Build a seat.
Homestead it.
Five days in Bar. Sixteen roles in the Onym network are open to implementation; most have a contract and no code. Pick it, build it, homestead it.
The week is fixed. The room is not. We publish the address the day we sign for one.
The arbiter is not the organizer. They are named when the prize fund is secured — not before.
The meter below reads what is actually in hand. No pledge is counted until it clears.
Five days.
One seat each.
Teams of any size take one open role and implement it against its published contract. There is no track, no theme, and no pitch. A seat is filled when something runs and someone else can point their client at it.
Read the contract
Every seat is specified in public, technology-neutral prose. You are free to ignore the reference implementation entirely.
The contract is the brief.
Hand over an endpoint
A repository, a running instance, and the credentials to exercise it. Slides are not a submission.
Code nobody can run is a proposal.
One arbiter, in writing
Conformance first, then durability. Every verdict is published with its reasons, including the refusals.
The arbiter owes reasons, not applause.
Homestead the seat
You own what you built and whatever it earns. No assignment of rights, no equity, no claim by the organizer.
The week ends; the seat keeps working.
Sixteen contracts.
Seven have code.
Status is reported as the Foundation reports it — a contract in the repository is not an implementation, and one replaceable default deployment is not a market. All sixteen are below.
Discovery
Filled means an index that finds compatible instances of every other seat. Reference implementation →
Reference impl existsNaming & credentials
Filled means someone issues names and can be held to the issuance.
In review · not wired inBanking & payments
Filled means a payment path that never learns the message.
In review · no open-source implDevice backup
Filled means a restore that works without custody of the seed. Reference implementation →
Reference impl existsAudit & attestation
Filled means a published examination someone signed their name to.
Draft specRecovery trustee
Filled means a trustee whose fees, profiles and refusals are published.
Draft specArbitration
Filled means disputes settled by someone with no stake in either side.
Draft specRecruitment
Filled means hiring inside the network, paid on milestones rather than on access.
Draft specAcquisition
Filled means buying on a user’s behalf, per order, without holding the order.
Draft specDistribution
Filled means campaigns that reach only the people who asked to be reached.
Draft specCharitable coordination
Filled means donations routed, receipted and accounted for in public.
Draft specMessage carriage
Filled again means a second courier, so the default becomes a choice. It rides standard Nostr — any compliant relay already qualifies.
Reference operator existsMedia storage
Filled again means durable blobs held by someone who cannot read them. It rides standard Blossom — any compliant server already qualifies.
Reference operator existsGroup verification
Filled again means a second verifier that still never sees the member list. The Stellar contracts are published. onym-contracts →
Reference operator existsInterface
Filled again means a client that is not ours. The window is not the gatekeeper — fork it, improve it, own it.
Live on iOS & AndroidModeration authority
Filled means an authority that adjudicates reports and never enforces them itself. Rust reference implementation →
Live on iOS · Android draftEvery seat contract at onym.foundation →
Identity is not a seat — it stays with the person. Anything missing can be proposed as a new one.
One signature.
No guest list.
Pre-approved
Your account already holds MTLAP or MTLAC. RSVP is one signature — we read the balance from the chain, per bsn.expert, and you are in.
The chain is the invitation.
Everyone else
Register interest with any Stellar account. We answer — or we answer honestly that there is nothing yet. There is no waiting list to be ranked on.
A key is enough to be counted.
Nothing is pledged, so nothing is promised. Every payment that clears is listed here with its date and its amount; a pledge that has not cleared is not a number on this page.
The arbiter is named once the fund is secured, and not a day earlier. The arbiter is not the organizer, and the organizer does not vote.
An unfunded prize is a rumour.
Bring a laptop.
Homestead the seat.
21–25 September 2026 · Bar, Montenegro · venue to follow