Checkpoint: EmpoorioChain, September 2026

In one line

A native Substrate L1 with 140 pallets and an EVM, on a two-validator public testnet that upgrades in place, has settled its first swap and registered its first DID, and is not close to mainnet — by its own gate.

Live

Runtime 220, transaction version 6, genesis 0xe973931e… (31 Aug), eight in-place upgrades since 4 Sep.
Two public RPC nodes with WSS and valid TLS; EVM chain id 2026; SS58 prefix 2026; 18 decimals.
Aura (6 s) + GRANDPA (~17 s to finality, measured).
Frontier EVM accepting real transactions since 211; gas 1 gwei since 220.
Bounded state (215); storage billed by the byte (213); treasury cap window corrected (217).
First signed transaction (7 Sep), first EVM transaction (211), first DEX swap and first DID (14 Sep).

The 5 September audit

114 findings; 108 closed. Among them: a decentralization report describing validators that did not exist; an audit script that could not fail; a chain id of 27777 in a core doc; the entire empoorio.io domain unregistered while three programmes pointed at it; operator guides that could not onboard anyone (missing node key, broken sanity check, build-spec trap). All corrected in place with dated notes.

Found since

102,912 blocks with zero signed transactions — the two-byte envelope (7 Sep).
EVM rejecting every transaction (6 Sep → fixed 211).
DEX treasury account never created (14 Sep → fixed 220).
eth_getCode at latest returns 0x for deployed contracts (213; clients verify by nonce).
#[pallet::unbounded] hides from a without_storage_info grep (215).
Enumerating calls by position gave eight false mismatches (explicit indexes).
Four post_upgrade hooks asserting facts their migrations did not control.

Mainnet gate, open items

External audits (DeFi, PQC/ZK, mobile) — none commissioned. Ten validators, four independent operators, two geographies — two, zero, one. Finality p50 < 12 s — 17 s. TPS ≥ 500 measured — not demonstrated. Weights on the reference machine — not measured. Testnet bridge E2E — not built. SDK on crates.io — not published, by rule. Legal entity — not registered. Economic-class upgrade and emergency drill — not rehearsed. Sanctions parameters — not set.

Decisions recorded as the owner's

The wDMS on Sepolia (retire / registry / back it). Whether to wire or remove pallet-contracts. Whether the founder tranche is excluded from staking in code. Ten items from the 3 September review.

Culture

The rules that came out of the fortnight — every figure with its proof, nothing announced before it exists, ask what would make the check fail, run the chain not the tests, wire it or retire it, correct in place with the error visible — are in the repository and in this blog's values post. They are the chain's most durable output of September 2026.

Based on RED.json, DECENTRALIZATION_REPORT.md, MAINNET_GATE.md, the 2026-09-05 audit and the runtime 208–220 records.