EGALCHAIN · HOW IT WORKS · GESTURE BY GESTURE

What you can do, and what already works.

For each gesture: what you do, what happens underneath, and whether it works today or waits for the real network to launch.

Sending ES is the one gesture that moves real value end to end today. Creating a wallet and exploring the network also work live, right now. The rest — borrow, vote, witness, prove you are a unique human — is built and tested, but runs in a lite version on the test network, or waits for the real network to launch.

EGL is the reserve money — scarce, mined on ordinary computers. ES — Egal-Stable — is the everyday money, the one you send and pay with. You will meet both all the way through.

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The gestures, from most alive to most asleep.

  1. 01 Create a wallet
  2. 02 Send ES
  3. 03 Explore the network yourself
  4. 04 Borrow, peer to peer
  5. 05 Vote
  6. 06 Witness
  7. 07 Prove you are a unique human
01 · Create a wallet

Create a wallet.

Live on the test network What you do

You open the app in your browser. On first launch, a three-step wizard — Welcome, Wallet, Ready — offers to create a new wallet or import one. When you create it, the app builds you an address and a recovery phrase, which you write down and keep yourself. No account to open, no email, no password sent anywhere.

What happens

Everything happens on your device, inside your browser: the keys are built there, the recovery phrase is generated there, your operations are signed there. Nothing travels to a server — your keys never leave your machine. This is what self-custody means: no one but you holds the means to spend. There is no custodial wallet to trust, no company that could freeze your access or lose it for you.

And there's a hard edge to this: you alone keep the recovery phrase. No one can freeze you — and no one can rescue you either.

To be exactIf you lose the recovery phrase, no one can regenerate it: not me, not a server, not a support desk. I will never write that it is "unbreakable" or "100% secure": the strength rests on you keeping that phrase safe. This is honest self-custody, not a magic promise. And the wallet is created entirely offline in the browser, depending on no outside server.
02 · Send ES

Send ES.

Live on the test network — the one end-to-end gesture What you do

From the Transfers tab, you enter the recipient's address and an amount in ES, then you sign the transfer — the signature happens in your browser, on your side. The recipient doesn't even need an account yet: if they receive ES for the first time, a minimal account is created on its own when it arrives.

What happens

The ES moves from your balance to theirs. A small fee is taken along the way, and no operator pockets it: half strengthens the shared guarantee fund, the other half goes to savers. So your everyday transfer reinforces the network's safety net rather than enriching anyone in between. Sending to yourself, and zero amounts, are refused.

To be exactThis is the only fully live gesture today: it works on the test network exactly as it will at launch, with no lite version and no sleeping piece. But on the test network the funds are not real — it is a proving ground. ES aims at stability through its backing in EGL; it has no guaranteed parity with a dollar or a euro — never expect "1 ES = 1 dollar". And the fee, around half a percent, is not carved in stone: it is set by the governance vote.
03 · Explore the network

Explore the network yourself.

Live on the test network — the server answers right now What you do

Without even installing the app, from this page: you open the block explorer, lower down, and it shows you the chain directly — blocks, balances, reserves. A real request goes to the test network's server and returns, live, the height of the current block. You can also do it from a terminal, by querying testnet.egalchain.xyz.

What happens

The test network's server answers in read-only: it gives you the public state of the chain, so you check it yourself instead of taking my word for it. This is the protocol's core principle in practice: you check the chain yourself instead of taking my word for it. The same logic will hold, in time, for reserves: a light wallet will be able to download a compact proof, recompute on its own the fingerprint of the state carved into each block, and compare them — to confirm that an institution really holds the guarantee it claims.

To be exactRead-only exploration of the test network is real, now: that is what the explorer does. The client-side reserve check exists in the code too — but the registry of settling institutions is empty until one joins the network, so that part still sleeps, for lack of institutions. And I do not claim the whole state is already verifiable end-to-end by everyone: the whitepaper and the signed binaries will arrive with the audit and the key ceremony.
04 · Borrow, peer to peer

Borrow on cooperative credit.

Built, tested — but sleeps until launch What you do

From the Credit tab, P2P sub-tab, you publish a request: an amount in ES, a title, a referenced proof file — the fingerprint of a dossier you host yourself, meant to point to decentralized storage — and a repayment schedule you set yourself. The request requires a verified identity, and you can only have one open at a time. Then you wait for miners to stand as guarantors. When you accept the terms, the loan activates in an escrow wallet you spend from, each spend justified.

What happens

Up to six miners can guarantee you. Each one freely proposes their own rate, within a corridor the community fixes; it is never one lender's rate that applies, but the middle one of the six, so no single lender dictates the price. Their guarantee is not just words: at every block, the protocol automatically takes a share of their mining earnings to feed your loan. The money lives in a transparent wallet that all six guarantors see in full. And when you repay, your payment clears the real debt first — the principal — before the rent on the money: you free yourself for good.

None of this conjures money out of thin air: every ES lent is backed by more than three times its value in real EGL set aside in reserve — a deliberate cushion against a wave of defaults.

To be exactAll of this is implemented, tested, and switched on in the code — but the real network has not launched. No one has yet borrowed or lent a single cent for real. And the guarantor's risk has to be named plainly: if the borrower defaults, the guarantor loses part of their stake — a shared cushion returns a fraction, the rest is a loss they carry. Standing as guarantor is a real risk, never a safe investment. The rate is neither free nor zero: it is bounded by a floor and a ceiling set by the vote, the amount is capped, and default is hard to trigger but real. Finally, this gesture needs a verified identity — itself asleep until launch (see gesture 07).
05 · Vote

Vote, on the world and on the settings.

Runs on the test network in a lite version What you do

From the WorldPoll tab, you answer a question put to the world — Yes, No, or Abstain — and you can change your vote at any time. You can also ask your own question, or link it to another: a counter-question, a rephrasing, a sub-question. On the protocol's technical settings, a second tier of voting, in the Governance tab, lets you weigh in on the parameters — within bounds the code refuses to cross.

What happens

On the World Poll, each voice is tied to a unique identity and carries the person's country, never their name: the registry says "so many countries represented" without saying who, near you, ticked what. The question never closes, the result is never erased. It is an opinion registry: it does not change the protocol's rules on its own — that is the governance tier. There, the weight of a vote is not proportional to power: to weigh twice as much, you need four times the force.

To be exactThe "one human, one voice" uniqueness rests on the passport identity layer, asleep until launch and deliberately permissive on the test network. So the anti-cheat is not yet fully active: I say so. Mind the exact meaning — it is not "one country, one voice", it is one verified person, one voice; the country is only metadata to break down the results. World Poll polls change no rules by themselves: they are an opinion registry. And even the settings are not "immutable forever": they move within bounds, and the protocol's core stays changeable only by a coordinated upgrade of the whole network, in broad daylight — never in silence.
06 · Witness

Witness, without revealing the file.

Runs on the test network — open to any wallet What you do

From the Witness tab, you record a testimony: a title, a category — human rights, corruption, environment — and the digital fingerprint of a proof file you host elsewhere. You can tick the creation of a linked poll, so the world can vote on what you document. Unlike the rest, this gesture is open to any wallet, without even a verified identity.

What happens

The chain does not keep the document — a video, a contract — but its unique fingerprint: a seal that proves a precise file existed on a given date, without revealing its contents. The day a regime seizes your computer and denies the proof ever existed, the fingerprint is on thousands of machines, and there is no function to erase it or backdate it. It is open to all, without identity, because those that states have struck off the lists are precisely the ones whose testimony matters most.

To be exactThe chain does not authenticate the truth of a testimony: it proves a thing existed on a date, not that it is true. It is not a court. The fingerprint is unerasable, but the file lives elsewhere: if no one hosts it anymore, the proof that it existed survives, but the file itself may become impossible to find. Witnessing earns no reward: it is not a way to make money. It is the only mechanism this wide open: no identity required, unlike humanitarian funding, which does ask for a verified identity. And like everything else, it is on the test network: the funds are not real.
07 · Prove you are a unique human

Prove you are a unique human, without saying who you are.

Built, compiled, tested — but sleeps until launch What you do

From the Identity tab, when the real network launches: you hold your biometric passport near your phone, by contactless. The network reads the chip, checks for itself that a real state signed it, draws an anonymous fingerprint from it, then forgets the document. On today's test network it is a lite version — manual entry, with no real cryptographic check. And for those their country has struck off the world registry — refugee, stateless person, dissident — another path exists: three already-verified humans attest in person that you are a real human, from a given country.

What happens

Verify, then forget. What stays is a code that proves "one unique human from this country exists", without ever revealing which one — your real identity is stored nowhere. This code unlocks full credit, voting, humanitarian funding. And this identity is yours: with a secret phrase only you keep, you can revoke it yourself if you believe you are compromised, without asking anyone's permission, and recover it later by presenting your passport again. For a dissident, it is a switch no power holds in your place.

The network looks at your passport just long enough to believe you, then forgets it.

To be exactThis layer is built, compiled, tested — but it sleeps. The full contactless check stays inert until the list of state authorities is seeded at launch; the test network runs on a lite path, with no real cryptographic verification. Never conclude that passports are really verified today. And this is not "zero-knowledge proof": it is "verify then forget", with a brief, bounded, disclosed leak during the check — I would rather say it than hide it. Uniqueness is not absolute: it is bounded by the number of real passports — one to three for dual nationals — not infinity; the three-witness path rests on a looser, social bound, and I own that. Revocation does not protect against physical coercion: a thief holding the chip can re-claim it. I disclose that residue too. And the first version targets on the order of one to ten million people, with a multi-stage roadmap — billions are the vision, not where things stand today.
WHERE IT STANDS

Gesture by gesture, honestly.

  • WalletLive. Created on your side, in your browser. Self-custody: the recovery phrase is yours, and unrecoverable if lost.
  • Send ESLive, end to end, on the test network. The one fully usable gesture today. Funds not real while we wait for launch.
  • Explore the networkLive. The test network's server answers in read-only, now. The reserve check waits for institutions to arrive.
  • Borrow P2PBuilt, tested, switched on — but dormant: no one has borrowed or lent for real. The guarantor takes a real risk.
  • VoteLite version on the test network. Fully cheat-proof only once passport identity is active.
  • WitnessRuns on the test network, open to any wallet. Proves a thing existed, not that it is true.
  • Passport identityBuilt and tested, but dormant: it lights up at launch. The test network runs a lite version. This is not zero-knowledge.
  • External auditNot yet started. It is the last step before the public network.
PARTICIPATE

The one gesture to try right now.

There is nothing to install to begin: send ES on the test network, and query the server yourself. The rest lights up at launch.

At mainnet, every gesture sleeping today comes alive.Cooperative credit will open to borrowers and guarantors. Votes will count for real, anchored to passport identity. Humanitarian funding will top up a project the more distinct people stand behind it — and a project must first be endorsed by about fifty verified people, from at least two countries, before it can receive a cent. And institutional settlement will wake when the regulator's keys are in place.

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CHECK FOR YOURSELF

The verification gesture, with nothing to install.

The whitepaper and the code will come with the audit. In the meantime — with no need to take my word.

NETWORK Block explorer See the chain for yourself — blocks, balances, reserves. The test network answers in read-only, live. Explore the network APP Open the wallet Create a wallet and send ES, on your side, in your browser. Self-custody, no account required. Open the app UNDERSTAND Everything the protocol does The detail of each mechanism: what it does, how it is built, and why. Read on