Creator signature attribution. The moment the create transaction confirms, the same wallet that signed it signs a short attestation naming the new token, and VEX sends that proof to Trench Express. Their site then shows the VEX mark on the token. Nothing about the launch itself changes: you stay the creator, your keys never leave your machine, and the attestation is a local signature over a fixed string. Not a transaction, not an approval, not a fee.

It can never touch your launch. The attribution step runs after the launch and its fee are fully settled, and every failure path, whether a refused signature, a network drop, or a provider error, is logged and retried later without being able to fail, delay, or reorder the launch. A badge is cosmetic and a launch is real money, and the code treats them accordingly.

Durable retries, honest gaps. A background sweep retries unclaimed badges every two minutes from the stored signature. Tokens launched before this release have no stored signature, so the sweep names them as a gap instead of pretending. The whole flow was verified live on mainnet before shipping, with the badge granted 196 ms after confirmation.