Page 1 · Start here

Most of the internet has a landlord.
This part doesn't.

Your bank, your messenger, your app store — each one is a company's computer, with a company's rules. They can freeze your account, read your data, raise the fees, or simply shut down. You're a guest.

A decentralized network replaces that single computer with thousands of independent ones, run by ordinary people all over the world. They constantly check each other's work, so no single owner can cheat, censor, or pull the plug. The rules are code that everyone can read — and everyone must follow, including the people who wrote it.

A centralized service

One company owns the servers — and your account
Can freeze, censor or delete anything, anytime
Goes down when they go down
You take their rules or leave

A decentralized network

Thousands of independent nodes verify every action
Nobody can freeze your coins or silence you
Keeps running as long as any nodes do
Rules are open code, the same for everyone

And here's the best part: you can be one of the nodes

This isn't a spectator sport. Anyone with a spare computer can download the node software, join the network, and start verifying transactions alongside everyone else — no permission slip, no application form, no minimum fortune. The network literally is its participants.

That's the idea this project is named after — and the next page explains how we reward it.

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Page 2 · The idea

Not proof of wealth.
Not proof of wasted power.
Proof of Participation.

Every blockchain needs a way to decide who writes the next block. The classics have a flaw: Proof of Work hands the pen to whoever burns the most electricity, and Proof of Stake hands it to whoever already owns the most coins. Both drift toward the same place — power concentrating with the biggest players.

This chain takes an evolved approach: Proof of Participation. The network continuously scores each node on what it actually does — staying online, validating honestly, relaying data, behaving well in consensus — and that participation score determines its influence and its rewards.

Join

Spin up a node on ordinary hardware and register it on-chain. No mining farm, no giant stake required.

Participate

Your node validates transactions, keeps the ledger, and stays reachable. Every useful act builds its participation score; misbehaving or disappearing erodes it.

Earn

Block rewards are shared according to that score — steady work earns a steady income, instead of winner-takes-all lotteries.

Why it matters

Fair entry

Influence is earned by doing the work, not bought. A well-run home node counts.

Light footprint

No puzzle-burning hardware race. Ordinary machines, ordinary power bills.

Healthier network

Rewards flow to nodes that keep the network fast and honest — so the incentive is the security model.

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Page 3 · Side by side

Same internet.
Very different deal.

This isn't really about coins — it's about data: who holds it, who profits from it, and what you're allowed to do with it. Here's the deal you get today, next to the one this network offers.

The old way · centralized services & classic chains

Proof of Participation

Who makes the money

You create the value — posts, files, trades, traffic — and a large corporation collects it. Servers, ads and fees all feed one balance sheet.

The people who run the network are the network. Every participating node earns a share of every block — everyone who participates earns.

Your voice

Platforms decide what may be published and seen. Accounts and posts can quietly disappear, and appeals go to the same company that removed them.

Nobody can censor you. What you publish is carried by thousands of independent nodes — there's no desk where a takedown order can land.

Your files

Cloud storage is someone else's disk behind a login and a subscription — lose the account (or the company loses interest) and the files go with it.

Save your files to the network itself. They're addressed to your keys, not to an account, and stay retrievable wherever you are.

Your records & paperwork

Form submissions, invoices and business records pass through third-party processors, on their terms and their retention policies.

Manage form submissions and records on-chain — verifiable by anyone you choose, alterable by no one, with escrow and multi-signature built in.

Proving things

Proving a document existed on a given date means notaries, certificates, fees and filing cabinets.

Proof of existence is built in. Timestamp any document's fingerprint on the chain — a permanent, independently checkable record, in seconds.

Joining in — versus classic blockchains

Proof of Work rewards whoever owns the biggest mining farm; Proof of Stake rewards whoever already holds the most coins. Either way, the big get bigger.

An ordinary computer and reliable behavior earn influence — participation is the stake, and steady work earns a steady share.

The energy bill

Proof of Work spends a small country's worth of electricity solving puzzles that exist only to be hard.

A participation score replaces the hardware arms race — ordinary machines, ordinary power bills, same security goal.

Use the services, or be one of the people paid to provide them — the door is the same either way.

← Proof of Participation Next — Join the project →

Page 4 · Get involved

Pick your way in.

The project grows one participant at a time — and there's a door for every level of commitment, from "just curious" to "running infrastructure".

Use the wallet

The whole network in one file that runs on your own computer. Send, trade, chat, play — no install, no account.

Download wallet.zip verify your download →

Run a node

Validate the chain and collect coinbase rewards proportional to your participation score. Estimate your rewards. One line on a fresh Ubuntu server:

curl -fsSL https://proofofparticipation.network/install | bash -s -- --node

Run a gateway

Serve the wallet and front nodes for other users. The built-in relay automatically sells your server's unused monthly traffic to third parties — bandwidth you're already paying for becomes income. One line to stand one up:

curl -fsSL https://proofofparticipation.network/install | bash -s -- --gateway

Read & build on the code

The full source opens about six months after mainnet launches — a head-start that keeps the project from being cloned and hijacked before it stands on its own. Audit it, fork it, and build on it from then on.

source opens ~6 months post-mainnet

Join the conversation

Questions, ideas, bug reports — the community is where the project is steered.

Join us on Telegram

Join the foundation

The project is steered by a foundation of founding roles and core contributors — and it's recruiting.

Founding roles & contributors

Just try it

Grab a few free coins from the faucet and take the network for a spin. Five minutes, zero risk.

Learn more

ZooBC, the book

The whole story, from where it began in 2019 — volume one.

Learn on YouTube

The ZooBC playlist — concepts and architecture, explained on video.

Follow ZooBC 2.0

News and progress on the rebuild, straight from the project blog.

← How it compares Next — Get your first coins →

Page 5 · Faucet

Your first coins, on the house.

You can't feel a network through a paragraph. Paste your address below and the faucet sends you a small amount of ZBC — enough to make a payment, place a trade, or stake a game against a friend.

Your ZBC address

No address yet?

Download the wallet

wallet.zip — unzip it and open the HTML file in any browser. It runs locally; nothing to install. Want to be sure it's genuine? Verify the download — drag it onto the page for a green light.

Create your account

The wallet generates your keys on your own device and gives you a recovery phrase. Write it down — it's the only copy.

Copy your address

Open Receive, copy the ZBC_ address, and paste it above.

Prefer maximum security? Create your account offline

Your account is just a 24-word mnemonic — you can generate it yourself, on a machine that never touches the internet, with a trusted open-source tool.

Get the generator

Download iancoleman.io/bip39 and run it offline. It's open source — review the code on GitHub first if you like.

Generate a 24-word mnemonic

Keep it secure and never share it — those words are the account.

Derive your ZooBC address

In the coin dropdown pick Zoo Blockchain (coin type 883 — fifth from the bottom of the list). Your address will look like:

ZBC_T6NDZOTJ_47567SOU_2I4PRNKD_LRNXYJ63_GXQ2OTD4_FVZA4LQT_7Q7KOJ77

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Page 6 · One wallet, many doors

It's not just money.
It's a toolbox.

Your address is a key to every service the network runs. The same identity that holds your coins also trades, does business, plays, and talks — with no company in the middle of any of it.

Trade on the decentralized exchange

Swap ZBC, tokens and bridged coins directly on-chain. Your keys hold the funds until the moment of the trade — there's no exchange account to be frozen or hacked.

Run your business on-chain

Invoices, escrow, multi-signature accounts, recurring payments, vesting — contract-grade money tools, built in, no lawyer's retainer required.

Play games — for real stakes

Challenge anyone to on-chain games where both stakes are locked by the protocol. Win the game, win the pot; nobody can welch and nobody can cheat the payout.

Call people, wallet to wallet

Voice and video calls signalled through the network's relays and addressed to a wallet, not a phone number. Your contact list is yours, everywhere.

Install a node — earn coinbase rewards

Put a spare machine to work validating the chain. Proof of Participation pays it a share of every block, in proportion to how well it participates.

Install a gateway — sell traffic

Gateways are the network's front doors — and their relay turns wasted bandwidth into income. Your server's unused monthly traffic normally just expires; a gateway automatically sells it to third parties who route calls and data through your relay, and you keep the proceeds.

Every one of these is live in the same single-file wallet. Download it, grab some faucet coins, and see for yourself.

← Get your first coins Next — Run the numbers →

Page 7 · Run the numbers

How many coins would your node collect?

Of the 33,333,333 ZBC total supply, about 3 million are pre-minted — vested to the foundation and the people who support the project. The other ~30.3 million enter the world the same way: as block rewards, shared among the nodes doing the work. Distribution starts at launch — January 1st, 2027 — and follows a gentle S-curve over 15 years: slow at first, accelerating through the middle years, then leveling off as the last coins are minted.

Each block's reward is split across all participating nodes — so the fewer nodes on the network, the bigger every node's slice. Set the node count and see what an average, well-behaved node collects.

Nodes on the network: 50

10 nodes1001,0005,000 nodes

Your first year

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ZBC collected

By year 5

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