In process of building Credz. Abstract from draft whitepaper:

Recognition has always carried both weight and direction. It tells people who they are within a group and where they can go next. From engraved Roman crowns to knighthood’s rituals, from regimental colors to modern service medals, the world has long trusted tangible artifacts to record deeds and transmit values. In the workplace, on campuses, inside volunteer corps, in maker communities and esports teams, recognition is the invisible architecture that holds human effort together. Yet in digital life, the artifacts of recognition have grown weightless. Certificates arrive as PDFs and vanish into folders and inboxes. Badges live behind log‑ins that few outside the issuing platform will ever see. Even when sincere, these gestures feel generic; the story of the achievement is not preserved, and the token lacks the gravity to inspire.

Credz proposes a corrective that is at once traditional and new. It borrows the culture and ceremony of military challenge coins - small, heavy (typically metallic) tokens issued to soldiers/officers and carried with pride - and reimagines them for a networked world. Built on NEAR Protocol and powered by modern AI, Credz lets communities and organizations mint artist or AI‑designed, serial‑numbered, cryptographically verifiable digital coins that feel personal, look beautiful, and behave according to clear rules. A coin can be non‑transferable to preserve the meaning of an earned honor; it can be challengeable so holders can compare serials, playfully reenacting coin‑check traditions; it can be minted in batches whose scarcity creates natural tiers of prestige.

With Credz , I'm deliberately looking beyond coins to a larger horizon. The same primitives that make a coin feel like a ceremony - issuance, provenance, scarcity, and programmable transfer semantics - also form the skeleton of a broader system for awards, credentials, attestations, and proofs of anything. Currently calling this the Universal Proof & Recognition Protocol (UPRP). Credz (challenge coins) makes recognition meaningful now; the protocol subsequently expands Credz into related domains making proof of anything useful, portable, and privacy‑respecting everywhere.

Anticipating development of first phase to take another two months $69/month plan x 2, then pro plan $199/month x 4. Believe this should cover development/beta testing, and then what I hope will be significant user adoption once on mainnet/released.

Current development build incorporates NEAR technologies: NEAR AI, NEAR Chain Abstraction, NEAR Intents, Rust smart contracts and an ecosystem partner: Privy

https://github.com/VitalPointAI/Challenge-Coin-1 (private for now), 2 x contracts built/deployed to testnet: challenge-coin-game.vitalpointai.testnet, challenge-coin-nft.vitalpointai.testnet. Currently working on the UX/AI integration - React Native app. Been paying the $69/month FastNear plan for last several months (cust id#: cus_SNr5CmQDuJogKf) - definitely be a big help/alleviate some pressure by covering this cost over next six months. Thanks for considering.