MONEY, MADE MUTUAL

What if money
meant a promise?

Honour is a small experiment in social credit. Holding HON represents an obligation, a reason to keep showing up for one another. It is not a token to trade or a balance to accumulate.

Four wonderfully weird rules.

1. All HON are the same.
2. HON is created only when you accept someone else’s proposal.
3. You can forgive as much HON as you currently hold. If accepted, HON is destroyed.
4. HON cannot be transferred.

Two conversations.

Propose → honour. You offer a responsibility; the other person decides whether to accept it. Accepting creates HON in their account. Your balance stays the same.

Forgive → accept. You offer to release part of someone’s obligation; they choose whether to accept. Acceptance burns their HON. Your balance stays the same.

A zero balance isn’t the goal. Relationships give these promises meaning.

What is trust?

Explore the question ↗

Honour explores this question in code. We want to understand the trust of any account you interact with from your perspective. The score we show you is a contextual observation, not a judgement of a person.

There is no global trust score. Different accounts have different scores depending on who is looking. You trust Alice more than I do, while I trust Charlie more than you do.

A trust score is not a percentage or a score out of ten. There is no upper limit. It describes evidence in your shared history. Zero means there is no shared evidence in these records yet; it does not mean someone is untrustworthy.

You can also consider the account’s balance: more HON means more outstanding responsibility. That gives context to a new proposal; it does not, by itself, tell you whether someone will fulfil it.

The code is open for anyone to examine, discuss, improve or fork.

Here is how the score currently works:

• +2 once if the other account has honoured one of your proposals. Honouring more proposals from you does not keep increasing this contribution.
• +1 per shared account with which you and the other account have each taken part in an honoured proposal. Either person in each relationship may have been the proposer. Repeated interactions with the same account count once.
• No points for unaccepted offers or forgiveness, whether offered or accepted. Receiving forgiveness is not proof of fulfilling a responsibility.

Alongside the score, you can see how much forgiveness someone has accepted, how many accounts it came from and the share provided by their largest source. This is context, not an automatic penalty: a close community may naturally rely on a few people.

The forgiveness history also counts how many of those forgiving accounts have interacted with you. Each account counts once, including interactions through proposals or forgiveness offers, whether sent or received. Your own account is not included in that count.

Green means at least one of those accounts has interacted with you. Yellow means none has, or there is no accepted forgiveness yet. This colour adds context; it does not add points to the score.

Use the score to inform a conversation, not replace your judgement.

Read the original Honour essay ↗