[ THE FOUR STATES ]

Solid, Liquid,
Gas, Plasma.

A node's state is fixed the moment it condenses, taken from seed % 4 where the seed is hashed from the contract address and the token id. It cannot be rerolled, bought or changed. Everything below is drawn by the contract itself, with no server and no image files anywhere.

STATE 1 / 4

Solid

A hexagonal prism on a fixed lattice, six faces shaded in two tones with spokes running to the centre. It drifts a few pixels and otherwise holds still.

HEX PRISMSTATICHUE 212
STATE 2 / 4

Liquid

A droplet under surface tension, with three ripple rings breathing beneath it at different rates and a specular highlight off the upper left.

DROPLETRIPPLINGHUE 186
STATE 3 / 4

Gas

Sixteen translucent bodies orbiting and rising inside a dashed containment ring, each on its own opacity clock. The most diffuse of the four.

CLOUDDIFFUSEHUE 268
STATE 4 / 4

Plasma

A white core inside a hot halo, throwing nine jittered filaments that flicker independently. Shown here bonded, which is what the outer frame means.

FILAMENTSFLICKERINGHUE 328
[ TRAITS ]

What the seed decides

Five traits are written into the metadata. Four come from the seed and never move. The fifth tracks what you do with the node.

TraitDerived fromRange
Stateseed % 4Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma
Lattice(seed / 4) % 8Cubic, Hexagonal, Trigonal, Tetragonal, Monoclinic, Orthorhombic, Triclinic, Amorphous
Energy(seed / 32) % 991 – 99, and it shifts the palette hue
Bondwhether the node is lockedFree or Locked
Tenurehow long it has been locked100 at bond, rising to 250 over 90 days
State is not rarity in the usual sense. The four states are close to evenly distributed, because the seed is a keccak hash. What varies between two nodes of the same state is the lattice, the energy and the palette shift that comes with it, so no two are drawn the same way.
Bond is the only trait you control. Locking a node puts 600 $4 behind it and starts its share of the emission. The art picks that up immediately: a bonded node renders with a lit frame and reads LOCKED in the corner.
State does not change what a node earns. Every node, in any of the four states, earns an equal share of the 3% swap fee in BNB. Solid earns exactly what Plasma earns. The states are how a node looks, not what it is worth.