Prism Cope documentation

Overview

Prism Cope takes one loss and passes it through a glass prism. On the other side it comes out as six excuses, one per colour, each carrying a share of the blame. The shares always add up to the whole loss. Your own share is always the smallest.

Nothing is refunded and nothing is signed. The glass only changes how the loss is distributed between causes, which is the part that keeps people up at night.

Quickstart

1. Type the lossAny amount in USD, or one of the presets: $40, $412, $5,000 or $80,000.
2. Read the spectrumSix cards appear next to the glass, one excuse each, with the share and the amount.
3. Refract againIf an excuse does not feel right, press the button. Each colour has four more.
4. Read the noteThe session note below sums it up in the calm voice of someone who is paid by the hour.

Glossary

The six colours

Colours are ordered by how far they bend. Red bends least, travels furthest from you and carries the most blame. Violet bends the most and stays right next to the glass.

How shares are drawn

The violet share is fixed. The other 99.6% is spread across the five outside colours. On every refraction each base share is nudged by up to ±18% and the set is scaled back to 99.6%, so the cards feel fresh while the order stays roughly the same.

The amount on each card is simply the loss times its share. A $412 loss gives the market about $140 and you $1.65.

The violet ray

Violet is drawn at a hair’s width on purpose. It is never hidden, never zero and never larger than 0.4%. It is the line people point to when they say they took responsibility.

Refract again

Each press moves every colour to a different excuse from its five and redraws the shares. The glass also spins a little, which helps. The total never changes. Neither does the violet share.

Session notes

Every refraction writes a short note in the style of a therapist’s pad: the loss, the main cause in quotes, the supporting causes, your own contribution in a separate line, and an outlook taken from the blue colour.

session noteSession 3 · 26 Oct
Patient reports a loss of $412. Patient is calm and has
already prepared an explanation.
Primary cause identified as the market: “a whale sold the
minute i bought”. Supporting causes include macro, the dev
and timing.
Patient’s own contribution measured at $1.65. Patient did
not ask to see this line.
Outlook: “zoom out”. Recommended next step: hold.
                                              — the glass

Tone of voice

• Calm, never alarmed. A loss is “reported”, not “suffered”.
• The patient is always “prepared”, never “in denial”.
• The violet line comes last and is not explained.

The 3D prism

The prism is rendered live in your browser with WebGL. The faces are see-through, so the bench grid behind them stays visible; the edges catch a spectral tint at grazing angles, and a soft glint moves across the faces as the glass turns.

The white beam enters the left face and leaves the right one as six rays, each ending exactly at its card. Ray width follows the share, which is why violet is almost invisible.

Turning it

Drag the glass left or right to turn it, up or down to tilt it. Let go and it drifts back to its resting angle. Turning the prism does not change the shares. It is there for the same reason a stress ball is there.

Excuse a loss

httpCopyGET /v1/excuse?loss=412

response{
  "loss": 412,
  "colours": [
    { "colour": "red",    "cause": "market", "excuse": "Market makers hunted my stop", "share": 0.340 },
    { "colour": "violet", "cause": "you",    "excuse": "Me, a little", "share": 0.004 }
  ],
  "your_part": 1.65,
  "refund": null
}

Errors

The token

$COPE is the Prism Cope token on Solana. It does not offset losses and is not part of any excuse. Holding it changes one thing, below.

Buy $COPE Chart X

A thinner violet

Wallets holding $COPE see their own share drop from 0.4% to 0.1%. The loss stays exactly the same size, and the other colours absorb the difference without complaint.

Constants

Risks

• You read the violet card. It is short, and it stays with you.
• You refract the same loss twenty times. The excuses repeat. The loss does too.
• Someone else reads your session note. It is very kind, and very clear.
• The market recovers. Then you will need Prism Gains instead.

Changelog