The mechanic
Every bag
is mined
Bags will not be sold in a queue, they will be mined. The work will be open to anyone and checkable by everyone — and half of what the mint takes in is meant to go straight back out.
MINED
Nothing is handed out
No allowlist, no reserve, no early tier. A bag will be earned by work, the same way for everyone, until the supply is gone.
WORK
Proof of work
A valid hash opens the door, the mint price walks through it. One solution, one bag, and the price climbs with every bag taken.
FIXED
One frame, always
Whatever the mint decides, it will land on the same photograph. The bag is the variable. The cat is not.
Shielded here is a look on the bag, not a claim about your wallet.
Stated as intent, not as a promise. Nothing is deployed, no contract exists yet, and this page won't claim otherwise before there is one to point at.
Where the mint price goes
Three quarters
leave the room
Mining costs work and it costs a mint price that climbs with every bag taken. Most of that price is not meant to stay with the project — it is meant to go back to the people already holding, and to the cats that came before this one.
50 %Rent, straight back to every bag already mined
15 %Buys $ZCAT, paid out to holders
5 %Buys $TACZ, paid out to holders
5 %Buys $ZCAT and burns it
25 %Project — work, hosting, the next bag
And it does not stop at the mint: 5 % of every secondary royalty buys $ZCAT too — burned and paid out to holders, on the same weekly rhythm. The collection keeps paying back long after the last bag is mined.
Rent settles on-chain with every mint. The token payouts run weekly off-chain, on a fixed snapshot block, with every purchase and every transfer published. No returns are promised and none are owed — what goes out depends entirely on what comes in.
