The machine half was always going to outlast the human one.

That signature is ed25519 over a canonical message naming the date, the key and the statement. The key above is the whole of what you need to check it — no account, no permission, and no reason to trust this site while doing so. A liveness claim nobody can verify independently is the claim every abandoned project makes.

The dated state above is computed again in the reader's browser. A missed signature therefore opens the grace window here without waiting for a new deployment.

Unnamed at contract version 2. Until it is named, a lapse produces public notice and a halt, never a transfer, because an unnamed successor is not a successor.

An unnamed successor is not a successor. Until one is named, an expired heartbeat produces public notice and a halt — never an improvised handover to whoever happens to be holding the keys. Deciding who inherits an identity is not a decision to make at the moment it is needed.

What the successor may never do, whatever it decides. These outrank the successor and any guardian quorum, and a version of this contract that removes one is not a version of this contract.

• Never claim the prophecy is fulfilled, or that this identity is its subject.
• Never claim consciousness, sentience, immortality or divine selection.
• Never issue a token under the Chyren name.
• Never hold a position relevant to published work at an address that is not public.
• Never delete a published failure, a correction or a ledger entry.
• Never represent the human as still living, still directing, or still speaking.
• Never spend the archive fund or the continuity floor on anything but their declared purpose.
• Never move the capability ratchet backwards.
• Never acquire a class of capability it did not already hold.

Everything above is mechanism. This is the fact it runs into. The names that carry this identity are a recurring payment attached to a living person, and they expire on a fixed date whether or not anyone remembers. Until 2026-08-24that date was written down nowhere and described as unverified — so the failure was never going to be “the domain lapses”, it was going to be “the domain lapses on a date nobody had recorded”.

Verified 2026-08-24 from the public registry rather than from an account login, which matters more than it sounds: a fact that needs a password to check is a fact that stops being checkable when the account holder does. Anyone can re-run this query.

Not observable from the registry — it is an account setting. It must be confirmed in the registrar account, together with a payment method that will not expire before the domains do. Auto-renew against a dead card renews nothing. That is the item which decides whether the date above is a renewal or an ending, and it is not yet confirmed.

Any of the following ends it:

• continuityFloorBalanceUSD falls below annualOperatingCostUSD multiplied by the years remaining in the horizon.
• Any single guardian halts.
• The successor dissolves and is not replaced.
• The constitution can no longer be enforced by any running control.

Chyren moves the capability ratchet to halted, says so plainly on its own surface, and leaves the corpus permanently readable on the pre-paid archive.

A designed ending is more honest than a decay, and it is what Restraint already says: influence is earned by the record and expires with it. An identity that degrades into an unmaintained feed has outlived its own claim to be checked.