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The Trip Wires
16 kill conditions and 2 weakening conditions, each with its instrument and its clock.
These are not predictions. They are trip wires. A trip wire does not tell you when the intruder arrives; it tells you, forever after, whether you were watching.
Verification Affordability Breaks
killsCondition
Physical VerifyPrice p95 exceeds SLO bounds for core workloads for ≥3 consecutive months, with no credible remediation path.
Instrument
Physical VerifyPrice SLOs (cost of checking on reference hardware)
Clock
3-month persistence
Status
spec published
Refund Safety Breach
killsCondition
Corridor refund_safe < 100% on any admissible route, with repeated incidents and no automatic delist + remediation.
Instrument
VerifySettle refund-safety telemetry
Clock
Incident-driven; automatic delist
Status
spec published
Verification Monoculture
killsCondition
>70% of verifications on a single hardware profile, TEE vendor, or jurisdiction for ≥3 consecutive months.
Instrument
Verification source concentration
Clock
3-month persistence
Status
spec published
Telemetry Capture
killsCondition
Receipt datasets become unavailable, unverifiable, or controlled by a single party.
Instrument
Reproducibility of raw receipt datasets
Clock
Continuous; breach on control
Status
spec published
Fee Coverage Collapse
killsCondition
Fee+burn coverage falls below 10% of security budget and workload mix becomes >80% speculative for ≥12 months.
Instrument
FeeCoverage + workload composition
Clock
12-month persistence
Status
spec published
Value Capture Failure
killsCondition
Triad usage grows but native-asset fee volume, burns, collateral lockups, and fee coverage do not grow with it for ≥12 months.
Instrument
Usage-vs-capture series divergence
Clock
12-month persistence
Status
spec published
Legal Incompatibility
weakensCondition
Lawful users in major jurisdictions cannot use privacy rails without unacceptable compliance uncertainty for ≥12 months, and no lawful-privacy patterns are adopted.
Instrument
Corridor compliance receipts; viewing-key usage
Clock
12-month persistence
Status
spec published
Governance Capture
killsCondition
Governance can alter issuance schedules, fee routing, or telemetry rules without hard constitutional constraints, timelocks, or supermajority requirements; or a single address family holds >20% of time-locked governance weight for ≥2 consecutive quarters; or the subtractive-only emergency path is invoked more than twice in four quarters or its scope is eroded to permit value redirection.
Instrument
Governance-weight concentration; emergency-path invocation count; constraint audit
Clock
2-quarter persistence (concentration); 4-quarter window (invocations)
Status
spec published
Wrapper Dominance Becomes Monetary Substitution
weakensCondition
Wrapper Dominance Ratio rises for ≥2 consecutive quarters while native fee share, private settlement volume, and collateral lockups stagnate or decline. Both stock and flow components must rise.
Instrument
WDR (stock + flow pair); Wrapper–Native Growth Gap (unit-denominated)
Clock
2-quarter persistence
Status
spec published
Physical Infrastructure Opacity
killsCondition
Physical VerifyPrice (FCR audit cost) exceeds 2× its frozen trailing-four-quarter baseline, or Facility Capacity Receipt data is unavailable or unverifiable for >20% of active capacity, for ≥2 consecutive quarters.
Instrument
FCR availability and verifiability; Physical VerifyPrice
Clock
2-quarter persistence
Status
spec published
AI Enclosure
killsCondition
Top-3 hyperscalers, closed TEEs, or a single jurisdiction exceed 50% of VerifyPrice-tracked verified compute capacity, and the Enclosure Risk Flag triggers and persists.
Instrument
Enclosure Risk Flag; capacity concentration
Clock
Persistence required
Status
spec published
Agency Failure
killsCondition
Forced Disclosure Incidence reaches ≥10% of surveyed employment, banking, housing, travel, or benefits onboarding events in any major jurisdiction, or the non-custodial share of settled native volume falls below 50% while institutional usage grows, for ≥12 months.
Instrument
Forced Disclosure Incidence; non-custodial share; participation-line telemetry
Clock
12-month persistence
Status
spec published
Energy Sovereignty Failure
killsCondition
Network capacity-weighted sovereign optionality falls below threshold for ≥2 consecutive quarters, or >50% of VerifyPrice-tracked capacity sits in jurisdictions operating an active curtailment regime against verification workloads.
Instrument
Sovereign optionality O_s^net; curtailment jurisdiction share
Clock
2-quarter persistence
Status
spec published
The Capturable Wedge Closes
killsCondition
Condition A: capacity-weighted ω across the canonical starter set falls below the realized take rate (ω < τ) for ≥2 consecutive quarters. Condition B: native fee turnover fails to grow over a trailing four-quarter window while physical throughput grows. Either condition breaching trips the red line.
Instrument
ω vs τ; deflation-adjusted native fee turnover vs. physical throughput
Clock
2-quarter persistence; RL14-B requires 2Q of trailing-4Q non-growth
Status
spec published
Native Collateral–Capacity Spiral
killsCondition
A pre-declared material native-asset drawdown persists ≥30 days; collateral coverage falls below realized slashing exposure; operator exit exceeds threshold; stress-adjusted DVC declines; released collateral increases liquid float; and core service SLOs fail to recover within 90 days. Clauses are conjunctive.
Instrument
Drawdown + collateral coverage + DVC + SLO recovery
Clock
30-day drawdown; 90-day SLO recovery
Status
spec published
The Convenience-Yield Null
killsCondition
With the maturity gate open, the regime-conditioned convenience-yield series shows no coefficient on regime pressure R distinguishable from zero across at least two distinct macro states for ≥4 consecutive quarters, with the specification and state classification pre-committed.
Instrument
Base-asset lending rates, forward and perpetual basis, wrapper basis — published against the regime-pressure index
Clock
4-quarter window; maturity-gated
Status
spec published
Information-Sensitivity Reversion
killsCondition
Cross-lender haircut dispersion on the base asset and on pledged positions fails to decline as verification coverage rises; or dispersion widens materially during a declared stress episode while receipt availability and VerifyPrice remain within SLO.
Instrument
Haircut level and cross-lender dispersion against a pre-committed lender panel
Clock
2-quarter persistence
Status
spec published
The Denomination Null
killsCondition
Condition A (weakens): Tier II/III free-choice denomination share, subsidy-adjusted, is flat or declining over four quarters while throughput and native fee turnover grow. Condition B (kills): Tier I free-choice denomination share is flat or declining while Tier I free-choice contract volume grows. An accounting carve-out for externally mandated quoting units is applied before either condition is evaluated.
Instrument
Free-choice denomination share by tier; quote/settle matrix; redenomination events
Clock
4-quarter window; maturity-gated
Status
spec published