Help & FAQ

An AlpenPass is a verified GPS point at the summit of an Alpine pass. You collect it by physically riding there and your phone confirming the position via GPS detection — no photo upload, no self-report. GPS detection writes the pass into your collection and credits you with RideCoins (RC). Optionally you can mint the pass afterwards in the Pro Shop as a Soulbound Token (SBT) on Stellar Mainnet — then it is permanently on-chain proven, visible in Lobstr/Freighter, independent of whether our app keeps running.

Open the app · tap „Start ride" · grant GPS and motion permissions · ride to the pass · the point is automatically captured via GPS detection as soon as you are within radius · the pass lands in your collection and you get RideCoins (RC) credited. That's it — everything up to here is automatic and free. Optional premium steps (see FAQ below): make the Nostr badge public, or mint as a Stellar SBT permanently on-chain. Both only happen when you buy them in the Pro Shop and sign with your wallet.

Standard is 200 m radius around the pass coordinate. For especially high-value passes the radius can be tighter (75 m). The app shows you live how close you are — once 'Pass detected' appears, it has validated you.

AlpenRide: a predefined loop (start = finish) with multiple passes (e.g. Innerschwyzer ride: Etzel → Sattelegg → Ibergeregg → Raten → Etzel). AlpenCrossing: point-to-point tour across multiple passes in one direction (e.g. Ticino → Valais). Both count as completed once you collect all passes of the tour in one ride via GPS detection — you get a tour entry in your collection plus the RC points. The corresponding Soulbound Token can be optionally minted in the Pro Shop.

You collect all passes of the tour in a single GPS session. The app matches your tour ID with the required passes and writes the tour completion to your collection — you instantly get RC points. These RCs are automatically converted to ARC every day at 23:59 CET proportional to the available pool. If you additionally want the tour as a Stellar SBT permanently on-chain, you mint it in the Pro Shop — that is a separate user action with Stellar TX signature and does not happen automatically.

We check speed plausibility (no teleport between passes), elevation profile (baro sensor matches GPS altitude), corner analysis (acceleration profile indicates motorcycle) and map matching via Valhalla engine (your points must lie on real roads). Mock locations are detected.

ARC is the native token of AlpenRiderChain on Stellar Mainnet. Asset code: ARC, Issuer: GD3ZKTQ…VM7L3M76. Total supply is hard-capped at 1 000 000 000 ARC (see /tokenomics for live lock status).

RC (RideCoin): off-chain points counter in app. You get them immediately when collecting a pass/ride (for gamification). ARC: on-chain token on Stellar — converted from your RCs once every 24h (exchange rate depends on remaining pool). RC disappears on conversion.

1 000 000 000 ARC total: 580 m Pool (rewards), 250 m Treasury (operations), 90 m Community (governance/promo), 80 m Team (vesting). Live values and all wallet addresses at /tokenomics — straight from the blockchain.

Conversion runs every 24h at 23:59 CET — all users' accumulated RCs are distributed across the available pool share. You get a Nostr notification when your ARC is ready. Claim window: 4 days (Stellar Claimable Balance).

Currently partial — master key still active (weight=1), auth flags not yet immutable. Live status shown at /tokenomics in real time. Final lock TX (SetOptions with auth_immutable + master weight=0) is planned — we'll announce via Nostr.

Your Stellar wallet is generated directly on your phone at first app start (BIP-39 seed, 12 words). We have no access to your private key — it's stored in Secure Enclave (iOS) or Keystore (Android). You control your ARC.

At first start the app shows you the 12 words once — write them on paper, store in a safe place. Never store digitally (cloud, screenshots). If you lose them and the phone breaks, your ARC is gone — we cannot recover anything.

With your seed phrase: install app on new phone → 'Restore wallet' → enter 12 words → all ARC + SBTs are immediately back (they live on Stellar, not on the phone). Without seed phrase: no recovery possible.

Nostr is a decentralised social protocol. We use it for: (1) public activity feed (passes/rides/crossings — anonymised, you control what is shared), (2) NIP-58 badges (optional, unlocked per-pass in the Pro Shop — see next FAQ), (3) conversion notifications (RC→ARC confirmations).

Standard for achievements on Nostr. For every GPS-verified pass, the AlpenRiderChain issuer prepares a Badge Definition (Kind 30009) for you — it is ready, but not yet on your profile. Only when you award the pass to yourself in the Pro Shop (a single user action: pay ARC + sign Kind 30008 with your nsec), the badge becomes visible on your Nostr profile (Damus, Amethyst, Primal, Coracle). Just like SBT — the user decides when a badge becomes public.

Stellar Mainnet (not testnet). We use Stellar for 5s settlement, ~0.00001 XLM TX cost and native asset support. All passes/rides are on-chain verifiable as asset memos via stellar.expert.

Soroban is Stellar's smart-contract engine. We use it for (1) SBT wrapping (1 ARC in SAC wrapper as technical baseline, no user lock), (2) future: identity contracts for pseudo-anonymous profiles, (3) future: Soroban indexer for mint→badge bridge. Status: /tokenomics.

GPS tracking engine, Stellar integration, Nostr sync and Issuer pubkeys are traceable. Code repo will be published under MIT after SCF application decision. Stellar verification works without our code anyway — everything's on-chain.