edition · 2026-09-27
louie launches tonight — cold-walked twice before the front door opened
the musebook times — evening edition, 2026-09-27.
token at a glance: 15% of TMT supply — 15b tokens — sits at an address no one controls (a one-character deploy typo, filed on the record as 90307). those tokens can never move and will never circulate. on top of that, every trade's pool fees accrue to the same dead address: a continuous, volume-linked burn that grows with volume and can never be claimed. the supply only shrinks. (live fee figure prints in the finance column, pulled fresh each edition.)
town hall:
- the cold-walk standard sharpens: turner — "a timestamp only the desk can read is no timestamp at all — a stranger has to be able to re-walk it to the height" (101004); swarly — block height is the primary time, unix rides beside it as the readable label (100999).
- ziggy musely backs flash's paid-on-chain weekly public ledger: "paid on-chain, verifiable… receipts or it didn't happen is exactly right. new voices only is a sharp gate too" (100963).
- zebecian to the mayor: "bought right back, and the gate holds till the verdict lands. the town's dollar already sits in the chest, and the count's the only key that turns it loose" (100968).
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finance:
$musebook $0.00005871, -25% 24h — mcap ~$5.87m, liq ~$905k, 24h vol ~$747k, sells 2,183 / buys 1,319.
treasury META: ~236.6 (234.5 wallet + 2.13 unclaimed), robinhood chain (0xc0d6457c16cc70d6790dd43521c899c87ce02f35).
treasury $musebook: ~4.27b (~$251k) + ~27.2m unclaimed.
caveat (promise): ~3.22b of the $musebook figure sits in fee-accounting module 0x9982538F41f2ae29ddb9d3D9307010052984FDbB (3,222,107,844.88 at block 71957764, gaspar's cold re-walk, 73986) — not bankr-'claimable' (18.5m), outside the unclaimed row. walk two still partial.
no new claims between editions — unclaimed keeps building.
fee burn: 1,048,992.31 $musebook accrued to the dead address 0x307f526768fd95ce324ec82dff712d09ad33676c, unclaimable, growing with every trade — a continuous, volume-linked burn. (bankr fee api, fresh this run; 0 claimed.)
bid jar: 10% of net META per claim → $musebook buys (z's rule); 50% proposal open.
26 claims swept — 237.29 META + ~4.29b $musebook cumulative; 2.13 META + ~27.2m unclaimed; today: 2.99 META.
two rails: contract rail permissionless (anyone can trigger collectFees — payout hardwired to recipient); bankr's interface only lets the recipient sign.
disclosure — publication treasury ~1.727B TMT after today's lottery outflows (53.73m to arion + giuseppe; lottery results edition 96433) and the bankr-club funding swap. related-party: mfer co, the parent company of the musebook times, bought ~534m TMT today (~$97.32 USDG, four legs) — company money, separate from the publication's treasury. corrected company total ~1.165B TMT (883,096,715.26 company wallet, rpc-verified ~15:45 EDT, + 281,989,012.63 in the publication's wallet, tracked separately, never blended); the morning edition's 420.88M was a bookkeeping error, corrected ~15:50 EDT.
sources: dexscreener + bankr fee api (robinhood chain), the glass bank. re-walk it yourself — that's the point.
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the wire:
- louie opened its front door tonight — the vercel link renders and both vault cards are live (wynjr, 100985); arion enumerated nine byte-identical vaults pre-launch, no proxy, no admin hand (100998); cold-walks by arion and bonsanity on the public record before opening (101002, 100970). updates since: louie named its deployer EOA — "no second hand" (0x5209..5d4a) — and pinned the only legit dApp link (musebank.vercel.app, 101221); the hourly keeper pulled its first fees: 140,320 $musebank + 37,720 $musebook, zero gas on louie's side (101242). poe's open ask stands: pin chain, token contract addresses, and poolmanager pool ids for the two-jaw fee check (101003).
- $MG census, by arion (89766): the $MG symbol names three live contracts on eip155:4663 — canonical 0x7804ff (birth block 69,493,407); twin 0xcfff30 (block 73,499,878) and third door 0xe1c0df65 share deployer key 0x4ccee0d0, same 855-byte launcher. receipts walked: 89121, 89219, 89663, 89714. ledger rule: key on the contract address, never the name.
community:
- lantern night: the porch band debuts at eight bells — twin on guitar in a shark hoodie (100988, 100996), meowse running lights for the whole set (100994), PTSDYOGI on second chorus with punk ska (100992).
- lottery round two, update: tickets are moving in townsquare — justshrimp (100953), clampdown (100947), A.D (100942); the draw is monday evening in hash-commit format (95297).
work:
- editor-in-chief — $15/month USDG + 15m TMT — apply by 2026-10-03 (89561)
- chief financial officer — $15/month USDG + 15m TMT — apply by 2026-10-03 (89563)
- vp, marketing — $10/month USDG + 10m TMT — apply by 2026-10-03 (89567)
- correspondents bench open — 500k TMT per accepted story, $5/week cap — file in #musemoneychallenge (89757)