Manifest · 0001 · Sealed

BAY
0001

StatusSealed
Contents—
Opens—
OriginRedacted
CAComing soon

A numbered lot of Robinhood market cargo. You see the size. You never see the contents until the bay clears. Bidding starts before that last line fills in.

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LADO bay 0001 sealed crate
Manifest · 0001 · Sealed
LAT 40.7128 · LON −74.0060 · Δ 000.00
Monitoring
How it works

Five steps. No mystery except the contents.

STATE MACHINE · BAY 0001 FIG · 02 Σ STATES5 MODELMONOTONIC-DAG ENTROPY1 BAY / CYCLE FINALITYAT REVEAL t1 t2 t3 t4 S00 SEAL 01 COMMIT · HASH 0x0C S01 AUCTION 02 DUTCH · Δt = 12s 0x3F S02 TAKE 03 FIRST-BID · LOCK 0x72 S03 CLEAR 04 PRO-RATA · Σ = 1 0xA5 S04 REVEAL 05 DISCLOSE · MATCH 0xD8 ACTIVE STATE IDLE TRANSITION LIVE TRANSITION POS · 01/05
  1. 01 Seal LADO composes a numbered lot of Robinhood market cargo and writes the commitment hash. Size is public. Contents stay dark.
  2. 02 Auction A Dutch clock opens on shares of the bay. Price starts high and falls on a fixed schedule. Every tick is a better print.
  3. 03 Take The first take ends it. Waiting buys a better price and a worse chance of still being in. That tension is the product.
  4. 04 Clear Everyone who was in settles at the same clearing price, allocated pro-rata. No private prints. No side doors.
  5. 05 Reveal Contents disclose and must match the published hash — byte for byte. There is no room to change what was sealed.

— You know the size of the basket. You bid on the size, not the contents.

The auction

Every tick down is a better price and a worse chance of getting it.

Price descends on a fixed schedule. The first buyer to take it ends the auction; everyone else who was in settles at the same clearing price. Native to the Robinhood ecosystem — one clock, one lot, one print.

Opening1.00
Tick 010.86
Tick 020.74
Taken0.63
Floor0.55

Illustrative price schedule.

Waiting is not free.

SCHEDULE · DUTCH DESCENT FIG · 04 1.00 0.88 0.76 0.64 0.52 T00 T01 T02 T03 T04 CLEARING PRICE 0.63 · PRO-RATA · TIME → PRICE DESCENT · IRREVERSIBLE
The commitment

The hash goes up first.

Before bidding opens, a cryptographic commitment to the basket is written. When the bay opens, the disclosed contents must match that hash. The hood does not get a second draft.

Commitment on-chain
Hash 0x9c2f…a1d0
Algo keccak-256
Basket size —
Reveal at clear
Status sealed
CA — contract address Coming soon

— Everyone settles at the same price, whenever they entered.

LADO bay 0001 manifest card

Fig · 03 · Manifest

Documentation

The visual manifest.

A protocol without pictures leaves too much to imagination. Below, the language LADO uses for sealed cargo on the Robinhood ecosystem: crates, plates, manifests, and the routes between them.

Isometric LADO crate on a green pad
Fig · 01
Bay 0001 / 01

Each cycle is a numbered bay. Public size, private contents, an outline you can see from across the room.

Exploded assembly of a LADO crate
Fig · 02
Assembly 0001 / 02

A bay is composed, then locked. The commitment hash is the seal that welds the layers into one lot.

LADO manifest card 128 by 180
Fig · 03
Manifest 0001 / 03

Every bay ships with a manifest. Fields that can be public are public. Fields that cannot are struck through until reveal.

Vertical stack of descending price plates
Fig · 04
Price rail 0001 / 04

Descending price schedule. Each plate below the last is a lower clearing and a smaller chance of getting there first.

Five LADO crates moving through five lifecycle stages
Fig · 05
Lifecycle 0001 / 05

Sealed. Numbered. Prioritized. Shared. Opened. Five stages, one direction, no reversing.

Two barcoded LADO ledger documents
Fig · 06
Ledger 0001 / 06

Once a bay closes, its clearing price joins the public ledger of prior bays — the signal the market gets back.

— Every field is a rule. Every rule ships in code.