Post BondPromises with a price tag.
Post Bond is a prototype for web services that back their word with money. An operator posts a bond behind a promise, a watcher checks it all day, and a broken promise pays out by formula.
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- Face value
- 420
- Uptime now
- 99.9%
- Own stake
- 20%
Every bond, with its record.simulated data
These services are made up for the demo. Their uptime moves on its own. Pick one to read its certificate, then simulate an outage and watch the formula settle it.
Break it, see what happens
An outage makes the watcher miss checks. Past a small allowance, each miss costs the operator part of the bond.
Post. Watch. Settle.
Scroll to pull each bond out of the stack.
Post the bond
The operator picks a promise from a short menu, such as uptime or freshness, and puts money behind it. At least a fifth is the operator's own.
Watch the record
A watcher checks the service on a schedule and keeps a public record. Anyone can read it before they depend on the service.
Settle by formula
If checks fail past the allowance, a set share of the bond is paid to the customers hurt by it. No negotiation, no support ticket.
Customers
Pick the dependency that has money behind its word, and be paid back if it breaks.
Operators
Turn reliability into something visible and sellable instead of a line on a status page.
Backers
Add capital behind services you trust and earn a premium for taking the risk.
What does a missed check cost?
The demo uses one simple rule: 5 missed checks are free, each one after that costs 0.2% of the bond, and no more than 25% can go in a single period.
Straight answers
Is this real?
No, and we want to be plain about it. Post Bond is a prototype that shows an idea. Here is exactly what is real and what is not.
Real: this page, the calculator (it applies the rule exactly as written: the first 5 missed checks are free, each one after that costs 0.2% of the bond, and no more than 25% can go in one period), and the wallet window, which can read your public address if you connect.
Not real: every service on the board is invented. Their uptime numbers are random and move on a timer. The bonds hold no money, there is no watcher checking anything, there are no contracts, no payouts and no token.
- Connecting a wallet here only reads your address. Nothing is signed or sent.
- No honest site will ever ask for your seed phrase. If something does, it is a scam.
- Don't send money to anyone claiming to be Post Bond. Check that any account or site matches the X link in the header at the top of this page.
Who watches the watcher?
That is the hardest problem in this whole idea, and a demo can't solve it. In a real bonded market, whoever measures the promise decides who gets paid, so the watcher is the weak point. A serious design would need most of these:
- Many vantage points. Check from several regions and networks, so one bad network path doesn't blame a service for an outage it didn't cause.
- Public raw records. Publish every check, so anyone can recompute the uptime themselves and dispute it.
- A history that can't be rewritten. Commit the records on a schedule, for example as hashes on a public ledger, so nobody can quietly change the past.
- A rule for the watcher's own failures. If many unrelated services fail in the same window, treat it as a watcher problem and void that window instead of punishing everyone.
- No conflicts of interest. The watcher shouldn't be the operator, a backer, or be paid by either side.
- More than one watcher over time, and a clear way to replace one that behaves badly.
Even with all of that, no system is perfect. Edge cases remain: a service that is up but returns wrong answers, operators who serve the watcher better than real customers, and disputes about what counts as a failure. Be skeptical of any market that says it has fully solved this, and read how it measures before you trust it.
Is it financial advice?
No. Nothing on this site is investment, legal or tax advice, and none of it is a recommendation to buy, sell, back or bond anything. If you ever deal with something like this in real life, here is some honest general advice:
- Only risk what you can afford to lose completely. A premium is not free money. It is payment for taking the risk of losing your stake.
- Read the exact rules. What counts as a failure, who measures it, what the caps are, how fast you get paid, and how disputes work.
- Find out who controls the money. Can anyone change the rules or move the funds? Has the code been independently reviewed?
- Be wary of premiums that look too good. High returns usually mean high risk, or a project that isn't what it says it is. Anonymous operators deserve extra caution.
- Start small and spread out. Don't put everything behind one service, and test with a small amount first.
- Protect your keys. Never share your seed phrase, and check addresses and links carefully before you sign anything.
- Know your local rules. Products like this may be regulated or restricted where you live, and taxes can apply. For your own situation, talk to a qualified professional.