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The short version
A fixed flock
897 Ducks 2.0 exist. The fire that minted them is out; no new canvas will ever be created.
A character, not a picture
Each duck is built trait by trait, named, given a story. When it's sold, the look travels with it.
A career in the Studio
Runway tournaments, castings for the series, trips, games, a monthly draw. Your duck is the ticket to all of it.
Paid in ETH
Prizes and the monthly draw are paid in ETH, funded by royalties. $NONCO is the Studio's currency, and it only burns.
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The duck
Nonconformist Ducks started in 2021 and grew to 22,953 NFTs across four collections. Over 30 days in September and October 2026, the old flame burned almost all of it down: four old ducks for one new one, or old ducks for $NONCO. What came out is the Duck 2.0, an ERC-721C on Ethereum with royalties enforced on-chain.
Canvas785Crossed stripped bare: a body and a soul, nothing else. Yours to build. The canvas window is closed for good.
Legacy1122021 ducks that crossed whole, art frozen forever. 110 seats are still open to holders of an original duck.
Total897Every Duck 2.0 in existence, read live from the contract.
Body and skin
Every canvas belongs to a lineage, OG or Hell, and a body family (Brown, Green, Grey, Radioactive, Tattooed and more). Traits are drawn per lineage, so an OG wears OG and a Hell wears Hell. Within its family a duck can change skin (Tanned, Sailor, KGB, Infected and others), paid in $NONCO each time. The family itself never changes.
The character sheet
A duck is a page, not a picture: its look, a name and a story you write, and a personality profile (attitude, courage, vice, talent) that castings read when they choose who gets a part.
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Building a character
The Studio editor stacks traits in seven drawers: background, clothes, eyes, beak, glasses, hair and hats, and extras. Some extras cover the whole head, so they replace hair and glasses. You can try combinations freely; what you wear is what you own.
Draft, published, unlocked
Draft→Published→Unlocked
- Draft: you're playing with your inventory. Nothing is locked.
- Published: for a small $NONCO fee, the traits lock onto the duck, the image is composed and the NFT on OpenSea shows your build. Published ducks can travel, enter castings, the Walkoff and the monthly draw.
- Unlocked: for a fee, the traits return to your inventory and the NFT goes back to a blank body. Nobody can sell a look they no longer have.
What travels with a sale
| Goes with the duck | Stays with you |
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| Published traits, name, story, skin | Badges and rank, unpublished inventory, $NONCO balance |
The buyer gets exactly what they see. That's why a well-built duck can be worth more than a blank one: you're selling a finished character.
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Getting traits
The catalog holds 1,341 hand-drawn traits across five tiers, from common to legendary. Each has a fixed maximum supply, and 12,314 units are already in holders' inventories.
Packs
Limited editions sold for $NONCO. Every pack shows its odds per tier before you buy, and each step up in price pays off in better odds.
Travel souvenirs
Send your duck on a trip and it comes back with a suitcase of traits from that destination. Souvenirs never appear in packs and retire when the trip closes.
The market
Holders list traits for $NONCO. Buy what you're missing, sell what you'll never wear. A 10% fee applies to the seller.
Fusion
Burn two traits of the same tier and get a new one of that tier, free. Rare fusions jump one or more tiers. Fewer duplicates, more scarcity for everyone.
Prizes add more: games, Duck of the Month and Numbers pay out in packs.
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What your duck does
Every two weeksThe Walkoff
A runway tournament around a character brief. Bracket format, a duck jury scoring fidelity, harmony and originality. US$100, 50 and 25 in ETH to the top three. Entry: 50 $NONCO.
MonthlyCastings
Roles for the Nonco series, each with a brief. An AI judge reads your duck's look and character sheet against the role. Selected ducks get paid.
SeasonalTravel
Destinations with a fixed number of seats, a ticket in $NONCO and a few days away. The duck stays in on-chain custody while it travels and can't be sold until it's back.
Always onGames
Duck Race and Poke Vercho, wagered in $NONCO with provably fair draws. Numbers, a free hourly guess that pays a pack. Duck of the Month, a free vote with packs for the top three.
MonthlyThe ETH draw
Every published duck is one entry. This month: 237 ducks and a 0.0105 Ξ pot that grows with royalties until the draw.
ForeverBadges and rank
Coins earned for what you do, from your first pack to your hundredth win. Your rank climbs from Egg to Legend and never goes down.
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$NONCO
$NONCO is the Studio's currency: packs, flights, skins, publishing, tournament entries. It was minted only one way, by burning old ducks during the 30-day fire, and that window closed on October 3, 2026. There is no team mint, no presale and no unlock schedule.
On-chain supply700,914Read live from the token contract.
Every spend10%burns, permanently. The rest returns to the Studio's stock.
New tokens0Emission ended with the fire, for good.
Where to get it
- The Pond Bank sells $NONCO in packs for ETH. It's not new emission: it's tokens players already spent, back in circulation. Its price is indexed to supply, so it rises as the supply burns.
- The vault connects your Studio balance with your wallet: deposit $NONCO to play, withdraw it on-chain whenever you want, within a daily limit.
- Prizes and promos, like the 100 $NONCO every new holder gets until December 31.
There is no liquidity pool by design. The Studio is the counterparty, so the token isn't exit liquidity for anyone.
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ETH rewards
Duck sales on OpenSea→10% royalty in ETH→Pond Fund→Draw · Walkoff · Castings
Royalties are enforced by the contract itself, so every secondary sale pays into the pond. That ETH is what funds the monthly draw, the Walkoff prizes and the castings. Nothing you win is a token we printed, so rewards put no sell pressure on $NONCO.
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Why hold a duck
Scarcity you can verify
The canvas count can never grow. 897 ducks for a community that already plays every day, readable on-chain by anyone.
Your effort becomes the asset
A built duck carries its traits, name and story when it changes hands. The time you put into a character is something you can sell.
It pays in ETH
Tournaments, castings and a monthly draw paid in ETH, open only to ducks. A blank duck in a drawer earns nothing; a published one is in the game.
There is always something next week
A Walkoff every two weeks, a casting and a draw every month, new destinations and new trait drops. The pond doesn't go quiet.
The door is open now
Floor at 0.05 ETH and 100 $NONCO on us for any duck bought on OpenSea with ETH until December 31, enough for your first pack.
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How to get in
Buy a Duck 2.0 on OpenSea, paid in ETH→Sign in to the Studio with that wallet→100 $NONCO waiting · open your first pack
Not sure yet? Build a character for free in Studio Lite first. No wallet, no email.
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Honest risks
- It's an experiment. Ducks and $NONCO are not investments or securities, and nothing here is a promise of value.
- ETH rewards follow trading volume. Royalties are cyclical; quiet months mean smaller pots.
- The Studio runs on our servers. Your duck, your $NONCO in the wallet and the contracts are on Ethereum; traits, the market and games live in the Studio, operated by the team.
- Prices move. The floor can go down as well as up, and the bank's $NONCO price changes with supply.
- Smart contracts carry risk. They are published and verifiable, but no contract is risk-free.
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Contracts
| What | Address (Ethereum) |
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| Duck 2.0 (NoncoDucks Genesis) | 0x79121E9ffA0390c617DA70cad6D11610856a7D18 |
| $NONCO token | 0x98C3a825761F8Dbbf766293862bFCE772fef1687 |
| $NONCO vault | 0x4bb4078d69abcc98aea640b95ce6a7c102a3e8bd |
| Legacy gate | 0x929bd53f8A8dD75439DD1E93bE16963B975609b0 |
Burns go to 0x000…dEaD and are irreversible, including for us.
