Printed at Sherwood · Anno MCXCIV · Now issued on Robinhood Chain
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Of the chain
By order of His Majesty, Prince John
$SHERIFF · issued on Robinhood Chain · chain 4663
The main antagonist in the legend of Robin Hood — the man the whole story exists to defeat.
The terms
Eight hundred years of hunting one outlaw through these trees — and he has ridden onto a chain that carries the outlaw’s own name.
0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000The proclamation
The Sheriff of Nottingham is the main antagonist in the legend of Robin Hood. His duty, in every telling, was to take outlaws such as Robin — to keep the trade routes through Sherwood safe, and to stop the poor poaching the King’s deer.
He is drawn the same way each time: an unjust tyrant who mistreats the people of Nottinghamshire and subjects them to unaffordable taxes. Robin steals from the rich — and from the Sheriff — to give to the poor, which is the very characteristic Robin Hood is best known for. He is the outlaw’s archenemy, and his most recurring one, present from the earliest texts: the fifteenth-century ballad A Gest of Robyn Hode among them.
$SHERIFF is the joke he never got. His coin, struck on Robinhood Chain — the outlaw’s own ground, with the levy at nil, no owner to hold the office, and one open road nobody can close. He collects nothing. He controls nothing. He simply rides.
Sealed this day
at Nottingham Castle
by the Sheriff’s own hand
Reported from the ballads
The Sheriff of Nottingham is the main antagonist in the legend of Robin Hood — there is no Robin Hood story without him to lose it. Eight hundred years of ballads, one argument, four counts.
Count the first
The Sheriff's office was to keep outlaws from poaching the King's deer in the royal forest. Kill a stag in Sherwood and you were an outlaw by supper.
On Robinhood Chain
Robin was made an outlaw by a law about who may take what from the commons. That argument has not aged a day.
Count the second
He is drawn every time as an unjust tyrant who mistreats the people of Nottinghamshire and subjects them to unaffordable taxes.
On Robinhood Chain
This coin charges nothing to buy and nothing to sell. The Sheriff's one and only failure, printed in the contract.
Count the third
The Sheriff's famous trap: a tournament with a golden arrow for the prize, staged for no reason but to draw Robin out of the trees and take him.
On Robinhood Chain
Every launch is an archery contest. The guard window is 366 blocks — the Sheriff's arrows are blocked in the launch block itself.
Count the fourth
His other duty was the safety of the trade routes running through the forest. He held the road; Robin held the trees beside it.
On Robinhood Chain
The liquidity is one range on one road. Anyone may travel it. Nobody, the Sheriff included, may close the gate.
The balladeers put the tax collector in the story so that someone could rob him. Deploying him here just moves the punchline on-chain.
From the antiquary's desk
It is not known upon whom this character is based. The ballads name him only by his title — and the office he is named for did not exist until a century after they made him famous for holding it.
Norman times
A royal appointee responsible for law enforcement in the royal forests — Sherwood among them. The likeliest origin of the character.
14th century
At least this old, and it names him only by his title. He has no first name, no family, no face. Just the office.
15th century
One of the earliest surviving texts to feature him. The archenemy is there from nearly the beginning.
1449
A full century after the ballads had already made him famous for holding it.
1568
The paperwork catches up. The villain had been working without it for two hundred years.
An anonymous party, known only by a handle, operating an office that did not formally exist, in a forest full of people arguing about who owns what. Some things do not change.
Fig. vii — Nottingham Castle,
seat of an office not yet invented
The archenemy
He is considered the archenemy of Robin Hood — the most recurring enemy of the best-known outlaw in the language. Robin steals from the rich, and from the Sheriff, to give to the poor; it is the characteristic Robin Hood is best known for, and the Sheriff is the reason it exists.
Entered by the clerk of the shire
The terms, in full. Everything below is fixed at deployment and verifiable on the explorer — which is the only audit worth the parchment.
| Item | Assessed | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Coin struck | 1,000,000,000 | Once |
| Levy upon purchase & sale | Nil | 0 / 0 |
| Office of the owner | Never held | — |
| Liquidity | Single-sided | v3 · 1% |
| Launch guard | 366 blocks | 2% / 2.2% |
Expires at block +366 · ≈ 37 seconds
Anti-sniper rails, not a tax. They apply only to buys from the pool, they cannot be switched on or off by any key, and they lapse by block number roughly a half-minute after launch. After that the coin is a plain ERC-20 and nothing stands between you and the road.
Launch block
Buys rejected
No sniping the first block.
Max wallet
2%
Ceiling on any one holder.
Max buy
2.2%
Cumulative, per address.
No presale, no private round, no team allocation vesting quietly in the background. The float goes onto the road.
A note in the margin
“The Sheriff kept the most thorough books in England. Every hen, every hearth, every honest man’s last farthing.
This is the only ledger he ever closed at nought.”
— the clerk of the shire
Fig. iii — the key to the office,
never cut in the first place
Verify it yourself
Read the contract on the explorer before you believe a word of this sheet. That is the whole point of publishing on a chain instead of a wall.
robinhoodchain.blockscout.com →A note for the plain reader
How the liquidity actually works, explained once, without the usual fog.
One stretch of road, with a floor price at one end and a ceiling at the other. The entire float is stood up along that stretch as coin, and nothing else — no ETH is put up beside it.
Travellers coming up the road buy coin off it and leave ETH behind. The price walks toward the ceiling as they go. That is the whole mechanism: no treasury was funded to open the road, so there is no treasury for anyone to drain and close it.
The one road the Sheriff ever built that he cannot put a toll on.
Blazoned by the herald
Every party to the dispute, entered with their proper charges. Plates after Fox-Davies, 1909.
Tax collector · this coin
A wolf passant, tongued gules, collared of a star
Grinning, greedy, permanently one arrow behind. Has now ridden onto Robin's own chain, which he insists is a coincidence.
Bounty: Your entire portfolio
Archer · redistributor
A fox passant, proper, quiver at the shoulder
Steals from the rich, gives to the poor. The chain is named after him. He has not been told who just deployed on it.
Bounty: 10,000 marks
Regent · employer
A lion passant guardant, crowned, sucking his thumb
Signs the decrees, cries for his mother, blames the Sheriff when the treasury runs dry.
Bounty: One crown, slightly used
The original contraband
A stag trippant, of the royal forest
Worth a man's freedom to take. The whole feud starts with an argument about who is allowed to own what.
Bounty: Outlawry
As entered day by day
Four phases. No mercy. One extremely irritated fox somewhere in the trees.
Deploy on Robinhood Chain. Fixed supply, no owner, no tax. The single-sided range opens and the guard window closes itself 366 blocks later.
Criers, trackers and trending. Loud enough to be heard from the castle walls and from the trees.
Deeper ranges, more crossings, and a merch drop printed off the same plates as this sheet.
Prince John was never the point. The tax collector takes the throne — and keeps the levy at nought.
Fig. iv — the major oak,
sole witness to all four phases
No dates are given. The Sheriff has never once arrived on time, and sees no reason to start.
Enacted at Nottingham
Four clauses. No horse required — only a wallet pointed at Robinhood Chain.
Clause The First
Any EVM wallet will serve. Add Robinhood Chain — chain 4663, native ETH — and it will find the road.
Clause The Second
Bridge ETH onto the chain. It settles to Ethereum through the Arbitrum stack; blocks come every tenth of a second.
Clause The Third
Swap WETH for the ticker on Uniswap v3, 1% tier. Paste the address; do not trust a search result.
Clause The Fourth
Hold. Meme. Refuse to be out-taxed. The forest is thick with paper hands and thicker with outlaws.
The Sheriff does not do refunds, rebates, or reasonable explanations.
Buy $SHERIFFHeard before the shire court
Fig. v — the counter-argument,
nocked and drawn