Transparency
Live figures from the chain, the open tools, where Aequitas stands, and what is honestly still open.
Everything is visible
Every block, every account and every rule can be checked by anyone, at any time.
Beta: a public test
Aequitas runs, but it is not finished. AEQ can only be exchanged into the test currency tUSD, the legal review under the EU crypto regulation is still pending, and the face check has named limits. The economy rules take effect on 26 September 2026.
Roadmap and what is still open →What comes next
Now: Beta
Registration with a live face check by two independent matching services. 1,000 AEQ start, basic income every day.
26 September 2026
The economy rules take effect: three account types, idle-money levy, exit levy, fee-free monthly amounts for people.
App for shops
Checkout mode with QR code and accounting export.
Pilot town
5–10 shops (café, bakery, farm shop, hairdresser, workshop) for three months. Measured: how much stays in circulation, how much leaves, how much reaches the basic income.
Legal review and real stable coin
Before real money: review under the EU crypto regulation (MiCA) and a regulated euro stable coin instead of the test currency tUSD. Only then open more widely.
Long term: iris scan
To truly guarantee 1 person = 1 registration, Aequitas will rely on the iris scan in the long run. How it can be implemented is being worked on now; no date is promised.
What is not finished yet
- Test currency only. Today tUSD is the only currency to exchange into; there is no real euro or dollar exit yet.
- Legal review pending. Whether AEQ and the built-in exchange fall under the EU crypto regulation MiCA must be checked before real money.
- Exchange-rate risk. While AEQ is small, its price fluctuates. For cautious shops, immediate exchange is the answer.
- Taxes. For businesses, AEQ income is business income at its euro value on the day of payment.
- The numbers are starting values. 2,000 AEQ base amount, 1.5 and 3 months' turnover, 0.5 %/1 %, 2 %, 1,000 and 3,000 a month: measured in the pilot town, then adjusted.
- The face check is an interim step. A live face check on the phone makes duplicates much harder, but it cannot yet prove 1 person = 1 registration beyond doubt. That is why we are working on the iris scan; how exactly it will be implemented is still open.
MPC) is not yet authoritative. Long term, Aequitas will rely on iris scans to truly guarantee one person, one registration. How that can be implemented reliably and privacy-preserving is being worked on now; hardware and timing are not decided yet.Beta notice
Beta: since 25 Aug 2026 the proof server refuses any registration without the signed attestations of the two matching services — a second phone no longer gives the same face a second account. What is not yet true: accounts registered before that date are only covered once their owner adds the face in the app (no new grant); until then they could in principle register again on a new wallet. Error rates are not calibrated (that needs ~1,000 impostor pairs). Liveness: only the glance task is binding today; colour flashes, pulse and parallax are measured but do not decide yet. Read “one human, one account” as “checked, with named limits” — not as “impossible to circumvent.” Long term, Aequitas will rely on iris scans to truly guarantee one person, one registration. How that can be implemented reliably and privacy-preserving is being worked on now; hardware and timing are not decided yet.
What the beta is for: it tests whether a person can be recognised again without anyone keeping their picture or a whole face template. The photo and the full face description are deleted within seconds; each of the two matching services keeps only a 64-byte sketch (512 yes/no values) from which the face cannot be reconstructed, but which still recognises a second registration by the same person. This is the groundwork for the iris scan, which is meant to work on the same principle. Where it stands today: each service still holds the whole sketch; splitting it so that no service holds it whole is built and tested but not yet active, and error rates are not yet calibrated.
Open source: Core chain public · identity/proof services partly private during the beta.