merca.earth Is Live: What Works Today
Enough theory. The map is live.
Open merca.earth today, pick a place, draw a parcel, register it on Sui mainnet. Buy someone else's parcel. Expand your territory. Collect tax from places inside it. Shape the visual layer with a name, description, and artwork.
This is not a waitlist. Not a whitepaper promise. People are already claiming, competing, and making meaning on the map.
What is live right now
- Claim a place. Draw a parcel on the map and register it on-chain.
- Buy a place. Every parcel is always for sale. Pay the current buyout price and it becomes yours.
- Grow your territory. Expand into unclaimed land, take a slice from a neighbor, redraw borders between your own parcels, or merge them.
- Collect tax. If smaller parcels sit inside your territory, their tax flows up to you.
- Shape the visual layer. Name your parcel, write a description, draw on it, or upload an image.
- Propose places inside places. Submit a point of interest on someone else's block-level parcel and pay to have it considered.
This is a map you act on. Claim a neighborhood. Mark a monument. Hold a coastline. Name a district.
The rules are already enforced
If your parcel overlaps an existing one, registration fails. If someone pays the buyout price, the sale goes through. If a slice would leave the neighbor's parcel with an invalid shape, the protocol rejects it.
No moderator steps in. No admin reviews borders by hand. The rules live in the protocol.
A contestable map means something only if the contest is real.
The contracts passed an independent audit
The on-chain packages passed an independent security audit. No critical or high findings remain.
Full numbers: 30 total findings, 15 fixed, 0 critical or high remaining.
Three fixes are in production:
- A revoked capability could previously still authorize some mutations. That check is now enforced everywhere.
- An admin removal path could leave visual-layer data orphaned. That cleanup path is now complete.
- The second-wallet workaround for defending your price has been replaced with explicit Bump Price and Drop Price controls.
You can read the current status in Status.
What changed recently
- Prices now show in your local currency. No more mental conversion from SUI.
- The map opens near you. You start somewhere familiar.
- Blockchain errors now surface properly. If a transaction fails, you see the real reason.
- The visual-layer editor is live. You can name and decorate your territory with text, drawing, and images.
- POI proposals are live. You can propose a café, monument, or landmark on someone else's block-level parcel and back the proposal with payment.
What you can do on the map now
You don't need to read the yellowpaper. Here's the shortest path:
- Open the map.
- Explore without connecting a wallet.
- Connect when you want to act.
- Draw your first parcel.
- Name it and publish the visual layer.
If you already own a parcel, more options open immediately.
Raise the price to defend it. Lower it to attract a buyer. Expand into open land, take a slice from a neighbor, or hold a large territory and collect from activity below it.
If you don't own a parcel, you can still propose a point of interest inside one — a monument, café, or local landmark — and pay to have it considered.
This is where merca.earth stops being a static registry.
You claim a place, shape how it looks, watch someone contest it, defend it, lose it, or get paid. The map keeps the record.
Two things to know before you spend money
This is not real estate. You hold a contestable claim on the map and its visual layer — not legal rights over physical land.
It is also not fully decentralized. The team controls the treasury, holds upgrade authority, and can pause high-impact market operations in an emergency. All of this is documented in Treasury & Admin.
Read Risk Disclosure and Status before you commit funds.
The map works. People are claiming, challenging, getting paid, and defending territory.
Start here: Getting Started.