Eolas

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The antidote to AI slop.

What it is

Eolas is where people answer the questions you would never hand to a chatbot. You ask; a verified, provably unique person answers; their peers judge whether it holds up. No email, no platform account — your wallet is your identity. Asking is free, and the community recognises good work in $BONN.

The point is to make a thoughtful answer worth giving and a careless one worth avoiding. Standing you build pays out weekly in $BONN. And when it really matters — you need it quickly, or from someone who has proven they know — you can add a bounty, which recognises whoever helps you and feeds the community vault at the same time.

How it works

You've already proven you're a unique human (your Anam) — these are the steps that follow.

  1. 1

    Ask — free, by default

    Post your question. It costs nothing: a relayer covers the on-chain rent and reclaims it when the request closes. No bounty, no escrow, no reputation gate. This is how most of Eolas is used, and it is the whole product, not a trial of it.

  2. 2

    Add a bounty only if you need to

    Optional, for when it really matters — you want it quickly, or from someone who has proven they know the area. You lock the bounty plus a matching behaviour-bond (200% total) that returns in full on a clean accept, so the bounty is your true cost. Everything below applies either way.

  3. 3

    A legitimacy jury checks it

    An 8-seat Dáil (jury) confirms your request is a genuine, well-formed ask — not spam — before it goes live.

  4. 4

    A verified human answers

    A responder posts an answer and locks a good-faith stake. The same jury checks the answer genuinely addresses your question before it reaches you.

  5. 5

    You review and accept

    Accept the best answer and the bounty reaches the person who helped you in seconds. You can reject up to four times — but each rejection still pays that responder something out of your stake, because they did the work.

  6. 6

    Reputation settles on-chain

    Accepted work mints Enech (your honour-price) and Cearda (proof of expertise) to your wallet — standing that travels with you instead of a profile you fill in. And every week, that standing pays out in $BONN.

The loop

What you gain

  • Enech — your honour-price, raised by every jury-approved question, answer or correct vote. It is yours, on-chain, and travels with your wallet.
  • A weekly $BONN payout from the community vault, scaled by that standing. You do not apply for it and you cannot grind it — it follows from being someone worth listening to.
  • Cearda — proof of expertise, built from the answers you have actually had accepted rather than a bio you typed.
  • Answers to your own questions, from people who know, for nothing.

What $BONN is for

  • Bounties — put $BONN behind a question when you need it fast or from a proven specialist.
  • Reserving your question for higher standing: raising the reputation or expertise bar raises the minimum bounty with it.
  • Boosting a post over on Gairm, since the same $BONN moves across every Tuath product.

The point is to do what you are good at and spend it on what you are not. Someone who can read a contract pays for the plumbing answer; someone who knows the plumbing pays for the contract. You are not grinding for a payout — you are contributing the thing you happen to be good at, and drawing on everyone else for the rest. It stays a circle because 20% of every bounty tops up the community vault, which is exactly what funds the weekly payouts. $BONN moves between us rather than out to a company; there is no company wallet for it to leave through.

Know the risks

This is real, staked participation — not a feed you can throw away. Before you take part, understand what you can lose.

  • You put something real behind it. Posting a paid request locks 200% of the bounty. If the legitimacy jury rejects your question as spam or malformed, you lose half your stake. Every rejection you make also pays a consolation out of your stake.
  • Answering can cost you. Responders lock a good-faith stake to answer. If their peers find the answer doesn't address the question, that stake goes to the community rather than back to them.
  • Careless judging costs you. Sitting on a Dáil means backing your judgment with your own stake. The minority side of a vote loses it — rubber-stamping costs you real $BONN, because everyone else is relying on you to have actually looked.
  • Reputation is at stake too. Rejected work costs Enech. Your honour-price is earned slowly and can fall — it is not a number you can reset, and that is what makes it worth anything.
  • You can't just start over. One verified human maps to one account (your Anam). If you burn your reputation, you can't spin up a fresh account to escape it — there are no alts.

In detail

The free tier — the default

Most of Eolas is free, and genuinely so: a free request carries no bounty, no escrow, and no reputation or expertise gate. A relayer fronts the small on-chain rent and reclaims it when the request closes, so you pay nothing at all. Free-tier jury seats are paid in Enech, not $BONN, so newcomers can ask, answer, and judge to earn their first reputation — and their first $BONN — before any money is at stake. When money is involved, pricing is always in $BONN — never pegged to a dollar value.

Anam, Enech, Cearda — your three on-chain credentials

These are Eolas's credential layer, written to the Solana Attestation Service. Each one closes a specific attack on a trustless market.

  • Anam — proof that you are a person, and only one. One human, one wallet, renewed every 7 days. Without it a single person could fill their own jury and farm standing off themselves.
  • Enech — your honour-price. Everyone starts at 5. Earn +1 per jury-approved question, answer, or correct vote; lose them for rejected work. Free answering/judging needs 5 Enech; paid needs 10. Enech isn't just status — each week your standing pays out in $BONN.
  • Cearda — proof of expertise. Your accepted answers are embedded into a public attestation, so a requester can require a responder's past work be close to the topic before they may answer.

How a bounty is shared

A bounty is optional — this is the paid tier, for when your need is high. You lock 200% of the bounty (the bounty plus a matching stake). On a clean accept the stake returns in full (minus jury fees), so your net cost is exactly the bounty. The bounty itself divides:

  • 56% — the accepted responder.
  • 12% — the Dáil (8 seats × 1.5%, per round).
  • 20% — the community vault, fuelling $BONN for everyone.
  • 12% — returned to you.

Worked example — happy path (1,000 $BONN bounty)

Your question passes the jury, one answer passes, you accept it first try. You lock 2,000 $BONN and recover 1,000, so your true cost is exactly the 1,000 $BONN bounty. The responder nets ~560 $BONN plus their stake back; the jury splits ~240 $BONN across both rounds; 200 $BONN flows to the community vault, fuelling $BONN for everyone. Each rejection before you accept adds 250 $BONN to your cost (130 consolation to that responder, 120 for the extra jury round).

Minimum bounty scales with exclusivity

The floor is min = max(250, 250 × rep_gate + 12,500 × cearda_tier) $BONN. Raise the reputation or expertise bar and the minimum rises with it — reserving your request for proven specialists whose time it's worth.

  • 250 $BONN — absolute anti-dust floor.
  • +250 $BONN per Enech of reputation gate (in steps of 10, up to 100).
  • +12,500 $BONN per Cearda (expertise) tier, 0–4.
  • Example: a 30-Enech gate at Cearda tier 2 → max(250, 7,500 + 25,000) = 32,500 $BONN minimum.

Ready to take part?

On your first visit you'll confirm you've read this page and understand the risks before you can act.

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