A down-to-earth understanding: Boundless is not just selling computing power to anyone randomly, but is setting up an auction where 'whoever does it faster and more accurately gets paid.'
Provers are not only competing on speed but also on proof quality, stability, and credibility in delivering as per contract— the system uses ZKC as a deposit, and penalizes and destroys to cost out bad behavior, while rewarding stable deliverers. For developers and enterprises, this means you can buy verifiable results according to SLA, rather than purchasing an unreliable black box.
I want to see if it is reliable. Don't just look at social media popularity; focus on these hard signals: real payment proof volume, P95 certificate delay, number of ZKC penalized/forfeited due to breach of contract, number of long-term active independent Provers, and the renewal rate of enterprise-level contracts. Pay special attention to the 'redo rate' and 'arbitration frequency'—if redoing happens often, it indicates that the matching or detection mechanism is still immature.
For individual miners/small teams, PoVW is both an opportunity and a challenge: the barrier is not whether or not there is a GPU, but whether one can deliver consistently, manage staking and dispute risks well.
Short-term investment opportunities can disrupt coin prices, but long-term value comes from how much money truly flows into the 'quality-paid' proof market. To enter the market, start with a small pilot, look at the data, then expand. @Boundless #boundless $ZKC
