We audit on-chain.
We get paid on-chain.
Darkwave settles its audit invoices through Shaka Deal — an immutable payment router on Ethereum that we audited ourselves. An auditor paid through a custodial processor would be its own contradiction.
We spend our days reviewing contracts that settle value without an intermediary. It would be strange to then route our own payments through a system that does the opposite — one that holds funds, reverses transactions, freezes accounts, and asks permission. So we don't. When you engage Darkwave, you pay through Shaka Deal: a single on-chain transaction that settles instantly and finally, with the fee visible in the contract, not buried in a statement.
We are not recommending it from a distance. We read the contract line by line, published the review, and then chose to run our own revenue through it. That is the only endorsement that means anything in this industry — not a logo on a page, but our own money on the rail.
The contract never holds funds. Your payment is split and delivered to us in the same transaction it arrives in — there is no balance sitting in an intermediary's account, no processor deciding when we get our money. A custodial processor like Stripe is, by definition, a party that holds your funds and ours in between. Shaka Deal removes that party entirely.
An on-chain payment clears once. There is no reversal window, no chargeback mechanism, no dispute that claws back a settled invoice weeks later. For a fixed-scope engagement delivered against a signed attestation, finality is a feature: the work is done, the payment is done, and neither side is exposed to the other reopening it.
The contract is immutable, ownerless, and ETH-native — no ERC-20, no blacklist exposure, no account that can be frozen by a third party deciding our line of work is too risky to bank. Security firms and on-chain protocols are exactly the kind of client custodial processors deprioritise. A contract with no owner cannot deprioritise anyone.
The fee is a constant written into the contract and verifiable on Etherscan, not a negotiated rate that varies by volume and disappears into fine print. What the buyer pays and what each party receives is computed on-chain and emitted in the settlement event. There is nothing to reconcile because there is nothing hidden.
"We don't recommend Shaka Deal because we built around it. We use it because we audited it — and an audit you trust enough to route your own revenue through is the only kind worth publishing."
Our full technical write-up of the contract — custody, value conservation, affiliate routing, and the cost of immutability.
A universal B2B payment router: route the total amount of a transaction and settle every party instantly, in one on-chain payment.