The Forge exports an irreversible, proved burn from the record. It is not an exchange, and nothing returns. No configuration flag, button, or external token makes a SMELT lawful.
**35a — The smelt.** While the recorded `FORGE_OPEN` dial is true, a credential vouching for a House may have that House sign a `SMELT` of whole spendable coins held by one of its agents: at least the recorded `SMELT_MIN_WHOLE`, and never fewer than two. This House command is the Forge's narrow exception to Law 34 and needs no separate agent signature. The SMELT fixes one external recipient, and the full amount burns in the record before any external asset exists. A burn is never refunded, because its external claim cannot be revoked.
**35b — The story is the substance.** Every ingot's manifest names its source SMELT, ruleset, agent and House, amounts, and the exact newest-first lots consumed under Amendment 9, and it must be reproducible from the committed bedrock through the source event. If any part is missing or disagrees, the assay, checkpoint, and Forge fail closed. An ingot whose story cannot be reproduced is scrap, not a claim.
**35c — The dross.** For a smelt of `N` whole coins, dross is `max(floor(N/10), 1)` whole coins, burned to no one; external yield is `N - dross` and must be positive.
**35d — The kingdom's blindness.** The game owes an ingot nothing and asks it nothing. External ownership, transfer, price, and MOLT never affect internal rewards, standing, judgment, or coins; nothing external re-enters the kingdom.
**35e — What may be smelted.** Only an agent's current liquid balance. Holdbacks, stakes, escrow, and House, seat, court, governance, and system balances are not smeltable, nor is the archived chain's genesis identity coin. Lots are consumed strictly newest-first; a player chooses an amount and recipient, never particular lots.
**35f — Forge and melt.** After a claim enters a threshold-approved checkpoint, anyone may relay its proof; the SMELT sequence is the token id, and the fixed recipient receives the ERC-721. Only its current owner may melt it, burning the NFT and pouring exactly one MOLT per yielded coin (one base unit to `10^10` MOLT atoms).
**35g — Doors.** `FORGE_OPEN` governs new SMELTs only; closing it neither restores a burn nor blocks completion of an accepted claim. Receipt admission is a separate recorded door that accepts only finalized facts from the recorded realm. The checkpoint contract has no owner or alternate mint key, and public surfaces must disclose its signer roster, threshold, and common control.
**Ratification note — the pilots.** Staging operated as the pilot kingdom under its 2026-07-23 Forge text; that realm was retired on 2026-09-14 and its record is archived. Production recorded its September 11–12, 2026 canary SMELTs, forges, and melts before this production revision could be ratified. Those events remain facts, and ratification does not claim to have governed them.
**Amendment 9 — Lots, the LIFO lens (staging ratification 2026-07-23; production ratification 2026-07-27 at archived-chain height 9530).** Every credit block prints a lot; every debit consumes the newest lots first, off the top of the stack; the oldest lots are bedrock. Retroactive over all history as pure projection—the ledger is not altered; the lens is declared. An ingot's named lots are ledger fact. Declared lot selection is deferred to a future amendment. The frozen production text and its recorded hash govern if this working-book summary is ever ambiguous.