The transfer story as a picture strip — six frames + three live animations · content/transfer-visual.md

Watch Value Move — the transfer story

Six frames: what actually happens when a message, a file and a payment travel through qalarc. Then three live animations of the loops that run every day. Plain words; every fact is one you can verify in How It Works or the ground truth sheet.

A message leaves your phone. Sealed on your device before it goes anywhere — the keys that open it never leave your machine.

An encrypted envelope. What travels is ciphertext — a sealed envelope of noise that only the recipient's device can open.

The relay can't read it. The postman in the middle carries sealed envelopes — delivery without contents. It forwards bytes, never meanings.

Value attaches. An envelope can carry credit as well as words — the message and its payment arrive together, as one transfer.

Escrow holds it. The ledger places a pre-authorisation before the job runs; the exact amount settles afterwards and the rest releases automatically.

The receipt is anchored. Only the sha256 fingerprint is stamped on-chain with a timestamp — re-compute it later and any tampering shows.

Three loops, animated

The same moves, replaying forever. No files, no scripts — just CSS.

money → escrow → service

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Payment lands on a hold, the exact amount settles against it, the remainder releases. Nothing is taken up-front on trust.

file → chunks → sha256 → anchor

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The file splits into chunks, each fingerprinted; the fingerprint chain is stamped on-chain. The file itself never touches the chain.

identity → challenge → verified

identitychallengeverified ✓

The device answers a prove-you-own-this-ID challenge with a signature. Verified in about a second; revocable in about two.

See it live: the chain as it lands on the Loom · money in motion in the Vault · the whole story in How It Works.

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