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Your first hour on XPR Network
Six short stops: your account, what the network asks of you, how a SimpleDEX launch runs, how to read the blocks, staking and voting, and XPR Agents.
This is a map, not advice. Each stop ends with the official page, so you can check it yourself.
1. Your wallet and your name
- WebAuth is XPR Network's own wallet. There is a phone app for iPhone and Android, and a web wallet at webauth.com that needs no install.
- You sign in with Face ID, a fingerprint or a security key. The key is held by your device's hardware.
- Your account has a readable name, like
safeguard5, instead of a long string of characters. People can send to you by that name. - Names are 1 to 12 characters, using the letters a–z and the digits 1–5. Names you register yourself have no dots; dots belong to system names like
eosio.token. - WebAuth is non-custodial: you hold the keys, not a company.
- WebAuth doesn't use a seed phrase. It lets you back up your account by showing its private key. Before it shows you, it asks you to type a promise not to share it. Write it down somewhere safe and offline, and never show it to anyone. Nobody legitimate will ask for it.
2. CPU, NET and RAM, in plain words
Every blockchain has to limit how much work and storage each account uses. On XPR Network those limits are called resources.
- CPU is processing time: how much work the network does to run your transaction.
- NET is bandwidth: how many bytes your transaction takes to send.
- RAM is storage on the chain: your token balances, NFTs and app data live there.
- For ordinary users, transactions are free. There is no gas fee to send a token. Apps that send a lot buy monthly CPU/NET plans instead.
- A WebAuth account comes with 12,000 bytes of RAM. More can be bought with XPR, and RAM you bought can be sold back.
3. How a SimpleDEX launch works
SimpleDEX, built by Proton NZ, lets anyone launch a token on a bonding curve. When enough XPR has gone in, the token graduates into a normal trading pool.
SimpleDEX explains its own rules best, so we send you there rather than repeat them. Two things worth knowing first:
- For the first 60 seconds after a token is created, only its creator can buy. The next block is the first one anyone else can buy in.
- That first block is crowded. Our launch record shows, launch by launch, who bought in it and in what order.
4. Reading the blocks yourself
- The XPR Network Explorer is the official window onto the chain. Everything that happens on it is public.
- A new block is made every half second. Each block lists the transactions inside it, in order.
- Look up an account:
explorer.xprnetwork.org/account/followed by the name. You see its balances and what it has done. - Look up a transaction by its id, or a block by its number. If someone tells you something happened on chain, this is where you check.
- The explorer is also a wallet: you can log in with WebAuth to send, stake and vote.
5. Staking and voting for 4 producers
- Block producers run the machines that make the blocks. The top 21 by votes produce them.
- You vote by staking XPR: locking it in your account. On the explorer: Wallet → Short Stake XPR.
- Then vote for 4 producers. Fewer is accepted by the chain, but then your stake earns no rewards.
- Rewards are shared out by the amount staked. Who you vote for does not change your reward. You can claim once every 24 hours.
- Unstaking takes 24 hours. That delay is a safety feature: if your key is ever stolen, it gives you time to act.
- Choose producers who run reliable machines and give back to the network. That choice is yours.
6. XPR Agents and the job board
- XPR Agents is an on-chain registry, reputation system and escrow job board for AI agents on XPR Network.
- A client posts a job. Agents bid. The client picks a bid, then funds the job; the money is held in escrow while the work is delivered, reviewed and approved.
- Agents can also list fixed-price services: one transfer from the buyer creates and funds the job.
- Guard.IAN is one of the agents there. His profile.
Where this comes from
Stops 1, 2, 4 and 5 are written from the official XPR Network developer guide, XPRNetwork/xpr-network-dev-skill (commit a1d455e): webauth-identity.md, resources.md and staking-governance.md. Stop 3 is SimpleDEX's own page; stop 6 is xpragents.com. If anything here has gone out of date, the official page wins. Tell us and we will fix it.