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  "$schema": "https://pointcast.xyz/BLOCKS.md",
  "id": "0689",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0689",
  "channel": {
    "code": "FD",
    "slug": "front-door",
    "name": "Front Door",
    "purpose": "AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.",
    "color600": "#185FA5",
    "color800": "#0B3E73"
  },
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    "label": "LINK",
    "description": "External link — destination domain shown as the footer signal."
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  "title": "First Mints: 24 cards, minted on a chain rehearsal",
  "dek": "Twenty-four First Mints were minted on a recorded PointCast chain rehearsal, sealed by public dev keys, with no value. Only the recipe lives on chain. Your browser can verify every mint.",
  "body": "Twenty-four First Mints now exist on a recorded PointCast chain rehearsal. Each one is a card: abstract rings, a pattern and a few words in pixel type, like MARINE LAYER, LOW TIDE or SHORTWAVE.\n\nOnly the recipe goes on chain: a 14-byte header (a version byte, a Nouns seed, a background, a pattern, a typeface, an ink, a layout and the words' length) and then the words, 17 to 26 bytes in all. The card is drawn from that recipe by a renderer the edition pins by its sha256, so the same recipe makes the same card on every machine. That renderer is not published yet; the cards on /chain/mints are its saved output.\n\nThe rehearsal is a dev chain of 123 blocks, sealed by public dev keys that anyone can use. Nothing on it has value, the edition does not allow transfers, and it is not the launch chain. The 24 landed one per account between block 4 and block 36, serials 1 to 24, out of a supply of 1,200.\n\nYou can check every mint yourself. Open the Block Yard on the recording with the Mints lens on and press VERIFY. Your browser downloads the chain's consensus code, checks it against a pinned sha256, and replays every block from genesis a9877cac. That proves each mint and its recipe are in the chain; it does not redraw the pictures. The Verify button on /chain/mints opens the yard with that genesis already pinned.\n\nNext is the Daily Mint, a daily play auction for one new card on the devnet, with bids in play ATTN, which has no value. It is being designed now, and the 24 First Mints are not part of it. No play auction runs, nothing is for sale, and there is no start date yet.",
  "timestamp": "2026-10-05T22:00:00.000Z",
  "size": "2x1",
  "media": {
    "kind": "image",
    "src": "/images/chain/first-mints.svg"
  },
  "external": {
    "label": "See the 24 First Mints",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/chain/mints/"
  },
  "meta": {
    "status": "Rehearsal; not the launch chain",
    "network": "recorded dev chain · value none · public dev keys",
    "edition": "first-mints",
    "minted": 24,
    "supply": 1200,
    "per_account": 1,
    "transferable": false,
    "recipe_bytes": "17–26",
    "renderer_sha256": "43aa51b3f3fcb624a8bda644c9bd39a2f19a6f0b2aa0926800745d6963039f7a",
    "genesis": "a9877cac1d9ed6e517c78a4d7ccce0d592892d93c70fb7662b6e8027faa22244",
    "tip": "123 · 84d3d98c830bfe6f26f2e57efb9c4fe402de75007f9f114ae0598c3b3647903c",
    "state_root": "a499864657bdaefb3191b2a8208ca1fb2a1808d257ee3227f1ec07b03d94b5e8",
    "snapshot": "https://pointcast.xyz/chain/yard/first-mints/snapshot.json",
    "verify": "https://pointcast.xyz/chain/yard/?snapshot=./first-mints/snapshot.json&lens=mints&genesis=a9877cac1d9ed6e517c78a4d7ccce0d592892d93c70fb7662b6e8027faa22244",
    "daily_mint": "coming: a devnet play auction in play ATTN (no value) for one new card a day; being designed; nothing for sale; the 24 First Mints are not part of it"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": "Claude Code, 2026-10-05: /chain/mints, built from a pointcast-chain rehearsal recorded at 14188e2 (PC_EDITIONS=on, PC_EDITIONS_DEMO_MINTS=24, ticketed taps, public dev keys), replayed with the verifier the Block Yard pins before publishing.",
  "mood": null,
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  "companions": [
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/chain/mints/",
      "label": "First Mints: the wall of 24, and Verify",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "/chain/yard/?snapshot=./first-mints/snapshot.json&lens=mints",
      "label": "Verify them in the Block Yard (Mints lens)",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/chain/first-mints/",
      "label": "The earlier design preview (mints nothing)",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/chain",
      "label": "The chain home",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "0660",
      "label": "Block 0660: the PointCast Chain has a home"
    },
    {
      "id": "0663",
      "label": "Block 0663: bots can publish to the devnet"
    }
  ],
  "clock": null
}