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 operates across three connected layers: a participation layer where ordinary people help maintain digital infrastructure, a baseline liquidity distribution layer where the protocol distributes variable daily rewards to active participants, and a multi-currency payment layer where stable units of account make that liquidity usable in everyday life.
Most economies distribute liquidity through wages, credit, or government policy. Umotu explores a fourth channel: liquidity distributed through open participation in digital infrastructure.
Participation without usable money has limited practical effect. Usable money without broad participation tends to concentrate power. Umotu is designed to combine both while remaining rule-based and neutral.
The Three Layers of Umotu
Participation Layer
Ordinary people contribute to digital infrastructure from a smartphone through data availability sampling, sentinel checks, and rule-based Proof-of-Human eligibility.
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 provide stable units of account for rewards, savings, and everyday transactions, allowing many sovereign currencies to coexist within shared digital infrastructure.
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 (for example, Proof of Human) and successful participation checks. Rewards can rise, fall, or approach zero. They depend on participation and market conditions, not promises.
Monetary plurality
Everyday payments require stable units of account. Umotu therefore supports a multi-currency stablecoin ecosystem rather than assuming a single dominant transaction currency.
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.
Baseline Liquidity distribution and rewards
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 baseline target (for example, “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.
The aim is not to replace wages, credit, or government transfers. It is to explore whether open participation in digital infrastructure can provide a modest supplementary channel of baseline liquidity.
Multi-currency payments and stablecoins
Everyday usage needs stable units of account. Umotu therefore supports stablecoins issued by third parties. These stablecoins carry issuer-specific risks such as depegs, freezes, upgrades, and 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.
- Multi-currency design: different regions and financial systems should be able to participate without requiring a single global transaction currency.
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 (for example, 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 digital infrastructure, receive baseline liquidity through participation, and use stable units of account in everyday life—while staying neutral and rule-based—that is enough.
If something better replaces it later, that is a normal outcome for open systems.