The
Sherwood
Oath.

Prologue

Robinhood built a chain for the assets of kings — tokenized stocks, regulated rails, institutional money moving at 100 milliseconds a block.

Then the outlaws moved in.

Within two weeks of mainnet, memecoins — not stocks — became the loudest thing on Robinhood Chain. And on a chain that carries Robin Hood's name, there is exactly one band that belongs here by birthright.

We are the Merry Men. Our deployer walked away and we did not. What was left in the dark became community-held: the banner, the channels, the story — owned by the people who keep showing up.

We swore something simple:

No hidden court. No borrowed promises. No master above the forest.
Share the fire. Welcome the next outlaw. Hold the line together.

This document is the whole truth of the project: what exists today, what we believe, what we are building, and when. It contains no promises of profit. It contains a plan.

How to read this: the "in plain words" boxes and the step-diagrams carry the whole system in simple language. If English is not your first language, or you are in a hurry — read only those, and you will still understand everything. The rest is detail and receipts.

Where we stand — the honest numbers

Most whitepapers begin with a fantasy. Ours begins with an audit — performed directly against Robinhood Chain (chain ID 4663) via RPC and the Blockscout explorer. As of July 19, 2026:

What already works — shipped, live, real

• merrymenhood.net — full lore site: the Origin, the Oath, contract verification, the chart
• Merrify — the PFP generator. Upload a photo, take the hood, carry the mark onto X and Telegram
• The raid bot — coordination infrastructure for organized, organic support
• The Telegram camp — active, moderated, with named stewards
• Four singles on Spotify — the Merry Men are the only band on Robinhood Chain that is literally a band. More music is coming

We are small. Small is where every legend starts. This paper exists so that everyone who joins — holder, builder, or allied project — can see exactly what they are joining.

Right now — the honest state of play

This section says exactly where we stand today, so nobody has to guess.

• The wallets are pre-multisig. The community wallet currently lives on fomo.family while we build toward the 3-of-5 Council multisig in §05. Every wallet we hold is disclosed; nothing is hidden.
• One target date. The roadmap is deliberately milestone-gated, not calendar-gated — but we're steering toward one date in the open: the Greenwood Handshake live, audited, around August 3rd, 2026. It's a target, not a promise — the audit is the real gate, and it clears when it's right, not when the calendar says. Until then the forest is in a quiet build phase — no product launches yet, on purpose — so the story can travel and organic holders can find the camp before the machine turns on.
• On selling — the honest version. The Sherwood Treasury never sells $MERRYMEN (§08). But the Treasury is the fee-funded multisig war chest, and it does not exist yet. Before it does, a small founding allocation in the disclosed pre-multisig wallets may be sold — minimally, only when required to fund production (the audit, listings, music, tooling), only from those disclosed wallets, and always announced in advance. No quiet sells, ever. The moment the multisig Treasury is live, the never-sell rule governs it — absolutely.
• A living document. This paper and the Treasury Policy are shaped by the people who show up. Outside the one commitment above and the on-chain facts in this section, everything here is open to change through the band's discussion — and every material change is announced and versioned.

Unpaid conviction is the only moat a memecoin can have

Everything else is a fork away. Contracts can be copied. Art can be copied. Liquidity can be rented. Influencers can be bought — and are, hourly.

In this industry, attention is almost always rented: paid callers, engagement farms, mercenary raid groups that vanish the moment the invoice stops. Rented attention collapses on schedule.

The Merry Men run on something that cannot be rented, because it was never for sale: people who promote this project for free, because they believe in it and in each other. That produces four structural advantages:

1. Sustainability — the band keeps singing through downtrends. There is no budget to run out of.
2. Authenticity — organic voices read as organic, because they are. New eyes can tell.
3. Resilience — FUD and paid counter-shilling can't unbuy conviction. There is no financial incentive to abandon.
4. The filter — a community you can't be paid to join only attracts people who actually want to be there. The recruitment mechanism is the vetting mechanism.

This is the constitution of the project: nobody is ever paid to shill $MERRYMEN, and $MERRYMEN never pays anyone to shill it. Not influencers, not call groups, not bots. What we build instead is a system where contribution earns standing — rank, voice, and access — which money cannot buy.

Culture is the moat. The rest of this paper is the castle we build behind it.

How individuals join, rise, and eat

Anyone can join the band. You do not need a big bag. You need to show up.

Deeds over bags. Standing in the Merry Men is earned through the Ledger of Deeds — contribution, not capital. A whale with no deeds is a guest. An outlaw with a hundred deeds is family.

The Campfire — the whole camp in one screen

The Campfire is the camp's app on merrymenhood.net: connect a wallet and you get your Merry Man card — your Merrify hood, your level, your XP bar, your streak flame, your lock boost, this week's auction vote, and your harvest, all on one screen. Built like a game, because progress you can see is progress you chase — seasons, streaks, and quest lines are what keep communities alive, not task lists. It ships as Phase III — rails first, game second (§09).

• XP is your Ledger score (§06), earned for what this project actually needs: memes that travel, songs and covers, X posts that hit, raids joined (bot-verified), recruits who stay, Spaces hosted. Quality-weighted, human-verified, decaying — and never purchasable.
• Levels carry rank, and rank carries a multiplier on your Tribute harvest (see the table). Grinders eat first.
• Streaks — daily raid participation keeps your flame lit; broken streaks cool your XP gain, not your balance. Show up like an outlaw, not like a tourist.
• Campaigns (seasons) — each season is a quest line with a story, a leaderboard, and a finale. Season XP converts to soulbound badges (permanent, non-transferable proof you were there), and each season's legends get the oldest honor the Merry Men have: sung into the canon — named in an actual released ballad.

Ranks

Ranks are earned, never bought, and never sold — badges and deed marks are soulbound. The moment rank is purchasable, the moat drains. So it never will be.

What members get

• Identity — the hood. One mark, thousands of faces, instantly recognizable across the timeline.
• The harvest — stake, lock, and grind: Tribute streams from every allied project, weighted up to 9× (§04, §08).
• Voice — staked weight votes in Merry Picks: the weekly auction, treasury moves, pact decisions.
• Access — allied-project channels, Council rooms, co-op raids with partner communities.
• The stage — a rotating X Spaces calendar where members speak, perform, and rep the forest.
• The story — early to a narrative that writes itself: the Robin Hood coin on the Robinhood chain.

What members never get

Paid per post. Ever. See §02 — the moment we pay for a shill, we're just another rented crowd. Nobody draws a wage; the band eats from the harvest, and the harvest is paid by allies, weighted by deeds. Show up more, earn more of what allies pay.

Ballads of Sherwood

The Merry Men of legend were minstrels — the ballads are how Robin Hood survived 700 years. Ours are on Spotify: four singles live, more in production. Music is our culture artillery:

• Every major milestone gets a ballad. Every major ally can get an anthem (§04).
• Streaming royalties flow to the Sherwood Treasury — the minstrels sing for the forest. It starts as pocket change; it is the symbol that matters: the band's art funds the band's war chest.
• Long-term: an album — Ballads of Sherwood — the first community-written soundtrack of a chain.

No other community on this chain can drop an anthem. We can, on demand.

The open market for the band's attention — and the alliances money can't buy

The doctrine: a rising tide lifts all boats. Robinhood Chain is brand new; every honest community that wins here makes the forest bigger for everyone. We would rather hold ten allied bags than fight ten turf wars. The proposition to every project on this chain is simple: you want the Merry Men on your side. Here is how you get them.

The Toll Road — the weekly attention auction

The band's raid calendar has a fixed number of slots each week. Staked $MERRYMEN weight (Merry Picks) votes on who gets them — and projects compete for those votes with Tribute: a stream of their own token, paid to every staker if they win. To enter the auction, a project must:

1. Pay the toll — buy $MERRYMEN on the open market and lock it for the length of their campaign. A slice of every toll is burned; the rest unlocks after a clean campaign. Nobody rides the road for free.
2. Post their Tribute bid — the stream (via RobinFlow) only starts if they win a slot. Losing bids cost nothing but the toll.
3. Pass the red lines — no paid-caller economies, no fake volume, no profit promises, contract sanity checked. Money can buy a slot on the road; it cannot buy its way past the values gate.

This is a gauge war fought over conviction instead of liquidity — the auction dynamic that made the Curve wars, pointed at the one resource on this chain that cannot be minted, forked, or faked: organic attention. And the machinery is just that — machinery. The road runs with or without the band's affection: slots, votes, streams, locks — pure mechanism. The band's unpaid conviction is the premium on top, and it is exactly why the slots are worth bidding for. Phasing, honestly: the auction opens in Phase IV, when banners outnumber slots. Until then, Tribute runs the simple way — below.

A quartermaster's cut of every Tribute stream (a small fixed percentage) routes to the Sherwood Treasury's Fellowship Bags — the forest taxes the road, not its own people.

Tribute — where the rewards come from

This is the answer to the oldest question in tokenomics: where do the reward tokens come from? Not from emissions — $MERRYMEN cannot be minted. Not from the treasury — it never sells. They come from allies, in their own tokens, streamed to stakers pro-rata by weight (stake × lock boost × rank multiplier, up to 9×). For the ally it isn't even a cost so much as a weapon: distribution of their token straight into the most convicted holder base on the chain. Stake once and the forest pays you in its tokens — a conviction-weighted index of Robinhood Chain that cannot be bought anywhere; it can only be earned here.

Tribute v1 needs zero custom code: allies fund RobinFlow staking pools — stake $MERRYMEN, earn the ally's token per second, on audited rails that already exist today. The weighted streams and the auction layer on top later.

And all of it through one door. "Zero custom code" means zero contracts of ours in front of user money — not somebody else's website. You connect on our portal, and the frontend routes every stake, lock, and claim straight to the audited rails underneath. Holders never leave the hood; the money never sits in unaudited code.

The Greenwood Handshake — one law, any number of hands

Every commitment in crypto dies on the same question: who goes first? Two allied treasuries must each lock separately and trust the other to follow. A hundred holders who would gladly lock together face the same trap at scale — nobody wants to be the only one who did. On this chain, nobody has solved either.

We are building the missing layer, one law enforced by one small, immutable contract: everyone in, or everyone out. Under the hood it is a single machine — a set of slots that must all fill before anything locks — and its two instruments are just its two doors: named slots make a Handshake, open slots make a Muster. One contract, one review, both instruments live from the same day.

Instrument one — the Handshake (named parties · ships first): an atomic mutual lock where either both sides lock together, or nobody does:

1. The proposal — Project A picks its token and amount, names Project B's wallet and required tokens, sets the duration, and deposits. A 48-hour clock starts.
2. The acceptance — Project B reviews the public terms and deposits. The instant their funds clear, both positions seal into non-cancelable locks in the same breath.
3. The escape hatch — if the clock runs out, Project A withdraws untouched. No hostages, ever.

Design laws, stated plainly: the contract is a transient coordinator (it holds nothing at rest — the funds ride RobinFlow's audited escrow), tracks four things only — tokens, wallets, amounts, time — uses no oracles, has no upgrade keys, and is built from battle-tested OpenZeppelin primitives. It is reviewed before it ever holds a cent (the full security posture is below). We will never call it unhackable; nothing is. We keep it small enough to be checkable.

Every seal mints a certificate — a public page showing both tokens, both locks, both transactions, built to be posted. When any two projects announce their alliance, the proof they share carries the mark of the greenwood into both communities' timelines. (The round table — three or more treasuries sealing one pact — is the same machine with more named slots.)

Instrument two — the Muster (open call · same contract, same law): a public rally with three terms fixed at creation — a threshold, a deadline, and the lock that binds everyone equally. Anyone answers the call by depositing the named token; a small fee in $MERRYMEN enters them on the roll. Then one law decides:

• The threshold fills before the deadline → every deposit converts into that wallet's own non-cancelable lock — everyone's, in the same breath. The Horn sounds; the muster roll publishes — every name, every lock, one certificate each.
• The deadline passes unfilled → everyone withdraws in full. Nobody ever locks alone.

What it's for: a community that wants to prove its conviction without asking anyone to be first — ours, any ally's, or any project on the chain that pays the fee. It solves the oldest prisoner's dilemma in every token community: I'd hold the line if I knew the others would. Now the chain itself can know.

What it will never be: a pooled fund. Every position is individually owned from deposit to unlock. The contract coordinates simultaneous individual locks; it never manages anyone's money, never swaps, never holds a communal pot with a decision-maker. And a muster binds tokens you already own — it is a lock-in, not a trading scheme.

Design laws, held by the whole machine: transient custody, four variables only (wallets, tokens, amounts, time — slots are nothing more), no oracles, no upgrade keys, OpenZeppelin primitives — and because both instruments are one contract, one review covers the entire law.

Why it matters for the engine: Handshake fees scale with deals — a few a quarter. Muster fees scale with participants — a single filled muster can carry a hundred fee-paying joiners, and any community on the chain can call one. Same law, two orders of magnitude more fee events.

And everything pays the forest: the rails are open to anyone on Robinhood Chain — pact with the band or not — but every seal and every muster answer pays its fee in $MERRYMEN, bought on the open market, and split by the house rules in the same transaction: half to the fire, half to the war chest (§05, §08). No vault, no vote, no discretion — the contract itself does the splitting. The machine serves the whole chain; the coin is its toll. Portal: handshake.merrymenhood.net.

Further down the road (vision, not promise): the same sealing flow extends to two-way streams, milestone co-vesting, and mutual treasury circuit-breakers — after the lock has earned its audit record.

The Market Stall — the greenwood's trading post

One page on the portal where the whole alliance trades: every pact token with its chart, its Tribute yield, and a swap box — routed by default through the realm pairs, the $MERRYMEN-denominated pools every pact seeds with locked liquidity. Two consequences, both by construction:

• Buying any ally buys the forest first. A trade routed through an ALLY/$MERRYMEN pool takes the $MERRYMEN leg before it ever touches the ally. This is the deepest demand mechanism crypto has found — the structural trick that turned ETH, SOL, and BNB from tickets into money: be the coin a district is priced in, not the fee token of one product.
• Every swap pays a small routing fee in $MERRYMEN — the standard interface-fee pattern major front-ends have run for years, native to existing router contracts. No custom code, no custody, no new audit surface. House rules apply: half of every fee burns.

Alliances are sealed quarterly; trading happens hourly. The Stall is the gear that runs at the chain's pace instead of ours.

Honesty clause: allies will keep WETH pools too, and should. The Stall's default routing, the pact's locked realm-pair liquidity, and the Deep Green's co-seeding make the $MERRYMEN pair canonical the only way canons are actually made — by being where the volume is.

The Band's Favor — the layer money can't buy

Above the road sits the thing that makes it valuable: the band itself. We hang around, make music, raid for love, and welcome anyone — and our genuine, unpaid backing goes where recognition is earned, not where invoices point. Its formal shape is the Greenwood Pact, and a pact is an invitation, never a purchase:

Selection, in one breath: CTO or fair-launch preferred, real community, sane verified contract, no bought engagement, and the vibe test — would we genuinely enjoy sharing a fire with these people? Every pact is announced by both camps at once: locks linked on-chain, anthem released, hoods unlocked, a joint Space within the week. Public, verifiable, ceremonial. And below it all sits the unsealed handshake — friendly camps backing each other with nothing locked. A handshake becomes a Handshake when it's sealed on-chain. That is how most pacts begin.

The war chest — how the forest funds itself without ever selling its own token

The treasury exists to fund operations and diplomacy without emitting new tokens (impossible — supply is fixed), without a token tax (there is none), and without dumping $MERRYMEN on the community.

Where money comes in — multiple streams, none of them you

• Handshake fees — every alliance sealed on the Greenwood Handshake (§04), by anyone on the chain, pays a flat creation fee in $MERRYMEN bought on the open market
• The quartermaster's cut — a small fixed percentage of every Tribute stream on the Toll Road (§04); the road pays the forest, automatically
• Market Stall routing fees — every swap on the portal's trading post (§04) pays a small routing fee, collected in $MERRYMEN
• The Merry Feast — periodic pass-the-hat community fundraises, every wallet public
• Ballad royalties — streaming income from the Spotify catalog, routed to the treasury
• Allied tips — projects that want the band's attention can gift the vault (gifts buy goodwill, never guaranteed promotion)
• Merch — hoods and marks, later in the roadmap
• LP fees — earned by the treasury's own future LP positions (the launch LP's fees belong to the launchpad's burn engine — see §08)

The four sleeves

Trust phases — from stewards to smart contracts

Phase 1 — The Council's Keys (first).
A 3-of-5 multisig held by elected Council members. A one-page Treasury Policy is published with the addresses. Every movement is announced before it happens. Simple, human, fully transparent.

Phase 2 — Take the Oath: staking and locks.
$MERRYMEN staking goes live on RobinFlow's native rails, with a lock ladder for conviction: flexible 1× · 3 months 1.5× · 6 months 2× · 12 months 3×. Your weight = stake × lock boost (the Campfire's rank multiplier joins in Phase III, taking it up to 9×), and weight is both voice and harvest: it votes the weekly Toll Road auction, treasury rebalances, and pact decisions — and it earns your share of every Tribute stream. The multisig executes winning votes within 72 hours or publishes its reasoning.

Phase 3 — The Sherwood Vault (the long game: specified → audited → deployed → trusted).
The treasury's mechanical core moves on-chain: a vault contract where passed Merry Picks votes queue swaps against a governance-set whitelist, executed through Uniswap v3 after a public timelock — executable by anyone once the clock runs out. The Council keeps only an emergency brake. Audited before a single token moves into it. At Phase 3, "trust us" retires; "verify" replaces it.

Proof of shill — making generosity measurable

The 2026 meta made attention a measurable asset: InfoFi platforms now score the quality and reach of what communities actually post. We adopt the principle at camp scale. The Ledger of Deeds is the record of who showed up.

• v0 (now): steward-curated, fed by raid-bot participation stats and mod observation. Published weekly in the camp: top deeds, new Yeomen, rank changes.
• v1 (Phase II): structured scoring — raids joined, memes that traveled, recruits who stayed, Spaces hosted, ally support delivered. Quality-weighted, not volume-weighted.
• v2 (with the Vault): soulbound on-chain deed marks; rank becomes verifiable anywhere without trusting a spreadsheet.

Anti-gaming, by design: deeds are reviewed by humans who know the camp; spam scores zero; deeds decay so past glory doesn't become permanent aristocracy; and nothing on the Ledger is purchasable — see §03.

The Ledger also powers the alliance program: when we tell a prospective ally "our support is real," we can show the receipts — delivered attention, measured, over months. No other community negotiates with proof.

Native rails only — the newest chain in crypto, used properly

Alan-a-Dale, the Herald

Robinhood Chain markets itself as AI-native, with agentic trading built into its DNA. We use that — carefully. Alan-a-Dale is an AI agent whose job is radical transparency, not trading:

• Publishes the weekly State of the Forest: treasury balances read live from chain, sleeve performance, Ledger highlights, pact status
• Answers newcomer questions in the camp, 24/7, in the forest's voice
• At Vault stage: drafts rebalancing proposals with on-chain data attached — which then go through Merry Picks like any other vote

The Herald never holds keys and never executes trades. Agents that sing, yes. Agents that spend, no.

Why this stack wins

Every component is native to the chain we live on — the same rails Robinhood built for institutions, pointed at a community treasury. Audited infrastructure instead of custom contracts (until the Vault, which gets its own audit). Insured yield instead of degen farming. Composable tokenized equities as a meme and a hedge. A newer stack than 99% of memecoins will ever touch, used with the caution of people who intend to still be here next year.

How the economics work — in plain sight

In one breath: nobody can print this token, tax it, or pull its pool — and every gear in Sherwood needs it to turn. Scarcity is handled by code; demand runs on five gears, each one a proven mechanism from a different corner of crypto; and the rewards are paid by allies, not printed by us. This is the whole design: proven mechanics only, each one pushing the same direction.

1 · The token — scarce, shrinking, unruggable

Fixed at 1,000,000,000 forever — the verified source has no mint function, no owner, no taxes, no blacklist. 77.6M already burned by the inherited burn engine: the pool's 1% trading fee is collected by the locked-LP contract and the $MERRYMEN side is burned, trade after trade (the WETH side accrues to the launchpad protocol, not to holders — stated plainly so nobody discovers it later). The launch liquidity can never be pulled; the locker has no withdraw function. Full addresses and figures: §01 and the audit appendix.

2 · Why hold — the engine that makes time work for you

Holding $MERRYMEN is designed to be the most rewarding position on Robinhood Chain — not by promising a number, but by construction. Start with the three house rules, enforced by code, not committee:

1. Everything we build charges its fee in $MERRYMEN. Every seal is a market buy.
2. Half of every fee burns, automatically. The other half funds the war chest.
3. The treasury never sells $MERRYMEN. Ever.

Around those rules, every mechanic pushes the same direction:

Supply only shrinks.

• The fee burn — every trade feeds the launchpad's burn engine (77.6M gone in week one)
• The fee burn rule — half of every fee burns automatically, executed in public at the Bonfire
• The tolls — a slice of every auction entry burns; the rest locks for the campaign
• Pact locks — every alliance locks $MERRYMEN out of the float for 90+ days
• The Oath — staking locks up to 12 months for up to 3× boost; the float thins as conviction deepens

Demand runs on five gears. There are only three ways demand ever reaches a coin — when something happens (events), when value wants to park (stock), and when a market trades (volume) — and most projects only ever build the first. We run all three, plus the two levers on top:

1. The Coin of the Realm (structural — how money gets made). Allied tokens list against locked $MERRYMEN pairs, and the Market Stall routes trades through them by default: buying anyone in the alliance buys the forest first. Fee tokens earn fees; denominators become ETH, SOL, and BNB. We are building the second kind.
2. The Harvest (the index — stock demand). Every farmer must buy and lock to earn Tribute: one coin farming a conviction-weighted index of every ally on the chain. This demand scales with the total value streaming — not with our calendar.
3. The Market Stall (the volume gear). Every swap on the portal pays a routing fee in $MERRYMEN. Alliances seal quarterly; trading happens hourly — this gear runs at the chain's pace instead of ours.
4. The Rituals (the events). Every Handshake seal — with us or without us — every muster answered, every auction toll, every pact's mutual buy-and-lock, every vote, boost, and rank: bought on the open market, by rule. And where seals scale with deals, musters scale with crowds — a hundred joiners is a hundred fees.
5. The Clockwork Bonfire (the return stroke). War-chest yield stands on the bid permanently — public buy-and-burns fire on Almanac triggers, announced by code, executed in the open. The treasury is a buyer that can never become a seller.

And holding pays in kind. Stake, lock, grind: Tribute streams from every winning bidder and every pact ally, in their tokens, weighted up to 9× (lock × rank). One coin, farming a conviction-weighted index of the whole chain — an index that cannot be bought, only earned.

3 · The treasury — a separate war chest, never fed by the token

The treasury never sells $MERRYMEN and never taxes a trade. It is funded from outside — Handshake fees from every alliance sealed on the chain, the quartermaster's cut of every Tribute stream, Market Stall routing fees on every swap, community feasts, ballad royalties, allied tips, merch — and every fee is auto-swapped into $MERRYMEN and split by rule (§05): half burns at the Bonfire, half funds the war chest. When governance arrives it stays simple — one question per quarter, two answers. Token holders steer the rest. It exists to grow the forest, not to pay the band.

The one honest asterisk, stated plainly: this describes the fee-funded multisig Treasury, which does not exist yet. During the pre-multisig bootstrap, a small disclosed founding allocation may be sold minimally and announced to fund production — never quietly, never once the Treasury is live. The full honest note is in §01.

Treasury policy

Standing commitments

1. All treasury and multisig addresses public, permanently
2. Weekly State of the Forest report (Herald), monthly deep-dive from the Council
3. Every Greenwood Pact and every auction result verifiable on-chain — locks and streams linked in the announcements
4. This whitepaper is versioned; material changes ship as a new version with a changelog, voted through Merry Picks

One thing at a time, on proven rails

The build philosophy, stated once: three tracks, one gate.

• Track one — the rails. Audited infrastructure everywhere (RobinFlow escrow, Uniswap, Morpho) and exactly one contract of our own carrying the whole law — a thin coordinator that holds nothing at rest; the funds ride RobinFlow's audited escrow. Our part is AI-reviewed, testnet-hardened, and bug-bountied before it holds a cent, with an independent third-party audit triggered before mainnet as stakes rise (§04). This security gate is the only serial gate in the plan. (The Vault, much later, gets its own full audit.)
• Track two — the liquidity policy. Zero code, live from the pact template onward: every pact seeds a realm pair with locked LP. The district's money policy exists before the district does, because liquidity is nearly impossible to re-pool later.
• Track three — the portal. One app that grows and never gets rebuilt: the stake page first, seals and musters next, the Campfire's game skin last. There is no second app, no separate sealing dApp — subdomains are doors into the same house.

Culture — ballads, raids, hoods, the Herald — runs continuously and never waits on any track. Protocol safety and tokenomics are priority one. The phases below are milestones on these tracks, not queues: everything runs in parallel except the security gate.

Phase I — Prove the Rails

We are here now — the quiet build phase. One target date: the Handshake — reviewed, on audited rails — live around August 3rd, 2026 (§01) — a target, not a promise.

• Take the Oath goes live — $MERRYMEN staking on RobinFlow's native pools, staked from our own portal: the rails are theirs, the door is ours
• The contract gets specified and secured — one machine, both instruments, spec → tests → AI-assisted review + public testnet + bug bounty; the funds ride RobinFlow's audited escrow, and a third-party audit is triggered as stakes rise (§04); it ships only when it's boring
• The pact template publishes — every future pact seeds a realm pair (ALLY/$MERRYMEN, LP locked): the district's money policy exists before its first citizen
• The house rules publish — Council elected, multisig live, Treasury Policy and the three rules (§08) on the site
• Get on the maps — GeckoTerminal, CoinGecko, Dexscreener token info, Fomo
• This paper and the first Merrify wave — the story and the hoods travel while the rails cure

Phase II — Seal, Muster, and Stream

The contract launches — both doors at once — and the economics start compounding.

• The law goes live — we are Client Zero — our own pacts seal first; certificate pages start traveling other communities' timelines
• The first Great Muster, the same week — the band calls a lock-in on our own token; the Horn sounds in public or every deposit walks home free. Pacts take months of diplomacy; a muster only takes a community — the machine has users before the first ally signs
• The first realm pair — pact #1 seeds ALLY/$MERRYMEN with locked LP, exactly as the template promised
• Tribute v1, zero custom code — pact allies fund RobinFlow staking pools: stake $MERRYMEN, earn their token per second, on rails that already exist today
• The first Bonfire — half of every fee burned, automatically, in one public transaction
• The Herald begins — weekly State of the Forest reports anyone can check
• The first simple vote — one question, two answers, one tap (§05): governance arrives without homework

Phase III — Light the Campfire

The game skin on the same portal — no second app, ever.

• The Campfire lights — Merry Man card, XP, streaks, ranks grow over the pages that already work; deeds start multiplying harvest — and every open muster burns on the front page
• Lock boosts weigh in — the 1× → 3× ladder multiplies votes and tribute share
• Seasons and catalysts — the Almanac fires, badges mint, legends get sung into the canon

Phase IV — The Realm, the Toll Road, and the long game

The auction opens only when banners outnumber slots.

When the machine has proven itself, the district's money goes to work at scale: the Market Stall opens on the realm pairs the pacts have been seeding since the first seal — the alliance trading on rails that buy the forest first (§04, §08). When more allies want the band's calendar than the calendar holds, the weekly attention auction (§04) turns on — demand decides the date, not us. Then the rest of the long game: the Sherwood Vault takes the treasury trustless, the Greenwood Basket puts every allied position on one dashboard, the Handshake grows into V2 (streams, milestone co-vesting, circuit-breakers), the album drops — and the brand finishes the sentence we started with: if you launch on Robinhood Chain, you want the Merry Men.

The Almanac — pre-programmed catalysts

The forest schedules its own weather. These events are baked in from day one, triggered by the chain, not the calendar — so everyone can see them coming and nobody can fake them:

The honest page — any project that hides this page is lying to you. We put it in the whitepaper.