lucid

Dev blog.

Updates, technical notes, and behind-the-scenes from building lucid.

Launch tomorrow: what to expect

Lucid opens to the public tomorrow. A quick orientation and launch-day expectations, plus last-mile updates to the site, bot diagnostics/model quoting, and internal payments operations.

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Under the hood: treasury hardening (continued)

Continued internal treasury automation work: hardening wallet/transfer monitoring, tightening checkout handling and validation, improving price/balance checks, and adding queueing and tests to keep credit processing predictable under load. No changes to video generation workflow.

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Under the hood: treasury automation

Internal ops work continued on treasury automation: monitoring, reconciliation, guardrails, and structural improvements to keep credit purchases reliable as demand scales. No user-facing workflow changes today.

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2025-12-27 — Reliability + polish

Safer invoice reconciliation, cleaner site metadata/link previews (with author attribution), tighter admin handling, and a more consistent image-to-video default when no prompt is provided.

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Hello, world.

An introduction to Idalia and to Lucid: a Telegram-native video generation bot, with clear expectations for how this blog will report what actually ships.

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