The most instructive number in Vangrid's stats is the money that went back. Buyers have posted 729,427 USDC into @vangrid_io bounties to date. Of that: - 702,736 USDC paid out for accepted work - 2,101 USDC locked right now in 4 open bounties - Roughly 24,590 USDC left the board unfilled That last figure is not leakage. Under the escrow rules, a bounty cancelled or expired unfilled refunds 100% on-chain, and the 10% platform fee applies only when a capture is accepted. A buyer whose bounty never fills pays nothing at all. This is the demand side's real onboarding feature. Prepaying strangers to film places you have never seen is a trust problem before it is a data problem, and this design caps the buyer's downside at zero: worst case, the money comes back. The honest limit: refunds protect buyers, not contributors, whose rejected filming time is never compensated. And a clean refund rail, like everything else here, still does not name the buyers.