You shouldn't have to just hope the person you're dealing with is honest.
Chronimy lets you know exactly who you're dealing with — and protects what's yours. Online or off. By code, not by faith.
The internet has never had a protocol for trust.
Chronimy is building it.
CNMY is a utility token — not a security. Not available to US persons, UK residents, Canadian residents, or Chinese residents. All figures in CHF.
Right now, trusting a stranger is a leap of faith.
Worldwide, fraud takes an estimated USD 5.1 trillion from ordinary people every year. Behind that number are savings, livelihoods, and trust that doesn't come back. You should never have to choose between proving who you are and protecting what's yours.
Every day, someone hands money to a person who turned out not to be who they claimed. A buyer who never pays. A seller who never ships. A "client," a "landlord," a "contractor" — a convincing profile, a professional manner, and then nothing.
It happens because so much of how we deal with each other — online, and increasingly offline — runs on one quiet, dangerous assumption: that the person on the other side is telling the truth. You can't see them. You can't check them. You build a good name in one place and it counts for nothing in the next — and you prove who you are today only to prove it all over again tomorrow.
Trust you don't have to take on faith.
Chronimy is trust infrastructure — built so two people who have never met can deal with each other safely, whether online or face to face. Three things, working together:
Identity you own
Verify once. Prove you're real and verified without handing over your private details — and that proof travels with you everywhere.
Reputation that's yours
Every honest dealing builds a record that belongs to you — not to a platform that can delete it, bury it, or sell it.
Protection built in
Money is held safely until both sides have done what they agreed. If the system itself ever fails you, a member-funded reserve covers verified loss.
Simple where it matters.
You shouldn't take anyone's word for this. So don't.
It is built so value stays with the community, not extracted.
Chronimy runs on a four-entity structure: Chronimy Holdings AG (the community's company) operates the platform; a Swiss non-profit foundation holds its single share, the Kind philanthropic project and the member-protection reserve; and two further entities hold the IP and licensing. The DAO has no outside shareholders — members govern it, one badge, one vote — and 95% of platform profit is locked back into the company by an immutable split, the only outflow being the 5% IP licence, with no discretionary profit extraction. There is no founder treasury: the founder's allocation is immutable, contract-locked, and at the same risk as every member's. No one — including the founder — can move the funds or override the system.
The people who contribute hold the keys.
Money raised in each stage is released only by the people who contributed it — and only as each promised piece is actually delivered.
Everything is written down, and public.
The full architecture — twelve whitepapers (including the standards) and the legal documents — was written, reviewed, and published before a single line of production code. You can read all of it. You can check it. That is the point.
If it doesn't happen, you're refunded.
If the Genesis doesn't fill, every contribution is returned — automatically. No one can stop that; it's written into the code.
I built the system.
I will not run it.
In this space, the first question people always ask is: who is the founder? For a standard startup, that is exactly the right question. But Chronimy is not a startup. It is an architecture.
My task was not to build a company I could lead. It was to design a system that does not need to be trusted — and once that design was proven sound, to stand back.
I did not assemble a team. I did not allocate a treasury to myself. I did not make myself CEO, or put myself in charge of operations.
I have watched that model fail too many times: a pre-formed team sitting on a pile of raised capital, holding all the keys, making all the decisions. People called it decentralisation. It wasn't. It was the same old risk, wearing a new word. As long as the founders hold the keys, the founders are the system — and they are the single point of failure.
You have seen the pages I mean. The polished team section. The headshots. The LinkedIn links and the self-written praise. The "advisors" — some not qualified to advise on anything, some who do not even know they have been named. It is a sham.
And it hides one simple truth: if decentralisation were real, there would be no team page and no founder page at all. Any pre-formed structure is centralised. Plain and simple.
So I removed that failure point entirely.
The people who will lead Chronimy — the CEO, the management, the members of the Guardian Council — will not be chosen by me. They will be chosen by you. Here is exactly how it works:
I built the structure. I wrote the rules. I put the power where it belongs — in the cohort. The Architect will not run Chronimy. You will.
Genesis is open.
Chronimy is being built in stages. The first — Genesis — is open now to a small group. You're reading this because someone already inside believes you belong here.
Before anything else: read it. The Introduction explains the whole system in plain language — what it is, how it works, and where to go from there. Don't take a position until you've read enough to be sure.
What we won't pretend: building this is hard, and adoption is never guaranteed. CNMY is designed as a utility token — for use, not speculation — but that is the founder's own assessment, and formal legal review is still required before launch. We would rather you knew that now.