The problem it solves
Frontier models are limited by the data they can learn from. Labs need specific, real-world data they cannot scrape, and the people who could supply it — drivers, clinicians, translators, anyone with a camera and local knowledge — have had no straightforward way to be paid for it.
Locksley Labs is the contract that sits between the two. A lab states what it needs and funds it. You answer. The contract pays you. Nobody has to trust the other side to be fair, because the terms are written down before the work starts and settled by code afterwards.
The loop
- A lab posts a bounty. It describes the data it needs and deposits a reward pool of tokenized equity behind it, in one transaction.
- You contribute. Upload a file that answers the bounty. It is checked against the stated requirement before anything costs you.
- The work is graded. An agent or the lab itself scores how useful the submission is, from 0 to 1.
- You are paid. The same transaction that records the score moves your reward out of the pool and into your wallet.
There is no separate payout step, which means there is no step that can quietly never happen. If the grade is on-chain, the money already moved.
What settlement means here
You are paid in the tokenized equity the lab funded its pool with — NVDA or TSLA — held in your own wallet. There is no stablecoin leg, no platform credit and no points balance that has to be converted later. Settlement is in the asset, or the transaction does not happen.