A RAFT OF 4,929
The delta ran black and stayed black. 4,929 otters went under it, took each other's hands, and have not let go since.
WARDEN
#0001
The raft kept records the whole way down. These are the only four pages the ink did not take.
ENTRY 0001 - RECORDED FROM THE LOW WALL
The delta ran black one spring and never ran clear again. Everything with lungs left the water inside a week. The river otters stayed, because otters are the only animal in that valley that would rather be wet than safe.
ENTRY 0002 - 4929 HANDS, NONE LET GO
Otters sleep holding hands so the current cannot separate them, and a group of them doing it is called a raft. When the ink came, 4,929 of them took hold and went under together. The raft is why there is still a count at all.
ENTRY 0003 - ON THE MATTER OF THE STONES
Every otter keeps one favourite stone in a pouch of loose skin under the foreleg. It uses it to break shells and it keeps the same one for life. Under the ink the stones went cold, and then they stopped being stones.
ENTRY 0004 - FIRST MEASURE OF $OTTER
Whatever the stones turned into down there, it can be brought back up, and the bottom does not run dry quickly. That is where $OTTER comes from. Nobody in the raft has said out loud what happens to an otter that runs out of stone to give.
No wallet connection. No signature. Three acts on X, one address, and the raft keeps the rest.
Five marking layers, 57 traits, weights fixed before the first warden was drawn. Build a warden on the right and its odds resolve on the left.
YOUR COMBINATION
1 in 859
about 6 of the 4,929
No catalogued warden matches this exactly — which is true of nearly all of them. Only six of the 4,929 are on the shelf.
One warden in 6.83% of draws carries at least one Legendary marking — roughly 337 of the 4,929.
the stretch of water it surfaced from
one pelt, every warden — an otter carries a million hairs to the square inch, the densest coat of any animal
what the raft dressed it in afterwards
whatever it came back up wearing
carried, worn or scarred on — two in five carry nothing
These are the sampling weights, not a count taken afterwards — the collection is drawn against exactly these numbers. A trait at 2.00% lands on about 986 wardens.
They do it so the current cannot take them apart, and a group of them holding on is called a raft. That is not lore — it is what otters do. This one is real and it is counted below. Take a hand and the number goes up by you.
HANDS HELD
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One hand per person per day. No wallet, no signature, nothing to sign — the raft is the only thing on this site that costs you nothing and still counts.
4,929 otters went under the ink. The raft above is drawn from the six we have catalogued; the rest are still down there.
The index is the exhibit. Point at a line to see what came up with it.
Mint and secondary both live on OpenSea. We do not run a mint page.
Each tide lands when the one before it finishes. There are no dates here on purpose — a dated roadmap is a promise, and the raft has broken enough of those.
4,929 wardens drawn against the published table. Art finished, weights frozen, metadata written.
The ledger is open. Names go in by hand and are checked against X by hand. It closes when it closes.
Mint opens on OpenSea. 0.0003 ETH on Ink Chain. Allowlist is drawn from the ledger first.
The pouches open. $OTTER begins accruing against committed wardens.
$OTTER becomes redeemable against the board. $KRKN staking opens alongside it.
An otter that cannot drown can still be spent. The dredge is where that happens, and it is the only place the raft turns fiction back into something you can hold.
A warden is committed to the dredge. It never leaves your wallet — the dredge reads the stone, it does not take the otter.
$OTTER accrues against the warden for as long as it keeps working the bottom. Rarer markings pull up more.
$OTTER leaves the fiction — traded out for ETH, or for hardware. The board opens when the dredge does.
THE PRIZE BOARD
$OTTER is meant to leave the fiction. The board opens with ETH and with hardware — GPUs among them — and every exchange rate will be published in full before a single unit is burnable. We are not going to post a rate we might have to walk back.