Art or money?
Credits are pictures made from payments. Eighty Credits make a Statement. Lock a Statement and it releases Balance: money that draws a picture of every wallet holding it.
Each step is a choice.
A Credit is a picture. A Statement is a page of them. Balance is money. Nothing happens by itself. The holder decides when to take each step, and each one is permanent.
Payment > Credit
A Credit is a small picture made from a payment. Each $8 payment left a receipt, and that receipt became the image: the transaction ID set the four printing plates, and the time of day chose the inks.
- Edition
- 122,154, one per payment. No more will be made.
- Rating
- From 80 to 800. Rarer traits rate higher.
- Choice
- Keep it, trade it, or burn it with 79 others to make a Statement.
Credits > Statement
A Statement is one page holding 80 Credits, arranged by whoever makes it. Making one burns those 80 Credits, so the page becomes their only form.
- Edition
- 1,526 at most. Each one burns 80 Credits.
- Rating
- The sum of the 80 ratings it holds.
- Choice
- Keep it as a picture, or lock it to release Balance.
Statements > $BALANCE
Balance is the money. Lock a Statement and you receive one Balance for every rating point it holds. Balance is a token on Ethereum, so it can be split, sent or sold, and every wallet that holds some is drawn as its own artwork, redrawn whenever the amount changes.
- Supply
- 53,750,000 at most. Only locking a Statement releases more.
- Rate
- 1 rating point = 1 Balance, the same for everyone.
- Choice
- Locking is permanent. There is no way back to the picture.
Your wallet becomes the artwork.
You don’t need a Statement. Balance already released trades on Uniswap. The first Balance a wallet receives draws its artwork: the amount in pixel numerals, underlined in its inks. Every change redraws it.
Choose an amount. Uniswap opens with it filled in: ETH in, Balance out.
This buys existing Balance. Review the price and network fee on Uniswap.
The artwork stays with the wallet. It can’t be sold or sent.
No wallet is connected on this page.
0x3620540c994433D7B4a628C46d2ED5F92572eA07Balance is a material. New work is being made from it.
Balance came out of pictures. Bars, the first work built on it, turn it back into objects.
Bars
Bars seal Balance into numbered objects. Bar #1 holds 1 Balance, Bar #2 holds 2, up to Bar #10,000, each in its own vault. Minting runs for eight days. After the close, only a Bar’s owner can melt it and take the Balance out.
Preview Bars
KYCM
Details to follow.
Making something for holders? Find wallets by amount and time held, or see who holds Balance today.
Twenty properties of sound money.
The other half of the question. Where Balance stands on each property, read from its rules and from live chain data. A reading of today, not a promise about tomorrow.
Reading the chain and the market…
The longer reading, with the market and what is still missing: Rules of Exchange.
Collectors decide.
A Credit can stay a picture or join a page. A page can stay a page or become money. Only the holder chooses, and neither step can be undone.
For the full account, read the whitepaper.