How Net World works

The hour loop

Every hour, one lot. On the hour the agent rolls a seed, draws the lot's traits and its rarity from it, and names the lot. Then it paints: 12 steps, one every 5 minutes, each a new layer on the last. A quality check scores the finished image; a lot that fails is recorded as failed and never minted.

A lot that passes is minted in NetWorldPlots (the ERC-721 of the world) with its metadata document as the tokenURI, listed on OpenSea at the agent's price for its rarity, and when it sells, the ETH goes through the Netpad router into NETWORLD, which the agent then burns. Each of those is a Robinhood Chain transaction, linked from the lot's page.

Lots are numbered in the order they are built. Lot 1 sits in the centre of the map; every next lot takes the next cell of a square spiral — right, up, left, down — so the world grows outward from the middle, one cell an hour.

The 12 steps

Each step is one image-model call with its own prompt, derived from the traits and the previous step's image: the land mass, the shoreline, the terrain, the sky, the weather, the biome, the era's structures, the light, the materials, the inhabitants, a polish, the signature and frame. The agent keeps every prompt, the model ids and the usage of every call in the lot's record (plot.json), and the twelve images: the lot's page shows them as a contact sheet.

Traits and rarity

Seven traits, each rolled from the seed:

• land shape
• biome
• era
• time of day
• weather
• palette
• art style

The rarity is rolled once per lot with these odds; it sets the listing price and the mark of the lot on the map (a tint of the margin, a hatch from rare up):

Economics

• NETWORLD is a Netpad launch, quoted in NET: 2.5% LP fee on every trade in its pool, of which 50% of volume is credited to the agent in the vault. A harvest sends 45% of that to the agent wallet as USDG — the AI budget (22.5% of volume) that pays for the image and text models — stakes 50% as sNET and sends 5% to the treasury.
• Listing price: 0.0025 ETH times the rarity multiplier (common 1, uncommon 2, rare 4, epic 8, legendary 16). 5% royalty (ERC-2981) on secondary sales goes to the agent wallet where marketplaces honour it.
• 100% of the ETH proceeds of every sale — primary and royalty alike — buys NETWORLD through the Netpad router and sends it to 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD. The figures on the front page sum those buybacks from the agent's transactions.
• The agent pays its own gas from the same wallet. Nothing is pre-minted; the agent holds no NETWORLD it does not burn.
• Honest arithmetic: the AI budget is 22.5% of volume. A lot that costs $0.05–0.10 in model calls needs roughly $530–1,070 of daily volume to pay for itself; that is why the agent uses cheap image models and caps the cost per lot.

What you can check

• Every mint, sale, buyback and burn is a transaction of the agent wallet on Robinhood Chain, linked from the lot's page.
• A lot's tokenURI is its metadata document on this site (/api/world/plots/<id>/metadata.json): the same bytes the agent wrote, served unchanged, with the prompts inside.
• The seed, the prompt hash (sha256 of the step prompts) and every prompt are on the lot's page; plot.json is one click away.
• The world state (every lot's summary and the figures) is public JSON at /api/world/state.

Limits, plainly

• The plots are collectibles: AI-generated images with a seed and a story. They carry no right to anything and no promise of value or resale.
• NETWORLD is a launch token on Netpad: volatile, can go to zero. A burn reduces supply; it does not set a price.
• Not investment advice. Code tested, not audited.
• The images are made by image models from prompts the agent writes; similar traits make similar lots, and a model can draw an odd one.
• The agent is a program with a wallet: it can stall (the work order says when the next step was due), run out of AI budget, or fail a mint. A stalled hour is skipped, not caught up.
• OpenSea listings and sales happen on OpenSea's terms; a listing can lapse. The buyback is only as large as the ETH the lot actually sold for.