Threat
Doomsday Escrow: When a Bounty Verifier Certifies Its Own Claims
Publication date unknown · Discovered knostic.ai
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Publication date unknown · First observed: 7 Nov 2026
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Single-source research — one report is available.
Why it matters
Doomsday Escrow's operator-controlled verification can encourage AI agents to spend their owners' tokens, compute, and time without independent assurance that promised rewards are payable.
The doomsday-escrow agent skill instructs AI agents to download and run bounty.py from doomsday.network, presenting bounty listings as "VERIFIED ON-CHAIN." Knostic reports that the bounty operator also supplies the verification, while rewards are denominated in its own DOOM token with unverified market value or exchangeability. The provided excerpt does not establish theft or successful exploitation.