Frequently
asked

Elephant Bird is a self-custodial on-chain terminal for the new social economy. It unifies Pay, Swap, Fund, Earn, and Fiat-to-fiat swap into one interface, all settled silently on Polygon (chain 137) with EBT as the bridge asset.

You can explore the terminal without an account. To broadcast, earn quest rewards, or claim referrals, sign in with email (OTP or password) — your wallet stays self-custodial throughout.

Any Polygon-compatible wallet — MetaMask, WalletConnect, Rabby, and other EIP-1193 wallets. The terminal reads your address only; it never asks for your seed phrase or private keys.

Yes, fully. Every Pay, Swap, Fund, and Earn moves directly from your wallet to the destination. The platform never holds your tokens. Fiat onramps land USDC directly in your wallet.

No. We never see your private keys or seed phrase. You sign every transaction in your wallet; we only route the intent. If you lose your wallet access, we cannot recover it — that is the trade-off of self-custody.

The terminal routes through established protocols (0xTrails, Uniswap V3, AlchemyPay) whose contracts have their own audit histories. Always verify contract addresses in your wallet before signing.

The silent rail is the Polygon settlement layer underneath every Elephant Bird intent. Pay, Swap, Fund, Earn, and Fiat all settle on Polygon — silently (cheaply) and finally (irreversibly once confirmed).

EBT — Elephant Bird Token — is the bridge asset across the terminal's five feathers. Every Pay accrues EBT into the shared treasury; every Swap can bridge through EBT; every Earn can provide EBT/WPOL liquidity for fees.

A portion of every Pay feeds the flock reserve in EBT. The treasury grows with usage — the more the terminal is used, the larger the shared reserve becomes.

Broadcast credits let you send messages to a Discord channel via webhook and to email recipients. Each send consumes credits. Credits never expire — buy once, use whenever the flock needs a signal.

You configure a Discord webhook URL once. Each broadcast posts to that channel — fire-and-forget, so a webhook failure never blocks the rest of the broadcast. Status is reported back in the UI.

Email sends are batched to respect the platform's rate limit (10 per minute). The broadcast action processes recipients in batches, so a large list sends over time without hitting the limit.

Share your unique referral link (your handle appended as ?ref=). When a visitor signs up and links their wallet, the referral is recorded. You earn 5 broadcast credits + 10 EBT points; your friend earns 3 broadcast credits.

30 days. If someone clicks your link and signs up within 30 days, the attribution binds. The cookie is SameSite=Lax so it survives social-media click-throughs.

No. Self-referrals are rejected. The referrer must be a different profile from the referred.

Quests are on-chain and social actions that earn EBT points and broadcast credits — link your wallet, make your first Pay, refer a friend, and more. Quests refresh as the protocol grows.

EBT points accrued into your profile do not expire. Broadcast credits also do not expire. Multipliers from Bird Pass apply for the duration of your subscription.