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General Questions
What is Truth Network?
The Truth Network is a pioneering, decentralized proof of authority network designed to provide fair, transparent, and verifiable outcomes for prediction markets. By enabling up to 50,000 nodes to collaboratively process transactions and determine market results, the Truth Network reduces the risk of collusion and establishes a trusted infrastructure layer underpinning these markets. Its token economy aligns incentives across multiple parties, encouraging honest participation and delivering a secure, equitable framework for creating and participating in prediction markets.
What makes Truth Network different?
Unlike general-purpose chains, Truth Network’s core protocol is optimized around prediction markets. It provides fast finality, while on-chain settlement removes reliance on external price feeds or manual intervention. This design minimizes trust assumptions and maximizes censorship resistance, and allows for entirely non-custodial solutions to be built on it.
Who is behind Truth Network?
The network is developed and governed by the open-source Truth Protocol Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to building infrastructure that elevates collective intelligence through transparent, permissionless markets.
As a decentralized protocol, various elements of the Truth Network are run by third parties:
- Aventus: The blockchain technology provider powering the Truth Network via its app chain model, with secure, scalable, and enterprise-grade solutions. Aventus ensures the network’s technical foundation is robust and capable of handling high volumes of activity.
- Galactic: The commercial partner of the Truth Network, responsible for driving adoption and creating prediction markets that engage users and showcase the network’s full potential. Galactic bridges the gap between cutting-edge blockchain technology and real-world applications.
- Blockchain Factory: The sales and infrastructure partner ensuring the efficient operation of Truth’s vast node network. Blockchain Factory oversees the onboarding and distribution of this decentralized architecture.
HOW IT WORKS
What consensus mechanism does Truth Network use?
Truth Network operates under a Proof of Authority consensus mechanism, where trusted node operators verify outcomes and uphold network integrity.
Which ecosystem does it run on?
It’s an appchain on Aventus Network, a tried-and-tested enterprise blockchain provider, and ultimately derives security from Polkadot’s shared security model.
How does it ensure transparency and fairness?
All market creation, trades, and settlements are recorded on-chain. Anyone can inspect event outcomes, validator attestations, and fee flows in the public ledger, eliminating hidden data or off-chain black boxes.
$TRUU
What is the token allocation model for the Truth Network?
The following allocation model ensures a balanced distribution of tokens to support network operations, liquidity, community-driven growth, and long-term sustainability.
- 55% Rewards Pool: Allocated to daily node rewards, distributed over multiple years, ensuring node operators are continuously incentivized to secure the network.
- 20% Community Treasury: Supports grants, network enhancements, community initiatives, and incentive programs, directly governed by token holders.
- 20% Liquidity Provision & Exchange Listings: Maintained as a reserve to ensure sufficient liquidity on exchanges through market making, reduce volatility, and support smooth secondary market operations.
- 5% Founding Team (Galactic): Allocated with a two year linear vesting schedule. This ensures long-term alignment of interests and prevents short-term speculation.
What is the native token used for?
The token serves as collateral in prediction markets, pays network fees, and signals governance preferences. Holding tokens aligns incentives across traders, node operators, and protocol stewards.
How do I acquire $TRUU tokens?
$TRUU is currently available to purchase on UniSwap, Bitunix, and XT.com.
Which wallets can I use?
Currently, MetaMask (Ethereum) and SubWallet (Truth Network) support $TRUU.
How do I move the token between Truth Network and Ethereum?
Ethereum is the base network where the Truth ERC20 token lives and where exchanges integrate the token. You can lift (see below) the token into the Truth Network which then becomes native tokens used for Truth Network gas fees, primarily around prediction markets. Any native token can be lowered (see below) to Ethereum.
How do I move tokens between Ethereum and Truth Network?
“Lifting” sends your ERC-20 tokens from Ethereum into Truth Network’s environment via https://lift.truth-network.io. This process takes 15-20 minutes.
“Lowering” returns them back to Ethereum through https://lower.truth-network.io. Both bridges lock tokens on one chain and mint or release them on the other, with minimal fees and transparent on-chain receipts. This process takes 12 hours as a security mechanism to give the network time to respond to any issues.
What fees apply and how are markets settled?
Every trade incurs network fee:$0.05 in $TRUU currently, but in future 1% of the transaction, capped at $0.50 and minimum $0.10 in $TRUU, with any amount above $0.05 being distributed to node owners. Once an event resolves, the smart-contract logic automatically settles winning positions and users can claim their rewards.
Where can I explore on-chain data?
Visit https://explorer.truth-network.io to view blocks, transactions, market states, and bridge activity in real time.
More technical users can get additional data from: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss://chain-external.truth-network.io#/explorer
Node Operators
What is a node on Truth Network?
Nodes form the backbone of Truth Network’s security and consensus. They provide their computing power, validating transactions and receive $TRUU as a reward, aligning their incentives with the network’s integrity.
Who can run one and what do they need?
Anyone with a device connected to the internet can run a node.
Are there incentives for running a node?
Yes: node operators earn a proportional share of on-chain fees based on their uptime. You can track performance via built-in Prometheus metrics and dashboards.
How do I get started running a node?
Head to https://blockchainfactory.io for step-by-step guides and node operator support.
What if my node goes offline?
Short downtime won’t harm the network, but operators should aim for at least 8 hours of uptime per day to maximize rewards. Alerts and logs in the monitoring tools help you catch and resolve issues quickly.
Developer Resources
Where can I find technical documentation?
Visit the GitHub repo at https://github.com/Truth-Protocol-Foundation
Community & Support
Where should I go for help or to stay updated?
Join the official Telegram channel to ask questions, report issues, or chat with other users: https://t.me/TruthNetwork2025
For updates and announcements, follow @Truth_Network_ on X.
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