Question 1

What is TRUST?

Accepted Answer

TRUST is the native utility token of the Intuition network and protocol, primarily serving three roles: Gas, economic signaling for information claims, and payment for knowledge-graph queries. The network is already operating on mainnet: its chain is an L3 built on Arbitrum Orbit and settling to Base, so transaction fees on that network are settled in TRUST. These three uses place writing data, expressing conviction in data, and reading data within the same economic mechanism: writing and querying require payment, while committing TRUST to a claim lets the network read the economic weight participants assume.

Question 2

Why is TRUST required to use the Intuition network?

Accepted Answer

Using the Intuition network requires TRUST because every network transaction pays Gas in TRUST; this includes writing content to the knowledge graph. Gas is the network fee required to execute and record transactions, so before initiating such operations, a wallet must have TRUST in the relevant network to pay the fees. This arrangement also gives writing activity an economic cost. The project uses it to increase the cost of spam data and Sybil attacks; the fee is not a guarantee of whether a piece of information is true or false, but the transaction-settlement cost of the network.

Question 3

How is TRUST used for information signaling?

Accepted Answer

TRUST can be used to express economic signals of “support” or “opposition” for a claim. After participants commit TRUST to the vault corresponding to a claim, the committed amount forms weight readable by the network; a larger economic commitment indicates stronger economic conviction, but does not automatically prove that the claim is true. The key to this design is that signaling is not cost-free liking: participants bear the opportunity cost of committed funds, and the network can use this to provide ranking signals for identifiers and claims.

Question 4

What do you receive after depositing into a vault?

Accepted Answer

After depositing TRUST into an Atom or Triple vault, the depositor receives shares in that data point. An Atom is an identifier or entity in the network, and a Triple is a structured claim about relationships between entities; the shares represent an economic position in the corresponding data point, not ownership of the entire Intuition network. When depositing, the user first selects an Atom or Triple and determines the amount; after paying protocol fees, the system mints shares at the bonding-curve price then used by that vault. The share proportion determines the holder’s proportion of future rewards from that data point; the curve price changes with the vault state, so the same amount of TRUST may not obtain the same number of shares at different times.

Question 5

How do query fees relate to stakers?

Accepted Answer

Query fees paid when users query the knowledge graph with TRUST flow to signal participants supporting the information behind the answer. In other words, queries are the source of fees, and those who previously held shares in the relevant data points are the parties that participate in distribution according to the rules. Distribution is not fixed interest: the documentation states that fees are distributed in proportion to data owners’ shares, and therefore depend on whether relevant data is interacted with or used by others, the holder’s share proportion, and fees actually generated. Simply holding TRUST, or depositing into data points unrelated to a query, does not guarantee receipt of query fees.

Question 6

Can deposited TRUST be withdrawn from a vault?

Accepted Answer

A holder can exit a vault: the holder redeems their shares in exchange for the corresponding underlying TRUST. Redemption reduces their shares in that Atom or Triple and therefore also reduces their proportion of participation in subsequent fees or rewards for that data point. The actual amount received back is not a fixed proportion of the deposited amount. The system determines the price at redemption using the bonding curve at that time and may charge an exit fee; therefore, the curve state and fees together affect the final amount of TRUST received.

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