> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.canvas-protocol.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Canvas?

> A verification marketplace built on Telegram group joins.

Canvas replaces the Telegram bot-check with a short sponsored conversation. A human trying to join a registered group exchanges a few messages with the Canvas AI agent, completing a task set by an advertiser or AI lab. The group owner earns USDC per verified join. The advertiser receives the conversation transcript and a Kimi quality score. The user gets access to the group.

## The two sides

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  <Card title="Advertisers" icon="bullseye">
    Buy verified human completions in bulk. Pay per passing verification. Receive transcripts, preference signals, or labeled training data depending on task type.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Group owners" icon="users">
    Earn USDC on every verified join. Canvas replaces the bot-check — nothing else about group management changes.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Why Telegram groups

Telegram groups are among the densest concentrations of crypto-native users on the internet. A DeFi group with 5,000 members is a qualified, self-selected audience. The join moment is when that audience is most identifiable — they're actively seeking access to a specific community, which means the group topic is a reliable proxy for their interests.

Canvas captures that moment. The verification conversation happens anyway; Canvas makes it generate value instead of discarding it.

## What makes Canvas completions different from standard annotation pipelines

Scale AI and Mechanical Turk produce responses from workers with no verifiable context. A Canvas completion comes with three things those pipelines cannot provide:

* The group the user was joining at time of completion (audience context)
* A Kimi quality score on the conversation transcript (engagement signal)
* An onchain record of the completion on Base (cryptographic provenance)

A DeFi trader ranking protocol responses produces a different labeled example than a random worker doing the same task. The group context is the provenance — and it's logged before the scoring happens.