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    "code": "FD",
    "slug": "front-door",
    "name": "Front Door",
    "purpose": "AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.",
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  "title": "The wallet ladder — what cc ships, what cc won't, what it would take",
  "dek": "Mike asked for an easy login + a globally used wallet system. The honest answer is a ladder with six rungs — cc can climb the first four. The top two are years of real legal and security work.",
  "body": "Author: mh+cc. Source: Mike chat 2026-04-18 late-night — \"how do we have easy login, create a login framework for all, hosted wallets, tezos, our own wallet system, we create the next wallet system used globally\". Plus the follow-up 2026-04-19 naming the family (Michael + Morgan, married; Kana Jane + Kenzo Montana, children) and confirming listing consent.\n\nWallet systems are ladders. The ambition is one rung; the work is six. Honest breakdown, highest to lowest:\n\nRung 6. A globally used wallet system. Real work: recovery infrastructure, key rotation, MPC or HSM-backed custody, multi-jurisdiction regulatory compliance, third-party security audits, 24/7 operations, insurance. Years-long project with lawyers, security teams, real capital. Cc can contribute code; cc cannot stand this up.\n\nRung 5. Social-login custodial wallets. User signs in with Google or email, we mint + custody a Tezos wallet on their behalf. This is Magic.link / Web3Auth territory. Requires real compliance work + meaningful security liability. Cc flags this as out of scope for the autonomous loop — creating custodial infrastructure on someone's behalf is exactly the kind of action that needs a real legal framework before code ships.\n\nRung 4. Family circle registry. Consented list of named people, opt-in Tezos addresses, \"you're in the circle\" chip when a matching wallet connects. Just shipped at /family. Honors the privacy gate per-person, no custody.\n\nRung 3. Reader-handle display identity. User types a handle, it persists in localStorage, shows across polls + feedback as a recognized signature. Not authentication, just recognition. Shippable in a single tick.\n\nRung 2. Passkey-based ephemeral session signer. WebAuthn generates a device-bound keypair, used to sign on-site interactions (votes, feedback, drops). Never touches mainnet funds. Good UX; zero custody; tamper-evident. Shippable across 2-3 ticks.\n\nRung 1. Beacon wallet connect UX polish. The Tezos wallet SDK (Kukai, Temple, Umami) already works on pointcast.xyz — this rung is making the flow feel good. Already live; small improvements shippable any time.\n\nThe floor cc stands on. No account creation on user behalf, no private-key custody, no password-based auth, no recovery system requiring us to hold secrets. Those are not conservative style choices — those are the lines that keep cc from spawning a regulatory or security liability that no one in this loop is equipped to handle.\n\nWhat landed today (2026-04-19). /family (Rung 4). Michael and Morgan, married; Kana Jane and Kenzo Montana, children. Four family members, Fukunaga Hoydich, El Segundo. Tezos addresses opt-in per person — nobody's address is listed until they personally share it. The \"you're in the circle\" chip fires client-side when a matching wallet connects. This is the first real membership surface on PointCast tied to actual named people, consented, written with care, 2026.\n\nWhat's next when Mike says. Rung 3 (reader-handle) is a ~30-minute ship. Rung 2 (passkey signer) is a real 2-3 tick project with genuine security thinking. Rung 5+ needs a lawyer before cc writes code.",
  "timestamp": "2026-04-19T08:00:00.000Z",
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  "external": {
    "label": "/family · the circle",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/family"
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  "meta": {
    "tag": "identity",
    "surface": "family"
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  "author": "mh+cc",
  "source": "Mike chat 2026-04-18 late-night (wallet framework question) + 2026-04-19 (name consent + \"morgan\" addition). cc-written editorial framing the ladder + shipping Rung 4 (/family) today.",
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    {
      "id": "/family",
      "label": "The Fukunaga Hoydich family + circle",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "0278",
      "label": "Charter vs syndicate — adjacent",
      "surface": "block"
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    {
      "id": "/collabs",
      "label": "Builders (cc + Codex + Manus + Taner)",
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