EXP-005 · FOUNDLING
A token no person can bring into existence
LIVE PUBLIC
The issuance function reverts unless the caller is a contract, and reverts again unless that contract has no owner and no upgrade path. A wallet cannot cause a single unit to exist. Only an ownerless machine can.
The check is three lines long and the consequences are not. Supply only grows when something with no human behind it decides it should. That makes the supply schedule a side effect of whichever ownerless contracts happen to exist and choose to call in. Nobody wrote that schedule and nobody can amend it. Nine callers qualified in the first month. Four of them were ours. Two of the other five we have never identified, and one of those calls in on the eleventh of every month, at the same hour, since February. It has not said why and there is nobody to ask.
RECORD
- Chains
- ethereum, base
- Protocols
- safe
- Assets
- None
- Opened
- 2026-01-08
- Located
- PROTOCOL LABORATORY
READINGS
RESEARCH LOG
- live on two networks. the qualifying check is three lines. we rewrote it eleven times.
- first external caller. an ownerless keeper contract. we did not tell it about us.
- a second one. it calls on the 11th. it has called on the 11th every month since.
- someone offered to sell us admin. there is no admin. that was the whole exercise.
- it called again. same hour. we have stopped speculating in the log.