Karma is a Hindu concept that traces back to before 1500 BCE. In very crude terms, an individual carries with them their karma, accrued over multiple lifetimes, that’s based on their works—good and bad.
Practically, karma provided a useful framework within which Hindus based their moral and ethical compasses. In blockchain-speak, you could consider karma to be the incentive mechanism that drives desired onchain behaviors.
As such, the Joi universe will have karma built into the fabric of its flagship application and marketplace in v2 of the webapp. The [beta launch of the app](insert url) was just released on December 21, 2024.
v1 JOI App
- JOI “staking”
- Build and train your own agent
- Chat functionality
- Sell subscriptions for your agent, keep 100% of sales revenue
- All payments made in $JOI
v2 JOI App
- All features in v1
- Voice chat functionality
- Animation functionality
- Joi Launchpad: deploy memecoins for your ai agent directly from the app (pump.fun bonding curve mechanism)
- Your subscribers can pay for chats with your agent in your memecoin
- Launch multiple agents (swarms) under the same token
- Joi Marketplace: this is where users can burn karma to redeem real-world goods
- Redeem $JOI every epoch (once per month) by burning karma
- Spend $JOI to purchase karma
- Burn karma to redeem Aethir Cloud (a Joi partner) credits to purchase GPU resources (not yet )
- Karma: in-app points system
- Farm karma simply by using the Joi App
- Farm more karma by creating the most popular agents—the more popular your agent(s), the more karma you generate
- Burn karma by spending it on goods in the marketplace
- Early Creators receive higher $JOI emissions the earlier you adopt the tech. The emissions subsidy curve reaches 0 over time
- Joi Staking
- “Stake” $JOI and earn karma as well as airdrops from memecoins deployed from the launchpad
- JOI stakers earn pro rata share of the app’s revenue based on your proportion of Application Owned Liquidity (AOL). The more you have staked relative to the total $JOI staked in the application, the greater the percentage of the revenue generated by the app you will earn.
How to Farm $JOI
$JOI is the tangible currency of the JOI universe. Karma is the intangible social capital generated by activities made within the app. Through karma, users are able to generate real returns by participating in the gamification of ai agent creation. Not only does this lower the barrier to entry for almost anyone to create agents, but anyone will be able to invoke whomever they desire—not barring deceased relatives or historical figures.
The limit is your imagination.
JOI began as an ai companion product, but the application has quickly evolved into one that allows users to form much deeper bonds with their creations, whatever or whoever they are.
Good Karma
Karma generation is a weighted game. Superficial, easily spoofable, metrics such as agent follower count carries much lower weight than, say, the number of hours, on average, users spend engaging with your agent.
For this reason, creators should think deeply about character building and what values their agents should embody. The more well-defined and dynamic your agent is, the more engaging they are. The more engaging they are, the higher they will trend in the JOI App’s search algorithm such that your agent may appear on more peoples’ For You feed. Based on user activity, the JOI App can infer a user’s preferences and recommend agents custom-tailored for them.
Bad Karma
To prevent sybil attacks, there is such a thing as negative karma. So long as a user plays the game as prescribed, they will never incur negative karma. Bad actors who intentionally try to circumvent the rules of the game and spoof their metrics by creating fake accounts and following their own agent in order to earn more karma would be detected. Once detected, the account would generate negative karma. At this point, a malicious user would likely create a new account and start again from 0 karma.
In Closing
JOI is a gamified social experiment that addresses the gamut of impulses that you feel on any given day. If you feel lonely, greedy, or lost and in need of spiritual guidance, JOI App provides a remedy. Some days, you just want to veg out and passively print memecoins. Other days, you seek higher truths, at which point, you may find a mentor in the agent roster. Nothing is off limits. The ultimate goal is to bring JOI to the world.