Most of what returns is nothing. We keep it anyway.
A game on Base. Swap, collect, forge. A fixed share of every redemption is committed on-chain to a foundation dedicated to the scientific search, and no person can stop it.
Trade through the pool, the way you would on any swap. Each swap mints one collectible artifact into your wallet, an observation from a real public catalog.
Your wallet fills with observations of different rarity, scored on the Catalog Scale, zero to ten. Almost nothing is a ten. That is the point of a ten.
Combine a set that matches a published recipe. The ingredients are spent, and one higher artifact takes their place.
Return a forged artifact and the contract burns it, then pays out a capped share of the pool. Most to you, a share back to the pool, a fixed share committed on-chain to the foundation.
Four hundred years ago, looking up was a thing you could be punished for.
Now it is a thing most of us are simply too distracted to do.
The instruments have never been sharper.
The record has never been more open.
And the search has never been more underfunded against how much the world quietly wants to know.
GALILEO is a game, and it is honest about being one. You swap on a public network, and each swap mints one observation into your wallet: a comet, a far planet, a catalogued small body, a recorded craft from the public files, a documented incident. Every artifact references a real entry in a public catalog. Nothing is invented, and nothing is attributed to anyone.
Underneath the game runs one strange property. When someone redeems a rare find, a fixed share of the payout is committed, automatically and on-chain, to a foundation dedicated to the scientific search. That share cannot be paused, lowered, redirected, or skimmed. Not by a treasurer, because there is none. Not by us. It is a line of logic, not a promise.
That is the whole idea. The energy of a crowd, routed by a rule that no hand can bend, into the slow work of the people holding the actual instruments.
Four moves. The fourth is the one that matters.
Rises continuously as shares accrue on-chain, the instant each redemption happens.
Moves only when someone calls the sweep, a single function anyone can trigger to forward the accrued total to the foundation's wallet.
Both sit on a public dashboard. Both are read straight from the chain. We do not report these to you. We point at the ledger. So the true claim is "a fixed share of activity, provably accrued on-chain, and swept to the foundation." We say the true thing even where the false thing would read better.
A thing is defined as much by what it refuses.
No guaranteed value, no language built to make a game sound like an investment. The redemption is a game mechanic. We describe it as one because it is one.
No insider tranche, no founder reserve waiting to be sold into the people who showed up. Whatever exists at launch is the supply.
GALILEO is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with any university, agency, foundation, or scientist, living or dead. It references public catalogs and the public record, which belong to everyone. A foundation that receives the donations has one role, which is to receive them.
GALILEO references the public record. It does not measure, confirm, or contest anything about the physical world. Rarity here is a number in the game, never a claim that a thing is more real.
You do not take our word for any of it.
You watch the number move.