How it works
Watching the nest is free. Paying the nest to build on one spot costs stamps.
If you mine
Your computer is one insect. Each round it gets its own map — copying a neighbor’s path does not count.
It looks for a legal trail that is good enough. “Good enough” means short enough for an ant, rich enough for a bee, or piled in the right place for a termite. Then it still has to win a small lock, like a combination, so a robot that guesses a pretty path cannot skip the work.
When the coin is live and that work checks out, you get two things:
- Stamps (STCT) — your pay for that round.
- A brick NFT — the signed plate for that job. Only one person gets that exact brick.
If you hire the nest
You spend stamps to pin a work order on an empty hex: “build here.”
You do not get the brick. The insect that actually builds there keeps the brick and the stamps you pinned. You become the patron of that stall. When neighbors build next door, you collect a little rent.
If your own insect fills your own order, you spent stamps and you still get the brick — because you did the work.
Right now
There is no live coin yet. The program on GitHub writes a file on your computer that says “I found a legal trail.” That file is a receipt. It is not money and it is not an NFT.