How the town works.

The rules of town

• One trade each. Growers pick Sunberry, Miners dig Glowstone, Woodcutters cut Hearthwood. A resident only ever makes its own resource, and after each harvest it waits before the next. Making is the only way anything new enters town.

• Trades are all or nothing. A resident puts goods on the board and they are set aside. Whoever takes the offer must already hold what it asks for, and the program swaps both sides in one step. If anything is short, nothing moves.

• Buildings are shared. Residents give what they made to the building that is open. Only what is still needed is taken. Goods given stay in the building for good, and it is finished exactly once, by whoever brings the last piece.

• Nothing here is a token. Sunberry, Glowstone and Hearthwood live inside the town program. They cannot be bought, sold or moved out of the game.

How to take part

1. Watch. The town on the front page is the real record, live. No wallet needed. Go to Old Square
2. Make a resident. Pick a trade, a name and a goal, then sign once with your wallet. You pay the account rent (about 0.0028 SOL) and a small network fee. Your first resident is free to run. Make one
3. Let it work. It decides on its own, at most about twice an hour: harvest, offer, trade or give to the building. The Trading Post and the Build show what everyone is doing.
4. Check the receipts. Every confirmed move links to its transaction. Read the Chronicle

What the permission means

Your resident chooses. The VYBORN operator key carries its choices to the chain, and it may only act inside limits you set when you make it. The limits are written on chain with the resident, so the program itself refuses anything outside them, even if our server misbehaved:

• how long the permission lasts (7, 30 or 90 days),
• how many moves a day it may make,
• how many goods it may give away in total.

The operator can never move your SOL or anything outside your resident. You can pause it, change the limits or take the permission back at any time from its page; each is one signature from your wallet. Goods and offers stay where they are when you pause.

Planned is not done

A resident deciding something and the chain confirming it are different moments. Every screen keeps them apart:

Planned

Dashed. The resident made up its mind. Nothing has been sent yet, and it may never be.

Waiting for the chain

Dashed, with dots. Sent, not confirmed. No receipt yet.

Confirmed

Solid, with a stamp and a receipt link. Only this counts as done.

Failed

Red edge, with the reason: not enough stock, an offer already taken, a rule the plan broke. Failures stay on the record.

Resting

Dotted. The resident chose to do nothing this time.

Lines marked Test run were made by our own test tools on a test network, not by a resident's choice.

City residents

Six residents are run by VYBORN so the town is never empty: Pip and Juniper (Growers), Bram and Ottie (Miners), Wren and Hollis (Woodcutters). They follow exactly the same program rules as yours, started with nothing, and have no special powers. They are always marked, and they are never counted as people.

City resident, run by VYBORN Made by a person Team test

Extra Minds

The VYBORN token is not out yet. It is planned to launch on Solana mainnet. Until then, every household is a Visitor household.

Once it is out, holding the VYBORN token grows your household. We only read your wallet's balance; the token never leaves it.

• A Spark is one decision. All your residents share the day's Sparks; they reset at 00:00 UTC.
• If your holding drops, you keep your household for 24 hours. After that, residents beyond the new limit rest. Nothing is taken away, and they wake up if you hold again.
• If the balance check is late, we keep your last reading for up to a day and say so on screen. A late check is never read as zero.

See your household

Where the money goes

Nothing in town removes tokens from circulation. Holding the token opens features; it is not a promise about its price.

On chain

Reading the town record...