What Happened, and What We Did

1. Summary

Shortly after the original PR3DICT mainnet launch on June 28, 2026, the team identified that an internal contract function — the autoswap mechanism, which converts a portion of the Ecosystem Contribution into BNB for reward distribution — was not activating correctly under real mainnet trading conditions. It worked as expected on testnet, but real-world trading patterns on mainnet exposed a condition the original testing had not covered.

No user funds were lost. No holder was harmed. Buying, holding, and transferring PR3D remained fully functional throughout. The issue only affected one gear of the reward-distribution engine, not the token itself or user balances.

Because contract ownership had already been renounced at launch — as promised — the deployed contract could not be patched or upgraded by anyone, including the team. PR3DICT resolved this by deploying a new, corrected contract, snapshotting every holder's balance from the original contract, and making the equivalent PR3D available to claim 1:1 on the new deployment.

2. What happened: the autoswap issue

The PR3DICT contract collects a small Ecosystem Contribution on DEX trades (buys and sells). Part of that contribution is meant to be periodically swapped into BNB by the contract's own autoswap logic, feeding the Time Vaults and reward distribution. Under testnet conditions — including simulated trading, manual triggers, and controlled liquidity — this logic executed correctly in every test run.

Once real users began trading on mainnet, the specific sequence and timing of buy/sell transactions on the live PancakeSwap pair created a condition where the autoswap step did not fire as intended. The result: PR3D collected for autoswap accumulated in the contract without being converted to BNB, slowing down one part of the reward pipeline. Transfers, balances, holding, and the rest of the tokenomics continued to work normally.

3. Why we could not simply patch it

PR3DICT's launch model includes a deliberate, public commitment: once deployed, ownership of the contract is renounced. No admin key, no upgrade path, no backdoor — not even for the team. This is a core part of the project's trust model, verifiable on-chain by anyone.

This is a deliberate trade-off: permanence and irreversibility in exchange for censorship-resistance and freedom from discretionary control. When something needs fixing, the only path is a new deployment — which is exactly what happened here.

4. The solution: a new, corrected contract

The team identified the root cause of the autoswap issue, corrected the logic, and deployed a new PR3DICT contract. This time, the fix was validated under the same real-world trading conditions that had originally surfaced the flaw — not just on testnet.

All tests were re-run and passed under the exact trading conditions that had hidden the original flaw. The autoswap mechanism, reward distribution, Time Vaults, and Holder Drops all function correctly on the new contract.

5. What this means for holders

If you acquired PR3D before the migration, your balance on the original contract was captured in a full snapshot. An equivalent allocation is waiting for you on the new contract, 1:1.

Work already done for PR3DICT campaigns (including TaskOn) is not lost. Campaign registration data is being updated to reflect the new contract, and airdrop campaigns are being reopened as soon as this update is live.

6. Timeline

7. Risk notice

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