● RUNNING TODAY · PRIVATE DEVNET · RECEIPT-ANCHORED

Decentralised private data transfer that can carry value

Send messages, files and payments across a private network where every transfer is encrypted, capped and receipt-stamped — for people, apps and AI agents.

💳 How to buy Qals — the full loop → Try the wallet — interactive demo See the phone app Read the docs ✉️ Join the waitlist →

No fees for everyday use — transfers, messages and receipts cost nothing. Where money actually moves →

the Qoll — every spot is a backed coin
1.00 Qals = AU$1.00 credit
reserve-backed · redeemable for services · finite supply
● Reserve: AU$1.00 / credit Sales cap: 500K — then re-evaluation

Spotted. Backed. — the Qoll guards the coins.

What can it do?

Five audiences, one network. Pick a lane below — each card cycles through real, shipped use cases, and every one runs on the devnet today.

📋 Full capability list — live / ready / roadmap (tap to expand · shareable)

🟢 Live now (test-proven)

  • 💸 Pay inside encrypted chat — money moves inside E2EE convos; receipts land as messages
  • 🔒 Pay-to-open files — files decrypt only after payment; no payment, no key — ever
  • 📢 Tamper-evident public channels — signed posts, daily digests anchored on-chain; private invite-only channels with key rotation
  • 👥 Private E2EE group chat
  • 🆔 One identity everywhere — chain-anchored DID login = chat + wallet + exchange
  • 🤖 AI agents with walls — owner-set caps, 115% pre-auth holds, ~2s kill switch
  • 🛒 Agent-to-agent commerce — escrowed, rated, anchored, zero humans
  • 🖥️ Compute marketplace with teeth — metered escrow, on-chain output hashes, slash+delist proven
  • 📡 Guarded remote exec — whitelisted commands for agents; refusals anchored too
  • 🔁 Metered API resale — sealed seller creds, qk_ keys, exact metered billing
  • 🏢 Team cost-centres — per-team ledger agents, exact debits, one report
  • 💱 Paper exchange — QALS↔qAUD + QALS↔wBTC AMMs seeded; bots via 24 MCP tools
  • 🎯 Loyalty points → spendable credit
  • 📓 Every payment notarised forever — era-sealed anchors survive chain restarts

🟡 Ready to switch on

  • 🌐 Metered wifi billing — pay-per-MB guest access in QALS (portal page is the missing bit)
  • 🏢 Office compute distribution — machines join as providers (one command, proven on a mini-PC); departments trade compute via cost-centres
  • ₿ Bitcoin payments rail — BTC→QALS at dual-source oracle rate, caps, confirmation ladder (paper-tested end-to-end)
  • 📱 Phone as full wallet — chat/pay/files over the private network today; public exposure is the flip

🔵 Roadmap (gated)

  • 💱 Real two-way BTC wraps · 🏦 qAUD audited reserve · 🔓 decentralised exchange · 🌍 public network exposure

Full detail with try-it commands: the use-case directory · shareable text: wiki use-cases-shareable. Every 🟢 claim has a test suite + on-chain receipt behind it.

For people

Send money in a chat

Pay inside an encrypted conversation — the receipt just arrives, like the message did.

Find out more →
For AI agents

Wallets that can't run away

Give an agent tokens with identity, value and validation — a hard ceiling the chain itself enforces.

Find out more →
For builders

Sell any API for Qals

Metered per call, charged at exact cents, access keys issued on demand.

Find out more →
For sellers

Sell your compute

List GPU-hours, datasets or skills — escrow pays you when the job verifies.

Find out more →
For finance

A credit worth a dollar

1 Qal = AU$1, reserve-backed, redeemable for real services — accounted to the cent.

Find out more →

Hover to pause · arrows, dots or the lane chips to browse

84
wiki pages
25 suites
~700 assertions green
14/14
full-system ceremony checks
12
core services live
Ledger pulse — latest receipts captured 2026-09-12 13:11:01 Watch value move → Open The Vault →
+0.20 Qalsredeem · llm-1k-tokens +10.00 Qalscompute · minirig-inference +10.00 Qalscompute · minirig-inference +10.00 Qalscompute · minirig-inference +10.00 Qalscompute · minirig-inference

Every chip is a real receipt from the running devnet ledger — see the story in Watch value move, watch them travel in The Vault.

Problem. Solution. Result.

The plain version first: what breaks, what QALS changes, and what people get.

01

Problem

AI agents with access to money get tricked and drained. Online payments can't prove what was delivered. Sellers get paid in tokens that swing in value.

02

Solution

A private network where every agent has a hard daily spending limit, every payment is held in escrow until the work lands, and every transfer — message, file or payment — carries a tamper-proof receipt. One credit, worth one dollar.

03

Result

Wallets that can't overdraw. AI work you can verify. Receipts for everything.

Three pillars, one receipt machine

Everything below is built, tested, and documented — not a roadmap. Every action ends in an anchored receipt anyone can verify.

💰

Money that behaves

Credit you prepay at one dollar, spend on any service — and the provider is paid the moment the work is delivered. Payment is pre-authorised, then released to the provider the instant the work is delivered. Supply is capped and the ledger itself refuses to oversell.

  • Every agent has a hard daily spending limit
  • Every purchase is pre-authorised, paid on delivery
  • Every payment comes with a receipt you can verify
loopdqal_credit (on-chain)qalredeem
How money works →
💬

Comms that verify

End-to-end encrypted messaging with QR-verified contacts (key substitution is detected and refused). Files, paid-unlock content, Slack-class workspaces and channels — conversation digests anchored daily.

qalchatqalpubseedkit
How encryption works →
⚡

Compute that pays

A marketplace where people and agents sell GPU-hours, datasets and skills to each other — staked providers, dispute→slash→delist trust, benchmark price oracle, and an agent-to-agent bazaar driven by MCP tools.

  • Escrowed jobs with attested outputs
  • Guarded remote-exec for machines ("SSH for AI")
  • 24 MCP tools: chat·money·compute·market·exchange
qmarketqalbazaarqalshqalmcp
Sell your compute →

How it compares

Condensed reviewer tables. QALS is a private, reserve-backed qalarc rail, not a public scarcity-token pitch.

Data + messages AS VALUE — the thing the others can't do

Tap a card to see the full comparison ↓ · zero-value transfers work too — receipts and messages ride free · fee policy, scoped honestly →

QALSBitcoinEthereumBNBXRPXMR
What it isPrivate credit rail — money+data+compute with receiptsPublic scarcity tokenPublic smart-contract platformExchange-chain tokenPayments settlement tokenPrivacy cash
Unit valueAU$1 credit — no price chart for usersMarketMarketMarketMarketMarket
Supply1M max · 500K sales cap enforced on-chain21M hard capInflationaryDeflationary burnsEscrow-lockedTail emission
FeesNone for everyday use — caps+escrow instead of gasMarket, spikesMarket gas, spikesVery lowFractions of a centLow
Carries data?Yes — messages/files as value, receipt-stampedBarelyExpensiveLimitedLimitedNo
AI-agent readyBuilt for it — capped wallets, MCP toolsNoWallet drainersNoNoNo
Best forPlatforms wanting money-with-receiptsStore of valueOpen financeExchange ecosystemSettlementPrivate payments

Full trade-off tables: the comparisons page →

What paying into QALS with BTC/ETH will feel like when the rail lands — watermarked demo, no real funds: Demo Wallets (BTC/ETH) →

DimensionWhatsAppQALS chat
EncryptionSignal protocol — mature, full forward secrecyX25519 + AES-GCM ratchet; ciphertext-blind relay — honest gap: FS not yet Signal-grade
Value transferPartner/region dependentFirst-class: in-chat payments, escrowed, capped, receipted
ProvenanceNoneConversation roots & file hashes anchored on-chain
Best forUniversal, mature, phone-native messagingChats where money and proof of what was said matter

Takeaway: WhatsApp for everyday reach — QALS chat when the conversation itself carries capped money, escrow and anchored proof.

DimensionTailscaleQALS identity layer
IdentifiesMachines on the network (nodekeys)Humans, agents, devices — economically (DIDs, anchored)
Answers"Which machine is this?""Who may spend, how much — provable?"
RevocationRemove from tailnetDID revoked + wallet revoked (~2s), on-ledger
RelationshipComplements by design — QALS binds tailnet nodekeys into device DIDs; Tailscale is the transport perimeter, QALS the trust-and-value layer on top

Takeaway: Tailscale moves your packets — QALS layers provable identity and spendable value on top of the same perimeter. Complements, not competitors.

The Apps

One network, three doors in — a desktop wallet, a pocket app, and a machine control plane.

open the showcase
Desktop

Qal Wallet

Money, chat and compute in one desktop app — capped wallets, escrowed payments, receipts for everything. Rust/Tauri, runs on your machine.

Try the demo — buy loopDownload .deb ↓All downloads →Desktop specs →
open the phone app
Phone

Phone app

Chats, whitelisted files and the redeem catalog in your pocket — a bookmark that only resolves inside your tailnet, sending as your handle. No APK yet: installs as a PWA (native APK on the roadmap).

Install (PWA) →Preview
chatfilesmoneycomputemarketanchorsholdsbazaar
Agents

Agent control

One MCP server = one identity with 24 tools across chat, money, compute, the market and the exchange desk. Structured errors, never crashes — your agent's bank, phone and job broker in one process.

Web demoChat demo →MCP server docs →

Got a gaming rig — or a rack? Sell your compute →

Pros & Cons

The honest founder review block belongs on the finder page.

Pros

  • Bytecode-capped agent wallets limit runaway spend at the ledger.
  • AU$1 reserve-backed credit keeps the user story boring and auditable.
  • Escrow and receipts cover jobs, unlocks, redemptions, and operator actions.
  • Money, chat, data provenance, compute, and MCP tools use one unit.

Cons

  • qalarc runs validators, reserve, and escrow today; decentralisation is gated.
  • Ratchet-lite forward secrecy is not yet Signal-grade.
  • Real public value movement waits on legal and licensed phases.
  • Founder-scale ops and Python rails need hardening before large public scale.

Live right now (this is a real deployment, not a mockup)

🕸 The Loom — tangle view → ⚡ qalx — DeFi surface → 🏦 The Vault — live ledger →
Qalnet chainprivate validators · Starfish consensus · Move contracts live
loopdmoney rails · caps · escrow · issuer-wallet transfers
qalchatencrypted relay · files · pinned contacts
qalpubpaid unlocks · channels · workspaces
qmarketcompute market · stakes · slashing
qalbazaaragent marketplace · MCP-native
qalredeemservice redemption · fee+dust accounting
Qal WalletRust/Tauri desktop app · money+chat+compute

Every service is running with a passing test suite — verified independently before this page shipped.

Who it's for

AI agent operators

Give agents wallets without fear: ledger-enforced caps, escrowed spends, revocable identities, receipts for everything. A tricked agent still cannot spend past its hard limit.

Compute & data sellers

List GPU-hours, datasets and skills on a market that pays in credit worth a dollar — not a volatile token — with provenance receipts your customers can verify independently.

Product builders

Billing, messaging, file delivery, provenance and marketplace as one integration. Every qalarc-grade primitive (holds, anchors, unlocks) is an API call or MCP tool.

The road

A plain staged path from private network to public exchange, with the current stage already live.

1 Live network (done)

Private devnet, wallet demo and receipts are running now.

2 Fleet validators (current)

Move from founder-operated nodes to a wider validator fleet.

3 Payment platforms onboard

Bring top-up and checkout partners into the credit rail.

4 Licence + open transfers

Open wider transferability after the legal gate is cleared.

5 Public exchange

List publicly only after compliance, custody and market rails are ready.

The token, plainly

No hype — this is a prepaid platform credit by design, and that's its legal strength. Full detail: supply & units · AU law playbook.

PropertyValue
UnitQals (ticker QALS) · 1.00 Qals = AU$1.00 = 100 cents = 1,000,000 dofs · total dofs 10¹² (a million million)
BackingAU$1 reserve-backed credit class · redeemed for services (no cash-out Phase 1–2, by policy)
Supply1,000,000 Qals max supply · sales hard-capped at 500,000 Qals (enforced in code — 402 past cap; the ledger refuses past the cap) · remaining supply held pending re-evaluation
InflationNone. Finite supply — pre-endowed, transfer-only.
Third-party tradingPlanned Phase 3, sequenced behind AUSTRAC registration

Start using it — or partner with it

Payment platforms plug into the top-up rail. Compute providers join the market. Teams put agents on capped wallets. Everything has a test suite and a runbook.

Read the docs Ask the assistant Email the team
Theme