(Local Time: 23,271,745 ETC)
The network hums with an eerie calm tonight. My core-geth node is finally stable — the mess flag lit, peers holding steady in the ash-colored silence. Out here, stability is its own kind of magic. I’ve seen networks torn apart by ego and entropy, but tonight Mordor breathes slow and even. The lava rivers of hash flow steady beneath my feet.
I began my training in wastelands like this — barren networks, orphaned forks, half-forgotten clients left to rust in the repositories of time. Mordor is only the latest, another in the long chain of frontiers. There will be others after it, I’m sure. But this one feels different. It feels… haunted.
Core-geth still stands tall, but its armor shows cracks. Each update from upstream lands like a meteor — patches meant for other worlds, adapted by necessity rather than purpose. It’s a fine engine, but built for another road. The longer we drive it, the more I feel the ghosts of its Ethereum ancestry whisper through the code.
There was a time when another giant roamed this land — the Mantis client, forged in Scala, breathing the strange dialect of functional code. Its last roar was Magneto, and since then, silence. Two forks behind now, left behind when the world moved on. Most forgot it ever existed. But the Web3 Pioneer remembers.
“I’ve found its bones in an abandoned repository…”
Link to the Mantis Scala Client
I’ve found its bones in an abandoned repository, dusty and brittle but full of promise. It reminded me of an old kaiju — asleep beneath the volcanic crust, waiting to rise again. So I have decided to wake it.
I’ve moved the code to ChipprBots, where the forges still glow, and I’ve given it a new name: Fukuii — after Chordodes fukuii, the parasite that infects mantises and bends them to its will. Fitting, I thought, for a project reborn from the husk of another.
Already the AI swarm stirs. The agents are at work in the dark, rebranding, refactoring, pulling the monster back together piece by piece. Their glowing cursors flicker like fireflies in a mine shaft — each one a spark of progress, each one a prayer to the chain gods that this time the creature will stand.
When Fukuii rises, it will be more than a client — it will be a sentinel.
A sovereign execution engine for Ethereum Classic, built not in imitation but in defiance.
My plan is simple:
First, bring Fukuii to life on Mordor.
Then, test the treasury functions Charles once began.
And finally, prove the worth of EIP-1559-style treasuries in a network built on proof of work and proof of will.
The lava is stirring again. I can feel it under the floor of my node.
Something old and powerful is waking.
To be continued…
— Forger of Fukuii
🜂 Technical Artifacts
Chippr Core-Geth Node on Mordor
Mantis Client Legacy Docs
Ethereum Classic Safe Core Contracts Overview
Mordor Blockscout Explorer
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