Question 1

What role does UTU Coin play in the protocol ecosystem?

Accepted Answer

UTU Coin (UTU) serves as a means of payment in the UTU app ecosystem. It is the protocol’s currency token and should not be conflated with UTT, which is used for reputation endorsements.

Question 2

How do UTU Coin and UTT differ in transferability and how they are obtained?

Accepted Answer

UTU Coin is transferable and serves an ecosystem payment role. UTU Trust Token (UTT) is non-transferable and tied to its user. Connecting a social-network account is one way to obtain UTT, so receiving UTU Coin and accumulating UTT reputation are distinct activities.

Question 3

How does ordinary feedback for a website differ from a UTT endorsement?

Accepted Answer

Ordinary feedback can take the form of video, stars, badges, or text. A UTT endorsement instead uses part of a UTT balance to support the reputation of a particular website; leaving a written review alone does not mean UTT has been committed as an endorsement.

Question 4

When can an earlier website endorser receive a UTT reward?

Accepted Answer

According to the mainnet-launch description, an earlier endorser can receive a UTT reward when other people in that person’s network see the endorsement, interact with the website, and then endorse it onward. The mechanism depends on an endorsement leading to later user interaction, not merely on posting a review once.

Question 5

Why did the 2022 update no longer require auctioning UTT for UTU?

Accepted Answer

The 2022 whitepaper update replaced the earlier UTT-to-UTU auction conversion with direct UTU rewards when UTT is earned. Users therefore did not need to sell accumulated UTT reputation to obtain a UTU reward; reputation accumulation and monetary rewards were no longer linked through selling reputation.

Question 6

Can a UTU reward under UTT v2 be claimed as soon as it is generated?

Accepted Answer

No. The 2023 UTT v2 announcement distinguished reward calculation from claim eligibility: the UTU reward for a successful endorsement depends on the corresponding UTT reward, and a claimant also had to connect a social network or identity scheme whitelisted for that purpose. At the time of that announcement, no social network or identity service had been whitelisted for that purpose, so the reward logic should not be read as meaning every user could then claim rewards.

Question 7

What information does UTU consider for trust recommendations?

Accepted Answer

The Trust Engine considers social connections between users, the tokens they have traded, and relevant contextual data. A recommendation therefore considers a feedback provider’s relationship to the requester and relevant experience, rather than simply aggregating every rating.

Question 8

Does an object have one UTU trust score that applies to every user?

Accepted Answer

No. UTU ranks a given object relatively using feedback from the requester’s own network; it does not assign one universal, global trust score to that object. Since users’ networks differ, one person’s ordering should not be treated as an objective ranking for everyone.

Question 9

After an app integrates UTU, can feedback be used only within that app?

Accepted Answer

No. UTU integration enables users to share feedback and endorsements with users in their own app and in other apps. Developers can integrate those capabilities through the Web SDK or API.

Question 10

How is the officially published allocation of 1 billion UTU divided?

Accepted Answer

The allocation described in the 2024 official update is 400 million UTU for the Treasury, 300 million for Team/Advisors, and 300 million for Ecosystem Growth, totaling 1 billion UTU. These figures describe allocation pools; they do not mean the corresponding tokens were all unlocked or circulating.

Question 11

How does the Ecosystem Growth pool support UTU endorsement rewards?

Accepted Answer

One use of the Ecosystem Growth pool is to pay UTU rewards for successful endorsements, alongside supporting ecosystem development. Under the published model, some Trust API revenue denominated in UTU returns to this pool to replenish reward sources; that return flow is not itself new issuance and does not guarantee rewards will remain permanently sufficient.

Question 12

What action did the 2023 UTT v2 migration require from existing users?

Accepted Answer

The announcement stated that the full old-contract state had been migrated to the new version, and users needed to update the browser extension and other integrated apps to continue using the related functions. This was a version migration of UTT protocol components; it does not mean users had to exchange their UTU Coin for another token.

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