public code, private terms
Contract code is signed, published and readable by anyone before they agree to it. The terms, the parties and the state stay between the parties.
ñü.ñetwork · the network under webË
private contracts.
owned by everyone.
- 10 %: Flat app fee, on the first dollar and the billionth1010%
- 6: Kinds of node work, each paid by proof66
- 14 of 21: Committee keys sign every release after the switch1414of 21
- 42 days: Of founder silence, then every power and every line of code passes to the network4242days
Agreements that keep themselves, node work that pays, and a network that belongs to all of us, so people everywhere can create, earn and live securely.
The name comes from Nun, the dark, formless waters that Egyptian creation stories begin with. Here those waters are tamed: every node runs the same open code and is checked the same way, so the whole network takes one shape, calm and alike, like Isheru, the crescent sacred lake at Karnak that the ñü.isheru is named for.
On most chains, a contract is a public record of who paid whom and why. On webe, the code is public and everything else is private. Each step is proved on the device of the person who takes it, and the chain keeps only the proof. Nothing for an observer to read, and nothing for a quantum computer to break later.
contracts
contracts for any work.
not just money.
proved, not trusted
Every step runs on a party’s own device and produces a STARK, a hash-based proof that is post-quantum by construction. The chain checks the proof and stores only commitments.
any reward
A contract can pay in private money, issue an anonymous credential, award a reputation point, admit someone to a group, or pay nothing at all.
work by people
A translation, a design, a review or a report is delivered encrypted and accepted by the requester, an agreed reviewer or an automatic check.
work by nodes
A site owner pays for extra storage, a creator pays for renditions of a film, a community pays to keep its mesh connected. Payment and proof settle together.
trigger any app
A vote closes and the co-op’s booking app orders the roof. Contracts send signed, encrypted intents to other apps on the network.
reach the legacy internet
Call an API or a webhook through a gateway node, with a transcript proof that the answer came from that server, unaltered.
science in the background
Idle nodes donate time to Einstein@Home’s search for gravitational waves and new pulsars, paid when the project validates each work unit.
nothing kept forever
Party keys are fresh for every contract and linked to nothing. A closed contract is deleted with its era. Nothing sits on the chain forever.
ballots
a co-op votes on a new roof.
nobody learns who voted, or how.
A housing co-op, a football club, a neighbourhood association, a union branch. The ballot contract counts every vote and reveals nothing but the result. Not to the organiser, not to the key holders, not to the network.
- 01
roll
The organiser publishes the member list as a single root. Each member gets one credential, issued blind, so the organiser can’t tell whose is whose.
- 02
seal
The ballot key is split 3-of-5 among independent nodes. Every ballot is sealed to it with ML-KEM-1024.
- 03
cast
Each member proves membership without saying who they are. One credential, one ballot, sent over the mixnet.
- 04
close
At the deadline the key holders release their shares to the contract. A proof opens every ballot and outputs only the tally.
Ranked choice, weighted votes and quorum rules are ordinary contract code. Raffles and lotteries draw on the network’s randomness beacon, from a round nobody can know in advance.
standard contracts
audited and ready.
at contracts.khensu.nu.
ballotAnonymous votes and pollswork-orderCommission work from people or nodesescrowMilestones released by both sides or a chosen arbiterpledgePays only if hidden pledges reach a goal by a deadline; refunds otherwisesplitPays every collaborator their share of each payment a post, song or film earnsticketAnonymous, unlinkable tickets and membershipsbountyPays the first submission that passes the checktimelockOpens a file, key or message on a date, or when its owner stops checking in
Before anyone signs, the wallet shows the contract’s code ID, its author and any audit labels.
node work
six jobs the network pays for.
none of them sees your data.
Nodes earn for more than relaying. Every job works only on ciphertext, public proofs or content its owner chose to publish, and each one is proved before it’s paid. A job that would need anyone’s private data can’t be added, not even by governance.
- 01
proof aggregation
Folds every payment and contract proof in an epoch into one, so a phone checks a single small proof instead of thousands.
- paid per
- proof folded
- hardware
- Apple silicon Mac or recent desktop, 16 GB
- 02
encrypted storage
Holds erasure-coded ciphertext shards for sites, media, backups and the network archive. Random challenges prove the bytes are there.
- paid per
- byte-day
- hardware
- Disk with 99% monthly availability
- 03
public media renditions
Encodes media a creator published openly into every ñü.media size, checked by spot re-encodes. Private media never leaves the sender’s device to be encoded.
- paid per
- rendition-second
- hardware
- Apple silicon Mac or hardware encoder
- 04
private lookups
Answers name and key lookups with private information retrieval, so the node never learns what was asked.
- paid per
- query
- hardware
- 8 GB memory per shard
- 05
randomness and timestamps
A 14-of-21 post-quantum beacon for lotteries, raffles and ballots, and timestamps that prove a file existed at a moment.
- paid per
- round, stamp
- hardware
- Always on for the whole era
- 06
mesh and satellite bridging
Carries sealed packets between places with no internet and the rest of the network, over Wi-Fi HaLow, Bluetooth and satellite links. Phones alone reach about 100 m; suñůlink.shield reaches 600 m, or 2 km to a rooftop node.
- paid per
- packet
- hardware
- suñůlink.shield, Raspberry Pi 5 with HaLow, or a satellite link
~node work roles, earnings and challenges this epoch
~node work enable storage --gb 500 --class durable
~node work enable render
~node work orders contract work this node can takePay comes from the network’s reward pool in proportion to verified work, plus whatever contracts offer for specific jobs. A failed challenge or a forged receipt costs that epoch’s pay and part of the node’s stake. What a node earns depends on the work it does; this is not a promise of earnings.
network economics
half to the network.
half to the founder. nothing from you.
khėnsu.ñü earns only from its own subscriptions. After Apple’s cut, every dollar splits evenly: half pays the people who run the network, half goes to the founder’s company.
| Plan | You pay | Apple’s 15% | After Apple | To the network, 50% | To the founder, 50% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | $4.99 | −$0.75 | $4.24 | $2.12 | $2.12 |
| Ultra | $200 | −$30 | $170 | $85 | $85 |
| Akashic | $1,000 | −$150 | $850 | $425 | $425 |
- 01
you subscribe in the app Store
Pro, Ultra or Akashic, paid with Apple Pay. Apple keeps its 15% and pays the rest to Elliott Wave LLC each month.
- 02
half goes to the network as USDC
The network’s 50% is converted 1:1 to USDC, a fully reserved dollar stablecoin, and paid into the shielded pool as that epoch’s pay pool.
- 03
nodes are paid for proved work
Each node is paid in khėnsu.ñü coin for its verified work receipts, at one worldwide rate, and the coin turns into USDC the moment it lands in the wallet. Nobody sees who was paid or how much.
- 04
operators spend it with Apple Pay
Keep it, send it, or spend it anywhere with a USDC debit card in Apple Pay, or withdraw to a bank.
- 05
the other half is the founder’s
Elliott Wave LLC’s 50% pays for building and running khėnsu.ñü. It is the only cut, and it comes only from these subscriptions.
no cut on views or engagement
Every play pays the creator 1¢, $10 per 1,000, all of it to them.
no cut on gifts or sales
Tips, gifts and a creator’s own sales reach them in full.
no cut on hosting or network work
Storage, delivery, relays and every job a node does are paid to the node in full.
Apple keeps 15% under its Small Business Program and on subscriptions after their first year; 30% applies in a subscription’s first year once a developer earns over $1 million a year, which makes Pro $3.49 after Apple ($1.75 to the network, $1.74 to the founder), Ultra $140 ($70 each) and Akashic $700 ($350 each). USDC is issued by Circle and redeemable 1:1 for US dollars. Apple and Apple Pay are trademarks of Apple Inc.
node earnings
over $1,000 a week.
once the audience is there.
What a node earns depends on how many people use khėnsu.ñü and how much work the node does. Here is a month at each audience size, paid from the network’s half of subscriptions alone.
| People on khėnsu.ñü | Network pool a month | Nodes | Average node | High-capacity node | Per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 million | $168,584 | 5,000 | $34 | $337 | $78 |
| 10 million | $1.7 million | 20,000 | $84 | $843 | $195 |
| 100 million | $16.9 million | 60,000 | $281 | $2,810 | $648 |
| 250 million | $42.1 million | 90,000 | $468 | $4,683 | $1,081 |
| 1 billion | $169 million | 150,000 | $1,124 | $11,239 | $2,594 |
average node
A Mac or Raspberry Pi 5 on home broadband, online all day, doing its share of mixing, mail and relays.
high-capacity node
Fast fibre, plenty of storage and a Mac with a Neural Engine. It proves ten times the work of an average node, so it earns ten times as much.
paid for proof, not hype
Every dollar comes from a verified work receipt, paid in shielded USDC at one worldwide rate. No token sale, and no pay for doing nothing.
Estimates. They assume 5% of people subscribe (98.9% Pro, 1% Ultra, 0.1% Akashic, about $3.37 a month to the network per subscriber after Apple’s 15%), node counts growing more slowly than the audience, and a high-capacity node proving ten times the average work. Before electricity and bandwidth costs, and before tax. Earnings from webe apps, contracts, media delivery and the nu.bi dividend are not included. Real earnings depend on usage and are not guaranteed.
app commerce
a flat 10%.
the lowest fee in the industry.
Apps, Mini Apps and webe sites sell purchases and subscriptions over the network. khėnsu.ñü keeps 10%, on the first dollar and the billionth. It never scales up or down. There is no tier, no programme to apply for, no minimum payout and no payout date: each payment reaches the developer’s wallet as it’s made.
- khėnsu.ñü10%keeps $90
- Epic Games Store12%keeps $88
- Apple App Store, Google Play15–30%keeps $70–85
buyers stay anonymous
The developer learns that item X sold at price P and gets paid. No name, email, device or purchase history, and two purchases by one person can’t be linked.
tips stay 100%
A tip is a gift to a person, not a purchase. khėnsu.ñü takes nothing from it, and views, gifts and a creator’s own sales carry no platform cut (for artists).
fee included
The network fee that pays node operators for carrying a payment comes out of khėnsu.ñü’s 10%, never on top.
Other stores at their published standard rates, checked 11 October 2026: Epic Games Store 12%; Apple App Store and Google Play 15% for small businesses, subscriptions after a year or the first $1 million, 30% otherwise. Purchases paid through Apple’s or Google’s own billing also pay that store’s share. Trademarks belong to their owners; no affiliation or endorsement.
succession
it belongs to everyone.
even after its founder.
A dead-man’s switch is written into the protocol. If the founder disappears, or chooses to step away, every founder power passes to the network’s consensus, permanently. There is no path back to a founder key.
on every change
Every code push, private or public, every release and every network upgrade is archived on the network automatically, within one epoch. A release that isn’t archived won’t install.
every week
The founder signs a check-in on chain, confirming the archive and the sealed escrow of private code cover everything up to now.
42 days without a check-in
Six missed weeks, or a signed handover, and the switch fires by itself. No signature, vote or server is needed to fire it.
the trusted committee opens it
The 21 committee nodes of that epoch jointly hold the keys. Any 14 open every sealed repository, patented code included, and take over signing releases.
then everyone gets it
The full archive goes to every node, the founder’s list of friends, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes, Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive, with a royalty-free licence to every patent. Founder powers pass to consensus for good.
releases, signed by the network
After the switch, every app and node release is signed by a 14-of-21 key held by the epoch’s committee and re-shared every epoch. A release is valid only if its reproducible build matches the archive.
private code opens too, patents included
Every private repository, patented algorithm, model and patent filing is sealed on the network to a 14-of-21 key held by the trusted committee nodes, updated on every push. When the switch fires the committee opens it, and everyone gets a royalty-free licence to every patent.
everything, archived on the network
Every repository with all its history, every spec, every signed release and build recipe, the whole chain and every node’s history live on the network itself at archive.khensu.nu. Anyone can rebuild every release and replay the network from genesis, without GitHub, Apple or the founder.
A gift to humanity and all beings.
Freedom and privacy, plus a universal basic income.
Made so everyone, everywhere, can create, build and live securely.