$SEPPUKU切腹HONOR-BOUND TO ETHEREUM✕THREE CATS · ONE WINK切腹ZERO DELETIONS✕$SEPPUKU切腹HONOR-BOUND TO ETHEREUM✕THREE CATS · ONE WINK切腹ZERO DELETIONS✕
01 — The Document
Page 11 of a 1000-year mandate.
On February 25, 2026 the Ethereum Foundation sent every employee its Mandate, v1.4. Down at the bottom of page 11 sat a license. Read it slowly. They did.
Case 1:26-cv-05818 · Document 1EXHIBIT 4 · pg 11
✕SOURCE LICENSE
By inclusion of this license, the author, maintainer, editor or (re)distributor (the "Actor") of this software SHALL uphold the following pledges:
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To always make freely available and publicly accessible a full and accurate copy of the source code and associated documents of this software, including all modifications hereto by the Actor.
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To take his or her own life with a sword upon failure to uphold any of the pledges in this license, or upon modification or removal of any part of this license.
May we ritualistically fall on our own swords if we fail to uphold our solemn promise to Ethereum and the Infinite Garden.
Actor's signature (metaphorical)
Nobody has sealed it on this device yet. Be the first Actor.
79 VOTED TO REMOVE
KEPT ANYWAY
Fig. A: the Actor, signing. (Artist's rendition. Not an exhibit.)
0page of the Mandate it hid on
0employees voted to remove it
3+1cartoon cats, plus one winking anime figure
0words changed in the final version
02 — The Scroll of Events
How a footnote became a coin.
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The Mandate drops
Version 1.4 goes to all staff. It calls Ethereum "a liberatory technology." Page 11 carries a heading: SOURCE SEPPUKU LICENSE.
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"Has got to go."
Staff object the same week. One writes: "the seppuku license has got to go. if it's a litmus test for CROPS commitment, i'm failing it."
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79 votes
A proposal to remove the license. Seventy-nine employees vote yes. The garden, apparently, has a quorum problem.
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"Significant changes"
The board says the Mandate is "continuing to be worked on with significant changes especially to the areas where people have expressed the most concern or confusion."
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The glow-up
Final version: same words, not one changed. Now Comic Sans, tilted, glitched, guarded by three cartoon cats and a winking anime figure. "Seppuku" vanishes from the searchable text.
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Calldata, forever
The full document is inscribed on the Ethereum blockchain as transaction calldata. You cannot redact a block.
0x534f55524345205345505055 4b55204c4943454e534507
Exhibit 4
The license lands in federal court as an exhibit to an employment complaint filed in the District of Colorado, No. 1:26-cv-05818.
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The cats keep the oath
The girl winked. The cats stayed. The internet did the rest. $SEPPUKU: the license you can hold.
03 — The Vow
May we ritualistically fall on our own swords if we fail to uphold our solemn promise to Ethereum and the Infinite Garden.
From the license, Exhibit 3 at 11. We take it the way management told staff to: "not meant to be taken literally." Honor-bound. Metaphorically.
NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY切腹INFINITE GARDEN✕SOURCE SEPPUKU LICENSE切腹CALLDATA IS FOREVER✕NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY切腹INFINITE GARDEN✕SOURCE SEPPUKU LICENSE切腹CALLDATA IS FOREVER✕
04 — The Shrine Archive
Scrolls from the night shrine.
Cats with ETH on the roof, a samurai on the skyline, a judge in a wig. Click any scroll to open it. Throw the cats around while you're here.
05 — The Ritual
Four steps. Zero swords.
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Step 01
Get a wallet
Install MetaMask, Rabby or any Ethereum wallet. Write the seed phrase on paper. Never type it into a website. We never DM first.
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Step 02
Load ETH
Buy ETH on an exchange and send it to your wallet on Ethereum mainnet. Keep a little extra for gas.
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Step 03
Open Uniswap
Tap Buy on this page. It opens Uniswap with the official $SEPPUKU contract already filled in. Only trust the address shown here.
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Step 04
Swap & seal
Swap ETH for $SEPPUKU, confirm in your wallet, and welcome to the Infinite Garden. Honor-bound, metaphorically.
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