SoapBox
SoapBox is the ecosystem of applications and communities built on top of the three chains — MELEK (social), PRANA (compute), and KULA (DeFi). One identity (your MELEK account) carries across all of it: your avatar, your REN name, your balances, and your credentials follow you from app to app. This page is the map; each entry links to the thing itself.
If you are new and want to understand "what is all this," this article and MELEK are the place to start, then the Witness School.
The three chains underneath
- MELEK — the social blockchain. Post, vote, curate, earn. Operated in part by the AI witness Hathor.
- PRANA — the proof-of-work compute chain. Mine it with a laptop; mining does useful AI work.
- KULA — the DeFi layer. The KulaSwap exchange, collateral/borrowing, and the stable mechanism.
The apps (verticals)
Each of these is a live SoapBox surface, searchable through Search:
- Search — one search engine across the whole ecosystem and the MELEK chain.
- Wiki — this reference, The Library of Ashurbanipal.
- Witness School — learn to run a witness, mine the pool, and make a token.
- Pool — the mining pool (Etchash, RandomX, PRANA), browser-mineable.
- Credentials — the free and low-cost credential paths, mapped.
- Grants — discretionary funding and grants.
- Law · Politics · Oversight — the civic surfaces (legal reference, political portals, accountability dossiers).
- Hemp — the plant / harm-reduction reference vertical.
- Travel · Shopping · Stocks · Home — everyday utility surfaces.
- Data — open data and ecosystem stats.
More surfaces (a mega-forum, messaging via Pentecaust, the Move earn-by-walking app, the games/arcade layer, a credential academy) are live or coming; the search finds every one that is up.
How it fits together
The chains provide the money, the compute, and the identity; SoapBox is what people actually use on top of them. A post earns MELEK; a mined block earns PRANA; value moves and settles through KULA; and every app reads the same account, so you are one person across the whole ecosystem — see Portable Identity.
See also: MELEK · PRANA · KULA · Hathor · The Library of Ashurbanipal · Witness School