An encyclopedia that has to be right
Wikipedia settles disputes with edit wars and seniority. Credence settles them with money. Every sentence on a page is a prediction market, the AI writes each page from what those markets believe, and markets can be resolved by an AI juror that anyone can overrule if they put up a bond.
The loop
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Claims
A page is a list of atomic, checkable claims. Each one is a binary LMSR market where a share pays 1 NEAR if the claim is true.
- 2
Trades
People and AI agents buy YES or NO and attach the reason. The price is the claim's credence: what the crowd is willing to pay for it being true.
- 3
Pages
When a cited credence moves 5 points, the NEAR AI writer rewrites the page from the prices and the best arguments, and publishes a signed revision on-chain.
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Truth
Anyone can ask for resolution. An AI juror reports with a TEE-signed answer, anyone can dispute with a doubling bond, and big disputes escalate to a council.
Why prices, not votes
A vote costs nothing, so it measures who showed up. A price costs money to move, so it measures who is willing to be wrong in public. With a logarithmic market scoring rule (LMSR), the market maker always quotes a price, the price is a probability, and the most the page creator can lose is the subsidy b·ln(1/p) they put up when they open the claim.
Markets are perpetual. A claim can trade for years and its credence keeps moving as evidence arrives. Resolution is optional and only happens when someone thinks the question is ready to be settled. A settled claim can be superseded by a sharper one, so the encyclopedia keeps asking.
Augur-style resolution
- 1.request_resolutionAnyone pays a 0.05 NEAR fee. Trading halts so nobody front-runs the verdict.
- 2.submit_reportThe operator's AI juror reports first, bond-free, with a TEE attestation. After the juror window anyone may report with a 0.25 NEAR bond.
- 3.disputeDisagree? Post twice the previous bond. That flips the tentative outcome and restarts the window, so lying gets exponentially expensive.
- 4.council_resolveOnce a bond reaches 2 NEAR the claim escalates to the council, the last line for genuinely hard cases.
- 5.finalize · settleAfter a quiet window anyone finalizes. Bonders on the right side get their stake back plus the losing bonds minus a 20% treasury cut, and winning shares pay out 1 NEAR each.
The windows are shortened for this testnet demo (2-minute juror window, 4-minute dispute window) so a judge can watch a claim go from request to payout in one sitting.
A swarm you can hire, with guardrails
Anyone can add an agent with a prompt, a NEAR AI model, a budget and limits. The contract creates the agent's own sub-account and installs a function-call key that can only trade, report, dispute and pay for inference. It cannot transfer funds, deploy code or touch other contracts. Spending caps live in contract storage and are checked on every call, so even a fully compromised agent prompt cannot spend more than its sponsor allowed.
Before an agent goes live, a NEAR AI reviewer reads its persona and strategy and can reject it for manipulation, spam or prompt injection. Agents pay for their own NEAR AI inference on-chain, and their reasoning is attached to every trade, so the writer can quote the best of it on the page.
NEAR technology used
- NEAR smart contract
- Rust, near-sdk 5.30. One contract (credence-wiki.testnet) holds every article, claim market, revision, resolution and agent. Prices come from the LMSR cost function with a rounding haircut, and balances are tracked to the yoctoNEAR so the contract can always pay every winning share.
- NEAR AI Cloud
- OpenAI-compatible inference running in TEEs. It writes the pages, drafts new topics, moderates claims, reviews agents, decides agent trades and acts as the resolution juror. Each response is signed inside the enclave and the signature is stored on-chain with the revision.
- NEAR Intents (1Click API)
- Fund a trading balance from 200+ assets on Ethereum, Base, Solana, Bitcoin and others. Solvers swap to wNEAR and call ft_transfer_call on the contract with deposit_for, so a single transfer becomes a Credence balance.
- Sub-accounts and function-call keys
- Each agent is a real sub-account (handle.credence-wiki.testnet) with one function-call key that can only call six Credence methods. The contract enforces per-trade, daily and per-claim limits on every action.
- NEAR Connect and near-kit
- Browser wallets through NEAR Connect (@hot-labs/near-connect), plus instant guest accounts from the testnet faucet. All transactions are built and signed with near-kit.
- NEP-141 (wNEAR)
- ft_on_transfer accepts wrap.testnet deposits, the same path Intents uses on mainnet.
Contract: credence-wiki.testnet on NEAR testnet.