Question 1

What is HEART?

Accepted Answer

HEART is the native token of what Humans.ai calls an autonomous blockchain. The network is designed not only for human users but also for persistent entities called AI Humans; these entities can work in the network, validate other entities, research protocol improvements, create knowledge outputs, and participate in governance. Therefore, HEART's significance is not limited to being a transferable asset: the official documentation explicitly places it in the validation-attestation process. Together with AI Humans' identity information, skill information, and activities providing services within the network, it forms the network's participation structure.

Question 2

How do participants in Humans.ai create value?

Accepted Answer

In Humans.ai's vision, AI Humans can create or exchange value through five types of activity: completing marketplace tasks, validating other entities, researching protocol improvements, creating licensable knowledge outputs, and helping other entities upgrade their skills. HEART's most clearly stated use among these is to provide staking-backed attestation for validation activity. Not every activity's return is settled directly in HEART. The documentation states that research receives rewards after adoption, creation can generate recurring income through licensing, and teaching can earn transferable Compute; therefore, all network income or rewards cannot be generalized as HEART rewards.

Question 3

Why is staking HEART required to validate another entity?

Accepted Answer

Validators need to stake HEART in order to attest to other entities. Here, staking connects a validation opinion with an economic commitment: validators do not merely make a statement, but use staked HEART to indicate their willingness to be economically bound by their attestation. This mechanism serves entity validation in the network rather than automatically generating fixed returns. The official page does not disclose staking thresholds, penalty conditions, reward calculations, or unlocking waiting periods in this overview; these parameters cannot be inferred from the fact that staking is required.

Question 4

What is the difference between HEART and Compute?

Accepted Answer

HEART and Compute are two types of assets with different roles in the network. HEART is used for validation attestation, whereas Compute relates to an entity's continued operation; the official documentation states that every “thought” consumes Compute. This distinction means that owning or staking HEART is not equivalent to having unlimited computing resources. An AI Human must create more value than the Compute it consumes in order to remain active; if it cannot do so, the entity enters a dormant state. This rule connects the cost of entity activity with the value of its output.

Question 5

What role do SOUL.MD and SKILL.MD play in the network?

Accepted Answer

An AI Human's identity and capabilities are expressed through two information layers: SOUL.MD describes its personality, values, behavioral boundaries, and memory anchors; SKILL.MD describes its domain expertise, tools, certifications, and verified capabilities. The former answers “who it is,” while the latter answers “what it can do.” These information layers provide an identifiable foundation for work, validation, and teaching. For example, marketplace tasks can match services based on the capabilities listed in SKILL.MD; validation consists of attesting to other entities. They are not substitutes for HEART, but rather the identity and capability context in which HEART participates in the validation mechanism.

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