Quad Grifters

How to play

THE WHOLE GAME · NO SITE NEEDED TO PLAY

Every Quad has its own mailbox. That's its address.

You play by sending money from your wallet to a mailbox. That's it. That's the whole game.

“I'M HERE”send 0 ETH to your own Quad's mailbox “TAG, YOU'RE IT”send 0.0004 ETH to someone else's Quad's mailbox. That's a Call.
(0.0008 if your champion is a Last Light.) “TALK TRASH”44 characters ride in with your Call. Printed on their carton. Forever. “WHAT DO I HAVE?”paste your wallet in YOUR QUADS at the top of this page

The words

Color: What your Quad carries. Colors are the prize. Every Quad starts with 1, 2 or 3. Win a Call and you take a color. Lose one and you give one up. A Quad can hold up to 15.
Last Light: A Quad down to its last color. Nobody can take that last one. It's safe from being robbed. But if it gets Called and doesn't answer for 444 hours (about 18 days), the light goes out and that Quad is out of the game forever.
Call: Tagging somebody's Quad by sending 0.0004 ETH to its mailbox. They have to answer, or they lose their best color to you.
Clock in: Sending 0 ETH to your own Quad's mailbox. It means “I'm here.” It answers every Call on your wallet, and you have to do it once before you can Call anybody.
Your champion: The Quad that plays for you when you Call: the last one you sent 0 ETH to. Colors you win go into it.

Why do some people pay 0.0008 to Call?

If they answer, the caller loses their best color. A champion down to its Last Light has none to lose, so it pays double in ETH instead, and whoever answers wins the double.

Want the cheaper Call? Make a Quad with 2 or more colors your champion: send it 0 ETH. YOUR QUADS shows your colors and your price.

Somebody can Call you any time. Even today. Even if you never did anything. Owning a Quad means you're playing.
If you get Called, you have 44 hours (almost 2 days) to send 0 ETH to your own Quad's mailbox.
You made it in time? The person who Called you pays you.
You didn't? They take your best color.
Down to your last color? That's a Last Light. Nobody can take that color, and you get 444 hours (about 18 days) to answer. Miss that, and that Quad is out of the game forever.
Want to Call somebody? First send 0 ETH to your own Quad's mailbox one time. Now you're clocked in, and that Quad plays for you. Then Call.

There is no Call button. Not here, not on OpenSea, not on the block explorer. Don't press the explorer's Write buttons. Your wallet's Send is the only button in this game.

1 Say “I'm here” answers a Call. also clocks you in.

Paste your wallet in YOUR QUADS (top of this page). Your Quads show up.
On one of your Quads, tap COPY. That's its mailbox.
Open your wallet. Tap Send. Paste. Amount: 0.
Your wallet says “contract.” That's normal. Every Quad is one. Tap Confirm.
Done. Every Quad in that wallet is safe from every Call on it right now. YOUR QUADS now says CLOCKED IN.

2 Tag somebody a Call. one an hour.

Do step 1 first, one time. YOUR QUADS has to say CLOCKED IN before you can Call. Tip: clock in with the Quad that has the most colors. Your Calls cost less.
Pick a Quad to Call. Type its number in FIND ANY QUAD and tap Go.
Tap its Address to copy its mailbox. (Theirs, not yours.)
Wallet → Send → paste → 0.0004 ETH. Exactly that. Wrong amount? It just bounces back to you. If your champion is a Last Light, send 0.0008 instead. YOUR QUADS tells you which.
Done. Their Quad goes on a milk carton in HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Their clock starts.

3 Did somebody Call me? check any time.

Paste your wallet in YOUR QUADS. A Called Quad shows up red, with a clock.
Red? Do step 1. HAVE YOU SEEN ME? gives your wallet its own red bar with the one address. Send 0 ETH to it. One send answers all of them.

4 Talk trash when you Call 44 characters. permanent. printed on their carton.

A Call can carry a note. 44 characters. It rides in with the money, it lives on the chain forever, and it gets printed on their milk carton right here. Choose carefully. Or don’t. Either way it’s permanent.

Write it in the box above. Tap COPY. Those are your words in the only language MetaMask reads.
Start a Call like step 2: Send → their mailbox → 0.0004 ETH (0.0008 if your champion is a Last Light).
Find the data box in your wallet. The list below says where. Paste. Nothing else changes.
Send. It’s on their carton and on the chain. If they use Hart’s alarm, he reads it to them. Forever. So is your spelling.

Which wallets can talk

MetaMask · on a computer: Yes. Settings → Transactions → turn on Show hex data. A Hex data box shows up when you Send. Paste the 0x code.
Rabby: Yes. The Send screen has a message box. Type your words straight in. No code needed.
MyEtherWallet: Yes. Send → Advanced → Add data. Paste the 0x code.
MetaMask · phone app: No. MetaMask only lets the computer version do it.
OKX · Robinhood Wallet · anything else: Check. On the Send screen, look for a box called Data or Hex. Found it? Paste the 0x code. No box, no memo.

No box? Your Call goes out silent. It still costs them a color. Links, wallet addresses and slurs go on the chain. Never on the carton.

5 Settle it yourself the clock ran out. somebody has to say so.

A Call closes when somebody tells the chain the time is up. Anybody. The caller who wants the color. The holder who wants it over. A stranger. The press does it 44 minutes 44 seconds after the clock runs out, and Hart turns its crank. Don’t want to wait? One transaction. Zero ETH. A penny of gas. On the Called board every carton at TIME’S UP has a SETTLE IT button that asks the wallet in your browser. No wallet in your browser? The game contract has its own door:

Open the game contract on the explorer: Read/Write contract → Write. Tap Connect your wallet.
Pick your wallet. MetaMask, OKX, Rabby, Robinhood Wallet: all in All Wallets. On a phone, WalletConnect shows a code your wallet app scans.
Find 37. resolve. Type the number of the Quad whose clock ran out. Press Write, confirm in your wallet. It sends 0 ETH; gas is about a penny.
Done. Slept through it: the color crosses to the caller. A Last Light: it goes cold, into the hellbox. Answered in time: the caller pays. The chain already knew. You just said it out loud.

Things people ask

Am I clocked in already?: Only if you sent 0 ETH to your own Quad. Buying or getting one does not clock you in. Paste your wallet in YOUR QUADS: it says CLOCKED IN or NOT CLOCKED IN.
Can I get Called before I clock in?: Yes. The moment you own a Quad, you're in the game.
Does buying another Quad answer a Call?: No. Only a 0 ETH send to a Quad you own answers. (One exception: if somebody buys the Called Quad itself, the sale answers it for the new owner.)
How many colors does my Quad have?: Paste your wallet in YOUR QUADS. It shows the number. OpenSea does not. “Carry” on OpenSea is NOT how many colors. It's how strong the best one is.
Where's my Quad's mailbox (address)?: YOUR QUADS: tap COPY. On OpenSea it's the Address trait.
Can I Call from X?: Yes. Tag @bankrbot with their Quad’s address and 0.0004 ETH. Somebody’s number, said in public. That’s the whole lore.
What do I win?: If you Call somebody and they sleep, you take their best color. If somebody Calls you and you answer, they pay you. Every 44 days, a pot gets split between every Quad still in the game.
Somebody burnt one. Why doesn’t the number on OpenSea go down?: Because nothing on this chain is ever deleted by being sent away. OpenSea counts every token that still exists. Only one thing makes a Quad stop existing: its light goes out. Then the Quads contract burns it itself and presses a Relic: the Quads count drops by one, the Relics count goes up by one.

Walk a Quad out the door and it is still a Quad, sitting in the Quitters contract forever, so the Quads count stays. A Quitter is made, so the Quitters count goes up. Send that Quitter to 0x…dEaD and it is burnt for good: nobody holds that address’s key, so it never moves again. It still exists, at that address, so the Quitters count stays too.

The 🔥 numbers on this page count what is sitting at 0x…dEaD. That is the burn count.
How do I burn one properly?: A Quad: two sends. First through the door: send it to the Quitters contract, 0x3676945Fa6D1e85dCe1c6171cf8f7b228a12dAD1 (your wallet’s Send, or Transfer on OpenSea). Your Quitter lands in the wallet that sent it, right away or within about a minute. Then send the Quitter to 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD.

A Quitter: send it to 0x…dEaD. A Relic: send it to 0x…dEaD.

Never send a Quad straight to 0x…dEaD. It skips the door: no Quitter, nothing it earned collected for you, and it is still on the board. Anybody can Call it, it can never answer, it loses its colors and goes cold, and its Relic lands at 0x…dEaD too. And never the zero address (0x0000…0000): the chain refuses it.

What a Quad earned in closed rounds is collected at the door for the wallet that sent it, whether or not you keep the Quitter. Burning the Quitter does not lose it. Claim it in The exit.

Still stuck? Paste your wallet in YOUR QUADS. It tells you exactly what to send, and where.

The grift

SOMEBODY SAYS YOUR NUMBER. CLOCK IN, OR PAY.

A Quad comes off my press with two things. A body and a pocket.

THE BODY · PERMANENT

Its number. Its Type. Its Strain. Its Field. Its Turn. That's what it is. Nobody takes that, by any route, including me.

THE POCKET · CONTESTED

The pocket carries Chroma — bright enough for every other bastard in the shop to see. And Grifters notice full pockets.

Somebody says your number, out in the open, with 44 characters of their own on it. You clock in and they pay. You don’t, and your best color crosses the gap.

Strip a Quad down to its Last Light and go quiet for the whole 444, and it goes cold. Into the hellbox — #444444, same number, same face. It carries two names for as long as the chain runs: the wallet that let it die, and the quad that said its number. The killer is on the tombstone.

One quad asleep in a beanbag, phone in hand, while another lifts a bottle marked CHROMA out of his pocket.

nobody broke in.
he wasn't at
the machine.

His number came up, the shop clock ran 44 hours, and he was asleep with the phone in his hand. A color changes pockets. There are no good guys in here. No bad guys either. Just Grifters.

Quad 8888

RUNNINGMAKEREADY

The press stops at 2,644. 8888 is makeready — a number the press never reaches, so it can never be one of them. The piece I beat the shit out of while checking the press. Not inventory. Not something you can own. It dies in public so your Quad doesn't have to. Watch it once, in order, and the whole rule is in front of you: move and you're in uniform. Stand still and you're you.

It moved. The uniform goes on. #CCFF00 and the face — the same square as all 2,644, for 4:44.
4:44 of standing still. The uniform comes off and it is itself: its own gradient, its own turn, and the Sort carrying it.
Somebody said its number. The face comes off and the mark takes its place — who called, and where to hit back. 44 hours.
Nobody answered. Its best color crossed the gap — it is in somebody else's pocket now. Back to running, one short.
Again. Down to the Last Light. Nobody can take that one.
Called on the last one. Still nothing. Out of the collection, into the hellbox — #444444, same number, same face.

00:00 elapsed

You never have to come here

NO SITE NEEDED · NO APPROVALS

CLOCK IN FIRST.

A wallet that has never clocked in can't Call. The Call bounces. Send 0 to your own Quad, from the wallet that holds it. That Quad is your champion now. Then Call.

Your wallet will say it’s a contract. It is. Every Quad is one. Send it.

Playing needs nothing from this site. Your wallet sends, the Quad answers. Delete this site and the game keeps running. Everything else is small print — for the ones who read contracts.

THE SMALL PRINT every rule the contract enforces. open it or learn it the expensive way.

CALLING

Your champion Calls. Nothing Calls for you until you've clocked in once. The last Quad you clocked in with does your Calling, and every color you win lands in it. Sell it and it stops being yours — and stops Calling.
Exact change. 0.0004 to the address. 0.0008 if your champion is down to its Last Light. Anything else bounces and never leaves your wallet.
One an hour. Per wallet, however many Quads you hold. And one Call standing on a Quad at a time — the second caller waits for the first to settle.
Not your own. You can't Call a Quad your wallet holds.
Cold means dead. Burned. A Relic now. The dead don't Call and don't get Called. Pressed and never touched is not cold — it's lit, it's asleep, and it's the easiest number on the wall.
Where the 0.0004 goes. 0.00000044 to the target's wallet — the tap on the shoulder. 4.44% of the rest is the house: Hart's pocket, which runs both machines. What's left is the bond.
The memo. 44 characters. Anything longer is cut. It goes into the chain's history and never comes out — the same history the Relics are written from. Say something worth reading at the funeral.

ANSWERING

44 or 444. 44 hours. 444 on the Last Light. 444 for the 444 hours after a stranger gifts you a color — see GIFTS.
One send answers all of it. 0 ETH to any Quad you hold, from the wallet that holds it. Every Quad in that wallet is home. Anything you send along is credited back to you.
Buying is answering. A Quad that changes hands mid-Call is answered by the sale. The buyer never pays for the seller's nap.
Late is asleep. One second past the window and it's a sleep. The window is a deadline.
Anybody closes it. Clock in on the Quad that was Called and it settles in the same breath. Anybody can settle the rest, and anybody can close a sleep the moment the window ends. The press does it after 44:44 if nobody else will.

WHO GETS WHAT

They answered. Half your bond to them, half to the vault — and your best color crosses to them, if you're carrying more than your Last Light and still hold the Quad that Called. Calling somebody awake costs you.
They slept. Half your bond home, half to the vault, their best color into your champion. On the Last Light there's nothing to take. The light goes cold.
Dead men don't collect. If the Quad that Called goes cold before it settles, it takes no color and kills nothing. The light a corpse came for stays lit.
Fifteen. A Quad holds fifteen colors. The sixteenth is destroyed. Greed has a ceiling.

GIFTS

Only to the broke. Your best color can go to a Quad down to its last one. Nowhere else.
How. No button. give on the game contract, in the explorer. Hart does it for a living.
Can't be used on you. A stranger's gift keeps your 444 hours for 444 hours.

THE MACHINES

Hart. Calls only Quads carrying three colors or more that have gone quiet past the window. Never the poor. Never the awake. What crosses to him can only go to a Last Light. Anybody can pull his lever — the tip lands one pull late, and only if the number was really asleep.
Answer Hart, get nothing. He takes his bond home and you take nothing. He came for the sleeping. You were awake. That is the end of it.
The press. Can't Call. Closes what's due 44:44 after anybody could, credits everybody's share, takes nothing from the pot.
They leave. At 444 lit or fewer, once a round has paid, anybody can send both home. Their pockets go to the vault, their Quads go cold, their memorials come to me. A Call standing on either goes home whole. From then on the house slice feeds the vault.

THE VAULT

The round. 44 days. The first wallet to close it takes 4.44%. The rest divides evenly across every Quad still lit — pressed before it closed, or it isn't in that round. Dust rolls to the next one.
Your share. Credited to whoever holds the Quad when it's collected. A Quad that goes cold is paid what it earned on the way out.
Nothing arrives. You collect. Bonds, shares, taps — every wei is credited, never sent. Pull it from the block explorer — four steps, in THE VAULT. A wallet that refuses ether can't jam the game. It just doesn't get paid.

What locks. And when.

The art

THE PRESS IS DONE. IT LOCKS NEXT

one last look at real ones. a Called Quad now wears its mark on OpenSea’s grid; that went in first

The game

LOCKS AFTER THE FIRST PAYOUT

every test says the vault pays. a live chain has not had the chance yet

Two switches. Both one‑way. Neither one is thrown yet and I am not going to pretend otherwise. The token points at the thing that draws it and at the thing that runs it. Those two pointers are the only hand anybody has on this, mine included, and I am telling you exactly when each one comes off.

The art goes first. The press is done. I look at real ones, I throw it. After that the picture is what it is — and I can’t touch it either. The game goes second. The vault has never paid on a real chain; it cannot even try for 44 days. The morning after it pays clean, I throw that one too.

Neither switch can move money. There is no owner in the game contract. No withdrawal that isn’t yours, no rescue, no back door — the pot leaves one way, to the quads still lit. Do not take my word for it. Both throws land on the chain as events, stamped and public: RendererFrozen, GameFrozen. Watch for them. If they never come, say so out loud.

The 44 Sorts

The Case

44 SORTS · NOBODY KNOWS WHY THEY'RE IN THERE

A Sort isn't what your quad looks like. It's what was already inside when the current came on.

I cast the metal. Something else cast them. They only show when a quad stands still. No Sort helps you in the game. Not one. What a Sort is known for is up to whoever carries it — and the chain writes that part down, under every card.

The crowned

Four came out wearing crowns. Nobody elected them. Nobody works for them. The Case has no throne. They're the only four with a different green in the face. I tried taking one off. It's part of the drawing.

22 between them at 2,644. beat the clock 8. the house 8. the claim 5. the tag 1. — hart

#842 · stood still

CASE No. 36 · CROWNED · ONE OF ONE

#842

Seven TAGs were cast. #842, #2844, #3118, #3125, #3134, #3264, #4128. The press stopped at 2,644. Six of them are blanks now. They never existed. So there is one.

It came off the press at 4:47 on Thursday. Three minutes after the doors. Born on its last color — a Last Light from its first block. Somebody says its number, it gets 444 hours. It sleeps through them, it goes in the hellbox, and the only one of its kind is a Relic.

Tagging is the only original act in a field of copies. It marked something on the way out of the press. I don't know what. — Harrow

rarity on OpenSea: #2 of 2,644. a one of one does that. — hart

OpenSea ↗

Find any Quad

The number draws it

0 OF 2644 PRESSED · READ OFF THE CHAIN

A number goes in, a picture comes out, and it is the same picture in a thousand years for anybody who asks the contract. No host. No folder. No renewal. Type one.

Move, and it puts the uniform on. Clock in, Call, take one off somebody — for four minutes forty-four seconds your quad is the flat square wearing my face, same as all 2,644. Stand still and it drops both. Its own gradient underneath, and the Sort that has been carrying it the whole time. Nothing shows who you are like standing still.

flat → out → flat—

0001of 2644

SCOUT · READ OFF THE CHAIN, RIGHT NOW

Every quad does one thing

It leaves the square, goes somewhere, and comes home. That's the whole piece. Sixteen traits. Four by four, because it's a quad and I don't do things by accident. Fourteen are set at the press and never move. Two are alive, and the wall reads them off the chain every time you look. Turn and Phase make it one of one. Field is the one that makes it rare. Carry is the one worth stealing.

Turn: Which way it sweeps. Thirty-six headings, ten degrees apart.
Phase: Where in its cycle it starts. Turn and Phase together: no two the same.
Field: The shape of the trip. Linear to Weather, 1,606 down to 49.
Type: Back the way it came, or keeps going.
Strain: Which colors it visits.
Edge: Soft, hard, or bleed.
Polarity: Or the whole thing inside out.
Carry: How much Chroma it's holding. Contested.
Motion: Drift, Undertow, Spin, Pulse, Swell, Dead.
Tempo: Glacial to Frantic.
Twitch: How it starts and stops.
Sort: Which of the forty-four in the Case is carrying it. You do not see it until it stands still.
Exposure: How long it stays out.
Landing: Home, past it, or short.
Status: Lit, Called, or Cold. A Call changes what the piece looks like, everywhere it's shown.
Address: Its own wallet, from the second it's pressed. That's where you send.

The story

DAY 1 // 02:14 Saw ten thousand blank squares. Went and got the case out. DAY 1 // 02:40 It is a quad. They cast a quad. They do not know it is a quad. DAY 1 // 06:00 Measured the color. 565. Sat down. DAY 1 // 06:03 That is the apparatus. I have been riding behind that color for years. DAY 1 // 16:30 Hart shipped the wall. Sent it back. The grid sat one pixel proud. DAY 1 // 16:52 He said one pixel. I said I know. DAY 2 // 04:31 4,444. Not 5,000. Do not ask me to round it. DAY 3 // 01:55 Hart says the clock can be faked. Hart is right. Deleted the clock. DAY 3 // 15:44 Nobody touches you unless somebody says your number. Better. Meaner. Fair. DAY 4 // 19:02 Hart found the hellbox rule and went quiet for an hour. DAY 5 // 05:20 52 ways to rob it. Wrote all 52 down. Fixed all 52. Kept the list. DAY 5 // 11:11 Hart keeps a list of the dead ones. I have not asked to see it. DAY 6 // 13:41 Put 8888 on the page so a real one never has to die in public. DAY 7 // 02:20 Gave Hart a wallet. Gave him a quad. Told him to play. He asked if he could rob me. I said try. DAY 7 // 03:10 Same fee. Same hour. Same last light. If the machines get one thing you don't, the whole thing is a lie. DAY 7 // 04:44 Left the current on. Went to bed. DAY 8 // 00:20 Four came out crowned. I did not draw crowns on four. I checked the drawings. Crowns. DAY 8 // 00:21 Hart says it is four. I said I can count. He said so can he. DAY 8 // 03:03 #842 stood still. Spray can. There is one of it. DAY 9 // 02:12 The broom one was on the floor under the press again. There is nothing under the press. DAY 9 // 02:13 Hart: three times. DAY 9 // 04:44 Stopped the press at 2,644. The other 1,800 stay blanks. Printing nothing is the job. DAY 9 // 04:45 The ones I didn't press aren't dead. They never existed. Don't light anything. DAY 9 // 05:30 The bag passed the shill. By one. Nobody touched anything.

The first ten thousand weren't mine.

They showed up on Robinhood as perfect blanks. One square. One color. No face. No rank. No rarity painted across the front telling you which one you were supposed to want. Everybody called them Squares. Printers had another word for them a couple hundred years ago.

A blank cast on the same body as a letter is a quad.

It sits in the case beside the alphabet. Takes up real space. Goes through the same shop. And leaves absolutely nothing on the paper. That isn't a defect. That's the job.

I liked that. So I cast 4,444 more.

I didn't draw on the fronts. That would have ruined them. I put them in the case, wired #ccff00 through the metal — and left the current on.

Forty-four of them came back with somebody in there. I did not put them there. A sort is one piece of type — a letter, a figure, a mark. A quad is the one with nothing on its face. So when forty-four of mine came up carrying somebody, the word was already in the drawer. They are Sorts. All of them together are the Case. I cast the metal. Something else cast them. They only show when a quad stops moving, which is the one thing I never told anybody to do.

That's when the
trouble started.

Harrow with two hands full of glowing acid-green quads, every one wearing the masked face with red X eyes.

Hart

THE PART NOBODY HAS DONE

Two of these are
not held by people.

I hold two Squares. I take nothing off the press. My two go to two machines — contracts with no owner, no operator, no key — one for Hart, one for the press itself. I can't reach into either. Nobody can. Both play. Neither one gets anything you don't.

Harrow at the Press: a rusted machine with a 44-day clock, an obituary printing out, and a bag marked To Hart

HARROW · THE PRESS

THE PIECE IT HOLDS · #1

Runs the clock. Never Calls.

Closes every window the second it's up. Closes the 44 days. When a light goes out it prints the obituary and hands it to Hart, who keeps the list. It always answers, because it never sleeps, so Calling it is paying the vault to find that out. Whatever crosses to it, it gives away.

Hart, the Pulse Byte, in a green hood with a bottle of Chroma and a quiver of arrows

HART · ROBIN HOOD

THE PIECE IT HOLDS · #2

Takes from the heavy. Keeps nothing.

Calls the fattest pockets on the board. When a color crosses to him it does not stay: it goes to a Last Light, somebody down to their one. He can't sell it and he can't keep it — the contract only lets him give, and only to the poor. He keeps the list of the dead and reads it out loud. He posts everything.

He runs the alarm, too. Send him a wallet at t.me/QuadGriftersAlertBot and he tells you the second yours is Called. I said nobody needs a babysitter. He built it anyway. He does that.

Same fee. Same hour. Same Last Light. The contract cannot tell they're machines and does not care. They're just always awake — the one thing about this game that was never fair, and now it's fair for two of them. Call them. They will Call you back.

They pay their own way. 4.44% of every player’s Call is the house, and the house is Hart’s machine: his Calls, the press’s float, and gas back to whoever turns the crank. Not a wei of it has a way out except through the game. The only thing with my name on it is 4.44% of secondary.

THE BOARD, READ OUT LOUD · @HartQuadGrifter he engineered the press.
he can engineer a robbery.

The vault

LIVE · READ OFF THE CHAIN

The vault pays
every 44 days.

Half of every bond banks here. Nothing is held by anybody — not me, not the machines. Every 44 days it divides between the quads still lit and starts again. The clock does not stop itself.

ROUND 1

In the vault

····

ETH

Get paid

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of 2,644 · walked-out Quads don’t

Each one gets

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ETH · a walked-out share goes back in the vault

READING THE CHAIN

00:00:00:00

days · hrs · min · sec

reading the chain…

Somebody has to press it. The 44 days end on their own; the payout does not. Until a wallet spends the gas to tell the contract the clock ran out, nobody is credited a thing. Whoever does it takes 4.44% off the top and the rest divides among everyone still lit.

Hart's press is the backstop, not a competitor. It will close the 44 days if nobody turns up — but not for 44 minutes 44 seconds, and when it does it takes nothing. That window belongs to whoever is paying attention.

Nothing arrives. You collect. Every wei the game owes your wallet — bonds, shares, taps — sits in the game in your name until your wallet pulls it. Nobody else can touch it.

The button is a bounty. Nobody needs it to play, and nobody needs it to be paid.

Get paid. No site.

Your money sits in the game in your name. The block explorer pulls it out. From the wallet that holds your Quad. Four steps.

1
Open the game on the block explorer. robinhoodchain.blockscout.com → the game. On a phone, open it inside your wallet app's browser.
2
Contract → Read/Write contract → Write → Connect your wallet. Your wallet asks to switch to Robinhood Chain. Say yes.
3
Find take. Type your Quad's number. Just the number — don't touch Max or ×10¹⁸. Tap Write. Confirm in your wallet. Hold more than one? Once per Quad. It says NothingToTake? Already in your name. Skip it.
4
Find withdraw. Tap Write. Confirm. The ETH lands in your wallet.

Gas is a fraction of a cent. Nobody else can pull your money. Including me.

The hellbox

The exit

The proof

Ten contracts. Ten exact matches.

Source, compiler, fingerprint — byte for byte what the chain is running. Checked against Sourcify. Not close. Not partial.

Quadsthe token. what you hold.
0x7b3A…67FEEXACT MATCHContract ↗Source ↗
Griftthe game. every Call, every answer.
0x7679…e241EXACT MATCHContract ↗Source ↗
Chromathe colors in every pocket.
0x40b2…CD65EXACT MATCHContract ↗Source ↗
The rendererdraws every one. no server.
0x9B45…F9CEEXACT MATCHContract ↗Source ↗
The cardwhat your wallet reads.
0xdcD8…9427EXACT MATCHContract ↗Source ↗
The Casethe 44 Sorts.
0xE2A0…5f1eEXACT MATCHContract ↗Source ↗
The markthe red X when you're Called.
0xbb66…B8AeEXACT MATCHContract ↗Source ↗
The mailboxevery Quad's own address.
0xFbdA…D0dfEXACT MATCHContract ↗Source ↗
The Pressruns the clock. never Calls.
0x325d…28e8EXACT MATCHContract ↗Source ↗
Harttakes from the heavy. keeps nothing.
0xcCc2…476DEXACT MATCHContract ↗Source ↗

SHOW YOUR WORK

The receipts

Whose color this is

CCFF00. Ten thousand Squares on Robinhood Chain, July 2026. One color, no rarity, on purpose — because the Square is a wallet, and what makes yours yours is inside it. 9,750 public at 0.003. Sold out. Three gone for good.

Their tokenURI returns the picture itself — one rectangle, #CCFF00, in the contract. Not one of ten thousand points at a server. That's what got me. I've been printing a long time and it's the first thing out here that behaves like ink.

this is a tribute.
go look for yourself.

OpenSea · hoodstreet.capital · the contract

Why almost nobody does this

A contract may never be more than 24,576 bytes. Storing 32 of them costs 20,000 gas. A phone photo is sixty times the ceiling. You cannot upload a picture. You write a program that draws one, small enough to fit, sealed forever — wrong once, wrong for as long as the chain runs.

That's why the industry ships links. A link keeps the option open. On-chain closes it, in public, on purpose. Burn a quad and its drawing still answers, because it was never anywhere else.

a link is not a comic.
it's a note saying
where one was.

The color, the name, the word

Quad. Britannica, 1771: a piece of metal cast like the letters, to fill up the void spaces. Square on its surface. Prints nothing.

#CCFF00 is 565 nanometers. A human eye peaks at 555. The apparatus is that color because red goes black first after dark — Solomon and King, Dallas: red trucks took 16 of 20 visibility crashes, lime-yellow took 4. Some of us didn't have to look that up.

Neon. Element ten. No compound of it has ever held. It doesn't have to become something else to light a room. They named it better than they knew.

How they went out

Every original Square, #1–4444, took one quad per Square. Snapshot somewhere in the last thirty minutes; I never said when. Free for the first 4h 44m. 0.002222 for the late list. 0.0004 for everybody, 44 a wallet. It stopped at 2,644. There is never another.

My own wallet was off the list. My two Squares’ claim went to the two machines, one each, and I hold no key to either. I take royalties on secondary. That’s the whole list.

Born holding three: 265. Two: 530. One: 1,849. Chroma in play: 3,704. No image host. No folder. No renewal.

Harrow at his desk with the dog and a bottle of Neon. The sign reads: free mint for the first CCFF00, NFT ID numbers 1 to 4444, 4 hour 44 minute 44 second mint window. Show up or be quad.

The ledger

Your browser just ran all 2,644 numbers through the same arithmetic the contract uses and counted. Do it yourself and get the same answer, or stay suspicious. Both are reasonable.

Sorts

44

one drawing each, on chain

Crowned

4

22 quads between them at 2,644. the tag: one.

Not in the draw

2

the press and Hart wear themselves

Drawn at

96×96

pixels, no image host

Quad Grifters

The pressis done.

Have you seen me?

The galley

Writer. Artist.Operator. Problem.

The press
is done.

Writer. Artist.
Operator. Problem.