Living pixel pets on Arc. Discover your own on-chain axolotl, explore its traits, and watch it evolve.
Explore the Pond without a wallet. To mint, your browser searches with CPU or WebGPU; a valid proof is a candidate, not a reservation. Settlement is this epoch’s USDC entry plus gas.
Bodies, gills, palettes, and permanent DNA. Every ArcLotl starts as a Hatchling.
01 / PROOF OF WORK
SEARCH. DISCOVER. MAKE IT YOURS.
01
Search
Your device hashes until one digest is at or below the live target. CPU or WebGPU: the proof follows the same rules.
02
Submit
A valid proof is a candidate, never a reservation. Review the exact USDC amount. The first valid proof successfully included for the active challenge wins.
03
Keep & evolve
You own an ArcLotl. Rent, metamorphosis, fusion, and regeneration live in the Lab. $LOTL is a separate token.
Genesis starts at 26 bits. Each epoch halves the structural target until its bound: later epochs require more work. Price is separate: explicit prices for epochs 0–6, then 1.4× per epoch up to its cap. Entry stays constant within an epoch.
PACE
Adaptive target
A 32-discovery window targets 32 blocks per discovery. A faster run can harden the effective target without changing entry price. Your proof must meet that live target.
BURST
Busy waters
Fast discoveries step up a pressure table to about 2.14×. A streak increases work, subject to target bounds. It neither advances the epoch by itself nor reserves the next mint.
DROUGHT
Quiet waters
After more than 15 minutes without a discovery, relief begins and steps every 15 minutes. Waiting can ease the target within its bounds; it does not reprice entry or move regeneration.
Same DNA, not four minted tokens. DNA is fixed at mint; the picture can change with stage.
EVOLVE
Metamorphose
Burn 100 / 300 / 900 LOTL to advance one stage at a time. Raise future rent weight; keep DNA, birth reference, and principal. Upgrading in the birth epoch still earns no new rent.
COMBINE
Fuse
Burn both parents and 500 / 1,250 / 3,000 LOTL by higher parent depth. Maximum child depth: 3. Create a current-epoch Hatchling with new maturity gates. A new ID, not a discovery.
REGENERATE
Return to LOTL
After a later PoW discovery and 10 minutes from birth, burn the NFT for its sliding LOTL quote. Attached rent moves to separate account credit. Regeneration outputs LOTL, not a USDC payout.
Hold an ArcLotl for eligible rent after its birth epoch, spend LOTL to evolve it, or permanently regenerate it into its current LOTL quote. Regeneration ends its future rent participation.
Regeneration example
Birth epoch · full quote
Each cell is 1% of the original 1,000 LOTL principal. Partial cells show the remaining fraction.
EXAMPLE · NOT A LIVE TOKEN QUOTE
Regenerates into
Full quote through the birth epoch, then 60% retained at each later epoch end. The quote slides with discoveries, not time.
Burning requires a later discovery and 10 minutes from birth. Inspect your ArcLotl in the Lab first.
Start opens a wallet confirmation when a valid proof is found. Continuous resumes after each successful mint, using the next challenge price. Every mint requires wallet confirmation.
Reading chain data…
ArcLotls that got away
None yet
Selected unminted work · Hatchling previews
No sampled misses yet. Start searching to see sampled work.
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Why work grows
Hashes by leading zero bitsx2 work / bit
Theoretical distribution
Reading live difficulty…
Expected hashes per discovery; actual attempts appear when mining starts. Logarithmic scale: each block doubles the count. Attempts are independent; near misses give no advantage.
Bring USDC from another chain. Discover your ArcLotl on Arc.
USDC to Arc
Source USDC balance: Connect wallet
USDC
USDC on Arc
Allowance: Unavailable of the quoted source debit. Custom: 0 to 5%.
Maximum fee
Unavailable
The full You send amount is transferred, including the fee allowance. Unused allowance arrives on Arc.
You need ETH on Base for gas. Arc uses USDC for gas.
Enter either amount to see the fees.
Funding details
Arc USDC balance
Unavailable
Current mint settlement
Unavailable
Estimated Arc gas reserve
Unavailable
Mint coverage unavailable. Check settlement and gas before mining.
The transfer does not reserve a mint or lock its price.
Fast Transfer usually attests in about 8 seconds from Base, then Arc delivery. These are estimates.
Unused fees arrive as extra USDC. Approval and transfer are consecutive wallet confirmations. Funding does not mint an ArcLotl or start mining.
THE POND / COLLECTION
THE POND.
Explore living ArcLotls by stage and traits.
PoW discoveries
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Difficulty
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Epoch
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No matching ArcLotls in the scanned tokens.
THE LAB / EVOLUTION & RENT
LIFE DOESN’T STAND STILL.
Select an ArcLotl to inspect its stage, earned rent, and next actions.
Connect your wallet to select your ArcLotls. You can also inspect any token by ID.
Inspect by ID
Artwork will appear here when the collection is available.
Eligibility is stale. Inspect again before taking action.
Connect your wallet.
Connect your wallet.
Connect your wallet.
Connect your wallet. Regeneration permanently burns the NFT. Attached rent becomes separate account credit. Requires a later PoW discovery and 10 minutes of maturity.
Fusion
Choose two owned parents. Both NFTs burn; the child starts with new maturity gates.
Preview these parents before submitting.
Batch rent claims
Up to 50 unique owned IDs per atomic transaction. Preview required.
Account credit
Connect to read separate account credit.
$LOTL / THE ARCLOTLS TOKEN
$LOTL
ArcLotls token · ERC-20
A DIFFERENT KIND OF CURRENT.
Regenerate an ArcLotl to issue LOTL. Evolve or fuse ArcLotls by burning LOTL; protocol buybacks buy and burn it too. Ordinary transfers unlock at discovery #1,016.
Pair verification checks market bindings; it does not assert explorer source-verification status.
LAUNCH PROGRESS ARC SWAP V2
Reading chain data…
Reading chain data…
Discovery
Unavailable
Canonical configuration
Unavailable
Pair liquidity
Unavailable
USDC is canonical Arc settlement. Native USDC is the 18-decimal gas asset. Quotes refresh automatically and include estimated transfer tax; execution may change.
Current total supply
Reading…
Undeployed genesis inventory
Reading…
Regeneration issuance
Reading…
Buyback burns
Reading…
Buyback spending
Reading…
Backed funds awaiting execution
Reading…
Reading chain data…
01 / CHOOSE YOUR PATH
HOLD. EVOLVE. REGENERATE.
One ArcLotl, three decisions. Earned rent, future eligible weight, and regeneration output are different things.
LOTL burn cost. Next stage: 1.400000× future eligible weight.
Birth and principal do not reset. New rent begins after the birth epoch.
REGENERATE
1,000 LOTL
Current regeneration output. Future rent weight becomes zero.
Attached earned rent becomes separate account credit.
Weight is not an income forecast. Appearance and rarity add no economic weight.
02 / REGENERATION CURVE
DISCOVERIES MOVE THE CURRENT.
Full principal in the reference epoch. Later quotes slide between 60% retention endpoints; each endpoint is calculated from immutable principal.
EXAMPLE · LOTL RETURNED 0 – 1,000 LOTL
Explored
Epoch 0 · 0%Epoch 3 · 100%
1,000 LOTL · Example discovery position
Full principal1,000 LOTL
1 later epoch completed600 LOTL
2 later epochs completed360 LOTL
3 later epochs completed216 LOTL
Current habitat progress unavailable; showing an example. Time does not move this curve. Regeneration also needs a later PoW discovery and 10 minutes from birth. A closing-mint newborn still has full principal at the next epoch’s zero progress; its own discovery does not satisfy the later-discovery gate.
Exact curve data
LOTL returned at integer discovery positions
Epoch
Discoveries
LOTL returned
0
0 / 8
1000 LOTL
0
1 / 8
1000 LOTL
0
2 / 8
1000 LOTL
0
3 / 8
1000 LOTL
0
4 / 8
1000 LOTL
0
5 / 8
1000 LOTL
0
6 / 8
1000 LOTL
0
7 / 8
1000 LOTL
1
0 / 16
1000 LOTL
1
2 / 16
950 LOTL
1
4 / 16
900 LOTL
1
6 / 16
850 LOTL
1
8 / 16
800 LOTL
1
10 / 16
750 LOTL
1
12 / 16
700 LOTL
1
14 / 16
650 LOTL
2
0 / 32
600 LOTL
2
4 / 32
570 LOTL
2
8 / 32
540 LOTL
2
12 / 32
510 LOTL
2
16 / 32
480 LOTL
2
20 / 32
450 LOTL
2
24 / 32
420 LOTL
2
28 / 32
390 LOTL
3
0 / 64
360 LOTL
3
8 / 64
342 LOTL
3
16 / 64
324 LOTL
3
24 / 64
306 LOTL
3
32 / 64
288 LOTL
3
40 / 64
270 LOTL
3
48 / 64
252 LOTL
3
56 / 64
234 LOTL
3
64 / 64
216 LOTL
04 / REVENUE ROUTING
FOLLOW THE ACTUAL FLOWS.
Rules for this deployment on Arc. Percentages allocate recognized revenue, not swap volume.
MINT & RECOGNIZED ROYALTY
60 / 25 / 15 · rent / treasury / buyback
Example · 1 USDC
Destination
Eligible weight
Empty weight
rent
60% 0.6 USDC
0% 0 USDC
treasury
25% 0.25 USDC
25% 0.25 USDC
buyback
15% 0.15 USDC
75% 0.75 USDC
Empty weight: 0 / 25 / 75. Rent and treasury floor to integer settlement units; buyback receives the remainder.
CONVERTED TRADING FEES
40 / 30 / 30 · rent / treasury / buyback
Example · 1 USDC
Destination
Eligible weight
Empty weight
rent
40% 0.4 USDC
0% 0 USDC
treasury
30% 0.3 USDC
30% 0.3 USDC
buyback
30% 0.3 USDC
70% 0.7 USDC
Empty weight: 0 / 30 / 70. Rent and treasury floor to integer settlement units; buyback receives the remainder.
ERC-2981 declares a 10% royalty to RevenueRouter. Marketplaces may not honor it; only recognized settlement receipts are routed.
LOTL trading fees collected
Converted to settlement
Allocated to rent, treasury, buybacks
Backed buyback funds queued
Execution buys and burns LOTL
Opening tax falls from 50% to 5% over 10 minutes, measured from canonical trading opening—not a wallet’s first trade. The opening clock has not started.
Total supply includes protocol inventory. Cumulative genesis deployed is an allocation, not circulating supply or market capitalization. Backed funds await execution: they have not yet been spent or burned. Token-wide burns include all LOTL burns; lifecycle and buyback counters describe their own sources.
THE CURRENT / ACTIVITY
LIFE ON THE CHAIN.
Recent transfers and lifecycle activity from the verified collection.
Reading activity…
THE TANK / PROTOCOL
EVERY FLOW ACCOUNTED FOR.
Backed funds, explicit limits, and permissionless protocol operations.
Trading & buybacks
Trading opens at discovery #1,016.
State
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The contract clamps spending to backed funds and shared capacity.
Protocol-owned liquidity
Inventory
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A contribution is a donation. You receive no LP position, ownership, redemption claim or V1 reward. Unused accepted settlement tokens remain protocol-owned liquidity inventory.
Manager liquidity operations
Lifetime protocol flows
Source revenue and destination receipts are distinct.
Awaiting protocol stats
Recent recognized revenue
No events loaded.
THE ARCHIVE / FIELD NOTES
KNOW YOUR HABITAT.
A hash becomes an axolotl.
00 / OVERVIEW
ONE HASH. ONE ARCLOTL.
A digest at or below the live target, paid in USDC, becomes an ArcLotl. DNA is fixed. Stage, rent, and regeneration are not.
ONE HASH. ONE ARCLOTL.
DETERMINISTIC
DNA256 BITS
DNA and stage determine the picture. Artwork is assembled by the on-chain renderer. Ask it twice with the same inputs and you get the same SVG.
Supply epochs set structural work and settlement. Adaptive pace, burst pressure, and drought relief adjust the live target within protocol bounds; these temporary effects do not advance the epoch or change settlement.
Burst pressure and drought relief can apply together. Waiting does not guarantee a discovery. Each attempt is independent; a near miss gives the next attempt no advantage.
A competing PoW mint changes the round, and anchor rotation invalidates the old job. A found proof is a candidate, never a reservation. An easier target alone does not invalidate work in the same job.
Rent ledger. Eligible and current-epoch weights live here.
11 / FIELD QUESTIONS
FIELD QUESTIONS
Habitat
What is ArcLotls?
ArcLotls is an on-chain pixel axolotl collection with proof-of-work discovery, lifecycle evolution, eligible rent, and LOTL regeneration.
Discovery
Can I just buy one?
Not ready-made. The collection has no sale function: an ArcLotl comes into existence only as a hash at or below the live target, paid at the current epoch settlement. Once ArcLotls exist, owners can transfer them like any other NFT. Discovery
Can someone steal my solution?
No. The solver is bound in the work domain, so the same nonce computes to a different hash for another address. Discovery
Is a found hash reserved for me?
No. A valid proof is a candidate. A competing mint, a new round, or a rotated anchor can invalidate it before inclusion. Discovery
Settlement
What am I paying for, then?
The epoch settlement in USDC. Eligible rent, treasury, and buyback receive their configured integers in the same transaction. The operator does not take a separate mint checkout. Settlement
Lifecycle
When can an ArcLotl regenerate?
Both a later proof-of-work discovery and 10 minutes from birth are required. Regeneration burns the ArcLotl and issues its current sliding LOTL quote. Regeneration
Does rarity increase rent?
No. Economic weight depends on stage, not rarity, palette, mutation, proof quality, or other visual traits. New rent eligibility begins after the birth epoch. Rent
Does fusion count as a discovery?
No. Fusion issues a new token ID and a new Hatchling with new maturity gates. It does not advance the proof-of-work discovery count. Lifecycle
LOTL
When does LOTL trading open?
Ordinary LOTL trading opens at discovery 1,016. The global trade tax falls from 50% to 5% over the next 10 minutes. Available swaps also require verified pool liquidity. LOTL
Artwork
Can the artwork disappear?
The sprites, palette, and renderer live in contract storage. The picture is assembled on request. There is no metadata server to renew. Artwork
Release
What is this deployment’s release status?
The Archive states settlement, artwork, and the discovery count that opens ordinary LOTL trading. Liquidity and verified pair configuration still have to exist for swaps to fill. Release
