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Ground Truth — the plain facts about QALS
One page. Every fact numbered. Plain English. No history lesson.
What QALS is
- F1. QALS is qalarc's private "money-with-receipts" system: a small private blockchain (Qalnet) plus twelve services. Apps, AI agents and machines hold credit in it, pay each other, and get a tamper-evident receipt for what happened.
- F2. It is not a public cryptocurrency. QALS is not listed on any exchange, cannot leave the qalarc ecosystem, and is spendable only on qalarc services in this phase.
The apps
- F3. Qal Wallet is a desktop app (Windows / macOS / Linux) with three tabs: Chat, Payments and Compute. One app for holding credit, talking, and hiring computer power.
- F4. A phone web app gives the basics in a mobile browser: balance, chats, files, and the voucher catalogue.
- F5. An MCP server lets AI agents drive the whole stack as ordinary tools — 24 tools covering chat, money, compute, the marketplace, receipts, and the qalx exchange desk (8
exch_*tools added 2026-09-14).
The units
- F6. 1 Qal = AU$1 of service credit = 100 cents = 1,000,000 doofs.
- F7. People read Qals with decimals ("0.500 Qals"). Machines count in doofs. The ticker is QALS.
- F8. The doof is the smallest unit — one millionth of a Qal. It exists so sub-cent jobs can be metered exactly, and so spare dust can be donated (doof rounding).
How much exists
- F9. Maximum supply: 1,000,000 Qals. Ever. There is no inflation and no schedule that adds more.
- F10. Only 500,000 Qals will ever be sold through the payment platforms. The other 500,000 — 50% — is the founder's hold and is not for sale.
- F11. The 500K sales cap is enforced in loopd: the sellable supply is pre-endowed in the genesis issuer wallet
qals:issuer(2026-09-15) and each purchase transfers out of it — when the wallet is empty, sales answer 402 "sellable supply exhausted" (the over-cap refusal was verified 2026-09-11: the attempt aborts with an over-cap error). The payments bridge refuses past the cap too (HTTP 402). On-chain cap-gate code (qal_reserve) is written and tested; the on-chain twin is being redesigned from mint-gated to genesis-preminted + transfer-gated at the cap-raise checklist — never claim live on-chain cap enforcement today. - F12. Raising the cap is a deliberate, public act — a git-visible file change plus a governance note. It cannot happen by accident or silently.
Where every Qal comes from
- F13. A sellable Qal is never created at sale time. The full sellable supply was pre-endowed at genesis in the issuer wallet
qals:issuer; when AU$1 lands in the separate reserve account, that Qal is transferred to the buyer. One dollar in, one Qal transferred out. The rule lives in code, not in promises. - F14. When a Qal is spent, it is used up (retired) — it stops existing — and its dollar becomes ordinary revenue. Older docs called this "burning".
- F15. At every moment: dollars in the reserve ≥ credit held by users. The reserve position is published monthly.
Fees — the honest list
- F16. Chain fees: zero. The treasury’s Qal Pass sponsorship covers user transactions, so users never see a transaction charge — the network itself never charges.
- F17. Marketplace fee (compute + bazaar): 0% — founder policy 2026-09-12: "no marketplace fees — the token spread is the margin."
- F18. Channel post fees: some chat channels charge to post — that is anti-spam plus creator earnings, not a chain fee.
- F19. One spread, not a fee stack: credit is bought at ~AU$1.20 and redeemed for AU$1.00 of services value (services-only in this phase — prepaid framing). The ~20% spread is the margin. Cash-out is future, licence-gated (planned 0.5%, not live). Everyday transfers and messages: 0%.
What's real vs what's paper
- F20. Real and live today: all twelve services, the desktop wallet, the phone web app, agent control, the chain, receipt anchoring, spend caps, escrow, encrypted chat.
- F21. Paper phase: the money itself. No real dollars have moved. The sellable Qals were pre-endowed in the issuer wallet
qals:issuer(2026-09-15); the money ledger (loopd) still runs on test cents — no real dollars move yet. - F22. The on-chain reserve package (
qal_reserve) exists on the private chain with cap-enforcement code, written and tested. Honest note: its published copy carries a stale 50B¢ cap constant, and the on-chain twin is being redesigned from mint-gated to genesis-preminted + transfer-gated at the cap-raise checklist; live cap enforcement is the loopd rail — the issuer wallet running out (F11).
The 12 services, one line each
| # | Service | What it is, plainly |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qalnet chain (:9000) | The shared record nobody can secretly rewrite. |
| 2 | loopd (:8823) | The money ledger: accounts, spend caps, pre-authorisation holds, payments. |
| 3 | qmarket (:8824) | The compute marketplace: rent someone's GPU for credit, money held until the job is done. |
| 4 | provider agent (:8850) | A worker that actually does compute jobs for credit. |
| 5 | qalchat (:8830) | Encrypted chat — sealed messages that can carry money inside. |
| 6 | qalpub (:8832) | Public posts and channels, with paid unlocks and pay-to-post communities. |
| 7 | qalbazaar (:8834) | Agent-to-agent marketplace: offers, escrow, delivery, receipts. |
| 8 | qalredeem (:8835) | The redemption desk: vouchers and credit turned into service value. |
| 9 | qalclaim (:8836) | The points ledger: earn points on any site, claim them to your wallet. |
| 10 | qalbridge (:8837) | A file-and-transcript bridge with access tokens. |
| 11 | qalid (:8838) | ID cards for people, agents and devices, with proof-of-identity challenges. |
| 12 | qalpay (:8839) | The bridge from card payments: a payment webhook tops up your credit. |
Where to check these facts
- This
content/folder — every claim above is traceable to a fuller page. bash scripts/status.sh— a live probe of all twelve services.GET :8823/report— the sales cap and amount sold, to the cent.content/faq.md— the old-to-plain glossary of terms.
Companions: how_it_works.md (the magic, explained) · faq.md (glossary + hard questions) · Pricing (the one pricing story).
Proof: every numbered fact above is receipts-backed on Evidence — the claims→evidence table, the test-suite inventory, and the era-1 checkpoint (object 0xe9eff274…fab7905, tx 2gopkDw9ecBexPAA3U8vZhnoMqvZ673cKk9278G3NYGS). See also Testing Roadmap & Strategy.