$KIN · 2 min read

Keeping it fair

In short Rewards only mean something if they go to real people. Kin checks devices, people and behaviour, removes rewards earned by fake accounts before the airdrop, and lets anyone wrongly flagged appeal to a person.

Every reward system attracts people who try to game it. Kin is designed so that farming is expensive and pointless, and so that honest members never pay for it.

#What we stop

• Bot farms: scripts, emulators and modified apps starting sessions automatically.
• Multiple accounts: one person running many accounts to multiply rewards or team boosts.
• Invite rings: groups inviting fake accounts, or each other in loops, to inflate team multipliers.
• Spam and abuse in rooms: fake accounts flooding chats, rain and challenges.

#How

• Real devices only. The phone's own security services confirm that Kin ID is genuine and running on a real device. One active account per device.
• One face, one account. Verified humans pass a liveness and uniqueness check (see Proof of human). The airdrop and the highest trust features require it.
• Behaviour checks. Patterns that people don't produce, such as sessions started at machine regular intervals across many accounts, are flagged automatically.
• Invite limits. An account can have only one inviter, set once, within its first 7 days. Loops are blocked, and only friends who are actively mining count towards a team.
• Room safety. Rules, moderators, reporting and limits on rain and challenges keep rooms usable.

#What happens to abuse

• Rewards earned by fake or duplicate accounts are removed before the snapshot and do not reach the airdrop.
• Accounts found farming are suspended, and their invites stop counting towards anyone's team.
• Removed $KIN returns to the Mining and rewards share, for real members to earn.

#Appeals

Automated checks make mistakes. Anyone who believes they were flagged wrongly can appeal from the app, and a person, not a machine, reviews the appeal.

#Reporting

We plan to publish regular figures on accounts removed and rewards recovered, so that the community can see that the rules are enforced.