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Keys, not accounts

That "Create my account" click generated a keypair in your browser with koilib. The address is derived from the public key. There is no signup because there is nothing to register — on Koinos, holding a key IS having an account.

const signer = new Signer({ privateKey });
const address = signer.getAddress(); // that's it. that's the account.

Mana, not gas

Koinos meters computation with mana — an energy that every KOIN holder has and that regenerates over ~5 days. It can be capped, spent and recharged, but never bought or sold. And crucially: someone else can pay yours.

Every transaction you sent here named two parties: payee (you — your nonce, your authority) and payer (the gateway's sponsor wallet — its mana). You signed, the sponsor co-signed, nobody paid a fee. That's not a promo budget; it's a protocol feature called mana sharing.

new Transaction({ options: {
  payer: sponsorWallet,   // their mana burns (and regenerates)
  payee: yourAddress,     // your nonce, your authority
}})

Contracts are accounts

Your art goes into the Discover Koinos Paint collection — a KCS-2 contract. On Koinos a contract is just an account with WASM uploaded to it, and it can act as itself: the collection authorized your free mint with its own signature while the sponsor paid. The image? Stored on-chain, in the token's metadata, as an SVG your grandchildren can still decode.

You deployed a contract

The Token Lab uploaded ~60KB of audited KCS-4 bytecode to a fresh account and called initialize with your name, symbol and supply. Two real transactions. On most chains that's a paid, tooling-heavy afternoon; here the sponsor's mana absorbed it, and the whole supply landed in your wallet.

{ upload_contract: { contract_id, bytecode } }  // tx 1
initialize({ name, symbol, decimals, supply })  // tx 2 — yours