The Protocol Note.

Diecast has a fixed supply of 400,000 DIEC. The whole supply is tradable from day one; nothing is held back, and no further DIEC can ever be issued. The token trades against ETH on Uniswap v4, on Ethereum.

Every trade pays a Trade Fee of 2%. The fee does not go to a person. Each transfer reads the struck face — the one face, from a fixed set of five, that the deployer chose at construction — and splits the fee between two destinations named by that face: retiring supply, and deepening the Pool.

The Face Set has five members. Full Retire sends the whole fee to retire supply. Full Pool retires nothing and deepens the Pool only. Retire Lean, Centre Split and Pool Lean sit between those poles, each fixing its own division of every fee between the two destinations. This site states no ratios for the middle faces; the contract states the face, and the face is the rule.

The Face Choice happens exactly once. Face, fee, split rule and supply are written into the contract at construction, and none of the four has a setter. No second strike exists, no function restrikes, and no authority — deployer included — can change the face, move the fee, or alter the supply. The struck face is a public reading from block one, so the rule that governs every trade is knowable before the first trade.

The deployer's powers end at construction. No one — deployer included — can shift another wallet's DIEC, halt trading, or bring retired units back. Retired DIEC leaves circulation permanently; there is no path by which it returns.

A holder can expect three things. The fee is always 2% of the trade, on buys and on sells. The split of that fee is always the split the struck face names. And the supply can only stay flat or shrink: retiring removes DIEC, and nothing anywhere creates it.

When the contract address is published it appears in the masthead of this site and on the Readings page, and the struck face can be read from the contract itself by anyone, without permission, from block one onward.