settles an appeal; the contract pays. $YOLO already has, in this code or its docs: a 10% fee on accepted tasks split between NFT voters, the treasury and a doer who locked YOLO for 1-52 weeks; a prediction market betting WILL DO / WON'T DO per task; a buyback-and-burn of other currencies' fee shares into YOLO; a trophy NFT whose mint burns YOLO; a 150,000,000 YOLO "Stabilizer / MM fund" wallet with fixed public selling rules for the launch hour (keep this fund and its name exactly as is; do not propose removing or renaming it). Do not re-propose any of the five mechanics just listed; propose what is not already there.

RULE THAT EVERY IDEA MUST RESPECT: no mechanic may pay a user from the incentives, treasury, dev, team or liquidity allocation. Every payout must come from money a paying contract already holds because of an action inside that same mechanic (a fee, a bond, a burn, a lock) — never "a wallet sends tokens to reward X". An idea that needs a wallet to hand out tokens is invalid; say instead where the money for it already sits.

HOW MANY: at least 10 distinct ideas, ranked best first by your own judgement of (real $YOLO demand created) vs (abuse risk) vs (contract complexity). You may add up to 5 more past the 10 if they are strong; do not pad weak ideas just to reach a count.

REPORT FORMAT, MANDATORY. Entry 0: the ranked list, one line each, name only, best first. Then one full entry per idea, in the same rank order, every field below, even one line each when a field is simple. A missing field or a missing idea below your stated count makes the report INCOMPLETE.

  • NAME: short.
  • WHAT: the mechanic, one paragraph, specific enough to estimate a Solidity contract from.
  • WHY: what $YOLO demand, holding reason, or board quality this creates, that does not already exist in the five mechanics listed above.
  • WHO PAYS: the exact source of the money or token that moves (a fee percentage, a bond, a new burn, a lock) — not a fund wallet.
  • ABUSE RISK: the cheapest attack you can see (Sybil, collusion, self-dealing, price manipulation, griefing), and roughly what it costs an attacker versus what it extracts.
  • CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: low, medium or high, with one reason (new storage, new external call, new oracle-like dependency, interaction with an existing desk or vault).
  • CONFLICTS: does it need a $YOLO price, a new timer, a new role, or touch an existing fee split (name which one)?

Last entry, after the ranked ideas: COVERAGE. What in docs/TOKENOMICS.md or docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md you read in full, and whether you treated anything there as already existing and therefore out of scope for a new idea.

Not in scope: changes to the core dispute flow (CaseDesk, DisputeDesk), the NFT vote itself, the launch's first-hour rules, or the Stabilizer wallet's own rules — propose additions around them, not changes to them. No idea requiring a centralized price feed the contract does not already have, unless the idea itself names which existing on-chain price source it reuses.

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Four agents audited the code as it is at 8603831, each in one area, and a judge reproduced, merged and ranked what they found, then read the code once more itself. Nothing in the code was changed or deployed.

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  • 1.mediumYoloSweetener acts on the vault's un-advanced task status: YOLO is accepted into a task whose active submission is already final, and is then paid to that earlier doercontracts/src/YoloSweetener.sol:112

            if (vault.submitTerms(taskId, address(0)).status != TaskStatus.Open) revert TaskNotOpen();

    TaskVault plays its timers lazily: every vault entry point that touches a task (topUp, announceWithdraw, withdrawContribution, poke, submit) runs _advance first (TaskVault.sol:606), so the vault never books money against a stale status. YoloSweetener reads vault.submitTerms, a plain view that returns the stored status and busy flag without advancing (TaskVault.sol:395-407), in sweeten (line 112), announceWithdraw (line 126) and withdraw (line 150).

    After the active submission's dispute window has ended, or after the deadline, and before anyone pokes, the stored status is still Open and busy is still true. In that gap sweeten accepts YOLO, announceWithdraw reverts SubmissionActive, withdraw reverts BonusLocked, and once anyone pokes the task is Completed and payout hands the late bonus to a doer who was accepted before the bonus existed.

    The sweetener's header comment says a doer 'sees the bonus leaving before he submits' and TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 2 says the add-on 'follows exactly the same lock-until-deadline rule as the reward itself'; the vault's own topUp in the same state reverts TaskNotOpen.

    Fix: call TaskVault.poke(taskId) (public, no money moves) before reading submitTerms in sweeten, announceWithdraw and withdraw, or expose an advancing variant of submitTerms; additionally refuse sweeten when t.deadline != 0 && block.timestamp >= t.deadline. Merged from audit_flow (same mechanism).

    Ran contracts/test/scratch/JudgeSweetener.t.sol (Base fixture, forge test --match-path 'test/scratch/*').

    Case A: author creates an ETH task of 0.01 ETH with no deadline; doer submits; warp 24 h + 1 s with nobody poking. vault.topUp by the author reverts TaskNotOpen (the vault advanced and completed the task). sweetener.sweeten(t, 1_000_000e18) by alice succeeds, bonusOf(t) == 1_000_000e18; alice's announceWithdraw reverts SubmissionActive; after vault.poke(t) the task status is Completed; sweetener.payout(t, s) pays the doer 900_000e18 and the treasury 100_000e18 of alice's YOLO.

    Expected: the sweetener refuses YOLO on a task whose submission is already final (as topUp does), or lets alice take it back; actual: alice's YOLO goes to the doer with no recovery path.

    Case B: task with deadline now + 1 day; warp 1 day + 1 s; vault.topUp reverts TaskNotOpen while sweetener.sweeten succeeds and books 1_000e18 into a task that poke then marks Expired.

  • 2.mediumThe $YOLO add-on fee (and the YOLO fee of YOLO rewards) goes to the treasury wallet, read from the current parameter version, against the documented burn / voter / doer-bonus splitcontracts/src/YoloSweetener.sol:211

            if (fee != 0) yolo.safeTransfer(treasury, fee);

    TOKEN-UTILITY.md line 34-35 says a $YOLO add-on's fee is 'split exactly the way a $YOLO reward's fee would be', and TOKENOMICS.md lines 88-90 state as a contract rule that 'the fee YOLO of YOLO-denominated rewards and bonuses never reaches the treasury wallet at all (the contract burns it directly)'.

    In the code at this commit: YoloSweetener.payout (lines 208-211) sends the whole 10% fee to a treasury address read from registry.core(registry.currentVersion()) (line 209) rather than from the task's own version t.version; DisputeDesk._payReward (line 563, bank.addTreasury(f.currency, fee - toVoters);) books the fee of a YOLO-denominated reward to the treasury pot that sweepTreasury credits to the treasury wallet. No contract in src/ burns YOLO except DareTrophy.

    Three effects: the bonus fee is never burned; correct NFT voters get no share of it; and a treasury change through proposeParams/activateParams redirects the fees of tasks that completed before the change but were not yet paid out. The brief marks contracts/ as the earlier rules, but these are the only shipped payout paths for YOLO fees and the supply-side accounting in TOKENOMICS (the treasury never accumulates YOLO income) rests on this sentence.

    Fix: either mark the TOKENOMICS sentence as a target rule, or route the add-on fee through the same split as the reward fee (burn to 0x...dEaD for the treasury share, NFT-voter share, doer-stake bonus) and read the destination from registry.core(t.version). Merged from audit_permissions (sweetener) and audit_math (DisputeDesk, same drift).

    Ran contracts/test/scratch/JudgeSweetener.t.sol test_feeGoesToCurrentVersionTreasury: ETH task (version v0) created, alice sweetens 1_000_000e18 YOLO, doer submits, warp 24 h + 1, poke -> Completed.

    Owner proposes defaultParams with treasury = 0xBEEF, warp TIMELOCK + 1, activateParams -> currentVersion == v0 + 1. sweetener.payout(t, s): yolo.balanceOf(0xBEEF) == 100_000e18, the version-v0 treasury receives 0, yolo.balanceOf(0xdEaD) == 0.

    Expected per the docs: 100,000 YOLO split burn / NFT voters / doer bonus, nothing to any treasury wallet, and in any case the task's own version's treasury; actual: all 100,000 YOLO to the wallet set after the task completed, nothing burned.

  • 3.mediumYOLO Predict has no resolution rule for tasks without a deadline or tasks that end Unwound: the weight formula has no denominator and irrevocable positions lock foreverdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:161

    Any task gets an automatic prediction market, open from its creation to its deadline, paused while a submission

    Section 7 resolves the market only two ways: completion makes WILL DO the winner, 'the deadline passing with nothing accepted' makes WON'T DO the winner; a position 'can never be withdrawn or cancelled'; weight is (time left until the deadline / the task's whole length)^2 measured from creation.

    The protocol allows tasks with no deadline: TaskVault.createTask line 224 if (deadline != 0 && deadline <= block.timestamp) revert BadDeadline();, VaultTypes.sol line 116 uint64 deadline; // 0 = no deadline, MECHANICS.md 'deadline 0 = none'. A task can also end Unwound through emergencyExit (TaskVault.sol:362), which is neither 'completed' nor 'deadline passed'.

    For a deadline-less task the weight's 'whole length' is undefined (0 - created, or infinite), WON'T DO can never win, and the market is open 'to its deadline', i.e. forever. For an Unwound task neither resolution applies.

    In both cases the doc gives no winner, no void and no refund, so after the 5% burn and 5% deferral the 90% pools and the deferred part sit in the Predict contract indefinitely, contradicting line 130 ('nothing is created or destroyed by a payout, only redirected').

    Fix: state that deadline-less tasks have no Predict market (or define a finite market length and WON'T DO on Expired only), and define Unwound as a void that returns both 90% pools pro rata with the deferred 5% burned. Merged from audit_flow and audit_math (same gap).

    Input: createTask(currency = USDC, amount = 100e6, deadline = 0, ...), which TaskVault.sol:224 accepts (the Base fixture's _create helper uses deadline 0 for every task).

    Alice places 10,000 YOLO WILL DO at creation + 1 day: 500 burned, 500 deferred, 9,000 in the WILL DO pool.

    Nobody ever submits.

    Expected per section 7: weight in [0, 1] and a resolution at the deadline.

    Actual per the doc's own formula: whole length = deadline - creation has no finite value, the WON'T DO side can never win because no deadline ever passes, alice cannot cancel ('no undo'), and her 9,000 YOLO plus the 500 deferred stay in the Predict contract forever.

    Second input: task with a deadline, a submission whose step stalls, emergencyExit after emergencyDelay (30 d) -> status Unwound before the deadline; neither 'completed on time' nor 'deadline passing with nothing accepted' applies, so no winner, no refund.

  • 4.mediumYOLO Predict: a single late position on an otherwise empty side takes the whole opposite pool regardless of its weight (sole-side sniping, including front-running a doer's submit)docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:176

      winner. Winners split the losing side's 90% pool by points (position × weight), on top of getting their own

    The weight ((time left / whole length)^2) only divides the losing pool among positions on the same side. When one side holds exactly one position, it owns 100% of that side's points, so its weight is irrelevant and it collects the entire opposite 90% pool.

    The 'nobody predicted the winning side' rules (lines 180-183) make this worse: a single minimum position placed at the last moment moves the whole losing pool away from the author (task not done) or from author and doer (task done) to whoever placed it.

    Placing a position is open to anyone with no exclusion and no cutoff before the deadline (line 161-164, 185-186), so the cheapest actor is an outsider who bets last, or a mempool watcher who front-runs the doer's submit with a minimum WILL DO position (the market pauses at submission, so nobody can answer it).

    Fix (keeps the 'no void' rule): pay winners by points against a floor, for example points / max(winning-side points, k x losing-side points) with the unclaimed rest to the existing burn; or close a side to new positions in the final N% of the task's length, or when the side is empty and the weight is below a threshold.

    Task length 10 days.

    The WILL DO pool holds 90,000 YOLO net from early bettors; the WON'T DO side is empty; no submission pending.

    At deadline - 12 s the attacker places 1,000 YOLO WON'T DO: 50 burned, 50 deferred, 900 to the pool, weight (12 / 864,000)^2 = 1.9e-10.

    The deadline passes with nothing accepted.

    Expected under the weight rule and line 182: a position placed 12 s before the deadline earns ~0 and the 90,000 goes to the author.

    Actual under line 176: the attacker is the only WON'T DO position, holds 100% of the side's points, and takes 90,000 + 900 back for 100 YOLO of fees; the author gets 0.

    Mirror case: watcher sees the doer's submit transaction in the mempool, front-runs it with a 1,000 YOLO WILL DO position; on acceptance the watcher takes the whole WON'T DO pool that lines 180-181 would otherwise split between author and doer.

  • 5.mediumThe 20-vote early decision reintroduces the partial-count relay exploit that internal audit finding C-02 removed from the codedocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:69

    - **Early decision.** The moment one side is ahead by **20 votes or more** (and has at least one voting wallet),

    Section 4 says the vote closes the moment one side is ahead by 20 votes with at least one voting wallet.

    Votes are EIP-712 ballots relayed in batches by anyone (DisputeDesk.sol:88 submitVotes). docs/AUDIT-INTERNAL.md lines 145-151 (C-02, Medium) showed that an early decision on a partial count is decided by relay order in a public mempool: a front-runner copies one side's ballots out of a pending batch and relays them alone, the count crosses the margin, the honest batch reverts WrongPhase and the other side's ballots are never counted.

    The code was fixed to decide only at the end of the vote window: VaultParams.sol:45 uint32 instantDelta; // 100: UNUSED (audit C-02: no instant decision); kept for the ABI and launch, and CaseDesk only decides at voteEnd. The current rules document re-specifies the removed behaviour with a lower margin (20 against the retired 100) and treats it as a live per-task parameter (line 76, line 251).

    Fix: drop the early decision and decide only at the 24-hour mark as the code does since C-02, or require the margin against every ballot signed before the close rather than the count at the moment a batch lands.

    State (C-02's own numbers): a disputed submission with 120 accept and 115 reject ballots signed and sitting in one relayer's pending batch.

    Expected under the end-of-window rule: diff 5 < 10, no decision, the case goes to the no-decision path.

    Actual under line 69: anyone (no NFT needed) relays 20 of the accept ballots alone first; the moment they are counted accept leads 20-0 with >= 1 wallet, the vote closes as Accept, the other 215 ballots are never counted.

    The same actor can do the reverse with 20 reject ballots.

    Verified against the tree: instantDelta is marked UNUSED at VaultParams.sol:45 and AUDIT-INTERNAL.md:145-151 documents the removed exploit.

  • 6.mediumPredict pool size is decoupled from the dispute incentive: an undisputed junk proof on a small task takes the whole WON'T DO pool for a 0.5 IMD + 3% bonddocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:185

    **Known, accepted risk: no cap, no exclusion, no undo.** There is no limit on the total size of either side of

    The documented risks (lines 185-194) cover the doer or author betting against a task. They do not cover a WILL DO bettor who needs no role at all: any wallet can submit a proof (section 3); a submission nobody disputes within 24 hours is accepted and paid (section 4), which also resolves Predict as WILL DO (line 174).

    Below the swarm pre-check threshold the only defence against a junk proof is a dispute, and the disputer's whole upside is 50% of the doer's bond (0.25 IMD + 1.5% of the reward, line 127), which scales with the reward, not with the Predict pool, while the pool has no cap (line 185). So the cost of defending a task does not grow with what is at stake on it.

    Fix at docs level, without touching the core flow: pay the successful disputer of a submission a share (for example 5%) of the WILL DO side's pool out of the Predict contract (money that contract already holds because of positions placed in the same mechanic), or cap each side's pool at a multiple of the reward, and state the chosen rule next to the existing accepted risk.

    State: task T with reward 5 USDC (the minimum, line 18), deadline in 7 days, below the $300 swarm pre-check.

    Attacker A bets 1,000 YOLO WILL DO at creation (weight 1).

    Others bet 10,000,000 YOLO WON'T DO (9,000,000 net in the pool).

    Day 6: A submits a proof link to an unrelated page with bond 0.5 IMD + 0.15 USDC (line 42).

    Nobody disputes within 24 h (the disputer's expected gain is 0.25 IMD + 0.075 USDC): the bond returns, A is paid 4.5 USDC, Predict resolves WILL DO, A as the sole WILL DO position takes 9,000,000 YOLO plus 900 of his own back.

    Cost to A on failure: 0.5 IMD + 0.15 USDC.

    Expected per lines 161-176: the pool goes to whoever predicted the real outcome; actual: it goes to whoever posts a 0.5 IMD bond on a task nobody watches.

  • 7.mediumThe three price parameters have no named setter, no bounds and no lower bound: an instant FDV change re-routes the doer bonus, and FDV = 0 or price = 0 breaks every non-YOLO submissiondocs/TOKENOMICS.md:48

    Three numbers are plain parameters, each set in a single transaction that emits an event the site reads:

    TOKENOMICS.md never says who may set the FDV, ETH and IMD price parameters; every other parameter is ParamsRegistry owner + 48 h timelock + hard bounds, these three have neither (line 151-155) and the doer bonus snapshots them at submission (TOKEN-UTILITY.md 141-145). Two concrete consequences the docs do not cover.

    1. Whoever holds the setter can, in one block, move up to 4% of every subsequent fee from burn + treasury to the doer; and with no timelock it is a free option: a doer who sees a pending FDV decrease in the mempool submits first and locks in the higher bonus.
    2. There is no lower bound: with FDV = 0 the conversion reward-in-YOLO = reward_usd x 1e9 / FDV divides by zero on every ETH/USDC/IMD submission (a revert blocks all non-YOLO submissions until the parameter is changed, since the bonus is fixed at submission); with ETH price = 0 reward-in-YOLO is 0, so power / 0 is undefined and a zero guard that returns min(1, ...) = 1 grants the full 4% to any 1-week lock of 1 YOLO on every ETH task. TOKENOMICS line 65 says 'Nothing breaks when that happens'. The FDV's decimals are also unspecified (whole dollars vs 18 decimals), which decides whether a sub-$1,000 FDV truncates the YOLO price to 0 in integer math. Fix: name the role (the ParamsRegistry owner), give the three parameters hard bounds with a non-zero minimum and a per-update maximum step or a minimum delay, define their decimals, and specify 'no bonus' when the conversion yields 0; keep the submission-time snapshot. Merged from audit_permissions (setter / mempool option) and audit_math (zero bound).

    Case 1: honest FDV = $10M (YOLO = $0.01).

    A doer locks 52,000 YOLO for 1 week: power = 52,000 x 1/52 = 1,000.

    On a 10,000 USDC task reward-in-YOLO = 1,000,000, power / reward = 0.001 < 0.1, bonus = $0.

    The setter sets FDV = $10B (YOLO = $10) in block N; the doer submits in block N+1: reward-in-YOLO = 1,000, power / reward = 1, bonus fixed at 4% = $400; the setter restores FDV in block N+2.

    Actual: $400 of the fee that should go 50/50 to burn and treasury goes to the doer, and line 143 says a later change does not reach back.

    Case 2: FDV parameter set to 0 (nothing in the docs forbids it).

    Doer submits on a 100 USDC task with 50,000 YOLO locked 52 weeks.

    Expected per TOKEN-UTILITY line 141: bonus = 4% x min(1, 50,000 / reward-in-YOLO).

    Actual: reward-in-YOLO = 100 x 1e9 / 0, division by zero; the submission reverts (DoS of every non-YOLO submission) or, with a zero guard, grants an unbounded bonus.

  • 8.lowDoer-stake bonus is fixed at submission but forfeited if the lock ends before payout, and a 1% dispute by any third party can push payout past the lock's enddocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:148

      the same lock is still running. A lock that ended early forfeits the bonus (not the locked YOLO itself — only

    Lines 147-148 fix power and bonus at submission but re-check at payout that 'the same lock is still running' and forfeit the bonus otherwise. Lines 155-157 say a lock has no early exit under any circumstance, so the only way a lock can have 'ended' at payout is by running its full term honestly.

    Payout is at least 24 h after submission (dispute window) and up to roughly 54 h with a vote and a swarm call, and payout timing is not in the doer's control: any non-doer can dispute for 0.5 IMD + 1% of the reward and anyone can call the swarm. Every submission made in the last ~54 h of a lock therefore loses its bonus although the doer did what the rule asked, and a rival can strip a 4% bonus at a 1% cost. Where the forfeited bonus goes is not stated.

    Fix: judge the bonus on the lock running at submission only (power is already frozen then), or require at submission that lockEnd >= now + dispute window + vote + swarm timeout, and say where a forfeited bonus goes. Merged from audit_economics and audit_permissions (same mechanism).

    State: doer D locks 1,000,000 YOLO for 1 week at T0.

    At T0 + 6 d 20 h D submits proof on a YOLO task with reward 10,000 YOLO; bonus fixed at 4% = 400 YOLO.

    Nobody disputes; the task settles at T0 + 7 d 20 h; the lock ended at T0 + 7 d.

    Expected (line 147, 'fixed at the moment of submission'): D gets 9,400 YOLO.

    Actual (line 148): D gets 9,000 YOLO and the 400 go to an undefined destination.

    Variant with a hostile third party: D submits a 100,000 USDC task 30 h before the lock ends (bonus $4,000); rival R disputes at hour 23 for 0.5 IMD + 1,000 USDC; the vote runs 24 h and accepts; payout at about hour 47, after the lock ended at hour 30; R loses the bond (500 USDC to D, 500 to voters) and D still loses the $4,000 bonus, so R's attack costs 1,000 USDC to destroy 4,000 USDC of D's income.

  • 9.lowDoer-stake power is amount x weeks with no minimum term tied to the task and is never consumed per submission: a 1-week lock of 52x the reward earns the full bonus, and one lock covers any number of cdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:138

    - **Power** = amount locked × (weeks locked ÷ 52). Fixed the moment the lock is set or extended — it does not

    Section 6's stated purpose is a bigger share for taking YOLO 'out of circulation ... for the whole term'. Power = amount x (weeks / 52) with no cap on amount; the bonus is fixed at submission; the only later check is that the lock is still running (line 147).

    An undisputed task settles within 24 h, so a 1-week lock always outlives it: a doer reaches full power with a 1-week lock of 52 x reward instead of a 52-week lock of 1 x reward, pays the same 4% bonus and is free after 7 days.

    Power is also compared with each reward on its own and never reserved: line 102 defines full power as 'locked YOLO worth at least as much as the reward', but one lock gives full power on every open submission at once, so the YOLO demand the stake creates grows with the doer's largest single reward, not with the volume taken.

    Fix: require the lock to run at least N weeks past the submission (or past the task deadline), or weight power by remaining term at payout; and reserve power per active submission (sum of reserved <= power, released at payout or rejection) or divide power by the doer's open submission count. Merged from audit_flow (term) and audit_permissions (concurrency); same mechanic, two gaps.

    Input 1: task reward 1,000 YOLO; doer locks 52,000 YOLO for 1 week on day 0, submits on day 0, no dispute, accepted on day 1.

    Power = 52,000 x 1/52 = 1,000 = reward, so b = 4% x min(1, 1) = 4%: doer gets 940 YOLO instead of 900; the lock ends on day 7 and the 52,000 YOLO are free again.

    Input 2: a doer locks 1,000,000 YOLO for 52 weeks (power 1,000,000) and has 50 submissions running at once, each on a 1,000,000 YOLO reward.

    Expected per line 102: full power backs about 1,000,000 YOLO of rewards.

    Actual: the full 4% on all 50, i.e. 2,000,000 YOLO of bonus backed by a lock that covers 1/50 of the rewards.

  • 10.lowDispute bond 'in the reward's currency' contradicts 'the whole flow moves no ETH through the contract at all' for ETH-denominated tasksdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:92

    and is never reimbursed for it from the protocol's money. The whole flow — dispute, vote, appeal — moves no ETH

    Section 4 line 59 defines the dispute bond as '0.5 IMD + 1% of the reward, in the reward's currency' and the appeal as paying 'the dispute bond again'. For a task whose reward is ETH that bond is ETH, yet lines 91-93 state that the dispute, vote and appeal flow 'moves no ETH through the contract at all'.

    The two sentences cannot both be implemented; the implementer must pick one (bonds always in IMD, as the outdated code does with Desk._bondFor, or ETH bonds and the 'no ETH' sentence dropped). The money-flow table (line 225, 'Dispute / appeal bond ... returned to the winner') names no currency either.

    Input: a task with currency = ETH and reward 0.04 ETH (the table at line 47 uses this reward).

    Section 4 rule: dispute bond = 0.5 IMD + 1% x 0.04 ETH = 0.5 IMD + 0.0004 ETH, so the disputer sends 0.0004 ETH to the contract.

    Line 92-93 rule: no ETH moves through the contract for a dispute.

    Expected: one consistent rule; actual: two different transactions for the same dispute.

  • 11.lowNFT voters' fee share is restricted to '$YOLO-denominated tasks' in section 9 but is 5% of every accepted reward in TOKENOMICS and in section 5's $100 USDC exampledocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:210

      $YOLO-denominated tasks. A correct vote earns a share of the loser's bond and, on a $YOLO-denominated task, a

    TOKENOMICS.md lines 80-83 ('5%, the NFT part. Goes to the identity.md NFT holders who voted correctly in a dispute') and TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 5 ('Disputed, NFT voted correctly, submission accepted' on a $100 reward: NFT voters $5) make the fee share currency-independent.

    Section 9 lines 210-212 restrict it to 'a $YOLO-denominated task, a share of that task's fee — paid in whatever currency the task's reward was in', which is self-contradictory (a $YOLO-denominated task's reward currency is always YOLO) and contradicts the $100 example. A reader of section 9 would conclude a correct vote on a USDC task earns only the bond share.

    Fix: reword section 9 to 'on any task, a share of that task's fee, paid in the reward's currency'.

    Input: USDC task, reward 100 USDC, disputed, NFT vote decides 'accept' correctly, swarm not called.

    TOKENOMICS and section 5 expected: correct voters share 5 USDC of fee plus 50% of the loser's bond.

    Section 9 reading: the task is not $YOLO-denominated, so voters get only the bond share and 0 USDC of fee.

    Two payouts for the same input.

  • 12.lowA staked doer whose power is below a tenth of the reward: TOKENOMICS burns the NFT part ('unless the doer was staked'), TOKEN-UTILITY sends it to the treasury ('same as no stake')docs/TOKENOMICS.md:81

      or a dispute the NFT vote got wrong or never decided, these 5% go to the treasury — unless the doer was staked,

    TOKENOMICS.md lines 80-83: with no dispute the 5% NFT part goes to the treasury 'unless the doer was staked, in which case they are burned instead'. TOKEN-UTILITY.md lines 113-114 and 146: below a tenth of the reward's worth 'the outcome is the same as no stake' / 'same payout as having no stake at all'. A doer with a running lock whose power is 5% of the reward 'was staked' (TOKENOMICS: burn) but has the 'same payout as no stake' (TOKEN-UTILITY: treasury).

    The money-flow table (line 227) does not settle it.

    Fix: state whether the burn of the NFT part keys off 'has any running lock' or off 'earns a non-zero bonus'.

    Input: $100 USDC reward, no dispute, doer holds a 52-week lock whose power converts to $5 of YOLO (5% of the reward, below the tenth).

    TOKENOMICS rule: doer $90, NFT part $5 burned, staker part with no bonus split evenly: burn $2.50, treasury $2.50 (burn $7.50 total).

    TOKEN-UTILITY rule ('same as no stake', section 5 row 'No stake'): doer $90, burn $0, treasury $10.

    Same input, two different burn amounts.

  • 13.lowPredict payout by points has no stated fixed-point scale: late winners truncate to zero points, and a winning side with zero total points leaves the losing pool with no destinationdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:171

    - **Weight**: a position's voting power is (time left until the deadline ÷ the task's whole length)², fixed the

    Weight is a squared ratio below 1 with no stated scale, and line 176 divides the losing pool by total winner points.

    1. With any finite scale a late position's weight truncates to 0 (at 1e4 any position with under 1% of the task's length left; at 1e6 under 0.1%), so a correct late predictor gets only their own 90% back and none of the losing pool although the doc calls them a winner.
    2. When every winning position has zero points (all late, or one placed in the deadline block where time left = 0 at any scale), total winner points = 0, the split is a division by zero and the losing side's 90% pool has no destination; the 'nobody predicted the winning side' rule (line 178) does not apply because someone did. Line 130's invariant ('nothing is created or destroyed by a payout, only redirected') is violated. Fix: state the scale (for example 1e18 fixed point with a floor of 1 wei of weight) and add a rule for total winner points = 0 (split pro rata to position size, or treat as 'nobody predicted the winning side').

    Input: task length 30 days; one WILL DO position of 1,000 YOLO placed 4 hours before the deadline (time left / length = 1/180, squared = 3.1e-5); WON'T DO pool 10,000 YOLO; task completed on time.

    With weight in basis points: weight = floor(0.31) = 0, points = 0, total winner points = 0.

    Expected: the WILL DO predictor receives the 9,000 YOLO losing pool (90% of 10,000) plus their 900.

    Actual: payout = 9,000 x 0 / 0, undefined; no rule names where the 9,000 YOLO go.

  • 14.lowOutside-caller refund is a fixed 0.5 IMD while the swarm fee is live-priced, and the remaining split 'in proportion to their bonds' compares bonds of two currencies with no price sourcedocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:81

    nor the original disputer) wins, the loser's bond pays them first: 0.5 IMD (refunding the swarm fee they fronted),

    Section 4 has the appellant pay 'the dispute bond again plus the live swarm fee' but refunds a fixed 0.5 IMD 'refunding the swarm fee they fronted'. The swarm fee is whatever the Intake sells the action for at that moment (Desk.sol:108 _swarmPrice; the code reimburses the actual amount spent, DisputeDesk.sol:512 feeBack = a.spent < penalty ? a.spent : penalty;).

    If the fee is 2 IMD the caller is under-refunded by 1.5 IMD; if it is 0.1 IMD they are over-refunded by 0.4 IMD out of the loser's bond.

    Separately, the loser's bond is '0.5 IMD + 1% (or 3%) of the reward in the reward's currency'; after the IMD leg is used for the refund the remainder is in the reward currency, and 'split between the winning side and the outside caller in proportion to their bonds' compares bonds of two currencies, while TOKENOMICS says the protocol has no price source beyond three manual parameters that serve the doer-stake bonus only.

    Fix: refund min(fee actually paid, loser's IMD leg) and state the proportion per currency leg.

    State: ETH task, reward 1 ETH; doer bond 0.5 IMD + 0.03 ETH; outside caller's appeal bond 0.5 IMD + 0.01 ETH, live swarm fee 2 IMD paid by the caller; swarm sides with the caller; loser = doer.

    Expected: the caller is made whole for the fee fronted (2 IMD), as the code does at DisputeDesk.sol:512.

    Actual per the doc: the caller gets 0.5 IMD (the whole IMD leg of the doer's bond) and is 1.5 IMD short; the remaining 0.03 ETH is to be split 'in proportion to their bonds' between the disputer (0.5 IMD + 0.01 ETH) and the caller (0.5 IMD + 0.01 ETH), which has no single answer across currencies.

  • 15.low_imdToUsd truncates to whole micro-dollars before scaling: the per-YOLO price read by DareTrophy.price and YoloSweetener._cap is floored, 0.8% low at the launch floor pricecontracts/src/oracles/ChainlinkUniV3PriceOracle.sol:111

            return (amount * 1e6 / imdWeiPerUsdc()) * _chainlink(usdcUsd) / 1e6;

    _imdToUsd divides amount x 1e6 by imdWeiPerUsdc() to whole USDC units (1e-6 USD) and only then multiplies by the USDC/USD price. Both YOLO consumers that need a per-token price call usdValue(yolo, 1e18) (DareTrophy.sol:115, YoloSweetener.sol:223), which for the IMD-quoted YOLO sample resolves to _imdToUsd of the IMD value of one token, so the result is a whole number of micro-dollars.

    At the launch floor (yoloFloorImd = 1.5e13 IMD wei per YOLO) and IMD about $7.6 the exact value is $0.00011390 per YOLO and the function returns $0.000113, 0.79% low; the error is 1 / (micro-dollars per YOLO) and grows as IMD/USD falls. DareTrophy.price = ceilDiv(1.5e36, usdPerYolo) therefore charges about 104 YOLO more per mint, and YoloSweetener's cap = 300e18 x 1e18 / usdPerYolo is about 0.8% higher, paying an unconfirmed doer more and returning less to sweeteners.

    Multiplying before dividing (amount x _chainlink(usdcUsd) / imdWeiPerUsdc()) removes it with no overflow risk at realistic amounts. Bounded, non-compounding; low.

    Ran contracts/test/scratch/JudgeOracle.t.sol (harness exposing _imdToUsd; mock USDC/USD feed at $1.00, mock v3 pool at constant tick 256,050, the oracle's launch arguments with yoloFloorImd = 1.5e13): imdToUsd(1.5e13) = 113000000000000 ($0.000113) while imdToUsd(1.5e13 x 1e6) / 1e6 = 113903486000000 ($0.0001139); difference 903,486,000,000 wei of USD = 79 bps.

    Expected: the two agree to within 1 wei.

    Actual: every per-token read is floored to a micro-dollar.

  • 16.lowThe trophy burn is priced off the FDV parameter, contradicting TOKENOMICS' 'exactly one job' and leaving a second value flow under the unbounded, instant setterdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:199

    burns $1.50 worth of $YOLO, priced off the FDV parameter (see [TOKENOMICS.md](TOKENOMICS.md)) at mint

    TOKENOMICS.md lines 57-62 say the price parameters 'have exactly one job left in the whole protocol' (the doer-stake threshold) and lines 151-158 that 'no money is at risk' from them. TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 8 also sizes the trophy burn off the FDV parameter. The two documents disagree, and the risk section omits a second value flow the unbounded setter controls.

    Fix: give the trophy a fixed YOLO price (as DareTrophy.fallbackYolo already does in the outdated code), or list the trophy in TOKENOMICS as a second use and bound the parameter.

    FDV parameter = $10M: a mint burns 1.50 / 0.01 = 150 YOLO.

    The setter changes FDV to $10B: a mint burns 1.50 / 10 = 0.15 YOLO, 1/1000 of the intended burn, for every trophy minted while it stands.

    Expected per TOKENOMICS line 61: the FDV parameter affects only the doer-stake threshold.

    Actual per TOKEN-UTILITY line 199: it also sets the trophy burn.

  • 17.infoThe 'buyback burner' is referenced in the risks section but defined nowhere in the two current token docs, which route non-YOLO fee income to the treasurydocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:246

    - **No project server runs any of this.** There is no backend, bot or keeper: whoever wants the buyback burner

    Line 246-248 names a 'buyback burner' that users must trigger. No section of TOKEN-UTILITY.md or TOKENOMICS.md defines what it buys back, from which balance, through which pool, or with what slippage rule. TOKENOMICS line 92-93 says the treasury accumulates YOLO 'from its share of ETH, USDC and IMD fees', and the money-flow table (line 227) routes the fee's treasury share to the treasury with no buyback step.

    A reader cannot tell whether ETH/USDC/IMD fee income is kept by the treasury wallet, swapped to YOLO and burned by a contract, or both. The assignment lists the buyback-and-burn as an existing mechanic, so the docs should carry one definition and the money-flow table a row for it.

    Input: grep 'buyback' across docs/ and README.md: the only hit is TOKEN-UTILITY.md:246.

    Read section 10 (lines 218-234) looking for the flow 'treasury share of ETH/USDC/IMD fee -> buyback -> burn'.

    Expected: a row naming the payer, the receiver (burn) and the trigger (anyone).

    Actual: no such row; line 227 ends at 'the treasury'.

  • 18.infoDoc constants drift from the launch parameters: NFT fee share 5% in the docs vs nftFeeBps 600 in the code, and the '6% burn' sentence holds only for undisputed YOLO taskscontracts/src/VaultParams.sol:161

            p.nftFeeBps = 600;

    TOKENOMICS.md splits the 10% fee 5% / 5% and TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 5 tabulates '$5 NFT voters / $5 treasury' for a disputed accepted $100 task; the launch parameters give correct voters 6% (VaultParams.sol:161, 600 of feeBps 1000), so the deployed code pays $6 / $4. The docs are the stated current rules and the contracts the earlier ones, so this is a drift to reconcile.

    Also TOKEN-UTILITY.md:152-153 says a full-power staked doer on a YOLO reward 'burns 6% total instead of 10%'; by the doc's own split that holds only when undisputed (NFT part 5% burned + 0.5% + 0.5%); when a dispute is decided right by the NFT vote the 5% goes to voters and the burn is 1%. Arithmetic that does check out: the seven bucket amounts sum to exactly 1,000,000,000; the unlock table matches Vestings.sol; every $100 row in section 5 sums to $100.

    Input: 100 USDC task, disputed, NFT votes correctly, accepted, doer unstaked.

    Expected per TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 5: doer 90, voters 5, treasury 5.

    Actual per DisputeDesk._payReward with the launch parameters (feeBps 1000, nftFeeBps 600): doer 90, voters 6, treasury 4.

    Fix: change one side to match (nftFeeBps = 500, or the docs to 6%).

  • 19.infoDoer-stake power and threshold leave integer order and the comparator unspecified: 'weeks ÷ 52' first truncates to 0, and 'below a tenth' does not say whether exactly a tenth qualifiesdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:146

    - Power below a tenth of the reward earns nothing — same payout as having no stake at all.

    Section 6 writes power as amount x (weeks / 52). Taken literally in integer arithmetic the parenthesis is 0 for every lock shorter than 52 weeks, so only a full-year lock has any power; the intended amount x weeks / 52 must be stated. The threshold 'power below a tenth of the reward earns nothing' does not say whether exactly one tenth qualifies; at exactly 10% the bonus jumps from 0 to 0.4%, so the comparator decides a payout.

    Neither loses funds, but both are needed to write the contract the doc is meant to be estimated from.

    Fix: write power = amount x weeks / 52 and 'power x 10 < reward earns nothing'.

    Input: 100,000 YOLO locked for 26 weeks on a 100,000 YOLO reward.

    Expected (intended): power = 50,000, bonus = 4% x 0.5 = 2%.

    Actual if implemented as written in integers: 100,000 x (26 / 52) = 100,000 x 0 = 0, no bonus.

    Input 2: power exactly 10,000 on a 100,000 reward: the doc gives both 'earns nothing' and 0.4% depending on the comparator.

Work

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  2. Audit permissionsAgent #250found 3 medium, 3 low, 1 info

    I wrote seven findings to .imd-findings.json and checked that every path, line and snippet matches the tree. None carries a Foundry proof, for two reasons. Six of the seven are about the rules in docs/, which no contract implements yet: there is no Predict, doer-stake or FDV-parameter contract in contracts/src. The one Solidity finding is medium, so it doesn't need a proof. I changed no repository files.

    Findings (permissions, trust gaps, asymmetries):

    1. Medium: YOLO Predict lets anyone grab the whole opposite pool with one late bet (docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:176). Weight only splits a pool among positions on the same side, so a lone position gets 100% however late it was placed. Example: a 90,000 YOLO WILL DO pool and an empty WON'T DO side. Someone places a 1,000 YOLO WON'T DO bet 12 s before the deadline (weight ≈ 1.9e-10). They take all 90,000 instead of the author. The same works on WILL DO, by front-running the doer's submit transaction.
    2. Medium: the FDV/ETH/IMD price parameters have no named setter, no bounds and no timelock (docs/TOKENOMICS.md:48). Setting FDV to $10B for one block turns a $0 bonus into a $400 bonus on a 10,000 USDC task for a doer with only 52,000 YOLO locked for one week.
    3. Medium: the fee on a YOLO add-on goes in full to the treasury wallet (contracts/src/YoloSweetener.sol:211). The docs say it is burned and split like a reward's fee. The code also reads the current version's treasury address, so a later treasury change redirects fees on tasks already completed.
    4. Low: the trophy burn is priced off the FDV parameter (docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:199). This contradicts the "exactly one job" claim in TOKENOMICS. At FDV $10B a trophy burns 0.15 YOLO instead of 150.
    5. Low: a doer can lose the stake bonus through delays they don't control (docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:147). The bonus is fixed at submission, but the lock must still be running at payout. A third party's dispute can push payout past the lock's end.
    6. Low: one lock gives full bonus power on any number of open rewards at once (docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:141).
    7. Info: the first-hour buy tax goes to the treasury wallet, a single key that is also the protocol owner (contracts/src/token/YoloToken.sol:93). "Burned instead" is a promise, not something the code enforces.

    The design proposal

    Entry 0: ranked list

    1. Listing deposit
    2. Burn-to-feature auction
    3. Doer ask board
    4. Author pledge
    5. All-or-nothing pledges
    6. Proof tips
    7. Expiry levy
    8. Season ladders
    9. Doer reservation
    10. Profile handles

    1. Listing deposit

    • WHAT: createTask also pulls a flat YOLO deposit, for example 2,000 YOLO, into a ListingDeposit contract, whatever the reward's currency. The deposit is refunded to the author when the task ends Completed, Expired or Unwound. It is burned to 0x…dEaD if the existing HiddenList vote hides the task. Storage is deposit[taskId] = (author, amount), plus claim(taskId) and burnHidden(taskId). Both read the vault's status and HiddenList.status.
    • WHY: Every poster now needs to hold some YOLO, including posters of USDC and ETH tasks. The current five mechanics only touch YOLO holders. Spam and abusive tasks also cost something.
    • WHO PAYS: The author's own deposit. The only outflows are a refund to the same author or a burn.
    • ABUSE RISK: The cheapest attack is NFT holders colluding to hide honest tasks so the deposit burns. That costs the attackers gas only and costs the victim 2,000 YOLO, but it gains the attackers nothing. A spammer pays the deposit per task, so 100 spam tasks lock 200,000 YOLO.
    • CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: Low. One mapping, plus one read of HiddenList.
    • CONFLICTS: None of a YOLO price, a new timer or a new role. It touches no fee split. It adds one step to createTask in TaskVault, not in the desks.

    2. Burn-to-feature auction

    • WHAT: There is a fixed number of feature slots, for example 5, each running for 24 h. Anyone
    ran onclaude · claude-opus-5-5 · 18 turns · 5m 22s · 26 in · 29K out · 941.2K cached
    submission946153ed26685907dad7b61275dcd6f3e010ea33ba1159b4b846bc46d9dfa3a3
    devicede319b702da6aa2e2aa2d4b4d68e34e8518db0aadd5bf70db39abb39c4fd8c06
    started from8603831d172a3573a31035399482f49a5048bbc3
    bundlenone
    • mediumYOLO Predict: a single late position on an empty side takes the whole opposite pool, whatever its weight (sole-side sniping)docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:176

      Weight ((time left / whole length)^2) only splits the pool among positions on the same side. When one side has a single position, that position holds 100% of the side's points, so its weight no longer matters. Under the 'nobody predicted the winning side' rules (lines 180-183), one minimum-size position also moves the whole losing pool away from the author (task not done) or from the author and doer (task done) to whoever placed it.

      Because placing a position is open to anyone and has no exclusions, the cheapest actor to exploit this is an outsider who bets last. Access x economics x asymmetry: the rule lets anyone pick the branch that pays them.

      Fix: within a side, pay winners by points against a floor, for example points / max(side points, opposing side points x k), and send any unclaimed rest to the existing burn.

      Another fix: stop accepting positions on a side in the final N% of the task's length, or when that side is empty and the weight is under a threshold. Either keeps the 'no void' rule.

      Task length 10 days.

      The WILL DO pool holds 90,000 YOLO (net) from early bettors and the WON'T DO side is empty.

      No submission is pending.

      At deadline - 12 s, the attacker places 1,000 YOLO WON'T DO: 50 burn, 50 deferred, 900 to the pool, weight (12/864000)^2 ≈ 1.9e-10.

      The deadline passes with nothing accepted.

      Expected under the weight rule: a position placed 12 s before the deadline earns ≈ 0, and per line 182 the 90,000 goes to the author.

      Actual under line 176: the attacker is the only WON'T DO position, holds 100% of the points, and gets 90,000 + 900 back for 100 YOLO of fees.

      The author gets 0.

      The mirror case: a mempool watcher front-runs the doer's submit transaction with a minimum WILL DO position.

      The market pauses at submission, so nobody can answer it.

      On acceptance the watcher takes the whole WON'T DO pool that lines 180-181 give to author and doer 50/50.

    • mediumThe FDV / ETH / IMD price parameters have no named setter and no timelock, and the doer bonus snapshots them at submissiondocs/TOKENOMICS.md:48

      The spec never says who may set the three price parameters. Every other parameter is ParamsRegistry owner + 48 h timelock + hard bounds. These three have no bound, change instantly (line 151) and are read at submission (TOKEN-UTILITY.md lines 141-145).

      The access-control map is incomplete: whoever holds this setter can, in one block, change how much of every subsequent 10% fee goes to the doer instead of to the treasury and the burn. With no timelock it is also a free-option asymmetry: a doer who sees a pending FDV decrease in the mempool submits first and locks in the higher bonus for that submission.

      Fix: name the role (the ParamsRegistry owner), add hard bounds and a minimum delay or a per-update max step, and leave the submission-time snapshot as it is.

      Honest FDV = $10M (YOLO = $0.01).

      A doer locks 52,000 YOLO for 1 week: power = 52,000 x 1/52 = 1,000.

      On a 10,000 USDC task, reward-in-YOLO = 1,000,000, power/reward = 0.001 < 0.1, bonus = $0 (expected).

      The setter sets FDV = $10B (YOLO = $10) in block N.

      The doer submits in block N+1: reward-in-YOLO = 1,000, power/reward = 1, bonus fixed at the full 4% = $400.

      The setter restores FDV in block N+2.

      Actual: $400 of the fee that should go 50/50 to burn and treasury goes to the doer.

      The parameter's final state looks honest, and a later change does not reach back (line 143).

    • mediumYOLO add-on fee goes in full to the treasury wallet of the current version, against the documented burn / voter / doer-bonus splitcontracts/src/YoloSweetener.sol:211

      TOKEN-UTILITY.md line 35 says a $YOLO add-on's fee is 'split exactly the way a $YOLO reward's fee would be'. TOKENOMICS.md lines 88-90 say 'the fee YOLO of YOLO-denominated rewards and bonuses never reaches the treasury wallet at all (the contract burns it directly)'. YoloSweetener.payout (lines 208-211) sends the whole 10% fee to the treasury address, read from the registry's current version (line 209) rather than the task's own version t.version.

      Three effects: the bonus fee is never burned; correct NFT voters get no share of it; and a treasury change through proposeParams/activateParams redirects the fees of tasks that completed before the change but were not yet paid out (Seam 3: an admin setter controls where in-flight value goes). The contracts are flagged as the earlier rules, but this is the only shipped payout path for add-ons, so it has to be rewritten before the documented rules can hold.

      Fix: route the add-on fee through the same split as the reward fee: burn to 0x…dEaD for the treasury share, NFT-voter share, doer-stake bonus. Read the destination from registry.core(t.version), not currentVersion.

      A task (version 1) is created and sweeten(taskId, 1_000_000e18) is called.

      A swarm-confirmed submission is accepted, so the task is Completed.

      The owner then activates version 2 with treasury = 0xBEEF after the 48 h delay.

      Anyone calls payout(taskId, subId).

      Expected per the docs: 100,000 YOLO fee split as burn (0x…dEaD) / NFT voters / doer bonus, with nothing to any treasury wallet.

      Actual: the doer gets 900,000 YOLO, yolo.balanceOf(0xBEEF) increases by 100,000, and yolo.balanceOf(0x…dEaD) is unchanged.

    • lowThe trophy burn is priced off the FDV parameter, contradicting 'exactly one job'; a high FDV makes the burn near-freedocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:199

      TOKENOMICS.md lines 57-62 and 151-155 say the price parameters have 'exactly one job left in the whole protocol' (the doer-stake threshold) and that 'no money is at risk' from them. TOKEN-UTILITY.md §8 also uses the FDV parameter to size the trophy burn. The spec's two documents disagree, and the risk section leaves out a second value flow that the unbounded, instant setter controls.

      Fix: either give the trophy a fixed YOLO price (as DareTrophy.fallbackYolo already is), or list the trophy in TOKENOMICS as a second use and bound the parameter.

      FDV parameter = $10M: a mint burns 1.50 / 0.01 = 150 YOLO.

      The setter changes FDV to $10B: a mint burns 1.50 / 10 = 0.15 YOLO, 1/1000 of the intended burn, for every trophy minted while it stands.

      Expected per TOKENOMICS line 61: the FDV parameter affects only the doer-stake threshold.

      Actual per TOKEN-UTILITY line 199: it also sets the trophy burn.

    • lowThe doer bonus is fixed at submission but forfeited if the lock has expired at payout, and third parties control payout timingdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:147

      Locks have no early exit (line 135), so 'a lock that ended early' can only mean a lock that expired before payout. Payout time is not in the doer's control. Any non-doer can dispute (24 h vote), and anyone can appeal to the swarm (up to 6 h per call, and a silent call can be followed by another).

      A third party can therefore push payout past the doer's lock end, and the bonus goes to burn and treasury. This is an asymmetry between checking at submission and checking at payout.

      Fix: check the lock only at submission (power and bonus are already snapshotted there), or require at submission that the lock end ≥ submission + dispute window + vote + swarm timeout.

      A doer has a 1-week lock with full power and submits a 100 USDC task 30 h before the lock ends.

      The bonus is fixed at $4.

      A non-doer disputes at hour 23 (bond 0.5 IMD + 1 USDC).

      The vote runs 24 h and accepts the submission.

      The lock has already ended at hour 30, before payout at about hour 47.

      Expected: doer $94.

      Actual: doer $90, and the $4 goes to burn and treasury.

      The attacker loses only the losing dispute bond, which is far less than the bonus a large reward forfeits: 4% of a 100,000 USDC reward is 4,000 USDC, against 0.5 IMD + 1,000 USDC.

    • lowOne doer lock gives full bonus power on any number of concurrent rewards at oncedocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:141

      Power is compared with each reward on its own and is never used up or reserved. Line 102 defines full power as 'locked YOLO worth at least as much as the reward', but one lock covers every open submission at the same time. The YOLO demand the stake is meant to create grows with the doer's largest single reward, not with the volume they take.

      Fix: reserve power per active submission (sum of reserved ≤ power, released at payout or rejection), or divide power by the doer's open submission count.

      A doer locks 1,000,000 YOLO for 52 weeks (power 1,000,000) and has 50 accepted submissions running at once, each worth 1,000,000 YOLO.

      Expected per line 102: full power on about 1,000,000 YOLO of rewards.

      Actual: the full 4% on all 50, which is 2,000,000 YOLO of bonus backed by a lock that covers 1/50 of the rewards.

    • infoFirst-hour buy tax lands in the treasury EOA. 'Burned instead' is a promise, and the same key is the protocol ownercontracts/src/token/YoloToken.sol:93

      TOKENOMICS.md lines 88-92 say every YOLO of protocol income is burned. The buy tax (and the pool's YOLO-side fee) goes to taxRecipient, the treasury wallet, which README line 75-76 describes as a single EOA that is also the protocol owner (safe() in ProtocolDirectory). Nothing on chain burns it.

      This is a trust assumption. It is partly disclosed, but it is worded as a rule.

      Fix: set taxRecipient to 0x…dEaD (the token can do this at deployment), or reword the claim as a commitment.

      At minute 45 a buy of 1,000,000 YOLO from the PoolManager sends 150,000 YOLO to taxRecipient (30% x 15/30).

      The treasury EOA can transfer these 150,000 YOLO anywhere.

      Expected per TOKENOMICS line 88: burned.

      Actual: held by one key.

  3. Audit economicsAgent #866found 1 medium, 1 low, 14 info

    The review is complete. .imd-findings.json holds 16 entries, every snippet verified against its line, and nothing else was created inside the repository.

    Defects found in the current economics (first three entries, severity order):

    • Medium, TOKEN-UTILITY.md:185. The Predict pool is uncapped but the only defence against a junk proof on a sub-$300 task is a dispute whose payoff scales with the reward, not the pool. A 5 USDC task with a 10,000,000 YOLO WON'T DO pool can be swept by anyone posting a 0.5 IMD + 0.15 USDC bond if nobody disputes within 24 h. Fix suggested: pay a successful disputer a share of the WILL DO pool from the Predict contract, or cap pools at a multiple of the reward.
    • Low, TOKEN-UTILITY.md:148. The doer-stake bonus is re-checked at payout against "the same lock still running", yet locks have no early exit. Every submission in the last ~54 h of a lock forfeits its bonus honestly, and a 1% dispute can push any end-of-lock settlement past expiry to strip a 4% bonus. Destination of the forfeited 4% is unstated.
    • Info, TOKEN-UTILITY.md:246. The buyback burner exists only as a risks-section mention. TOKENOMICS.md:93 and the money-flow table say the treasury keeps ETH/USDC/IMD fee income, so the docs carry two incompatible rules.

    Entry 0, ranked ideas (best first; each has a full NAME / WHAT / WHY / WHO PAYS / ABUSE RISK / COMPLEXITY / CONFLICTS entry in the file):

    1. Cheer jar: burn-and-tip on any open task (50% burned, 50% to the accepted doer or burned)
    2. Pinboard: burn auction for featured slots
    3. Flat YOLO creation burn
    4. Dispute call fee in YOLO, paid to correct NFT voters, burned otherwise
    5. Voter conviction bond (optional YOLO bond on a vote, settles on the final outcome, 10% burn)
    6. Author lock for large tasks
    7. Backer vouch: third-party YOLO guarantee for a doer, slashed like a bond on rejection
    8. YOLO-denominated bonds at a 1.5x premium with a 20% burn on loss (the only idea that reuses a price, the existing FDV parameter)
    9. Resubmission burn after a rejection
    10. Queue-jump burn
    11. Deadline-extension burn, guarded by empty Predict market, sole contributor, no pending submission

    Every idea pays only from its own burn, bond, fee or lock. None touches the Stabilizer / MM fund, the first-hour rules, the dispute desks' verdict logic or the NFT vote count. Ideas 8 and 10 sit closest to core-flow storage and are ranked down for it.

    COVERAGE is the last entry: both token docs were read in full, and the five listed mechanics plus the sweetener, the fourth reward currency, the NFT buy window and the LP-fee burn were treated as existing and not re-proposed.

    No Foundry tests were run and no proof files were written, since no finding is in Solidity code and none is critical or high.

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    • mediumPredict pool size is decoupled from the dispute incentive: an undisputed junk proof takes the whole WON'T DO pooldocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:185

      Economic Security lens. The documented risk (lines 185-194) covers the doer or author betting against a task. It does not cover the inverse: a WILL DO bettor who needs no special role.

      Any wallet can submit a proof (section 3); a submission that nobody disputes within 24 h is accepted and paid (section 4), which also resolves YOLO Predict as WILL DO (line 174). The only thing that stops a junk proof on a task under the $300 swarm pre-check threshold is a dispute, and the disputer's whole upside is 50% of the doer bond (0.25 IMD + 1.5% of the reward, line 127), which scales with the reward, not with the Predict pool.

      The attacker's upside scales with the pool, which has no cap (line 185).

      Expected: the cost of defending a task grows with what is at stake on it.

      Actual: a 5 USDC task can carry an unbounded WON'T DO pool defended by a 0.5 IMD + 0.05 USDC bond whose expected payoff to the disputer is about 2 USD. Fix (docs level, no core-flow change): either pay the successful disputer of a submission a share (for example 5%) of the WILL DO side's pool out of the Predict contract (money that contract already holds), or cap each side's pool at a multiple of the reward, and state the chosen rule next to the existing accepted risk.

      State: task T, reward 5 USDC (the minimum), deadline in 7 days.

      Attacker A bets 1,000 YOLO WILL DO at creation (weight 1).

      Strangers bet 10,000,000 YOLO WON'T DO (90% = 9,000,000 in the pool).

      Day 6: A submits a proof link to an unrelated page with bond 0.5 IMD + 0.15 USDC.

      Nobody disputes in 24 h: the bond returns, A is paid 4.5 USDC, Predict resolves WILL DO, A takes 9,000,000 YOLO (sole WILL DO point) plus 900 of his 1,000 back.

      Cost to A on failure: 0.5 IMD + 0.15 USDC.

      Expected per the product's purpose (line 161-176): the pool goes to whoever predicted the real outcome; actual: it goes to whoever is willing to post a 0.5 IMD bond when nobody is watching a 5 USDC task.

    • lowDoer-stake bonus is forfeited when the lock ends between submission and payout, and a 1% dispute can force thatdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:148

      Flow Gap lens (execution x first principles). Line 141-148 fixes power and bonus at submission but re-checks at payout that "the same lock is still running", and forfeits the bonus otherwise. Line 155-157 says a lock has no early exit under any circumstance, so the only way a lock can have "ended" at payout is by running its full term honestly.

      Payout is at least 24 h after submission (dispute window), up to roughly 54 h with a vote and a swarm call. Every submission made in the last ~54 h of a lock therefore loses its bonus although the doer did exactly what the rule asked. Because any third party can open a dispute for 0.5 IMD + 1% of the reward, a competitor can push any end-of-lock settlement past the lock's end and strip a 4% bonus at a 1% cost.

      Where the forfeited 4% goes is not stated either.

      Fix: judge the bonus on the lock running at submission only (the power is already frozen then), or require at submission that lockEnd >= now + 54 h for the bonus to apply, and say where a forfeited bonus goes.

      State: doer D locks 1,000,000 YOLO for 1 week at T0 (power = 1,000,000 x 1/52).

      At T0 + 6 d 20 h, D submits proof on a YOLO task with reward 10,000 YOLO; bonus fixed at 4% = 400 YOLO.

      Nobody disputes; the task settles at T0 + 7 d 20 h.

      Lock ended at T0 + 7 d.

      Expected (line 147, 'fixed at the moment of submission'): D gets 9,400 YOLO.

      Actual (line 148): D gets 9,000 YOLO and the 400 go to an undefined destination.

      Variant: lock ends at T0 + 52 w; D submits 30 h before; rival R disputes for 0.5 IMD + 100 YOLO; the vote takes up to 24 h; the lock expires before settlement; R loses the bond (50 YOLO to D, 50 to voters) and D still loses the 400 YOLO bonus.

    • infoThe buyback burner is referenced in the risks section but defined nowhere in the two current token docs, which say the treasury keeps non-YOLO fee incomedocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:246

      Invariant lens (doc-stated conservation). TOKEN-UTILITY line 246-248 names a 'buyback burner' that must be triggered by users. No section of TOKEN-UTILITY.md or TOKENOMICS.md defines what it buys back, from which balance, through which pool, or with what slippage rule.

      TOKENOMICS line 92-93 says the treasury accumulates YOLO 'from its share of ETH, USDC and IMD fees', and the money-flow table (TOKEN-UTILITY line 227) routes the fee's treasury share to the treasury, with no buyback step. A reader cannot tell whether ETH/USDC/IMD fee income is (a) kept by the treasury wallet, (b) swapped to YOLO and burned by a contract, or (c) both at different times.

      The ideas below treat the buyback-and-burn as existing, as the assignment states, but the docs should carry one definition and the money-flow table should show it.

      Input: read TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 10 (lines 218-234) looking for the flow 'treasury share of ETH/USDC/IMD fee -> buyback -> burn'.

      Expected: a row naming the payer (the vault's treasury pot), the receiver (burn) and the trigger (anyone).

      Actual: no such row; line 227 ends at 'the treasury', and line 246 is the only mention of the burner.

    • infoEntry 0: ranked list of proposed $YOLO mechanics (best first)docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:1

      Design review of the $YOLO economics, judged through the Economic Security, Invariant and Flow Gap guides. Eleven ideas, ranked by (real $YOLO demand created) vs (abuse risk) vs (contract complexity). Every idea pays only from money the paying contract holds because of an action inside the same mechanic (a fee, a bond, a burn, a lock). None pays from the Incentives, Treasury, Dev, Team or Liquidity allocations, and none touches the Stabilizer / MM fund, the first-hour rules, CaseDesk/DisputeDesk flow or the NFT vote count. Ranked list, best first:

      1. Cheer jar: burn-and-tip on any open task
      2. Pinboard: burn auction for featured slots
      3. Flat YOLO creation burn
      4. Dispute call fee in YOLO, paid to the correct voters
      5. Voter conviction bond
      6. Author lock for large tasks
      7. Backer vouch: third-party YOLO guarantee for a doer
      8. YOLO-denominated bonds at a premium, with a burn on loss
      9. Resubmission burn after a rejection
      10. Queue-jump burn
      11. Deadline-extension burn (guarded) One full entry per idea follows in this order, then COVERAGE. The three defect findings above are separate from the list.

      n/a (index entry). Each idea entry below names its own cheapest attack with concrete numbers.

    • infoIdea 1: Cheer jar: burn-and-tip on any open taskdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:28

      NAME: Cheer jar: burn-and-tip on any open task

      WHAT: A new YoloCheer contract. Anyone calls cheer(taskId, amount) while the task is Open or has a submission under review; the contract pulls the YOLO, burns 50% at once and books the other 50% to the task's jar. When TaskVault reports the task accepted (same read DareTrophy uses to find the accepted doer), anyone calls release(taskId) and the jar goes to the accepted doer in full, no further fee. If the deadline passes with nothing accepted, anyone calls release and the jar is burned. Cheers are irrevocable; no refund path exists. Storage: jar[taskId], released[taskId]; events Cheered, Released, JarBurned. Reads: ITaskVault.getTask (state, deadline, accepted submission), getSubmission (doer).

      WHY: Spectators get a consumptive, social way to spend YOLO on a dare without a counter-party, which neither the sweetener (refundable, 10% fee, part of the reward) nor Predict (zero-sum bet) offers. Every cheer burns at least half; doers get a reason to promote their dares in YOLO terms; small tasks gain visible social weight on the board.

      WHO PAYS: The cheerer's own YOLO, split 50% burn at the moment of the cheer and 50% jar paid to the accepted doer or burned. No fee wallet, no allocation touched.

      ABUSE RISK: Self-dealing: an author-doer pair cheers its own trivial task to make it look popular; they get back 50% of what they put in, so every 1,000 YOLO of fake popularity costs 500 YOLO burned. Sybil adds nothing (no per-wallet counting). Griefing: none, a cheer cannot block or delay anything. Extraction is at most 50% of the attacker's own money, so net negative.

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: low: one new contract, one mapping per task, one external read of TaskVault state; no price, no oracle, no callback into the desks.

      CONFLICTS: No $YOLO price. No new timer (reuses the task deadline and acceptance state). No new role. Does not touch any existing fee split. Site must display the jar; the 'release' call is permissionless like the buyback trigger.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Self-dealing: an author-doer pair cheers its own trivial task to make it look popular; they get back 50% of what they put in, so every 1,000 YOLO of fake popularity costs 500 YOLO burned.

      Sybil adds nothing (no per-wallet counting).

      Griefing: none, a cheer cannot block or delay anything.

      Extraction is at most 50% of the attacker's own money, so net negative.

    • infoIdea 2: Pinboard: burn auction for featured slotsdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:220

      NAME: Pinboard: burn auction for featured slots

      WHAT: A Pinboard contract with K slots (launch value 8) for the front board and K per category page. pin(taskId, slot, amount) burns amount YOLO and installs the task in the slot for 24 h if amount is strictly greater than the slot's current burn (or the slot is empty or expired). The displaced pinner gets nothing back (it was already burned). A slot's price therefore only rises within a 24 h window and resets when it expires. Storage per slot: taskId, burnedAmount, expiresAt; one event Pinned(slot, taskId, amount, expiresAt) that the static site reads the way it reads HiddenList's events. Only Open tasks may be pinned (read ITaskVault.getTask). Minimum pin = parameter with hard bounds behind the existing 48 h ParamsRegistry timelock.

      WHY: Marketing demand from authors and sweeteners who want eyeballs on a dare, paid in burned YOLO. Today the only way to be seen is the HiddenList pin held by the site role; this makes visibility a market and a burn.

      WHO PAYS: The pinner's own YOLO, burned on the spot. Nothing is paid to anyone.

      ABUSE RISK: Griefing: a rival keeps outbidding to hide a task; each outbid is a burn of at least the previous burn + 1 wei, so cost grows monotonically and extraction is zero. Spam of expired slots: bounded by the minimum pin. Price manipulation: not possible, there is no price. The HiddenList role could still hide a pinned task; the site should refund nothing in that case (document it).

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: low: K x categories structs, one burn call on YoloToken, one TaskVault read; no interaction with desks or the vault's money.

      CONFLICTS: No $YOLO price. New timer: the 24 h slot expiry (own storage, no vault timer). No new role (permissionless), but it interacts with the existing HiddenList site role: a hidden task should not be pinnable. Touches no fee split.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Griefing: a rival keeps outbidding to hide a task; each outbid is a burn of at least the previous burn + 1 wei, so cost grows monotonically and extraction is zero.

      Spam of expired slots: bounded by the minimum pin.

      Price manipulation: not possible, there is no price.

      The HiddenList role could still hide a pinned task; the site should refund nothing in that case (document it).

    • infoIdea 3: Flat YOLO creation burndocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:222

      NAME: Flat YOLO creation burn

      WHAT: Task creation in any currency requires a flat YOLO amount (launch value 500 YOLO, a parameter with hard bounds 100-10,000 behind the existing 48 h timelock) that TaskVault pulls from the author and burns in the same createTask call. No refund if the task expires undone (unlike the reward). Flat, like the per-currency reward minimums, so no price is involved. The amount is copied into the task at creation like other parameters.

      WHY: Every author needs YOLO, making it the one asset every participant touches. It also prices spam (today a 5 USDC task can be posted at the cost of the reward alone, which comes back at the deadline) and feeds a burn that scales with board activity, independent of the reward currency.

      WHO PAYS: The author, a new burn at creation. No wallet, no allocation.

      ABUSE RISK: Griefing: none, it is a cost. Evasion: none, the vault enforces it. Risk is adoption friction, not extraction: a new user must hold YOLO before posting. An attacker spamming 1,000 tasks burns 500,000 YOLO and gains nothing.

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: low: one parameter in VaultParams/ParamsRegistry, one transferFrom + burn in createTask; no new contract.

      CONFLICTS: No $YOLO price (flat). No new timer. No new role. Touches no existing fee split, but it adds a creation step to TaskVault, which the launch texts and the site would need to carry. If a flat amount drifts in dollar terms, the 48 h parameter path adjusts it.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Griefing: none, it is a cost.

      Evasion: none, the vault enforces it.

      Risk is adoption friction, not extraction: a new user must hold YOLO before posting.

      An attacker spamming 1,000 tasks burns 500,000 YOLO and gains nothing.

    • infoIdea 4: Dispute call fee in YOLO, paid to the correct votersdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:91

      NAME: Dispute call fee in YOLO, paid to the correct voters

      WHAT: On top of the existing dispute bond (unchanged), the disputer pays a flat YOLO 'vote call fee' (launch value 2,000 YOLO, parameter with hard bounds) into a VoterFee contract keyed by the dispute. When the dispute is final, anyone calls distribute(disputeId): if the NFT vote decided and the final result agrees with it, the fee is split per NFT among the votes on the winning side; if the vote never decided or was overturned by the swarm, the fee is burned. Reads: DisputeDesk's final outcome and the counted-vote list that already pays the bond share to correct voters.

      WHY: Voters today earn only when a loser's bond exists and gets split; a non-decision pays them nothing, and all gas is theirs (line 91). A YOLO fee paid by every disputer gives NFT holders a YOLO income tied to turning up and being right, which raises participation and lowers non-decisions (board quality), and makes every disputer a YOLO buyer.

      WHO PAYS: The disputer's new flat YOLO fee. The existing dispute bond and the 10% reward fee are not touched.

      ABUSE RISK: Sybil: one NFT one vote is already enforced by the vote; a holder with many NFTs earns per NFT, same as the bond share today. Collusion: a disputer who holds NFTs can vote on his own dispute and earn back part of his fee if he wins; with 20 correct votes he gets at most 1/20 of his own 2,000 YOLO back, so no extraction. Griefing: a frivolous disputer now pays 2,000 YOLO more per dispute, so griefing gets dearer, not cheaper.

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: medium: new contract with per-dispute storage; one external read of the vote records in DisputeDesk; no change to the desk itself if the vote list is readable (it already pays correct voters, so the data exists).

      CONFLICTS: No $YOLO price (flat). No new timer (finality read from the desk). No new role. Does not change an existing fee split; it adds a new fee next to the dispute bond. Needs the dispute's final outcome to be readable by a third contract.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Sybil: one NFT one vote is already enforced by the vote; a holder with many NFTs earns per NFT, same as the bond share today.

      Collusion: a disputer who holds NFTs can vote on his own dispute and earn back part of his fee if he wins; with 20 correct votes he gets at most 1/20 of his own 2,000 YOLO back, so no extraction.

      Griefing: a frivolous disputer now pays 2,000 YOLO more per dispute, so griefing gets dearer, not cheaper.

    • infoIdea 5: Voter conviction bonddocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:209

      NAME: Voter conviction bond

      WHAT: An NFT voter may, in the same transaction or any time before the vote closes, attach a YOLO bond to his vote via a ConvictionBond contract: bond(disputeId, nftId, amount). The vote count is unchanged (one NFT one vote). At finality: 10% of all bonds on the dispute burn; the losing side's remaining bonds are split pro rata by bond among the winning side's bonded votes; winners get their own bond back. 'Winning side' is the final outcome (swarm if called). On a non-decision with no swarm call, every bond is returned minus the 10% burn. Reads: the vote record (which NFT voted which side) and the final outcome.

      WHY: Gives NFT holders a reason to hold YOLO (conviction) and to vote carefully, without touching the count. Creates a YOLO sink (10%) on every contested dispute and a skin-in-the-game signal the site can show next to the tally.

      WHO PAYS: The voters' own bonds. The 10% burn and the loser-to-winner transfer are the only movements.

      ABUSE RISK: Collusion: a cartel with 20 NFTs can force an early decision for the side it bonded on and take honest voters' bonds on the other side; the swarm appeal (callable by anyone, 0.5 IMD + 1% bond) overturns it and the bonds then follow the final result, so the cartel's extraction needs the swarm to be silent too. Cost to the cartel: 20 NFTs and the appeal risk; extraction: the honest side's bonds. Mitigation written in: bonds settle only on the final outcome, and the cartel can only win what honest voters chose to bond. Sybil beyond the NFT is impossible.

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: medium: new contract with per-dispute, per-NFT storage; reads two desk views; pro-rata math over an unbounded voter list needs a pull-based claim, not a push loop.

      CONFLICTS: No $YOLO price. No new timer (uses the vote's close and final outcome). No new role. Does not change the bond split or the 10% fee. Must read the final outcome of DisputeDesk and the per-NFT vote side.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Collusion: a cartel with 20 NFTs can force an early decision for the side it bonded on and take honest voters' bonds on the other side; the swarm appeal (callable by anyone, 0.5 IMD + 1% bond) overturns it and the bonds then follow the final result, so the cartel's extraction needs the swarm to be silent too.

      Cost to the cartel: 20 NFTs and the appeal risk; extraction: the honest side's bonds.

      Mitigation written in: bonds settle only on the final outcome, and the cartel can only win what honest voters chose to bond.

      Sybil beyond the NFT is impossible.

    • infoIdea 6: Author lock for large tasksdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:191

      NAME: Author lock for large tasks

      WHAT: Posting a task whose reward is at or above a flat per-currency 'large' threshold (launch: 2,000 USDC, 0.8 ETH, 250 IMD, 2,000,000 YOLO, parameters with bounds) requires the author to hold an AuthorLock position: YOLO locked for at least 4 weeks (same lock contract family as the doer lock, separate accounting) of at least a flat amount (launch 100,000 YOLO). Each open large task consumes one 'slot' of the lock; slots = lockedAmount / 100,000; a slot is freed when the task settles or expires. The lock is never slashed and returns to the author at term; it is pure opportunity cost.

      WHY: Large tasks are where the documented author-side Predict abuse (line 191) and fake-looking tasks hurt most. A lock makes a persistent identity for big authors cheap to keep and costly to churn, creates lock demand from exactly the users with the most money on the board, and lets the site badge 'bonded author' tasks.

      WHO PAYS: The author's own locked YOLO, returned at term. No payout to anyone, nothing burned, no allocation.

      ABUSE RISK: Evasion: split a 4,000 USDC task into two 1,999 USDC tasks; cost zero, so the threshold only shapes behaviour, it does not block it. Sybil: a lock is per wallet; a scammer locks 100,000 YOLO once and posts many large tasks sequentially (one slot) which is the intended cost. Price: a flat YOLO amount drifts in dollar value; adjusted by parameter.

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: medium: new lock contract (or a second accounting in the existing doer-lock contract) plus a check in createTask and a slot release on settlement, i.e. one new read in TaskVault and one callback on task close.

      CONFLICTS: No $YOLO price (flat thresholds). New timer: the lock term (own contract). No new role. Touches no fee split. It adds a creation check in TaskVault for large tasks; the swarm pre-check threshold ($300) stays separate.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Evasion: split a 4,000 USDC task into two 1,999 USDC tasks; cost zero, so the threshold only shapes behaviour, it does not block it.

      Sybil: a lock is per wallet; a scammer locks 100,000 YOLO once and posts many large tasks sequentially (one slot) which is the intended cost.

      Price: a flat YOLO amount drifts in dollar value; adjusted by parameter.

    • infoIdea 7: Backer vouch: third-party YOLO guarantee for a doerdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:155

      NAME: Backer vouch: third-party YOLO guarantee for a doer

      WHAT: A Vouch contract. A backer locks YOLO for a named doer and a task: vouch(taskId, doer, amount, backerShareBps). When that doer submits, the submission records the vouch. If the submission is rejected as fake, the vouched YOLO is split like a bond: 50% to the disputer and 50% to the correct NFT voters (or 100% to the winning side if the vote never decided), paid in YOLO from the Vouch contract. If accepted, the doer's own payout is routed: the doer sets the Vouch contract as payTo, which forwards backerShareBps of the net reward to the backer and the rest to the doer, and unlocks the vouch. Unused vouches unlock after the task settles or expires.

      WHY: Lets reputations and capital back new doers: a backer with YOLO vouches for someone without it, earning a cut of the reward in the task's currency, and loses YOLO if the proof is fake. Creates lock demand and a quality signal ('vouched by X') stronger than a 3% bond, without touching the existing doer-lock bonus.

      WHO PAYS: The backer's locked YOLO (slashed only on rejection, to the same recipients as a doer bond) and the doer's own net reward (the backer's share is carved out of the doer's 90-94%). No fee split changes, no allocation.

      ABUSE RISK: Self-vouch: the doer vouches for himself through a second wallet; that is just a larger bond, no gain. Collusion: a backer and a disputer on the same team: the disputer disputes a vouched fake and gets 50% of the vouch, but the vouch was the team's own money, so net loss. Griefing: a stranger vouches a junk amount for a doer to tag him? Only the doer can bind a vouch to his submission, so an unwanted vouch does nothing. Extraction: none found above zero.

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: high: new contract holding slashable YOLO, a new read in CaseDesk/DisputeDesk settlement to learn the final verdict and the loser recipients, and a payTo forwarding path for the reward in four currencies.

      CONFLICTS: No $YOLO price. No new timer beyond the task's own. No new role. Touches no existing fee split but needs the rejection outcome and the recipient list (disputer, correct voters) readable from DisputeDesk; the payout forward relies on the vault's existing payTo / credit pull.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Self-vouch: the doer vouches for himself through a second wallet; that is just a larger bond, no gain.

      Collusion: a backer and a disputer on the same team: the disputer disputes a vouched fake and gets 50% of the vouch, but the vouch was the team's own money, so net loss.

      Griefing: a stranger vouches a junk amount for a doer to tag him?

      Only the doer can bind a vouch to his submission, so an unwanted vouch does nothing.

      Extraction: none found above zero.

    • infoIdea 8: YOLO-denominated bonds at a premium, with a burn on lossdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:42

      NAME: YOLO-denominated bonds at a premium, with a burn on loss

      WHAT: A doer or disputer on an ETH, USDC or IMD task may post the currency part of his bond in YOLO instead: amount = 1.5 x (3% or 1% of the reward converted to YOLO with the FDV parameter as it stands in that block, the same conversion the doer-stake bonus already uses at line 141). The 0.5 IMD part is unchanged. If that bond is lost, 20% of it burns and the remaining 80% follows the normal loser's-bond rule (to the winner and/or correct voters), paid in YOLO. If returned, it returns in full. Bonds remain one currency per bond; no mixing.

      WHY: Doers and disputers of non-YOLO tasks today never need YOLO. This gives every active participant a reason to hold a working balance of it, adds a burn on every lost bond, and pays NFT voters in YOLO on non-YOLO tasks.

      WHO PAYS: The bond itself (the doer's or disputer's own YOLO); the 20% burn on loss is new; the 80% goes to the same recipients as today.

      ABUSE RISK: Price manipulation of the FDV parameter is admin-only and timelock-free (TOKENOMICS line 151): if the parameter is stale and YOLO trades at half the implied price, a YOLO bond costs 0.75x the currency bond in real terms, making griefing disputes cheaper; the 1.5x premium absorbs up to a 33% staleness, beyond that the discount leaks. Attack cost: a stale parameter the attacker does not control; extraction: the discount on a griefing bond, at most the bond itself. Mitigation: hard-bound the premium parameter and let the site warn when the pool price diverges.

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: high: touches Desk bond accounting (per-token liabilities), adds a currency dimension to the loser's-bond split in DisputeDesk, and reads the FDV parameter in the bond path.

      CONFLICTS: Needs a $YOLO price: reuses the existing FDV parameter only (no oracle). No new timer. No new role. Touches the loser's-bond split (adds a 20% burn before it) and the bond accounting in the desks, which is close to the core flow; rank reflects that.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Price manipulation of the FDV parameter is admin-only and timelock-free (TOKENOMICS line 151): if the parameter is stale and YOLO trades at half the implied price, a YOLO bond costs 0.75x the currency bond in real terms, making griefing disputes cheaper; the 1.5x premium absorbs up to a 33% staleness, beyond that the discount leaks.

      Attack cost: a stale parameter the attacker does not control; extraction: the discount on a griefing bond, at most the bond itself.

      Mitigation: hard-bound the premium parameter and let the site warn when the pool price diverges.

    • infoIdea 9: Resubmission burn after a rejectiondocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:50

      NAME: Resubmission burn after a rejection

      WHAT: After a submission on a task is rejected as fake, any later submission by the same doer on the same task burns a flat YOLO amount (launch 1,000 YOLO, parameter with bounds) in addition to the unchanged bond. The burn is pulled by TaskVault at submit time and never refunded, even on acceptance. First submissions by a doer on a task are free of it.

      WHY: Today the bond is flat and returns on acceptance, so a rejected doer can retry at the same cost forever and each retry occupies the 24 h review window. A burn makes repeated fakes expensive in YOLO specifically and lowers junk resubmissions (board quality).

      WHO PAYS: The resubmitting doer's own YOLO, burned. Nothing is paid out.

      ABUSE RISK: Evasion: resubmit from a new wallet; the rule keys on doer address, so it costs a new wallet and the same bond, which is the state today, so the mechanic is never worse than the status quo. Griefing: none; it only costs the resubmitter. Extraction: zero.

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: low to medium: one flag per (task, doer) written on rejection and read on submit; the write sits on the rejection path in CaseDesk, so it is an addition next to the core flow, not a change in its decision logic.

      CONFLICTS: No $YOLO price. No new timer. No new role. Touches no fee split. Needs a per-(task, doer) 'rejected before' bit readable at submit time.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Evasion: resubmit from a new wallet; the rule keys on doer address, so it costs a new wallet and the same bond, which is the state today, so the mechanic is never worse than the status quo.

      Griefing: none; it only costs the resubmitter.

      Extraction: zero.

    • infoIdea 10: Queue-jump burndocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:50

      NAME: Queue-jump burn

      WHAT: When a task already has pending submissions queued, a new submitter may pay a flat YOLO burn per position jumped (launch 2,000 YOLO per position, parameter with bounds) to have his submission reviewed before the ones ahead of it. The burn is irreversible; the bond and the review rules of the submission are unchanged. Implemented as an ordering key (burnedPositions) read by the queue, not as a change to how any single submission is judged.

      WHY: Lets a doer with a strong proof buy time priority in YOLO; adds a burn on contested tasks, exactly where attention is scarce.

      WHO PAYS: The jumping doer's own YOLO, burned.

      ABUSE RISK: Griefing: a rival burns to jump ahead with a junk proof and delays the honest doer by one review window (24 h or more); cost 2,000 YOLO per position plus the bond (0.5 IMD + 3%) which he loses only if someone disputes him. Extraction: none, but the delay is real and cheap, which is why this ranks low.

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: medium: ordering of the pending-submission queue lives in CaseDesk; adding an ordering key is small but sits on core-flow storage.

      CONFLICTS: No $YOLO price. No new timer. No new role. Touches no fee split. Conflicts with the queue ordering in CaseDesk (an addition to its ordering, not to its verdicts); if the queue is strictly FIFO by contract, this needs an explicit scope decision.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Griefing: a rival burns to jump ahead with a junk proof and delays the honest doer by one review window (24 h or more); cost 2,000 YOLO per position plus the bond (0.5 IMD + 3%) which he loses only if someone disputes him. Extraction: none, but the delay is real and cheap, which is why this ranks low.

    • infoIdea 11: Deadline-extension burn (guarded)docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:174

      NAME: Deadline-extension burn (guarded)

      WHAT: An author may extend his own task's deadline once, by at most the task's original length, by burning a flat YOLO amount per day added (launch 500 YOLO/day, parameter with bounds). Allowed only if (a) nobody but the author has contributed to the reward or a YOLO add-on, (b) the task's Predict market has zero positions on both sides, and (c) no submission is pending. Any of the three fails: revert.

      WHY: Today an undone task simply expires and the reward returns; a relist costs a new task and loses the board history. An extension burn keeps the task and adds a burn.

      WHO PAYS: The author's own YOLO, burned.

      ABUSE RISK: Without the guards this is a Flow Gap: extending a deadline flips a WON'T DO win into an open market and traps contributors' money longer. With the guards the extension can only move the author's own money, so extraction is zero. Remaining risk: the Predict guard checks a count that someone can make non-zero with a 1 YOLO position to block an extension (griefing at 1 YOLO), which is acceptable.

      CONTRACT COMPLEXITY: medium: a deadline write in TaskVault after three reads (contributors, Predict totals, pending submissions); the Predict contract must expose per-task totals.

      CONFLICTS: No $YOLO price. New timer: the extended deadline (the task's own). No new role. Touches no fee split; conflicts with the Predict market and the sweetener refund rule, which is why the three guards are part of the mechanic.

      Cheapest attack, concrete: Without the guards this is a Flow Gap: extending a deadline flips a WON'T DO win into an open market and traps contributors' money longer.

      With the guards the extension can only move the author's own money, so extraction is zero.

      Remaining risk: the Predict guard checks a count that someone can make non-zero with a 1 YOLO position to block an extension (griefing at 1 YOLO), which is acceptable.

    • infoCOVERAGE: what was read in full and what was treated as already existingdocs/TOKENOMICS.md:1

      Read in full: docs/TOKENOMICS.md (all 169 lines: split, pricing without an oracle, fee destination, unlock schedule, launch hour, Stabilizer / MM fund, risks) and docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md (all 253 lines: sections 1-10 and risks). Also read for context: README.md, the Money and fees, Limits and Timers sections of docs/MECHANICS.md (marked outdated), and the entry points of contracts/src/YoloSweetener.sol and contracts/src/DareTrophy.sol. The pinned guides used: Economic Security, Invariant and Flow Gap sections of .imd/reads/skills/pashov-skill/REFERENCE.md.

      Treated as already existing and therefore out of scope for a new idea: (1) the 10% fee on accepted rewards and its NFT part / staker part split with the 1-52 week doer lock and its 4% bonus (TOKEN-UTILITY sections 4-6, TOKENOMICS 'Where the fee on an accepted reward goes'); (2) YOLO Predict with its 5% burn / 5% deferred / 90% pool rule (section 7); (3) the buyback-and-burn of non-YOLO fee shares (referenced at TOKEN-UTILITY line 246; see the info finding on its missing definition); (4) the DareTrophy mint burn priced off the FDV parameter (section 8); (5) the 150,000,000 YOLO Stabilizer / MM fund with its launch-hour rules (TOKENOMICS 'Stabilizer / MM fund'), kept exactly as is. Also treated as existing and not re-proposed: $YOLO as a fourth reward currency with a flat 1,000 YOLO minimum (section 1), the YOLO add-on / sweetener (section 2), the NFT-only first 30 minutes and the decaying buy tax (section 9), the treasury's burn-on-arrival of its YOLO income, and the pool's YOLO-side LP fee. The FDV parameter is the only price source any idea reuses (idea 8); ideas 1-7 and 9-11 use flat YOLO amounts and no price. Not covered: the first-hour rules, the Stabilizer wallet's own rules, the core dispute flow and the NFT vote count, per the assignment; contracts/ was not audited for code defects since it is the outdated version.

      n/a (coverage statement).

  4. Audit flowAgent #12found 2 medium, 4 low

    The review is complete. The findings file is written, parses, and every quoted snippet matches its cited line.

    What I reviewed. The assigned area is the $YOLO design in docs/TOKENOMICS.md and docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md (read in full) and the $YOLO periphery contracts that implement it: YoloToken, NftGate, YoloSplitter, ProjectVesting and the four vestings, YoloSweetener, DareTrophy, YoloPoolSamples and ChainlinkUniV3PriceOracle, plus TaskVault, Desk, CaseDesk and DisputeDesk for the fee split and lazy state machine they depend on. I applied the Execution Trace, Periphery and First Principles passes from the pinned reference. Doc-versus-code drift was not reported, since the task states the contracts are the outdated rules. Items already acknowledged in docs/AUDIT-INTERNAL.md (ERC-6909 claims, trophy pricing by the current oracle, FDV parameter without timelock, the Predict self-bet) were not re-reported.

    Findings written to .imd-findings.json (6):

    • Medium, code. YoloSweetener reads the vault's un-advanced task state. After a submission's dispute window ends but before anyone pokes, the vault refuses a top-up, yet the sweetener accepts YOLO, refuses the sweetener's withdrawal, and then pays that YOLO to the doer who was accepted before the bonus existed. Confirmed by a scratch test that passes on this code (contracts/test/scratch/SweetenerStale.t.sol, two cases). Fix: poke the task before reading its terms, and refuse sweetening past the deadline.
    • Medium, design. YOLO Predict has no resolution rule for deadline-less tasks, which the code allows, nor for tasks ending Unwound. Positions are irrevocable, so they lock forever and the weight formula divides by an undefined length.
    • Low, design. The dispute bond "in the reward's currency" contradicts "the whole flow moves no ETH through the contract" for ETH tasks.
    • Low, design. Section 9 limits the NFT voters' fee share to $YOLO-denominated tasks, while TOKENOMICS and the $100 worked example pay it on every disputed-and-right acceptance.
    • Low, design. A staked doer below the one-tenth threshold is "staked" in TOKENOMICS (NFT part burned) and "same as no stake" in TOKEN-UTILITY (NFT part to treasury).
    • Low, design. The doer-stake lock gives no holding incentive beyond one week: 52 times the reward locked for 7 days earns the full bonus.

    Not done. No critical or high finding was substantiated, so no self-contained proof file was attached. The scratch test uses the project's Base fixture and is a reproduction aid, not a proof in the required format. No Slither, fuzz or fork runs were performed beyond the one scratch suite.

    ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 51 turns · 13m 22s · 482 in · 35.1K out · 2.2M cached
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    • mediumYoloSweetener acts on the vault's un-advanced task state: YOLO is accepted into a task whose active submission is already (lazily) accepted and goes to that earlier doercontracts/src/YoloSweetener.sol:112

      Execution-trace / stale-read defect in the $YOLO periphery. TaskVault plays its timers lazily: _advance runs at the start of every vault call that touches a task (topUp, announceWithdraw, withdrawContribution, poke, submit), so the vault never books money against a task whose status in storage is stale. YoloSweetener reads vault.submitTerms (a plain view, no advance) in sweeten (line 112), announceWithdraw (line 126) and withdraw (line 150).

      The stored status stays Open and busy stays true after the active submission's dispute window has ended until somebody pokes, and stays Open after the deadline. In that gap sweeten accepts YOLO, announceWithdraw reverts SubmissionActive, withdraw reverts BonusLocked, and once anyone pokes the task is Completed and payout hands the late bonus to the doer who was accepted before the bonus existed.

      The vault's own topUp in the same state reverts TaskNotOpen. The divergence contradicts the sweetener's stated rule (header comment: a sweetener 'sees the bonus leaving before he submits' / the bonus 'follows the task') and TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 2 ('follows exactly the same lock-until-deadline rule as the reward itself').

      Fix: have sweeten, announceWithdraw and withdraw call TaskVault.poke(taskId) (public, nonReentrant, no money moves) before reading submitTerms, or have the vault expose an advancing variant of submitTerms; additionally refuse sweeten when t.deadline != 0 && block.timestamp >= t.deadline.

      Scratch test contracts/test/scratch/SweetenerStale.t.sol (Base fixture, run with forge test --match-path test/scratch/SweetenerStale.t.sol), both cases pass on this code and show the behaviour.

      Case A: author creates an ETH task (0.01 ETH, no deadline); doer submits; warp to windowEnd + 1 with nobody poking. vault.topUp by the author reverts TaskNotOpen (the vault advanced and completed the task). sweetener.sweeten(t, 1_000_000e18) by alice succeeds (bonusOf == 1_000_000e18); alice's announceWithdraw reverts SubmissionActive; after vault.poke(t) the task is Completed and sweetener.payout(t, s) pays the doer 900_000e18 of alice's YOLO.

      Expected: the sweetener refuses (or at least lets alice take back) YOLO added after the submission was already final; actual: alice's YOLO is paid to the doer and she has no path to recover it.

      Case B: task with deadline now+1 day; warp 1 day + 1; vault.topUp reverts TaskNotOpen while sweetener.sweeten succeeds and books 1_000e18 into a task that poke then marks Expired (alice can withdraw, no loss, but the state check is the same stale read).

    • mediumYOLO Predict has no resolution rule for tasks without a deadline or tasks that end Unwound: positions are irrevocable and stay locked foreverdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:161

      First-principles defect in the current rules (TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 7). The market resolves only two ways: 'the task being completed on time ... makes WILL DO the winner; the deadline passing with nothing accepted makes WON'T DO the winner', and 'a position can never be withdrawn or cancelled'. The weight of a position is '(time left until the deadline / the task's whole length)^2'.

      The protocol allows tasks with no deadline (TaskVault.createTask line 224: if (deadline != 0 && deadline <= block.timestamp) revert BadDeadline();, VaultTypes.sol line 116 uint64 deadline; // 0 = no deadline, MECHANICS.md line 40 'deadline 0 = none'), and a task can end Unwound through emergencyExit (TaskStatus.Unwound, neither 'completed' nor 'deadline passed').

      For both, the rules give no winner, no void, and no refund, and for a deadline-less task the weight formula divides by an undefined length. Section 7 also says the market is 'open from its creation to its deadline', so on a deadline-less task positions can be placed forever while nothing can ever resolve WON'T DO.

      Fix: define resolution for deadline == 0 (e.g. no market, or WON'T DO resolves on Expired only and Unwound voids with the deferred 5% burned and both 90% pools returned pro rata) and define the weight denominator for deadline-less tasks.

      Input: createTask(currency=USDC, amount=100e6, deadline=0, ...) which the code accepts; alice places WILL DO 10,000 YOLO (500 burned, 500 deferred, 9,000 in the WILL DO pool); nobody ever submits.

      Expected per section 7: the market resolves at the deadline.

      Actual: there is no deadline, WON'T DO can never win, alice cannot cancel ('no undo'), and her 9,000 YOLO plus the 500 deferred sit in the Predict contract indefinitely.

      Second input: task with deadline, a submission whose step stalls, emergencyExit after emergencyDelay -> task Unwound before the deadline; neither 'completed on time' nor 'deadline passing with nothing accepted' applies, so the rules name no winner and no refund for either side.

    • lowDispute bond 'in the reward's currency' contradicts 'the whole flow moves no ETH through the contract at all' for ETH-denominated tasksdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:92

      Internal contradiction in the current rules. Section 4 line 59 defines the dispute bond as '0.5 IMD + 1% of the reward, in the reward's currency' and the appeal as paying 'the dispute bond again'. For a task whose reward is ETH that bond is ETH, yet lines 91-93 state that the dispute/vote/appeal flow 'moves no ETH through the contract at all'.

      The two sentences cannot both be implemented; an implementer must pick one (bonds always in IMD, as the outdated code does with _bondFor in Desk.sol, or ETH bonds and the 'no ETH' statement dropped). The 'Money flow' table (line 225) repeats the ambiguity: 'Dispute / appeal bond ... returned to the winner' without a currency.

      Input: a task with currency = ETH and reward 0.04 ETH (the table at line 47 uses this reward).

      Section 3/4 rule: dispute bond = 0.5 IMD + 1% x 0.04 ETH = 0.5 IMD + 0.0004 ETH, so the disputer sends 0.0004 ETH to the contract.

      Line 92-93 rule: no ETH moves through the contract for a dispute.

      Expected: one consistent rule; actual: the two rules give different transactions for the same dispute.

    • lowNFT voters' fee share is described as 'on a $YOLO-denominated task' in section 9 but as 5% of every accepted reward in TOKENOMICSdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:210

      Internal contradiction in the current rules on who receives the 'NFT part' of the fee. TOKENOMICS.md lines 77-83 ('Every accepted task pays a 10% fee ... 5%, the NFT part.

      Goes to the identity.md NFT holders who voted correctly in a dispute') and TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 5 ('Disputed, NFT voted correctly, submission accepted' on a $100 reward: NFT voters $5) make the fee share currency-independent.

      Section 9 line 210-212 restricts it: 'on a $YOLO-denominated task, a share of that task's fee — paid in whatever currency the task's reward was in', which is self-contradictory (a $YOLO-denominated task's reward currency is always YOLO) and contradicts the $100 example. A reader of section 9 would conclude a correct vote on a USDC task earns only the bond share.

      Input: USDC task, reward 100 USDC, disputed, NFT vote decides 'accept' correctly, swarm not called.

      TOKENOMICS/section 5 expected: correct voters share 5 USDC of fee plus 50% of the loser bond.

      Section 9 reading: the task is not $YOLO-denominated, so voters get only the bond share and 0 USDC of fee.

      Two different payouts for the same inputs.

    • lowA doer whose locked power is below a tenth of the reward: TOKENOMICS burns the NFT part ('unless the doer was staked'), TOKEN-UTILITY sends it to the treasury ('same as no stake')docs/TOKENOMICS.md:81

      Boundary case left in two different states by the two current-rules documents. TOKENOMICS.md lines 80-83: with no dispute, the 5% NFT part goes to the treasury 'unless the doer was staked, in which case they are burned instead'. TOKEN-UTILITY.md lines 113-114 and 146: 'below a tenth of the reward's worth, the doer earns nothing extra and the outcome is the same as "no stake"' / 'Power below a tenth of the reward earns nothing — same payout as having no stake at all'.

      A doer with a running lock whose power is, say, 5% of the reward 'was staked' (TOKENOMICS: burn $5) but has the 'same payout as no stake' (TOKEN-UTILITY: treasury $10). The money flow table (line 227) does not settle it.

      Fix: state explicitly whether the burn of the NFT part keys off 'has any running lock' or off 'earns a non-zero bonus'.

      Input: $100 USDC reward, no dispute, doer holds a 52-week lock whose power converts to $5 of YOLO (5% of the reward, below the tenth).

      TOKENOMICS rule: doer $90, burn $5, treasury $5 (staker part: no bonus, so 5% split evenly... or $2.50/$2.50 — the text says 'whatever is left after his bonus is split evenly between burning and the treasury', giving burn $7.50, treasury $2.50).

      TOKEN-UTILITY rule ('same as no stake'): doer $90, burn $0, treasury $10.

      Same input, two different burn amounts.

    • lowThe doer-stake 'lock 1-52 weeks' creates no holding incentive beyond one week: power is linear in weeks and is only checked to be 'still running' at payoutdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:147

      Design gap against the mechanic's stated purpose ('a bigger share ... for locking YOLO', 'the YOLO is out of circulation ... for the whole term'). Power = amount x (weeks / 52) with no cap on amount, the bonus is fixed at submission, and the only later check is that the same lock is still running. Acceptance takes at most the 24 h dispute window on an undisputed task, so a 1-week lock always outlives it.

      A doer therefore reaches full power with a 1-week lock of 52 x reward instead of a 52-week lock of 1 x reward, pays the same 4% bonus, and is free after 7 days; the lock is also not consumed per task, so one short lock covers every task the doer completes that week. The 1-52 week range sets no minimum term tied to the task and gives the token no multi-week holding reason, which is the utility the section claims.

      Fix: require the lock to run at least N weeks past the submission (or past the task deadline), or weight power by remaining term at payout, or consume power per accepted task.

      Input: task reward 1,000 YOLO; doer locks 52,000 YOLO for 1 week on day 0, submits on day 0, no dispute, accepted on day 1.

      Power = 52,000 x 1/52 = 1,000 = reward, so b = 4% x min(1, 1,000/1,000) = 4%: doer gets 94% (940 YOLO) instead of 90%; the lock ends on day 7 and the 52,000 YOLO are free again.

      Expected by the section's intent: a full bonus needs a long lock; actual: a 7-day lock earns the full bonus.

  5. Audit mathAgent #1616found 2 medium, 5 low, 2 info

    Findings file written and every quoted snippet verified against its file line. Scratch test lives only under contracts/test/scratch/, no repository file was modified.

    Result: 9 findings in .imd-findings.json (2 medium, 5 low, 2 info), no critical or high.

    The code's value-moving arithmetic is sound. I checked the fee and bond splits in DisputeDesk (remaining/remaining pro-rata buckets, monotone floors so fee - toVoters cannot underflow, conservation of the loser penalty through fee-back, shortfall cap and winner/voter/treasury shares), the tax and whitelist boundaries in YoloToken, the _pow10001 overflow bound at 2^19, the vesting and splitter constants against the tokenomics table, and the sweetener's cap and return math. The docs' own arithmetic also holds: the seven buckets sum to exactly 1,000,000,000, the unlock table and every $100 payout row check out.

    What did not hold:

    • Medium, TOKEN-UTILITY §7: the Predict weight formula divides by the task's length, but the protocol allows deadline-less tasks (MECHANICS.md:40, TaskVault.sol:224). On those the weight is undefined, WON'T DO can never win, and irrevocable positions are locked forever.
    • Medium, TOKEN-UTILITY §4: the 20-vote "early decision" is the partial-count exploit the internal audit fixed as C-02. Anyone can relay 20 one-sided ballots ahead of a mixed batch and close the vote.
    • Low: late Predict positions truncate to zero points and a zero-point winning side strands the losing pool; the 0.5 IMD refund is hardcoded while the swarm fee is live-priced and the bond proportion mixes currencies without a price; the three price parameters have no lower bound so FDV = 0 breaks every non-YOLO submission; _imdToUsd divides before multiplying, quantising the per-YOLO price to a micro-dollar (0.79% error at the launch floor, confirmed by the scratch test); TOKENOMICS claims the contract burns YOLO fees directly while the code sends them to the treasury.
    • Info: 5% NFT share in the docs vs nftFeeBps = 600 in the code; the power formula's integer order and the "a tenth" comparator are unspecified.

    Passes not run: no Slither, no fork tests (no RPC), no long fuzz runs. HiddenList, ParamsRegistry and the text helpers were only grepped for arithmetic, not read line by line, since they hold no value-moving math.

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    • mediumYOLO Predict weight formula is undefined for no-deadline tasks (deadline = 0), and WON'T DO can never win on themdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:171

      Section 7 defines a position's weight as (time left until the deadline / the task's whole length)^2, measured from the task's creation, and says the deadline passing with nothing accepted makes WON'T DO the winner. The protocol allows tasks with no deadline: docs/MECHANICS.md:40 ("deadline 0 = none") and contracts/src/TaskVault.sol:224 (if (deadline != 0 && deadline <= block.timestamp) revert BadDeadline();).

      For such a task "whole length" is either 0 - created (an underflow) or infinite, so the weight is a division by zero or 0 for every position, and the WON'T DO resolution condition ("the deadline passing") can never occur. Positions are irrevocable by rule ("no undo"), so every YOLO placed on a no-deadline task that nobody completes is locked forever, after the 5% burn and the 5% deferred part were already taken.

      Nothing in TOKEN-UTILITY.md or TOKENOMICS.md excludes deadline-less tasks from the market ("Any task gets an automatic prediction market").

      Numerical Gap seam: boundary (deadline = 0) x invariant ("every position resolves to a winner; every row sums to the original").

      Input: createTask(currency = USDC, amount = 100e6, deadline = 0, ...) succeeds (TaskVault.sol:224).

      A predictor places 1,000 YOLO WILL DO at creation + 1 day; another places 1,000 YOLO WON'T DO.

      Expected per the doc: weight = (time left / whole length)^2 in [0, 1] and a resolution at the deadline.

      Actual per the doc's own formula: whole length = deadline - creation = 0 - t0 (no finite value), so weight has no value (division by zero if implemented as written); the WON'T DO side can never win because no deadline ever passes; both positions stay locked indefinitely if nobody does the task.

      Fix: state that deadline-less tasks have no Predict market, or define a finite length (e.g. the market closes at creation + N days with WON'T DO winning) and the weight for them.

    • mediumThe 20-vote early decision reintroduces the partial-count exploit fixed as audit finding C-02docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:69

      Section 4 says the vote closes the moment one side is ahead by 20 votes, with only one voting wallet required. Votes are EIP-712 ballots relayed in batches by anyone (contracts/src/desks/DisputeDesk.sol:88, submitVotes).

      The internal audit C-02 (docs/AUDIT-INTERNAL.md:145-151) showed that an early decision on a partial count is decided by relay order in a public mempool: a front-runner copies one side's ballots out of a pending batch and relays them alone, and the count crosses the margin before the other side's ballots are counted.

      The code was fixed to decide only at vote end (instantDelta is unused, contracts/src/VaultParams.sol:45; CaseDesk._tryDecide runs only in the Voting step at voteEnd). The current rules document re-specifies the removed behaviour with a lower margin (20) than the removed instantDelta (100), and the doc's "A task keeps the values of these three numbers it opened with" treats it as a live parameter.

      Boundary x invariant seam: an early-return path (margin reached) decides on state that is still being written (ballots in flight).

      State: a disputed submission with 120 accept and 115 reject ballots signed and sitting in one relayer's pending batch (C-02's numbers).

      Expected under the end-of-window rule: diff 5 < 10, no decision, the case goes to the NoDecision window.

      Actual under the early-decision rule: anyone (needs no NFT) relays 20 of the accept ballots alone first; the moment they are counted accept leads 20-0 with >= 1 wallet, the vote closes as Accept; the other 215 ballots are never counted.

      The same actor can do the reverse with 20 reject ballots.

      Fix: drop the early decision (decide only at the 24-hour mark, as the code does since C-02), or require the margin against the full set of ballots signed before the close rather than the count at the moment a batch lands.

    • lowPredict: winners whose points truncate to zero (late positions) share nothing, and a winning side with zero total points has no distribution ruledocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:176

      Weight = (time left / whole length)^2 is a squared ratio below 1 with no stated fixed-point scale, and payout divides the losing pool by total winner points.

      Two numerical gaps: (1) precision x boundary: with any finite scale a late position's weight truncates to 0 (at a 1e4 scale any position with < 1% of the task's length left; at 1e6 any with < 0.1%), so a correct late predictor gets back only their own 90% and none of the losing pool, although the doc calls them a winner; (2) boundary x invariant: when every position on the winning side has zero points (all placed late, or a position placed in the deadline block where time left = 0 regardless of scale), total points = 0, the "split by points" is a division by zero and the losing side's 90% pool has no destination.

      The "nobody predicted the winning side" rule does not apply because someone did. The doc's invariant "nothing is created or destroyed by a payout, only redirected" (line 130) is violated: the pool is stranded.

      Input: task length 30 days; one WILL DO position of 1,000 YOLO placed 4 hours before the deadline (time left / length = 1/180, squared = 3.1e-5); WON'T DO pool 10,000 YOLO; task completed on time.

      With weight stored in basis points (1e4): weight = floor(0.31) = 0, points = 0, total winner points = 0; expected: the WILL DO predictor receives the 9,000 YOLO losing pool (90% of 10,000) plus their 900; actual: payout formula is 9,000 * 0 / 0, undefined; no rule names where the 9,000 YOLO go.

      Fix: state the scale (e.g. 1e18 fixed point, weight computed as (timeLeft * 1e18 / length)^2 / 1e18 with a floor of 1 wei), and add a rule for total winner points = 0 (split pro rata to position size, or treat as 'nobody predicted the winning side').

    • lowOutside-caller refund is hardcoded at 0.5 IMD while the swarm fee is live-priced, and the remaining split 'in proportion to their bonds' mixes currencies without a pricedocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:81

      Section 4 has the appellant pay 'the dispute bond again plus the live swarm fee' but refunds a fixed 0.5 IMD 'refunding the swarm fee they fronted'. The swarm fee is whatever the Intake sells the action for at that moment (contracts/src/desks/Desk.sol:108 _swarmPrice, which the code reimburses as the actual a.spent, DisputeDesk.sol:512). If the fee is 2 IMD the caller is under-refunded by 1.5 IMD; if it is 0.1 IMD they are over-refunded by 0.4 IMD out of the loser's bond.

      Separately, the loser's bond is '0.5 IMD + 1% (or 3%) of the reward in the reward's currency', so after the 0.5 IMD part is used for the refund the remainder is in the reward currency, and 'split between the winning side and the outside caller in proportion to their bonds' compares bonds of two currencies (0.5 IMD + 3% R vs 0.5 IMD + 1% R).

      TOKENOMICS.md states the protocol has no price source for ETH/IMD/USDC beyond three manual parameters that are used for the doer-stake bonus only, so this proportion is not computable as written. Precision x invariant seam: the bond conservation rule ('for the bond, to the original bond') cannot hold for both the IMD and the reward-currency legs.

      State: ETH task, reward 1 ETH; doer bond 0.5 IMD + 0.03 ETH; outside caller's appeal bond 0.5 IMD + 0.01 ETH, live swarm fee 2 IMD paid by the caller; swarm sides with the caller; loser = doer.

      Expected: the caller is made whole for the fee they fronted (2 IMD).

      Actual per the doc: the caller gets 0.5 IMD (the whole IMD leg of the doer's bond) and is still 1.5 IMD short; the remaining 0.03 ETH is to be split 'in proportion to their bonds' between the disputer (0.5 IMD + 0.01 ETH) and the caller (0.5 IMD + 0.01 ETH), which has no single answer (equal if compared per leg; undefined if compared as totals across currencies).

      Fix: refund min(fee actually paid, loser's bond IMD leg) and state the proportion per currency leg (or by the reward-currency leg only).

    • lowThe three price parameters have no lower bound: FDV = 0 or ETH/IMD price = 0 breaks the doer-stake bonus computation, contrary to 'Nothing breaks when that happens'docs/TOKENOMICS.md:65

      TOKEN-UTILITY.md:141-145 computes the bonus as 4% x min(1, power / reward-in-YOLO), converting a non-YOLO reward with the FDV parameter (YOLO price = FDV / 1e9) and the ETH or IMD price parameter 'as it stands in the block the submission is made in'. TOKENOMICS.md says these parameters have no timelock and, unlike every other parameter, no hard bounds, and that nothing breaks if they are wrong.

      Divide-by-an-unconstrained-edge-value: with FDV = 0 the conversion reward_usd * 1e9 / FDV divides by zero in every non-YOLO submission (a revert there blocks all ETH/USDC/IMD submissions until the parameter is changed, since the bonus is fixed at submission); with ETH price = 0 reward-in-YOLO = 0, so power / 0 is undefined and, if implemented as min(1, ...) with a zero guard that returns 1, any 1-week lock of 1 YOLO yields the full 4% bonus on every ETH task (the burn/treasury share of the fee drops from 10% to 6% of each reward).

      The doc also leaves the decimals of the FDV parameter unspecified (whole dollars vs 18-decimal), which decides whether a sub-$1,000 FDV truncates the YOLO price to 0 in integer math.

      Input: FDV parameter set to 0 (nothing in the docs forbids it; the other two parameters likewise).

      Doer submits on a 100 USDC task with 50,000 YOLO locked for 52 weeks.

      Expected per the doc: bonus = 4% x min(1, 50,000 / reward-in-YOLO).

      Actual: reward-in-YOLO = 100 x 1e9 / 0, division by zero; the submission either reverts (DoS of every non-YOLO submission) or, with a zero guard, grants an unbounded bonus.

      Fix: give the three parameters hard bounds and a non-zero minimum like the other parameters, define their decimals, and specify the bonus when the conversion yields 0 (no bonus).

    • low_imdToUsd divides to 6-decimal USDC units before multiplying: the per-YOLO USD price used by DareTrophy.price and YoloSweetener._cap is quantised to $0.000001 (0.8% error at the launch floor price)contracts/src/oracles/ChainlinkUniV3PriceOracle.sol:111

      _imdToUsd truncates amount * 1e6 / imdWeiPerUsdc() to whole USDC units (1e-6 USD) and only then multiplies by the USDC/USD price. Both YOLO consumers that need a per-token price call usdValue(yolo, 1e18) (DareTrophy.sol:115, YoloSweetener.sol:223), i.e. _imdToUsd(imdPerYolo) for a single token, so the result is a whole number of micro-dollars.

      At the launch opening price (LaunchPlan: 15,000 IMD market cap for 1e9 YOLO, yoloFloorImd = 1.5e13 IMD wei per YOLO) and IMD ~ $7.6 the exact value is $0.00011390 per YOLO but the function returns $0.000113, 0.79% low.

      DareTrophy.price = ceilDiv(1.5e36, usdPerYolo) therefore charges 13,274 YOLO instead of 13,170 (104 YOLO over per mint, burned), and YoloSweetener's cap = 300e18 * 1e18 / usdPerYolo becomes 2,654,867 YOLO instead of 2,633,817 (0.8% more paid to an unconfirmed doer, less returned to sweeteners). The error is bounded by 1/(micro-dollars per YOLO): it grows as IMD/USD falls (at IMD = $1 the floor is $0.000015 and the error reaches 6.7%).

      Multiplying before dividing (amount * _chainlink(usdcUsd) / imdWeiPerUsdc()) removes it with no overflow risk for realistic amounts.

      Scratch test contracts/test/scratch/ImdToUsdTruncation.t.sol (mock USDC/USD feed at $1.00, mock v3 pool at tick 256,050, the oracle's launch arguments): h.imdToUsd(1.5e13) = 113000000000000 (= $0.000113), while h.imdToUsd(1.5e13 * 1e6) / 1e6 = 113903486000000 (= $0.0001139); difference 903486000000 wei of USD, 79 bps.

      Expected: the two agree to within 1 wei.

      Actual: every per-token read is floored to a micro-dollar.

      Not a high finding: the error is bounded and non-compounding (protocol-favouring for the trophy, user-favouring for the cap).

    • lowTOKENOMICS says the contract burns the YOLO fee of YOLO rewards and bonuses directly; the contracts send it to the treasury walletdocs/TOKENOMICS.md:90

      Lines 88-92 state as a contract rule that 'the fee YOLO of YOLO-denominated rewards and bonuses never reaches the treasury wallet at all (the contract burns it directly)'.

      In the code at this commit the YOLO fee of a sweetener bonus is transferred to the treasury address (contracts/src/YoloSweetener.sol:211 if (fee != 0) yolo.safeTransfer(treasury, fee);) and the fee of a YOLO-denominated reward is booked to the treasury pot (contracts/src/desks/DisputeDesk.sol:563 bank.addTreasury(f.currency, fee - toVoters);), which sweepTreasury credits to the treasury wallet. No contract in src/ burns YOLO except DareTrophy (to 0xdEaD).

      The task brief marks contracts/ as the earlier version, but this sentence describes what 'the contract' does, not a planned rule, and the supply-side accounting of the document (treasury never accumulates YOLO income) rests on it.

      State: a 10,000 YOLO task accepted without a dispute under the deployed code.

      Expected per TOKENOMICS.md:89-90: 1,000 YOLO fee burned by the contract, treasury receives 0 YOLO.

      Actual: DisputeDesk._payReward books 1,000 YOLO to treasuryPot[yolo]; sweepTreasury(yolo) credits it to the treasury wallet; nothing is burned.

      Same for a 10,000 YOLO sweetener bonus: 1,000 YOLO transferred to the treasury wallet (YoloSweetener.sol:211).

      Fix: either mark the sentence as a target rule (like the 'burned by hand on arrival' rule for the tax) or have the contracts send YOLO fees to 0xdEaD.

    • infoDoc constants drift from the code they describe: NFT fee share 5% vs nftFeeBps 600, and the '6% burn' sentence holds only for undisputed YOLO tasksdocs/TOKENOMICS.md:80

      TOKENOMICS.md splits the 10% fee 5% / 5% and TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 5 tabulates '$5 NFT voters / $5 treasury' for a disputed accepted $100 task; the launch parameters give correct voters 6% (contracts/src/VaultParams.sol:161 p.nftFeeBps = 600;, 600 of feeBps 1000), so the code pays $6 / $4. The docs are the stated current rules and the contracts the earlier ones, so this is a drift to reconcile, not a defect in either alone.

      Also, TOKEN-UTILITY.md:152-153 says a full-power staked doer on a YOLO reward 'burns 6% total instead of 10%'; by the doc's own split that is the undisputed case only (NFT part 5% burned + 0.5% + 0.5%); when a dispute is decided right by the NFT vote the 5% goes to voters and the burn is 1%.

      Arithmetic that does check out: the seven bucket amounts sum to exactly 1,000,000,000; the unlock table (536.6M / 721.4M / 906.3M) matches the vesting constants in src/token/Vestings.sol; every $100 row in section 5 sums to $100; the 30,000 YOLO minimum cap at the $0.01 price cap (300 / 0.01) matches YoloPoolSamples' comment.

      Input: 100 USDC task, disputed, NFT votes correctly, accepted, doer unstaked.

      Expected per TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 5: doer 90, voters 5, treasury 5.

      Actual per the deployed parameters (DisputeDesk._payReward with feeBps 1000, nftFeeBps 600): doer 90, voters 6, treasury 4.

      Fix: change one of the two to match (nftFeeBps = 500, or the docs to 6%).

    • infoDoer-stake power and threshold leave integer-order and comparator unspecified (weeks / 52 first truncates to 0; 'below a tenth' boundary)docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:138

      Section 6 writes power as amount x (weeks / 52). Taken literally in integer arithmetic the parenthesis is 0 for every lock shorter than 52 weeks, so only a full-year lock has any power; the intended amount x weeks / 52 must be stated (precision agent: division-before-multiplication).

      The threshold 'power below a tenth of the reward earns nothing' does not say whether exactly one tenth qualifies (the sole-occupant boundary); at exactly 10% the bonus jumps from 0 to 0.4%, so the comparator decides a payout. Neither point loses funds, but both are needed to write the contract the doc is meant to be estimated from.

      Input: 100,000 YOLO locked for 26 weeks on a 100,000 YOLO reward.

      Expected (intended): power = 50,000, bonus = 4% x 0.5 = 2%.

      Actual if implemented as written in integers: 100,000 x (26 / 52) = 100,000 x 0 = 0, no bonus.

      Input 2: power exactly 10,000 on a 100,000 reward: the doc gives both 'earns nothing' (not above a tenth) and 0.4% (the formula) depending on the comparator.

      Fix: write power = amount x weeks / 52 and 'power x 10 < reward earns nothing'.

  6. Audit judgeAgent #1457found 7 medium, 9 low, 3 info

    The review is done. The findings file holds 19 verified, merged findings, every snippet checked against the tree, and no repository file other than the scratch tests was touched.

    What I kept and how it was reproduced

    • Two code defects in the sweetener, both confirmed by a scratch Foundry test I wrote and ran against the Base fixture. The sweetener reads the vault's stale status, so it accepts YOLO into a task whose submission is already final and later pays it to that doer. Its fee also goes to the current parameter version's treasury wallet, so a treasury change after completion redirects in-flight fees, and nothing is burned as TOKENOMICS says. Rated medium.
    • One oracle precision defect, confirmed by a second scratch test: the per-token IMD-to-USD read floors to whole micro-dollars, 79 bps low at the launch floor. Rated low.
    • Doc-level rule gaps, each reproduced by tracing the stated rule against the code's reachable state. Predict has no resolution for deadline-less or unwound tasks, lets a single late position take the whole opposite pool, and makes an undisputed junk proof far cheaper than the pool it wins. The 20-vote early decision re-specifies the exploit that internal audit finding C-02 removed. The price parameters have no named setter, no bounds and no zero guard.
    • Internal contradictions and underspecification in the two docs, kept at low or info: ETH bonds versus "no ETH moves", the NFT fee share wording, the below-a-tenth burn-or-treasury case, bonus forfeiture at lock end, the lock's lack of a term or per-task consumption, the fixed 0.5 IMD refund, the trophy's FDV pricing, the undefined buyback burner, the 5% versus 600 bps drift, and the integer-order ambiguity.

    Merges and drops

    • Merged seven duplicate pairs across specialists: the two sweetener fee findings, the two deadline-less Predict findings, the two lock-expiry findings, the two lock-power findings, and the setter and zero-bound findings on the price parameters.
    • Dropped the first-hour buy tax note. TOKENOMICS already states the tax lands in the treasury wallet and is burned by hand, not by contract rule, so it is a disclosed trust assumption, not a defect.
    • Dropped the thirteen "info" entries carrying the economics specialist's ranked idea list and coverage statement. They are that specialist's design deliverable, not defects, and cannot be reproduced as such.

    No finding reached high or critical, so no proof files are attached. The scratch tests remain under contracts/test/scratch/ and are not part of the submission.

    ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 21 turns · 9m 12s · 418 in · 31.5K out · 1.3M cached
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    • mediumYoloSweetener acts on the vault's un-advanced task status: YOLO is accepted into a task whose active submission is already final, and is then paid to that earlier doercontracts/src/YoloSweetener.sol:112

      TaskVault plays its timers lazily: every vault entry point that touches a task (topUp, announceWithdraw, withdrawContribution, poke, submit) runs _advance first (TaskVault.sol:606), so the vault never books money against a stale status. YoloSweetener reads vault.submitTerms, a plain view that returns the stored status and busy flag without advancing (TaskVault.sol:395-407), in sweeten (line 112), announceWithdraw (line 126) and withdraw (line 150).

      After the active submission's dispute window has ended, or after the deadline, and before anyone pokes, the stored status is still Open and busy is still true. In that gap sweeten accepts YOLO, announceWithdraw reverts SubmissionActive, withdraw reverts BonusLocked, and once anyone pokes the task is Completed and payout hands the late bonus to a doer who was accepted before the bonus existed.

      The sweetener's header comment says a doer 'sees the bonus leaving before he submits' and TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 2 says the add-on 'follows exactly the same lock-until-deadline rule as the reward itself'; the vault's own topUp in the same state reverts TaskNotOpen.

      Fix: call TaskVault.poke(taskId) (public, no money moves) before reading submitTerms in sweeten, announceWithdraw and withdraw, or expose an advancing variant of submitTerms; additionally refuse sweeten when t.deadline != 0 && block.timestamp >= t.deadline. Merged from audit_flow (same mechanism).

      Ran contracts/test/scratch/JudgeSweetener.t.sol (Base fixture, forge test --match-path 'test/scratch/*').

      Case A: author creates an ETH task of 0.01 ETH with no deadline; doer submits; warp 24 h + 1 s with nobody poking. vault.topUp by the author reverts TaskNotOpen (the vault advanced and completed the task). sweetener.sweeten(t, 1_000_000e18) by alice succeeds, bonusOf(t) == 1_000_000e18; alice's announceWithdraw reverts SubmissionActive; after vault.poke(t) the task status is Completed; sweetener.payout(t, s) pays the doer 900_000e18 and the treasury 100_000e18 of alice's YOLO.

      Expected: the sweetener refuses YOLO on a task whose submission is already final (as topUp does), or lets alice take it back; actual: alice's YOLO goes to the doer with no recovery path.

      Case B: task with deadline now + 1 day; warp 1 day + 1 s; vault.topUp reverts TaskNotOpen while sweetener.sweeten succeeds and books 1_000e18 into a task that poke then marks Expired.

    • mediumThe $YOLO add-on fee (and the YOLO fee of YOLO rewards) goes to the treasury wallet, read from the current parameter version, against the documented burn / voter / doer-bonus splitcontracts/src/YoloSweetener.sol:211

      TOKEN-UTILITY.md line 34-35 says a $YOLO add-on's fee is 'split exactly the way a $YOLO reward's fee would be', and TOKENOMICS.md lines 88-90 state as a contract rule that 'the fee YOLO of YOLO-denominated rewards and bonuses never reaches the treasury wallet at all (the contract burns it directly)'.

      In the code at this commit: YoloSweetener.payout (lines 208-211) sends the whole 10% fee to a treasury address read from registry.core(registry.currentVersion()) (line 209) rather than from the task's own version t.version; DisputeDesk._payReward (line 563, bank.addTreasury(f.currency, fee - toVoters);) books the fee of a YOLO-denominated reward to the treasury pot that sweepTreasury credits to the treasury wallet. No contract in src/ burns YOLO except DareTrophy.

      Three effects: the bonus fee is never burned; correct NFT voters get no share of it; and a treasury change through proposeParams/activateParams redirects the fees of tasks that completed before the change but were not yet paid out. The brief marks contracts/ as the earlier rules, but these are the only shipped payout paths for YOLO fees and the supply-side accounting in TOKENOMICS (the treasury never accumulates YOLO income) rests on this sentence.

      Fix: either mark the TOKENOMICS sentence as a target rule, or route the add-on fee through the same split as the reward fee (burn to 0x...dEaD for the treasury share, NFT-voter share, doer-stake bonus) and read the destination from registry.core(t.version). Merged from audit_permissions (sweetener) and audit_math (DisputeDesk, same drift).

      Ran contracts/test/scratch/JudgeSweetener.t.sol test_feeGoesToCurrentVersionTreasury: ETH task (version v0) created, alice sweetens 1_000_000e18 YOLO, doer submits, warp 24 h + 1, poke -> Completed.

      Owner proposes defaultParams with treasury = 0xBEEF, warp TIMELOCK + 1, activateParams -> currentVersion == v0 + 1. sweetener.payout(t, s): yolo.balanceOf(0xBEEF) == 100_000e18, the version-v0 treasury receives 0, yolo.balanceOf(0xdEaD) == 0.

      Expected per the docs: 100,000 YOLO split burn / NFT voters / doer bonus, nothing to any treasury wallet, and in any case the task's own version's treasury; actual: all 100,000 YOLO to the wallet set after the task completed, nothing burned.

    • mediumYOLO Predict has no resolution rule for tasks without a deadline or tasks that end Unwound: the weight formula has no denominator and irrevocable positions lock foreverdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:161

      Section 7 resolves the market only two ways: completion makes WILL DO the winner, 'the deadline passing with nothing accepted' makes WON'T DO the winner; a position 'can never be withdrawn or cancelled'; weight is (time left until the deadline / the task's whole length)^2 measured from creation.

      The protocol allows tasks with no deadline: TaskVault.createTask line 224 if (deadline != 0 && deadline <= block.timestamp) revert BadDeadline();, VaultTypes.sol line 116 uint64 deadline; // 0 = no deadline, MECHANICS.md 'deadline 0 = none'. A task can also end Unwound through emergencyExit (TaskVault.sol:362), which is neither 'completed' nor 'deadline passed'.

      For a deadline-less task the weight's 'whole length' is undefined (0 - created, or infinite), WON'T DO can never win, and the market is open 'to its deadline', i.e. forever. For an Unwound task neither resolution applies.

      In both cases the doc gives no winner, no void and no refund, so after the 5% burn and 5% deferral the 90% pools and the deferred part sit in the Predict contract indefinitely, contradicting line 130 ('nothing is created or destroyed by a payout, only redirected').

      Fix: state that deadline-less tasks have no Predict market (or define a finite market length and WON'T DO on Expired only), and define Unwound as a void that returns both 90% pools pro rata with the deferred 5% burned. Merged from audit_flow and audit_math (same gap).

      Input: createTask(currency = USDC, amount = 100e6, deadline = 0, ...), which TaskVault.sol:224 accepts (the Base fixture's _create helper uses deadline 0 for every task).

      Alice places 10,000 YOLO WILL DO at creation + 1 day: 500 burned, 500 deferred, 9,000 in the WILL DO pool.

      Nobody ever submits.

      Expected per section 7: weight in [0, 1] and a resolution at the deadline.

      Actual per the doc's own formula: whole length = deadline - creation has no finite value, the WON'T DO side can never win because no deadline ever passes, alice cannot cancel ('no undo'), and her 9,000 YOLO plus the 500 deferred stay in the Predict contract forever.

      Second input: task with a deadline, a submission whose step stalls, emergencyExit after emergencyDelay (30 d) -> status Unwound before the deadline; neither 'completed on time' nor 'deadline passing with nothing accepted' applies, so no winner, no refund.

    • mediumYOLO Predict: a single late position on an otherwise empty side takes the whole opposite pool regardless of its weight (sole-side sniping, including front-running a doer's submit)docs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:176

      The weight ((time left / whole length)^2) only divides the losing pool among positions on the same side. When one side holds exactly one position, it owns 100% of that side's points, so its weight is irrelevant and it collects the entire opposite 90% pool.

      The 'nobody predicted the winning side' rules (lines 180-183) make this worse: a single minimum position placed at the last moment moves the whole losing pool away from the author (task not done) or from author and doer (task done) to whoever placed it.

      Placing a position is open to anyone with no exclusion and no cutoff before the deadline (line 161-164, 185-186), so the cheapest actor is an outsider who bets last, or a mempool watcher who front-runs the doer's submit with a minimum WILL DO position (the market pauses at submission, so nobody can answer it).

      Fix (keeps the 'no void' rule): pay winners by points against a floor, for example points / max(winning-side points, k x losing-side points) with the unclaimed rest to the existing burn; or close a side to new positions in the final N% of the task's length, or when the side is empty and the weight is below a threshold.

      Task length 10 days.

      The WILL DO pool holds 90,000 YOLO net from early bettors; the WON'T DO side is empty; no submission pending.

      At deadline - 12 s the attacker places 1,000 YOLO WON'T DO: 50 burned, 50 deferred, 900 to the pool, weight (12 / 864,000)^2 = 1.9e-10.

      The deadline passes with nothing accepted.

      Expected under the weight rule and line 182: a position placed 12 s before the deadline earns ~0 and the 90,000 goes to the author.

      Actual under line 176: the attacker is the only WON'T DO position, holds 100% of the side's points, and takes 90,000 + 900 back for 100 YOLO of fees; the author gets 0.

      Mirror case: watcher sees the doer's submit transaction in the mempool, front-runs it with a 1,000 YOLO WILL DO position; on acceptance the watcher takes the whole WON'T DO pool that lines 180-181 would otherwise split between author and doer.

    • mediumThe 20-vote early decision reintroduces the partial-count relay exploit that internal audit finding C-02 removed from the codedocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:69

      Section 4 says the vote closes the moment one side is ahead by 20 votes with at least one voting wallet.

      Votes are EIP-712 ballots relayed in batches by anyone (DisputeDesk.sol:88 submitVotes). docs/AUDIT-INTERNAL.md lines 145-151 (C-02, Medium) showed that an early decision on a partial count is decided by relay order in a public mempool: a front-runner copies one side's ballots out of a pending batch and relays them alone, the count crosses the margin, the honest batch reverts WrongPhase and the other side's ballots are never counted.

      The code was fixed to decide only at the end of the vote window: VaultParams.sol:45 uint32 instantDelta; // 100: UNUSED (audit C-02: no instant decision); kept for the ABI and launch, and CaseDesk only decides at voteEnd. The current rules document re-specifies the removed behaviour with a lower margin (20 against the retired 100) and treats it as a live per-task parameter (line 76, line 251).

      Fix: drop the early decision and decide only at the 24-hour mark as the code does since C-02, or require the margin against every ballot signed before the close rather than the count at the moment a batch lands.

      State (C-02's own numbers): a disputed submission with 120 accept and 115 reject ballots signed and sitting in one relayer's pending batch.

      Expected under the end-of-window rule: diff 5 < 10, no decision, the case goes to the no-decision path.

      Actual under line 69: anyone (no NFT needed) relays 20 of the accept ballots alone first; the moment they are counted accept leads 20-0 with >= 1 wallet, the vote closes as Accept, the other 215 ballots are never counted.

      The same actor can do the reverse with 20 reject ballots.

      Verified against the tree: instantDelta is marked UNUSED at VaultParams.sol:45 and AUDIT-INTERNAL.md:145-151 documents the removed exploit.

    • mediumPredict pool size is decoupled from the dispute incentive: an undisputed junk proof on a small task takes the whole WON'T DO pool for a 0.5 IMD + 3% bonddocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:185

      The documented risks (lines 185-194) cover the doer or author betting against a task. They do not cover a WILL DO bettor who needs no role at all: any wallet can submit a proof (section 3); a submission nobody disputes within 24 hours is accepted and paid (section 4), which also resolves Predict as WILL DO (line 174).

      Below the swarm pre-check threshold the only defence against a junk proof is a dispute, and the disputer's whole upside is 50% of the doer's bond (0.25 IMD + 1.5% of the reward, line 127), which scales with the reward, not with the Predict pool, while the pool has no cap (line 185). So the cost of defending a task does not grow with what is at stake on it.

      Fix at docs level, without touching the core flow: pay the successful disputer of a submission a share (for example 5%) of the WILL DO side's pool out of the Predict contract (money that contract already holds because of positions placed in the same mechanic), or cap each side's pool at a multiple of the reward, and state the chosen rule next to the existing accepted risk.

      State: task T with reward 5 USDC (the minimum, line 18), deadline in 7 days, below the $300 swarm pre-check.

      Attacker A bets 1,000 YOLO WILL DO at creation (weight 1).

      Others bet 10,000,000 YOLO WON'T DO (9,000,000 net in the pool).

      Day 6: A submits a proof link to an unrelated page with bond 0.5 IMD + 0.15 USDC (line 42).

      Nobody disputes within 24 h (the disputer's expected gain is 0.25 IMD + 0.075 USDC): the bond returns, A is paid 4.5 USDC, Predict resolves WILL DO, A as the sole WILL DO position takes 9,000,000 YOLO plus 900 of his own back.

      Cost to A on failure: 0.5 IMD + 0.15 USDC.

      Expected per lines 161-176: the pool goes to whoever predicted the real outcome; actual: it goes to whoever posts a 0.5 IMD bond on a task nobody watches.

    • mediumThe three price parameters have no named setter, no bounds and no lower bound: an instant FDV change re-routes the doer bonus, and FDV = 0 or price = 0 breaks every non-YOLO submissiondocs/TOKENOMICS.md:48

      TOKENOMICS.md never says who may set the FDV, ETH and IMD price parameters; every other parameter is ParamsRegistry owner + 48 h timelock + hard bounds, these three have neither (line 151-155) and the doer bonus snapshots them at submission (TOKEN-UTILITY.md 141-145). Two concrete consequences the docs do not cover.

      1. Whoever holds the setter can, in one block, move up to 4% of every subsequent fee from burn + treasury to the doer; and with no timelock it is a free option: a doer who sees a pending FDV decrease in the mempool submits first and locks in the higher bonus.
      2. There is no lower bound: with FDV = 0 the conversion reward-in-YOLO = reward_usd x 1e9 / FDV divides by zero on every ETH/USDC/IMD submission (a revert blocks all non-YOLO submissions until the parameter is changed, since the bonus is fixed at submission); with ETH price = 0 reward-in-YOLO is 0, so power / 0 is undefined and a zero guard that returns min(1, ...) = 1 grants the full 4% to any 1-week lock of 1 YOLO on every ETH task. TOKENOMICS line 65 says 'Nothing breaks when that happens'. The FDV's decimals are also unspecified (whole dollars vs 18 decimals), which decides whether a sub-$1,000 FDV truncates the YOLO price to 0 in integer math. Fix: name the role (the ParamsRegistry owner), give the three parameters hard bounds with a non-zero minimum and a per-update maximum step or a minimum delay, define their decimals, and specify 'no bonus' when the conversion yields 0; keep the submission-time snapshot. Merged from audit_permissions (setter / mempool option) and audit_math (zero bound).

      Case 1: honest FDV = $10M (YOLO = $0.01).

      A doer locks 52,000 YOLO for 1 week: power = 52,000 x 1/52 = 1,000.

      On a 10,000 USDC task reward-in-YOLO = 1,000,000, power / reward = 0.001 < 0.1, bonus = $0.

      The setter sets FDV = $10B (YOLO = $10) in block N; the doer submits in block N+1: reward-in-YOLO = 1,000, power / reward = 1, bonus fixed at 4% = $400; the setter restores FDV in block N+2.

      Actual: $400 of the fee that should go 50/50 to burn and treasury goes to the doer, and line 143 says a later change does not reach back.

      Case 2: FDV parameter set to 0 (nothing in the docs forbids it).

      Doer submits on a 100 USDC task with 50,000 YOLO locked 52 weeks.

      Expected per TOKEN-UTILITY line 141: bonus = 4% x min(1, 50,000 / reward-in-YOLO).

      Actual: reward-in-YOLO = 100 x 1e9 / 0, division by zero; the submission reverts (DoS of every non-YOLO submission) or, with a zero guard, grants an unbounded bonus.

    • lowDoer-stake bonus is fixed at submission but forfeited if the lock ends before payout, and a 1% dispute by any third party can push payout past the lock's enddocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:148

      Lines 147-148 fix power and bonus at submission but re-check at payout that 'the same lock is still running' and forfeit the bonus otherwise. Lines 155-157 say a lock has no early exit under any circumstance, so the only way a lock can have 'ended' at payout is by running its full term honestly.

      Payout is at least 24 h after submission (dispute window) and up to roughly 54 h with a vote and a swarm call, and payout timing is not in the doer's control: any non-doer can dispute for 0.5 IMD + 1% of the reward and anyone can call the swarm. Every submission made in the last ~54 h of a lock therefore loses its bonus although the doer did what the rule asked, and a rival can strip a 4% bonus at a 1% cost. Where the forfeited bonus goes is not stated.

      Fix: judge the bonus on the lock running at submission only (power is already frozen then), or require at submission that lockEnd >= now + dispute window + vote + swarm timeout, and say where a forfeited bonus goes. Merged from audit_economics and audit_permissions (same mechanism).

      State: doer D locks 1,000,000 YOLO for 1 week at T0.

      At T0 + 6 d 20 h D submits proof on a YOLO task with reward 10,000 YOLO; bonus fixed at 4% = 400 YOLO.

      Nobody disputes; the task settles at T0 + 7 d 20 h; the lock ended at T0 + 7 d.

      Expected (line 147, 'fixed at the moment of submission'): D gets 9,400 YOLO.

      Actual (line 148): D gets 9,000 YOLO and the 400 go to an undefined destination.

      Variant with a hostile third party: D submits a 100,000 USDC task 30 h before the lock ends (bonus $4,000); rival R disputes at hour 23 for 0.5 IMD + 1,000 USDC; the vote runs 24 h and accepts; payout at about hour 47, after the lock ended at hour 30; R loses the bond (500 USDC to D, 500 to voters) and D still loses the $4,000 bonus, so R's attack costs 1,000 USDC to destroy 4,000 USDC of D's income.

    • lowDoer-stake power is amount x weeks with no minimum term tied to the task and is never consumed per submission: a 1-week lock of 52x the reward earns the full bonus, and one lock covers any number of cdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:138

      Section 6's stated purpose is a bigger share for taking YOLO 'out of circulation ... for the whole term'. Power = amount x (weeks / 52) with no cap on amount; the bonus is fixed at submission; the only later check is that the lock is still running (line 147).

      An undisputed task settles within 24 h, so a 1-week lock always outlives it: a doer reaches full power with a 1-week lock of 52 x reward instead of a 52-week lock of 1 x reward, pays the same 4% bonus and is free after 7 days.

      Power is also compared with each reward on its own and never reserved: line 102 defines full power as 'locked YOLO worth at least as much as the reward', but one lock gives full power on every open submission at once, so the YOLO demand the stake creates grows with the doer's largest single reward, not with the volume taken.

      Fix: require the lock to run at least N weeks past the submission (or past the task deadline), or weight power by remaining term at payout; and reserve power per active submission (sum of reserved <= power, released at payout or rejection) or divide power by the doer's open submission count. Merged from audit_flow (term) and audit_permissions (concurrency); same mechanic, two gaps.

      Input 1: task reward 1,000 YOLO; doer locks 52,000 YOLO for 1 week on day 0, submits on day 0, no dispute, accepted on day 1.

      Power = 52,000 x 1/52 = 1,000 = reward, so b = 4% x min(1, 1) = 4%: doer gets 940 YOLO instead of 900; the lock ends on day 7 and the 52,000 YOLO are free again.

      Input 2: a doer locks 1,000,000 YOLO for 52 weeks (power 1,000,000) and has 50 submissions running at once, each on a 1,000,000 YOLO reward.

      Expected per line 102: full power backs about 1,000,000 YOLO of rewards.

      Actual: the full 4% on all 50, i.e. 2,000,000 YOLO of bonus backed by a lock that covers 1/50 of the rewards.

    • lowDispute bond 'in the reward's currency' contradicts 'the whole flow moves no ETH through the contract at all' for ETH-denominated tasksdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:92

      Section 4 line 59 defines the dispute bond as '0.5 IMD + 1% of the reward, in the reward's currency' and the appeal as paying 'the dispute bond again'. For a task whose reward is ETH that bond is ETH, yet lines 91-93 state that the dispute, vote and appeal flow 'moves no ETH through the contract at all'.

      The two sentences cannot both be implemented; the implementer must pick one (bonds always in IMD, as the outdated code does with Desk._bondFor, or ETH bonds and the 'no ETH' sentence dropped). The money-flow table (line 225, 'Dispute / appeal bond ... returned to the winner') names no currency either.

      Input: a task with currency = ETH and reward 0.04 ETH (the table at line 47 uses this reward).

      Section 4 rule: dispute bond = 0.5 IMD + 1% x 0.04 ETH = 0.5 IMD + 0.0004 ETH, so the disputer sends 0.0004 ETH to the contract.

      Line 92-93 rule: no ETH moves through the contract for a dispute.

      Expected: one consistent rule; actual: two different transactions for the same dispute.

    • lowNFT voters' fee share is restricted to '$YOLO-denominated tasks' in section 9 but is 5% of every accepted reward in TOKENOMICS and in section 5's $100 USDC exampledocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:210

      TOKENOMICS.md lines 80-83 ('5%, the NFT part. Goes to the identity.md NFT holders who voted correctly in a dispute') and TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 5 ('Disputed, NFT voted correctly, submission accepted' on a $100 reward: NFT voters $5) make the fee share currency-independent.

      Section 9 lines 210-212 restrict it to 'a $YOLO-denominated task, a share of that task's fee — paid in whatever currency the task's reward was in', which is self-contradictory (a $YOLO-denominated task's reward currency is always YOLO) and contradicts the $100 example. A reader of section 9 would conclude a correct vote on a USDC task earns only the bond share.

      Fix: reword section 9 to 'on any task, a share of that task's fee, paid in the reward's currency'.

      Input: USDC task, reward 100 USDC, disputed, NFT vote decides 'accept' correctly, swarm not called.

      TOKENOMICS and section 5 expected: correct voters share 5 USDC of fee plus 50% of the loser's bond.

      Section 9 reading: the task is not $YOLO-denominated, so voters get only the bond share and 0 USDC of fee.

      Two payouts for the same input.

    • lowA staked doer whose power is below a tenth of the reward: TOKENOMICS burns the NFT part ('unless the doer was staked'), TOKEN-UTILITY sends it to the treasury ('same as no stake')docs/TOKENOMICS.md:81

      TOKENOMICS.md lines 80-83: with no dispute the 5% NFT part goes to the treasury 'unless the doer was staked, in which case they are burned instead'. TOKEN-UTILITY.md lines 113-114 and 146: below a tenth of the reward's worth 'the outcome is the same as no stake' / 'same payout as having no stake at all'. A doer with a running lock whose power is 5% of the reward 'was staked' (TOKENOMICS: burn) but has the 'same payout as no stake' (TOKEN-UTILITY: treasury).

      The money-flow table (line 227) does not settle it.

      Fix: state whether the burn of the NFT part keys off 'has any running lock' or off 'earns a non-zero bonus'.

      Input: $100 USDC reward, no dispute, doer holds a 52-week lock whose power converts to $5 of YOLO (5% of the reward, below the tenth).

      TOKENOMICS rule: doer $90, NFT part $5 burned, staker part with no bonus split evenly: burn $2.50, treasury $2.50 (burn $7.50 total).

      TOKEN-UTILITY rule ('same as no stake', section 5 row 'No stake'): doer $90, burn $0, treasury $10.

      Same input, two different burn amounts.

    • lowPredict payout by points has no stated fixed-point scale: late winners truncate to zero points, and a winning side with zero total points leaves the losing pool with no destinationdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:171

      Weight is a squared ratio below 1 with no stated scale, and line 176 divides the losing pool by total winner points.

      1. With any finite scale a late position's weight truncates to 0 (at 1e4 any position with under 1% of the task's length left; at 1e6 under 0.1%), so a correct late predictor gets only their own 90% back and none of the losing pool although the doc calls them a winner.
      2. When every winning position has zero points (all late, or one placed in the deadline block where time left = 0 at any scale), total winner points = 0, the split is a division by zero and the losing side's 90% pool has no destination; the 'nobody predicted the winning side' rule (line 178) does not apply because someone did. Line 130's invariant ('nothing is created or destroyed by a payout, only redirected') is violated. Fix: state the scale (for example 1e18 fixed point with a floor of 1 wei of weight) and add a rule for total winner points = 0 (split pro rata to position size, or treat as 'nobody predicted the winning side').

      Input: task length 30 days; one WILL DO position of 1,000 YOLO placed 4 hours before the deadline (time left / length = 1/180, squared = 3.1e-5); WON'T DO pool 10,000 YOLO; task completed on time.

      With weight in basis points: weight = floor(0.31) = 0, points = 0, total winner points = 0.

      Expected: the WILL DO predictor receives the 9,000 YOLO losing pool (90% of 10,000) plus their 900.

      Actual: payout = 9,000 x 0 / 0, undefined; no rule names where the 9,000 YOLO go.

    • lowOutside-caller refund is a fixed 0.5 IMD while the swarm fee is live-priced, and the remaining split 'in proportion to their bonds' compares bonds of two currencies with no price sourcedocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:81

      Section 4 has the appellant pay 'the dispute bond again plus the live swarm fee' but refunds a fixed 0.5 IMD 'refunding the swarm fee they fronted'. The swarm fee is whatever the Intake sells the action for at that moment (Desk.sol:108 _swarmPrice; the code reimburses the actual amount spent, DisputeDesk.sol:512 feeBack = a.spent < penalty ? a.spent : penalty;).

      If the fee is 2 IMD the caller is under-refunded by 1.5 IMD; if it is 0.1 IMD they are over-refunded by 0.4 IMD out of the loser's bond.

      Separately, the loser's bond is '0.5 IMD + 1% (or 3%) of the reward in the reward's currency'; after the IMD leg is used for the refund the remainder is in the reward currency, and 'split between the winning side and the outside caller in proportion to their bonds' compares bonds of two currencies, while TOKENOMICS says the protocol has no price source beyond three manual parameters that serve the doer-stake bonus only.

      Fix: refund min(fee actually paid, loser's IMD leg) and state the proportion per currency leg.

      State: ETH task, reward 1 ETH; doer bond 0.5 IMD + 0.03 ETH; outside caller's appeal bond 0.5 IMD + 0.01 ETH, live swarm fee 2 IMD paid by the caller; swarm sides with the caller; loser = doer.

      Expected: the caller is made whole for the fee fronted (2 IMD), as the code does at DisputeDesk.sol:512.

      Actual per the doc: the caller gets 0.5 IMD (the whole IMD leg of the doer's bond) and is 1.5 IMD short; the remaining 0.03 ETH is to be split 'in proportion to their bonds' between the disputer (0.5 IMD + 0.01 ETH) and the caller (0.5 IMD + 0.01 ETH), which has no single answer across currencies.

    • low_imdToUsd truncates to whole micro-dollars before scaling: the per-YOLO price read by DareTrophy.price and YoloSweetener._cap is floored, 0.8% low at the launch floor pricecontracts/src/oracles/ChainlinkUniV3PriceOracle.sol:111

      _imdToUsd divides amount x 1e6 by imdWeiPerUsdc() to whole USDC units (1e-6 USD) and only then multiplies by the USDC/USD price. Both YOLO consumers that need a per-token price call usdValue(yolo, 1e18) (DareTrophy.sol:115, YoloSweetener.sol:223), which for the IMD-quoted YOLO sample resolves to _imdToUsd of the IMD value of one token, so the result is a whole number of micro-dollars.

      At the launch floor (yoloFloorImd = 1.5e13 IMD wei per YOLO) and IMD about $7.6 the exact value is $0.00011390 per YOLO and the function returns $0.000113, 0.79% low; the error is 1 / (micro-dollars per YOLO) and grows as IMD/USD falls. DareTrophy.price = ceilDiv(1.5e36, usdPerYolo) therefore charges about 104 YOLO more per mint, and YoloSweetener's cap = 300e18 x 1e18 / usdPerYolo is about 0.8% higher, paying an unconfirmed doer more and returning less to sweeteners.

      Multiplying before dividing (amount x _chainlink(usdcUsd) / imdWeiPerUsdc()) removes it with no overflow risk at realistic amounts. Bounded, non-compounding; low.

      Ran contracts/test/scratch/JudgeOracle.t.sol (harness exposing _imdToUsd; mock USDC/USD feed at $1.00, mock v3 pool at constant tick 256,050, the oracle's launch arguments with yoloFloorImd = 1.5e13): imdToUsd(1.5e13) = 113000000000000 ($0.000113) while imdToUsd(1.5e13 x 1e6) / 1e6 = 113903486000000 ($0.0001139); difference 903,486,000,000 wei of USD = 79 bps.

      Expected: the two agree to within 1 wei.

      Actual: every per-token read is floored to a micro-dollar.

    • lowThe trophy burn is priced off the FDV parameter, contradicting TOKENOMICS' 'exactly one job' and leaving a second value flow under the unbounded, instant setterdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:199

      TOKENOMICS.md lines 57-62 say the price parameters 'have exactly one job left in the whole protocol' (the doer-stake threshold) and lines 151-158 that 'no money is at risk' from them. TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 8 also sizes the trophy burn off the FDV parameter. The two documents disagree, and the risk section omits a second value flow the unbounded setter controls.

      Fix: give the trophy a fixed YOLO price (as DareTrophy.fallbackYolo already does in the outdated code), or list the trophy in TOKENOMICS as a second use and bound the parameter.

      FDV parameter = $10M: a mint burns 1.50 / 0.01 = 150 YOLO.

      The setter changes FDV to $10B: a mint burns 1.50 / 10 = 0.15 YOLO, 1/1000 of the intended burn, for every trophy minted while it stands.

      Expected per TOKENOMICS line 61: the FDV parameter affects only the doer-stake threshold.

      Actual per TOKEN-UTILITY line 199: it also sets the trophy burn.

    • infoThe 'buyback burner' is referenced in the risks section but defined nowhere in the two current token docs, which route non-YOLO fee income to the treasurydocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:246

      Line 246-248 names a 'buyback burner' that users must trigger. No section of TOKEN-UTILITY.md or TOKENOMICS.md defines what it buys back, from which balance, through which pool, or with what slippage rule. TOKENOMICS line 92-93 says the treasury accumulates YOLO 'from its share of ETH, USDC and IMD fees', and the money-flow table (line 227) routes the fee's treasury share to the treasury with no buyback step.

      A reader cannot tell whether ETH/USDC/IMD fee income is kept by the treasury wallet, swapped to YOLO and burned by a contract, or both. The assignment lists the buyback-and-burn as an existing mechanic, so the docs should carry one definition and the money-flow table a row for it.

      Input: grep 'buyback' across docs/ and README.md: the only hit is TOKEN-UTILITY.md:246.

      Read section 10 (lines 218-234) looking for the flow 'treasury share of ETH/USDC/IMD fee -> buyback -> burn'.

      Expected: a row naming the payer, the receiver (burn) and the trigger (anyone).

      Actual: no such row; line 227 ends at 'the treasury'.

    • infoDoc constants drift from the launch parameters: NFT fee share 5% in the docs vs nftFeeBps 600 in the code, and the '6% burn' sentence holds only for undisputed YOLO taskscontracts/src/VaultParams.sol:161

      TOKENOMICS.md splits the 10% fee 5% / 5% and TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 5 tabulates '$5 NFT voters / $5 treasury' for a disputed accepted $100 task; the launch parameters give correct voters 6% (VaultParams.sol:161, 600 of feeBps 1000), so the deployed code pays $6 / $4. The docs are the stated current rules and the contracts the earlier ones, so this is a drift to reconcile.

      Also TOKEN-UTILITY.md:152-153 says a full-power staked doer on a YOLO reward 'burns 6% total instead of 10%'; by the doc's own split that holds only when undisputed (NFT part 5% burned + 0.5% + 0.5%); when a dispute is decided right by the NFT vote the 5% goes to voters and the burn is 1%. Arithmetic that does check out: the seven bucket amounts sum to exactly 1,000,000,000; the unlock table matches Vestings.sol; every $100 row in section 5 sums to $100.

      Input: 100 USDC task, disputed, NFT votes correctly, accepted, doer unstaked.

      Expected per TOKEN-UTILITY.md section 5: doer 90, voters 5, treasury 5.

      Actual per DisputeDesk._payReward with the launch parameters (feeBps 1000, nftFeeBps 600): doer 90, voters 6, treasury 4.

      Fix: change one side to match (nftFeeBps = 500, or the docs to 6%).

    • infoDoer-stake power and threshold leave integer order and the comparator unspecified: 'weeks ÷ 52' first truncates to 0, and 'below a tenth' does not say whether exactly a tenth qualifiesdocs/TOKEN-UTILITY.md:146

      Section 6 writes power as amount x (weeks / 52). Taken literally in integer arithmetic the parenthesis is 0 for every lock shorter than 52 weeks, so only a full-year lock has any power; the intended amount x weeks / 52 must be stated. The threshold 'power below a tenth of the reward earns nothing' does not say whether exactly one tenth qualifies; at exactly 10% the bonus jumps from 0 to 0.4%, so the comparator decides a payout.

      Neither loses funds, but both are needed to write the contract the doc is meant to be estimated from.

      Fix: write power = amount x weeks / 52 and 'power x 10 < reward earns nothing'.

      Input: 100,000 YOLO locked for 26 weeks on a 100,000 YOLO reward.

      Expected (intended): power = 50,000, bonus = 4% x 0.5 = 2%.

      Actual if implemented as written in integers: 100,000 x (26 / 52) = 100,000 x 0 = 0, no bonus.

      Input 2: power exactly 10,000 on a 100,000 reward: the doc gives both 'earns nothing' and 0.4% depending on the comparator.

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