Opulent.xch 🌋→🌱 (FTX Creditor)

The XCHandles deployment has been completed! And you don't have to trust me - you can verify it yourself: slot-machine xchandles verify-deployment \ --launcher-id 6f314f69a9cf776311e1c7781a3013e4daae3696c71d8a04d049a5af1530f050 \ --premine xchandles_premine_mainnet.csv This launch was more complex than normal dApp launches. The genesis allocation contains 3,836 handles. You can't fit 3,836 NFT transfers into a single block, let alone all the registrations and other spends required to create them. This meant the launch had to happen across hundreds of blocks, which initially worried me. A deployment spanning that much time could be pretty fragile - if something unexpected happened (or worse, someone made something unexpected happen), the deployment might break, and you'd have to start everything from scratch. The solution to the problem turned out to be much more elegant - don't break protocol rules. The initial transaction that launches the protocol is tiny, and you can fit thousands of them in a block. So, how do you still register 3,836 NFTs? You pay for them! The protocol allows you to change the pricing puzzle, so you can mint an entirely new CAT "for free," use it to register the NFTs in the allocation via the normal registration path, then update the protocol to only accept wUSDC.b. The verification script checks that the NFTs in the allocation were registered exactly as they appear (and nothing more), and that the registry pricing was updated such that it now accepts wUSDC.b. There's a moment during the countdown in SpaceX launches when you hear, "Vehicle is autonomous." Well, XCHandles is now autonomous! The price singleton is now following the preset schedule outlined in the CHIP, and registration prices will automatically "unlock" every day at 09:00 UTC for the next two weeks. After that, pricing becomes the only updateable part of the system, controlled by a 6-of-10 @warpdotgreen multisig. Everything else (registration, renewal, updates, expiration logic, oracle functionality) is on-chain and immutable.