StoicTags

What a StoicTag is

A StoicTag is a globally-unique human-readable name registered on the StoaChain's ouronet-ns.CODEX Pact module. Each StoicTag points to exactly one Ouronet Account — strict bijection: one StoicTag per Ouronet Account, one Ouronet Account per StoicTag.

The display convention prefixes every StoicTag with the section sign § — e.g. §bytales, §μιχαήλ, §ŻЪłΘψ. The prefix is a display convention only; the registered name itself is the bare string after the §.

How it works

Pick a name (3–256 glyphs from the Dalos Character Set).
Pick which of your Ouronet Accounts the StoicTag should point to. Must be activated on chain.
Sign the registration transaction with the Ouronet Account's keys.
Pay the registration fee in STOA (spam-gate, no operator gatekeeping).
The chain records the StoicTag → Ouronet Account binding.

Once registered, anyone can resolve §yourname via a free chain read — they get back the Ouronet Account address you bound it to. Pay them by typing §yourname instead of Ѻ.xxxxxxx. Share §yourname as your identity in any context where typing a 160-glyph account address would be impractical.

A StoicTag binds to exactly one Ouronet Account. It's a human-readable handle at the top of a three-layer stack:

§bytales

StoicTag — what a human types or shares. Resolves to an Ouronet Account address.

Ѻ.xxx

Ouronet Account — Standard or Smart. The account the StoicTag binds to. Has its own logic, guards, and (for Smart accounts) multi-branch authorization.

k:abc…

StoaChain Payment Key — the underlying k: account that pays the gas. Every Ouronet Account has one of these as its Payment Key. This is the actual on-chain entity that signs and pays.

Resolution order at the chain level: StoicTag → Ouronet Account → Payment Key (StoaChain account). All three layers are visible; each layer's authorization rules apply at its own layer.

Properties

• Strict bijection: one StoicTag per Ouronet Account, one Ouronet Account per StoicTag — enforced on chain by the two-table design (primary name table + reverse-lookup index)
• Account must be activated: the Ouronet Account must already exist on the StoaChain at registration time
• Single glyph: § works for both Standard (Ѻ.) and Smart (Σ.) Ouronet Accounts — the glyph is a display convention, not a kind-discriminator
• Codex-agnostic: the chain has no awareness of which Codex (if any) registered the StoicTag. Anyone with the Ouronet Account's keys can register or release, whether those keys live in a Mnemosyne Codex, an OuronetUI Codex, a CLI tool, or anywhere else. StoicTags work without Mnemosyne entirely.
• Releasable: the current owner of the tagged Ouronet Account can release the StoicTag, freeing the name for re-registration by anyone (no fee refund — the original registration fee is sunk)
• Cost-gated, not admin-gated: the only barrier to registration is paying the fee. No operator approval, no review, no waitlist

Character set and length

StoicTags accept any glyph from the Dalos Character Set — the same 256-glyph alphabet that powers Codex Identity seed words (see The Dalos Character Set). This means StoicTags can be as expressive or as conventional as you want:

Conventional, lowercase Latin

§bytales

Mixed scripts

§мiha1

Greek

§μιχαήλ

Long, descriptive, unique

§ΣyzantiumImperialPalaceArchivesAnnoDomini867

Maximally obscure (uniqueness over memorability)

§ŻЪłΘ̃ψøŔд₿αжWòŠ

Length: 3 glyphs minimum, 256 glyphs maximum. The 3-glyph floor reserves the absolute-shortest namespace for things like protocol-reserved names. The 256-glyph ceiling matches the Codex Identity per-word maximum and gives users a wide creative space without making the on-chain row gigantic.

StoicTags are case-sensitive at the glyph level. §bytales and §Bytales are distinct registrable names.

Typing the § glyph

The § glyph (the section sign, Unicode U+00A7) is on every modern operating system, but the input method varies:

Windows: hold Alt and type 0167 on the numpad, then release Alt.
macOS: ⌥ + 6 (Option + 6).
Linux (X11/Wayland): Compose + s + o, or Ctrl + Shift + u then type 00a7 and press Enter.
iOS / Android: open the symbol keyboard; long-press the symbol panel until § appears.
European keyboard layouts: Italian, Nordic, and several others have § as a direct key (often Shift + a number row key).

Most users will rarely type StoicTags by hand — Codex Consumers offer click-to-pick selectors. The above is for when you do need to type one.

Why "StoicTag"?

StoicTags are the StoaChain ecosystem's human-readable name registry. The terminology and the prefix glyph (§) tie to the philosophical roots of the project — "stoic" carries connotations of permanence, discipline, restraint, properties that fit an immutable on-chain identity claim. The Greek Stoa (Στοά) gives the chain its name; StoicTags name the identities that move on that chain.

Pact module reference

StoicTags live in the ouronet-ns.CODEX Pact module on the StoaChain, in two tables:

stoictags — primary table, keyed by tag-name. Stores the bare name, the bound Ouronet Account address, and the registration block-time. Insert collisions enforce name uniqueness.
stoictags-by-account — reverse-lookup index, keyed by Ouronet Account address. Insert collisions enforce the one-StoicTag-per-account invariant.

The module exposes four operations:

• register-stoictag(name, account-address) — anyone can call; requires fee + account guard + name validity + name uniqueness + account uniqueness
• release-stoictag(name) — current owner of the tagged Ouronet Account releases the name; both rows deleted atomically
• resolve-stoictag(name) — free chain read; returns the bound Ouronet Account address
• get-stoictag-by-account(account-address) — reverse lookup; returns the StoicTag (if any) bound to a given Ouronet Account

The Dalos Character Set →

The 256-glyph alphabet StoicTag names are composed from.

The Dalos Elliptic Curve →

The 1600-bit curve that backs every Ouronet Account a StoicTag points to.