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Tallystick, in three sentences.

The promise first, then the map of everything else there is to read.

Tallystick, an Ethereum token: its 900,000 TALL were all in the market from launch, and none will ever be created. Each trade leaves a 2% Paring and cuts a Notch — an obligation on the record, carrying that trade’s size and block — onto the Scoreline, an append-only queue. Anyone may call a Tallage, which spends the gathered Paring retiring TALL from the market, marking the queue in opening order, so supply does nothing but shrink.

These pages explain the mechanism in the sequence a holder meets it. Each page carries one idea, says what the mechanism cannot do as plainly as what it can, and uses the same names everywhere: the Paring, a Notch, the Scoreline, a Tallage, Char.

01OverviewThe promise, and the map. 02The named partsFive things do everything. 03Keeping and tradingWallets, the market, a trade. 04Reach and limitsThe CAN and the CANNOT. 05A Tallage in practiceTwo stretches, worked to the unit. 06The machineryWhy the rules hold. 07Verify it yourselfEvery claim, checked on-chain. 08What nobody can changeFrom softest to hardest. 09One charge, one purposeOne charge, one purpose. 10Protocol NoteAll of the rules, in prose.

The whitepaper sets all of them down; the Protocol Note, page ten of this handbook, is its abstract. The console reads the live queue once trading opens.