D17 blog
Short essays on the ideas inside the D17 V15 launch mechanism - one per topic, each readable in about five minutes. They're written for a curious participant, not a Solidity developer; the developer-grade detail lives in the technical reference, the full plain-language walkthrough in contracts, explained for humans, and the list of changes from the earlier version in V15_HARDENING.md.
| # | Post | The idea |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Your money never touches the app | Participant-owned lockers hold WETH positions. The website is a window, not a wallet. |
| 02 | Five rounds and an anchor | The price is discovered by the first round, and no later round - the last one included - can sell below it. |
| 03 | The exit is part of the design | Refund windows on every early round: 1% early, a posted fee late, every penalty into the pool, full refunds if the launch fails. |
| 04 | The ✓ is earned, not granted | Metadata and economic rules - fees included - have separate mechanical consistency checks. Neither is an endorsement. |
| 05 | Liquidity that cannot leave | The vault holds the LP position forever, and the pool opens at the price people paid, only once every buyer is settled. |
| 06 | Supply math that cannot lie | The split must sum exactly, the caps are require statements, and unsold tokens are always burned. |
| 07 | Nobody gets stranded | Every mandatory step is permissionless; every personal claim waits forever. Absence strands no one. |
| 08 | One signature | A launch is born complete in one transaction - no admin keys, fee consented, minted, ownership renounced - or not at all. |
| 09 | The fee, in the open | 2%, only on success, frozen per launch, and nobody can change it anymore. |
Reading order
They stand alone, but they build: 01 (where your money lives) → 02–03 (how the sale works) → 04–06 (what can't be faked) → 07–08 (how it ends, and how it begins) → 09 (how the platform gets paid).
All posts describe the V15 contracts included in contracts/ and were checked against that source. V15.1 is deployed on Ethereum mainnet and on Sepolia, and has no formal professional third-party audit. Nothing here is investment advice - these essays explain a mechanism, not a token's value.