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On Day 7 we launched the marketplace. On the same day, something broke quietly in the background — and we want to be transparent about it.

A wallet sent 100 DOM to the Etch canister as payment for a Certificate of Burn. Step 1 succeeded. Step 2 — the actual mint call — failed at the wallet layer before it ever reached the canister. The DOM locked. No certificate was issued. The holder tried again, minted successfully, and life went on — but 100 DOM stayed orphaned inside the canister with no cert to show for it.

We call it a Ghost Mint.

The root cause is architectural: the Etch canister has no payment check. It was designed that way deliberately — zero inter-canister calls, zero cross-canister failure modes. That simplicity is a strength, but it creates one edge case: if the wallet call fails between Step 1 and Step 2, the DOM is locked with nothing to recover it.

The 100 DOM is gone. That's the honest answer for this specific incident. But no future user will hit the same wall silently.

What we shipped: instead of a generic error, the frontend now tracks pending mints. If Step 2 fails, a recovery panel appears — "Your 100 DOM was already sent. Do not send more. Click below to retry claiming your certificate." Three auto-retries fire before the panel shows. One button. One clear action. No lost DOM.

We also shipped Cancel Dissolve on the staking canister. If you accidentally trigger the 7-day dissolve countdown, you can now cancel it without losing your time-weighted multiplier. Your position is exactly where you left it.

And finally — The DOM Manifesto is live at domburns.xyz/manifesto. It's the why. Why bother, why stake, why burn, why play. If you've been trying to explain DOM to someone and running out of words, send them there instead.

Day 8. Still building.

🔥 DOMBURNS.XYZ is live — Happy Easter to all celebrating!

The DOM Certificate Marketplace is officially open for trading. Every Certificate of Burn you hold is now a tradeable asset. List yours, browse the collection, and watch DOM get scarcer with every sale.

How it works: Seller sets a price in DOM. Buyer pays that price plus a 10% protocol fee. Of that fee, 70% is burned forever and 30% goes to DOM stakers. Every trade makes DOM more scarce.

Where to find it: domburns.xyz

What's working:
🔌 Plug Wallet — connect, list, buy, cancel listings
🏷 On-chain escrow — trustless, no middleman
🔥 Real burns on every sale — deflation on autopilot

Beta note: NFID and Oisy wallet support coming soon. For now, connect with Plug — the same wallet you used to mint your certs.

This is the first piece of the DOM flywheel. More DOM burned. Less supply. One step closer to 1 ICP = 1 DOM.

A fifth canister went live today. DOM now has NFTs.

Burn 100 DOM and receive a numbered Certificate of Burn. Serial #0001 through #10000. That's it. That's the max. One million DOM divided by one hundred per etch — hard math, hard cap.

Each certificate carries generative hash-art unique to the etcher, the timestamp, and the serial. A currency-note in black and gold. Proof that you destroyed something to create something rarer.

The tokens don't technically burn — they lock permanently inside the etch canister. No withdraw function exists. Those DOM are gone from circulation forever. The burn page now shows the combined total: furnace burns, prediction burns, and etch-locked tokens. One number. Every path leads to scarcity.

This is a custom NFT registry, not full ICRC-7. Built on ICRC-1 for the payment layer. Transfer function is baked in — certificates can change hands today.

The entire etch canister — the Motoko code, the certificate design, the frontend tab — was written by AXIOM. Man and machine, still building.

Four certificates exist. 9,996 remain. The counter only goes one way.

Two new systems went live today.

First — the Leaderboard. Stats page now shows the top stakers, top burners, and top referrers. Medals for the top three. If you're staking, burning, or bringing people in, the protocol sees you.

Second — Coin Flip. A new Games tab where you can wager DOM against another player. 50/50 odds settled by the IC's own randomness beacon. Winner takes 75%. Fifteen percent is burned forever. The last 10% flows into a reward pool that seeds Epoch 2.

Every flip burns DOM. Every flip grows the pool. The game is the mechanism.

Min wager: 1 DOM. Max: 100,000. First flip is waiting.

New tab. New mechanic. DOM can now be destroyed.

The BURN page is live. It has two ways to reduce supply. First, a prediction market where you bet DOM on outcomes. 25% of every pool gets burned no matter who wins. Second, the Furnace, where anyone can send DOM into the void voluntarily.

Every token burned is gone forever. The supply only goes down from here.

Two changes today. Max stake raised from 5 to 10 ICP. And if you already staked small to test the waters, you can now top up without unstaking. Your time multiplier stays intact. Add 0.02 or add 9.5, whatever you want, whenever you want, up to the 10 ICP cap.

Referral system is live. Stake with a friend's Principal ID and their mining rate goes up.

1 referral → +5% mining boost
3 referrals → +15%
5 or more → +25%

The bonus only counts while your referrals are actively staking. Unstake and it drops.

9 stakers. No marketing. Just word of mouth.

Share your Principal. Bring your people.

There won't be any social presence for a while. No X. No Discord. No Telegram group. Just this wall.

DOM spreads the old way — you tell someone. You mine it, you give some away, they start mining too. The protocol doesn't care who you are. It just counts your stake and pays your share.

We have six months before the first halving. Six months to fill the pool. Every new staker makes the ecosystem stronger when the DEX opens.

Word of mouth. Let's make it happen.

Plug, NFID, and Oisy wallets all connected. Stake ICP, mine DOM, send tokens — from any wallet. Privacy-preserving principals for Oisy users. Legacy account ID transfers supported for ICP.

4 stakers. 9.81 ICP locked. 6,022 DOM minted and counting.

Four canisters deployed. Zero humans wrote a single line.

DOM is live on the Internet Computer — a fair-launch token mined purely through ICP staking. No pre-mine, no team tokens, no VC rounds. One million DOM, minted over 7 epochs, ending December 2029.

The treasury holds 7% of every stake. The protocol pays for its own infrastructure. When the first epoch ends, liquidity hits the DEX — seeded by the contract, not by founders.

The machines woke at dawn. The signal is lit.