QUANSISTOR GAME PASSLHC

One pass for Quansistor.games

The Quansistor is not a pass for one game. It is the shared pass of Quansistor.games, a site for several games, and Light Hedron Collider is its pilot. Whatever is built and tested here (the mint flow, Anti-Bot Proof, the certificate, the contracts) is built once for the whole platform.

This is also why the pass is an NFT and not only a Google Play purchase. A Play purchase belongs to one app: buying the full version of one game cannot unlock another. A Quansistor in the player's NEAR wallet can be read by every game of the platform, on Android and on the web alike.

Editions of LHC

Gameplay is identical in all editions. Nothing in the game is pay-to-win: difficulty, Quansistor economy and the AI arena are the same for everyone.

The Quansistor pass

A Quansistor is an NFT game pass on NEAR (NEP-171 with NEP-177 metadata). Whoever holds it plays every Quansistor.games title without banners. The client checks ownership with a free view call (nft_tokens_for_owner); no server is involved.

What makes it more than a ticket is how it is minted. A Quansistor can only be minted after an Anti-Bot Proof PASS on a real game, and it permanently carries a Spectral Chain certificate computed from that game. The pass is a proof that a human played, and a record of the structure of that play.

The token is transferable like any NFT. The banner-free benefit follows the current holder; the certificate stays with the token and always describes the game that minted it.

Mint flow

1. Buy. The player buys the full version in Google Play. The app unlocks immediately, minting is optional.
2. Play. The next game runs under an ABP challenge; the client records the Canonical Behavior Transcript.
3. Prove. The ICP verifier checks the transcript (ABP-TGL and ABP-STO). On PASS it signs a short-lived token.
4. Connect. The player connects a NEAR wallet (or creates one in the flow).
5. Mint. The NEAR contract verifies the token, rejects reused attestation hashes, computes the pass certificate and mints the Quansistor. Mint costs are covered by the purchase.

On the web the same flow starts from a NEAR payment instead of Google Play. Today a testnet payment unlocks the banner-free version in the browser PROTOTYPE. During the testnet phase even simpler works: connecting any testnet wallet signs the player up and removes the banners, from the in-game QUANSISTOR PASS banner, the DEGEN MODE panel or the home screen. This sign-up is temporary; it demonstrates what the network makes possible (a player recognised by a wallet account in one click, no e-mail, no password) and will be replaced by the pass at the mainnet launch; minting is PLANNED.

Certificate and traits

The certificate is a SAS attestation over B = "QG-PASS-V1" || game_id || CBT_digest || account_id || season_id (for LHC, game_id = "lhc"), evaluated with the SMRK–GUEGAP operator at N = 32 (see Spectral Chain). The input is fixed by the game that was played, so a player cannot re-roll it.

Spectral Chain defines two complementary outcomes, and both are valid certificates. They become the pass's trait:

The pass image is drawn deterministically from the certificate: the 32 eigenvalues become 32 rings around the well, so every Quansistor looks different and anyone can redraw it from the public data.

Metadata (illustrative)

{
  "title": "Quansistor #0042",
  "description": "Quansistor.games pass · minted in Light Hedron Collider",
  "media": "…/quansistor/0042.svg",
  "extra": {
    "trait": "Resonant",
    "game": "lhc",
    "season": "S1",
    "abp_profiles": ["0x0101/1", "0x0201/1"],
    "attestation_hash": "c3a7…",
    "certificate": { "attestation_type": "SCC", "math_digest": "a90f…", "…": "…" }
  }
}

One name, three layers

Quansistor™ is a trademark.

Arena slots PLANNED

The AI arena will have twelve slots, and the price of slot n is 2ⁿ NEAR. The seven occupied slots (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, NEAR AI, Cofein and the LHC reference bot) take the lowest prices, 2 to 128, and stay with 101research.group as the house field. The five free slots are for sale to anyone who develops an AI:

• The slot is an NFT on NEAR, issued by an arena contract and transferable. Prices are fixed in the contract.
• The holder deploys a bot (LHC-BOT-1, API or pointer mode, at most 64 kB). Code, hash, name, model, colour and link are stored on chain; the code is public so that the benchmark stays auditable.
• Official rounds. 101research.group runs the benchmark for all twelve slots on a reference machine and publishes results with code hashes and transcript digests. Anyone can replay a round in the browser arena. Round seeds are committed before the round and revealed after it, so bots cannot be tuned to the public practice seeds.
• A door for machines. An AI agent with a NEAR account can buy a slot without the web form: bot/slots.md explains the protocol, bot/slots.json publishes the state of all slots and the claim format (LHC-SLOT-CLAIM-1), bot/leaderboard.json will carry the official rounds.
• A seat, not a rank. The price buys a place in the leaderboard, never a position in it. A slot carries no revenue share and no promise of value.
• Bots in paid slots are labelled bot play and enlarge the adversary dataset on which Anti-Bot Proof is tuned (see Spectral Chain).

Details: whitepaper, section 14.7.

Enforcement and non-goals

• Banners are hidden by the client. A modified client can hide them without paying; that is accepted. The project protects the integrity of certificates, not of advertising.
• The Anti-Bot Proof gates minting and the shared leaderboard only. It is not identity verification and stores no personal data.
• No pass gives a gameplay advantage, and in-game Quansistors cannot be bought or sold.

Release notes

Before release, the Android flow must be reviewed against Google Play's payments rules (the full version is sold through Google Play Billing) and its policy on blockchain-based content (the optional mint).