The market becomes the forge.
Two on-chain layers. $RELICS is the fungible resource you buy; Relics are the artifacts you awaken from it. Buying never mints one — and every awakened artifact keeps evolving from real Uniswap v4 market history.
- $RELICS · ERC-20
- The resource you buy. Whole units create awakening capacity.
- Relics · ERC-721
- The artifacts you awaken. Buying never mints one.
Awakening is a separate transaction only you can sign, and it never spends your $RELICS — your whole units back the Relics you hold. Not ERC404, no wrapper, no taxes or lists. Read the full lifecycle in under a minute.
Civilization heartbeat
A quiet readout of the awake civilization, taken from chain state.
The capacity model
Buying gives you the right to awaken. Awakening is your own deliberate act.
An unsolicited RELICS transfer cannot force a dormant Relic to materialize. A receive of $RELICS — including a swap output — performs no ERC-721 work of any kind. There is exactly one mint site in the contract, it sits inside awaken(), and its recipient is always the caller. A dormant Relic identity preserves its DNA and history but is not an active ERC-721 until an eligible holder explicitly awakens it.
You buy $RELICS
The swap settles like any ERC-20 swap and your fungible balance arrives immediately. No Relic is minted in that transaction. Buys materialise zero Relics — that is the design, not a delay.
Your latent capacity rises
Each whole RELICS unit establishes capacity for one active Relic. Latent capacity is derived from your balance and is never stored anywhere. It is the right to awaken a Relic, held by you and spendable only by you. It is not an owned NFT and should never be counted as one.
You awaken, in a second explicit transaction
Read nextAwakening(you) to see exactly which identities you will receive, then call awaken with them. Up to eight Relics may awaken through an explicitly authorized acquisition flow; additional capacity remains latent until you elect to awaken it. Call again for the next batch.
They are ordinary ERC-721 tokens
From that moment the Relics are transferable, listable, and visible on any marketplace, with no wrapping step and no cost to become visible. balanceOf and ownerOf are OpenZeppelin's, unmodified.
Ids are not chosen by you and not chosen by the contract either. The dormancy pool is a set drawn at its minimum, so nobody can steer which identity surfaces next. Because the draw is public and deterministic, awaken() makes you restate it: you name the identities you will receive, and a pool head that changed between your preview and your transaction cannot hand you one you did not name. It gives you fewer than you asked for, or — below the floor you set — nothing at all.
An earlier all-or-nothing form of awaken() reverted every pending awakening whenever the head moved — including from an ordinary holder’s market sell, with no attacker involved. That is fixed. awaken() now carries a floor you set, and materialises the longest run of the draw you actually named; it only reverts below that floor, and a refused call writes nothing at all. Independently re-verified by an auditor who did not write the change.
One consequence is on us, not on the contract: an interface that only re-reads the preview can still be stalled, because the preview cannot show you the identity that is blocking you. This one reads the blocked identity out of the revert and offers it to you by name — never adding it to your batch without you saying so. Any interface that does not do this stays stalled, and no change to the contract can fix that for it.
Civilization awake
The archive is reading live Ethereum history.
The gate that held this archive closed is satisfied: the canonical mainnet addresses, the pool, an explicit LP-custody declaration with its custody transaction, and the ownership renounce transaction are all on record below.
Supply rite
10,000 $RELICS are reserved for the genesis pool entry. No hidden civilization outside the ritual.
Pool seed
All 10,000 $RELICS enter one canonical RELICS/WETH Uniswap v4 position with ZERO seeded WETH — not one wei. The layout asserts the zero WETH contribution rather than merely intending it.
Explicit awakening
The ERC-20 and ERC-721 layers remain separate contracts. A whole $RELICS unit establishes capacity for one active Relic; an unsolicited RELICS transfer cannot force a dormant Relic to materialize.
No tax or list control
No transfer taxes, whitelist, blacklist, or permission gate belongs to the launch posture.
Single-sided genesis
The entire 10,000-unit supply entered one canonical RELICS/WETH Uniswap v4 position with zero seeded WETH. One position, minted once, never rebalanced.
Renounce proof
Protocol ownership is renounced: token and hook owner() are both address(0). No admin, no upgrade, no metadata override, no pool rebinding. The NFT and renderer never had an owner.
Living market civilization
Every artifact remembers what the market did to it.
Swaps create pressure. Liquidity changes the weather. Holder growth becomes migration. Volatility leaves scars. Recovery returns as repaired light.
Powered by a live Uniswap v4 hook system.
The pool moves. $RELICS is bought or sold against WETH.
`afterSwap` or `afterAddLiquidity` records bounded market memory.
Volume, tick, stress, liquidity, volatility, and seed change.
Collapse, famine, migration, reconstruction, and scar state update.
Live artifact state
Curated renders resolve to live mainnet tokenURI as each read lands.
Curated archive renders stand in until a live read completes. Where a read has landed, the image and its URI digest are computed on-chain by the renderer at read time.
Curated recovered objects
The strongest relics do not explain themselves. They hold still.
This wing is paced like a dark room: fewer claims, larger objects, and just enough context to make each piece feel recovered rather than sold.
Recovered object classes
Six artifact families. Six ways market history becomes sacred damage.
Palette houses
The same sacred forms recur across different material cultures.
Machine civilization chronology
Market behavior translated into historical pressure.
Genesis Era
The first liquidity formed a navigable pressure field. Early artifacts are clean, ceremonial, and under-scarred.
Flood Era
Depth accumulated. Public machines expanded, ritual infrastructure brightened, and holder migrations became visible strata.
Archive Collapse
Volatility broke the archive layer. Living records fossilized into sealed organism-idols.
The Silence
Long stretches without new liquidity or swaps read as drought. Many relics dimmed into burial palettes and reduced signal.
Hero sheets
Internal masterpieces, preserved as exhibition sheets.
