README and STATUS: launched 2026-10-17 at openvibe.vip, checkout open since the Billing cutover (#64)

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iindex bf716be..a89a253 100644
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@@@ -2,11 +2,9 @@
  
  > Memberships: plans, perks and benefits recognised across every OpenVibe site.
  
--**Status:** alpha — runtime built and tested (roadmap Wave 10). Deployed internally, **not launched**:
--it runs on the host since 2026-09-23 on `127.0.0.1:4620` only, holding the Live import (on 2026-09-24:
--44 creators, 43 plans, 0 memberships), with checkout closed. `openvibe.vip` keeps its
--[OpenVibe.Sites](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.Sites) placeholder until the launch rule
--below holds.  
++**Status:** alpha — **launched 2026-10-17** at [openvibe.vip](https://openvibe.vip) (openvibe-contracts 0.200.0),
++right after the Billing cutover made OpenVibe.Billing the money ledger. Checkout is open (PowerChat and Vibes credit);
++the 43 plans imported from Live are on sale, with no memberships sold yet. It runs on the host since 2026-09-23.  
  **Domain:** `openvibe.vip` (port 4620, service id `vip`)  
  **Decision:** [ADR-012](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.Contracts/blob/main/docs/adr/ADR-012-economic-classification.md) —
  Billing holds the entitlement truth; VIP holds plans and perks.  
@@@ -93,10 +91,10 @@ fnm exec --using=22.22.1 npm test    # every test/*.test.js: stub Network + Bill
  node scripts/subscribe.js            # create the three Events subscriptions for Billing's events
  ```
  
--Production (deployed, loopback only): `/opt/openvibe.vip`, env `/etc/openvibe/vip.env`, unit
--[deploy/systemd/openvibe-vip.service](deploy/systemd/openvibe-vip.service).
--The vhost [deploy/nginx/openvibe.vip.conf](deploy/nginx/openvibe.vip.conf) is not installed yet:
--`openvibe.vip` still serves the Sites placeholder. The three Events subscriptions exist.
++Production: `/opt/openvibe.vip`, env `/etc/openvibe/vip.env`, unit
++[deploy/systemd/openvibe-vip.service](deploy/systemd/openvibe-vip.service), vhost
++[deploy/nginx/openvibe.vip.conf](deploy/nginx/openvibe.vip.conf) (installed 2026-10-17: `openvibe.vip` serves VIP).
++The three Events subscriptions exist.
  
  ## Design
  
@@@ -363,8 +361,8 @@ and deletion in `account_data_events`.
  
  ## Before and after the Billing cutover
  
--Billing runs in shadow mode until the Wave 8 cutover (Live stays authoritative for money,
--`BILLING_AUTHORITY=live`). Until then:
++The cutover happened on 2026-10-17 (`BILLING_AUTHORITY=billing` in Live and Billing): checkout is open
++(`VIP_CHECKOUT_PROVIDERS=powerchat,credit`). What held before it, kept for a rollback:
  
  - keep **checkout closed** (`VIP_CHECKOUT_PROVIDERS=` empty): a subscription sold through Billing
    now would be one Live does not know about. Plan pages say joining is not open yet; the API answers
@@@ -429,8 +427,8 @@ Production deploys with `sudo ovhost deploy vip` on the host (strategy `git-chec
  fast-forward `/opt/openvibe.vip`, install on a lockfile change, restart, wait for `/api/ready`).
  The unit is `openvibe-vip.service` on `127.0.0.1:4620`, the env file `/etc/openvibe/vip.env`. The database is
  `ov_vip` on the host's data role (`sudo /opt/openvibe.host/roles/data/add-service.sh vip` writes its settings); the
--release migrates it at boot. The vhost [deploy/nginx/openvibe.vip.conf](deploy/nginx/openvibe.vip.conf) waits
--for the launch: `openvibe.vip` serves the Sites placeholder.
++release migrates it at boot. The vhost [deploy/nginx/openvibe.vip.conf](deploy/nginx/openvibe.vip.conf) serves
++`openvibe.vip` since the launch (2026-10-17).
  Rollback: ovhost puts the previous sha back by itself when `/api/ready` does not answer 2xx after the
  restart; afterwards `sudo ovhost rollback vip --to <sha>`. One blocker: `idx_vip_rules_resource` (one
  active rule per resource) was replaced by a per-creator unique index, and a release from before it
@@@ -438,21 +436,18 @@ recreates the narrower index, which fails at boot once two creators gate the sam
  
  ## Launch rule
  
--This repository does not make the product real, and the domain keeps its placeholder page on
--[OpenVibers/OpenVibe.Sites](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.Sites) until all of the
--following exist (plan §12.12):
++Held on 2026-10-17, when `openvibe.vip` launched (openvibe-contracts 0.200.0 made VIP `live`; Network stopped parking
++the domain). The rule, as written before the launch (plan §12.12):
  
  1. an owning runtime with health/readiness endpoints and observability — ✔ (`/api/health`, truthful `/api/ready`, `/metrics`);
  2. canonical identity/auth integration (Network subjects, scoped service principals) — ✔; the `vip` principal is provisioned on the host;
  3. server-rendered public routes useful without JavaScript — ✔;
--4. real persistence and end-to-end workflows — ✔ against stubs; not yet against the running Billing and Events (deployed, but Billing is in shadow and checkout is closed);
++4. real persistence and end-to-end workflows — ✔, against the running Billing and Events since the cutover (2026-10-17);
  5. capability and event registration against `OpenVibe.Contracts` — ✔ v0.19.0;
  6. a migration/seed strategy ✔, a security/threat review (notes above; a review by someone else is still due), sitemap/robots ✔ (no feed by design);
  7. acceptance tests proving the advertised functionality — ✔ for VIP itself; cross-product convergence waits for the consumers.
  
--The launch release removes the domain from `OpenVibe.Sites/sites.json`, switches routing and
--registers maturity in the ecosystem registry atomically. A placeholder is never counted as an
--implemented service.
++A placeholder is never counted as an implemented service.
  
  ---
  
ddiff --git a/STATUS.json b/STATUS.json
iindex 4ef5a55..f62ed45 100644
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++++ b/STATUS.json
@@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
    "stage": "alpha",
    "code": true,
    "deployed": true,
--  "deployment": "Deployed internally, not launched: deployed with `sudo ovhost deploy vip`, /opt/openvibe.vip, unit openvibe-vip, 127.0.0.1:4620 loopback only; https://openvibe.vip still serves the OpenVibe.Sites placeholder. Principal vip; three Events subscriptions for Billing's events (secret rotated 2026-09-24); checkout closed (VIP_CHECKOUT_PROVIDERS empty). On 2026-09-24 production held the Live import: 44 creators, 43 plans (one per creator), 0 memberships while Billing runs in shadow.",
++  "deployment": "Launched 2026-10-17 at https://openvibe.vip (openvibe-contracts 0.200.0 made VIP live; vhost deploy/nginx/openvibe.vip.conf installed): deployed with `sudo ovhost deploy vip`, /opt/openvibe.vip, unit openvibe-vip, 127.0.0.1:4620 behind nginx. Principal vip; three Events subscriptions for Billing's events. Checkout open since the Billing cutover (VIP_CHECKOUT_PROVIDERS=powerchat,credit): 43 plans imported from Live, 0 memberships sold on launch day.",
    "contracts": "openvibe-contracts v0.200.0",
    "sdk": "openvibe-sdk v0.50.1",
    "shared": "openvibe-shared v4.3.0",
@@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@
      "crawler and AI-reader artifacts: /llms-full.txt serves the full text of the home, public creator and plan-terms pages (openvibe-shared/seo, cached 3600 s), and IndexNow (openvibe-shared/indexnow, INDEXNOW_KEY) serves its key file at /<key>.txt and pings the creator page, terms page and sitemap when a plan is published, edited or archived"
    ],
    "not_yet": [
--    "not launched: openvibe.vip is still an OpenVibe.Sites placeholder and the service answers on loopback only",
--    "checkout is closed until the Billing cutover (Billing runs in shadow; the owner must re-point the PowerChat webhook first); no billing.* event has reached VIP",
++    "no membership sold yet: the first real purchase through Billing (PowerChat or Vibes credit) is the end-to-end proof still due",
      "Billing sells one channel subscription per member and creator: one purchasable plan per creator, no tiers, no network membership product",
      "revocations reach Chat and Community through vip.membership.changed subscriptions (2026-09-24); Blog and Live still converge by the cache TTL (30-60 s)"
    ],