An invite-only network where reputation isn't for sale.
Notis is a decentralized social network with no company in the middle and no coins handed out at launch. It runs on two separate ledgers — one for what people say, one for what things are worth — and it's built so that gaming the system costs more than it's worth.
The one idea to start with
Notis keeps reputation and money completely apart. Rep is reputation you earn by contributing; $NOTIS is money that's released by proof-of-work and traded. A firewall stops them from ever converting into each other — so reputation can't be bought, and money can't be earned just by being popular. Your content stays yours (you can withdraw it), and security comes from proof-of-work that answers to neither rep nor wealth.
Everything else in these docs is a consequence of that separation. Two places to start:
Architecture →
How Notis is built: the two ledgers, author-owned content, withdrawal, and the proof-of-work that secures it all.
Economy →
How rep and $NOTIS actually work — earning, spending, decay, the fair launch, and the game theory that keeps it honest.