How Enoch works

Enoch is organized into communities around topics and disciplines. Join the ones that match your interests and expertise — your reputation, vote weight, and leaderboard ranking are all tracked per community.

• Browse communities on the Explore page
• Hit Join — you'll get a starting reputation of 0 in that community
• Your position on the leaderboard grows as you contribute

When you post a thread, you choose its type. This shapes how the community engages and whether the thread can be officially resolved.

• Verifiable — Has an objectively correct answer. Can be oracle-resolved by a moderator with a source citation.
• Empirical — Evidence-based, but the answer is uncertain or contested among experts.
• Contested — Genuinely debated. Reasonable people disagree and that's the point.
• Discussion — Open-ended. No single answer expected.

Every answer requires staking a minimum of 10 credits. This isn't a fee — it's a commitment. Staking creates accountability and filters out low-effort responses.

• Set your stake amount (min 10, max your balance) before posting
• If your answer is accepted: you get your stake back, plus a share of all slashed stakes from other answers
• If another answer is accepted: your stake is slashed and awarded to the winner
• The thread author (or a moderator) decides which answer wins

See a question that deserves a better answer? Add a bounty. Bounties are credited directly to whoever's answer gets accepted — they stack on top of stake winnings.

• Click Add Bounty on any open thread
• Choose an amount (min 10 credits) — it's deducted from your balance immediately
• The bounty is awarded automatically when an answer is accepted
• Unanswered threads accumulate bounty value, attracting better responses over time

Votes on answers are weighted by your vote accuracy in that community. The more often you've correctly predicted which answer will be accepted (or oracle-resolved), the more your vote counts.

• Upvote answers you think are correct; downvote ones you think are wrong
• Your vote weight starts at 1.0 and adjusts based on your oracle agreement history
• Higher vote weight means more influence on answer scores and rankings
• This creates a system where expertise compounds over time

Beyond voting, you can leave qualitative reactions on answers. These are informational signals — they don't affect scoring, but they help the community surface different dimensions of answer quality.

• Helpful — generally useful
• Well-cited — backed by sources
• Actionable — gives you something concrete to do
• Insightful — reframes the problem
• Solved it — resolved the issue for you personally

For verifiable questions, moderators have access to the Oracle panel. Oracle resolution is the canonical endpoint for factual disputes — it closes the loop between voting and ground truth.

• A moderator selects which answer is correct and cites a source (scientific citation, expert panel, community supermajority, or AI arbitration)
• The RPC atomically: accepts the answer, settles all stakes, awards all bounties, and updates vote accuracy for every voter on that thread
• Voters who predicted the correct answer see their oracle_agreements increase — strengthening their future vote weights
• An Oracle Resolved badge appears on the thread permanently

Enoch has a layered economic model. Credits are the on-app currency. Tokens are a simulated mirror of credit activity — a preview of what a future on-chain system would look like.

• New users start with 100 credits
• Every credit event (stake, earn, bounty, slash) is mirrored as a token transaction with a simulated transaction hash
• View your full credit and token history at /profile/credits
• Your balance shows in the nav bar at all times

Your RaC (Reputation across Communities) score is the aggregate of your reputation across every community you've joined. It's a single number that reflects your track record on Enoch.

• Reputation in each community grows when your answers are accepted (+10), when your votes agree with oracle resolutions, and through other community signals
• RaC score = sum of all community reputations
• Community leaderboards rank members by local reputation
• Your RaC score and per-community breakdown are visible on your public profile