Funded invites
How a newcomer arrives already set up - one warm invite that lands you funded, in the right apps, and pointed at a first action, with none of the crypto in your face.
Most people bounce off crypto not because they cannot get a wallet, but because they get an empty one and no obvious first thing to do. A funded invite fixes both at once.
If nobody has sent you one, ask for a spot at risingtide.app/join. We open a limited number of places each month. The form asks what you make and why you want in, not who you know, and when a spot opens your invite appears on the link it gives you.
One warm invite
Someone who is already here - a friend, a creator, an operator - sends you a single link. When you open it and sign in, you do not land on a setup checklist. You land already set up.
- Signed in. Your Google account or your X account. A wallet is created for you behind the scenes - no seed phrase, nothing to install.
- Funded. Starter funds are waiting, so your first move is to make something, not to fund an account.
- In the right apps. An invite can grant you into one or more apps on the protocol, so you arrive exactly where the sender meant to bring you.
- Pointed at a first action. Your hub opens on one instruction - the first rung of your achievements - and you do it in seconds.
No exchange, no bridge, no gas
Getting "un-empty" the normal way means an exchange account, an identity check, and a bridge transaction - three separate places to give up. A funded invite skips all of it. There is no card to enter, no gas to buy, no vocabulary to learn before you can act. The invite arrives carrying what you need, and the machinery that makes that work stays out of your way.
You see outcomes, not tokens - "you're all set, go drop a bottle," not a screen of balances and fees.
What the invite carries
| The invite brings | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| Access and a role | You are a real member, not a guest pass |
| Starter funds | You can make something on day one |
| App grants | You land inside the right app, or several |
| A first action | You are shown one good thing to do, and do it |
| A way to earn the next one | Finishing the climb hands you an invite of your own |
The same pool
A funded invite is not free to send - it arrives carrying real value. Early on the protocol covers that, so the door stays wide open.
The flywheel is already turning, though. You come in on somebody's invite, you make things, and the last rung of your achievements hands you one of your own to pass on. Keep coming back and you keep earning them: one every five days you show up and make or collect something. Nobody has to ask an operator for the next invite.
We are all floating in the same pool. The invite you received is the same invite you will one day send. That is how the community grows itself - one warm hand-off at a time.
Where this goes next
- What things cost, and what you earn - what your starter balance is for, and what you earn once you start creating
- Your first earnings - how your first piece turns into your first sats
- Achievements - the five rungs, and the invite waiting at the top
Achievements
The first five things worth doing, in the order that makes sense - each one opens the next app, and the last one hands you an invite to give away.
From earnings to savings
Your sats are real Bitcoin. How the balance you earn on the protocol becomes savings you hold yourself - a gentle, optional path from everyday spending to cold storage.