Chathoodz is the Chatza Bridge Protocol — a privacy-first middleware and audited smart-contract suite that turns every customer conversation into a verifiable, finance-ready on-chain record on Robinhood Chain.
Commerce is moving into chat — but the conversation itself leaves no trusted, portable, composable record. Chathoodz closes that gap.
Chatza stays the customer-facing surface brands already trust. Robinhood Chain becomes the settlement and trust layer underneath. The bridge is opt-in per merchant — your core chat experience never changes.
Consent-gated, tamper-evident records of sessions, orders, and agreements — stored as cryptographic hashes, never raw content.
ChatSessionRegistryStablecoin and ETH settlement through an escrow-based router with dispute handling. Gas is sponsored, so customers pay nothing.
ChatPaymentRouterReward tokens and ERC-1155 loyalty badges minted from real interactions — not arbitrary points.
EngagementToken · LoyaltyBadgeSigned, auditable attestations binding AI and human agents to their actions — proof of who did what.
AgentAttestationThe protocol is a middleware gateway plus a smart-contract suite. Only hashes and zero-knowledge proofs cross onto the chain.
Chatza — the customer-facing surface your brand already runs. Omnichannel chat and conversational AI for African brands.
POPIA · GDPR · ISO 27001 — data resident in South Africa
Chatza Bridge — the middleware gateway that converts chat events into signed blockchain intents.
The Compliance Filter is the only component that can initiate an on-chain write
Robinhood Chain — EVM-compatible Arbitrum L2 · chain ID 4663 · ETH gas · permissionless.
Verifiable session hashes — tamper-evident proof of what was agreed.
Escrow plus stablecoin / ETH settlement, with dispute handling.
Engagement rewards minted from real, consented interactions.
Badges, receipts and loyalty tiers that travel across brands.
Signed actions by AI and human agents — proof of who did what.
Zero-knowledge consent and KYC proofs — never any PII.
Every industry reuses the same contracts — the differentiation is in the Chatza journey, not the chain layer. That keeps integration cost low and the codebase small and auditable.
WhatsApp flash sales, abandoned-cart recovery, post-purchase surveys.
Chain value: token-gated sales, verifiable receipts, loyalty earned in chat.
Customer authentication, fraud alerts, KYC document collection, loan lead-gen.
Chain value: verifiable KYC attestations, tamper-evident fraud alerts, in-chat stablecoin payments.
Appointment scheduling, prescription reminders, confidential Q&A.
Chain value: consent-gated appointment tokens, verifiable follow-up events.
Booking confirmations, 24/7 guest support, itinerary updates.
Chain value: booking receipts as ERC-1155 tokens, loyalty composable across partners.
Delivery updates, driver support, pickup scheduling.
Chain value: on-chain delivery proofs, escrow release on fulfilment.
Citizen feedback, exam results, fee reminders.
Chain value: verifiable service-delivery receipts, auditable citizen feedback.
CZ is the platform's utility and governance token. Payments and rewards settle in stablecoins to keep the customer experience predictable — CZ captures platform upside for long-term participants.
South African consumers and merchants are price-sensitive — volatile reward tokens would undermine trust. Rewards settle in stablecoins for a predictable experience, while CZ captures platform upside for long-term participants and governance.
Bar = annual emission as a share of the 40% ecosystem allocation · label below = cumulative emitted as a share of total supply. The full 40% allocation is emitted by the end of Year 5.
Stablecoin-denominated with optional CZ upside — capped per session and gated by the Compliance Filter.
0.5–1% on on-chain payments, paid in ETH or stablecoin — discounted when paid in CZ.
Stake CZ for lower settlement fees, priority gas sponsorship and advanced analytics features.
A small share of protocol fees is burned, aligning token supply with real platform usage over time.
Gate-based: each phase begins only when the previous phase's metrics are met. The MVP is deliberately narrow — payments and loyalty — to prove value before expanding.
Contracts on chain ID 46630; Chatza sandbox integration; session registry + engagement token live; faucet workflow.
ChatPaymentRouter (USDC/ETH) with escrow; LoyaltyBadge; gasless programmable wallets; 10 pilot merchants.
AgentAttestation; ComplianceRegistry with zero-knowledge proofs; CZ token launch; two audits + bug bounty.
Tokenized real-world asset / Stock Token integrations; DAO governance; cross-chain readiness; 100+ merchants.
Defense in depth, from contract to custody to privacy. Raw conversations never touch the chain, and data never leaves South Africa.
Only keccak-256 hashes and zero-knowledge proofs cross the privacy boundary. Encrypted transcripts stay in South Africa-resident storage — preserving Chatza's "data never leaves South Africa" commitment.
Every recorded session carries a consent hash; the Compliance Filter blocks any event without recorded consent. Consent is revocable, and off-chain transcripts can be erased on request.
Two independent audits plus a public bug-bounty program. Checks-effects-interactions patterns, reentrancy guards, and pull-over-push payments.
A 48-hour timelock on all upgrades, an emergency pause for security incidents, and immutable core invariants: the no-PII-on-chain rule is not governable.
Operator keys in multi-sig custody with hardware security modules. Customer funds sit in non-custodial escrow with programmable-wallet spending policies.
The operating entity is designed to obtain FSCA licensing before offering on-chain payment services, with legal review before launch and jurisdiction-restricted Stock Token features.
A printable summary of the Chatza Bridge Protocol — system architecture, the privacy boundary, the contract suite and the CZ token model. A technical proposal for ecosystem review.
Chathoodz is the consumer-facing name of the Chatza Bridge Protocol — a middleware gateway and audited smart-contract suite that connects Chatza's omnichannel chat platform to the Robinhood Chain Layer-2. It turns everyday customer conversations into verifiable, composable on-chain events.
No. The protocol is gasless by default: merchants sponsor customer gas via programmable wallets, so end users never need to hold ETH. Standard wallets — including Robinhood Wallet — connect directly.
Never. Only hashes and zero-knowledge proofs are recorded on-chain. Raw transcripts stay in encrypted, South Africa-resident storage, preserving Chatza's "data never leaves South Africa" commitment and satisfying POPIA and GDPR.
Payments flow through an escrow-based router. Either party may open a dispute before release; it is resolved by an adjudicator (multi-sig) or by timeout refund. Merchants must submit a signed fulfilment proof to trigger settlement.
No. The whitepaper is a technical proposal for ecosystem review — not investment, legal, or financial advice, and not an offer or solicitation of securities in any jurisdiction. All figures and timelines are planning assumptions to be validated through the phased roadmap.
The protocol follows a gate-based roadmap: a testnet proof-of-concept first, then a payments-and-loyalty MVP with 10 pilot merchants, then trust and tokenization, then scale and real-world assets. Each phase starts only when the previous phase's metrics are met.
Whether you're a brand ready to pilot, a partner building on the protocol, or an auditor reviewing the design — we want to hear from you.