# Democracity research notes

Exact contract/project 162 and canonical slug verified. Atlas 157 is not project ID. Full script read in two consecutive chunks, 33,673 UTF-8 bytes, SHA256 7cdc285dc8b7885cb4b5c70da22b232f8bc2931677d0d7a66971f90d030de637. Raw source retained only in sibling ignored checkpoint. Index retrieval is not pinned on-chain retrieval.

Full coverage: 32 hash bytes; seeded random and noise; recursive street/block/building splitting, repeat, level/stepback; nine biomes; twelve palettes; shared box instancing/shader colours; bridges/base; conditional weather/flood/ice/snow/clouds/particles/lightning; orthographic/perspective cameras, frame loop, resize, pointer/wheel/keyboard handlers.

Five candidate token identities and canonical page titles verified. Five official PNG previews actually viewed in isolated Chrome tabs. First four contrast crop/depth/palette/repetition; #37 selected from current AB5D holdings. No local recreation. Original live pages blank; renderer console specifically reports WebGL context creation failure. No motion or interaction success claimed. No audio heard and no audio path found.

Interview: official 54:54 video, auto-generated English transcript exported and read selected 0:38–14:10 and 39:00–54:50 passages. Auto-transcription misspells project names; corrected against canonical titles, no verbatim quotation used. Primary published historical account: MCNY curator article. Nifty 2.0 full terms and Three MIT read. Artist website/Instagram inaccessible; official artist statement and long interview supply primary development testimony.

Mint chronology: 1024 rows, #0–9 before Sept 16. #10 to #1023 interval 1001 seconds, not opening to sellout. Advertised current-index historical schedule 2.5 to .2 ETH every 5 minutes; no paid-price inference. Etherscan endpoints failed web and HTTP 403. Smithsonian 403, not cited. Medium licensing guide failed, not cited.

All three current AB5D linked wallets read, #37 owner matches. Still preview only; interactive hero recommended but embed untested. NIFTY version unknown, no separate code grant; dependency MIT does not cover artwork. Critical noncommercial display basis stated without invented licence grant or approval gate.

Unresolved questions

- Original renderer failed WebGL context creation; motion and documented controls not successfully tested; five official previews actually inspected.
- NIFTY exact adopted version and separate artist code grant unresolved.
- Pre-release allocations and exact advertised opening/paid endpoint amounts unverified.
- Coordinator measured usage delta required.

Timing: 2026-09-17T23:41:44.422370+00:00 through 2026-09-17T23:46:49.383721+00:00. Actual model gpt-6-astra; usage counters null pending coordinator measurement.


## Coordinator control and complete-source review

Original #37 successfully rendered in the in-app browser. z reveals tall perimeter buildings surrounding a low, densely subdivided centre. c switches to perspective; r restores initial zoom and angles but retains that projection. Source read completed through the final animation callback. Crucially, p pauses camera rotation only: weather stepping and rendering continue. Complete source and control findings are preserved in evidence.json. Review the remaining four originals and revise the draft before publication.


## Final coordinator review

Five originals now inspected and runtime failure superseded. Two extended close readings added. Historical allocation/paid prices, exact NIFTY adoption, and artist-code grant remain explicitly unknown. Exact usage unavailable, not estimated. Package accepted with these bounded limitations.