THE RULES OF THE ARCHIVE
Everything below is enforced by the contracts. The website only reads it.
Buy UNKNOWN from the Uniswap v4 pool. Every 50,000,000 UNKNOWN you hold backs one Sign, which appears sealed in your wallet. Reveal it (2,000,000 UNKNOWN fee, burned) and the contract carves its glyph and rolls its traits from a future block hash.
If your balance drops below the backing, Signs dissolve: destroyed, no payout.
Token ids 1 to 999. Never more, never reused. When id #999 is created the contract sets soldOut and awakened in the same transaction and emits SoldOut and AwakeningTriggered. No website can fake or trigger it.
999 counts Signs ever discovered. SIGNS REMAINING counts the ones still alive.
The hook takes 2% of every swap in ETH.
| HOLDERS | BURN VAULT | OFFICIAL | BUYBACK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DISCOVERY | 75% | 20% | 3% | 2% |
| AWAKENED | 55% | 40% | 3% | 2% |
Holder fees are shared by revealed Signs by rarity score. Every wei has one accounting bucket.
After the Awakening, market cap milestones unlock Burn Tiers: $35K, $70K, $100K, $150K, $250K. The market cap is the pool's 30 minute TWAP price (and never more than spot) times the supply, converted with Chainlink ETH/USD. Unlocked tiers never relock.
At each unlock, the contract moves a fixed slice of the unallocated Burn Vault (10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%) into a new pool and freezes the total burn weight of revealed, living Signs. That pool can never pay more than it holds, and later fees never grow it.
Burning pays you, for every pool you were counted in: pool × yourWeight ÷ poolWeight. Order does not matter. Waiting can add pools; it never shrinks the ones you have.
Burning destroys the Sign permanently. The id is gone, it stops counting as a remaining Sign, the burn is recorded on-chain and SignBurned is emitted. You keep your UNKNOWN tokens, and any unclaimed holder fees are paid with the burn.
Scarcity increases as Signs disappear. Higher milestones can create larger pools. Rarity sets burn weight. None of this guarantees the market value of a Sign or of UNKNOWN; the market sets that. Estimates on this site are estimates until a transaction executes.