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What it is

Eolas is where you ask the questions you'd never hand to a chatbot. Someone who has actually lived it answers, and their peers judge whether it holds up. Asking is free.

The point is to make a thoughtful answer worth giving and a careless one not worth posting. Standing you earn pays out weekly. And when it really matters — you need it soon, or from someone who's proven they know — you can put a bounty on it, which pays whoever helps you and tops up the vault that pays everyone else.

How it works

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

  1. 1

    Ask — free, ten times a week

    Post your question. The first ten each week cost nothing: a relayer covers the on-chain rent and reclaims it when the request closes. After ten it's 200 $BONN. No bounty, no escrow, no standing gate. This is how most of Eolas is used, and it's 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. 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) to your identity — 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 belongs to your identity rather than to any one key.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Reserving your question for higher standing: raising the 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.
  • 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.

The principles

Free is the default, not a trial

A free request carries no bounty, no escrow and no gate, and a relayer covers the on-chain rent and reclaims it on close. Free jury seats are paid in standing rather than $BONN, so a newcomer can ask, answer and judge their way to their first reputation — and their first $BONN — before any money is at stake.

Exclusivity is paid for, not requested

You can require a minimum standing from responders, and doing so raises the minimum bounty. The principle is that narrowing your request costs something, because their time is what you are asking for. Pricing is always in $BONN and never pegged to a dollar value.

A bounty is spent, a bond is returned

You lock the bounty plus a matching behaviour bond. The bond comes back in full when you accept, so the bounty is your real cost — and the bounty itself is fully distributed: to the responder, to the juries that vetted the question and the answer, and to the community vault. None of it returns to you, and none of it goes to a company.

A rejection still costs the person who wrote the answer

Turning down an answer pays that responder a share anyway, and funds the next jury round from your bond rather than from the bounty. Rejecting is allowed, and it is not free — which is what keeps the bar honest in both directions.

Every number behind this — costs, splits and payouts

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