How GALILEO works, in plain register.

GALILEO references public astronomical catalogs, which may include the NASA Exoplanet Archive, the JPL Small-Body Database, SIMBAD, VizieR, the ESA Gaia archive, and the Minor Planet Center. This is a policy the protocol commits to, not decoration.

Public sources only. A citation stores the catalog source, the object's designation, a retrieval timestamp, and a content hash of the referenced record, never the underlying dataset. Any reader can re-query the cited catalog and confirm the record matches the stored hash, with no access to GALILEO infrastructure. A citation is never a claim of ownership, discovery, partnership, or endorsement.

The GALILEO value path is a data pipeline: atomic, no human in the loop, reproducible from contract state. The v4 hook computes the fee split using constants fixed at deployment; the protocol-fee fraction accrues, the charitable fraction routes to the escrow, the provenance counter increments.

Deterministic, every step is a pure function of pool state and swap parameters. No oracle in the value path, catalog references are metadata only and never enter the economic logic. No human in the loop, after deployment and ownership renounce, no multisig, owner key, or pause function affects the value path. Reproducible from state.

GALILEO will not promote the token to a broad audience until external security review is complete and the reports are public. This is a hard sequencing rule: audit before promotion. Two engagements are being scoped; firm selection and terms are not yet locked. On completion, reports are published in full, all findings rated informational and above. No selective disclosure.

Audit-blocking items: mint authority (no post-deployment mint path); escrow-destination immutability; reentrancy safety on sweep and afterSwap routing; fee arithmetic; access control after renounce; upgradeability (no proxy or delegatecall upgrade path). Status: pre-audit.

GALILEO references public catalogs. GALILEO is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with any university, any government agency, any foundation, or any individual scientist, living or dead. Any donation to a charitable destination is an arm's-length, gift-only transfer made via on-chain mechanism; it does not constitute partnership and is not contingent on response or acknowledgment.

GALILEO makes zero scientific claims. Its artifacts carry zero evidentiary status. A token named after a catalogued object is a citation of a catalog record, not a measurement, an observation, or a discovery. A token named after a historical event is homage, not data, not evidence, not a re-detection. GALILEO verifies only that a citation matches its source at retrieval time.

swap on GALILEO/ETH pool
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v4 hook computes fee split   (deployment-time constants; no discretion)
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        ├──► protocol fee fraction accrues
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        └──► charitable fraction ──► escrow contract (holds ETH)
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                              sweep() called by anyone (permissionless)
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                          hardcoded charitable destination address
                                  (immutable; no other path)

The escrow is a minimal contract that can only hold and forward. The destination address is immutable, set at construction. sweep() is permissionless, any address can trigger a forward, which always sends the full balance to the hardcoded destination. There is no withdrawal path to the team or any other address. Status: no charitable destination has accepted any gift, and none is claimed to have; the destination address is not yet finalized.

GALILEO is built to be verified, not trusted. Contract source will be published and deployed bytecode is verifiable against it. Every fee split, escrow routing, sweep, and counter increment is an on-chain event anyone can read. No step in the value path, and no citation, requires the reader to take the project's word for it.

GALILEO does not conduct or fund original research directly, it routes gifts to a destination that may. It does not produce scientific data, verify the truth of the records it cites, or guarantee token value or any financial return. It answers no scientific question and takes no position on the existence of extraterrestrial technology.

What can fail: smart-contract risk (bugs may exist despite audits); catalog drift (detectable via stored hashes, not preventable); liquidity and adoption risk (charitable flow depends on usage); permissionless-sweep edge cases (gas griefing and reentrancy, in audit scope).

Locked (design intent): no admin mint; no discretionary treasury; no upgradeable proxy; no human in the value path after renounce; escrow can only hold and forward, destination immutable, no team withdrawal path; audit-before-promotion; full-disclosure audit policy; the non-endorsement rail and the null-claim statement.

In progress: audit firm selection and terms; tokenomics constants; the charitable destination address; stable publication URLs. No foundation has accepted any gift, and none is claimed to have.