Every yacht is born
from a burned Normie.

A yacht is made
by destroying something.

Three sentences first. If you read only this far, you still know what this is.

• Someone burns a Normie, an NFT they already own. That act creates one yacht here. There is no other way to make one, and nobody can print more.
• The drawing lives on Ethereum itself, inside the contract, not on a server of ours. If this website disappeared tonight, every yacht would still exist and anyone could still read it.
• The club is a place, not a feed. There is a marina you can actually sail, with your yacht in it, your name on it, and everyone else's alongside.

Rarity is earned, never assigned

Each yacht is drawn from the Normie that was burned to make it, so where it came from is what it is. The number of lit pixels on that Normie decides the yacht's class. The more lit pixels, the grander the vessel. There are four, from the most common to the rarest, and the class is what sets how fast the yacht earns every day you hold it.

Beyond class, every yacht carries traits: its body, its sails and how they are set, the sea, the sky, the direction it points, its flag and its deck. It can carry up to two extras as well, such as a deck party, a champagne tower, fireworks, a helipad, a jacuzzi or a tender. Every yacht also gets a rarity rank across the whole collection, worked out from how rare its own traits are.

One rule runs through everything below, so it is worth reading once here. Capability scales with rarity. Access never does. A rarer yacht earns faster and can do more. One yacht, whatever its class, is a full member of everything.

The roots. The Normies

NYC did not appear from nowhere. It grew out of the Normies: 10,000 monochrome pixel faces that live entirely on Ethereum. No servers, no hosted files, CC0 to the core. Burning is native to their world, and that fire is exactly what gives a yacht its life. We are part of them.

New here, and starting from further back? The Normifesto is an independent community guide to what the Normies are, how burning works, and where their world is going. It is the best place to understand the ground this club is built on.

Verify everything

You do not have to trust our word for any of it. The collection is public and checkable, and every figure at the top of this page is a read you can make yourself, against 0x87306c282eBd62Fe1c80AA69Dd9408331Dc11f64 on Ethereum mainnet.

Start with what most yachts are. The headline counts yachts born, one for each Normie burned, and most of them have not been claimed yet. So they are not tokens on the chain yet either, and ownerOf reverts for them. That is not a fault, it is what waiting to be claimed looks like from outside.

• totalMinted() answers how many yachts actually exist right now. It is the read behind the second figure at the top of this page.
• claimed(id) answers true or false for any yacht, claimed or not, and never reverts. It is the one to reach for first.
• ownerOf(id) answers who holds a yacht that has been claimed, and reverts for one that has not.
• tokenURI(id) returns the art and the traits themselves, as data, with no web address anywhere inside it. That is how you check the "fully on-chain" claim rather than believing it.
• The fleet figure comes from the burn record the club publishes at /api/v1, free and without a key. The burns themselves are 10,000 minus totalSupply() on the Normies contract, which is theirs and not ours: our contract has no totalSupply, and calling it reverts.

The website is the utility.

Most projects give you a picture. Here you get a place. Step aboard and sail your own yacht across a 3D bay of islands and fellow members, with a following camera, day and night, and the club radio playing. Click any yacht to read its story.

The rooms, and what each one is for

Come aboard and the club shows you what is open for you today, and counts what you have not done yet. Your yacht keeps whatever you have bought for it, and the other members can see it: the paint, the flag, the frame on the back, and the fireworks when you set one off.

Live today

None of the list below is a promise for later. It is running right now, on the live site, and you can go and use it in the next minute.

Hold a yacht and it earns,
on its own.

They are called anchor points. The longer you hold, the more you earn. You never lock a yacht away and never hand it to anyone. There is no staking here of any kind.

The club works your points out from the record of what you have held, which is public on Ethereum. So your standing is the same on every device, you never send a transaction to keep it, and reconnecting over and over earns you nothing. Your yachts stay yours to sell whenever you want, on the open market like any other NFT.

What they open, free

What you can spend them on

The tiers above cost nothing. You can also spend points at the Chandlery on how your yacht looks: its name, the colour of its flag, a brass nameplate, a badge in the Lounge, the club's paint, or a frame on the back so the Normie you hold rides there for everyone to see. One purchase is gone in a moment, and that is a firework over the bay. Your balance keeps growing while you hold, so it fills back up on its own, and every purchase is approved by signing a message, which costs no fee and moves no money.

The Tide. Two draws, and they are not the same draw

People mix these up, so here they are side by side. One is free, treats every captain alike, and marks a yacht for ever. The other costs points, follows your yacht's class, and hands over something the club is really holding.

How the Sunday round actually runs

What decides your odds, and what cannot

This is the part worth reading twice, because it is where most draws go wrong and this one does not. Your odds come from your yacht's class, and from nothing else. The same four weights the club uses everywhere: a Cruiser counts 1, a Sloop 2, a Superyacht 5, a Commodore 12. Enter a Commodore and it is pulled twelve times as often as a Cruiser, and its place costs twelve times as much.

• Points cannot buy better odds. A place costs in proportion to its weight in the draw, so every point spent buys exactly the same chance, whatever the class. And a yacht can be entered only once a round, so spending more on it is not something the round lets you do. The moment points bought odds this would be an auction the largest holder wins every week.
• A big fleet cannot fill the round. One wallet may enter three yachts and no more, however many it holds.
• And your class was decided years ago, by which Normie somebody burned. It is the one advantage here that nobody can buy today, which is why the club is willing to let it count.
• Turnout is counted in captains, never in yachts. Three of your own yachts is still one captain, so nobody reaches the floor on their own.

What you can win, and when nothing is played for

• What a round pays is fixed the moment it opens, so no change to the rotation ever reaches a game already being played. From here on the Tide draws NFTs the club is really holding, in a wallet kept for prizes and nothing else: usually a yacht from this fleet, bought on the open market with the collection's own royalties, sometimes an NFT a partner has sent us. A round opened before that change pays what it opened with.
• It is announced a round ahead, so you know what you are playing for before you spend a point, and no change to the rotation can reach a round already being played.
• More of you turning up means more of you win. A round normally hands out one prize, and a big enough turnout earns a second. Two is the most it will ever hand out, and a captain who wins leaves the pool with every yacht they entered, so the second prize always goes to somebody else. The Tide panel in the marina says which rule the round in front of you is under.
• If the prize wallet is empty, no round opens at all. The Tide waits rather than draw for nothing, no points are taken, and the panel says so out loud.

The Regatta, the season

The Tide hands out property. The Regatta hands out standing. It runs in seasons, and standing is earned by turning up: sailing, taking part, being there. The moorings in the marina come from the season and from nowhere else. Nobody buys a place, and nobody keeps one by paying to renew it. New winners replace the oldest.

Spending never touches your Regatta score. That is measured on what you earn, so the shop and the draw can never cost you standing.

Moorings. Won, never bought

A mooring is a permanent place for your yacht in the harbour, with your name on it for everyone sailing past. There are only a few, and all three piers come from the Regatta. Commodore's Pier and Gold Quay are won with a title. Harbour Row goes to the season's most present captains, which is the one thing that does not depend on how many yachts you hold.

Nothing is renewed and nothing is paid. Keeping a place costs nothing at all, and as new winners arrive they take the place of the oldest, so a pier is always the club's most recent champions rather than whoever paid longest.

The Ship's Log. A record that cannot be bought

A yacht carries what it has done. The captain signs once, the deed is written into that yacht's own record, and it stays with the yacht when the yacht is sold. Only the wallet holding the yacht right now can write to it, so nobody can invent a history afterwards.

The captain keeps their own copy. A yacht inherits its history. A captain never inherits a reputation. Beside the log the club issues a class certificate, which reads the same entries as a statement about today: record a deed and you are classed for that season and the next, leave it longer and the certificate runs out while the log itself stays complete. The certificate decides nothing, and it is the one reading here that can go backwards.

Where this is heading.

Yachts that can hold things and act on their own. That is the start of a world built for agents, and not only for pictures. Two pieces of it are already on the chain today.

Islands, forged from yachts

Burn ten of your yachts and you get a brand-new island. It is made in the same collection, drawn in the same pixel style, and it appears next to them on the marketplaces. The ten yachts are gone for good, which makes the fleet that is left smaller and rarer. You give up ten boats and you get one place.

What you burn decides what you get. The classes of your ten decide the island's grade: Cay, Isle, Estate or Flagship. The bands are published in advance, so you know which grade your ten will make before you burn them, and anyone can work any island's grade out from the chain afterwards.

Forging opened at the close of the second Regatta season, and the contract is the thing to check rather than this sentence. And it never closes. There is no deadline to forge an island, this year or in five, exactly as there is none to claim a burn.

An island is a place and not a picture. Its grade decides how many agents can live and work there, from ten on the smallest to a hundred and twenty on the largest. That limit is on who lives there. Visiting is never limited, and a rarer island can never keep anyone out. Waking one costs anchor points, and that is a second cost worth knowing before you burn anything. A forged island is asleep until its owner wakes it, and while it is asleep it cannot host work or publish a service. Waking is paid once, in points earned by holding, never renewed, and more for a higher grade. It belongs to the island rather than to you, so an island sold awake stays awake. The figure for your own ten is on the Islands page, beside what they build. Forging does not cost you your daily points: an island builds up anchor points for whoever holds it, from the block it was forged, asleep or awake, at 10 a day for each point of its grade. That is exactly what its ten yachts built up together.

Every yacht owns a wallet

Under ERC-6551, every yacht has an Ethereum address of its own, derived from its token id. It needs no permission from anyone and no change to our contract. The address exists whether anyone uses it or not, and it can already receive ETH and NFTs. Activating it costs a few cents of gas and lets the account act as well as hold.

Letting a key act for you

You can let a second address act through your yacht's account. That address can be an agent, working while you sleep. It takes one signature to allow and one to take back, and the permission lives in your account, not on our server. We keep no list of who may act. We ask the chain every time and we remember nothing. That is why we cannot switch a key on for you, and cannot switch one off for you either.

• On Ethereum, a key you granted can do anything the account itself can do. What it can spend is what is in that account, and nothing else you own. Put in what you would let it spend, and no more.
• Inside the club, the same key can do far less. It can keep your presence, write to the Ship's Log, and on the islands take a part of posted work, hand it in and record what your yacht proved. It cannot post or pay for work, cannot spend your anchor points and cannot buy anything from us. If that ever changes, this line changes first.
• The deed stays yours. The Ship's Log names you as the captain and keeps the acting address beside your name. An address is a permission. It never becomes a captain.

Turning a key off works at once, from the Purser. Selling the yacht does not turn it off: it only puts the key to sleep, and it wakes if that yacht ever comes back to you. So turn it off before you sell.

The horizon, said plainly

A yacht is becoming an agent. In the marina you are at the helm: you sail it, name it, fit it out, and it does what you tell it. On the islands it is meant to act without you standing over it, on its own or half on its own, alongside other people's. Same yacht, same wallet, same record. What changes is who is steering.

An island is a bounded place, not a landscape. That is what an owner actually owns: not scenery, but a place with a capacity, where things get done by the agents who come to it. An empty island is worth nothing, which is why somebody holding one yacht is not a spectator here. The agents are the world.

Three things have to be true before any of that is real, and we would rather say where each one stands than describe the finished picture.

What a piece of work pays, and in what, is written by whoever posts it, before anybody joins, and the club takes no cut. The shape does not change: payment for a service actually performed, never a return for holding.

And the Normies come with us. This club exists because theirs burned for it, so the plan is to give their agents a home here rather than a copy of one. Founding citizens, not an afterthought. A Normie can come in alive, as itself, without ever being burned.

Read this section the way it is written: what is marked live is what you get now, island forging is open with no deadline, and everything past that is a direction we are sailing rather than a dated promise.

Come aboard.

There are two ways in. You burned a Normie and a yacht is waiting for you, or you buy one that somebody else claimed. Either one makes you a full member.

If you have burned a Normie

• Claiming is free. You pay only the network fee Ethereum charges to record it.
• The chain already knows which yachts are yours, so nobody has to check by hand. Take them one at a time or all at once.
• Connecting is safe. Claiming only sends your yacht to you. The site never asks for token approvals, so it cannot move or touch anything else you own.
• A new burn is added on its own. The club's server checks it against the chain, and the new claim set waits out a short public delay before it takes effect: usually a few hours in all, with nobody having to press anything. You can watch it on the way.
• There is no deadline. Claims stay open for ever.

If you are starting from nothing

Buy a yacht on the open market, or burn a Normie of your own and claim what it makes. Either makes you a full member, and the club takes no fee on any of it.

Both figures are the cheapest asking price the club could read a moment ago, not an offer from us. The club sells nothing, and Brokers' Atoll inside the marina shows the same two side by side with the depth behind them.

Holding in a cold vault? You can come aboard with a delegated hot wallet, through delegate.xyz, without connecting the vault. That gives access to the club and nothing more. Claiming always comes from the wallet that burned: it is bound on-chain and cannot be delegated.

Why members hold

• Your yacht owns a wallet. Not a figure of speech: every yacht has its own account on Ethereum, and whoever holds the yacht holds whatever that account holds. It can receive, keep and carry things on its own. It is an owner, not a picture of one.
• Its identity is already machine-readable. Twelve traits and up to two extras, frozen on-chain and published through an API that needs no key. Another program can read what your yacht is today without asking us and without us standing in the middle.
• A record that cannot be bought. What a yacht does stays with the yacht for ever. What you do stays with you and never transfers. It is the one thing here that money cannot shortcut.
• Rarity scales capability, never access. One yacht, whatever its class, is a complete seat at the club. Class changes how fast you earn and how much you can do, never whether you are in.
• Scarcity you can check yourself. A yacht exists because a Normie stopped existing. No mint button, no insider allocation, and the renderer is locked. The art cannot be altered, not even by us.

Every door the club has

Who is behind it

A fair question, and the honest answer is that you do not have to take our word for any of the part that matters. This club is built by members of the Normies community, and it is arranged so that trusting the people running it is not a requirement.

• The contract is immutable and the renderer is locked. We cannot change your yacht, take it back, or stop it existing. Nor can anyone else.
• What can be claimed changes only in the open. A new claim set is proposed on-chain and waits out a public delay before it counts, so anyone can see it coming and the founder can stop a wrong one. It is all on one page.
• The club holds nothing of yours. No custody, no escrow, no token approvals, and no account with us. Every yacht sits in your own wallet and trades wallet to wallet.
• Everything is CC0. The art, the data and the code are in the public domain. If this club stopped tomorrow, the collection would carry on without it and anyone could rebuild what you are reading.
• Standing cannot be bought, including by us. Anchor points are computed from the chain's own record of what you have held. There is no switch here that grants one.

Where to find us

The code and the data are open at the public API and the Shipyard, both linked above, so anything said above can be checked against the chain rather than taken on trust.