The Simulated Universe

How it works

How the draw works.

From the gate pass to the close, in order. Each edition is sized by a number from its own result.

  1. Deploy

    The obit and the first event mint to the author. One postulate. One first event.

  2. The gate pass

    A compressed NFT on Solana, good for one free draw. It can’t be sold or transferred: it stays with the wallet it was sent to. Passes go by snapshot to the holders of a memecoin on Solana that hasn’t launched. The coin and the snapshot date will be announced. A snapshot is a record of which wallets hold the coin at one moment. Each qualifying wallet gets its pass directly: there’s nothing to link or claim. See the gate pass page.

  3. The allowlist opens

    Opening the allowlist mints every pass at once, straight to every qualifying wallet. It happens once: no pass is minted after it. From then on a pass is good for one free draw, with no deadline. Each unclaimed pass holds a slot in reserve, so the editions can’t sell out from under a pass holder. Until the public draw opens, pass holders can also buy more draws. A used pass is stamped used and stays with its holder as a keepsake.

  4. Public

    When the public draw opens, anyone draws, at about $5 each in SOL, up to ten per transaction.

  5. The draw

    You don’t pick a token. Each draw takes a random slot from the 2,955 that remain and becomes that token’s next edition — Fine Structure #42/137. Small editions are rare because they’re small.

  6. The rare pull

    Every draw can also pull one of the 65 researcher portraits. The odds are portraits left ÷ slots left, like a shuffled deck: if every slot is drawn, every portrait is pulled, and the first minter’s odds equal the last’s.

  7. The reveal

    Each draw asks ORAO, a verifiable random function on Solana, for its randomness. Its items, and any portrait it pulls, come from that answer, which no minter and no one running the sale can predict or change. Draws reveal in order, usually within a minute, and anyone can reveal the next in line. If ORAO never answers, the draw can be cancelled after a day, and everything comes back but ORAO’s fee.

  8. The cascade

    When the last fixed slot is drawn, the series reaches its asymptote and the cascade opens: an open edition at the same price, drawn from a pool of 4,096 rolled in advance. It may also open before that. It stays open until the close.

  9. The close

    The close ends the public draw and the cascade. Any slots still unsold go to the author, drawn by the same randomness, so their traits can’t be chosen. Slots held for unclaimed passes stay claimable.

  10. What a draw costs

    Besides the price, every draw pays Solana’s own costs: about 0.003 SOL per item for the NFT’s storage, which stays with the NFT, and about 0.002 SOL per transaction for the randomness. A free draw costs only these: about 0.005 SOL. About twice that is held while the draw waits, and the rest comes back. The draw shows the exact sum before your wallet asks.

  11. Permanent

    Every item is a Metaplex Core NFT on Solana. Its plate, its live piece and its metadata are on Arweave, stored for good, and every trait was dealt before the sale from a published seed.

The master's numbers

Each edition is sized by its own result.

Edition sizes2,957 fixed
Edition size of each chain token: 24, 628, 4, 1, 226, 282, 41, 8, 1, 248, open, 151, 123, 137, 67, 16, 693, 307.020040060000 The diamond2401 Modular flow62802 The area law403 The obit1 · reserved04 The partition22605 The clock rate28206 Time as ticks4107 Gravity808 The first event1 · reserved09 The line24810 The cascadeopen · from the asymptote to the close11 The ruler15112 The 10⁻¹²³12313 Fine structure13714 H₀ from a bench6715 Dead pixels1616 The Little Bang69317 The bench test307
Data
Edition sizes
TokenEditionFrom
00 The diamond24V4=π24 τ4V_4 = \tfrac{\pi}{24}\,\tau^4
01 Modular flow6282π2\pi
02 The area law4S=A/4S = \mathcal{A}/4
03 The obit1the one postulate
04 The partition226η=2.2589\eta = 2.2589
05 The clock rate282ln⁡SH=281.7\ln S_H = 281.7
06 Time as ticks411/γ0=4.1×10121/\gamma_0 = 4.1\times10^{12} yr
07 Gravity88πG8\pi G
08 The first event1only the first ejects forward
09 The line248dim⁡E8=248\dim E_8 = 248
10 The cascadeopenopen from the asymptote to the close
11 The ruler151rd=150.71r_d = 150.71 Mpc
12 The 10⁻¹²³12310−12310^{-123}
13 Fine structure137α−1=137.032\alpha^{-1} = 137.032
14 H₀ from a bench67H0=67.11H_0 = 67.11
15 Dead pixels16q2=16q^2 = 16
16 The Little Bang693steps at nln⁡2n\ln 2
17 The bench test307ΔWsat=0.307 kBT\Delta W_{\rm sat} = 0.307\,k_BT
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