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Keep3r: a registry of jobs and keepers
Keep3r. Andre Cronje and contributors.
Keep3r publishes a registry where jobs pay keepers to call them. The registry is a labour market for transactions, not a security layer.
A reading of the project's public design document. Not a copy, not a benchmark, and not an offer.
Keep3r publishes a registry where jobs pay keepers to call them. The registry is a labour market for transactions, not a security layer.
- Evidence
- Primary paper
- Re-measured
- No
- Assumptions
- 3
- Records linked
- 3
01 Claim ledger
What the paper is allowed to say
Each row is a sentence already in the study. The status is the same on every row: a model claim, not a live measurement.
Claim 01 · Paper model
The defect
A keeper is an incentive. A job that assumes the keeper is honest about off-chain facts has smuggled an oracle into a cron call.
Claim 02 · Paper model
The proposal
Keep3r publishes a registry where jobs pay keepers to call them. The registry is a labour market for transactions, not a security layer.
Claim 03 · Paper model
The mechanism
A job advertises work. A keeper calls it and is paid if the job's contract accepts the call.
Claim 04 · Paper model
The bound
This note states no job count.
02 Three cuts
Observation, model, falsifier
A desk does not stop at the summary. Each claim is cut three ways, using only this study's own assumptions and checks. Nothing here is a new figure.
01 The defect
Observation
What the study says
A keeper is an incentive. A job that assumes the keeper is honest about off-chain facts has smuggled an oracle into a cron call.
Falsifier
What would retire it
Is any off-chain fact accepted on a keeper's signature alone?
02 The proposal
Observation
What the study says
Keep3r publishes a registry where jobs pay keepers to call them. The registry is a labour market for transactions, not a security layer.
Falsifier
What would retire it
Who can add a keeper?
03 The mechanism
Observation
What the study says
A job advertises work. A keeper calls it and is paid if the job's contract accepts the call.
Model
What has to hold
No price, supply, yield, or adoption figure is added by this desk.
Falsifier
What would retire it
What does the job contract verify before paying?
04 The bound
Observation
What the study says
This note states no job count.
Falsifier
What would retire it
What does the job contract verify before paying?
03 Sequence
One action, as an operating tape
- 01A job advertises work. A keeper calls it and is paid if the job's contract accepts the call.
- 02The contract must check the condition itself. The keeper's word is not a check.
- 03Governance of the registry can change who counts as a keeper. That is a gate on labour, not on truth.
04 Load-bearing
The argument, and where a pitch drops it
What the name has to mean
The cut
Keep3r publishes a registry where jobs pay keepers to call them. The registry is a labour market for transactions, not a security layer.
Why it carries weight
If this cut is skipped, the paper's name is being used without the mechanism that makes the name mean anything.
Where it is dropped
The registry's token economics are parameters and are not restated here.
What actually moves
The cut
The contract must check the condition itself. The keeper's word is not a check.
Why it carries weight
If this cut is skipped, the paper's name is being used without the mechanism that makes the name mean anything.
Where it is dropped
A keeper network does not secure a bridge.
What a later deployment may change
The cut
Governance of the registry can change who counts as a keeper. That is a gate on labour, not on truth.
Why it carries weight
If this cut is skipped, the paper's name is being used without the mechanism that makes the name mean anything.
Where it is dropped
A keeper network does not secure a bridge.
05 Register
What has to be true
Model · Not re-measured
You are reading the Keep3r docs. Gelato is a different registry.
Model · Not re-measured
The document is the one at the source URL. A marketing page with the same brand is not this text.
Model · Not re-measured
No price, supply, yield, or adoption figure is added by this desk.
06 Divergence
What happened after the paper
The registry's token economics are parameters and are not restated here.
A later client, parameter set, or reward formula is a different object. Cite this paper for the mechanism. Cite a primary release for the network. This desk has not re-run the proof.
07 Pre-mortem
What to check before you use the idea
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08 Anatomy
The paper, in the order a builder needs
The problem it names
A keeper is an incentive. A job that assumes the keeper is honest about off-chain facts has smuggled an oracle into a cron call.
What the design proposes
- A job advertises work. A keeper calls it and is paid if the job's contract accepts the call.
- The contract must check the condition itself. The keeper's word is not a check.
- Governance of the registry can change who counts as a keeper. That is a gate on labour, not on truth.
How the mechanism is specified
- A job advertises work. A keeper calls it and is paid if the job's contract accepts the call.
- The contract must check the condition itself. The keeper's word is not a check.
- Governance of the registry can change who counts as a keeper. That is a gate on labour, not on truth.
What this page does not treat as proven
- This note states no job count.
- A keeper network does not secure a bridge.
- The registry's token economics are parameters and are not restated here.
Why the desk still reads it
Keep3r publishes a registry where jobs pay keepers to call them. The registry is a labour market for transactions, not a security layer.
09 Lexicon
Terms, opened into the record
- Keeper
- An address paid to call a job.
- Job
- A contract that offers that payment. It must enforce its own condition.
10 Repository
Every linked record on this page
Underlined words open a page that already exists: a concept, a protocol profile, a failure record, or another paper. If a word is not underlined, this desk does not have a record for it.
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Research status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026. This is a reading of a public paper, not investment, legal or security advice.