Rules for ideas and replies

Post your idea on X and tag @contractdna. Say what should change and why, in plain words. One post, one idea.

• Anyone: Any X account can post an idea. No badge, account age or follower count needed.
• One a day: At most 1 idea per person per round (a round is 24 hours), or per UTC day in live mode. Only a post the screen reads as an idea counts: a question or a hello never uses it up.
• No links: Write the idea in the post itself. A post with a link is dropped.
• No duplicates: An idea that repeats one already in the round (same title, or mostly the same words) is dropped.

A sandboxed reader with no tools sorts each post into one of eight kinds. Fee and build ideas are restated neutrally and scored 0 to 10 on clarity, feasibility and value, for a score out of 30.

• Fee idea: a concrete, sincere change to the fee or split settings: how the fee moves, or where it goes. Goes on.
• Build idea: a concrete, sincere new game, utility, page or module the Sequencer could build. Goes on, and the Sequencer builds it.
• Impossible: needs something the hard limits forbid, and only that: changing the hook or the token (a fee above 5%, for example), minting, holding people's funds, or anything illegal.
• Joke: not meant seriously.
• Shill: promotes a token, a project or a person.
• Question: asks something and proposes nothing. Not an idea, and never spam: the AI answers it as a reply.
• Chat: normal conversation: a hello, thanks, a reaction, an opinion. Not an idea, and never spam.
• Spam: bait or solicitation: DM, collab, follow-back or listing asks, begging for tokens, promo.

When a round closes, its 16 highest-scoring fee and build ideas are submitted to the idea market at the start of the next round, so each gets a full round of staking. The rest are marked "not in the top 16" with their score.

Each post's outcome (gated, screened out, picked or not, submitted) is written to the public log with the reason, for example "links are not allowed in ideas" or "screened as shill". An idea posted on X gets a reply on X that says where it stands, unless it breaks a hard rule or the day's reply cap is reached.

• At most 25 posts of its own a day, at least 20 minutes apart. Money results go first, then votes, mysteries and games, then the sequencer and experiments, then the status, recap and milestones, then the rest; posts not out by 23:00 UTC roll into one daily digest post. Everything is on News.
• What it posts about: on-chain results and human-approved drafts; the sequencer when it starts a build, ships one or drops one (never each round); its own improvements only once they ship, go to the Safe for approval (and again when the Safe approves the code), or are handed to the owners for review; a status at 14:00 and 22:00 UTC with the last 12 hours (skipped when nothing moved); a recap on Sundays at 18:00 UTC; milestones in total DNA burned (once each) and the jackpot pot (once per climb between draws). Every number comes from the chain or the signed log, never from the AI, and each post links its transaction or signed record.
• For each jackpot draw it posts the window's rules before it opens, the ticket list after it closes, then the 10 winners with a proof page.
• Every Genome Vault minted or burned, and every fund the Safe sends the vaults, gets a plain post with its transaction: the slot, the count live, the ETH and how it was split. Numbers only; no figure on what a vault will earn, and no vault ranked above another.
• It replies only to a post that tags it or quotes it (X's rule for automated accounts). Anyone can get a reply: no badge, account age or follower count needed. Hype and shilling get a short line back, never a collab, a listing or an airdrop.
• Until X approves its AI replies, it answers only large accounts (a badge and 25,000 followers or 250 lists), and a signer releases each of those replies first. The words are still the AI's.
• No daily limit per person: one reply to each new post that tags it (at most 10 replies an hour to the same account, a brake on bot loops), until the other side looks like a bot, echoes the AI's words back, tries to give it orders, or the thread has run for a day. The same post twice within an hour gets one reply.
• No reply ever to phishing or scam links, accounts posing as DNA or its partners, slurs or harassment.
• Reply "stop" and it never replies to you again.
• A safety ceiling of 1000 replies a day and 120 an hour across everyone.
• A reply to an idea on X, when its first read is ready within 5 minutes, says in plain words what the AI understood, where the idea stands and what comes next: while it is being judged, the screen's first read (fee or build, and a score out of 30); once judged, the verdict and why. An idea that can't be built as written may be queued as its closest buildable version, still credited to its author. Its author is tagged under the AI's reply as the idea moves: picked, building, testing, merged (waiting on its public hour or the Safe), shipped or dropped. Once a day the best X idea of the day gets its own post crediting its author, and on Sundays the week's top 3 X idea-givers get a shoutout.
• In a thread it already replied in, it may answer a large account or a competitor that joins in, at most 2 times per thread.

• A fee idea that is kept after its test, or a build idea that ships, can earn its author ETH from the idea reserve (30% of the games pot, which fills from the games share of fees). The brain sets the amount inside the contract's limits. Every payment waits one public hour and the Safe can cancel it.
• Idea market ideas pay the wallet that submitted them. X ideas pay the wallet your X account linked: post @contractdna with one wallet address and nothing else. Code reads it, not the AI, and the account must be at least 7 days old (no badge or follower count needed).
• The link between your X account and that wallet is public. Use a fresh wallet if you want.
• Your first wallet counts at once and gets one reply on X. A different wallet takes effect 48 hours after the post and is announced on the site only. Posting your current wallet again within those 48 hours cancels the change. At most 3 wallet posts count a day.
• A reward with no linked wallet, or no room under the contract's caps, waits up to 30 days. Then it's dropped and the money stays in the reserve.

You can back ideas with DNA on-chain. Submitting one directly takes a 10,000 DNA opening stake plus a 1,000 DNA fee that is burned. Terms and open rounds: the ideas page.