Universal Basic Income Through Blockchain
Verify once with your face. Receive a predetermined lifetime allocation of ☥2,800,000 — identical for every person, released monthly over 45 years. Free to claim. Nothing to buy.
$2.8M
Lifetime Value per ANKH
45 Years
UBI Distribution Period
☥5,185
Monthly Payment
About ANKH Cash
Building on the original 2006 ANKH concept, ANKH Cash turns universal basic wealth into something a blockchain can actually enforce: one verified person, one predetermined allocation, released on a fixed schedule that no one can jump.
ANKH is a unit of account, not a traded asset. One ANKH denominates one US dollar of reference purchasing power — the dollar is used as a familiar yardstick, the way any index picks a base year. That reference is what makes a lifetime allocation expressible as a number a person can reason about. It is not a claim on a reserve, and there is nothing to purchase: an allocation is issued by verifying you are a person who does not already have one.
One Person, One Allocation
Face matching against every prior registration, so the same person cannot claim twice. Verification runs on nodes derived from the kingtree.net project.
Monthly Distribution
A monthly ANKH allocation over 45 years, issued by the native chain. Not investment advice and not a guaranteed cash payment — see project status below.
Equal for Everyone
Every verified person receives the same ☥2.8M lifetime allocation — no tiers, no ranking, nothing to buy
Biometrics as Chain State
Face templates are replicated chain state, not a private database. The uniqueness check runs during block execution, so a duplicate registration is rejected by every node independently rather than trusted from a server.
Sovereign Sidechains
An institution can run its own chain with its own validators and currency, anchoring its state into ANKH mainnet. The Republic of Adal runs one today — producing blocks and anchoring live, with its currency (Adali Rijal, ARJ) defined but not yet issued.
How It Works
Biometric Verification
Connect to a kingtree.net node for secure biometric verification
Your Allocation Is Set
☥2,800,000 is reserved to your address on the chain — the same figure as everyone else, fixed at verification
Claim Monthly
Release ~☥5,185 of your own allocation each month from your wallet — nothing to buy, no contribution, no queue
Continue for 45 Years
540 monthly claims, ☥2.8M in total — the same for every verified person
Get Verified
Connect to ANKH node for biometric verification
New here? Start verification to create your ANKH wallet and receive UBI.
RETURNING USER
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Before you type a recovery phrase anywhere: check the address bar reads ankh.cash. No legitimate service will ever ask for this phrase by email, chat or support ticket. This page derives your wallet entirely in your browser — you can read the code in the open source repo or disconnect from the network before pasting it and it will still work.
Ankh Wallet
ANKH on Ethereum
Separate from the UBI system. There is also an ANKH ERC-20 token on Ethereum, used for liquidity and bridging. It is entirely optional: it is not required to verify, it is not required to claim UBI, and holding it does not increase your allocation or your position in any queue.
Ankh Native Blockchain
The foundation of Universal Basic Income for humanity.
☥ Native Ankh Chain
- Purpose: UBI Distribution
- Token: Native ANKH
- Denomination: 1 ANKH = $1 of reference purchasing power (a yardstick, not a redeemable claim)
- Cost to receive: Free — issued by verification, never sold
- Issuance: Biometric verification only
- Lifetime: ☥2.8M per person
- Monthly UBI: ~☥5,185
Ξ Ethereum (ERC-20)
- Purpose: Liquidity & bridging
- Token: ANKH (ERC-20)
- Required for UBI: No — verification alone grants UBI
- Max Supply: 9 billion
- Contract: 0x288F…0871 — verify on Etherscan
- Distribution: Not yet begun — supply is held by the contract
- Bridge: ↔ Native Chain (coming soon)
8,246
Verified Users
$21.35M
Total UBI Distributed
498,974
Block Height
1
Active Validators
3
Active Nodes
Run Your Own Node
Help decentralize the network by running an Ankh Chain node. Validators earn rewards for securing the network.
Requirements
- Node.js 18+ or Docker
- 2GB RAM minimum
- 10GB disk space
- Stable internet connection
Project Status & Known Limitations
What exists today, what does not, and how to check both yourself. Verify anything on this page against the public chain API.
What is live
- A running chain producing blocks continuously — height and verified-user counts above are read from it, not typed in.
- Biometric duplicate detection: every registration is matched against all prior faces.
- Open source: github.com/ankhcash/ankh-chain
- Public read-only API — /api/v1/stats, /api/v1/peg/status
What is not yet true
- ANKH is not redeemable and is not backed by a reserve. It is a unit of account: $1 is a reference yardstick for expressing an allocation, not a promise to pay dollars. There is no collateral, no redemption right, and no guarantee ANKH will trade at any particular price — /api/v1/peg/status reports reserves of zero, which is accurate and expected for a unit that was never sold.
- An allocation is not income. ☥2,800,000 over 45 years is a predetermined issuance schedule, not earnings, not a payout, and not a claim against anyone.
- No third-party security audit has been carried out. No contract on this site has been reviewed by an external firm.
- Face matching currently runs in the browser, so the chain cannot yet prove a submission came from a real camera. Server-side verification is implemented but not enabled.
- Face templates are not yet committed to the state root. They are replicated to every node and checked during block execution, but the additional integrity commitment is implemented and switched off until all nodes run the same build.
- Distribution has not begun at scale. Figures above reflect a test population, not a live national rollout.
- The ERC-20 is deployed but not distributed. The contract on Ethereum mainnet holds essentially its entire supply and the purchase interface is not enabled. Nothing has been sold, and the ERC-20 is not required for UBI.
ANKH is a pre-launch project. Do not treat ANKH as money, as an investment, or as a promise of future income. If any page here ever contradicts the API, trust the API.
How this list gets shorter
Everything above is open work, not a roadmap someone else owns. The chain is public at github.com/ankhcash/ankh-chain under the MIT licence — the verification pipeline, the consensus rules, the economics and the sidechain framework are all there to read, run and disagree with.
- Run a node. Every additional independent node makes duplicate detection harder to subvert, because a registration has to satisfy all of them rather than one operator's server.
- Launch a sidechain. An institution running its own chain and anchoring it here is what turns a ledger into infrastructure other people actually depend on. The Republic of Adal was the first.
- Read the code and file what is wrong. Issues and pull requests are the fastest route from the right-hand column to the left one. The gaps listed above are stated plainly so they can be worked on, not to be excused.
- Audit it. The absence of a third-party review is on this list precisely because it should not stay there.
- Argue with us. The economics and the limitations get debated in the community server — including by people who think the whole thing is wrong. Disagreement is more useful to this than agreement.
A unit of account is worth what a network of people and institutions actually does with it. Nothing here becomes real because it is asserted on this page — it becomes real when independent parties run it, check it, and build on it.