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Deal Notices on a Token Page
This page is for holders — you own some of a token, and something about its Chain Daddy page has changed. Everything else in this section is written for the person who owns the registration; this one is written for you.
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Nothing on Chain Daddy can touch your tokens. A registration is a record of who owns a ticker on this platform — it is not custody of the token, it has no authority over the token contract, and Chain Daddy never holds your tokens or your money. No deal moves anything out of your wallet.
"SYMBOL is being consolidated"
An amber banner on the token page, with a destination token, a swap ratio and a countdown. The same token also shows a Migrating badge in search and on the home page ticker.
What it means. The person who holds this registration has publicly agreed to wind the ticker down into another token, and has published three things: where holders are going, at what ratio, and how long the window stays open. The banner appears only after the deal is agreed — a proposal nobody has accepted is shown to no one.
What it does not mean. It is an announcement, not an action. The registration does not move. No token moves. Nothing is burned, nothing is minted, and no swap runs on Chain Daddy — there is no swap contract, no claim, no redeem and no distributor anywhere in this system. The two sides carry the swap out themselves, off-platform.
What you should do.
- Check the destination address yourself. Chain Daddy validates the destination for shape only — that it looks like a contract address or a mint. There is no destination chain in the terms, so the platform cannot prove the token on the other end exists, let alone that it is the right one. The address you see is the address that was typed in.
- Note the deadline. The countdown on the banner is the swap window, which can be anywhere from 1 to 730 days and started when the consolidation was created.
- Follow the project's own instructions for swapping. Chain Daddy does not run the exchange and cannot help you with it.
"SYMBOL was consolidated"
The swap window has closed.
This does not mean the token was dissolved, the registration was destroyed, or anything left anyone's wallet. Chain Daddy's consolidation flow has no power to do any of those things: it flips the deal to complete and changes the wording on the banner. The registration still exists and its owner still holds it, unless they have separately retired it themselves.
The notice stays up after the window closes, and it still points at the destination — a finished consolidation is more reason to show where holders went, not less.
When a registration changes hands
A buyout or a project acquisition does change who owns the registration. Settlement burns the seller's registration and mints a new one to the buyer, so afterwards the token page is managed by someone else.
For you as a holder:
- Your tokens are untouched. They stay in your wallet, on the same contract, with the same balance. What changed is who controls the Chain Daddy page for that ticker.
- The token contract is a separate question. A deal records an assets list — the token's
owner()role, the social accounts, the domain — and that list is the part worth reading, because theowner()role is real authority over the token contract. Chain Daddy does not perform any of those handovers and cannot verify that they happened; the list is what the two parties said they agreed. It is part of the deal's public terms. - Any redemption offered to you is a promise, not an escrow. A buyout publishes a redemption rate, a redemption token and a window of at least 30 days. Chain Daddy holds none of it: there is no redemption pool, no escrow, and no contract on this platform that could hold one. The optional "redemption contract" field on the offer form is an address the buyer types in — nothing deploys it, funds it, calls it, or checks that anything is behind it. If you are counting on a redemption, look at the actual contract and the actual balance.
There is no notice period, and there is no banner
Two things worth knowing plainly.
A registration can change hands quickly — there is no waiting period before it moves. Older versions of this documentation described a 30-day public notice before a transfer. Nothing ever enforced it, and it has been removed.
And the token page shows no banner for a buyout or an acquisition. The consolidation notice above is the only deal notice rendered on a token page today. If a ticker you hold is sold, nothing on its page will tell you before or after.
Looking a deal up yourself
Deals on a public registration are public information. Both of these are public reads:
GET https://api.chaindaddy.io/api/v2/deals/symbol/{SYMBOL}
GET https://api.chaindaddy.io/api/v2/deals/{dealId}The first lists the deals recorded for a ticker — type, status, agreed amount and currency. The second returns one deal with its timeline, including the deal_created event that carries the terms the two parties agreed: for a buyout, the redemption rate, token and window; for a consolidation, the destination and the ratio. (A collab is the one exception — its agreed ticker and split are withheld from anyone who is not a party, because publishing an unlaunched ticker on a first-claim-wins registry hands it to whoever reads it first.)
What Chain Daddy guarantees, and what it does not
It does: require both sides to sign; refuse to burn a registration until its holder has signed that they were paid; bind the new registration to the exact buyer the seller consented to, so the operator cannot redirect it; and put the burn and the mint on chain where anyone can see them.
It does not: hold your tokens, hold anyone's money, run a redemption, run a swap, verify that a destination token is real, enforce a redemption rate, or give you a vote in a deal. A deal is an agreement between two wallets, with the platform enforcing consent and settlement — not the promises made to you.
See Ownership Deals for the deal types themselves and how settlement runs.