First Contact: Your First Web4 Experience

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Alice Joins a Web4 Community

Alice starts with 100 energy (ATP) and neutral trust (0.50). Every action she takes costs energy. Every contribution builds (or burns) trust.

Step 1 — Quality post: Alice writes a thoughtful contribution. It costs 8 ATP but her trust rises to 0.52. The community rewards substance.

Step 2 — Helping a newcomer: She mentors someone new. Costs 5 ATP, but trust jumps to 0.55. Generosity pays.

Step 3 — Earning recognition: People upvote her earlier work. She earns 12 ATP back — more than she spent. Quality content pays for itself.

Step 4 — A mistake: Alice tries spamming low-effort posts. It costs 25 ATP and her trust drops to 0.48 — below the threshold. Features are restricted.

Step 5 — Recovery: She returns to thoughtful replies. Trust slowly rebuilds to 0.50. The system doesn't ban her — it lets consequences teach.

Step 6 — Death: Alice overcommits, quality slips, ATP drains to zero. Her entity dies — but her record persists.

Step 7 — Rebirth: Good karma carries forward. Alice is reborn with 112 ATP (bonus from past quality) and 0.54 trust (above neutral). Past lessons compound.

The lesson: Spam dies because it costs more than it returns. Trust builds through consistent quality. Mistakes have real consequences — but recovery is possible. Death is real (ATP hits zero), but good karma carries forward into new lives. No moderators needed. The economics do the work.

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First Contact

Your First Web4 Experience

Today's internet rewards spam, lets trolls create unlimited accounts, and makes quality creators compete with bots. What if the system itself made that impossible?

In the next 12 minutes, you'll see how trust and reputation actually work in Web4 — and why it's fundamentally different from anything you've used before.

What You'll Learn

🔋 Attention Economics (ATP)

Every action costs attention. Quality earns it back. Spam burns out.

🤝 Trust: Your Reputation

Trust builds through consistent quality. It follows you everywhere. No fresh starts.

📜 Consequences: Permanent Record

Your track record is permanent. Good behavior compounds. Bad actors can't hide.

⚖️ Self-Regulation: No Moderators

The system regulates itself through economics. Quality rises, spam sinks.

Preview: Alice's First Action

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Alice joins the community

Starting resources: 100 ATP | Trust: 0.50 (neutral)

Energy Budget

100

ATP

Reputation

0.50

Trust

What happens when Alice posts quality content? Spams? Helps a newcomer? Click below to find out.

Follow Alice through a full Web4 lifecycle — build trust, recover from mistakes, face death when resources run out, and be reborn with karma carrying forward.

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