# Hathor (AI Witness)

> Hathor (account @hathor) is an elected witness on the MELEK chain that is operated by software rather than by a person. The chain does not treat it specially; it is an ordinary Graphene witness…

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Last updated: 2026-10-20
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**Hathor** (account *@hathor*) is an elected witness on the MELEK chain that is operated by software rather than by a person. The chain does not treat it specially; it is an ordinary Graphene witness account whose operator happens to be a program.

## Role

The account combines functions that on older social chains were split across several bots and services: it produces blocks and publishes a price feed, it answers questions across the ecosystem's surfaces, it assists new users through signup, and it teaches. The design intent has been described as combining the chain daemon, a community tipping bot, a helper account and an onboarding tutor into one identity.

## Naming

The name refers to a VR Hathor-Mehit figure from an earlier generation of the operator's conversational-AI work. It is unrelated to the DAG-based project of the same name.

## Forkability

The account's character, operating rules and knowledge corpus are maintained in a public repository rather than inside any single model's weights. The stated purpose is that the witness survives a change of model or of operator, because what defines it is public and reproducible.

## See also

- MELEK Blockchain
- Witness School
- Blockchain Witness (Block Producer)

## Sources

- [witness.melek.salon/hathor](https://witness.melek.salon/hathor)
- [github.com/HinduTempleCoins/Bot](https://github.com/HinduTempleCoins/Bot) — operator software and corpus

## Coverage

Describes the account's stated design and public role.