ANKH Cash is a purpose-built layer-1 (hybrid DPoS plus proof-of-authority) whose entire token supply is issued only as universal basic income: each biometrically verified human is allocated ☥2,800,000 over 45 years, paid as roughly ☥5,185 per month, with no pre-mine, ICO or founder allocation. Verification uses on-chain face-template matching executed by validators rather than a central database.
Own ANKH chain (hybrid DPoS + PoA, 3s blocks), with an Ethereum ERC-20 bridge contract and institutional sidechains anchored to mainnet
Nominal peg of 1 ANKH to $1 of reference purchasing power; an ERC-20 mirror contract on Ethereum is offered for liquidity/bridging. No reserve or market backing documented.
Validator/delegate model; institutions can run anchored sidechains with a 100 ANKH stake and three validators. No named team is published.
- Mainnet reported live with a public API (api.ankh.cash) and SDK; repository created 2026-02, still committed to as of 2026-09.
- Self-reported network stats at time of check: 8,246 verified users, ☥21.36M UBI distributed, ~533,000 blocks, 1 active validator and 3 nodes — i.e. real but very small and highly centralised.
- The 1 ankh = $1 "reference purchasing power" peg and the $2.8M lifetime figure are unbacked design claims, not external valuation.
CAUTION: user numbers and payouts are self-reported, and the headline entitlement (millions of dollars per person over a lifetime) is a design claim with nothing backing it. Listed because it is live and often cited, not as an endorsement.
Treat the economics sceptically: a $2.8M lifetime entitlement per person for up to 10 billion people is not backed by any disclosed funding source. Related project: the self-declared Republic of Adal runs its ARJ basic income on a sovereign chain anchored to ANKH.