BLIND5 / PROTOCOL PAPER
THE MARKET JUDGMENT NETWORK.
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Contents
The one line idea
BLIND5 is a live market game where players rank five assets without knowing their identities, see the reveal, rank them again, and prove their judgment against the market.
The big vision
BLIND5 begins as a game.
It becomes a reputation system.
Then it becomes an intelligence network.
Every round produces three datasets: what players believed while the assets were blind, what players believed after identity was revealed, and what the market actually did.
Over time, BLIND5 builds a graph of verified market judgment. The system is called the Blind Graph.
The product loop
Every round contains five comparable assets. Players receive normalized charts, price changes, and lossy market metrics as liquidity, volume, holder and age bands.
Players do not receive a name, ticker, logo, contract, social link or narrative.
The player ranks all five, first blind, then again after the identities are revealed. The market window then determines the final order, and BLIND5 compares the blind ranking, the reveal ranking and the market result.
Round speeds
PROTOCOL VISIONThe live product today is one daily round. The long-term design supports several round speeds so BLIND5 plays like a game, not a once-a-day check-in.
Fast, repeatable rounds. The retention loop.
More signal, less noise than Flash5.
The flagship round. Today's live product.
Historical rounds, completed immediately, live today.
Scoring
A five asset ranking produces ten pairwise judgments. A pair is correct when the asset with the higher return is ranked higher. Pairs whose return difference is 0.01 percentage points or less are ties and are excluded.
Your round score is correct pairs out of decisive pairs, for example 8 out of 10. Your number 1 ranked asset is your pick.
Proof of Judgment
NEXTA non-transferable performance record built only from verified BLIND5 rounds. It cannot be bought or transferred, only earned through completed judgments.
The Blind Graph
PROTOCOL VISIONMaps player, verified judgments, market conditions and historical performance into a Regime Skill Vector per player, earned from results, never self-declared.
Only information known before the current result may determine a weight. Future outcome data never retroactively improves it.
The 120 state model
PROTOCOL VISIONFive assets have 5! = 120 possible complete rankings. BLIND5 can model the crowd as a probability distribution across all 120 states, which is a richer signal than counting which asset received the most number 1 votes.
B5 Lenses
PROTOCOL VISIONA Lens is a live query over the Blind Graph, a cohort of players filtered by historical performance under a given market regime. Every public Lens must have a verifiable out of sample record: no cherry picking rounds after the result, only performance after the Lens is published counts.
The B5 role
PROTOCOL VISIONB5 is not positioned as a token that gives players better information during a live game. It must never provide early identity reveal, a better score, different settlement rules, privileged market data, or any pay to win advantage.
B5 is designed around the economic and intelligence network built on top of the game: Terminal access, premium Lenses, creator and Arena staking, fee reductions, Judge Node collateral and API tiers.
$B5 does not exist yet. Nothing here is an offer, and no functionality described in this section is live.
The trust layer
LIVELive today: a frozen candidate universe, a lossy blind representation, a published commitment hash before the round opens, server authoritative time, immutable submissions, deterministic settlement and a public result archive.
The B5 covenant
NO PAY TO WIN
No amount of B5 changes the integrity of a live round or reveals an identity early.
NO SILENT RULE CHANGES
Game and scoring versions are published.
NO HIDDEN ROUND CHANGES
Committed rounds cannot be silently redrawn.
NO FAKE PERFORMANCE
Public Lens records are measured out of sample.
NO FAKE TRANSPARENCY
Voids, cancellations and settlement references remain inspectable.
Roadmap
BLIND5 starts with five anonymous assets.Every verified round builds reputation.Reputation builds the Blind Graph.The Blind Graph becomes intelligence.B5 powers the economic network around it.
- IPLAYMake BLIND5 fast, repeatable and genuinely fun.LIVE
- IIB5 GENESISConnect B5 to real product usage from the beginning.NEXT
- IIIPROVETurn gameplay into a permanent verified track record.NEXT
- IVBONDCombine economic commitment with earned reputation.PROTOCOL VISION
- VMAPMap who has historically been strongest in different market conditions.PROTOCOL VISION
- VILENSTurn network judgment into a queryable intelligence product.PROTOCOL VISION
- VIICREATELet creators, communities and researchers build on BLIND5.PROTOCOL VISION
- VIIIVERIFYTurn BLIND5 into a verifiable market judgment network.PROTOCOL VISION
Disclaimer
BLIND5 is a competitive market data game and analytics platform. Nothing presented through BLIND5 constitutes financial, investment or trading advice.
Any future $B5 functionality, protocol economics, staking, rewards, marketplace mechanics or revenue related mechanisms remain subject to technical, legal and jurisdictional review before activation.
Token ownership, if and when $B5 exists, does not guarantee profit, yield or financial return.