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Real minerals, dug by hand, each one carrying an onchain certificate that proves who owns it. There are 10,000 RIGS - the founding collection, sold out - and 63 catalogued specimens. This page tells you exactly what you can do, what it costs, and what needs your signature.
What this actually is
A RIG is a membership NFT. Holding one puts you in the ecosystem - it is not a share, not a promise of profit, and not a claim on anything we have not already made. The minerals are real, the certificates are real, and the contracts are public.
You can do everything here with a wallet. You can also do most of it without our website at all - see the last section. Nothing needs our permission.
What needs a signature - and what does not
| What you want to do | Signature? | Roughly | The important part |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold your RIG | no | free | Nothing to do - it sits in your wallet |
| Get the specimen discount | no | free | Automatic - the store reads your wallet |
| Enter the mineral lottery | 1 tx | ~$0.05 | Holding a RIG is enough - no staking needed |
| Flag RIGs to earn GMTS | 1 tx | ~$0.27 for 10 | Your RIG never leaves your wallet |
| Claim your GMTS | 1 tx | ~$0.05 | Only when you have something to claim |
| Unflag (stop earning) | 1 tx | ~$0.05 | One RIG at a time, or all of them |
| Join Mission 02 | 1 tx | free (0 ETH) | Free entry - RIG weight sets your tier |
| Fund a mission | 1 tx | what you send | The transaction hash is your receipt |
| Buy a real specimen | 3 tx | the piece+gas | Approve USDG, approve GMTS, then buy |
| Register for APE | 1 tx | free (0 ETH) | Registration only - no mint is live |
If you only ever hold - and never click anything
That is a legitimate way to be here. Holding is not passive - these come with it:
- Your RIG art, animated, onchain - it is yours and it renders straight from the contract
- The right to enter every future lottery draw - holding is enough, no staking required
- Mission tiers - your RIG count sets your tier when you do join
- 15% off specimens in the store, automatically, when the RIG is in your wallet
- A say in where the digs go - the material comes from real missions
One honest catch: the store discount reads the RIGs in your wallet. If a RIG is staked on the original staking contract it sits in that contract instead, so it does not count toward the discount while staked. Flagging on the new no-custody page avoids that entirely.
The lottery, told straight
- You do not need to stake or flag anything. Holding a RIG is enough to enter.
- You can also enter with a RIG that is staked - the contract checks both.
- More RIGs = more weight, up to 25 RIGs. Past 25, extra RIGs add no weight.
- You can add up to +5 weight by locking GMTS with your entry (1,000 GMTS = +1). That part does need a GMTS approval, and you get it back when the draw ends.
- Weight is capped at 25 total. A wallet with 25 RIGs and a wallet with 300 RIGs enter at the same weight.
- One entry per wallet per draw. A RIG can only be used in one entry per draw, so nobody can double-dip.
- Winners receive a real specimen certificate minted to their wallet - a title deed to one specific piece.
Doing it without our website
Nothing here depends on our site being online. Every contract is public and permissionless. The route most people already have: open the contract on Blockscout, go to the Contract tab, choose Write Contract, connect your wallet, and call the function.
| What | Function to call | Contract address |
|---|---|---|
| Flag RIGs to earn GMTS | flag(uint256[] ids) | 0x8AfC872dccE24C75DF5Ae7f8E17dceB933Ee2F9F |
| Stop earning / free a RIG | unflag(uint256[] ids) | 0x8AfC872dccE24C75DF5Ae7f8E17dceB933Ee2F9F |
| Claim your GMTS | claim(uint256[] ids) | 0x8AfC872dccE24C75DF5Ae7f8E17dceB933Ee2F9F |
| Enter a lottery draw | enter(drawId, tokenIds, 0) | 0x186f3710C3CA7Fd1D950feD966F2740090910E12 |
| Leave a draw | unenter(drawId) | 0x186f3710C3CA7Fd1D950feD966F2740090910E12 |
For the current draw number, read the lottery page - the draw that is open right now is draw 1. Use your own RIG numbers in the tokenIds list. Gas is small: flagging 10 RIGs measured about 384,000 gas on mainnet.
What we will not claim
- No price promise and no yield promise. GMTS is a points token with no market price set by us.
- Lottery weight is capped at 25 - we are not implying bigger wallets win proportionally forever.
- Physical shipping is US-only for now, and only for pieces cleared for shipping.
- Certificates are title deeds to a specific piece - not a share in anything.