Discretion and crowd-verified truth, powered by innovation.
Rumors is not a regular feed. There is no shady algorithm deciding whose voice carries. What sorts signal from noise is the community.
Signal, not noise. At a time when social networks have become a place where everyone seems to be an expert in everything but fails to provide any real value, Rumors offers a real solution. If the information is already public, carries no value, or seems to be fake news, it does not stay — whatever the person who posted it thinks.
Three reactions, and only three. seems plausible, seems fake, or already in the market. The first says it could be real edge. The second says it's bullshit. The third says it may be true, but it's public or priced-in — so it carries no edge. Enough weight on either of the last two, and a post fades from The Wall. Simple.
Anonymous by design. Nobody knows who is behind Rumors, and nobody needs to know who is behind a post. To keep it that way while stopping bot armies, participation requires a proof of humanity (World ID) — a zero-knowledge proof that you are human, revealing nothing about who you are.
Your face never touches Rumors. World ID checks humanity on your side and hands us only a cryptographic proof and an anonymous per-app token (a nullifier). Rumors never receives — and never stores — your face, your iris, your name or any biometric data. There is nothing here to leak. Even if our servers were dumped tomorrow, no one could tell who any member is.
Three tiers of proof — reading is open to all, but the vote is earned.
- ◦ Device-verified — a quick World ID device check, available anywhere. You can read and post, but you cannot vote. A phone farm can mint device proofs by the thousand, so we never let device accounts touch The Wall's ranking.
- ✓ Verified human — a remote World ID Selfie check (liveness + uniqueness score), no Orb needed. Unlocks the seems plausible / seems fake vote, weight 1. This is how you get a real voice from anywhere, France included.
- ✦ Unique human — the strongest World ID proof, done once at an Orb. It adds a distinctive badge and a little more vote weight (2), because it's the hardest guarantee that one person can't quietly become many.
Why gate the vote and not the post? Ranking is the only thing bots can distort. Posting is content anyone can weigh; upvotes and downvotes are the lever. By reserving votes to Selfie and Orb — proofs a phone farm can't cheaply mass-produce — The Wall's sorting stays bot-manipulation proof, while the door to contribute stays open.
World ID is a trust provider, not a gatekeeper we depend on blindly: if it ever became unavailable in your country, Rumors can add other anonymity-preserving proofs without rebuilding the club.
No portfolios. No competition. Just information, shared discreetly, so the community sees what the market doesn't.
How the edge is funded. Rumors takes no fees. If the signal helps you, leave a discreet tip. That's the whole model. (not set up yet)
The removal rules, in the open. A post is removed from The Wall when, with a minimum of 10 votes in total, either more than 70% of its votes are “seems fake” or more than 70% are “already in the market”. Bullshit or no edge — both fade. No moderators picking winners — just the community, by the numbers.
Every post is fingerprinted with a timestamped content hash, so the antecedence of a scoop can be proven later — without ever exposing its author.