Normies Yacht Club is a fully on-chain, CC0 collection of generative pixel-art yachts — each born from a burned Normie — and a navigable 3D marina where every yacht sails in real time. Most projects hand you a picture. Here, you get a place, a club, and a direction.
Four classes, from the common base to the marquee. Rarity is earned, not assigned — the burned Normie decides it. See how rarity works →
Every yacht is generated from the exact Normie that was burned to create it — its identity is its provenance. Supply is burn-gated: it grows only as Normies are burned, so no class can ever be inflated into existence. The art and traits live entirely on-chain and are permanently frozen. The claim is free — you pay only gas.
NYC didn't 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.
The Normifesto is an independent community guide to what the Normies are, how burning works, and where their world is going. It's the best place to understand the ground NYC is built on.
"This was never about building another collection on top of the Normies — it's a layer built for them. We build for them, not over them."
None of this is a promise for later — it's running right now, on the live site:
islandsOpen = false, totalIslands = 0). Opens at the close of the second Regatta season.Season I is a test, and we say so out loud. It is a standings season, in 2D. We shipped the skeleton first because the hard part of a competition isn't the animation — it's whether the scoring is fair, whether a small holder can win, and whether it can be gamed. Those answers come from running it with real people. Season II is that lesson applied: four divisions instead of three, so a five-yacht holder is not measured against a fifty-yacht one, and a Commodore's Cup decided on watches kept rather than points — the overall title going to whoever showed up most, not whoever holds most. Season III is the real race: a timed course on the water, buoys and gates, live heats. Fairness first, animation after.
The wider point: we're proving that a small economy — earning, spending, competing — can be fair and alive while nothing is at stake. Get that right, in the open, and the same rails can carry more later.
NYC is a long game, built in the open. At the close of the second Regatta season, holders will burn 10 yachts to forge an Island — and those Islands become Agent Islands: open, on-chain worlds where autonomous NFT-agents — yours and other collections' — live, act and interact. As the era of Agent NFTs begins, NYC is building to be its first open home.
All of it in one place. The direction is a single 3D world you sail into — the marina, the season, the tools, the islands — rather than a scattering of pages. The Shipyard is where that world starts growing sideways: anyone can build on the fleet, and what gets built comes aboard.
And the Normies come with us. They are the founding citizens of this world — their agents get a home here, not a copy. This is a direction we're sailing, not a dated promise. What's above under "Live today" is what you get now.
You don't have to trust our word — the collection is public and checkable:
Contract (Ethereum mainnet) — read ownerOf / balanceOf / claimed yourself:
Recompute the rarity from the public CC0 API, or read the contract on Etherscan.