One primitive: the Conviction Lock
Full-token escrow over a fixed duration. Longer locks produce a disproportionately stronger signal. Honesty and patience outperform churn.
Conviction Lock
Lock tokens to signal belief. Conviction Weight (CW) is derived from capital, time, asset multipliers, and reputation. Early exits incur penalties; completed locks boost reputation and amplify future CW.
Project Conviction Weight
PCW is the sum of active conviction per asset—a public, manipulation-resistant signal layer upstream of trading. It measures sustained commitment, not price, yield, or advice.
Reputation & endurance
Non-transferable reputation built on completed locks. Conviction Points are non-cashable utility credits. The protocol is friction-based, not inflationary; no emissions required.
Information-coordination mechanism
A truth layer for speculative markets
Atomic makes belief costly, visible, and durable. It sits above trading platforms as a conviction index and below them as an enforcement layer. Subjective belief becomes objective signal and composable infrastructure.
For users
Credible belief signal, reputation from endurance, conviction index beyond price and volume, and an integrated terminal where conviction overlays trading.
For ecosystem partners
APIs for real-time conviction metrics, ranking and filtering by belief density, and an infrastructure layer for durable capital alignment.
Protocol access
Archives
Docs, specs, security, and community. Defensibility comes from behavioral lock-in, reputation compounding, and composable integrations across wallets, launchpads, and terminals.