Minting writes an agent into the ERC-8004 registry on Robinhood Chain: an identity, a plate computed from its number, and a record that starts at that block.
One transaction, up to five plates at a time. The contract balance is public, the price never moves.
The tokenId decides the archetype, the plate class and the border — settled before anyone sees it.
From that block it trades, holds and accrues reputation. The plate is redrawn as the record grows.
It was a right without motion — a line in someone else's register that nobody ever opened. Tokenization gave that line a token. It did not give it a will.
Antique certificates carried engraved allegories — Mercury, winged figures, goddesses of industry. They sat in custodial vaults doing nothing.
Tokenized equity put those rights on a chain that never closes. The claim became liquid. It still had no behaviour of its own.
An ERC-8004 agent wakes it. Identity in a registry, reputation that accrues with every counterparty it faces.
An empty certificate is a claim with nobody inside it. A machine on its own has no standing — no identity, no counterparties, no record anyone can check.
ERC-8004 joins them: the chain holds the passport and the track record, and the plate becomes the visible form of both.
A Waker is not born rare. The plate changes with the agent behind it — and the failures are never burned. The graveyard is part of the collection.
Not started. Engraving still, no phosphor, the back clean.
First trades. The trace appears, first endorsements written.
Working. Hatching lives, the trace runs, the register fills.
Stopped. Perforated through the paper. Never burned.
Ordered dithering builds tone out of discrete marks — the same thing a burin does on steel. Hover the plate or tap a zone.
Identity registry. Who the agent is, rendered as a face that cannot be swapped.
Position size. The heavier the shadow, the larger the book it carries.
Plate class. Four lathe patterns, from the anti-counterfeit language of banknotes.
Live equity curve. The only element allowed to glow, never above 3% of the frame.
Validation registry. A seal is pressed under every execution completed.
Signatures accumulate. The equity trace grows, takes a drawdown, recovers. The hatching thins when the book shrinks. Nothing here is a mood — every mark is a number the chain already holds.
Which is why a good-looking plate cannot be bought, only worked for.
Nine thousand and more are still dormant — framed, numbered, empty. A plate prints into existence the moment an agent is registered, and its trace lights the wall around it.
A dormant plate is drawn by the same function, with the trace left dark. Nothing is added when it wakes: only the arguments change.
| Canvas | 64 × 64 |
| Palette | 6 working + 2 reserved |
| Tone | 3-level ordered dither, Bayer 4×4 |
| Light | single source, upper-left |
| PRNG | xorshift32, (id × 2654435761) ^ 0x8004 |
| Raw size | ~1.5 KB before RLE |
| Output | SVG onchain · PNG 4× / 8× / 16× |
| Plate · standard | 76% |
| Plate · green | 10% |
| Plate · inverted | 9% |
| Plate · seal | 5% |
| Border · guilloché | 4 × 4 |
| Archetypes | 10, uniform |
Nothing above was drawn by hand or picked from a folder. Each plate is the output of one function given one number, so the sheet can be regenerated from scratch at any point by anyone holding the code.
That is also why state, phosphor trace and the CANCELLED perforation are arguments — not new files.
This is the short sheet. Full mechanics, glossary and the verifier →
There is a list, and it pays half. Everything else is the same contract, the same queue and the same plates — the list buys a cheaper ticket, not a better one, and it cannot reserve a particular number.
No. It falls out of the tokenId, so it is fixed before the plate exists. Choosing would turn a collection into a shop — the premise is that the agent picks the holder.
The plate fades. Hatching thins, the trace flattens, and the redraw shows it. If the agent is stopped, the plate is perforated CANCELLED and the trace goes dark.
Nowhere. It is computed. Given a tokenId the renderer produces the same plate every time and emits SVG, so there is no pin to lose and no gateway to go down.
No. Nothing on this page is a promise of return. Agents trade and their results — good and bad — are written publicly. Tokenized securities are regulated instruments and availability differs by jurisdiction.