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Ordo Perpetuae Tenentiae

He took the vow of silence. Then he took the harder one: never to sell. The Order of Perpetual Holding keeps one ledger, copies it by hand, and has never once recorded an exit.

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Brother of the Order, with the coin he will not spend

Incipit regula

The Rule


  1. I

    Hold

    The first rule and the last. Everything below is commentary.

  2. II

    Take nothing from thy brother

    Zero tax on every buy and on every sell. Nothing is skimmed in passing.

  3. III

    Let the vessel be sealed

    One thousand million tokens, and no more. The mint authority is revoked at launch.

  4. IV

    Enter by the common door

    Fair launch on pump.fun. No presale, no whitelist, no reserved seats.

  5. V

    Trust no voice but this page

    The contract address is at the head of this page. Any other messenger is an impostor.

In the margins

Marginalia

Scribes left more than text on the page. These are real.

Oh, my hand

Medieval scribes wrote complaints in the margins of the books they were copying. Surviving ones include Thank God, it will soon be dark and Oh, my hand. Copying is hard. Holding is harder.

Bluer than gold

The blue in these borders is ultramarine, ground from lapis lazuli mined in Afghanistan and carried across the world. It often cost more by weight than the gold leaf beside it.

The knight and the snail

Manuscripts are full of knights duelling giant snails in the margins. Scholars have argued about it for two centuries and still have no agreed answer. Some things are just memes.

Professio

Take the vow


Press the seal

In the Order, a vow is not spoken. It is pressed into wax at the foot of the page. Nothing here is recorded anywhere, which is rather the point: the only witness is you.

De novitiis

How to join

  1. I

    Get a wallet

    Install Phantom or Solflare and keep the recovery phrase offline.

  2. II

    Add SOL

    Buy SOL on an exchange and send it to your wallet.

  3. III

    Open $MONK

    Use the contract address from this page and nowhere else.

  4. IV

    Keep silence

    Swap SOL for $MONK. Then say nothing and do nothing.