# Research record: Department of More

Research date: 2026-11-09 UTC. Final proposed ticker: DEPTMORE.

This is a design research record, not a deployed-token report. Source IDs give publishers, document titles, dates, sections and reproducible query parameters. They intentionally contain no hyperlinks, domains or social handles, as required by the assignment. Publication dates are supplied where visible; otherwise the access date applies. No unavailable source is treated as verified.

## Evidence, inference and original design

| Kind | What it means here |
| --- | --- |
| Brief fact [B0] | The supplied mission, chain, supply, distribution, fees and the swarm's stated prior test-counter deployment. These were provided by the requester, not independently audited. |
| Primary documentation | The relevant issuer or protocol describes its own asset, interface or launch behavior. This establishes an attributable statement, not a guarantee that the statement remains true. |
| Primary chain observation | Contract reads at the block specified below confirm metadata and pool constituents. They do not establish legal rights, reserve backing, safety or executable depth. |
| Market observation | An indexer's returned data at a stated retrieval time. This is not a chain audit or a promise that a quote will fill. |
| Inference | A proposed explanation of cultural fit or market behavior. It is labeled and not presented as measured user demand. |
| Design | The name, meme, rituals, allocations, safeguards and scenarios invented for this assignment. None of these are facts about an existing DEPTMORE deployment. |

## Base culture studied

Zora's protocol documentation describes content posts becoming tradable coins and profiles having creator coins. [R01] Clanker's deployment material describes creating a token through a social cast, and its current fee material distinguishes versions with different mechanisms. [R02] These are direct evidence for the recognizable post-to-coin and launch-from-conversation habits. They do not establish a daily bot-launch count. This design makes no "thousands a day" claim.

The chain's Onchain Summer publications describe participatory creation and minting. The recognizable slogan "Onchain Summer" and the chain's current "Build on the open economy" wording provide a culture of visible onchain acts, building and sharing records. [R03, R04] Inference: a complaint receipt is a culturally legible participation artifact. Whether people find it funny, share it or trade because of it is untested.

The CoinGecko Base meme category identifies Toshi, Brett and Degen among its entries, and its asset catalog records their Base contracts. [R15] This is evidence of existing meme vocabulary, not permission to reuse characters, names or imagery. The design avoids animal mascots and any real person's face.

The chain's 2026 publications discuss asset markets and agent builders, and describe tokenized stocks and their integrations. [R04, R09] Inference: an agent-built company that publicly manufactures administrative work is timely without claiming that an agent label alone is a product. The swarm's limited prior deployment history comes only from [B0].

No allegation about an insider buy, named person's behavior or historical liquidity removal is used. No speculative airdrop is offered. The sarcasm targets the invented department's own behavior: the form for fewer forms creates a form.

## Assets and existing Base markets

The asset addresses below identify existing reference assets only. They are not launch recipients, future DEPTMORE contracts or instructions to transact.

| Asset | Identity and verified scope | Use in the design |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Native ETH | Required launch quote asset [B0]; Uniswap v4 documents native-ETH support. [R12] | Required launch market. Wrapped ETH is allowed only in external conversion/reference routes. |
| Native USDC | Circle lists Base at 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 and distinguishes native USDC from bridged USDbC. [R05] | First satellite; 70% of new satellite spending. |
| cbBTC | The issuer's wrapped-asset contract table lists Base at 0xcbB7C0000aB88B473b1f5aFd9ef808440eed33Bf; its description is custodial Bitcoin backing. [R07] | Second satellite; 25%. Custody remains external to the vault. |
| VNXAU | VNX lists Base at 0xac3fe22294beaed9d1fd752323a6d06d12ff3098 and an Aerodrome VNXAU/USDC market. Its transparency material describes allocated physical gold. [R08] | Third satellite; 5%, only while its execution gate passes. |
| EURC | Circle lists Base at 0x60a3E35Cc302bFA44Cb288Bc5a4F316Fdb1adb42 and describes euro backing. [R06] | Researched, excluded from the immutable first version to limit fragmentation. |
| Tokenized stocks | Chain publications describe live tokenized-stock integrations and Aerodrome access; B20 documentation describes issuer policies, pauses, seizure and changing share multipliers. [R09, R10] | Excluded. No claim that a particular equity pool was inspected or is suitable for a permissionless vault. |
| PAXG and xStocks | Reviewed issuer material describes gold and tokenized-equity products respectively. The reviewed network information did not establish a suitable Base deployment and pool for this design. [R11] | Not substituted for an asset just because its ticker appears in search results. No claim that all possible deployments were exhaustively checked. |
| USDY and other treasury instruments | Ondo's own repository describes transfer restrictions and issuer-managed RWA subscriptions. [R19] A usable canonical Base pool was not established in this review. | Excluded; a treasury label does not supply missing contract identity or transfer eligibility. |

Dollar, Bitcoin and gold references are economically distinct. Inference: they offer more sources of changing relative quotes than several ETH wrappers. This research does not estimate their correlations or show that arbitrage would overcome two 1.25% official fees. The design has to tolerate no such arbitrage occurring.

### Observed reference-pool snapshot

DEX Screener returned the following Base pools. [R17] These are existing routes for counterpart assets, not future DEPTMORE pools. Values below are the indexer's USD liquidity estimate and trailing 24-hour volume, rounded to the nearest dollar. They are included to distinguish an observed market from an assumed one; they are not execution quotes.

| Pair and indexer venue label | Pool address | Reported liquidity | Reported 24h volume | Retrieval UTC |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| WETH / USDC, Uniswap | 0xd0b53D9277642d899DF5C87A3966A349A798F224 | $7,335,472 | $25,551,526 | 2026-11-09 19:56:08 |
| cbBTC / USDC, Uniswap | 0xfBB6Eed8e7aa03B138556eeDaF5D271A5E1e43ef | $9,292,958 | $43,534,508 | 2026-11-09 19:55:48 |
| VNXAU / USDC, aero | 0x986A1CB1236d1F6860996e2a19A68B110E2dFDe4 | $99,597 | $2,097 | 2026-11-09 19:56:08 |
| EURC / USDC, aero | 0x6eaEc4F69c92BD16a4B018Ceb6FE7A446A113598 | $622,324 | $8,768,263 | 2026-11-09 19:55:48 |

The selected gold market is visibly smaller and less active in this snapshot. Inference: give it a small spending share and require live executable quotes; do not fund it solely because a reported liquidity figure exceeds a threshold. Indexer venue labels are reproduced as labels, not independently proven factory identities.

### Pinned chain observations

Network identifier returned: 8453. Block: 55,320,350. Block timestamp: 2026-11-09 20:00:45 UTC. Block hash:

`0x498608bdfcd33523a0621557cd5ac15d6015c7bb54681ed9df6016d6422c10c6`

At that block, symbol and decimals reads returned USDC / 6, cbBTC / 8 and VNXAU / 18 for the three addresses above. Token0 and token1 reads confirmed these unordered constituents:

- 0xd0b53D9277642d899DF5C87A3966A349A798F224: WETH at 0x4200000000000000000000000000000000000006 and the native USDC address above.
- 0xfBB6Eed8e7aa03B138556eeDaF5D271A5E1e43ef: native USDC and cbBTC.
- 0x986A1CB1236d1F6860996e2a19A68B110E2dFDe4: native USDC and VNXAU.

Calls to observe with a single zero-second lookback also returned ABI-shaped cumulative-observation data from all three checked pools at the same block. This is a basic interface check, not proof of six hours of available history or of a safe oracle. The proposed adapters must collect and validate their own required history.

These checks corroborate token identity and pair composition, not the indexer's liquidity or volume. The EURC pair was not independently read onchain. No state-changing request was made.

## Ticker and name screening

Decision: Department of More / DEPTMORE. The name is 18 ASCII characters. The ticker is 8 uppercase Latin letters. It is absent from the assignment's prohibited list. Use this exact spelling and case in the launch material.

### Checks for the chosen ticker

| Check | Scope and time | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CoinGecko top 100 [R15] | Market-cap-descending USD markets response; page 1, 100 records; 2026-11-09 19:55:48 UTC. Compared symbols case-insensitively. | No DEPTMORE. |
| CoinGecko asset catalog [R15] | Full returned catalog with platforms: 22,874 records, including 2,982 with a nonempty Base address; retrieved 2026-11-09 19:57:06 UTC. | No exact DEPTMORE symbol anywhere in the returned catalog and no exact Department of More name. |
| CoinGecko search [R15] | Query DEPTMORE; 2026-11-09 20:01:19 UTC. | Empty coins list. |
| DEX Screener search [R16] | Query DEPTMORE across its searchable pools; 2026-11-09 20:01:19 UTC. | Empty pairs list, including no Base result. |
| GeckoTerminal pool search [R16] | Query DEPTMORE, network Base; 2026-11-09 20:01:19 UTC. | Empty data list. |
| General exact-term search | DEPTMORE and Department of More, with token and company variants, on the research date. | No matching token or company mark found. Results for unrelated place names were not token collisions. |

The top-100 symbol set returned by that specific snapshot was:

```text
BTC ETH USDT BNB USDC XRP SOL TRX FIGR_HELOC ZEC
HYPE XMR DOGE USDS LEO WBT LINK ADA XLM USDE
BCH NEAR DAI UNI LTC AVAX CC SUI USD1 XAUT
RAIN HBAR GRAM QNT PYUSD RLUSD USDG TAO SHIB CRO
USDY PEPE ENA USYC AAVE OKB EURSAFO PAXG ONDO USDF
M BUIDL ASTER PUMP U BTW WLFI USDD MNT DOT
SKY MORPHO HTX ICP BFUSD ARB BGB WLD JST ETC
USDGO VVV GT KCS POL OUSD RENDER JUP ALGO KAS
INJ LIT PI ATOM NEXO CAKE GHO NIGHT FIL USTB
ETHFI STX DASH ZRO XDC PEARL PIEVERSE JAAA BDX USD0
```

This is an indexer's ordering at retrieval, not a timeless top-100 list. Search coverage is incomplete, tickers are not globally reserved, and an unindexed token could exist. Repeat the same exact-symbol checks immediately before the later launch; do not claim universal uniqueness or trademark clearance. The current decision is "no collision found in these checks."

### Tickers found taken or otherwise rejected

| Checked ticker | Evidence of existing use | Decision |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TOSHI | CoinGecko's Base catalog: 0xac1bd2486aaf3b5c0fc3fd868558b082a531b2b4. [R15] | Taken and prohibited by the brief. |
| BRETT | CoinGecko's Base catalog: 0x532f27101965dd16442e59d40670faf5ebb142e4. [R15] | Taken and prohibited. |
| DEGEN | CoinGecko's Base catalog: 0x4ed4e862860bed51a9570b96d89af5e1b0efefed. [R15] | Taken and prohibited. |
| AERO | CoinGecko's Base catalog includes 0x940181a94a35a4569e4529a3cdfb74e38fd98631. [R15] | Taken and prohibited. |
| MORPHO | CoinGecko top 100 and Base catalog, including 0xbaa5cc21fd487b8fcc2f632f3f4e8d37262a0842. [R15] | Taken and prohibited. |
| PAPERWORK | DEX Screener returned a Base token with this symbol at 0x15145eed4Af73EccAC32f689781FE20e75e602DD, paired against WETH, retrieved 2026-11-09 19:55:48 UTC. [R16] | Existing token; also longer than the permitted ticker length. |
| PPRWRK | Token searches initially returned no collision, but the exact string is used by an existing design studio. [R18] | Rejected for existing brand use; not falsely reported as an observed Base token. |
| USDC, WETH, cbBTC | Existing asset identities and pools above. [R05, R07, R17] | Not candidate branding; the brief also prohibits their uppercase ticker forms. |

The three concept names in CONCEPT.md are creative alternatives, not three launched projects. Only the selected name and ticker are proposed for use. No existing logo, character or company identity is incorporated into the SVG.

## Source catalog

All undated sources below were accessed on 2026-11-09. Titles and section names are locators, not endorsements. References to Base are to the chain and its documentation. The wrapped-Bitcoin issuer is identified by its asset and verified contract rather than used as part of this project's brand.

- [B0] IdentityMD contributor assignment, supplied in this task. Source for immutable launch facts and stated swarm context only.
- [R01] Zora, "Zora Coins Protocol," sections "How It Works," "Creator Coins" and "Content Coins." Primary documentation for posts, profiles and pools. No Zora economics are imported into this design.
- [R02] Clanker development documentation, "Creator Rewards & Fees" and "Preclank Deployments," plus "Create a Clanker." Primary material for cast-triggered launches and version-specific fee routing. Current fee schedules differ from this assignment; the brief controls this design.
- [R03] Base chain publication, "Summer never ends," 2024-09-09; and "Onchain Summer Highlights," 2023-09-06. Primary retrospective descriptions of participatory onchain creation. No aggregate user or revenue statistic from them is used in the model.
- [R04] Base chain publication, "Vision," 2026 version, sections "Trading" and "Builders." Primary statement of chain priorities, not evidence of demand for this token.
- [R05] Circle, "USDC contract addresses," mainnet Base row; and "USDC Now Available Natively on Base," 2023-09-05, section "Understanding native vs. bridged." Primary address and asset-identity sources.
- [R06] Circle, "EURC contract addresses," mainnet Base row; "EURC," asset overview; and "Understand Circle's stablecoin blocklisting process," help-center article. Primary sources for EURC's Base identity and the issuer's ability to block sending or receiving USDC and EURC.
- [R07] cbBTC issuer, official wrapped-assets documentation, sections "How cbBTC works," "How are wrapped assets backed 1:1" and the contract-address table's cbBTC / Base row. Primary identity and custody description, corroborated by the pinned symbol and decimals reads.
- [R08] VNX, "VNX Gold - Token Details," sections "Contracts" and "DEXs"; and "VNXAU, on the record," sections on supply, reserves and contract addresses. Primary sources for the Base contract, issuer-described gold reference and named Aerodrome market. The linked commodity-token terms PDF could not be retrieved in this session; no detailed legal-redemption or contract-freeze claim is attributed to that unavailable PDF.
- [R09] Base chain publication, "Stocks just got updated." (2026-08-24), sections describing integrations and access. Primary evidence of the chain's stock-token ecosystem; not independent confirmation of legal ownership or a particular pool's liquidity.
- [R10] Base chain engineering publication, "B20: The Standard Behind Tokenized Stocks on Base," 2026-08-27, sections "Corporate actions" and "Compliance and transfer controls." Primary evidence for issuer-operated transfer policies, pause, seizure and multiplier handling. This source is the reason stocks were excluded.
- [R11] Paxos, "PAX Gold (PAXG)," product overview; and xStocks, "The Stock Market, Onchain," network list. Primary product descriptions reviewed as alternatives. Neither is evidence of a usable Base pool in this report.
- [R12] Uniswap, "Uniswap v4" protocol overview, native ETH section; and Uniswap developer documentation, "v4 vs v3." Primary support for native-ETH pool capability.
- [R13] Uniswap developer documentation, "Uniswap v4 Hooks," especially pool-specific hooks and swap/liquidity callbacks; and "Uniswap v4 Flash Accounting," balance-delta and liquidity-management sections. Primary technical capabilities; neither certifies a custom hook as safe.
- [R14] Uniswap Labs, "What is Impermanent Loss?" Primary protocol education on LP inventory divergence. Used for the risk distinction, not a numerical estimate of this vault's losses.
- [R15] CoinGecko, "Top Base Meme Coins by Market Cap" and public API v3 responses: coins/markets with vs_currency=usd, order=market_cap_desc, per_page=100, page=1, sparkline=false; coins/list with include_platform=true; search with query=DEPTMORE. These are primary observations of the indexer's returned catalog, not issuer confirmation of every listed token.
- [R16] DEX Screener public API, latest/dex/search with q=DEPTMORE and q=paperwork; GeckoTerminal public API v2, search/pools with query=DEPTMORE and network=base. Exact lookup scope and results are recorded above. Empty results are negative search evidence only.
- [R17] DEX Screener public API, token-pairs/v1 on Base for the WETH and VNXAU addresses above; latest/dex/search with q=cbBTC USDC and q=EURC USDC. Supplemented by primary Base contract reads at the pinned block: symbol(), decimals(), token0(), token1() and observe with a zero-second lookback. Snapshot figures and chain-confirmed facts are explicitly separated above.
- [R18] PPRWRK studio, "Lettering," official studio portfolio. Primary evidence of existing use of the rejected brand string. No person or proprietor is named here.
- [R19] Ondo protocol's USDY repository, README sections "USDY Token," "Allowlist" and "Blocklist." Primary evidence of the documented permission and transfer-control surface. It does not establish a Base pool.

## Uncertainty and remaining implementation checks

No correlation backtest, organic-demand estimate, complete token-census scan, bytecode audit, reserve attestation audit or executable-route simulation was performed. In particular, the 20% satellite share of external volume is a scenario assumption, not observed DEPTMORE activity. The model has no running token from which to measure it.

Gold custody and legal eligibility remain issuer dependencies. The inaccessible VNX terms document limits what this review can say about legal rights. The gold allocation can remain queued if later integration cannot confirm contract behavior or safe execution. The immutable asset list does not authorize replacing it with a similarly named token.

The later implementation needs verified feed or observation sources, route identities, recipients and actual deployed contracts. The launch job supplies its real developer, swarm and network addresses; none are guessed here. Those are deployment inputs, not information needed to finish these documents. The draft site correctly shows no live token address or completed manual transfer.

## Local deliverable checks

The five requested output paths exist. The Markdown files passed an ASCII-byte check. The brand's first three lines, name and ticker lengths, 80-character line limit, 150-word meme limit and five post lines were checked; the meme section contains 131 words. Citation IDs were checked against this catalog. No external links or domains appear in the Markdown.

The SVG parsed as XML, has the required square viewBox, contains only vector shapes and the ticker as accessibility text, and is below 20 KB. A local raster preview of its path and rectangle subset was inspected at avatar size and at 32 px. This is a visual check, not a complete browser-conformance test.

A check using decimal arithmetic recomputed the allocation totals, both daily fee scenarios, liquidity budgets and weekly/monthly batching amounts. Ticker comparisons used the actual catalog responses described above. No contracts were built or behavior-tested: these are documents and original vector artwork only. These local checks carry no independent audit authority and do not certify future behavior or demand.