Eighteen seals guard a Solana wallet. The wallet is public, seeded on day one and fed by every trade of the token. Break the seals, assemble the password, open the gate. The key appears in your browser, and the wallet is yours.
The creator rewards from every trade of $QUEST501, paid to this address on-chain, for as long as the hunt runs.
Claimed by
Whoever opens the gate. The gate reveals the private key in your own browser; nobody else sees it. The creator rewards keep flowing to the wallet for 30 days after it is first swept, so the winner collects those too.
Eighteen seals, one gate
Each seal is a different kind of lock, and every one of them is here from the first minute. Thirteen of them give you a fragment that opens a box, and the box holds the next seals. Four give you a fragment that nothing checks. The eighteenth is a gate, and its password is all seventeen fragments in order, as one word.
Thirteen boxes (I, II, III, IV, VI, VII, IX, X, XII, XIII, XIV, XVI, XVII). A long, derived fragment opens each one. You know at once when you have it, because the next seals appear.
Four insights (V, VIII, XI, XV). Short, lateral answers that no box checks. They are judged only at the gate, all four together, and the gate never says which one was wrong.
The gate (XVIII). No riddle. The password is fragments I to XVII. Behind it, the key.
There is no clock
Nothing in QUEST-501 is timed, scheduled or released later. It takes as long as it takes you. It is built to take weeks, and here is where the weeks go.
Thirteen boxes
Thirteen puzzles of thirteen kinds, each hiding a long fragment. None of them tells you how it works; that is the puzzle. A guess cannot open a box, because the fragments are too long to guess.
Four insights
Four short answers that need a person: a count, a riddle, a symbol read sideways, a display held wrong. Nothing confirms them. You carry them to the gate and find out there, with all four at once.
One gate
Seventeen fragments, one password, one yes or no. A wrong insight sends you back to think, not to try the next value: every try costs ten seconds by design, and the insights multiply.
Fair by construction
Hunts have failed before because the final step depended on something only the creator knew, or because a typo in an answer was unrecoverable. QUEST-501 publishes its whole mechanism on day one. The only secrets are the answers you have to earn.
Answers
Letters and digits only. Case, spaces and punctuation are ignored, so a stray comma never costs you a seal.
Keys
Each box opens with a key derived from the previous key and the fragment by a million rounds of PBKDF2: about a second per try for a solver, years for anyone guessing phrases against a box. The derivation is printed on the seals page.
Boxes
AES-256-GCM. A wrong key fails cleanly; there is never garbage to misread.
The gate
A static page that holds the sealed key and nothing else. Ten million rounds per try, about ten seconds, so guessing the insights at the gate costs years. It makes no network requests. Read its source.
Insights
Four fragments are checked only at the gate, together. That is deliberate: it is what makes the hunt long without making anyone wait.
The creator
Knows the answers and will never claim. The creator wallet is public; the chain is the receipt.
prize wallet 817RZFkrBcg5HicAcorVeYViBNkfvZ62BHv3UzkQLtjd
mechanism, boxes, helper https://quest501.com/seals.html
the gate https://quest501.com/gate.html
Begin
Seal I is a picture. Read it. Everything you need is on the seals page: the picture, the thirteen boxes, the rules, and a helper script.