Sorry, I should have been clearer. I meant a non-darknet market.

Like somehow being able to have a third party negotiate payout rates for bug bounties.

I have no idea what the might look like.

Probably would look like a union (a dirty word in software), where their collective bargaining allows them to have leverage on software firms and have policies to punish non-payment in an ethical way.

Sequence looks something like: Security researcher submits exploit to the union. Union verifies it and decides it's worth $x. They inform software firm of the exploit and a deadline for payment. If payment is received before deadline, they get full, private disclosure. If not, then exploit is made public. Union takes a cut.

Security researchers don't really need a market maker. (It's not a real market: Actually converting exploits into money is typically antisocial and illegal.) They need someone to negotiate for them.

That's starting to sound quite close to blackmail.

"I have remote code execution in your product, pay me XXX or I'll tell everyone".

I don't actually know if it is blackmail, but if it is, hiding behind a union isn't enough to make it not-blackmail.