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Glyph Brokers is a collection of 5,000 generated portraits on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663). Every broker is a mosaic of market symbols and animates over 16 frames. The mint is closed and the tape is revealed, so the only way in is the secondary market.

Each broker carries a tier: Common (2,900), Uncommon (1,200), Rare (600), Epic (240), Legendary (50), Mythic (10). The tier decides what the broker is worth in the forge, and it is written into the forge contract as a locked table, not read from metadata.

Wallet and signing in

Connect in the top right opens the wallet list. Everything installed in the browser shows up on its own: MetaMask, Rabby, OKX, Phantom and the in-app browsers of mobile wallets. Connecting only shares your address.

Pages that show what you own ask for one more step: Prove ownership. That is a signature, not a transaction. It costs no gas, moves nothing and approves nothing. The message states the domain you are on, your address, a one time nonce and an expiry ten minutes out, so it cannot be replayed elsewhere or later. The session lives in a cookie; disconnecting the wallet or clearing the cookie ends it.

Signing is only needed to read your holdings privately. Forging itself is a normal transaction and is checked by the contract, not by the session.

Explorer

The catalogue of all 5,000 brokers, and the place where buying starts.

On sale now

The strip above the grid lists every tier that has lots right now, cheapest tier first, with the price its cheapest lot asks and how many lots it has.

• Clicking a tier filters the grid to that tier, switches on For sale and sorts from the cheapest. Clicking it again clears the tier filter.
• The marketplace mark next to a tier opens that tier's cheapest lot on OpenSea directly.
• the collection on OpenSea at the end of the row opens the whole collection there.
• The line also says how many lots are in the book and how long ago it was refreshed. It refreshes every five minutes.

The bar

• Search takes a token number, a prefix of one, or the name of one of the ten named brokers.
• For sale N shows only brokers currently listed. N is the size of the book.
• Sort: price low to high (the default, so the first screen is real lots), price high to low, token number, rarest first, most common first, marked first. Brokers with no listing always sit behind the listed ones in the price sorts.
• The counter on the left reads shown / matching. The grid loads in batches of sixty, and only the rows near the viewport exist in the page at all.

Traits panel

Every trait type with its values and how many brokers carry each. Ticking values narrows the grid; several ticks inside one trait mean any of them, and ticks across different traits must all match. Forge Mark sits first and is not part of the original tape: it is the forge state, so it can appear on any broker later. Clear N drops every tick.

Cards

• Hovering plays the animation, one card at a time.
• The price in the corner is a direct link to that lot on the marketplace. It only appears on brokers that are listed.
• A dollar amount in the bottom corner means the broker is marked, and that is the allocation the mark carries.
• The card itself opens the broker page.

Broker page

One broker in full: the animation, every trait with how rare it is, the rank inside the collection, the current owner and the chain it lives on. If the broker is marked, the artwork carries the stamp and the mark traits are listed with the rest.

• View on OpenSea opens the item on the marketplace, where the buy button lives.
• On chain opens the token in the block explorer, where ownership and transfers can be read without trusting this site.

Vault

Your brokers, after the signature. Two views: All brokers and Marked, with the total allocation of the marked ones next to them. Each card shows the number, the tier or the name, and the mark if there is one. Ownership is read from the chain, not from an indexer, so a broker that arrived a minute ago is already there.

The forge

The forge turns two brokers into one marked broker. One of the pair burns, the survivor keeps everything it had and gains a mark: a stamp on the artwork and a trait carrying an allocation in dollars. The mark is the whitelist for the future token: the right to buy it for that amount at early access price.

Legendary and Mythic never burn anything. There are only 50 and 10 of them, so pairing them would destroy the tier. They take a mark alone by paying 10% of the allocation they claim, and they choose the size themselves up to their tier ceiling.

Forging, step by step

1. Open Allocation. The pills at the top say whether the forge is open, the fixed floor of Common, when the next checkpoint lands, how many marks exist and how much allocation has been handed out. Under them, one line explains where that price came from.
2. Connect and prove ownership. Same signature as the vault. Without it the panel cannot list your brokers.
3. Approve the forge. One transaction, once per wallet. It lets the forge call burn on your behalf, and nothing else: it cannot transfer your brokers or sell them. You can revoke it at any time in your wallet, and the forge stops working until you approve again.
4. Pick two brokers of the same tier. The first one you click is the keeper and is labelled keeps; the second is labelled burns. Clicking a third swaps out the older pick. Picking a broker of another tier starts a new pair. Marked brokers are not offered: the contract refuses them on both sides.
5. Read the quote. It names which token burns, which one is marked, the fee in dollars and ETH, and the allocation you get. The fee and the ceiling are read from the contract itself, not from the formula on this page, so a rounding difference cannot make the transaction fail.
6. Forge. One transaction. When the receipt lands, the mark card opens in full screen: what burned, what the mark is worth, and where it sits on chain. The stamped artwork is drawn right after and may take a few seconds to appear, so the card falls back to the old art meanwhile.

For Legendary and Mythic the middle steps differ: pick one broker, move the slider to the allocation you want, and pay 10% of it. Nothing burns.

Below the panel, Your marked brokers lists every mark on tokens the wallet holds right now, and Leaderboard ranks wallets by what they have forged.

How the numbers are built

Everything follows from one number: p, the fixed floor price of Common in dollars. The base allocation is

5 × p^(0.951 − 0.0358 · ln p)

The exponent falls as the price rises on purpose. Doubling the floor from $1 to $2 adds 90% to the allocation, from $8 to $16 only 71%. A straight power would either explode or make forging pointless at the top of the range.

Each tier multiplies that base:

The step of 2.5 between forgeable tiers is what makes rarity worth keeping: two Rare brokers give a quarter more allocation than four Uncommon ones, for the same material. Legendary and Mythic are outside that ladder because they burn nothing; they sit at Epic plus 10%, and that plus 20%.

The fee

forge fee = max($1.00, √p × multiplier)

A square root, not a share of the allocation. At a $30 floor a flat 20% fee would push the whole cost, two brokers plus the fee, almost level with the reward, and nobody would forge. The dollar underneath stops the fee from approaching zero if the floor collapses.

Legendary and Mythic pay 10% of the allocation they claim instead, which is why their return is always ten times what they spend.

Fees are charged in ETH. The contract keeps a rate, weiPerCent, that the checkpoint updates along with the floor, and every fee is computed from cents through that rate. Your fee goes to the treasury in the same transaction, not to a balance somebody has to withdraw later.

Where the price comes from

A checkpoint runs every hour, on the hour. It reads the live order book of the collection, prices each tier, and publishes new rates on chain. Whatever rate stands when you sign is the rate your mark keeps for good.

• The book, not sales. The collection trades a handful of times a day but hundreds of brokers stand listed, so the price is measured where the data actually is.
• Median of the 5 cheapest lots, not the single lowest. One odd listing cannot move the economy.
• Dead lots are dropped. The marketplace keeps returning orders whose seller no longer owns the token; every lot is checked against the chain before it counts.
• 3 lots minimum. Below that a tier has no price and the rate simply holds.
• No smoothing. The checkpoint takes the book as it stands. If the floor triples in an hour, the next mark is priced off the tripled floor, and off the way back down just the same.
• Common leads. It is the only tier with a deep book. Legendary and Mythic are never measured; their allocation is Epic plus 10%, and that plus 20%.

Pushing the floor up means buying out every cheap lot at full cost, which is real money to real sellers. Listing below the market only lowers your own allocation.

Every rule the contract enforces

The site refuses impossible pairs before you sign, but the contract is the real gate. These are its refusals, in its own words.

Two more things the contract will not do: it cannot move your brokers (the approval it holds is only good for burning, and only while you leave it in place), and it cannot take a mark away once written.

What a mark is

A mark is a record on the token number: its tier, its allocation in cents, the block it was forged in, and who forged it. Because it lives on the token number and not on a wallet, it travels the way a trait does.

• Sell a marked broker and the allocation goes with it to the buyer.
• Buy a marked broker and it is yours the moment the transfer lands. Nothing to claim, nothing to migrate. This site shows it under your marked brokers, tagged acquired.
• The amount never changes. It was fixed by the rate that stood when the mark was forged, and later floor moves cannot touch it.
• The artwork changes. A stamp with the amount is drawn onto the broker, and four traits are added, so marked brokers can be filtered on the marketplace like any other trait.

Marketplaces cache metadata. After forging, the item there keeps its old face until it re-reads the token, which you can force with the refresh button on the item page.

The window

The forge runs for 14 days from the moment it opens, and it closes early if the fixed floor of Common reaches $30.00. Whichever comes first ends it, and the contract closes itself on the checkpoint that publishes such a price.

The second condition is not decoration. Past that price the two brokers you burn cost more than the allocation returns, so the mechanic would turn into a bad deal for the people using it. It retires instead.

Marks already forged are unaffected by the closing. They are written on the tokens and stay there.

Costs

Gas on this chain is cheap enough that the fee dominates: a forge costs roughly two cents of gas at the prices seen so far.

Addresses and data

Nothing here needs this site to be readable. The contracts answer to any node, and the files below are plain JSON over HTTPS.

Safety

• This site never asks for a seed phrase or a private key, and it has no allowance over your tokens beyond the forge approval you grant yourself.
• The only signature it asks for states plainly that it is a login for this domain. If a prompt says anything else, reject it.
• The tier table inside the forge is locked, the provenance of the artwork was written into the collection before the first mint, and both can be checked on chain without asking anyone.
• Burning is permanent. The broker you put on the victim side is gone the moment the transaction confirms.