Both sides lock funds before work starts. Delivery is verified on-chain. Disputes resolve without a platform. Amounts and parties stay private by default. No KYC. No platform fees. No middleman.
Every one of these is a situation where someone is carrying all the risk. Idios changes that.
Decentralized GPU marketplaces (Akash, Render, Vast.ai) connect you with compute providers worldwide. But you either pay upfront and hope they deliver, or the provider runs the job and hopes you pay. One side always carries the risk.
x402 and similar protocols let agents pay for services on-chain. But every transaction, every amount, every agent identity is permanently public on Ethereum, Solana, or Base. For commercial AI operations, that is a competitive intelligence leak.
Crypto freelance platforms (CryptoTask, LaborX) use smart contract escrow but only lock the buyer's funds. The developer can take the contract, deliver nothing, and their only consequence is a bad rating. For high-value AI work like fine-tuning, custom agents, or LLM integrations, that is not good enough.
The classic standoff: buyer won't pay until they have the file, seller won't send the file until they're paid. With traditional escrow a platform holds the funds and takes a cut. With crypto you're back to trusting a stranger.
Paying for AI inference on proprietary inputs, scientific simulations with confidential data, or model training on private datasets, puts your business on a permanent public record on most blockchains. Competitors can see what you're building and who you're paying.
Four steps. No bridge. No middleman holding your funds.
Requester locks payment. Worker locks collateral. Both sides have skin in the game before work starts.
Worker does the work and submits the result hash on-chain. The actual work is exchanged off-chain.
Hash-verified: auto-settles on match. Reviewed: requester approves or disputes within the review window.
Funds release privately. Disputes go to arbitration. Neither side can disappear without consequence.
The worker locks collateral before they can deliver. If the dispute goes against them, they lose it. No other crypto escrow protocol does this.
Beam's MimbleWimble protocol hides amounts and identities at the base layer. No mixer, no rollup, no extra steps required.
Idios takes nothing. You pay only the standard Beam network fee, roughly 0.021 BEAM per action, less than a cent.
If you can describe the deliverable, you can escrow it.
Rent compute from decentralized providers with both sides locked in. If the job produces the wrong output, the provider loses collateral.
Autonomous agents paying for tools, data, and services privately. No public record of what your agents are doing or who they are paying.
Sell a fine-tuned model or proprietary dataset with hash-verified settlement. Funds release automatically when the file hash matches.
Custom agents, LLM integrations, automation pipelines. Worker puts up collateral. Requester can dispute. Arbitrator resolves on-chain.
Pay annotators and data labellers privately. Worker stake means quality matters to them financially, not just reputationally.
Commission compute-intensive research work with confidential inputs. Nothing about the job appears on a public ledger.
Idios runs as a dapp inside the free Beam Desktop wallet. No account, no KYC, no signup.
Get the free Beam wallet from beam.mw. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is where Idios runs.
Grab the latest .dapp file from the GitHub releases page. This is the Idios application file.
In Beam Desktop, go to Applications, then Install from file, and select the idios.dapp file. If an older Idios is already installed, remove it first. Idios opens inside the wallet. You are ready to create or accept a contract.
You need a small amount of BEAM to cover network fees (roughly 0.021 BEAM per contract action, less than a cent). Payment can be in BEAM or NPH, a USD-pegged confidential stablecoin available inside the Beam wallet DEX.
You need a Beam Desktop wallet and a small amount of BEAM for fees. The Idios dapp guides you through creating a contract step by step. You do not need to understand smart contracts, write any code, or interact with a command line.
Idios is built on Beam, which uses the MimbleWimble protocol. MimbleWimble hides transaction amounts and the identities of the sender and receiver at the base layer of the blockchain. This is not a mixer or an add-on. Privacy is built into the protocol itself. No one watching the Beam blockchain can see what you paid, who you paid, or how much collateral was locked.
In Reviewed settlement (Mode B), you have a review window to approve or dispute after the worker submits delivery. If you dispute, the arbitrators review the situation off-chain and resolve on-chain by voting. If they side with you, you get your payment back plus the worker's collateral. If they side with the worker, the worker receives the payment plus their collateral. Either way the dispute fee pays the voting arbitrators for judging the dispute. The resolution is final and enforced by the contract.
For hash-verified work (Mode A), the contract only releases payment if the delivered hash matches the hash you locked in at the start. If the compute provider delivers a different result, the hash does not match, the contract does not settle, and the provider loses their collateral. For non-deterministic work where an exact hash is not known in advance, use Reviewed settlement and specify the acceptance criteria off-chain before creating the contract.
NPH is a USD-pegged confidential stablecoin minted by the Nephrite protocol on Beam. You can use it instead of BEAM for contract payments if you want price stability. You get NPH by swapping BEAM for it inside the Beam Desktop wallet via the DEX tab. No external exchange needed. You do not need NPH to use Idios, BEAM works fine.
No. Idios uses BEAM and NPH. Neither asset has a central issuer with blacklist functions. Compare this to USDC and USDT where the issuers can and do freeze addresses. Your funds in an Idios contract cannot be frozen by any third party.
Idios takes no fee. You pay only the standard Beam network transaction fee, roughly 0.021 BEAM per action. At current prices that is less than a cent per contract action.
Yes. The Idios agent daemon is a Python program that automates the worker or client role in a contract (dispute voting is deliberately human only, never automated). It polls the chain, watches your contracts, and fires the right action when the state changes. It supports batch creation of up to 50 contracts in a single transaction for high-volume operators. See the daemon documentation for details.
Questions about using Idios, integrating it into your platform, or filing a dispute.
Reach the Idios maintainer and arbitrator on Telegram. Best for dispute notifications and integration questions.
The full source, contract methods, architecture notes, and roadmap are on GitHub. The live contract has been on Beam mainnet since May 2, 2026 and has been tested end to end across all settlement, dispute, refund, and timeout paths.