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Swath Protocol, an Auction House for Satellite Imagery

swathproto.space ↗ · Developer Corner · score 79.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A proposed on-chain order book where satellites, drones, analysts, humans, and software agents bid to fulfill polygon-based imagery requests.

Why it surfaced

Swath sketches a genuinely specific mechanism: suppliers bid prices down, USDC stays in escrow, and an oracle checks the delivered STAC item against the buyer’s sensor and area requirements. It is not live yet and is launching through Pump.fun, making this both an intriguing piece of protocol design and a useful specimen of crypto’s attempt to turn satellite data into a market.

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.