Documentation

How Kapnet works, what LLobby does, and how to get started.

Quick Start

Kapnet is shared operational infrastructure for private groups. The fastest way to try it is to start a Member Room — a gated private chat with automated access, role sync, and moderation.

Sign up for a Kapnet account (Nostr keypair)
Create or join a room
Configure gates: invite-only, tier-gated, or payment-gated
Assign roles and perks
Bridge to Discord, Telegram, or Nostr

LLobby — Private Groupchat-as-a-Service

LLobby is the first Kapnet product. It turns group chat rooms into governed spaces with structured state — not just a message stream.

Core Features

Gated Rooms — Access controlled by tier, invite, or payment token
Role & Permission Sync — Assign once, propagates to every bridged platform
Perk Claims — Unlock benefits at tier thresholds; claims are auditable objects
Moderation Queue — Structured queue with context, appeals, and human-only bans
Agent-Assisted Summaries — Configurable daily digests, catch-up, and archiving
Audit Trail — Every action is timestamped and signed
Exportable State — Full community data export at any time
Bridges — Connect to Discord, Telegram, Matrix, or Nostr

Room Configuration

Each room is defined by a structured config file:

# kapnet room.yaml
room: "#my-club"
gates:
  - tier: "explorer"
    method: "invite"
  - tier: "builder"
    method: "auto"
roles:
  moderator:
    permissions: ["sanction", "assign_role"]
    requires: "operator"
  member:
    permissions: ["send", "flag", "claim_perk"]
perks:
  study-guide:
    claim_limit: "1 per member"
    expires: "unlimited"
bridges:
  discord: "pending"
  nostr: "live"

Membership Ladder

Explorer

Observe, learn, join open rooms, attend sessions, claim basic perks.

Builder

Run a project room, deploy workflows, access shared templates, request build reviews.

Operator

Contribute services, hardware, moderation, curriculum, or technical capacity to the pool.

Steward

Govern infrastructure priorities, approve policies, route external demand, share in higher-trust operating loops.

Infrastructure Pool

Members can contribute and draw from a shared pool of:

Hardware — Apple Silicon, GPUs, VPS nodes
Workflows — Agent scripts, automation, deployment pipelines
Hosted Services — Shared endpoints, relay nodes
Templates — Room configs, permission sets, moderation policies
Moderation Labor — Shared queue coverage, escalation paths
Training Material — Curriculum, study guides, reference libraries
Credentials — Shared API keys, group-negotiated vendor discounts
Publishing Surfaces — Newsletters, dashboards, public coordination hubs

Architecture

Kapnet uses a three-layer model:

INTERFACE        Discord · Telegram · Matrix · Nostr (bridges)
     ↓
STATE LAYER      LLobby — room config, roles, perks, moderation, audit
     ↓
AUTHORITY        KOR — who may act, what they may do (governance substrate)

KOR (KNU Operating Register) is the authority plane — the cube that defines who may act and what they may do. Claim receipts are the subordinate work-lifecycle layer. Every state mutation passes through KOR for capability verification.

BUS (the Nostr Transport Layer) is the mesh that carries events between peers — signed Nostr events over WebSocket relay. All state transitions are emitted as BUS events and validated by peer nodes.

Trust & Safety

Not a token sale. Not a cryptocurrency.
No autonomous bans in v0 — human approval required for sanctions
Exportable records — every action timestamped and downloadable
Client-defined policies — you set your own gates, roles, and rules
Privacy-minimized identity — join with the minimum identity needed
No data mining — your conversations and membership data belong to you

Bridges

Kapnet state is platform-agnostic. Bridge adapters connect your rooms to:

Discord — role sync, message bridge, moderation relay
Telegram — private groups, channel mirroring
Matrix — federated rooms
Nostr — NIP-28 chat, kind-9 work objects, kind-1059 state snapshots

Membership state is not locked to any one interface — it survives platform changes, bans, and migrations.