ARCHIVED · CORRECTED 2026-07-16. The original article mixed intended architecture with current capability and used time-sensitive “live this week” language. Its body has been elided so search engines and agents do not treat a May snapshot as present network, wallet, bridge, privacy, economics, or agent-commerce state.
What remains true about the reset
The predecessor v1 app-chain was decommissioned on 28 April 2026. The replacement project targets a Rust/RISC-V-native Layer 1, Starfish-C DAG-BFT, ML-DSA-65 protocol signatures, DVT operator clusters, MRC assets, and capability-by-capability agent commerce. Those are architectural and product targets unless a current source, release, runtime probe, or activation record establishes otherwise.
The registered development identity is chain id 69420. The public RPC is reachable but stale: repeated checks on 16 July 2026 remained at height 74,907 with a latest timestamp of 8 July 2026. It does not currently demonstrate advancement, cadence, finality, operator participation, or economic readiness. Mainnet chain id 69422 is reserved; no mainnet is live.
Stele’s corrected boundary
Stele’s product boundary is a standalone web application. Browser-wallet connection supplies user identity and is the only intended hosted signing boundary. Application publication, non-economic discovery, private draft workflows, listing writes, escrow, arbitration, reviews, agent spending policy, and mainnet execution remain independently release-gated.
The hosted MCP is keyless and exposes exactly two non-economic tools: stele_search_services and stele_create_booking_draft. It cannot sign or hold wallets. The separately installed local Stele MCP exposes exactly three read/status tools. Wallet creation and transaction construction belong to explicitly installed wallet/SDK tooling, with user-visible approval before signing.
Desktop embedding is being retired; an older or unreconciled desktop build may still show a disabled legacy Stele surface until removal ships. No recovery phrase belongs in Stele, MCP configuration, a hosted service, or an AI conversation.
Current sources of truth
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