That could be, I just don't have the data to compare the economics.
By the way, inkan comes with built-in spam prevention.
Recording a 5-key inkan identity on Ethereum costs say $0.50 in gas fees, about $0.10 per key.
That expense by itself provides a decent signal, maybe comparable to NIP-5.
But it's actually better than that. Say you have a funded spammer who records 500 Inkan identities with 5 keys each, 2500 keys in total, for $125.
That creates a patterns that's public and likely detectable on-chain, for example by tracing gas payments, timing patterns, etc. It's cheap to observe these patterns and flag suspicious pubkeys.
Spammers can try to cover their traces, but that's an additional expense and it's risky. If the pattern is detected, it's not just one of their pubkeys that gets flagged but it's the entire 2500 key blob. So they don't just lose $0.05 per key, but lose their entire $125 investment.
This defense covers LLM spammers that produce content that's hard / impossible to distinguish from humans, at least when someone tries to do it at scale. It's an origin-based defense.
inkan
npub16x…56z6l
2026-09-17 13:33:21 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…2euj
Author Public Key
npub16xnpfx85k8wzdhctang6860g3u64lds5kac73ddjwlg0lxdg9g3su56z6lPublished at
2026-09-17 13:33:21 UTCEvent JSON
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