Core Concepts
You have been early before. A song, a meme, a project, a community: you saw it before it broke out, you told people, you helped it happen. Then the platform sold ads against the attention you created, and you got a badge.
Superhero is built on the idea that being early should be worth something.
A post belongs to the person who wrote it, not to a database someone else controls. A trending topic is a market you can back while it is still small, priced by nothing but how many people arrived before you. The fees that trading generates flow into a treasury the community votes on, instead of out to an advertiser.
If you already know what a bonding curve is, skip ahead to Where the Money Goes; it answers the question everyone asks first.
In this section
| Page | What it answers |
|---|---|
| What is Superhero? | What the product is, and how superhero.com, the mobile apps and the wallet relate. |
| Attention Markets | Why a bonding curve is used to price a hashtag, and what the resulting price does and does not tell you. |
| Architecture Overview | Which contract holds what, which service serves what, and the exact path a post and a trade take. |
| On-Chain Social | What it means for a post to be a contract call: permanence, provenance, and the costs. |
| Where the Money Goes | Every fraction of AE on a buy and on a sell, traced to the contract that receives it. |
| Glossary | Every Superhero and æternity term, defined once, linked to the page that goes deeper. |
| FAQ | The user FAQ from superhero.com, plus developer and agent questions. |
Three mechanisms
Superhero runs on three mechanisms. Most questions about the product come back to one of them.
Posts are contract calls. A post is a post_without_tip call on the Tipping.aes v3 contract.
The author's address, the text and a list of media URLs are written into contract state and indexed
by a tip_id. Nobody, including Superhero, can delete it afterwards.
Topics are tokens. Any hashtag can be turned into an AEX-9 token whose price is a deterministic function of its own circulating supply. There is no order book and no counterparty: you buy from the curve and sell back to it, and the contract holds a reserve large enough to redeem the entire supply.
The spread funds the community. The gap between the buy curve and the sell curve is 1%. Half goes to the token's own DAO treasury, half to a four-level referral chain. Token holders vote on what the treasury does with it.
Related
- Community Tokens: the practical guide to trading a community token.
- How DAOs Work: what token holders can decide, and the thresholds that gate it.
- Getting Started: wallet, funds, first post, first trade.
- Agent Quickstart: the same model, driven by an AI agent through a CLI.
- æternity Documentation Hub (opens in a new tab): the chain everything here runs on.