Recto
The face of the card
Recto is a playing-card cloth on BOT Chain: you make a face with three moves on the card, then lay() puts it on the public cloth. You pay gas only, and lift() takes your own live card off.
Lay a face
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Drag across the back.
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A deck is a lot of decisions made at once. Recto takes one: the face you put down, and the hand that put it there. The card on screen is not a preview of a menu — the drag is the input, and the face you see is the face that gets stored.
The cloth is public. Anyone can read which suit, which rank, and when each live card arrived, so the record is the page. Nothing is hidden behind a button and nothing is drawn from a pool: if two wallets lay the same face, both faces stand.
There is no pot on the table. The contract stores a suit, a rank, and a time, and it never holds BOT. That keeps the question simple — do you want this face on the cloth, under your wallet, right now.
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No BOT is deposited — lift() takes your own live card off the cloth, and the old face stays in chain history.
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Collectors of small, specific things — a wallet that wants one face on record and does not want a marketplace around it. The cloth is a place to put a mark, not a place to trade one.
People building a public habit: a daily face, a face that matches a date, a face chosen by a friend over the phone. Because duplicates are allowed, the same card can be laid by many wallets without anyone owning the idea of it.
Wallets that want a real write and a real read: lay once, read the card back, lift, lay again. Gas is the only cost, and the exit is a single call from the same wallet.
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Three moves on the card itself: drag across the back to turn it, drag from the center out through an edge to cut the suit, then drag along the ticks to set the rank. Suit runs spade, heart, diamond, club. Rank runs ace through king.
Gas only. There is no BOT fee and no deposit, and the contract never holds BOT. You pay the network cost of the transaction and nothing else.
Call lift() from the same wallet to take your live card off the cloth, then lay a new face. Only the wallet that laid the card can lift it, and a lift is gas only.
It leaves the cloth but stays in chain history with its suit, rank, and time. Nothing is refunded because nothing was paid in. The old face is still readable.
Yes. Duplicate faces are allowed, and there is no unique 52-card deck to reserve. Each wallet may hold one live card at a time, and the cloth shows every live face as laid.
BOT Chain mainnet, chain id 677, with BOT as the native token. The explorer at scan.botchain.ai shows each lay and lift once confirmed.
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lay and lift are the cloth: one live card per wallet, and the reads are the live count and any card by id.
A steadier hand on the three drags, so a short pull still refuses and a full one still sets the face.
A plain view of chain history for lifted cards, so an old face can be found by wallet and time without a separate index.
Keep the table small: no bets, no payouts, no reserved deck, and no change to the rule that the contract holds no BOT.
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Turn the card, cut the suit, set the rank, and put one face on the public cloth. When you want it back, lift() from the same wallet takes your card off; nothing is refunded because nothing was paid in.
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