Quench Field Manual

Scarcity as weather.

Quench is a Uniswap V4-style token system where the $Q pool’s own drought index controls the release of scarce Water Canister claims to $Q buyers. The market does not merely set price. It sets climate.

1. Purpose

The public ritual is simple: watch the desert, buy during the oasis window, carry a numbered canister. The underlying hook makes that ritual mechanical by translating local $Q buy pressure into temporary inventory.

2. Pool and reserve

The $Q pool is where buyer eligibility and drought pressure are observed. Qualifying buys fill the drought index. When the index crosses threshold, the hook opens a finite reservoir window backed by the sealed canister reserve.

3. Claim lifecycle

When the reservoir is open, qualified $Q buys consume available inventory and write canister claim receipts. Each receipt carries serial, drought reading, window data, and an expiry block. Claims can later be redeemed from the sealed canister reserve path only up to that recorded expiry block.

4. Boundaries

Quench is not a variable tax product. Sells do not earn canisters; they cool the drought index and can shrink or close an open reservoir. Early launch protection comes from a hook-native per-address Quench-pool cooldown in the first launch blocks.

5. Difference

The primitive is a pool-local drought-index inventory gate: the home pool’s own demand bar briefly reveals water, then expiry and inventory limits make every canister a scarce expedition object.