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 | Infrastructure: the 20-node cloud devnet | USD 476 per month for 20 nodes (Hetzner API prices of 3 October 2026, net, `docs/plans/cloud-devnet.md`); about USD 6,000 for the 13 months, plus rented GPU hours for the hourly-compile and shard measurements at USD 0.22 to 0.74 per card hour (RunPod, 3 October 2026): under USD 1,000 over phase 2 | Founder's own means | No | Node count drops to 8 (two per location); the rented GPU hours are replaced by the project's own cards |
 | Infrastructure: seed nodes, site, observer database, domains | Seed nodes USD 50 to 80 per month for three to five (`docs/plans/seed-nodes.md`); the site and the observer's database are on free or near-free tiers today, approximate; 15 domains at the registrar's renewal price, approximate USD 500 per year | Founder's own means | No | Three seeds not five; nothing else changes |
 | Incident response: an on-call second engineer from public testnet, an emergency-release drill, the soundness-bug path of spec 5.7 and design 5.5 rehearsed | USD 3,000 to 6,000 per month retainer from August 2027; about USD 40,000 through the first mainnet quarter. Basis: a part-time retainer at contract rates, from memory, approximate | Not funded | Yes | The founder is the on-call engineer alone; the drill still runs, because it costs time and not money; the retainer starts when the fee pays it |
-| Challenge reward: the chip bounty (O-1.17), paid to anyone who shows a chip design that beats a GPU by more than 2x | USD 50,000 standing. Basis: sized to pay for a credible design study with a measured operation count, not a tapeout; the amount is a decision, not a market rate | Not funded; the terms and the payer are the entity's (`docs/fud-fixes.md` row 50) | Yes: the bounty is announced with the January 2027 benchmark and escrowed when the entity has the money | Announced at a lower standing amount (USD 10,000) and raised when revenue allows; a bounty that cannot be paid is not announced |
-| Challenge reward: the finality break bounty (litepaper "Questions miners ask") | USD 25,000 standing. Basis: as above | Not funded | Yes | As above |
+| Challenge reward: the chip bounty (O-1.17). WITHDRAWN 6 October 2026 (ledger M1, decision item 1 corrected): no device bounty, a team with a real 2x chip earns more by mining than any bounty pays; the claim is backed by the paid cryptanalysis in the review line and the public benchmark. Optional later: one USD 50,000 cryptanalysis prize, escrowed before it is named | USD 0 (the optional prize USD 50,000, only if escrowed) | Not applicable | Not applicable | Nothing pauses |
+| Challenge reward: the finality break bounty (was litepaper "Questions miners ask"). WITHDRAWN 6 October 2026 with the chip bounty (ledger M1): the finality review is paid work in the review line, the litepaper sentence "a bounty is attached" is struck | USD 0 | Not applicable | Not applicable | Nothing pauses |
 | Challenge reward: the reproduction reward of `docs/benchmarks/proving-e2e.md` 8.1 (a fixed, equal, disclosed amount per unrelated operator) | USD 1,000 per operator per workload set, three operators, about USD 3,000 per campaign. Basis: covers electricity and a day of attention, approximate | Not funded | Yes | Reproduction is asked for without a reward; the standard allows that |
 | Legal: counsel on the entity, the promotions question, the testnet payment terms, the no-custody structure of the job market (`docs/fud-fixes.md` rows 46, 58, 59) | USD 20,000 to 50,000. Basis: from memory, approximate | Founder's own means | No | Continues; it gates public text, not code |