Nobody made one, so nobody can leak it, sell it or lose it. The only way to move what is inside is to break Ed25519, the signature every Solana wallet depends on. When this wallet moves, Q-Day has happened.
Every step below runs in your browser. There is no step where a secret goes in, so there is no secret to come out. Change one letter of the sentence and you get a different wallet. Read the code.
Anyone can read it. A counter is added at the end.
…About half of all hashes are not points on the curve. The counter goes up until one is.
…A point picked by a hash. Nobody chose it, so nobody knows the number that produces it.
…This moves it into the group where every real public key lives. Without this step the address would not be a normal public key, and nobody could be sure it can ever be opened.
…That is the Solana address.
…Anyone can send SOL in. Taking it out needs a valid Ed25519 signature for this exact address.
A contract can read this account's balance and compare it with the last value it stored. No oracle, no committee.
If the balance falls, someone produced a signature for a key that was never made. The curve is broken and every program can react.
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From the team: 0.0017 SOL in 1 transfer.
The latest transfers into the canary, read from Solana mainnet.
Creator: 2ow5TbWuEy4TvSzecnKwarpp7Hv4ALKtcJi4RNFaSeqG (team wallet)
The coin does not protect your wallet. Half of its creator fees feed the canary.
Only trust the contract on this page and on @QdayCanary.
Anyone can send SOL to the canary. Creator fees from the coin go to the team wallet, which is a normal wallet with a key. Half of them is sent on to the canary. Those transfers show up in Fed by, marked team.
No. Ed25519 is safe against every computer that exists. The canary is for the day that stops being true, whenever that is, if it ever comes.
No. They never had a key. They hashed a sentence, exactly as you did above.
Nobody picked it. It is what the public sentence hashes to. Change one letter and you get a different address.
Until someone breaks the curve, yes. Treat it as a burn that pays a bounty.
To the team wallet, a normal wallet with a key. The team keeps half and sends half to the canary. Every transfer to the canary is listed in Fed by.
Maybe not at first. A quiet attacker goes for the biggest wallets. The bigger the bounty, the earlier the canary is worth taking, and the earlier everyone finds out.
No. BitMEX Research proposed a canary fund for Bitcoin, where it needs a soft fork. On Solana a program can already read the canary's balance, so nothing in the protocol has to change.