What PULSE is.

PULSE is a decentralized creator-monetization protocol. Creators publish articles, videos and courses; buyers pay for permanent, wallet-native access. Every sale, resale royalty and vote is a signed transaction on Shelbynet. No platform account, no password, no central authority can ban a creator, remove content or freeze a wallet.

Why it exists.

Existing creator platforms keep three keys you don't see: who can publish, who can be paid, and which content stays online. Each of those keys can be turned off — by policy, by acquisition, by mistake. PULSE replaces all three with on-chain rules anyone can read and no one can override unilaterally.

The two layers.

Storage lives on Shelby — a decentralized hot-storage network. When you publish, the file streams onto Shelby and you receive a permanent blob ID.

Logic lives in a Move smart contract on Shelbynet (Shelby's Aptos-compatible chain). It tracks every piece of content, who owns access tokens, which votes have been cast, and how every payment is split.

The economic model.

• — Creators set their own price in ShelbyUSD.
• — On every primary sale: creator receives 99%, platform receives 1%.
• — Buyers may resell their access token; creator earns a configurable royalty (default 5%) on every resale; platform takes another 1%.
• — Voting costs 0.1 ShelbyUSD per vote. Upvote fee goes to the creator. Downvote fee goes to a community pool.
• — All splits are enforced by the smart contract — there is no off-chain ledger to argue with.

What a buyer actually owns.

When you buy a piece on PULSE, your wallet address is added to the access list inside the contract. That entry is the access token. It cannot be revoked by the creator, the platform or anyone else. To read the content, your browser asks Shelby for the blob; Shelby checks the contract; the contract confirms you're on the list; the file streams down.

Admin and review.

A single admin wallet — defined at deploy time — can flip content from pending to live, flag content that violates platform standards, and propose protocol-fee changes. Fee changes are locked behind a 48-hour timelock so a compromised admin wallet cannot drain the platform instantly. The admin cannot mint funds, cannot cancel a buyer's access token, and cannot change a creator's royalty split after publication.

Token + currency.

Everything settles in ShelbyUSD — the platform's payment token. You don't need a separate "PULSE" token to use the protocol; ShelbyUSD is the only thing that moves. On testnet, that ShelbyUSD comes from the Shelbynet faucet and has no real-world value.

For more.

See How it works for the step-by-step protocol flow, or the Ledger for the live on-chain catalog.