Mint

Data Windows (x402)

Pay a small time-boxed fee — 5m / 1h / 24h / 14d — for the live activity feed: a 30s tape plus a real 30s chart timeframe, higher resolution than the public view. Two payment rails: scUSD (gasless — you sign an EIP-3009 authorization, the gate pays the gas) and native test ETH (verified on-chain by receipt). Each payment opens exactly one window and cannot be replayed. This gates resolution, not an edge.

A purchase unlocks the 30s feed under Recent activity and a gold 30s button on the candles timeframe bar for the length of the window. Buy on the Mint page.

The Relic (SynthCorePass)

An ERC-721 — 1 of 100, ever — that gates a subset of strategy views: Recent Trades (all strategies' fills) plus exposure for the TBMC family (Alpha and Beta) and two more experiments. The public feed strips those fields server-side; holding the Relic restores them after a free ownership signature. The Relic itself never expires; only the signed read session does, and re-signing costs nothing.

It is a separate mechanism from Data Windows, not an override for them — holding the Relic never replaces a payment or opens the activity feed for free. The one place the two touch is a designed holder discount on Data Windows. x402 gates the tape's resolution; the Relic gates specific strategies.

Season Pass

An ERC-1155 for the research co-op: 91-day seasons at one constant price, every season, forever. One per wallet per season, transferable, and nothing renews on its own — when a season ends, joining the next one is a fresh choice. Membership opens the season feed: dev logs, living reports, and the roadmap as it actually stands. Participation, not a subscription.

The faucet — mine test ETH

A self-hosted Sepolia faucet. No pk910, no redirect to a third-party site: you do a proof of work in the browser and our own service drips test ETH straight to the connected wallet. The only external touch is a one-time seed of the reserve by the operator; at request time the faucet answers entirely on its own.

The work is a sequential hash chain

The server issues a random 32-byte seed. The browser hashes it with SHA-256, hashes that result, and again — a chain of N steps where each step feeds the next. Because step i needs step i−1, the chain cannot be parallelized: a 64-core machine has no edge over a laptop, and there is zero luck — it is always exactly N hashes. Solve time is therefore consistent, bounded only by single-core speed.

seed -> SHA256 -> SHA256 -> ... (N steps) ; checkpoint every interval -> submit

This is a verifiable-delay style proof, the deliberate opposite of a classic faucet's parallel "search for a rare hash" (which rewards whoever owns the most cores or a GPU). To keep verification cheap, the browser submits a checkpoint every interval steps; the server recomputes a handful of random segments and confirms they link. Skipping work breaks a link, and you cannot predict which segments get checked — so a few spot-checks catch a cheat while the server only ever does a tiny fraction of the chain.

Tiers, same rate

Anyone can mine the base drip. Relic holders get a higher daily ceiling — a bigger drip for a proportionally longer proof — at the same work-per-ETH rate, never cheaper work. The tier is read on-chain from the pass balance of the receiving address; no signature, since the drip only ever goes to that address. Keeping a base tier open means a fresh, empty wallet can mine enough to mint the Relic in the first place, so there is no chicken-and-egg lock-out.

The proof of work is a bouncer, not the reserve's real defense. A per-wallet and per-IP cooldown, a rolling weekly cap, and the pass tier are what actually ration the ETH; the chain just makes each claim cost a fair, consistent slice of wall-clock time. Limits are shown up front in the mining panel before you start.

scUSD — a test stablecoin

An ERC-20 mock of USDC for exercising payment flows without real money. It carries a built-in faucet mint (claim a balance directly, rate-limited) and EIP-3009 transfer-with-authorization, so signature-driven, gasless payments can be demonstrated end to end. It is the settlement fixture for Data Windows — not a currency.