⛏️ The engine — RIGS
LIVE10,000 RIGS minted, all sold. Staking them pays GMTS, and holding them earns a discount in the store and weight in the missions. This is what pays for the digging.
1,348 RIGS staked · RigsStaking, owner = Ledger
Stake RIGS→This is not a profile picture.
When someone says there is no utility here, this page is the answer \u2014 and every line on it is something a person can go and do right now. 8 of the ten layers below are live. The rest are labelled honestly, including the ones that are not finished.
\ud83d\udd01 How it connects
RIGS are staked to earn GMTS. GMTS and USDG buy real specimens in the store. Specimens are held as onchain certificates that can be redeemed for the physical rock. Specimens are also won in the lottery and handed out to mission funders. Mission funding pays for the trips that produce the next specimens, which refill the store \u2014 so the loop feeds itself rather than depending on new buyers. The arcade and the math book sit on top as the entertainment layer, with the numbers published.
\ud83e\uddf1 The layers
💰 The token — GMTS
LIVEEarned by staking and spent in the store alongside USDG. Emissions are real and finite: 0.01 GMTS per block, with the pool under a public surplus check.
415,606 GMTS pool · 0.01 GMTS/block
See the numbers→🪨 Real specimens — the vault
LIVE63 hand-dug specimens catalogued, 55 with an onchain certificate. Each one is a title deed: it records the mineral, the weight and the find. It is not a picture of a rock, it is the rock's paperwork.
SpecimenCertificateV2 · 55 minted · owner = Ledger
Open the vault→🚚 Redemption — the rock comes to you
LIVEHold a certificate and you can request the physical specimen be posted to your door. The request is proved onchain with a zero-cost marker transaction; the address itself never goes on chain and is never stored.
4 certificates unlocked · US shipping for non-fluorescent
How redemption works→🎒 The store — buy with USDG or GMTS
LIVEBuy a specimen outright with USDG or GMTS, split 70/30. RIG holders get 15% off at the contract level, not as a marketing promise.
70% USDG / 30% GMTS · payout = Ledger
Browse the store→🎁 The lottery — win a real specimen
LIVEHold RIGS, enter the draw. Winners are picked onchain and each one receives a certificate that can be redeemed for the physical piece. Seven winners from draw one, all certified.
7 winners · 6 certificates minted · draw open
Enter the draw→⛓️ Missions — fund the actual digging
LIVEMission funding is not a promise of a return; it pays for fuel, permits and days in the field. Contributors get first pick of what the trip brings back, weighted by how much they put in.
MissionFunding escrow · RIG-weighted tiers
Fund a mission→🎰 The arcade — real maths, published
LIVEPlayable games with their actual return-to-player worked out from the served lookup tables — 15 games, 69 bet modes. Not a claimed number: one you can recompute yourself.
15 games · 69 modes · 94.5–96.5% RTP
Read the math book→🗺️ The ground — where this comes from
RESEARCHMaine has 4,588 expired mineral claims and not one active — the last was filed in 1986. We publish the districts and the process. We never publish the ground we actually work.
0 active claims · 40 years dormant
The claim research→🦍 Apes — the next layer
BUILTThe contracts exist and pass their tests. Registration, reviewed allocation and a delayed reveal — not a gas race. It is not mintable yet and we will not pretend otherwise.
Contracts built · art + funding pending
The honest status→\ud83d\udd0d What we will not claim
- Nothing here is an investment. No yield, no promised return, no floor. Specimens are collectibles and the games are entertainment.
- Not everything is finished. Apes are built but not mintable; there are no Ape images yet. The status labels above say so rather than hiding it.
- The lotto is a draw, not a guarantee. You are not owed a specimen because you hold RIGS. You are entered.
- We are not a mine. We hand-dig, we catalogue, we document. We do not own a mine and we will never say we do.
Built in the open, one layer at a time. If a line on this page is wrong, we want to know \u2014 it is easier to correct a claim than to live with one. See what changed recently.