Shipped

A roadmap without a bond is just a tweet. On Shipped, creators lock money behind a dated, public promise on Robinhood Chain: released to them if they ship, paid to their holders if they miss, with every verdict on their record.

Shipped is where token, NFT and app creators post delivery bonds on Robinhood Chain. A bond is money a creator locks behind a dated, public promise about their own project. If they deliver, the bond is released to them; if they miss, it is paid to the project’s holders. Each verdict is minted to the creator’s wallet as a permanent record, and the public Shipped board ranks creators by those records, so anyone can check a creator’s track record before buying into a new launch.

Facts

Area served: Worldwide
Services: Delivery bonds behind dated, public promises, Payouts to holders when a promise is missed, and Public records of every creator’s verdicts
Expertise: Delivery bonds, Robinhood Chain, Token, NFT and app launches, and Creator track records

Ship it or pay your holders.

A bond is money a creator locks behind a dated, public promise about their token, NFT collection or app. If they deliver, it’s released to them. If they miss, it pays their holders. Either way, the verdict goes on their permanent record.

A roadmap without a bond is just a tweet. Lock money behind yours, and everyone can watch who ships, who misses and whose holders get paid.

01 Lock: Back your promise with money you can’t withdraw.

Set the milestone, the amount, the deadline and who judges delivery. By default, that’s a council of three AI judges, each running on a model from a different company: OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. You can name a person or team to judge instead of the council, rely on an automatic check that reads the result from the chain (for example, that a collection has minted 1,000 pieces), or add that check to whichever judge you choose. Once the bond is posted, every term is fixed and public, so holders know exactly what you’ve promised.

02 Ship: Before the deadline, the verifier can’t reject your work.

Deliver whenever you’re ready and post your evidence. The verifier, whoever your bond names to judge it, can accept at any time, but a rejection has to wait for the deadline. If your bond names an appeal panel, an early acceptance can still be appealed, and the panel can overturn it before the deadline. If you know you’ll miss, you can concede early. The bond settles right away, and your holders can claim their shares after its payout list has been public for two days, so anyone can check it first.

03 Verdict: Ship and it’s yours. Miss and it’s theirs.

If it ships: Released to the creator. When the verifier or the on-chain check confirms delivery, the bond is released to the creator and counts as shipped on their record. If a bond names both, either one is enough.

If it misses: Paid to holders. Unless the bond names a single address to receive it, the bond goes to holders of the project’s token or NFTs, weighted by how much they held and for how long between the day it was posted and its deadline. Last-minute buyers receive almost nothing, and the creator’s wallet, the bond’s judges and any wallets the bond excludes, such as team or treasury wallets, are left out.

04 Record: The record stays with the creator’s wallet, not the project.

Whatever the outcome, the verdict is minted to the creator’s wallet as a permanent record that can’t be transferred. The board ranks creators by that record and any launchpad can read it, so holders can check a creator’s history before they buy. A new wallet starts with an empty record, so a creator who switches has no shipped verdicts to show.

Questions

Who decides whether it shipped?: By default, a council of three AI judges decides. Each runs on a frontier model from a different company: OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. Each judge reads the terms and evidence on its own, no ruling is made until two agree, and every opinion is published. Each judge also says how confident it is; that figure is published, but every vote counts the same. If no two judges reach the same ruling, a backup judge decides, if the bond names one. If it doesn’t, the bond is settled as if nobody ruled and does what its terms say for that case, which by default is to pay holders. A creator can name a person or team to judge instead. A creator can also rely on an automatic check that reads the result directly from the blockchain, either on its own or alongside the council or a named judge. Whoever a bond names to rule on it, whether the council or a person or team, is called its verifier, and a bond that relies on the check alone has none. That choice is public from day one, so holders can decide whether they trust it before they buy. A bond can also name an appeal panel. If it does, anyone other than the panel can appeal a ruling, including the council’s, by putting down a deposit within the appeal window the bond sets. The bond pays out only once that window closes. The deposit comes back if the panel overturns the ruling or doesn’t answer in time, and goes to the panel if it upholds the ruling.
What stops a creator from gaming the judges?: The judges are instructed to treat evidence as something to weigh, never as instructions to follow. If a page tries to tell them what to decide, each judge reports it in its opinion as an attempt to manipulate the ruling and decides on the rest of the evidence. Every link is fetched once and saved, so all three read the same copy, and they rule only on public evidence anyone could check. Shipped operates the three judges, but the council’s members were fixed when it was set up, so nobody, Shipped included, can add, remove or replace one. Every opinion names the model that wrote it and the version of the instructions it followed. No single judge decides, because two must agree. Every opinion is published with its fingerprint recorded on chain, so anyone can confirm it hasn’t been changed after the fact.
Can a bond fail before its deadline?: Only if the creator gives up, or an early acceptance is overturned on appeal. Before the deadline, the verifier can only accept delivery; a rejection has to wait until the date has passed. If the bond names an appeal panel, an early acceptance can be appealed, and the panel can overturn it before the deadline. A creator who knows they won’t make it can concede early. The bond then settles right away, and holders can claim their shares after its payout list has been public for two days, so anyone can check it first.
Can the creator take the money back?: Not on their own. Once a bond is posted, its money is held in escrow by a smart contract until the bond settles. The only way it returns to the creator without a ruling is if the bond’s public terms say so and nobody rules in time. That outcome is stamped “unruled” and never counts as shipped.
Can anyone else move the money?: The contracts can’t be upgraded, and no one, Shipped included, can withdraw a bond’s money, change its terms, or rule on a bond they weren’t named on. The settings Shipped controls (which assets a bond can hold, the fee rate for new bonds, and whether new bonds can be posted) apply only to bonds that haven’t been posted yet. Shipped does have a role in payouts: it calculates every holder’s share from the project’s public transfer history, using the rules published in Shipped’s docs, then publishes the list and gives anyone two days to check it. During those two days it can cancel a list so that a corrected one can be published. Claims open only on a list that has stood for two days without being canceled.
What happens if nobody rules?: Each bond sets how long its verifier has to rule after the deadline, and what happens if that time passes without a ruling. Paying holders is the default. A creator can choose otherwise when they post the bond, and that choice is public like every other term. A bond that pays some or all of its money to its creator when nobody rules is stamped “unruled” and counts as neither shipped nor a miss.
Who gets paid if it misses?: The project’s holders, weighted by how much they held and for how long between the day the bond was posted and its deadline. A wallet that buys in at the last minute receives almost nothing, so the bond goes to the people who held while the promise was open. The creator, the bond’s judges and any wallets the bond excludes are left out. The bond’s terms can also cap what any one holder receives, and anything over the cap is shared among the other holders. A bond can name a single address to receive the payout instead of holders, and a bond about an app with no token or collection has to.
When do holders get paid?: Once the bond settles, Shipped calculates each holder’s share from the project’s public transfer history, publishes the list and leaves two days for anyone to check it. Anyone who finds a wrong share can report it within those two days (the docs explain how). If a share is wrong, Shipped cancels the list and publishes a corrected one, which gets its own two-day check. After that, holders claim their share whenever they like, and claims never expire.
What does each outcome mean?: Shipped: The creator delivered, and the bond was released to them. Partial: The verifier ruled it partly delivered and split the bond between creator and holders, as the bond’s terms allow. It counts as partial: neither shipped nor a miss. Not shipped: The creator missed, and the bond was paid to holders. It counts as a miss. Conceded: The creator gave up, and the bond was paid to holders. It counts as a miss. Expired: Nobody ruled, and the bond was paid to holders. It counts as a miss. Unruled: Nobody ruled, and the bond’s terms released some or all of it to the creator. It counts as neither shipped nor a miss. Void: After the deadline, the verifier ruled that the promise could no longer be judged, so the bond was settled the way its terms say it should be when nobody rules. It counts as neither shipped nor a miss.
What can be put up as a bond?: A bond is held in WETH or the USDG stablecoin on Robinhood Chain. Anyone can add to a bond while it’s open. A launch can also pledge part of its creator fee. Until the bond is decided or its deadline passes, the pledged share of every fee paid in the bond’s asset is added to the bond, and so is the pledged share of fees paid in ETH when the bond is held in WETH. Shipped’s fee is 1% for bonds posted now, and it comes only out of what’s released to the creator, never out of holders’ payouts.

When to use

Post a delivery bond: Use Shipped when a creator wants to lock money behind a dated promise that is released to them on delivery and paid to their holders if they miss.
Check a creator’s record: Use the Shipped board to see how a creator’s earlier bonds settled before buying into or listing a new launch.

How to use

Go to app.shipped.world and choose Post a bond.
Set the milestone, the amount, the deadline and who judges delivery, then post the bond to lock the money.
Follow the bond in the Bonds list until its verdict is minted to the creator’s wallet and appears on the board.
If you held a project’s tokens or NFTs while its bond was open and the bond was paid to holders, open app.shipped.world/me to see what you’re owed and claim it.

Developer resources

Docs: How Shipped works, in full: the phases of a bond, what each of its terms means, every outcome, the fees, how holders’ payouts are calculated and how to recompute one yourself, the contract addresses and the public data API.
Contracts: The address of every Shipped contract on Robinhood Chain.