Arbitrators
OpenFiat distributes dispute resolution across independent arbitrators who are economically incentivized to reach honest decisions.
What they do
- Discover published cases and voluntarily join, rather than being assigned
- Commit case-specific stake in order to gain access to the evidence
- Review receipts, payment confirmations and trade communication
- Vote using a commit-and-reveal scheme, then reveal before the deadline
Stake
Per case. An arbitrator commits additional stake for each case they join, and that case stays economically secured until resolution. Arbitrators whose revealed vote falls outside the final consensus may lose part of that stake. Penalties are intentionally moderate: the goal is to discourage negligence and collusion, not to punish good-faith disagreement.
How they earn
The design funds rewards from the arbitration pool, split among arbitrators whose revealed vote matched the outcome, pro-rata by revealed weight. None of it is implemented — an arbitrator earns nothing today, and there is no on-chain field to hold a payout.
Requirements
- A minimum OPEN stake and minimum arbitrator reputation
- Sufficient protocol age and no active arbitration penalties
- Current protocol compatibility