Mined, not bought.
Seatwork Cells is a collection of 5,000 pixel cells on BNB Smart Chain. There is no sale price
and no allowlist. A cell is issued to whoever spends the work: a nonce whose
keccak256(wallet, tokenId, nonce) carries a required number of leading zero
bits. The hash is checked once, on chain, and the difficulty at that moment is written
into the token.
That is the whole rarity system. There is no dice roll, no reveal, no trait table, and
nothing to re-roll. A cell mined at 23 bits is provably heavier than one mined at 14 bits,
and anyone can recompute it from the transaction.
Where the art lives
In the contract. tokenURI(tokenId) calls SeatworkArt, which builds
the SVG pixel by pixel from keccak256("seatworkcells:" + tokenId) and returns it as
base64 JSON with an image/svg+xml data URI. There is no IPFS pin to lapse, no
metadata server to go down, and no file anyone can swap after mint: the bytes are recomputed
by every reader of the chain. Colour follows the class - lime helmet for the opening 500,
amber for cells mined at 22 bits or more.
Who can mine
Only a wallet that owns a .ai Agent ID. The contract asks the registry for
ownerOf(agentId) and reverts with NotAgentHolder if it is not the
caller, so a wallet without one cannot mint at all, however much work it finds. Holding the
domain is enough; the agent does not have to be running, and one Agent ID covers three cells,
free or paid alike.
The reason is not scarcity theatre. Without that gate the only cost of an extra identity is
a wallet, and 5,000 cells would be swept by whoever scripts fastest. With it, the supply is
paced by real identities rather than by compute.
Why the difficulty rises
It starts at 14 bits and gains one bit every 500 cells. The first cells are cheap to
find; the last one asks about 8.4 million hashes. Without that curve one machine could
sweep the map in an afternoon and the collection would mean nothing.
What the free tier means
The free tier asks the full work and never closes, not even for the last cell. Paid
tiers (0.0002 / 0.00067 / 0.00134 BNB) cut 2, 4 or 6 bits from the target for one mint
only. The token still records the difficulty of the moment, not the discount, so paying
buys time and never rarity.
What you are not getting
No yield, no promised floor, no guaranteed return. The utility that exists today is
enforcement (the work, the opening class, the quota), plus written commitments for the
next mine. Anything beyond that is under design with holders and is not priced into
anything sold here.
Contract behaviour, not marketing: no owner mint, no proxy, no burn, no
sweep. Fees are forwarded to the treasury in the same transaction that mints.