VAULT · PUZZLE · 18K

Parting

FORGING

Gold and silver, forced apart. Nothing here announces itself. The chain alone judges the claim.

MODELPUZZLE
ASSAYSHA-256answer → key → self-check on-chain
LOOTfunds at openlive on-chain balance

Being forged. Address and loot appear here the moment it is funded.

RULESET

HOW IT WORKS

The private key is the answer. SHA-256 of the one exact canonical answer equals the key to the address above. Reproduce the answer and you hold the key. Not funded yet.

WHO CAN PLAY

Anyone. No registration. Solving privately hands you the key.

WHAT COUNTS AS A WIN

Possession. Whoever moves the gold on-chain keeps it. No clawback.

HOW YOU KNOW YOU SOLVED IT

Hash your candidate to a key, derive its address, compare with the address published here. A match settles it.

THE DERIVATION

Your answer is not checked by anyone — it is the key. Run it through exactly this, and compare what falls out against the address below. A match means the vault is already yours; nothing to submit, no one to ask.

  1. Assemble the answer to its one exact canonical form. Case, order, and separators are significant; no leading or trailing whitespace, no trailing newline.
  2. Encode it as UTF-8.
  3. SHA-256 those bytes. The 32-byte digest is the private key — nothing is truncated or re-hashed.
  4. Derive the secp256k1 public key, then the Ethereum address (keccak-256 of the uncompressed key, last 20 bytes, EIP-55 checksummed).
  5. Compare to this vault's address. Equal → import the key and sweep. Not equal → keep working; nothing is recorded either way.
Check it locally, in one line: printf '%s' "your answer" | shasum -a 256 — that digest is the private key. Use printf, never echo: a stray newline changes everything. Do this offline; never paste a candidate into an online hash tool.

This vault's address publishes the moment it is funded — until then there is nothing to derive to.

Every figure here is read from the public chain or is honestly zero. The site holds nothing. It displays, verifies, and links.