Becoming an Author

Learn how to become a puzzle author for Curta.

Authorship Token

To become an author, you must have an unused Authorship Token and write + add a puzzle to Curta.

Obtaining Authorship Tokens

There are only 3 ways to obtain Authorship Tokens:

1. be the first solver to any puzzle,
2. purchase them on a secondary marketplace,
3. or receive from the team.

The Curta contract allows its owner to mint an Authorship Token every 3 days (initialized at deploy). Currently, owner is the Curta team. If you'd like to receive an Authorship Token to write a puzzle, reach out to us @curta_ctf.

Becoming Fermat

Fermat is the author whose puzzle goes the longest unsolved, and Fermat can be identified onchain as the owner of the Flag NFT with token ID #0. Anyone can transfer ownership of the token and promote an author to Fermat by calling setFermat(uint32) on the Curta contract:

/// @notice Burns and mints NFT #0 to the author of the puzzle of ID `_puzzleId`
/// if it is the puzzle that went longest unsolved.
/// @dev The puzzle of ID `_puzzleId` must have been solved at least once.
/// @param _puzzleId The ID of the puzzle.
function setFermat(uint32 _puzzleId) external;