To suggest changes to the site simply click on an “Ovis It” button from any page. In the page that opens, find the drop-down menu second from the left. Click on it and highlight “general suggestions.” Fill in a brief title for your suggestion and the details. Click submit.

To suggest a story on the site simply click on an “Ovis It” button from any page. In the page that opens, find the drop-down menu second from the left. Click on it and highlight “stories.” Fill in a brief title for your story suggestion, the details of your suggestion, and choose an emoji and the quantity of tokens you wish to stake in support of the story. Click submit.

To suggest a new community standard simply click on an “Ovis It” button from any page. In the page that opens, find the drop-down menu second from the left. Click on it and highlight “community standards.” Fill in a brief title for your suggestion, the details of your suggestion, choose an emoji, and the quantity of tokens you wish to stake in support of the suggestion. Click submit.

Yes. Right now there are two distinct categories of information you can search: news stories and users. You can use the search bar on the main page to enter your search. Simply select which of the categories you would like to search, enter your query, and hit enter. A more robust set of search options is planned for a future release.

On the Ovis home page, scroll down to the bottom just before the black footer appears. There are a series of three statements which are hyperlinks. Click “become a journalist.” The link will take you to a page where you may complete the process and upload the requested materials.

On the Ovis home page, scroll down to the bottom just before the black footer appears. There are a series of three statements which are hyperlinks. Click “become a fact-checker.” The link will take you to a page where you may complete the process and upload the requested materials.

Right now the only way to change your password on the platform is to pretend that you’ve actually forgotten your current password. From the Ovis login screen click “forgot password.” This action will send an email to your address in the system and enable you to initiate actions to change your password. This method is clunky and inconvenient and it’s something we’ve slated to improve in an upcoming release.

Yes. You will need to download the MetaMask wallet for desktop. MetaMask has plugins for the Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave browsers.

Truth Tokens are your currency within the Ovis community. These tokens can be used for a number of things based on a person's role within the community. News Consumers – use Truth Tokens to suggest story ideas, support someone else’s story ideas, and to submit suggestions for the community. Users can also use Truth Tokens to up-vote another member's community suggestion. Journalists – will use Truth Tokens to show their confidence in a story they wish to cover. Journalists stake Truth Tokens on a story before covering it. They can also suggest story ideas and submit community standards suggestions/general suggestions by using Truth Tokens. Fact Checkers – will stake Truth Tokens when fact checking a story to show confidence in the accuracy of their checks.

You will notice there are “gas fees” tallied as part of any subtotal when conducting a transaction within your wallet. A gas fee is a charge all users pay in order to perform any function or transaction on a blockchain to use their network, in this case Binance. Essentially it’s a usage fee. Different blockchains have different fees.

With a non-custodial wallet, you have sole control of your private keys, which in turn control your cryptocurrency and prove the funds or tokens are yours. With a custodial wallet, another party controls your private keys. Ovis is a non-custodial wallet set up, meaning none of your wallet information is secured or held by Ovis. Your wallet accounts remain inside your own Metamask Wallet which you control.

As you may be aware, the technology that enables Ovis to operate is called a tokenized curated registry, or TCR. Those tokens exist on the blockchain and every interaction on the Ovis platform that requires tokenization (or an interaction with the blockchain) is dependent on the basic fundamentals of how the blockchain operates. The speed of blockchain transactions is related to the fact that records (known as blocks) in the chain are limited in size and frequency. The on-chain transaction processing time of any given blockchain network also depends on many potential factors. It may have to do with capacity, network congestion, block propagation, or several other elements. The simple answer is, it’s all part of how blockchain works.