A shelter for your people.
Run a team, a class, a club, a shop? Mint a membership token for each one and hand it to your people — it lives in their own wallet and can't be copied, shared, or sold. From there, every Skye Meta tool can recognize the communities you choose to honor: member-only content, member prices, perks at the register. One license covers them all; recognize some, all, or none — your call. No passwords, and no public directory of your people to photocopy or sell.
Built on InsumerAPI. The recognizing tools — SkyeGate and SkyeWoo — are live today.
A real bothy is a stone shelter in the Scottish hills — left unlocked, free to use, open to anyone who needs it. No key, no password, nobody turned away at the door. For generations they've been gathering points: the place a community comes together. But every bothy has an owner, and the owner sets the rules — who it's for, no big commercial crowds, ask before you bring a group. Bothy online keeps both halves: an open, password-free gathering point for your people, and you, the owner, deciding who belongs.
When you want something kept for members — a page, a price, a perk at the register — you add a gate with the tools: SkyeGate for your content, SkyeWoo for your store, Pass at the counter. The token is what opens them. Not a password to share or a link to leak — a recognition that lives in each member's own wallet and can't be copied. Nothing to reset, and no public directory of your people for anyone to copy. Hold the token and you're a member; every tool reads it the same way, so your people get what's theirs the moment they show up — and if someone leaves, you take the token back.
From the Bothy dashboard, create one membership token for your community — your name, your logo. No code, no contracts to write. It's ready in a click.
Add members by email. Each one clicks a link and the pass is theirs — no crypto know-how, nothing to pay, it just lands in a free wallet on their phone. It's soulbound, so it can't be sold or passed on. New members? Just add them. Someone leaves? Remove them.
Turn on member-only content, member-only prices, and member perks across the Skye Meta toolkit. They all read the same token, all under one license. Set it once; it keeps working.
Every shared secret eventually leaks. The class directory gets photocopied and passed around until it lands with a telemarketer. A token can't be photocopied.
It won't replace the paper directory overnight. But it's more secure, it lets members recognize each other, and it keeps your community's content for your community — like a private group, but no platform owns it and there's no public directory to copy.
These are the tools that recognize your token. You don't wire them together — they already speak the same language, all under one Skye Meta license.
One screen to run your community. Mint the token, add and remove members, see who holds a pass, and switch tools on. No spreadsheets, no separate admin panels.
Create your membership token with your name and logo, then deliver passes by email. Members claim into their own wallet. It's soulbound — theirs to hold, never to sell or transfer.
The pass a member carries — their proof of belonging. They present it to get recognized at a point of sale or a members' door. No app login, no card to lose; it's the token they already hold.
Show pages, posts, downloads, or whole sections only to members. Drop it on a WordPress site or a modern web app. Content stays on the server until the token checks out — nothing to share, nothing to scrape.
Give members exclusive products or automatic discounts in a WooCommerce store. No coupon codes to leak — the price is tied to the wallet that holds the token, not to a code anyone can paste.
Recognize a member's token right in the browser — and at the register. Useful for shops and venues that want to spot a member or a best customer at the point of sale without a loyalty card or a lookup.
SkyeGate & SkyeWoo are available today. The Dashboard, Token Issuer, Pass, and Chrome recognition come together in Bothy — see pricing.
Your token doesn't only work on your pages. Some of your members run their own sites and shops — and they can take a Skye Meta license too, then recognize your community's token. A parent builds a summer-job board for a soccer team; a local shop honors a school's families; an alumni-run store gives the class its own price. None of them need your password. They just recognize your token.
That's the quiet power of it: the list of places that can recognize a community — or a store recognizing its best customers — is endless, and it all runs off the one token you minted. You set who belongs; the world can choose to honor it.
You're not in one community — you're in a dozen. A school. A team. A college. An alumni network. A neighborhood. Each one hands you a token, and they all ride in the same wallet. Every place you go can recognize the ones it honors and roll out the welcome — and every place you run can do the same for everyone else. Give and receive, ten times over.
At her counter, she recognizes the tokens she chooses to — a parent's price for the PTA crowd, a player's discount for the soccer club, an alum's perk for the college, a deal for the sisters. She picks the communities she wants to honor; she never sees the rest of what a customer carries.
She didn't negotiate a thing with a head office — because there is no head office. And it runs both ways: every community she belongs to can recognize her shop's token, too. Everyone recognizes everyone.
She can also get as specific as she likes. Recognize anyone from State College — or stack memberships and open a special only to alumni who are also Lincoln High parents. One token opens a door; a combination opens a more exclusive one.
And she's not only a recognizer — she's an issuer. She mints her own token for her 200 regulars, so her best customers carry the coffee shop in their wallet right next to the PTA and the soccer club. Now she's a node on both sides: she honors their communities, and they carry hers.
The more communities you belong to, the more you're worth recognizing — everywhere you go.
Think about the favors you already do for your people — the regular's price, the “you're a Hoya too? this one's on me,” the friends-and-family rate. Everyone does it. The catch is friction: it only works when you're at the counter, you remember the face, and you trust they are who they say. So it stays small and informal.
Bothy strips the friction off it. The welcome lands whether or not you're there; the token proves they belong, so there's no remembering and no taking their word — and the counter only ever checks the one membership it honors, so the rest of what someone carries stays private. You can favor your PTA and nine other communities with zero effort per sale.
Now multiply it. The coffee shop honors a dozen communities, the butcher eight, the bookstore ten — and every one of those communities honors them right back. You give and you receive in the same breath. Every membership you'll ever hold earns you recognition anywhere someone chooses to honor it — no corporate deal, no head office, no permission.
That's recognition for everything you belong to — AmEx points and an AARP card, but for everyone, and owned by the grassroots, not the giants.
If you have people you want to keep something for — content, perks, or just a private space — Bothy is for you.
The team has its community, so it has its token — and the parents have it too. The parents stand up a summer-job site: they post jobs, the players see them, and no one else can.
No password to leak, no link that escapes the group. Everything in one place, just for the team.
Every class has a directory that gets dog-eared, copied, and eventually reaches a telemarketer. Replace it with a token. Parents recognize each other and keep content just for each other.
Like a private group for the class — but no platform owns it, and there's no public directory to photocopy and sell.
Alumni groups, clubs, supporters, and foundations: keep briefings, events, downloads, and store prices for members only — on the website and at the till.
One token your members carry; every member benefit reads from it.
Mint a token for your regulars. They get their member price online and their perk at the register — recognized by their wallet, not a punch card they'll forget.
No loyalty app to build, no points database to babysit.
Give season-ticket holders or a fan club a token that unlocks content, drops, and pricing the casual crowd never sees.
Access follows the member — nothing to share, nothing to counterfeit.
…you can give them a token. A cohort, a congregation, a creator's inner circle, a neighborhood group — the pattern is the same.
Identify your people, then choose what only they can see, buy, or enter.
Setting up your community is free. One Skye license — the same one SkyeGate and SkyeWoo already use — turns on everything: mint your token and recognize members across the web and at the register, unlimited.
Members never pay a thing — claiming a pass is always free. No per-member fees, no points database, no platform that owns your community.
Bothy is the Skye Meta community suite. Any community — a team, club, class, foundation, or shop — mints one membership token and hands it to its people. From then on, every Skye Meta tool recognizes that token: member-only content on your website, member prices in your store, and member perks at the register. One token, one license.
No. There's no crypto to buy and nothing to trade. A member clicks one link in an email and the membership pass lands in a free wallet on their phone. The pass is soulbound, so it can't be sold or traded — it simply proves they belong.
Setting up your community, adding your logo, and claiming your registry spot is free. One Skye license — $49/month or $350/year — turns on unlimited recognition across every tool, lets you mint your community token, and includes your first 50 member seats. Additional seats are $20 per 50, one time. And the first 50 founding communities get their first year free.
Never. Claiming a membership pass is always free for members. There are no per-member fees — you hold one license whether your community has 30 members or 3,000.
A password gets shared, a link gets forwarded, and a printed directory gets photocopied until it reaches a telemarketer. Your community's membership token — minted with Bothy — is soulbound: it lives in the member's own wallet and can't be copied, sold, or handed off. You add and remove members yourself, and access follows the member. And there's no public directory of names and numbers to photocopy or sell — the token is the membership, held in each member's own wallet.
Yes. Removing a member revokes their pass and they lose access immediately. If they return, you issue a fresh pass and they're back in. You decide who belongs at all times — and the token in the member's own wallet, not a row in a database, is what proves membership.
Any community that wants to keep content, perks, or a private space for its people: college and youth sports teams, school classes and PTAs, clubs, alumni groups, foundations, and shops that want to recognize their best customers. Members who run their own sites or stores can take a license too, and recognize your community's token.
Every Skye Meta product runs on InsumerAPI, the condition-based access API. It reads what a wallet holds, evaluates your condition, and returns an ECDSA-signed yes or no — wallet auth: read, evaluate, sign. Send a condition in, get a signed answer out that anyone can verify for themselves.
No identity collected, no accounts to manage, no secrets to store. Just a signed answer: does this wallet hold your token?
“Big brands spent fifty years building moats out of loyalty. I wanted a soccer team to have one by Friday.”
Douglas Borthwick · Founder, Skye Meta