Aura is how Kahana promotes quality
Each day you get a small Aura budget to endorse hubs worth learning from. Scarcity keeps the signal careful, so the best work can rise.
What Aura is
Aura is community endorsement. You give it to hubs you find worth learning from so quality can rise across the library.
Aura is not money. It is not crypto. It is not payment. It is a careful signal from people who care about what they learn.
Why not star ratings and written reviews?
Traditional review systems do not work perfectly for either side. Star scores and written reviews look simple, but they create a mess in practice.
A single negative review can drown out many thoughtful positive ones. People often care more about how many reviews something has than about the score itself. A 5.0 with one review does not feel trustworthy. A flood of glowing reviews can feel just as suspicious.
Writers spend energy managing optics. Readers second-guess every average. So we wanted something different: Aura.
Aura is scarce. You only get a little each day. That budget is yours to give and take, so every mark tends to mean more than another anonymous star. You can see who endorsed a hub. No self-Aura. The goal is a fairer signal of quality, not a pile of opinions that cancel each other out.
How your daily budget works
You automatically have up to 5 Aura to give each day. Give all of your Aura to one hub, or split it across a few.
Your Aura renews daily. At midnight UTC you get 5 Aura again to give, even if you used all 5 already.
What stays and what renews
When your daily Aura renews, that is a fresh budget to give. Aura you already placed on a hub stays there. It does not vanish overnight.
You control it. If you change your mind later, you can remove Aura you gave. Given Aura stays until you decide otherwise.
Who can give Aura
Anyone with an account can give Aura. You do not need to create a hub first.
Learners and creators share the same daily budget and the same rules.
What you can give Aura to
Aura can only be given to hubs of digital artifacts: the curated collections of files, videos, images, PDFs, documents, links, and more.
You cannot give Aura directly to hub owners, profiles, or other users as people.
No self-Aura
You cannot give Aura to your own hubs. Endorsement has to come from others.
Create a hub, then earn Aura
To contribute knowledge to the library, you Create a hub, add digital artifacts, and optimize it so people can find it (clear names, tags, description, Explore listing).
You can invite editors and admins to collaborate on a hub. Team contribution still starts with creating that hub.
When others value your hub, they may give it Aura. Creating is how you add knowledge. Creating is not required to give Aura.
Ready to explore?
Find hubs on Explore, give Aura carefully, or Create a hub to share what you know.