Umotu Vision
Open participation, daily rewards
Umotu is built to be a neutral protocol that rewards open participation. Verified participants can earn daily rewards by helping secure the network from a smartphone. Rewards are variable and not guaranteed.
Umotu does not promise outcomes, does not set policy targets, and does not intervene to “fix” market results. It runs its rules.
Core Principles
Neutrality
Protocol rules apply uniformly. No discretionary exclusions, no hidden overrides, and no policy-driven tuning of rewards.
Open participation
Anyone can participate with a phone, subject to rule-based eligibility (e.g., Proof of Human) and successful participation checks.
No guarantees
Rewards can rise, fall, or approach zero. They depend on participation and market conditions, not promises.
Keep distance
Umotu avoids becoming a central planner. If the system grows, it grows. If it shrinks, it shrinks. The protocol does not intervene to force outcomes.
How it works
Umotu is secured by two complementary roles:
- Block proposers (typically servers) propose blocks and publish the data needed to verify the chain.
- Phone participants perform data availability sampling (DAS) and sentinel finality checks. Participants earn rewards only when they successfully complete required checks.
The goal is broad, commodity participation: security that ordinary people can contribute to, not just capital or specialized hardware.
Rewards and stability
Umotu uses a fixed supply with a capped, rule-based emission. Daily rewards are distributed to eligible participants who successfully contribute to network security.
For orientation only: the protocol may be designed around a reference launch target (e.g., “about $10/day per active participant”), but actual rewards can be much lower (including pennies per day) or higher depending on participation and market conditions. This is not a promise.
Umotu supports stablecoins because everyday usage needs a stable unit of account. Stablecoins are issued by third parties and carry issuer-specific risks (e.g., depegs, freezes, upgrades, redemption limits).
- Stable payout: participants can choose to receive rewards in supported stablecoins (where available).
- Stable gas (service-layer): users may pay fees in stablecoins via a paymaster/service that converts to native gas. Validators accept native only.
To set conservative wallet defaults, the Umotu Foundation publishes standards and disclosures for stablecoins. These standards are for the official wallet UX, not protocol permissions.
Read the Umotu Stablecoin Standard (USS) and Risk Disclosure Policy (RDP).
Governance
Umotu supports participant governance through in-app voting. Governance is intended to help coordinate around parameters and defaults (for example, wallet preferences and ecosystem programs), while preserving protocol neutrality.
Governance can
- Signal community preference (polls and proposals)
- Coordinate wallet defaults (e.g., which stables are preferred in the official wallet)
- Guide ecosystem programs where enabled
Governance cannot
- Access your wallet or reverse transactions
- Guarantee reward amounts or “set” payouts in USD terms
- Quietly exclude eligible participants
- Change fixed monetary policy by discretion
Some votes may be advisory depending on network stage. High-impact changes should be time-delayed and transparent.
Governance and Mini Apps are available in the Umotu app. Get the app →
What success looks like
Success is not defined by dominance. If Umotu helps ordinary people participate in global infrastructure and earn daily rewards for a period of time—while staying neutral and rule-based—that is enough.
If something better replaces it later, that is a normal outcome for open systems.