Using Quetz
Rooms and $QUETZ
A room is a group conversation with the same encryption as a direct message. It can also require a token balance to get in.
Creating a room#
Open the new conversation dialog, switch to Room, give it a name and add the members by address. Every address is checked for an inbox first, so a room never opens with someone who cannot receive messages.
Members can be added later. Everyone in the room sees the same history from the point they join.
Gated rooms#
A room can require a $QUETZ balance to enter. The default requirement is 100,000 $QUETZ, and the room carries that requirement with it, so every member’s app knows the rule without asking anyone.
When your balance is checked
| Moment | What happens |
|---|---|
| Joining | Every invitee's balance is read from the chain before the room is created. Anyone below the requirement is not admitted. |
| Posting | Opening a gated room checks your balance again. If it has fallen below the requirement, you can still read, but sending is paused until it recovers. |
| Sweeping | Room admins can see which members no longer hold enough and remove them. |
A gated room is members-only, not secret
The token controls who gets in. It does not control what happens afterwards, and that difference matters:
- Someone already in the room can keep reading it until an admin removes them, even after selling.
- Any member can screenshot or forward what you write, exactly as in any other group chat.
Treat a gated room as a private group, not as a vault. Do not put anything in one that would be damaging to leak.
If a balance cannot be read
When the network cannot be reached, the balance is treated as zero rather than assumed to be fine. A connection problem keeps someone waiting at the door instead of letting them through, which is the safer way for a gate to fail.
Rooms without a gate#
- Membership is simply whoever was added, like any other group chat.
- Encryption is identical. A gate changes who is admitted, never how messages are protected.
- See the security model for what that encryption does and does not cover.