ñũ.Bî · ñü basic income
khėnsu.ñü is a gift to humanity and all beings: freedom and privacy, plus a universal basic income, so people everywhere can create, build and live securely. nu.bi is how the income part works, and it may be the biggest good the network can do: at global scale, an income paid straight to people could help end poverty, hunger and homelessness, and give everyone the freedom to create and build.
Published 11 October 2026 · in development, not yet live · nothing here is a promise of income
ñũ.Bî by the numbers
the scale of it
The world has more than enough food, homes and money. What fails is getting them to the people who need them. A steady income, paid straight to each person with no one in between, is one of the simplest tools we know of. This is a potential, not a promise: how far nu.bi reaches depends on how many people use and run the network.
Sources: UN-Habitat, SDG 11 Global Report 2026; World Bank, Global Findex 2025; World Bank, September 2026 global poverty update; FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO, SOFI 2025.
900 million adults with no account already own a phone, 530 million of them a smartphone. A phone is all nu.bi needs. World Bank, 2025
1 in 10 people on Earth live on less than $3 a day. One worldwide rate means a node pays the most where living costs least. World Bank, 2026
sending money home
Average total cost including exchange-rate margins. The khėnsu.ñü fee is an estimate for a private payment on the network; cashing out to a bank may carry the bank’s own fee. Sources: World Bank, Remittance Prices Worldwide, issue 54.
it has been tried
2,000 artists paid €325 a week in a randomised trial from 2022. Society got back €1.39 for every €1, and in 2026 it became an ongoing scheme.
Source£1,600 a month for two years from age 18. 97% of those eligible, 644 young people, took part; final results are due in 2027.
SourceWhole villages receive about $22.50 a month for twelve years, measured against villages that don’t. One of the longest basic income studies ever run.
Source2,000 unemployed people received €560 a month with no conditions. They were more satisfied with their lives, felt less mental strain, and worked slightly more.
SourceEvery resident, every year, since 1982, paid from a shared fund. Proof that an equal dividend can last for generations.
SourceThese programmes are run by governments and charities, not by khėnsu.ñü; we cite them as evidence, not endorsement.
nations and alliances
nu.bi needs no one’s permission or public money: the network pays the people who run it from its own revenue. But a government or alliance can bring it to millions at once, with personhood credentials for the equal dividend, nodes in libraries and schools, and clear tax rules. Here is where they stand on basic income today.
| Who | Where they stand on basic income | nu.bi partner |
|---|---|---|
| United Nations | The Secretary-General told the General Assembly in 2018 that governments may eventually have to consider a universal basic income, and in 2020 called for a new generation of social protection, perhaps including one. Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2 and 11 aim to end poverty and hunger and house everyone by 2030. Source | Invited |
| UNDP | Proposed a temporary basic income for 2.7 billion people in developing countries in 2020. Source | Invited |
| European Union | The European Pillar of Social Rights (2017) gives everyone without enough resources the right to an adequate minimum income, and the Council recommended in January 2023 that every member state provide one. Source | Invited |
| African Union, ASEAN, Mercosur, the G20 and others | Not yet approached. Every regional alliance is invited. | Invited |
No country or alliance has adopted nu.bi yet. This table will show each partner as it joins.
Stage one · at launch
A Mac, a Raspberry Pi 5 or a sunulink.shield on an ordinary home connection becomes a node. It carries encrypted traffic, stores encrypted data and does proved work for the network while its owner gets on with life, and it is paid every epoch for that work in khėnsu.ñü coin, turned into USDC in Apple Pay the moment it lands.
Stage two · in research
A dividend paid equally to every unique person on the network, whether or not they run a node, funded from the network’s revenue. Each person counts once, proven without a name, a document number or a biometric scan. This is the universal part of nu.bi, and it is not live yet.
how node pay works
Pro, Ultra or Akashic, through the App Store. After Apple’s 15%, half of every subscription belongs to the network.
It funds that epoch’s pay pool, paid out in khėnsu.ñü coin at its dollar value through the shielded pool.
Every job yields a work receipt: packets mixed, bytes stored and challenged, relay minutes, media delivered. Receipts are checked by the network; forged ones cost the node its pay and part of its stake.
Each node receives the pool multiplied by its share of all verified work in the epoch. One worldwide rate per unit of work, with no cut taken in between.
The coin turns into USDC in Apple Pay the moment it lands: keep it, send it, spend it or withdraw to a bank. Nobody else can see who was paid or how much.
pay = pool × (this node’s verified work ÷ all verified work)
So pay grows with what people use, and is shared by everyone who runs a node. When more nodes join than the work needs, each earns less; the network’s committee can pace new nodes in a region so pay stays above running costs.
| Plan | Price | To the network’s pay pool |
|---|---|---|
| Pro | $4.99 | $2.12 |
| Ultra | $200 | $85 |
| Akashic | $1,000 | $425 |
After Apple’s 15%, split evenly between the network and Elliott Wave LLC, the founder’s company; that split is the only cut. Estimated node earnings at different audience sizes are on the network page. Real earnings depend on usage and are not guaranteed.
fair everywhere
A node in Casablanca earns the same for the same work as a node in Berlin. Those dollars go about two and a half times further where living costs are lower, so the same node supports more of a living where it’s needed most.
Pay never depends on where a node is, so the network never needs to know. That keeps operators safe, and it can’t be gamed with a fake location.
A Raspberry Pi 5 uses about 5 kWh a month. No mining, no special equipment and no wasted energy: every unit of work is something people actually use.
No pay for holding tokens, no pay for doing nothing, and no token sale. Money comes from subscriptions and delivery customers, not from new buyers.
where the money comes from
Half of every Pro, Ultra and Akashic subscription after Apple’s share, every month.
Creators, sites on webË and MOQOM Cloud customers pay for delivery; that money is paid to the nodes that deliver.
Private payments carry a fee under one cent, paid to the nodes that process them.
A fixed share of network revenue set aside for the stage-two dividend. The share is not decided yet.
The network also mints tokens to operators, falling by half every two years. Their value depends on a market price, so they are left out of every figure on this site.
safeguards
Personhood is proven once through a partner, then turned into an anonymous credential. The network learns that someone is a unique person, never who.
No iris scans, no face templates, no fingerprints held by anyone. Systems that collect them conflict with our threat model.
Payments are shielded and post-quantum. Node traffic looks the same whatever it carries, so nobody can tell who earns, who spends or what a node is doing.
If the founder stops checking in for 42 days, every founder power passes to the network’s consensus for good, and all code is released to the public.
for governments
nu.bi needs no public money to run: the network pays its operators from its own revenue. What governments can add is reach, trust and clarity.
Let a national digital ID or civil registry issue one-time, blind credentials to residents who opt in. The government confirms a real person; khėnsu.ñü never learns who. This unlocks the stage-two dividend for your residents.
Libraries, schools, clinics and municipal buildings already have fibre. A node there earns for its community, and strengthens private communication in the area at the same time.
Node pay is income for work. Each operator’s app produces an annual earnings statement for their own tax filing, on their device. Guidance on how it is taxed helps operators comply.
Pay arrives in khėnsu.ñü coin and turns straight into USDC, a regulated dollar stablecoin, redeemable one-for-one. Clear rules on receiving and spending stablecoin pay make it simpler for ordinary people to take part.
Start with one city or region: subsidised hardware for households that want it, published measurements of earnings, costs and uptime from our test network, and an independent evaluation.
with gratitude
None of this would be possible without the people who built the internet we have, and gave so much of it away. Their ingenuity and tenacity made a network of networks that nobody owns. khėnsu.ñü is our attempt to carry that gift forward.
Packet switching: break messages into pieces and route them any way that works.
The first packet network, from UCLA to Stanford, and the Request for Comments tradition.
TCP/IP, a network of networks that nobody owns.
Public-key cryptography: strangers can agree a secret in the open.
Mix networks and private digital cash, the roots of how khėnsu.ñü hides who talks to whom.
GNU and Linux, and the free software that runs almost every server and node.
The World Wide Web, given to the world free in 1993.
PGP, private email for everyone, defended at personal risk.
A memory for the web, so what we build is never lost.
The sum of human knowledge, free, written by volunteers.
Tor, privacy for millions who need it most.
Money that moves between people with no bank in between.
The Signal protocol, end-to-end encryption for billions.
Messaging Layer Security, ML-KEM and ML-DSA: group encryption that holds against quantum computers.
And to everyone else who wrote a standard, fixed a bug, answered a question or kept a server running for strangers.
where it stands
| Part of ñü.bi | Status |
|---|---|
| Nodes paid for verified work, at one worldwide rate | Decided |
| Half of every subscription to the network, paid in khėnsu.ñü coin and turned into USDC on arrival | Decided |
| No pay by location; the network never knows where a node is | Decided |
| No platform cut on node work, hosting, creators’ views, gifts or sales | Decided |
| Founder powers pass to consensus on the dead-man’s switch | Decided |
| Stage-two dividend: funded from revenue, equal per unique person | Proposed |
| How personhood is proven without identity or biometrics | In research |
| The share of revenue set aside for the dividend | Open |
| Public income figures, reviewed with counsel | Open |
khėnsu.ñü is built by Elliott Wave LLC. The network, its token and the stage-two dividend are in development and not yet offered anywhere. Nothing on this page is an offer of securities, investment advice or a promise of income; amounts will be published only as labelled estimates after legal review. USDC is issued by Circle and redeemable one-for-one for US dollars. Apple and Apple Pay are trademarks of Apple Inc.
