Chapter the first
The Mechanic.
There is no mint page. There is no drop, no allow-list, no reveal. The press answers to one thing only: the trading of $UNICAT. What follows is the entire rule set. It fits on this page because there is nothing else to know.
Of Minting
Buy 1,000,000 $UNICAT or more in a single trade and a cat is minted directly into your wallet, in the same transaction. Its plate is struck from the next number in the sequence and its traits are derived from that number alone. Nobody — not you, not the deployer — knows what the cat looks like before the trade lands.
A buy of 2,000,000 still mints one cat. The press strikes once per trade, however heavy the hand.
Of Burning
Sell 1,000,000 $UNICAT or more in a single trade and one of your cats is destroyed — permanently, in the same transaction. Unprotected cats burn first, oldest acquisition first. If every cat you hold is protected, nothing burns. If you hold none, nothing burns.
A burned cat does not return. Its slot in the 10,000 reopens; its number does not.
The press keeps the numbers of the dead in its ledger and will not strike any of them twice.
Of Protection
Two shelters exist. A cat listed for sale on the market cannot burn while the listing stands. A cat that has ever been bought — traded for SOL, cat to buyer — is protected forever, in every wallet it ever reaches. Everything else is exposed.
Holding is safety. Selling the token is risk. Buying a cat is the only way to make one immortal.
Of the Numbering
Only 10,000 cats can be alive at once, but the numbering never resets. Every burn frees a slot; every mint takes the next number, however high. The press has run further than the edition is wide — which is the whole point.
A low number proves age. A high number proves the churn it survived.
A worked ledger
| TRADE | ACTION | EFFECT |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buy 1,200,000 $UNICAT | Cat № 14,204 minted to you |
| 2 | Buy 400,000 more | Nothing. Below threshold. |
| 3 | List № 14,204 at ◎ 4.20 | Cat protected while listed |
| 4 | Sell 1,600,000 $UNICAT | Nothing burns — your only cat is listed |
| 5 | Delist № 14,204, sell 1,000,000 | № 14,204 is destroyed |
| 6 | Someone buys a listed cat | That cat can never burn again, anywhere |