About Umotu

Umotu is an open participation protocol that distributes baseline liquidity to people who help secure digital infrastructure, while enabling everyday payments through a multi-currency stablecoin system .

Verified participants can earn daily rewards by helping secure the network from a smartphone (for example, data availability sampling and sentinel finality checks). Rewards are variable and not guaranteed. At the same time, Umotu supports a multi-currency stablecoin ecosystem so that rewards and transactions can flow through stable units of account rather than relying on a single global currency.

Distribution without usable money has limited practical effect. Usable money without broad participation tends to concentrate power. Umotu is designed to combine both.

Participation Layer

Verified participants help keep the network healthy from a smartphone through data availability sampling, sentinel checks, and other lightweight verification tasks.

Baseline Liquidity Distribution Layer

The protocol distributes variable daily rewards to eligible participants who successfully contribute to network security. This is an experiment in baseline liquidity distribution through participation.

Multi-Currency Payment Layer

Supported stablecoins let people receive rewards, hold value, and transact in stable units of account. This makes Umotu usable in everyday life across different currencies and regions.

Ready to Participate?

Download the Umotu app for Android or iOS to explore the network and participate from your smartphone.

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Participation, not capital

Rewards go primarily to verified participants who do real network checks, not to miners with expensive hardware or large stakers. Proof-of-Human (PoH) confirms liveness and uniqueness off-chain; biometric templates never go on-chain and can be deleted on request.

Baseline liquidity, not promises

Umotu explores whether open participation in digital infrastructure can provide modest baseline liquidity. Rewards are variable and not guaranteed.

Multi-currency by design

Supported stablecoins let different regions and financial systems participate without requiring a single global transaction currency.

How the layers work together

People participate from their phones. The network rewards successful participation with variable daily rewards. Stable currencies make that liquidity usable in everyday economic activity.

Participation secures the network.
Rewards distribute liquidity to participants.
Stablecoins make that liquidity practical for saving, spending, and paying fees.

How the network works

Proposers (data-center validators) produce blocks every ~2 seconds.
Phones sample data to confirm availability and, when selected as Sentinels, co-sign finality.
PBS-lite: builders compete to supply ordered bundles; fees are shared between proposers and Sentinels per policy.

Rewards & tokenomics

Token: UMT (native)
Daily emissions cap: up to 0.01% of the remaining emissions pool (~3.65%/yr max)
Reference baseline target: orientation only; actual per-user rewards may be far lower or higher depending on participation and market conditions
Phones: most emissions (for DA checks and Sentinel participation)
Proposers: base fees + tips share; zero new-token emissions

Stablecoins and monetary neutrality

Umotu supports stablecoins because everyday economic activity needs stable units of account. Stablecoins are issued by third parties and carry issuer-specific risks. The protocol does not issue stablecoins itself.

Stable payout: participants can choose to receive rewards in supported stablecoins where available.
Stable gas (service-layer): users may pay fees in supported stablecoins via paymaster/service tools; validators accept native gas only.
Multi-currency architecture: the goal is to support many sovereign currencies within shared digital infrastructure, not to force a single dominant currency.

The Umotu Foundation maintains conservative defaults in the official wallet and publishes the Umotu Stablecoin Standard (USS) and Risk Disclosure Policy (RDP). These standards guide wallet UX; they are not protocol permissions.

Privacy & control

Self-custody: you control your wallet, recovery phrase, and keys.
Off-chain biometrics: PoH providers store and process liveness data off-chain; users can request deletion anytime.
Minimal on-chain data: contracts store only PoH status and attestations, not biometrics.

Name & ethos

Umotu draws inspiration from Paʻumotu, a Polynesian language spoken by a small community. We use the name respectfully as a reminder to build for everyday people.