THE GARDEN
Scarcity is a mood. Abundance is a habit.
Most of crypto runs on the feeling that there is not enough to go around, so you had better get yours first. I find that boring, and I do not think it is true. A grove does not run out of oranges because you shared one. It fruits harder if you look after it.
so we planted one.
HOW THE GROVE WORKS
Three rules, and none of them are about price.
Everything anyone makes here gets planted back into the same patch of ground. You are not buying a lottery ticket — you are getting a key to a plot of land and a seat at the table where we decide what goes in it.
PLANT SOMETHING
Every member can add to the grove. No permission required.
WATER SOMEONE ELSE'S
Boosting a friend's thing is the whole sport around here.
TAKE WHAT YOU NEED
Assets, files and art from the grove are yours to remix.
MY PERSPECTIVE, NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. NOTHING HERE IS AN INVESTMENT PITCH — IF YOU CAME FOR A PRICE CHART, YOU ARE IN THE WRONG ROOM.
THE MEMBERSHIP
Bros and Hose: two halves of one gang.
The NFT is a membership card, not a stock. Holding one is how the door knows you. It comes in two flavours worth exactly the same: Bros and Hose.
BROS
The lads of the grove. Loud shirts, worse ideas, first ones to help you move house.
HOSE
The ladies of the grove. Better taste, sharper aim, and they actually finish the projects.
WHAT IT OPENS
The private rooms, a vote in the Law room, your pixel self in the world, and the files behind everything we make.
THE NUMBERS
700
CORE PIECES · THE GANG ITSELF
77
DERIVA PIECES · THE SIDE BRANCH
700 core members, then 77 Deriva pieces grown off the side of the main branch — collaborations, experiments and one-offs made with people in the grove. Deriva holders are in the gang too. No season two, no surprise second drop.
777 total, and that's the lot.
THE TRAIT SYSTEM
Traits are not rarity scores. They are the character sheet.
HOW THEY ARE BUILT
Peel, leaf, glow, backdrop, and the one that decides how it behaves. The same layers that make your orange look the way it does are what your avatar wears when you walk into the rooms on this site.
WHAT THEY ARE FOR
A trait should unlock a thing, not just move a number. A glow trait lights a room differently. A leaf trait gets you into the garden channel. A loud trait gets you on the stage.
STATUS · HONEST VERSION
The gang is real. The art is real. The trait system is the concept, the roller next door is a toy, and the on-chain hookup is not live yet.
SHAKE THE TREE
Pull a trait set and see what falls out.
EASTER EGG FOUND · 1 IN 40
THE PLANK
One orange in the grove is lying face down, perfectly stiff, on top of something it should not be on top of. Nobody voted for it. It is in the collection anyway. If you pull one, you are legally obliged to plank in the group chat.
it's 2011 forever somewhere.
SOMETHING RARE IS IN HERE
One combination in the table is an Easter egg that has no business existing. Keep shaking. You will know it when you see it.
PIXEL COMPATIBLE
Built to survive being squashed into 16 bits.
Every trait is drawn so it still reads at sprite size. The same orange that hangs in the gallery walks around the 16-bit layer of this site, and later stands up in the 3D world wearing the same fits. One set of traits, three resolutions, no redraw. If you make pixel art, the trait layers are shared files — draw a hat, and a hat is what 777 oranges can wear.