Trader FAQ
The questions every trader asks before and after joining.
No. zaps cannot be traded, withdrawn, or sold, and there is no conversion to $ZERU or any other asset. zaps are the internal currency of the reputation economy: their value is what they do inside Zaps, from clan entry to vouching to dispute stakes. The separation from $ZERU is deliberate and permanent. Read zaps vs $ZERU.
No. The link between your X identity and your wallets is private and exists only to compute scores. Addresses never appear on any profile, feed, roster, or leaderboard. Public surfaces show derived results only: scores, zaps, aggregate volume, protocols touched. Read the wallet promise.
No. Connecting X is an OAuth login. Linking a wallet is a free ownership signature, not a transaction. Clan entry fees are paid in zaps, which you receive via the welcome grant. The only paid action on Zaps is the optional zScore mint, about $6.70 one-time.
No. Zaps is non-custodial everywhere. You trade from your own wallets on the venues you already use, and Zaps only reads the resulting onchain activity. Nothing you do on Zaps grants it control over any asset.
One X account, one clan. Membership means something because it is exclusive: your trades count for one room, your loyalty is legible, and rewards cannot be farmed across ten clans at once. You can link many wallets, but you are one identity in one community. Choose carefully, and browse freely before you do.
Your entry fee refunds automatically, in full. Requests are rate-limited per clan, so you cannot spam applications, but an honest denied request costs you nothing.
No. Clan leaders cannot remove members. The roster is policed by the reputation system itself: accounts without genuine history simply count for nothing, and misconduct is handled through challenges and formal disputes, in public, with stakes.
No. Minting is optional. An unminted wallet carries a default zScore of 50 and everything on Zaps works normally. Minting computes your real score from your history, which for active wallets is a significant Trader Score boost, but it is a choice, not a requirement.
No. Accumulated standing, peer trust, contribution, conviction, never decays from inactivity. Live inputs like trading performance reflect your real record, which is longitudinal, not a snapshot of last week. Going quiet does not erase what you earned. Only explicit negative events, a challenge received or a lost dispute, take points away.
A lightweight challenge is public doubt, weighted by the challenger's own standing, and it is answerable: your record, your defenders, and your conduct are all visible. If someone files a formal dispute against you, they have locked zaps on the accusation, and you can lock zaps to defend. Win, and their stake transfers to you while their own standing takes the hit.