Same Attitude.
New Waters.

Everything the site says, with the numbers behind it.

1 · What this is

Nonconformist Ducks launched in 2021 and did things nobody else was doing: the first burn mechanics, the first mutable metadata, the first RWA, the first in-collection tier system. Four collections, 22,953 NFTs, and a community that stayed through years most projects didn't survive.

The problem is arithmetic. 22,953 NFTs across four collections is too much supply for any of them to matter. The mechanics that made us pioneers in 2021 are standard today. And a static JPEG, however good the art, is no longer a reason for anyone to show up.

So we are collapsing everything into 2,222 ducks and building an economy around them.

2 · The collection

2,222 ducks. One contract. Forever.

2,000 Ducks 2.0. The bare duck body — what the community knows as the 4T. It arrives naked. Everything after that is yours to build: traits, name, story, history. No two will end up alike, because no two owners will make the same choices.

Lineage and Body

No two Ducks 2.0 are born the same. Each one carries two birth traits, fixed at mint and never editable:

Lineage — OG or Hell, split exactly 50/50 across the 2,000. Your duck remembers which fire it came from.

Body — the base color, in 12 ranks of scarcity:

Rank	Body	Total supply
1	Brown	260
2	Beige	244
3	Green	228
4	White	212
5	Grey	196
6	Light Grey	180
7	Yellow	164
8	Rose	148
9	Violet	132
10	Blue	116
11	Radioactive	68
12	Tattooed	52

Everything else — eyes, beak, hair, clothes, story, name — starts empty. That part is yours.

222 Legacy Ducks. Your original duck crosses over whole, art intact, and locks forever — no upgrades, no edits. The 2021 museum, living inside the new collection. Same membership, same rights, permanently frozen art.

Legacy opens after the burn window. Purchased with $NONCO, priced once we see how the burn lands. If you're holding a grail, nothing is being taken from you and nothing needs to be decided today.

3 · The burn window

30 days. Two paths. Pick one per duck.

Path A — Burn for a Duck 2.0. Four ducks make one. OG or Hell, any combination, 1:1. No token involved, no waiting, no claim list. Burn and mint in a single transaction.

Path B — Burn for $NONCO. Burn ducks for tokens instead. Emission depends on the TYPE trait of each duck — the rarer the duck, the more it emits.

Both paths open and close together. After 30 days, emission stops permanently. We may reopen a window in the future — that's a decision for later, not a promise.

2nd Gen and Upside are not in this stage. They are not excluded; they enter later with their own mechanism and their own table. Holders of those collections lose nothing by waiting.

4 · $NONCO

4.1 Emission

$NONCO is created exactly one way: burning OG or Hell ducks through Path B during the window. There is no team mint, no pre-sale, no unlock schedule, no inflation.

Base unit: 1 common duck = 100 $NONCO. Everything else is a multiplier.

Counts below are movable supply — tokens alive in holder wallets, verified directly on-chain in August 2026. Burned ducks are excluded.

OG Ducks

Type	Count	Multiplier	$NONCO
Royalty	2	5×	500
1-1	15	3×	300
Decoupled	38	3×	300
Assembled	270	3×	300
Deserter	1	2×	200
Bedouin	29	2×	200
Zombie	56	2×	200
Vegas Ducks	90	2×	200
Angel	150	2×	200
Upper Class	299	2×	200
Royal Army	348	1.5×	150
All others	—	1×	100

Hell Ducks

Type	Count	Multiplier	$NONCO
Dark Royalty	1	5×	500
1-1	4	3×	300
Sinner	9	3×	300
Decoupled	21	3×	300
Assembled	186	3×	300
Upper Class	41	2×	200
Horseduck	624	2×	200
Demon	526	2×	200
Gatekeeper	133	4× + 1× per soul	400 + 100/soul
All others	—	1×	100

Emission ceiling

Collection	Movable supply	Max emission
OG	7,346	879,900
Hell	6,733	1,238,700
Total	14,079	2,118,600

That is the absolute ceiling if every remaining duck went to Path B. It won't — ducks that go to a Duck 2.0 can't go to token, and Path A alone consumes up to 8,000 of them. The two paths compete for the same finite supply, which caps emission structurally. Realistic emission is well below one million.

Whatever isn't burned is never minted. The token launches deflationary by construction.

4.2 After the window

When the window closes, emission ends — completely. There is no back door, no reduced rate, no burning old ducks for tokens later. The contract simply will not emit. From that point the supply that exists is all the supply there will ever be, and it can only go down. Every action in the ecosystem burns a piece of it.

4.3 Where spent tokens go

When you spend $NONCO on something the Studio sells — a pack, a trip, an entry fee — the tokens leave your wallet and split:

Destination	Share
🔥 Burned forever	10%
Back into the project	90%

The burn is permanent and verifiable — those tokens go to the dead address and nobody sees them again. The rest goes back into the project and returns to circulation as the ecosystem runs.

Buying from another holder is different. A trait, a duck, anything on the secondary market — the tokens go to them, whole. We are not in the middle of that trade and we take nothing from it.

4.4 Pricing

Prices in the Studio are set against the supply actually in circulation, not frozen at a number we picked once. As the token gets scarcer, the number of tokens a pack costs comes down with it.

This is deliberate, and it is the opposite of what most projects do. A price frozen in nominal terms looks principled right up until the token appreciates and a pack costs more than any newcomer will pay. Then nobody new arrives, activity dies, and the appreciation eats the demand that caused it.

So the token gets scarcer and the cost of playing stays reachable. Those two only fight each other if you refuse to touch the price.

5 · The Studio

Where a blank duck becomes a character.

5.1 The character sheet

Every duck is a page, not a picture. It holds the duck itself (viewable large, editable trait by trait), a name you choose, a story you write, badges for what it has done, and its age — how long you've held it.

5.2 What transfers and what doesn't

Travels with the NFT	Stays with the wallet
Traits	Badges
Name	Age
Story

You sell a finished character — art, identity, narrative. What you don't sell is your record. Merit isn't for sale; the work is.

5.3 The welcome pack

Every Duck 2.0 comes with a free starter pack. Eyes, beak, hair — a complete basic look, identical in quality for everyone, so nobody starts behind on luck. It shows you how the machine works and leaves your duck standing in a room full of things it doesn't have yet.

5.4 Packs

Three rarity tiers at three prices. Common traits appear often in the low tier; genuinely scarce ones only appear in the top. The rarest traits are hard to get on purpose, because whoever pulls one needs to be able to capitalize on it.

5.5 Suitcases

Send your duck traveling. It comes back with traits from where it went — seasonal, location-specific, and gone when the trip closes. Retired traits never emit again, which is what gives the trait market a reason to exist.

5.6 Casting

Each month, ducks are selected for the video series episode. Selection draws on the character you built: the traits, the story you wrote, and the age of your holding. Selected ducks get paid. Your duck stops being an avatar and starts being a character with a career.

5.7 Duck vs. Duck

One-on-one games between ducks, wagered in $NONCO, with a small tax that follows the standard split. Entertainment the community generates for itself.

6 · Nonco Traits

Traits are their own on-chain collection (ERC-1155). They live in your wallet, they're yours, and you can sell them.

That matters for two reasons. A rare trait is an asset, not a decoration — pull one and you can realize it. And every trade generates royalties, which is what funds everything in the next section.

10% royalties, enforced. Both on ducks and on traits.

7 · The Pond Fund

All royalties — duck sales and trait sales — arrive in ETH.

Destination	Share
Project	70%
Team	30%

The project's 70% splits evenly between the video series (payments to ducks cast in each monthly episode) and the weekly giveaway (prize pool, drawn weekly, open to every duck).

8 · How value accrues

Hard supply. 2,222 forever. No owner mint, no expansions, no second collection of ducks.

Entry demand. Getting in requires burning old ducks. That puts buy pressure on OG and Hell for 30 days, and the window is the only way in at that price.

Real yield. A duck that earns weekly, in ETH, gets valued on cash flow instead of vibes.

Deflation. Every spend burns 10% permanently. More activity means less supply means every remaining token is a bigger piece of what's left.

Scarcity within scarcity. 222 permanently frozen Legacy ducks. Retired seasonal traits that can never be minted again. Hand-built characters that took months.

External demand. Cemetery 2021 — a revival platform for dead 2021-era projects, fueled by $NONCO — brings outside capital into the token. Designed once the core loop is proven.

9 · Rhythm

Cadence	What
Weekly	Giveaway draw
Monthly	Series episode + casting + new trait drop
Seasonal	Suitcase destinations, community events
Milestones	Legacy, 2nd Gen and Upside, Cemetery 2021

10 · Roadmap

Stage 1 — The Burn. 30 days. Ducks 2.0 and $NONCO. Both paths open, both close together.

Stage 2 — The Studio. Character sheets, packs, suitcases, trait market. Token liquidity opens. Weekly giveaway and casting begin.

Stage 3 — Legacy. 222 seats open, priced in $NONCO once the burn tells us what demand looks like.

Stage 4 — 2nd Gen and Upside. Their own conversion mechanism.

Stage 5 — Cemetery 2021. External demand layer.

11 · Honest risks

Low migration. More than half of current wallets have been inactive for years. If migration comes in low, the cap may not fill. That isn't fatal — unminted ducks and unemitted tokens simply never exist, which makes what does exist scarcer. And we can reopen a window later.

Token price during the window. $NONCO is handed out for burning and has no market until the window closes. It should be worth very little at first. That's intentional: we want people burning to play, not burning to flip. Appreciation is a Stage 2 outcome, not a Stage 1 promise.

Royalty dependence. The Pond Fund is funded by trading volume, which is cyclical. Quiet markets mean smaller prizes. We accumulate rather than distribute everything weekly, so the fund smooths across good and bad months.

Newcomer entry cost. If the token appreciates sharply, entry gets expensive for new participants. We address this by pricing against circulating supply, so the cost of playing tracks the token instead of running away from it.

Grails. Nobody is required to burn anything. Rare ducks emit far more $NONCO, and Legacy exists for people who want their original art to cross over intact. If you'd rather hold your Invisible untouched forever, that remains a valid choice.

12 · Contracts

Collection	Address
OG	0x0F4B28D46CAB209bC5fa987A92A26a5680538e45
Hell Ducks	0x7B7dAd77E4090160F9cB6BA57A5a774c12D4c28a
2nd Gen	0x488FB59d73669d5A1cDf0960214563756594C528
Upside Ducks	0xc6426937D6EF8Db8eA49E3c0FDA3BF0f24eBD561

Burns route to 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD and are irreversible.

New contracts, addresses and audit details published before the window opens.

13 · Open items

Deliberately unpriced until we have data from the burn:

• Pack prices per rarity tier
• Suitcase pricing
• Legacy activation price
• Duck vs. Duck tax rate
• Casting and giveaway pool weighting
• Emission table for 2nd Gen and Upside