🧱 Vaults and Shielded Settlement
The Vault is the heart of Zor’s accountability layer. It verifies proofs, manages payments, and enforces fairness — all inside trusted hardware.
🧩 Roles of a Vault
Verification – validate relay receipts and ACKs.
Accounting – deduct gas from users and credit relays.
Settlement – issue shielded ZEC payouts to verified relays.
Governance – report balances and state roots to the DAO.
Each Vault runs inside a hardware enclave, which prevents any tampering or data leaks. Even the operator can’t read user balances or transaction details.
💰 Proof-Before-Pay
Zor’s Vaults don’t rely on faith. They rely on math. A relay only gets paid once its proof chain has been validated — not before.
This means:
Failed relays earn nothing.
Fake receipts get slashed.
Honest relays are paid automatically and privately.
All settlement happens in Zcash’s shielded pool, ensuring that even payments remain unlinkable.
🧮 Internal Roots
Each epoch, the Vault maintains three Merkle roots:
balance_root— user and relay balances.bond_root— active bonded nodes and slashed stakes.zcert_root— registered ZCerts for verified services.
These roots define the private state of the network — compact, verifiable, and impossible to forge.
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