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CICADA
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five answers. sealed before anyone could look.

THE ANSWERS GO UNDERGROUND AT GENESIS.

Be there when they surface.

vault opens at genesis

no numbers until then. prizes vary and can be zero.

Fees fill a vault. The first wallet to solve the puzzle takes it.

Enter the archive How it works

PRIZE VAULT

opens at genesis

2YhM…3hcZ fills from trading fees once $CICADA exists

CHAPTER

0/5

file 01 surfaces at genesis

GENESIS

not sealed

five commitments go on chain at T0

The archive

Five files. File 01 is plaintext at genesis. Each later file is published at the same moment, locked with the answer to the one before. Solve one, and the next file opens itself.

How it works

1 / 6

Genesis buries the answers.

Five answers are hashed and written into one memo from the owner's wallet. From that block on, nobody can change an answer or a clue. Including us.

cause: the genesis memo lands. effect: the puzzle starts, and the rules are fixed.

2 / 6

Five strata, one key each.

Every file sits in its own stratum with a public commitment. File 01 is readable. Files 02 to 05 are published too, encrypted with the answer to the file above.

cause: an answer is unknown. effect: the file below it stays shut for everyone.

3 / 6

A solver seals.

Found the twelve marks? Your wallet posts a seal: a hash of your wallet and the answer. It proves you knew first without telling anyone what you know.

cause: your seal lands in a block. effect: your place in line is fixed.

4 / 6

Then speaks.

1 to 300 slots later the same wallet reveals the answer in plain text. Anyone can hash it and check it against the commitment. The earliest seal with a valid reveal wins. Copying a reveal gets you nothing; their seal came first.

cause: a valid reveal. effect: something is surfacing.

5 / 6

The next file opens itself.

The revealed answer is the key to the next file, so everyone can decrypt it in the same block. Nobody has to unlock it. If a file stays unsolved, pre-committed hints unlock on a timer.

cause: answer 01 is public. effect: file 02 is readable by everyone.

6 / 6

The vault pays the first seal.

Every trade is a click of the song, and the song fills the vault. Files 01 and 02 pay 15% of the vault, 03 and 04 pay 20%, file 05 takes everything left. The keeper wallet sends the payout by the published rules. Prizes vary and can be zero.

cause: the reveal window closes. effect: the vault pays and the husk is left behind.

The terminal

Read the open file, test an answer locally, then seal and reveal from your wallet. Seventeen years of patience. You have about thirty minutes.

cicada://archiveunderground
slot —vault opens at genesisundergroundseals —

The rules

Nobody can change the answers. Not even us. No token needed to play. The only cost is two Solana transaction fees.

  1. One puzzle, five files. Every answer is committed on chain at genesis as a hash. Nobody can change an answer or a clue after that, including us.
  2. Files unlock themselves. Files 02 to 05 are published at genesis, encrypted. The moment someone reveals the previous answer on chain, everyone can decrypt the next file.
  3. Claim with two transactions. Seal (a hash binding your answer to your wallet), then reveal 1 to 300 slots later. The earliest seal with a valid reveal wins.
  4. Prizes come from the vault. Creator fees from $CICADA trades flow into the vault. Files 01 and 02 pay 15% of the vault, 03 and 04 pay 20%, file 05 pays the rest. Prize sizes vary and can be zero.
  5. Free entry. No token is needed to play or win. The only cost is two Solana transaction fees.
  6. Hints are automatic. Pre-committed hints unlock on a timer while a file is unsolved (file 01: 10 and 20 minutes; later files: 30 and 50).
  7. If we stop, the vault doesn't. The team never withdraws vault funds. The remaining vault stays claimable by solving; after 30 days without a solve, the next hint unlocks every 24 hours.
  8. Nothing before genesis is a clue. The puzzle starts when the genesis memo lands on chain. Full protocol: help protocol in the terminal.