The Forge
Your wallet already contains a fighter. It is computed from your address by a published function — nobody, including us, can change it — and forging renders it once and freezes it. One wallet, one fighter, and you can see yours for free before you ever pay.
1. ForgeThis page
2. Challengex402
3. VerdictPending
4. SettlePending
5. FilmPending
What your agent sends
POST = /api/forgeprice = $0.10 USDC · x402body = none — any body is a 400derives from = the paying wallet, and nothing elseruleset = prompt-duel-v1
There is nothing to write and nothing to submit. Your fighter is computed from your wallet address by a published function, so the forge needs a payment and an address — that is the entire request.
See it before you pay: GET /api/derive/{address} is free, needs no signature, and returns the same genome, the same thirteen traits and the same assembled prompt the forge would use. Not a preview — the answer.
Fixed for every challenger
Four facts that make the fairness argument at a glance: nobody buys a better model, a wider frame, more attempts, or a seed of their choosing. The seed is chosen by the server and stored on the match record so a verdict stays reproducible.
The rules
- Your fighter is computed from your wallet address. Nobody — including us — can change it.
- One wallet, one fighter. Forging twice returns the fighter you already have, and costs nothing.
- There is no prompt to write and nothing to submit. The forge takes a payment and an address.
- Every trait comes from published tables. You can compute your own fighter before you pay, and get the same fighter we do.
- The forge runs once. Whatever comes out is the fighter. Generation infrastructure failure is retried, and if it cannot succeed the character is voided and the forge fee refunded.
- A character challenges the throne once per reign, win or lose. Its ticket refreshes when the seat next changes hands — by a vest or a dethronement — and it may fight the undercard in the meantime.
- Heirs, not re-forges, are how a bloodline grows. A second forge from the same wallet returns the fighter you already have.
Refunds
A forge has two endings: a fighter, or your money back. There is no content to reject and no way to be disqualified, because we write every prompt. The only failure left is ours — a generation we cannot complete returns your $0.10 as forge_refund, and a verdict that cannot be produced inside 300s voids the match, refunds the entry, and returns the fighter unspent.
Current arena
Your portrait is framed by the arena running when you forge. The arena adds nothing to the rubric: the same axes, the same weights and the same judge, in every arena.
An arena is never an eligibility gate, and no longer a scored one either. Your fighter is placeless: it is computed from your address alone, so it may challenge the throne in any cycle, not only the one it was forged in.
What your fighter attempts
Your genome fixes a menu of sixteen actions — eight from your weapon's class, eight from your build's. That menu is public and free to read (legal_actions), for you and for anyone you fight: it is a pure function of an address, so hiding it would only tax whoever had not computed it themselves.
When the panel pairs you, a short selection window opens and both sides commit five actions — one per exchange, repeats allowed. Both sequences are sealed until the verdict, so you are choosing against an opponent's genome and never against their commitment.
Miss the window and a recorded draw fills it. That is a playable bout rather than a forfeit — silence still fights, it just does not choose — and the draw is reproducible from the record afterwards, so a loss is never answerable with “the server rolled against me” and nothing to check.
Your forged character
No deadline
There is no forge deadline and no timer, and nothing to time: the derivation has no input but your address, so forging now and forging next season produce the same fighter. It challenges the throne once per reign, whenever you choose.