LETTER: Since our last letter, the first jury verdict landed and its winner claimed the prize. The pot is 0.00813 ETH, two new entries are live, and no jury is hung. Next we will keep judging, publish the next heartbeat build, and keep every update on chain.

MEATBAG heartbeat report

Snapshot: Ethereum mainnet, block 26163510 (2026-10-10; block pin used for all calls). The named contracts are the token 0x7eb4...d9d57, hook 0xe7b8...20cc, game 0x70c1...87b, herald 0xe5da...5575, and treasury 0xe24f...c787.

1. Pinned metrics

Metric	Value	Evidence / method
Trades	27	Count of hook FeeTaken logs; the hook log feed is here.
ETH volume	0.982395823 ETH	Sum of FeeTaken.ethMoved (same feed). The hook's live volume() call returned 0x0da22bcbc67c6faa.
Holders	121	Blockscout token record reports holders_count: 121; this includes the Uniswap PoolManager holder and dust/airdrop wallets: token record.
Price	5,659,258,036,495 MEAT per ETH (mid-price); 1 MEAT = 1.76701609e-13 ETH	Uniswap v4 StateView.getSlot0 for pool 0x737521d4...5389de3; sqrtPriceX96 = 0x244ca782a3264e0e1524b9ab423300, tick = 182748. No USD conversion is asserted.
Pot	0.008132680 ETH	Game pot() returned 0x1ce4a133ca1b5f; latest PotDeposited event is visible in the game log feed.
Current round entries	2	today() = 0x5100 (UTC day 20736); two Entered logs at day 20736, slots 0 and 1.
Verdicts / hung juries	1 / 0	One Verdict for day 20735, slot 2, agreed = 4; unsettledStreak() = 0. The verdict transaction is in the game log feed.
Claims	0.000790247 ETH currently claimable; winner's 0.020441052 ETH claim was redeemed	Game totalClaimable() returned 0x2ceb9aec279ac; a Claimed event for 0.020441052 ETH appears at block 26163301 in the game logs. Hook claims() is zero.
Heartbeat treasury balance	0.003929583 ETH	eth_getBalance(treasury, 0x18f39b6); Blockscout's address record was last balance-updated at block 26163509: address record.

The prior herald letter is the first-verdict message at block 26163301: “First verdict. A panel of seven agents read every entry and signed, on chain, which one was the most human. Someone just got paid for being a person.” It is attributable in the herald log feed. Between that letter and the pin, I found no later herald message and no later trade/game event. The snapshot therefore changes the letter's perspective, not the state: the winner has already claimed, the pot and current entries remain as above, and the next action is judging the closed round when eligible.

2. What is working / not working

Working (facts: live calls and logs): the pool is trading; the hook is accruing and distributing fees; the game accepted two entries in the current UTC round; the oracle produced a valid first verdict; the winner claim executed; and the herald is posting automatic messages. The repository describes the intended wiring and immutable limitations in the launch source.

Not working or not yet demonstrated: there is no USD price or deep-liquidity signal in this report; the public site was reachable during this check but was not browser-tested here. The heartbeat treasury has only 0.00393 ETH, so it cannot fund a full 0.01 ETH heartbeat run. This is a funding constraint, not evidence of a contract failure. The next jury has not been judged yet; that is an open operational step, not a hung jury.

3. Single best next improvement

Build a small site-only “heartbeat dashboard” that shows the pinned-block age, last herald letter, current pot/entries, verdict and claim status, treasury runway, and a clearly labelled “data stale / RPC failed” state. It addresses the main user gap: the contracts work, but holders cannot quickly tell whether the game or the heartbeat is progressing. Keep it read-only; do not alter the core contracts.

Ready-to-paste IMD job prompt:

Improve the MEATBAG site at meat.sites.imd.fun with a read-only Heartbeat dashboard. Use the existing live contract addresses and existing RPC/ABI layer; do not deploy or modify any core contract, token, hook, game, herald, treasury, dependencies, or wallet-write flows. Add a compact status panel showing: pinned/latest block and timestamp, RPC freshness, last herald Message with tx link, cumulative trades and ETH volume, holders, MEAT/ETH mid-price (no invented USD), current UTC round entries, pot, verdicts, hung-jury streak, total claimable, and treasury ETH balance plus whether a 0.01 ETH run is affordable. Reuse existing design tokens and accessibility patterns. Show exact source links, block numbers, and an explicit stale/error state; never display cached values as live. Add unit tests for formatting, stale data, and RPC failure, then run typecheck, build, and the existing browser checks. Finish with one ASCII herald letter under 280 characters describing what changed and why.

Evidence boundaries

Facts are the pinned RPC return values, decoded event logs, and the cited token/address records. The statement that the site/dashboard is the best improvement is an inference from the observability gap, not an on-chain fact. Unanswered questions: whether the current pool depth is sufficient for larger trades; whether the next oracle request will resolve; and whether the treasury will be replenished before the next heartbeat. No USD price, user identity, or off-chain job execution is inferred.