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Every Arc block hash is a universe

Arc block height
0 / 1,387 Universes minted

That star field is the engine computing, right now. It flashes once for every new Arc block.

Detonate it. The hash gives you 23 constants: how strong gravity is, how fast light travels, how many dimensions space has. The engine takes them and runs the universe from its first second to heat death, to see whether it grows stars, planets, life.

Engine, live

Every frame is a screenshot of the engine rendering live, untouched. There is a universe with spatial dimension D = 18 in here — D is how many dimensions space has; ours has 3 — a 2.5-dimensional black plane, a D = 1 spacetime diagram and a D = 2 disc world. Universes with D above 4 make up 55% of all blocks: no stable orbits exist there, matter either flies apart or falls into the core. Draw D = 14 and the engine really runs the N-body in 14 dimensions, then projects onto the three axes you pick; change the axes and the same universe shows another face.The engine is open source — recompute it yourself.

Block 1,000,021 · 0xa95b…3356 Cosmic web with halo labels (3D) Observers possible · D=3 Detonate the same hash →
Block 20,024,723 · 0xe428…df41 Spacetime diagram of a one-dimensional universe (D=1) No stable orbits · D=1 Detonate the same hash →
Block 5,000,017 · 0x16b9…d503 Spiral galaxy, top-down Observers possible · D=3 Detonate the same hash →
Block 20,024,600 · 0xbbd5…e7bc Night side of a living planet, with city lights Observers possible · D=3 Detonate the same hash →
Block 12,000,079 · 0xb0dc…d6f9 Planetary system Observers possible · D=3 Detonate the same hash →
Block 20,027,429 · 0x971f…af5f Ringed gas giant Observers possible · D=3 Detonate the same hash →
Block 18,000,081 · 0xa227…f4c9 Lava planet surface Observers possible · D=3 Detonate the same hash →
Block 20,026,445 · 0xa25f…6dbc Surface of an ice world Observers possible · D=3 Detonate the same hash →
Block 20,027,142 · 0x8856…db32 Surface of a desert world Observers possible · D=3 Detonate the same hash →
Block 21,000,009 · 0xffff…5af1 N-body projection of an 18-dimensional universe (D=18) No stable orbits · D=18 Detonate the same hash →
Block 20,026,568 · 0x3425…5853 N-body projection of a five-dimensional universe (D=5) No stable orbits · D=5 Detonate the same hash →
Block 9,044,269 · 0x537a…860c Black plane pierced by silver lines (D=2.50) Beyond the model’s range · D=2.5 Detonate the same hash →
Block 20,024,641 · 0x2665…bf03 A disc world in two dimensions (D=2) No stable orbits · D=2 Detonate the same hash →
Block 20,374,740 · 0x0b6f…bf81 A black-hole-dominated universe (halo labels) Black-hole dominated · D=3 Detonate the same hash →

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1,387

That is all there will ever be. One universe stands for ten million years, so the full set comes to 13.787 billion — the age of this universe.

1,387×0

887 free · 1 per address

500

Paid mints · price to be announced · up to 3 per address

Three actions

Detonation is free and unlimited, minting is optional, and what you mint is yours to transfer.

1Detonate

Pick an Arc block. The hash expands on the spot into a full set of physical constants and the engine runs that universe’s whole life. Arc closes a block every 0.5 seconds and nobody has detonated any of them yet. recomputable, not selectable.The engine is open source — recompute it yourself

Detonate →

2Mint

See the result first, then decide whether to mint. 1,387 pieces, no further issuance ever. 887 are free (387 guaranteed plus 500 first-come), one per address, costing only about 0.003 USDC in gas. The price of the remaining 500 will be announced separately, with at most 3 per address.

See how it works →

3Resell

What you mint is a standard NFT. List it on the built-in market, or on OpenSea.

Go to the market →

Find your universe

Paste an Arc block height, or a 0x block hash. The block from your birthday, the block your first transaction landed in, anything. The same hash is the same universe, whoever detonates it.

One hash, one universe

Arc closes a block every 0.5 seconds, about 170,000 a day. Detonation is free and unlimited.

Minting is the part you get one shot at. One block hash grows exactly one universe and it belongs to whoever mints it first. 1,387 pieces. No further issuance, ever. Once someone mints the one you picked, there is no second copy.

ARCBANG issues no token and runs no presale or airdrop, and there is no unlock schedule. What you get is an NFT.

ARCBANGAmountNotes
Hard cap1,387The universe is 13.787 Gyr old and one NFT is ten million years; hard-coded in the contract
Free887387 guaranteed + 500 first-come, one per address, gas only (about 0.003 USDC)
After thatPrice to be announcedAt most 3 per address; the price is bounded above and below by contract constants
Secondary royalty5%Markets like OpenSea read it straight off the NFT

Four rules

Four rules, all of them checkable.

Free to detonate, mint what you want

Detonation costs nothing and has no limit. You decide whether to mint after seeing the result.

One block hash, one universe, forever

A hash can be minted once. Once someone else takes it, there is no second copy of that universe.

No token

No presale, no airdrop, no unlock schedule, and no promises of returns.

Fully verifiable

The hash is the seed and the engine is open source. The same hash computes the same universe on your machine.

On-chain status

Addresses and live state of both contracts, read straight from the chain.