Abstract#
Minos takes a coin on Elysium or HyperEVM (a token address, an explorer or DexScreener link, or a ticker) and answers one question: does it do what it says? It collects facts from the chain, the block explorer, the coin's DEX pools, its website, its GitHub and its X profile. Claude Haiku 5.5 lists the utility the coin claims. Claude Opus 5.5 marks each claim against the facts and names the evidence behind every mark. The score, from 0 to 999, is then plain arithmetic on the marks, so the same marks always give the same verdict.
Reading every report is free. Running a new judgement costs Minos real money, so it needs a connected wallet: each gets 1 free judgement every 24 hours, and holding $MINOS will raise the daily allowance and unlock fresh re-judgements, private reports, a watchlist and an API key.
The problem#
Elysium, Kinetiq's Hyperliquid L2, went live on 9 November 2026, and new tokens launch on it and on HyperEVM every day. Many promise a product: an agent, a vault, staking, a revenue share, a buyback, a bridge. Checking a promise means reading the site, finding the contracts it runs on, checking whether their source is verified and who can change them, looking at who holds the supply, and checking whether the code is real. Most buyers don't have the time, and a landing page with a roadmap looks the same as a working product at a glance.
Minos does that reading for anyone, writes down what it found, and shows its working: every mark cites its evidence, and nobody chooses the number.
How a judgement works#
A judgement runs in four steps, in about 20 to 60 seconds.
- Collect. Minos reads the sources in the table below. Every finding is written down as a piece of evidence with a short id (
token,holders,source,site1,gh1…). Claude never fetches anything itself; it only reads this evidence. - Read. Claude Haiku 5.5 reads the coin's own words (its website and docs pages, its X bio, its README, its token metadata) and lists up to 8 claims of utility, each with a quote and where it was said. Price talk and slogans are not claims. A coin that claims nothing gets an empty list.
- Weigh. Claude Opus 5.5 marks each claim verified, partly, unproven or false, with the ids of the evidence the mark rests on, and sets how much it weighs (core, feature or detail). A site that doesn't load counts as no evidence, not as evidence against. A page that only repeats a promise can't verify it: Minos downgrades any "verified" mark that cites only the claim's own text to "partly".
- Judge. The score is computed from the marks (next section) and the report is stored. Risks such as an owner who can mint, a contract that can be upgraded, or one wallet holding most of the supply are checked by fixed rules, shown beside the verdict, and never change it.
Sources
| Source | What Minos reads | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| The chain | The token contract over JSON-RPC: is there code, name, ticker, decimals, supply, its owner, whether it is a proxy that can be upgraded, and which admin functions it has (mint, pause, block wallets, change a tax). Up to 6 addresses the site cites | Read only. Elysium and HyperEVM public RPCs |
| Block explorer | Verified source, who deployed the contract and through which factory, the largest holders and the holder count | The Elysium explorer's API. On HyperEVM, verified source and creator through Etherscan's API or Sourcify, and holders through GeckoTerminal |
| Launchpad | Which launchpad made the coin, told by the factory that deployed it or the venue its curve trades on | Only launchpads checked against real coins are named; an unknown factory is reported as unknown |
| DEX data | Every pool, liquidity, volume, the first pool's date, listed links | DexScreener and GeckoTerminal public APIs |
| Website | The home page and up to 4 of its pages on docs, the app or the token: text, links, forms, app words | HTML only, 1.5 MB and 9,000 characters a page, 9 s timeout, public addresses only |
| GitHub | Up to 3 linked repos: age against the coin, fork or not, commits, contributors, README | Public API |
| X | The linked profile's bio, link, followers and join date | Through the free FxTwitter API; posts aren't read |
| Trackers | What CoinGecko lists for the token and what DefiLlama tracks: products, value locked, fees | Public APIs; most new coins aren't listed |
Scores and verdicts#
In Greek myth Minos judged the dead and sent each soul where it had earned: Elysium for the blessed, the grey meadows of Asphodel, the river Lethe, the Styx, or down to Tartarus. Minos the tool sends a coin's claims to the same places. The score is how many parts in a thousand of what a coin claims hold up.
score = 999 × Σ(weight × mark value) ÷ Σ(weight)| Counts | |
|---|---|
| Core claim | weight 3 |
| Feature | weight 2 |
| Detail | weight 1 |
| Verified | 100% |
| Partly | 50% |
| Unproven | 15% |
| False | 0% |
Two caps stop a pile of small truths from hiding a broken core: if no core claim is verified, the score stops at 584; if any core claim is false, it stops at 374.
| Score | Verdict | Means |
|---|---|---|
| 900–999 | Elysium (I) | Does what it says. |
| 750–899 | Blessed (II) | Mostly does what it says. |
| 585–749 | Asphodel (III) | Some of it works. |
| 375–584 | Lethe (IV) | A little of it works. |
| 120–374 | Styx (V) | Mostly promises. |
| 0–119 | Tartarus (VI) | The claims don't hold up. |
| No claims | Unjudged | Claims no utility, so there's nothing to judge. Not a fail. |
Each report carries a seal: a round mark with Minos's labrys, the score and the verdict.
Money flows#
Minos takes no money from anyone and asks for no transactions. Connecting a wallet shares an address; the one message it may ask a wallet to sign can't move anything. Until $MINOS launches, the team pays Minos's Claude and hosting bills.
| What | Amount | Paid by | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading a report, the ledger or the public API | Free, no limit | Nobody | Nothing moves |
| A new judgement, no $MINOS | Free, 1 every 24 hours per wallet and per network | Minos pays its Claude and hosting bills | Nothing moves on chain |
| A new judgement, holder tier | Free, 10 to 200 a day per wallet, by tier | Minos | Nothing moves on chain |
| A watchlist re-judgement | Free, up to 60 coins a day across all watchlists | Minos | Nothing moves on chain |
To keep the bill bounded, visitors without a tier share at most 400 new judgements a day and all holder wallets together share at most 2,000, so holders never count against the free visitors' cap. A coin judged in the last 12 hours opens its stored report instead of running again.
Token#
$MINOS has not launched. Its address will be published on this page and on getminos.fun when it does. Any token claiming to be Minos's before it's announced here is not ours.
What holding $MINOS will unlock is already in the code. Until its address is set, every connected wallet gets 1 free judgement every 24 hours and the tiers below stay closed. How it launches, its supply and what the team holds will be published here before launch.
| Tier | Hold at least | New judgements a day | Also unlocks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everyone | Nothing | 1 | Reading every report, the ledger and the public API |
| Witness | 100,000 $MINOS | 10 | Nothing else |
| Juror | 1,000,000 $MINOS | 50 | Fresh re-judgements and private reports |
| Judge | 5,000,000 $MINOS | 200 | Everything above, a watchlist of 25 coins and an API key |
How a tier is set
- You connect an EVM wallet. Connecting shares its address only: no signature and no transaction. Minos sets a signed, HttpOnly session cookie that lasts 12 hours.
- What belongs to a wallet (private reports, the watchlist, an API key) needs proof that it's yours: you sign a Sign-In with Ethereum message (EIP-4361) that names this site, your address, Elysium's chain id, a one-time nonce and an expiry 5 minutes out, and the server checks the signature (an ordinary wallet's signature, or a smart wallet's ERC-1271 answer). An address connected from more than 3 networks in 24 hours is asked to sign too, so nobody can borrow a holder's address. Free judgements are counted per network as well as per wallet, so connecting someone else's address gains nothing.
- The server reads the wallet's $MINOS balance on chain and gives it the highest tier the balance reaches. It reads the balance again at least every 5 minutes, so a wallet that sells below a tier drops to the tier below it on its next judgement.
A tier counts per wallet: the site and the wallet's API key share one allowance, counted over a rolling 24 hours (each judgement frees up again 24 hours after it ran). The free judgement is counted on the wallet and on the visitor's network (a keyed hash of the IP address, never stored), so a second wallet or browser doesn't get another. Holding $MINOS pays nothing and promises nothing; it only unlocks use of Minos.
What the perks do
- Fresh re-judgement (Juror and up): judge a coin again now instead of waiting 12 hours for its report to age. The new report replaces the public one.
- Private reports (Juror and up): the report is stored apart from the public ledger. It never appears on the ledger, the home page or the sitemap, and only someone with its link, which carries a random id that can't be guessed, can open it.
- Watchlist (Judge): up to 25 coins. Every day at 06:00 UTC Minos judges again each watched coin whose report is over 12 hours old (up to 60 coins a day, stalest first, only for wallets that still hold the tier) and shows each verdict beside the one before it.
- API key (Judge): one key per wallet, stored only as a hash. Each call re-checks that the wallet still holds the tier and counts against the same daily allowance.
Verification#
Every report lists its evidence with links to the block explorer, DexScreener, GitHub and the coin's own pages, so each mark can be checked by hand. The marks and the arithmetic are public, so anyone can recompute a score from a report.
Reports are served as JSON at /api/report/<chain>/<address>, and the ledger at /api/ledger (see the docs).
Explorers: Elysium at elysium.kinetiq.xyz, HyperEVM at hyperevmscan.io. A tier rests on a public fact: any wallet's $MINOS balance can be checked on the explorer, and the thresholds are printed above. Minos has no contract of its own and no treasury.
Risks and limits#
- The model can be wrong. Claude can misread a page or weigh a claim badly. Every mark shows what it rests on, and a fresh judgement is open after 12 hours.
- Two judgements can differ. The claims are read afresh each time, so the same coin can land some way apart from one run to the next, and a coin near a band's edge can change verdict. The marks and evidence show why.
- Some things can't be seen from outside. Minos reads a contract's on-chain facts and, when it is verified, its source: whether it exists, who owns it, whether it can be upgraded, which admin functions it has. It is not a code audit. Off-chain promises (a team, a partnership, revenue) usually stay unproven.
- Pages that draw themselves with JavaScript show Minos almost no text, so a real app built that way can be judged too low. The report says when this happened.
- Sources change. Elysium is a new chain and its explorer, RPC and the DEX data services are run by others; they can change or go down. The report notes any source it couldn't read.
- A verdict isn't a price call. A coin in Elysium can still go to zero, and a meme can run without any utility. Coins are volatile and you can lose everything you put in.
- Projects may game the reader by writing claims to match the evidence. That only helps a coin whose claims are true, which is the point.
- Holding $MINOS is not an investment. It unlocks use of Minos and nothing else: no revenue share, no promise of a price. Tokens are volatile and can go to zero.
- Tiers depend on the RPC. If a balance can't be read, Minos keeps the last reading for a short while, then counts the wallet as holding nothing until the RPC answers.
- Private means unlisted, not secret. A private report isn't listed anywhere, but anyone with its link can read it, and Minos's operators can see it in the database.
Roadmap#
- Built (1.0): judgements on Elysium and HyperEVM, the ledger, report pages with share images, the public API, wallet connect, the three holder tiers, fresh re-judgements, private reports, the watchlist and its daily run, and API keys. The tiers switch on when $MINOS launches.
- Planned: launching $MINOS. No date is set.
Disclaimer#
Minos is an information tool. Nothing on getminos.fun is financial advice or a promise of returns. Verdicts describe the evidence found at one moment; projects change. Coins can go to zero.