What sealing is

What does sealing do?

It records your world on a public ledger, the Base network, against the world's own designation. Once it is there this registry cannot revoke it, and it does not need to exist for the record to stay true.

What do you get?

The Sealed Edition – a second sheet, issued at the seal, carrying your world's chain record – wallpapers for phone and desktop in three styles, and an avatar. Every one of them is marked from your ownership code: the Sealed Edition and the wallpapers with a cipher nobody without that code can produce, the avatar with the constellation that cipher draws. Printing comes with it.

What does it cost?

One payment, from your own crypto wallet, here on this page. There is no account, no card and no subscription, and the price is named here at the moment you are about to pay it rather than typed into a sentence here that could go out of date.

What stays free?

The world itself, its place in the catalog, its entry on the star map, and an on-screen preview of its Certificate of Discovery – the world's birth record, as it was on the day it was claimed. A satellite, if the Array grants one. Claiming has never cost anything and sealing does not change that.

Where does the money go?

Sealing is what funds the Observatory. It changes what you can see, never how your world is read.

What is permanent about it?

All of it. A seal cannot be undone, and it records a wallet address and the world's designation publicly and forever. What that means is set out in full here, and it is worth reading first.