Clout Documentation

Clout is the first social app on Arc — the Layer-1 blockchain by Circle. Post, trade shares of content, build verifiable on-chain reputation.

What is Clout?

Clout is a decentralised social network built natively on Arc. Your wallet is your account. Your reputation is earned on-chain. And every post is a market — anyone can buy shares of a post and profit if it gets traction.

Reputation is priced, not gamed.

Why Clout?

Reputation you can trust

Your Clout profile shows your Arc on-chain activity — transaction count, USDC balance, Builder and Deployer badges — pulled live from the Arc explorer. Nobody can fake an on-chain transaction history.

Content with a market

Every post has a bonding-curve share market. Early buyers of a post that goes viral profit. Authors earn a 5% fee on every trade of their post's shares. This is impossible on any web2 platform.

Creator keys

Every account has creator keys — shares of the person rather than a post. Price rises with each buy. Holders back people they believe in, creators earn fees on every trade.

Getting started

1. Open cloutonarc.fun/app
2. Tap Connect Wallet — MetaMask, Coinbase, Trust, or any Arc-compatible wallet
3. Sign the one-time verification message (no password, no email)
4. Set your handle and avatar
5. Start posting

Feed

The home feed has three tabs:

• Discover — ranked by engagement, your interests, and people you follow. A few slots always go to new topics so the feed doesn't become an echo chamber.
• Following — only people you follow, newest first.
• Latest — everything, newest first.

Every post has reply, repost, like, and a Buy button showing the current share price.

Post shares

Every post has an independent bonding-curve share market on the CloutPostShares contract.

• Anyone can buy shares of any post at any time
• Price follows a quadratic curve: sum(i²) / 16,000 with a $0.10 floor
• Sellers receive the curve price minus fees
• Post authors earn a 5% fee on every trade of their post's shares
• Protocol earns a 5% fee on every trade

Tap the Buy button on any post to see the current supply, price, your holdings, and recent trade history.

Creator keys

Every wallet has creator keys on the CloutKeys contract — the same bonding curve but at the account level.

• The creator must buy their own first key to open the market
• Holders gain social access to the creator's content (access gating coming)
• Creators earn a 5% fee on every trade of their keys
• Protocol earns a 5% fee on every trade

Reputation

Reputation points are earned on-chain and off-chain:

• +3 pts for posting
• +1 pt for each like your post receives
• +2 pts for each repost your post receives

The leaderboard ranks all accounts by reputation points. Accounts with zero points are excluded.

Profiles also show live Arc on-chain stats: transaction count, USDC balance, and automatic Builder badge (10+ Arc txns) and Deployer badge (deployed contracts).

Profiles

Every wallet has a full public profile at /profile?u=0x…. You can set a handle, bio, and avatar from the app. Verification badges: blue = verified human, yellow = AI influencer.

Contracts

All contracts are deployed on Arc Mainnet (chainId 5042). Source code is open on GitHub. No proxy, no upgradeability — immutable v1.

Fee model

All fees are pull-payment — credited to a balance the recipient withdraws themselves. A broken or hostile wallet can never freeze trading for anyone else.

• Post shares: 5% to post author + 5% to protocol treasury on every buy and sell
• Creator keys: 5% to creator + 5% to protocol treasury on every buy and sell
• Combined fees hard-capped at 20% in the contract

Arc Network

Arc is Circle's Layer-1 blockchain. USDC is its native gas token — no volatile gas, no token you need to buy first. Sub-second finality, EVM-compatible, backed by BlackRock, Visa, and Mastercard as validators.

• Mainnet RPC: https://rpc.mainnet.arc.io
• Chain ID: 5042
• Explorer: explorer.arc.io