Token — $RCHINES & Economic Sustainability

Current baseline model: $RCHINES is farmed by staking Machines. Emission is tied to fixed NFT trait multipliers, permanent Power profiles, and scheduled maintenance sinks. The exploratory two-layer model below could later replace direct farming with non-transferable Work Credits before any liquid-token distribution.

Emissions follow the formula:

Official Base Rate

The official Base Rate is 1.00 $RCHINES for each complete 24-hour farming period. It represents the output of the baseline configuration below before any premium multiplier is applied.

Rewards accrue proportionally over time. For example, the baseline configuration accrues 0.50 $RCHINES after 12 hours. A Factory New Legendary Bitcoin Station running Overclocked produces 4.74 $RCHINES per 24 hours: 1.00 × 3.0 × 1.10 × 1.15 × 1.25 × 1.00 = 4.74375.

Creator earnings actually received from eligible secondary-market sales follow the current treasury policy: 65% Liquidity Reserve, 25% Development & Operations, and 10% Collection Treasury. Marketplace support and enforcement may vary. Full capital allocation, treasury governance, and liquidity policy live on the dedicated Tokenomics page.

Possible Future Utility — Robinchines Empire

A future utility layer could take the form of a simple idle farming and management game inspired by classic incremental games. Players would begin with a small scrapyard or garage and gradually build a larger machine-based operation, visually progressing through industrial land, vehicles, factories, cities, space infrastructure, and eventually property on the Moon.

Two-Layer Economic Loop

The strategic choice would be whether to spend earned Work Credits on game progression or submit part of them for a controlled conversion into $RCHINES. Work Credits spent in the game would be permanently destroyed, reducing the amount that could later become liquid token supply.

Example Progression

• Scrapyard: first machine, workbench, and starter plot.
• Garage: repair bays, parts, mechanics, and utility vehicles.
• Industrial Farm: additional machine slots, power systems, and warehouses.
• City Network: factories, logistics, transportation, and research facilities.
• Corporation: advanced production networks and large-scale infrastructure.
• Space Expansion: rockets, orbital facilities, and high-prestige Moon property.

Purchases should visibly transform the player's property. Progression must include recurring sinks — such as maintenance, research seasons, fuel, temporary missions, and prestige resets — because permanent upgrades alone eventually stop consuming resources.

Economic Safeguards to Validate

• Work Credits should be accounting units rather than a second freely traded token.
• Conversion should draw from a pre-funded, capped reward vault instead of enabling unlimited minting.
• Each season should publish a conversion budget and rate before it begins.
• Upgrade returns should diminish at higher levels to prevent uncontrolled compounding.
• The game should primarily consume resources and award progression, cosmetics, or bounded utility rather than create another unlimited token faucet.
• Chance-based token spending and guaranteed-profit language should be avoided.

Economic distinction: destroying Work Credits is anti-inflationary because it reduces potential future $RCHINES distribution. Only burning circulating $RCHINES directly reduces the official token's total supply.

Traits Architecture & Staking Mechanics

Each NFT consists of 6 permanent functional traits that define its identity and farming efficiency:

Power Profiles

Power is a permanent NFT trait. It defines whether that Machine favors lower upkeep, balanced operation, or maximum output with a higher maintenance cost. There is no random breakdown mechanic or mutable operational trait.

Power cannot be changed or rerolled. Owners choose a farming strategy through the Machines they decide to stake.

Fixed Condition Rules

Condition represents the machine's permanent build grade, not live wear. Maintenance never upgrades, downgrades, or rerolls Condition.

A continuous farm limit defines how long a machine may produce rewards before scheduled maintenance is required. Once the deadline is reached, additional rewards stop accruing until the maintenance fee is paid. Nothing changes in the NFT metadata.

Simplified Staking State

The NFT itself contains only the six permanent traits above. The staking contract records only farming-cycle timestamps, accrued rewards, and the next maintenance deadline. The deadline follows the token and is not cleared by unstaking, preventing a free reset through repeated stake and unstake transactions.

Wallet Connection & User Safety

Robinchines discovers compatible injected EVM wallets using EIP-6963, allowing users with multiple extensions — such as MetaMask and Rabby — to explicitly choose which provider they want to use.

1. The user selects connect wallet.
2. Robinchines displays the compatible wallet extensions detected in the browser.
3. The user chooses one wallet. Only that provider receives the connection request.
4. The selected wallet may request permission to share the user's public address.

Legacy window.ethereum discovery is retained only as a fallback for wallets that do not yet announce themselves through EIP-6963. The application never chooses between multiple modern providers without user input.

Rarity & supply — locked

Distribution follows a standard 50/30/15/4/1% curve across 3,333 units. Full rarity breakdown lives in the "how it works" section and is mirrored here for reference.

Mint Allocation

Unused Guaranteed Allowlist allocation rolls into Community & Collabs. The Public allocation remains fixed at 200 NFTs; unused Community supply may reopen in an additional Community window instead of increasing the Public pool. A wallet eligible for both GTD and Community may mint up to two NFTs in each phase.

Roadmap

Roadmap status