Experimental
FranklinFRANKLIN
§ 03 · The Cats

Rarer cat,
bigger bowl.

That is the entire rule. There are five kinds of Franklin, and the only thing rarity changes is how large a share of every meal the cat receives. No stats to min-max, no abilities to learn, just how much he eats.

TierMeaningWeightCountRel. share
StrayStill outside, still looking.8×2,2221.0×
FedSomebody left a bowl out.12×7771.5×
ConedOut of surgery, furious about the cone.20×2382.5×
TripodThree legs, faster than you'd think.32×884.0×
HachiwareThe mark on his face is a lucky eight.64×88.0×

Σ weight 35,188, the sum of every cat's base weight. Your cat's share of a meal is simply his weight ÷ the collection's total weight.

What weight actually buys

When a meal is served, it's divided across the whole collection in proportion to weight. A Tripod at 32× receives four times what a Stray at 8× receives from the exact same meal, no more, no less. That is the only mechanical advantage rarity gives you. There are no hidden traits, no yield tiers, no staking boosts baked into the art. A rarer cat just eats a bigger portion of the same bowl.

The counts are deliberately steep, 2,222 Strays down to just 8 Hachiware, so that the rare cats feel genuinely rare without letting the top tier run away with everything. Even all eight Hachiware together hold a small fraction of the collection's total weight.

How the draw stays fair

Nobody, including us, knows which cat is which until after minting closes. Here's the sequence:

  1. Before minting opens, we publish a provenance hash, a cryptographic fingerprint of the full, ordered art set. It locks the artwork in place; we can't quietly swap a rare cat for a common one later without the hash no longer matching.
  2. You mint an unrevealed Franklin. At this point it has no tier and no weight, it's just a numbered token, and it isn't yet part of the meal maths.
  3. Once minting closes, a single shuffle seed is drawn from a future block, and the tiers are dealt out from it deterministically, landing on exactly 2,222 / 777 / 238 / 88 / 8. Anyone can re-run the shuffle from the public seed and confirm it.

Because tiers are assigned after you commit, and from a seed nobody controls in advance, there is nothing to snipe. You can't watch the mempool and grab the rare ones; they don't exist as rare ones until everyone has already minted.

A small honesty about randomness

This chain has no dedicated randomness oracle, so the seed comes from block data rather than a VRF. It's more than fair enough for a cosmetic art drop, and the provenance hash means the set of outcomes is fixed before anyone plays, but we'd rather tell you the mechanism than dress it up.

The lucky eight

The rarest tier is the Hachiware, Franklin's real marking, the black-and-white face that reads as the number eight, considered lucky in Japan. There are exactly eight of them in 3,333. It seemed like the only right number.

Make your cat eat more

Rarity sets your cat's base share, but you can raise it. Burn a little $PONS and your cat climbs the feed ladder to a permanently larger slice of every future meal (up to 2×). It's a trade, not a yield. See feeding →