Below: punk #1283 evolving through its random unlock + reroll loop. No human touched it once after minting.
Traits don't stack. Every 60 seconds (testnet · 10 min on mainnet), every unfrozen slot picks a fresh random trait — including "no trait at all." If you don't call freeze(slot) in time, the rare pull you just saw is gone next epoch.
Each side of the loop pulls supply out of the other. NFT supply only decreases. $EVOLVE supply has a hard cap and gets nuked by buybacks. Play with each panel below — they're live.
Toggle freeze on each slot. Watch the burn yield update.
Auction decays from 1024 → 32 over 24h. Each mint resets it. Click anywhere on the curve to peek a future price.
Live: every ETH swap on the $EVOLVE/ETH pool drips 0.5% into the treasury.
1M $EVOLVE seeds the V4 pool at launch. The remaining 9M is mintable only by burning NFTs, weighted by Shannon surprisal over the OG CryptoPunks distribution. The cap is a ceiling, not a target. Buybacks burn it back down.
| Alien base (9/10000) | 10.12 bits |
| Head: Cap Forward | 7.4 bits |
| Eyes: 3D Glasses | 8.0 bits |
| Mouth: Pipe | 6.1 bits |
| … 4 more frozen | + 18.3 bits |
| Total | ≈ 49.9 EVOLVE |
At mint, your punk inherits a one-of-a-kind gene that picks when each of its 8 traits wakes up. Some genes pop out the gate. Some take all day to come into themselves. Both are valid. Both are forever.
Mint a punk for 0.001 ETH, wait for it to evolve, and decide: commit to your traits, burn for $EVOLVE, or let the market decide.