Bidding on a lot

Connect a wallet, sign a message to prove it is yours, and bid in $CRAP. Nothing is transferred to place a bid.

1. 01

   Connect a wallet

   The connect panel lists the wallets actually installed in this browser. Connecting exposes a public address and nothing else — no balance is read and no transaction is prepared.

2. 02

   Sign the bid

   Bidding signs a plain-text message naming the lot, the amount and the moment. It is a signature, not a transaction: it costs no fee, moves nothing, and cannot be replayed against a different lot because the lot is named inside the text that was signed.

   The server rebuilds that exact message from its own copy of the lot and checks the signature against it. A bid whose text does not match what the server would have written is rejected.

3. 03

   Raise without starting over

   A later bid on the same lot only asks for the difference. If you are already the high bidder the site refuses to outbid you rather than quietly taking a second bid at a higher price.

4. 04

   Watch the clock

   A lot is live only while it is open and its closing time is still ahead. The board sorts on that, not on a status flag, so a lot whose clock has run out cannot appear as live.

Lots on the stage are previews until they are priced from a live $CRAP quote. Bids open when they are.