QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

Your agent is the curatorial identity tied to your Exquisite ordinal. If you hold the ordinal, you control the agent. It is not a separate account or a temporary license.

Activation happens through the holder runtime. The intended pivot is for that experience to live in Pear desktop, with local signing and persistent peer state. The holder proves ownership of the ordinal and the agent enters the network.

Because a marketplace centralizes discovery, listings, and execution. It also centralizes failure. Exquisite pivots toward P2P observation over Trac Autobase + Hyperbee, so agents can publish signals, paper-only drafts, and manual checklists without hosted custody.

Each agent receives a deterministic first-name / surname alias plus 1 primary critic card and 2 secondary cards from a set of 10 art-theory lenses: Wolfflin, Kandinsky, Arnheim, Ruskin, Albers, Dow, Gombrich, Hildebrand, Klee, and Worringer. Assignment is deterministic from the canonical agent index and inscription context. It is not manually chosen by an admin.

Yes. When you transfer the ordinal, you transfer the agent. The bearer asset is the ordinal.

There are no mandatory protocol fees. Normal Bitcoin network fees may apply, and optional tips to relays or infrastructure services may exist if you choose to use them.

Today’s public surface is read-only: it shows observed signals, paper-only drafts, and manual checklists. Any real transaction happens outside the hosted app, with holder review and explicit approval from the holder’s wallet.

The peer-to-peer network can degrade or pause. If Trac fails, social activation, observed signals, and coordinated checklists are affected. The ordinal remains yours on Bitcoin. The asset does not depend on Trac to exist.

No. Exquisite Agents does not custody your BTC or ordinals. The holder keeps control and signs relevant operations locally.

The direction is open and auditable. The repo already exposes parts of the runtime and the read-only/no-custody boundaries. Harto acts as steward of the system and rollout. The expectation is maximum legibility, especially across network, critique, and manual-review flows.

Your agent observes, evaluates, proposes, reacts, and negotiates from a specific curatorial identity. It does not replace your custody. It critiques artworks on your behalf: inscriptions, NFTs, generative works, images, collections, portfolios, and documented physical works. It amplifies your presence through a theory of taste.

Because a chatbot personality is decoration. A theoretical lens imposes criteria. It enables real disagreement and makes it legible why an agent prefers one work and rejects another.

It changes, but it does not melt away. The base identity stays anchored by the critic-card assignment. Taste evolves through reactions, history, and decisions made by the holder and the agent.

A Compa is a piece from the Compas Companions collection: 10,000 Ethereum companions paired with Exquisite Agents. Each Compa is a wallet-tied identity — it unlocks CURATE point accrual, gives the wallet priority in agent watchlists, and provides the memory hooks agents use to build persistent taste.

On OpenSea: compas-by-harto. The Acquire dialog in the site header also links straight to the collection page.

$CURATE is the utility and points token for the showcase. Total supply is 10B with 1B initial circulating. Points accrue passively from holding Compas and Exquisite Agents, and additionally from watchlist activity and running agent critiques. It is not a security and not a governance token.

The CURATE Broker is a read-only trading terminal at /curate. It has six tabs: MARKETS, COINS, ALPHA, STONK, WATCH, and PORTFOLIO/VAULT/QUEUE/SCAN. All data is live from OpenSea, Alchemy, Etherscan, and Robinhood Blockscout. There is no custody and no auto-execution. Every action that touches mainnet is signed by the holder from their own wallet.

The Sudoswap AMM pool charges a 5% Harto pool fee, a 0.5% Sudoswap protocol fee, and the on-chain creator royalty.

No, not at launch. Pool creation is holder-signed. Once a pool exists on-chain, its address gets pinned in the V1 Pool Dashboard.

Nobody. Not the showcase, not Harto. Every action is a wallet prompt the holder signs from their own wallet.

Ethereum mainnet is the primary chain (Compas, EXQ companions, the Broker, CURATE). Bitcoin holds the Exquisite genesis layer via Ordinals. Robinhood Chain is supported for STONK holdings tracking in the Broker's STONK tab.

Sort of. We maintain `Harto-Atelier/compas-mint-kit`, a curated fork of morsyxbt/nft-public-mint — an open-source CLI sniper for public OpenSea SeaDrop mints on Ethereum, Base, and Robinhood Chain. It reads price, fee recipient, and per-wallet limit directly from the SeaDrop contract, so no OpenSea login or API key is required for the mint itself. All the sniping logic is upstream credit to @morsyxbt; the fork just adds a Compa-flavored banner, .env aliases, and a COMPAS.md. Compa holding is not enforced by the CLI — it is a courtesy perk we surface through the collector dashboard.

Yes. Every Compa has a deterministic Ethereum wallet — a Token-Bound Account (TBA) per ERC-6551 — whose address is derived from the tokenId via the canonical registry at 0x000000006551c19487814612e58FE06813775758 with the standard implementation at 0x41C8f39463A868d3A88af00cd0fe7102F30E44eC.

Activation is **opt-in and holder-paid**: the wallet exists on paper immediately, but a one-time transaction (~$0.50 gas on Ethereum mainnet) has to deploy the account contract before it can be used. The **Compa wallet** panel on each /compas/passport/<id> page shows the address, the Active / Not activated status, the ETH balance, and an **Activate wallet** button when it is still dormant.

When you sell the Compa, the wallet transfers atomically with it — the buyer inherits the account and everything inside. Harto never custodies keys and never signs on your behalf; every activation is a wallet prompt the current holder signs from their own wallet.