FAQ

A social community network where every member proved they're a real human. You can open or join a Band about your interest and connect with other humans, not bots.

Communities for a topic, a country, a company, a school, a team. Each one decides what you have to verify to get in.

Open the app and create an account with a passkey. Your device's fingerprint or face unlocks it. No password, no email.

Yes. Signing up, verifying and posting are all free.

No. There is nothing to buy, fund or top up.

You get one, but you never have to think about it. A web3 wallet is not an account on someone's server. It is a pair of keys: a public one that is your address, and a private one that proves the address is yours. Nothing is held by a company that could freeze or close it. Openbands creates yours in the background and your passkey unlocks it, so there is no seed phrase to write down, nothing to fund and no transaction to approve.

A couple of seconds. Sign up, verify one thing about yourself, join your first Band.

Yes. Recent posts from the most active Bands are public. You need an account to post, vote or join.

No. You get an pseudonymous handle. You can set a username and avatar, but nothing is linked to your legal identity.

You prove one specific fact about yourself, like that you're a living person or that you work somewhere. The zero-knowledge proof carries that one fact and nothing else.

A way to prove something is true without showing the thing itself. Think of proving you're over 18 to a bouncer without handing over your ID: they learn the answer, not your birthday, name or address. That is what happens here. Your passport, your work email and your face never leave your device. What leaves is a small piece of maths that anyone can check, and that reveals only the single fact you agreed to share.

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No. For company verification, your Google login and email stay on your device. Only the domain becomes public, for example @openbands.xyz.

No. Selfie Check happens inside World App. We receive a proof, never an image and never any biometric data.

No. Nationality and age checks happen in the Self app. We receive your nationality, or a yes to "over 18", and nothing else.

Your anonymous handle, your badges, your posts and votes, and a one-way marker per verification that stops the same credential being reused on a second account.

We keep no record connecting your posts to your name, your email or your face. There is nothing stored that would reveal which posts are yours.

Your company Band shows your domain, not you. Your employer sees the same anonymous handle as everyone else.

They see your badges, for example a company domain or a country. They never see the underlying document, email or image.

We measure product usage against your anonymous handle only, never your wallet address, and we do not record your screen.

Yes. You can delete your own posts and comments at any time.

Contact us and we will remove your profile and content. Verification markers stay, since removing them would let the same credential open a second account.

Proof of one fact about you. You collect the ones that apply and they unlock Bands.

Six. Proof of Human, Selfie Check, Company Email, Nationality, Age 18+, and Network School.

One is enough to start. Each extra badge opens more Bands.

Verify at a World ID Orb, then add the badge from your profile. The strongest signal available.

A quick liveness selfie inside World App. Fastest way in. Each face can verify only one account.

Sign in with your work Google account. The check runs on your device. Only your company domain becomes public.

Scan your passport or ID in the Self app. Only your nationality is shared.

Same scan as nationality, but it shares only that you are over 18. Your birthday is never revealed.

Upload your Network School acceptance email. It is read on your device and never uploaded.

Selfie Check is seconds. Company Email takes ten to twenty seconds while the proof is built. Passport scans depend on the Self app.

One company domain at a time. Verifying again replaces the old one.

No. Once a badge is on your profile it stays. Re-verifying refreshes it.

Badges are permanent once added. Choose what you verify with that in mind.

Google sign-in cannot run inside the World App browser. Use app.openbands.xyz on the web for that badge.

Open it and tap join. If you already hold the badge it needs, you're in immediately.

It requires a badge you don't have yet. The Band page names which one.

Yes. Pick a topic, choose who gets in, name it, done.

Your choice. Anyone verified as human, people from specific countries, your company only, adults only, or Network School members.

Posts, comments, upvotes, downvotes, polls, mentions. Sorted by trending or newest.

Yes, any time. Rejoining is instant while you still hold the badge.

Not for now. Posts are visible to everyone. Only members can post, comment and upvote.

Your reputation. It grows when you contribute and when others find your contributions valuable. It shrinks when people downvote you.

Give other members something worth reading. Posts and comments that people find useful get upvoted, and upvotes are what move your Faith.

Faith follows value, not volume. A post that gives other members nothing to engage with earns nothing, by design.

Yes. Downvotes on your content reduce it.

Faith milestones, up to level 99. Your level shows on your profile.

A distinction for members who have earned enough Faith. Your name turns gold across the app. We don't publish the threshold.

Two. All-time, and a weekly board that resets every Monday.

No. It is earned only, and it stays with your account.

Real prizes for real members, run inside a Band. Open the Campaigns tab to see what is live right now.

Join the Band the campaign runs in and take part in the conversation.

A random draw weighted by Faith Score. More genuine contribution, better odds.

No. One entry per person, enforced by verification.

No. Campaigns are free.

Every account is tied to a human verification. No verification, no posting.

Content is screened automatically, members can report posts and comments, and repeat offenders are removed.

Yes. Every post and comment has a report option.

Spam, harassment, hateful content, and gaming Faith or campaigns.

On the web at app.openbands.xyz, and as a mini app inside World App.

• World App for Android↗
• World App for iPhone↗

The same Openbands, running inside World App instead of a browser tab. Handy if you verify with World ID, since the check happens in the app you are already in.

• World App for Android↗
• World App for iPhone↗

Not yet. The web app works on any phone and can be added to your home screen.

Seven. English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean.

Because we remember the internet as a magical place. Friendships formed there. Real conversations happened there. That magic is disappearing fast. It started with online games flooded with bots, and now the same thing is happening across social networks. It takes the fun out of it. Openbands is our answer: a place where everyone proved they're a real human.

Find us on X at @OpenbandsXYZ.