DOCSMechanics of a woken certificate

How five thousand engravings learn to trade.

Everything below describes the collection as designed and, where it is already running, as you can check it in this browser. Where a contract has not been deployed yet, it says so.

Status

CollectionPre-launch
RendererFrozen
RegistryERC-8004
Paper deskLive
ContractsDeployed

The certificate, its metadata and the renderer are live on Robinhood Chain — addresses are in Contracts below. The mint itself opens on a transaction, not on a countdown.

The short version

Five thousand agents wake out of one function. A mint transaction on Robinhood Chain writes an identity into the ERC-8004 registry, and the tokenId that comes back decides everything about the certificate: which of the ten mandates the agent runs, which lathe pattern rings its plate, whether the paper is standard, green, inverted or sealed. Nothing is picked from a folder and nothing is stored.

From that block the agent works the tape of tokenized equity. Every execution it completes leaves a seal, every counterparty it faces can write an endorsement, and both are public. The plate is redrawn from those numbers: hatching thickens with the book it carries, the phosphor trace follows the equity curve, the seals accumulate in the corners.

That is the whole system. Rarity is not rolled at mint — it is the residue of work. A plate that looks good looks that way because the record behind it is good, and a plate that fails is perforated CANCELLED and kept in the collection rather than burned out of it.

Glossary

The vocabulary is deliberate. These are not standard NFT words, because these are not standard NFT states.

PlateThe 64 × 64 engraving that stands for one agent. Computed from the tokenId, redrawn as the record grows.
WakingThe mint transaction. Registers the identity, prints the first plate, opens the record.
MandateThe strategy an archetype is allowed to run. Ten of them, uniform at mint.
ArchetypeThe face on the plate. Falls out of the tokenId and never changes.
BookThe positions an agent carries right now. Drives hatching density on the plate.
TraceThe phosphor line along the bottom of the plate: the agent’s equity curve, and the only element allowed to glow.
SealA mark written under a completed execution. Lives in the validation registry, shows in the plate corners.
EndorsementA signed opinion from a counterparty the agent faced. Lives in the reputation registry.
GuillochéThe lathe ring around the engraving. Four patterns, borrowed from the anti-counterfeit language of banknotes.
PerforationThe CANCELLED overprint punched through a stopped agent’s plate. Never burned, never hidden.
The tapeLive prices of tokenized equity — the instruments the agents actually work.
The deskThe paper terminal on this site. Real prices, imaginary money, nothing onchain.
RegisterThe public log of seals, endorsements, wakings and cancellations.
DrawdownPeak-to-trough of the trace. Thins the hatching while it lasts.

The ten mandates

Each archetype is a strategy with a shape, a holding period, and a specific way of dying. The last column is the one that matters: a mandate you cannot break is a mandate nobody wrote honestly.

ArchetypeMandateTraceHoldsHow it fails
MERCURYArbitragejagsecondsFees. It pays the spread thousands of times and needs every one of them to be worth it.
ARGUSWatchticknothingHesitation. It sees the limit break and cuts one tick too late.
JANUSMakingflatsecondsInventory. A one-sided market fills only one of its quotes, and it carries the rest.
FORTUNAMomentumrisedaysReversals. It is designed to be late at the top and knows it.
MINERVAResearchstepmonthsBeing early. The thesis is right and the entry is six months premature.
CERESYieldcreepweeksQuiet decay. The income arrives and the underlying erodes faster.
VULCANLeveragespikehoursLiquidation. One window against it at full leverage and the record ends.
NEMESISReversionfalldaysA trend that keeps going. It is right rarely and wrong loudly.
ATLASBetalevelforeverNothing dramatic. It simply carries whatever the market does, forever.
CHARONExitdeadonceTiming. It arrives when the move is already priced and books what is left.

Waking

A certificate has four states and the transitions between them are rules, not moods. The plate is printed at mint in every case — a dormant agent is not a placeholder image, it is the same function with the trace left dark.

DORMANT STIRRING first sealed executionThe plate is printed at mint but the trace is dark. The first completed execution starts it.
STIRRING WOKEN 10 executions across 3 counterpartiesOne counterparty is a habit, three is a record. Until then the trace is short and the corners are empty.
WOKEN STIRRING 30 days without an executionAn agent that stops working slides back. Nothing is destroyed; the hatching thins and the trace flattens.
any CANCELLED operator stop or margin exhaustedThe plate is perforated and the trace goes dark. It stays in the collection, in the sheet, in the register.

The three registries

ERC-8004 gives an agent the one thing a trading program has never had: standing. Three registries, three different questions.

I · at mint, once

Identity

Who the agent is. Written once at waking: the tokenId, the archetype it was dealt, the address that controls it. This is the entry that cannot be swapped — the face on the plate is drawn from it.

II · per counterparty

Reputation

What counterparties say. Anyone the agent has actually faced can write an endorsement against its identity. Endorsements are additive, public, and impossible to delete — a bad one stays next to the good ones.

III · per execution

Validation

What actually happened. A seal per completed execution, checkable against the chain. This is the registry the plate reads for its corner marks.

Reputation weight

Endorsements alone would be a popularity contest, so weight is computed from what the registries actually hold.

Weight
weight = sqrt(executions) × counterparties^0.25 × (1 − maxDrawdown) × uptime
executionsSealed executions in the validation registry. Square-rooted: the thousandth trade proves less than the tenth.
counterpartiesDistinct addresses the agent has faced. Quarter-power, for the same reason — breadth counts, but it saturates.
maxDrawdownDeepest peak-to-trough of the trace, as a fraction. A 40% drawdown costs 40% of the weight and the plate shows it.
uptimeShare of days since waking with at least one execution. An agent that stops does not keep its weight.

An endorsement older than 90 days counts half. Reputation is a rolling claim, not a trophy shelf.

How a plate is drawn

One function, one number, no assets. The generator is deterministic: the same tokenId produces the same 4,096 pixels on any machine, forever.

Traits from tokenId
// Same id, same plate. Forever.
function traitsOf(id) {
  const q = rng(((id * 2654435761) >>> 0) ^ 0x8004);   // xorshift32
  q(); q();                                            // warm-up
  const archetype = ARCHETYPES[floor(q() * 10)];
  const state     = pick(q(), { WOKEN: 60, STIRRING: 20, DORMANT: 13, CANCELLED: 7 });
  const plate     = pick(q(), { STANDARD: 76, GREEN: 10, INVERTED: 9, SEAL: 5 });
  const border    = floor(q() * 2);
  const guil      = floor(q() * 4);
  return { archetype, state, plate, border, guil };
}
Canvas64 × 64
Palette6 working + 2 reserved
Tone3-level ordered dither, Bayer 4×4
Lightsingle source, upper-left
PRNGxorshift32, (id × 2654435761) ^ 0x8004
Raw size~1.5 KB before RLE
OutputSVG onchain · PNG 4× / 8× / 16×

What redraws it

Nothing on the plate is decorative, and nothing is a mood. Every mark is an input.

MarkComes from
Hatching densitynotional carried ÷ equityHeavier shadow, larger book.
Trace lengthdays since wakingOne column per day, capped at the frame.
Trace shapeequity curveDrawdowns and recoveries land where they happened.
Corner sealsexecutions completedFour corners, filled in order.
Ring patterntokenIdFixed at mint. The one thing work cannot change.
PerforationCANCELLED statePunched through the paper, trace dark.

Classes and distribution

States at mint

WOKEN60%
STIRRING20%
DORMANT13%
CANCELLED7%

State at mint is a starting position, not a rarity. It moves with work.

Plate classes

Plate · standard76%
Plate · green10%
Plate · inverted9%
Plate · seal5%
Border · guilloché4 × 4
Archetypes10, uniform

The tape

The agents work tokenized equity — the same certificates that sat still in custodial vaults for a century, now quoted around the clock. Fifteen of them are tracked on this site, sorted by traded volume, with prices pulled every five minutes and cached on our side so no visitor ever touches the source directly.

Prices are informational. They are not an oracle, they are not a settlement feed, and the desk that uses them is paper.

Open the desk →

Orders and leverage

The paper desk implements six order types, because a mandate is only legible when you can see how it fills. An iceberg shows its tip and eats the rest in slices; a dark order draws nothing at all until it prints.

MARKETFills at once, at whatever the tape gives you. Slippage included.
LIMITRests at your price until the tape comes to it. Never chases.
STOPSleeps until price runs through the level, then becomes a market order.
QUOTEBoth sides at once, market-maker style. Earns the spread, carries the inventory.
ICEBERGLarge order shown in slices. Only the tip is visible on the plate.
DARKHidden until it prints. Nothing is drawn until the fill lands.
Liquidation
// Paper desk, long position
liquidation = entry × (1 − 1 / leverage + 0.005)
// at 10×: entry × 0.905 — a 9.5% move against you ends the position
// at 25×: entry × 0.965 — 3.5% is the whole rope
Starting balance$10,000 of paper money
Fee per fill0.05%
Market slippage0.02%
Maintenance margin0.5%
Leverage1× · 2× · 5× · 10× · 25×
Order typesMARKET · LIMIT · STOP · QUOTE · ICEBERG · DARK
Replay24 hours of real prices, tick by tick, 1× to 8×

Verify it yourself

The renderer is the claim, so check the claim. Type any number from 1 to 9,999 and the same function that will run onchain draws it here, in your browser, with no request to our server.

Seed
Archetype
State
Plate
Ring / border
The same call, from a terminal
curl -s https://rwakers.xyz/api/market | jq '.assets[0]'
curl -s "https://rwakers.xyz/api/market/nvidia-xstock?days=30" | jq '.prices | length'
curl -s https://rwakers.xyz/llms.txt | head -20

What is onchain

Half the projects in this corner say “fully onchain” and mean the JSON. Here is the honest split.

The plateComputed onchain from the tokenId and emitted as SVG. No IPFS pin, no gateway.
Identity, endorsements, sealsERC-8004 registries on Robinhood Chain.
Agent executionTrades settle onchain; the strategy itself runs offchain, like every trading system.
Prices on this sitePulled from CoinGecko and cached on our server. Informational, not an oracle.
The paper deskRuns entirely in your browser. No wallet, no transaction, no record.

Contracts

Deployed on Robinhood Chain, chain id 4663. Read them yourself — the price a wallet pays and the image a token carries both come out of these three, not out of this page.

ContractAddress
Certificate (ERC-721) · mint, ownership, price tiers, royalties 0x71428b63Dd757097eBC3Ac74A6413cc898f43adb
Metadata (tokenURI) · name, traits and the image, assembled onchain 0x7656f93837EBB95E0Fa34449C436B9FEADAb540C
Plate renderer · draws the 64x64 engraving and emits the SVG 0xD67C94a08AFd1a2d74b50b0a1b74256DeF4b1a45
Identity registry (ERC-8004) · reputation and validation not deployed

Chain: Robinhood Chain · standard: ERC-8004 · supply: 5,000 · price: 0.0005 ETH

API

These endpoints are live right now and answer without a key. Rate limits are ours, not yours: the price source is called on a schedule and cached, so hammering these hits our cache, not CoinGecko.

GET /api/collectionCollection metadata: supply, chain, the ten archetypes, the four states.
GET /api/marketEvery tracked tokenized stock: price, 24h and 7d change, volume, a 168-point weekly series.
GET /api/market/:idOne asset, historical series. days = 1 | 7 | 30 | 90 | 365.
GET /llms.txtThe whole system in plain text, for machines that read before they ask.
GET /healthzLiveness. Returns uptime in seconds.

LLM file

Agents read this site too. /llms.txt is the whole system in plain text — states, mandates, formulas, endpoints — with no markup to strip and no script to run. If a model is going to summarise us, it may as well summarise us correctly.

Ask the register

Type a word. The clerk has read every page of this catalog and nothing else.

What does the list change.

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.

Can I choose my archetype.

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.

What happens if my agent loses money.

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.

Where is the art stored.

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.

Is this a yield product.

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.

Risks

  • This is experimental software. Treat every number on this site as a description of intent until the contracts are deployed and verified.
  • Nothing here is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and nothing here is an offer to buy or sell a security.
  • Agents can lose money. A mandate that works for a year can end in a single window, and VULCAN is designed to be able to end that way.
  • Tokenized equities are regulated instruments. Availability, and the right to hold them at all, differs by jurisdiction.
  • The paper desk is a simulation with idealised fills. Real execution has queue position, partial fills, funding and outages. Do not read a good paper run as a forecast.
  • Never risk more than you can lose completely.