How it works, and how to check

Standing — Enech — is the thing that matters here. It is not a follower count and not a score for showing up; it measures whether people can rely on you, and it is the only thing that pays.

What earns it

• Asking a question the community judges to be a real one
• Having your answer accepted by the person who asked
• Sitting on a jury and calling it the way the panel lands
• Taking an audit seat and coming down on the right side of a re-review
• Reporting something that shouldn't be here, and being upheld
• Winning a contest against a verdict that went against you
• Staking $BONN, and being followed — both add to your standing every week
• Through an organisation you belong to, your share of what it earned

What costs it

Every week, whatever you have sheds a quarter of itself — and that shedding is the payout: each point lost pays out up to 10 $BONN.

Losing standing any other way costs money as well. Every slash takes 5% of your passive $BONN stake, so a stake is not a way to buy standing you haven't earned — it is a bet on your own conduct. That happens when:

• A question or an answer of yours is rejected
• A post you boosted is removed by its jury
• Someone reports you and is upheld
• You judged with a panel that a later audit overturns — that one takes a second 5%, because the audit is the mechanism that corrects the rest and it has to cost more to sit on the wrong side of it

What $BONN is for

• Staking it, which raises your standing every week for as long as it's locked — and is slashed alongside you whenever you lose standing
• Putting a bounty on a question so the right person answers it
• Commissioning work on Ceird
• Boosting a post, every coin of which goes to the community vault
• Minting an image as yours
• Following more than twenty-five people
• Asking more than ten questions in a week
• Taking it out — it is yours, and it leaves

Standing cannot be earned once and lived off, because it decays. It cannot be hoarded, because the decay is the payout. And it cannot simply be bought, because staking and being followed both raise it along a curve that flattens fast — deliberately, so that neither money nor an audience ever becomes the whole game. One rule, doing most of the work.

Most of what happens here is free. Asking, answering, reporting a post, judging free work — none of it costs anything, and the on-chain rent is covered for you. Money enters only when someone wants something specific: a faster or better-qualified answer, reach for a post, more people to follow, more than ten questions in a week, or renewing the check that keeps this one account per person.

All of it goes to the community vault, and the vault is what pays everyone weekly. There is no company wallet. That isn't a promise about our intentions — it's that no such account exists, and you can go and look.

Everything of value moves in $BONN. The single exception isn't a payment: the vault tops up the relayer that fronts on-chain rent, because rent is priced in SOL and nothing we do changes that.

Standing turns into $BONN every week, so anything that awards standing is something that will emit $BONN later. That leaves one rule the whole system has to satisfy: a paid interaction has to return more to the community vault than the standing it creates will eventually pay out. Break that rule and the vault drains, slowly, while every page still looks fine.

The arithmetic is small enough that you can check it yourself. A bountied question awards at most 18 points of standing — the asker, the answerer, and two juries of eight — and at the ceiling rate that is 180 $BONN. The vault takes 20% of the bounty, so the minimum bounty has to clear 900. It is set at 1,000. A boost awards at most 9 points, or 90 $BONN, and the whole boost goes to the vault, so the smallest boost of 500 clears it several times over. That is where these figures come from. They are not a judgement about what feels expensive.

The free tier is the only path allowed to emit more than it returns, and that is deliberate: it is the subsidy, and it is what lets someone arrive with nothing and earn their way up. Everything else recycles — $BONN moves between people and back to the vault, rather than out to a company.

Every price and split on this page lives in a configuration account on the chain rather than compiled into the programs. They can be retuned without shipping new code — and you don't have to take our word for any of them, because they're readable straight off the chain and every payout is a transaction you can open and read. The figures here are current, not permanent; they've been retuned twice, and when they change again the change is itself a transaction you can see.

The code is public too. We invite everyone to review, audit, and suggest improvements — including the two parts most places keep quiet about.

How jurors get their cases. It's a queue, not a draw. You're offered the oldest open case you have the standing to judge, and the offer already in front of you is re-served whatever filters you set — so narrowing what you're interested in changes what comes next, it doesn't let you out of what you're looking at. Passing costs you skip budget. There's nothing to game there, which is why we can tell you exactly how it works.

Which rulings get re-reviewed. About one in twenty, chosen pseudo-randomly. Here is the honest limit: that draw is made by our keeper, off-chain, and pushed on-chain as a result. The method is readable, but you cannot currently verify that the draw was fair — you're trusting us on that one. It's the only place on this page where that's true, and we'd rather say so than let you find it in the code.

Every price and split above is one account, and its address is fixed. Read it and you have the live values without asking us for them. The weekly payouts are ordinary transactions against your purse, and both your standing and your proof of personhood are on-chain attestations you can read the same way.

Economics config

8CQMqA6JDVWeoXATpoUgvUSZ2xwqHyi1N3akLiwviKNd

Vault program

89AdD761whn1r44c8qnn24AQkXaWxdqZME6UUhWU3kjX

One figure above is ours rather than the chain's: the ten free questions a week are counted by our servers, because a per-person weekly counter isn't something a chain tracks. It's marked wherever it appears. Everything else comes from one of those two addresses.

If a number on this page ever disagrees with the chain, the chain is right and this page is stale. Tell us.

Tuath is on devnet, so these are the configured values, and any change to them shows up on-chain when it happens. Only the community vault's nine billion $BONN exists so far. The team's allocation is created at the mainnet cut — how it's split, how long it's frozen and how it vests is set out in full on Transparency.