The platform is designed so that you can begin talking quickly without traditional registration requirements. You pick a username, a country, and a city. You can then either use a disposable temporary account or create a more persistent account secured with a password.
Normal use does not require a legal name, email address, phone number, or precise GPS location. Additional technical signals are only brought into play when enforcing serious violations, as described in the moderation section.
For a precise description of what is and is not collected, read the Privacy Policy.
Each group has a simple hierarchy with three roles: admin, elder, and member.
You cannot leave a group or delete your profile while you are part of an active vote that involves you. When a successful no-confidence vote completes, all users temporarily revert to member status and the group moves into an elder-election phase.
The top ten groups, based on internal ranking signals, may appear during onboarding for new users to give them obvious places to start.
Users and groups can acquire items that modify visibility in global and local lists. Some items boost your own position; others reduce the visibility of rivals.
These effects are governed by in-app items and Veil costs. All uses of boosts and sabotage items that affect group reputation or resources are logged in the relevant ledgers.
The platform does not manufacture items, set item prices, or directly control market values. Prices are emergent and determined by player behaviour.
The only lever available to the platform is the absolute global supply of Veils, which may be tuned over time to manage inflation or deflation as overall user activity changes.
Groups may hold and sell items they own but cannot manufacture items themselves.
Builder Points are a long-term progression resource earned through sustained activity and participation. They allow users to construct higher-tier items rather than buying them directly from others.
The platform does not sell items or Veils for real-world currency.
Groups have a shared Veil balance known as the Group Pot. The admin can configure message taxes so that a portion of in-group activity flows into this pot.
All movements in and out of the Group Pot are logged. Groups are expected to self-govern and react to behaviour they view as abusive or corrupt via elections and votes.
The marketplace is intentionally permissive in economic terms. Within the bounds of the community rules, most strategies are allowed, including aggressive ones. Examples include:
All relevant transactions are recorded in user and group ledgers. Other players can review histories to identify behaviour such as repeated siphons, suspicious transfers, or coordinated manipulations and decide how to respond politically.
Trading Veils or items for real-world money, goods, or services is not allowed. The in-app economy is intended for entertainment, not financial services.
The system uses ledgers to provide transparency around important actions. These ledgers can be consulted by other players when forming judgements about trust and reputation.
Vanish is funded partly by advertising and rewarded ads. The app itself is designed to minimise direct collection of real-world identifiers. Ads are served by Google AdMob, which may process device identifiers, approximate location, and technical signals to deliver and measure ads and detect fraud.
In regions where this is required, you are presented with a consent prompt that allows you to choose between personalised and non-personalised ads. You can change that choice later in the in-app settings where available.
Rewarded ads are how new Veils move from the global pot into individual wallets without any real-world payment. When a rewarded ad finishes successfully, nine Veils are transferred from the global pot to your account.
If the ad is closed early or fails, no Veils are granted.
Moderation is automated. There is no manual review of individual chats under normal operation. The system relies on user reports, behaviour analysis, honeypot traps, and spam detection, with escalation steps based on severity and repetition.
Inside Vanish, Veils are a political and economic resource. You can transfer Veils or items to others for any in-app purpose that does not break the community rules. Transfers are logged and visible in ledgers, so other players can judge your behaviour.
Siphoning is allowed by design but fully recorded. It is up to the group to react with elections, shaming, or other political responses. The system provides transparency; players provide consequences.
