Honesty

What is actually live

“Nothing here is deployed” is easy to write and tells a reader nothing about which part to trust. This is the same thing per part.

Contract
Compiled and executed, not deployed
Arete.sol has no canonical deployment. Every property on /contract is run on Robinhood Chain’s own EVM through eth_call, which executes real code against real state and leaves nothing behind. /app deploys a vault from your own wallet.
Measurement
Live, from the chain, no key and no proxy
Every price is a Uniswap V3 Swap event decoded from its own sqrtPriceX96. There is no vendor, no oracle and no candle API in this repository.
App
Real transactions from your own wallet
Deploy, deposit, crystallise and redeem are ordinary signed transactions on Robinhood Chain. Every write is simulated from your address first. No key is handled here or held anywhere in this project.
Audit
Not audited
The properties on /contract are a self-review with sabotages, which is a different thing from an audit and does not substitute for one.

What the manager can still do

The vault prices its position at one Uniswap V3 pool and that is the only price it has. A manager who can push that pool can sell the position into the vault at an inflated mark and let the price come back — and property 31 executes exactly that rather than denying it: on a $200,000 vault, pushing the mark to twice its value and selling 500 tokens in takes $50,000 from holders, and the manager nets exactly what they lose — to the unit.

That is a property of every vault that marks a position against a venue it does not control. Closing it needs a second price source, not a bound the manager supplies, and this contract does not have one. The guarantee on the front page is therefore about sweep specifically — it moves what was donated and nothing that is owed — and not about the manager in general.

P31 is a control as much as a property: it must show a real loss. If it ever shows none, either the model stopped moving or the property stopped running, and both are worse than the limitation it documents. Its first version was itself wrong — it counted the cash the manager received and not the position they handed over, and reported holders losing $50,000 against a manager gaining $100,000.

The photograph

The photograph is credited in full below. It is used under its own licence and nothing about it is generated.

Title
Alpine Ridge, Denali National Park, Alaska LCCN2010630304.tif
Photographer
Carol M. Highsmith
Licence
Public domain
Source
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpine_Ridge,_Denali_National_Park,_Alaska_LCCN2010630304.tif
Note
Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith Archive. Released into the public domain by the photographer.

It is an arête — the crest between two glacial cirques — which is the object this vault is named after and the shape of its mark: a line of highest points that only ever rises as you walk it, and which tells you nothing about the valley you end up in.

The build

Everything on this site is produced by scripts in the repository. There is no API key, no proxy, no backend and no private key anywhere in it.

Chain
Robinhood Chain · id 4663 · https://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com
Scan
1,125 pools seen, 40 markets kept, 82 rejected, 45,536 swaps
Scanned
2026-09-07T22:35:11.741Z · head 57,190,813
Window
50.4 hours of chain
Contract
solc 0.8.26 · 12,298 bytes · 31/31 properties · 17 sabotages
Replay
3 real paths, 140 steps each, js/crest.js against the EVM: exact agreement
Theory
8/8 checks hold