HOW A NONYM
WORKS

When you mint, the contract rolls a 96-bit number and writes it into storage forever. That number decides four things — your race, your hat, your mask and your suit. Nobody, including us, can change them afterwards.

RACE

HUMANOID

HAT

HELMET

MASK

FANGS

SUIT

HOODIE

ROLL ANOTHER

Traits are weighted, not uniform. HUMAN lands on one token in five; FACELESS, ANGEL and DEVIL are the hardest pulls in the race slot. Here is the full spread — the shorter the bar, the rarer the trait.

Every time a token changes hands on the secondary market — an OpenSea sale, a bid taken, a plain wallet-to-wallet transfer — the contract counts it. At four thresholds the palette shifts and the face changes.

NORMAL

0 transfers

TOUCHED

1+ transfers

WORN

10+ transfers

MARKED

20+ transfers

ASCENDED

50+ transfers

ANOTHER

This is the part nobody controls. A quiet token stays quiet. A heavily-traded one becomes visibly heavily-traded, and its history is legible in the artwork itself rather than buried in a transaction list.

↳ Minting does not count — a fresh token starts at zero. Only real transfers between wallets increment the counter.

Every token carries a rarity score — the four trait weights added together. The rarer each piece, the higher the number. That score falls into one of five grades, and both of them ship inside the metadata so marketplaces can sort by it.

Here is the part that matters: the grade is never stored. It is recalculated from your token's current traits every time anyone reads it. Change a trait and the grade changes with it — which is exactly what the next section is for.

↳ Grade is independent of STATE. A COMMON token can be ASCENDED, and a LEGENDARY one can still be sitting at zero transfers. They measure different things: what you were born with versus what the market did to you.

MOTION happens to you. IMPRINT is the one you choose. If you hold two A NONYM, you can graft a single trait from one onto the other, permanently.

GRAFT RACEGRAFT HATGRAFT MASKGRAFT SUIT

YOUR TOKEN #412

FANGS

+

DONOR #2891

THIRD EYE

→

#412 AFTER

THIRD EYE

COMMON → RARErarity score 831 → 1115 · UPGRADE

This turns the floor into an organ market. A cheap token carrying one rare trait is worth more as a donor than as a token. And because grade is recomputed rather than stored, a patient collector can build a LEGENDARY out of four cheap donors — the only cost is $ANON and time.

↳ Grafting leaves no mark on the pixels. The only record is the GRAFTS number in the metadata, so an edited token is never visually damaged — it just reads differently.

↳ Every graft permanently shrinks the $ANON supply. Naming burns too, and ASCEND burns whole tokens — nothing in the system mints any of it back.

Three smaller mechanics. Each one costs something real and none of it comes back.

LINEAGE turns a used donor into a record instead of a husk. Ten grafts makes it a PROGENITOR, fifty makes it an ANCESTOR, and the count sits in the metadata for anyone to read. A token that shaped a dozen others has a history no fresh mint can buy.

ASCEND burns two tokens you own to promote a third by one grade. This is the only mechanic that reduces the collection itself — those two tokens are gone. Capped at one bought grade per token, so it can never be farmed into a wall of LEGENDARY.

↳ Marketplaces cache metadata. After naming, hit Refresh metadata on the item page to see the new title — that is their cache, not the chain.

Stake an A NONYM and it earns $ANON every day. The rate follows the token's rarity grade, so a LEGENDARY earns three times what a COMMON does — and because ASCEND promotes a grade, promoting a token also raises what it earns.

Your token never leaves your wallet. Nothing is locked or transferred — the contract only records that it is earning. So your art never ages from staking, and you keep your place on the ETH rewards leaderboard.

Holders are paid in real ether, never in $ANON — nothing is minted to pay you. The pool is topped up by hand, and its balance is public at every moment.

Sealed while the mint is live. Sell-out unlocks it, then the team opens the first round — once, and it can never be closed again. After that the pool pays the ten largest holders in proportion to what they hold, straight to their wallets. You never sign anything.

Every NFT minted emits 100 $ANON to the minter — the only way the emission bucket ever releases a token. Spend them on the imprint ritual, on naming, or hold them. Staking pays them out too.

Hard cap 1,700,000, enforced inside the transfer function itself. Staking's share came out of liquidity, not out of a raised cap. The zero next to TEAM is not a promise in a document — AnonToken.sol has no code that could mint outside those three buckets.

↳ Supply only ever goes down after that. Each imprint burns 250 $ANON and nothing mints it back.