01 / The idea
A beautiful thing
to keep unbroken.
Your wallet. Your savings. Entire networks.
So much rests on a simple belief: some math is too hard to break.
The Canary makes that belief visible. A coin’s creator fees fill a ladder of public vaults, each harder to unlock than the last. Find a rung’s unknown key, take its bounty. Everyone is invited to try.
At the very top sits a full-strength canary. No deliberately small key. No expected solution. Just an address, a growing bounty, and a song we hope never ends.
Find your rungPublic by design
The challenge, the address, the balance. In the open.
Break it. Claim it.
No permission needed. No token holding required.
One signal worth watching
Easy rungs are a game. The final canary is a tripwire.
02 / The ladder
A little harder.
Then a lot harder.
Start with a laptop. Bring a gaming rig.
Keep climbing until better hardware isn’t enough.
Select a rung to see what you’re up against.
Gone in thirty minutes.
A deliberately small key, sized to fall within about half an hour of launch. Someone will take it. Then everyone knows the game is real, and the next rung opens.
- Example key range
- Announced before launch
- The reward
- The rung’s accumulated bounty
Built to be broken. That’s the point.
An illustrative ladder, not a drop schedule. Difficulty and hardware tiers are targets; solver benchmarks and independent review will set the final rungs.
03 / The fuel
Every trade
feeds the canary.
The plan is simple: trading generates creator fees. Most flow to the lowest uncracked rung. When someone claims it, future fees move to the next challenge.
Coin trading
Creator fees fund the experiment.
Holders receive no payout.
uncracked rung
20% to the team and running costs,
with the routing logged publicly.
Claim. Climb. Repeat.
A solved rung pays its solver. Future fees are re-routed up the ladder.
The bounty is for the breaker. You don’t need to hold the coin to claim a rung. Claims do not trigger buys, burns, or distributions to holders.
A visible commitment. Fee routing is editable by the team and can be overridden by pump.fun. The 80/20 split is the current plan, not an immutable guarantee. The top canary can also receive direct donations.
04 / The signal
Some silence
is deafening.
An early rung breaking is a celebration. The final canary moving is the moment we know for sure encryption broke. Everyone is asking whether AI can crack the math that guards every wallet. The canary is how we’ll find out.
The canary is untouched. No alarm from this tripwire. The song continues.
A demonstration of the idea. No live wallet is connected.
A few field notes
Naturally,
you have questions.
An experiment is more interesting when you can look closely. Here’s what the idea does — and what is still being built.
Is this trying to break Bitcoin?
The lower rungs are purpose-built challenges on Solana. They use restricted key ranges so they can actually be solved; a solution does not break the underlying curve. The final canary has no such shortcut. The prototype also derives Bitcoin and Ethereum sibling canaries using secp256k1, the curve used by both networks. These are separate tripwires, not access to anyone else’s wallet.
Who has the keys?
The top canary prototype derives a public key directly from a public seed using standard hash-to-curve. It does not first generate a private key. The lower rungs need a different ceremony to create a key inside a known range without any one participant learning it. That ceremony and its security assumptions still need implementation and independent cryptographer review.
What happens when someone solves a rung?
The plan starts with plain public rung addresses: recover the signing key and transfer the bounty. A watcher detects the outgoing transaction, and the team re-points future creator fees to the next uncracked rung. A custom vault program is a possible later version. You don’t need to buy or hold the coin to participate.
What if the final canary moves?
If the final canary moves, someone broke the math, and the whole industry needs to know. Every claim gets verified in public first, because a full-strength claim could point to a cryptographic advance, a flaw in the key ceremony, or an implementation problem. The important work would be to verify the claim, identify the cause, and understand what else is affected. An untouched canary is no guarantee of general wallet safety.
Can I try it yet?
This is a concept prototype. Address derivation and difficulty experiments exist in the repository; a live drop schedule, funded rung addresses, claim monitoring, and reviewed ceremonies are still to come. There is no live bounty or token purchase on this page.
Curiosity is welcome here.
Bring your laptop. Bring your questions.
There’s a rung for the curious, and a canary for all of us.