How Art Stox works

Every artwork is a live portfolio of tokenized stocks. The picture and the position are the same object — so everything that happens to one happens to the other, and you can read a token's whole history off its face.

01 What a token is

One artwork, one portfolio, the same thing.

4,444 maximum. Whitelist mints at 0.001 ETH, public at 0.003, 20 per wallet. Supply only ever falls from there.
At mint it gets 3 to 9 tickers from a single set — Coins pieces are born as a pair, DARTS gets 3 to 7. Ten only becomes possible later, by buying or merging.
Those are market-priced positions, established off Chainlink at the mint block. A piece holds no real stock until someone puts some in.
Every tile in the picture is a letter from a ticker it holds, and how much of the canvas a stock controls tracks its weight in the portfolio.

02 Its traits

Trait	Values
Set	AI Silicon, Hyperscale, Rails, Moonshots, Main Street, Index, Old Money, Coins — each with its own colour family
DARTS ★	~1%. Ignores the set rule and pulls 3–7 at random from everywhere. Mint-only: born-random can never be bred
Ground	Paper for most, Colour for 3%, Black for every DARTS
Shape	Squares, Circles, Triangles, or one of three mixes
Conglomerate	Set the moment a piece takes on a ticker from another set. Permanent
Merges	How many artworks this one has eaten
Vaulted	USD value of real stock held inside the artwork, priced live

03 What it earns

Stake a piece and it pays you $ARTSTOX every day, at a rate set by how its portfolio actually performs.

Rule	Value
Base rate	40 $ARTSTOX a day, halving every 180 days
Performance multiplier	1 + 50 × the day's return, floored at 0.25×, capped at 4×
Measured	Only while staked. Holding a winner since mint earns nothing on its own
Over a token's life	~14,400 $ARTSTOX at 1.0×, three quarters of it in year one
Claiming	Any time, no gates, and you don't have to unstake
Opens	3 days after the collection mints out

This is where the sets stop being a colour scheme. An Old Money piece of treasuries and silver earns steadily and rarely spikes. A Moonshots piece of quantum and rockets will have 4× days and 0.25× days. DARTS is unpredictable by construction.

04 What you can do to it

Four actions. This is the whole list — nothing else changes a piece.

Action	Costs	What happens	Opens
Add shares	120 $ARTSTOX + 1% of the stock (2% for a new ticker)	Real stock enters the artwork. That ticker's weight rises, so it takes more of the canvas.	+10d
Add off-set shares	360 $ARTSTOX + the same in-kind fee	The same, except the piece becomes a Conglomerate forever. It is no longer the set it was born as.	+10d
Reroll	400 $ARTSTOX doubling every time	Resets the picture. Same portfolio, new composition — and the rings and the dead floor are wiped with it. The piece can then be built back up.	+10d
Merge	1,200 $ARTSTOX ×1.5 per prior merge	Burns another artwork into this one. The portfolios combine, and supply falls by one permanently. You must already own both.	+14d

Shares go in and never come out. There is no withdraw. The only way a ticker ever leaves a piece is being dropped by a merge that pushed it past ten — and those shares are gone. Your liquidity is the artwork itself, which carries the stock with it when you sell. What you earn is separate and always yours.

05 What the art does about it

Every action leaves its own mark, so a token's history is legible without opening its metadata. These four are live — they are rendering right now.

UntouchedTicker letters on paper. No colour, no rings — nothing has happened to it yet.

Merged ×3Every merge lays a coloured ring in the frame, newest outermost — and the portfolio now carries what it ate. Colour is earned.

Shares killedOver the ten-ticker cap, so SPY and SLV had to die. They sink to the bottom as outlines, taking exactly the share they held, and never move again.

RerolledSame portfolio, a new composition, history wiped. The squares in the corners are the one thing a reset can never clear.

And one mark you don't choose. When a company delists its price feed simply stops. After ninety days of silence that holding freezes: its letters lose their colour to ash and stop answering the market. Every other mark is something you did — this one is done to you.

06 The token

$ARTSTOX comes from exactly two places, and both are fixed at deploy forever.

A premint of 40,000,000 to the treasury — the artist, ecosystem and liquidity allocations.
Staking. That is the only other source. The minter is set once to the staking contract and can never be changed or added to — not by us, not by anyone. There is no function to do it.
Cap 300,000,000, sized to hold the premint plus the largest amount the schedule could ever emit.
It is burned by adding shares, rerolling and merging. Nothing recycles it.

Nobody can print $ARTSTOX. That isn't a policy — it is structural, and it cannot be undone. Other collections can take it as payment and spend it, but they can never mint it.

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