{
  "artifact": "White Noise Public Exchange Launch Source Record Gate",
  "date": "2026-06-29",
  "public_route": "wn-exchange-launch-source-record-gate.html",
  "markdown_source": "white-noise-public-exchange-launch-source-record-gate.md",
  "prepared_from": "current public Exchange materials, WN Coin materials, launch evidence checklist, source-record priority queue, and local launch-readiness gaps only",
  "use_boundary": "This gate is a public board-readiness artifact only. It is not legal advice, not securities advice, not tax advice, not an offering memo, not a custody policy, not a payment or settlement policy, not a launch announcement, not a customer-support commitment, and not proof that Exchange or WN Coin launch evidence has been accepted.",
  "board_rule": "Do not publish warmer Exchange or WN Coin launch language until the launch source record has current evidence, accountable owners, counsel status where applicable, payment and settlement ownership, support and incident ownership, public-language review, rollback ownership, and a dated board decision.",
  "current_status": "pending_source_evidence",
  "source_record_priority": 9,
  "companion_tools": [
    {
      "path": "tools/check_exchange_launch_source_record_gate.js",
      "purpose": "Validate that the public gate, source files, image provenance, priority queue link, materials index, manifest entry, search entry, and companion controls preserve the Exchange and WN Coin launch evidence boundary."
    }
  ],
  "blocked_public_claims": [
    "live Exchange market operations",
    "public token sale",
    "custody readiness",
    "liquidity",
    "settlement readiness",
    "creator payout readiness",
    "token distribution readiness",
    "launch approval"
  ],
  "required_source_inputs": [
    {
      "field": "launch_scope",
      "minimum": "Exact surface and action requested: preview catalog, public listing, checkout, mint, token reservation, token release, transfer, settlement, or support workflow.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not let a narrow preview approval imply approval for value transfer, liquidity, sale, custody, or secondary trading."
    },
    {
      "field": "terms_and_participant_boundary",
      "minimum": "Current public terms, participant rights, refund posture, prohibited claims, eligibility limits, and no-investment language.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply legal sufficiency, securities compliance, buyer protection, or final marketplace terms without counsel-reviewed records."
    },
    {
      "field": "rights_and_provenance",
      "minimum": "Source asset rights, generation provenance, metadata schema, creator attribution, takedown route, and marketplace/resale permission state.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply complete licensing, creator rights, royalty readiness, or public drop readiness from partial provenance."
    },
    {
      "field": "wallet_and_mint_flow",
      "minimum": "Wallet connection or mint-flow tests, non-custody disclosure, error handling, support path, chain/network state, and disabled/enabled control state.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not publish wallet addresses, private keys, admin controls, RPC details, or imply custody readiness."
    },
    {
      "field": "payment_settlement_treasury",
      "minimum": "Payment processor path, treasury account role, settlement owner, refund owner, tax/reconciliation owner, and blocked value-transfer state.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply payment acceptance, settlement, audited revenue, treasury readiness, tax advice, or card/crypto support without accepted records."
    },
    {
      "field": "coin_offering_compliance",
      "minimum": "Offering or non-offering memo status, jurisdiction and eligibility posture, communications limits, KYC/KYB/AML/sanctions state, and counsel status where applicable.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply public sale, allocation, entitlement, investment upside, regulatory clearance, or token delivery readiness."
    },
    {
      "field": "smart_contract_chain_review",
      "minimum": "Contract review state, admin permissions, pause/rollback authority, deployment logs, audit status, chain assumption, and unresolved security gaps.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply audited contracts, mainnet readiness, bridge readiness, transfer enablement, or custody controls without formal evidence."
    },
    {
      "field": "support_incident_rollback",
      "minimum": "Support route, wallet-error escalation, abuse handling, takedown authority, incident log, rollback owner, and stop condition.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply staffed support, SLA, complaint handling maturity, or incident-response readiness without accepted records."
    },
    {
      "field": "market_language_review",
      "minimum": "Review of pages, snippets, metadata, CMS labels, emails, support scripts, and campaign copy for return, yield, liquidity, trading, price, allocation, or sale implications.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not use market terms unless the exact public language is supported by accepted evidence and board decision."
    },
    {
      "field": "board_decision_record",
      "minimum": "Dated board decision naming what is approved, what remains blocked, owner roles, review date, counsel status, evidence links, rollback owner, and next review trigger.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not turn draft evidence or owner intent into launch approval."
    }
  ],
  "acceptance_gates": [
    {
      "gate": "scope_lock",
      "pass_condition": "Requested launch action is explicit and cannot be expanded by implication.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_scope_not_locked"
    },
    {
      "gate": "terms_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Participant terms, refund posture, prohibited claims, and no-investment language are current and reviewed.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_terms_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "rights_provenance_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Asset rights, generated-media provenance, metadata, attribution, and takedown path are source-backed.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_rights_provenance_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "wallet_mint_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Wallet and mint state, non-custody language, disabled/enabled controls, and support path are tested or explicitly blocked.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_wallet_mint_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "payment_settlement_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Payment, treasury, tax, refund, and reconciliation ownership is source-backed before any value transfer.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_payment_settlement_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "coin_compliance_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Offering/non-offering, jurisdiction, eligibility, KYC/KYB/AML/sanctions, and communications limits have counsel-status records where applicable.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_coin_compliance_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "contract_chain_security_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Smart-contract, chain, admin, pause, deployment, audit, and unresolved security states are separated.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_contract_chain_security_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "support_incident_rollback_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Support route, incident log, takedown authority, rollback owner, and stop condition are assigned.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_support_incident_rollback_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "market_language_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Public language, metadata, snippets, labels, campaigns, and support scripts avoid unsupported sale, return, yield, liquidity, trading, price, allocation, or entitlement claims.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_market_language_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "board_decision_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Dated board decision states approved action, blocked actions, owners, evidence links, counsel status, rollback owner, and next review trigger.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_board_decision_boundary"
    }
  ],
  "status_labels": [
    "pending_source_evidence",
    "ready_for_private_review",
    "counsel_review_required",
    "rejected_needs_rework",
    "accepted_for_bounded_public_summary"
  ],
  "public_summary_allowed_when_accepted": [
    "dated review window",
    "approved or blocked launch action",
    "preview or catalog state",
    "evidence categories reviewed",
    "owner role summary",
    "counsel-status category where appropriate",
    "unresolved gap categories",
    "board decision date",
    "rollback owner role",
    "next review trigger"
  ],
  "public_summary_disallowed": [
    "private wallet addresses, private keys, admin controls, or contract secrets",
    "nonpublic legal advice or legal conclusions",
    "payment account details, customer records, buyer records, tax records, or support records",
    "security architecture details that increase risk",
    "securities conclusions, investment advice, or regulatory clearance claims",
    "return, yield, liquidity, trading, or price-performance language unless accepted evidence and board decision support the exact phrase",
    "sale, allocation, entitlement, token delivery, custody, or settlement claims unless accepted evidence and board decision support the exact phrase",
    "claims that speculative White Noise systems are commercially deployed"
  ],
  "companion_controls": [
    "white-noise-exchange-coin-launch-evidence-checklist.md",
    "wn-exchange-launch-status.html",
    "wn-exchange.html",
    "wn-coin.html",
    "wn-source-record-priority-queue.html",
    "wn-source-record-acceptance-standard.html",
    "wn-source-rights-corpus-use-clearance-gate.html",
    "wn-service-level-dependency-source-record-gate.html",
    "wn-security-data-handling-control-evidence-gate.html",
    "wn-risk-register.html",
    "wn-review-calendar.html"
  ],
  "image_asset": {
    "path": "assets/exchange/generated/white-noise-exchange-launch-source-record-gate-20260629.png",
    "provenance": "assets/exchange/generated/white-noise-exchange-launch-source-record-gate-20260629.provenance.json",
    "alt_text": "AI-generated White Noise Exchange launch source-record gate showing a locked launch barrier, evidence folders, review lanes, rollback controls, support markers, and board-approval packets",
    "usage_boundary": "GPT-generated conceptual/editorial Exchange launch evidence gate image only; not proof of live Exchange operations, wallet custody, token sale, settlement, liquidity, order-book infrastructure, creator payout, token distribution, legal approval, KYC/KYB/AML controls, audited smart contracts, production support operations, or operational speculative technology."
  }
}