TRADER BABIES
3000 pixel babies. Minting burns the token, staking pays ETH from a pool that is paid every hour.
Three things point at one token. Minting burns it. Powering up a baby burns more of it. The only thing that pays anything out is the ETH pool in the vault, and only a staked baby can claim from it.
The pool is paid every hour, in ETH: the desk sends what its trading earns, and every token the team has launched on Pons can route its fees in. An hour that earned nothing pays nothing, and the vault balance is public.
The mint payment goes straight to 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD. The NFT contract never holds it, so there is nothing to sweep and nothing to withdraw. Burned tokens do not come back.
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where the token goes
THREE SINKS, ONE TOKEN
Two of these destroy $TBABY and the third is the only thing that pays out. That is the entire economy, and it is worth reading once before you touch anything.
Every mint charges $1.50 worth of $TBABY at the price the keeper has pushed on chain, and sends it to the dead address. The contract never takes custody of it. There are 3000 babies and then this sink closes for good.
one time, capped at 3000
Burn more $TBABY against a baby and its power goes up. This one has no cap and no deadline. The power you buy is permanent and it stays attached to that token id, so it survives unstaking and it moves with the NFT if you sell it.
any time, no cap
Desk profits, Pons launch fees and royalties land in the vault as ETH, paid in every hour. It is split across staked babies by power, so a baby with twice the power takes twice the share. A baby sitting in your wallet earns nothing.
paid in eth, every hour
power(id) = baseWeight(id) + bonusPower(id). baseWeight is 1, 2, 4 or 8 from the rarity tier and is fixed at mint. bonusPower is floor(tokensBurned(id) / POWER_UNIT), permanent, uncapped, and it follows the NFT.
the loop
MINT, STAKE, POWER UP, CLAIM
Four steps. You can stop after any of them, and nothing after step one is required.
MINT
Approve $TBABY, pick a quantity, mint. The contract quotes the token cost of $1.50 at the current on chain price and burns exactly that. Up to 20 per wallet.
STAKE
Send the baby into the vault. It records the power that baby has at that moment and starts accruing from the pool. Take it back whenever you want.
POWER UP
Burn more $TBABY against a baby to raise its share. If it is already staked the vault settles what you are owed first, so a power up can never back claim rewards earned at the old weight.
CLAIM
Claim pays out your share of the ETH sitting in the vault. Unstaking does not cost you the bonus power you bought, it stays on the token id.
the art
3000 PIXEL BABIES
Generated from a 201 trait, 10 layer set, every one a unique combination, then cut into four tiers at 1800 common, 750 rare, 300 epic and 150 legendary. There is no reveal. The art is public from the first mint. These six are real ids, picked at random.
Real ids from the generated set, tiers straight from the packed rarity table the contract ships. The collection page samples twelve more and can shuffle through all 3000.
where the eth comes from
THE BABIES PAY ETH EVERY HOUR
Everything that reaches the vault is plain ETH. Three lines pay into it, and it is paid every hour.
The team trades on this chain and sends what that trading earns to the vault as plain ETH, every hour. An hour that earned nothing sends nothing, and every send is a public transfer you can watch land at the vault address.
plain eth, every hour
Every token the team has launched on Pons earns creator fees, and any of them can route those fees into the same vault with the same plain send. Each new launch is one more line paying the babies.
creator fees, routed in
7% of every secondary sale is collected through EIP-2981, and the pool is paid its share. Marketplaces that honour the standard pay it automatically. The standard cannot force the ones that do not.
7% of secondary sales
To be exact about what is code and what is not: the NFT and the vault do not trade anything. They mint, stake, split and pay. The desk and the fee routing are operations the team runs, and the proof they ran is the ETH arriving at the vault address on chain. Only staked babies split what arrives.