Real builders. Verified work. Public proof.

The Academy has five distinct milestone kinds, each producing its own card. The Feed mixes them in one chronological timeline:

• Module Complete

  You rebuilt a real protocol from scratch (Uniswap V2, Compound V2, Yearn V2, Liquity V1) across every section, with every test green.

• Shadow Arena Audit

  You ran an audit on a forked real protocol and got it reviewed. The card shows your true-positive count, severity mix, and final score.

• AI Auditor Built

  You finished the 12-step AI Auditor Builder track — a working AI auditing agent, end to end.

• eMBA Module Complete

  You wrapped a full eMBA chapter — tokenomics, governance design, founder operations, growth, and so on.

• Rank Unlocked

  Your Lynx total crossed a rank threshold. From Newcomer to Sovereign — seven ranks, each with its own visual identity.

1. 1

   Finish a milestone

   Build a module to the end. Get a Shadow Arena audit reviewed. Ship your AI Auditor. Wrap an eMBA chapter. Earn enough Lynx for the next rank. Any of the five kinds.

2. 2

   Share to X

   When you complete the milestone, a Share-to-Earn card appears. Click it, you get the post pre-filled with the card image attached, you write your own caption if you want, you post.

3. 3

   Paste the link back

   After posting, click 'View your tweet on X' to find the post URL, paste it back into the Academy. We verify the URL shape and bind it to that specific milestone. One paste per milestone.

4. 4

   +10 Lynx, public on the Feed

   The +10 Lynx land in your balance immediately. Your card appears on /feed for everyone to see, linked to your real X post.

Verification keeps the feed honest. To land on /feed, a share must clear three checks:

• The milestone is genuinely complete. We check the source (claims, reviewed sessions, current rank) before showing the share UI.
• The pasted URL is a valid X/Twitter status URL with the expected shape (x.com or twitter.com, user handle, status ID).
• One claim per milestone per account. You cannot farm Lynx by pasting the same tweet across multiple milestones, or claiming the same milestone twice.

We do not yet fetch the actual tweet contents from X. The caption rendered in the feed is the one you typed in our Share dialog before posting (so edit-after-post may drift slightly). Phase 3 introduces X OAuth, which will close that gap.

• No follow graph, no "For you" algorithm. Everyone sees the same chronological feed. No ranking based on what you have engaged with.
• No engagement counts (yet). Real X engagement requires OAuth and a live API integration. That ships in Phase 3.
• No private posts. Anything that lands on the feed is public to anyone, including non-Academy visitors. Share-to-Earn always implies public.
• No retroactive farming. The +10 Lynx bonus is paid once per milestone per account, and only on the first valid share.

The Feed is the seed. Phase 2 and Phase 3 build on top of it without disturbing the chronological-truth core:

• Phase 2 · Reactions

  Lightweight in-platform reactions on feed entries (no follower-graph required). Aggregated weekly digest email so builders never miss what shipped while they were heads-down.

• Phase 3 · X OAuth

  Connect your X account to verify automatically (no paste-back), show real engagement counts on the feed, and surface a Top Public Builder leaderboard weighted by real social amplification.

• Phase 4 · Unlocks tied to ranks

  Material rewards — early access to new modules, profile badges, the referral pipeline — tied to consistent shipping that the Feed already documents.