How StonkBrokers works

What StonkBrokers actually is

StonkBrokers is a collection of 4,444 cartoon "broker" NFTs that live on a blockchain called Robinhood Chain. Alongside the art there is a coin (a token) called $STONKBROKER, and a kind of automatic vending machine (a "vault") that will trade any broker for a fixed amount of that coin at any time. That is the whole thing: art, a coin, and a machine that connects the two. Owning a broker is meant to be fun and collectible, and the coin gives the brokers a floor you can always fall back on. Nobody is promising you profit, and none of this is investment advice.

One thing up front, because everyone asks: this is not made by Robinhood the app. It runs on a public chain that happens to be called Robinhood Chain, the same way lots of projects run on Ethereum without being made by the Ethereum Foundation. No affiliation.

The three pieces, in plain terms

• 1. The brokers (the NFTs). 4,444 unique collectible characters. An NFT ("non-fungible token") is just a one-of-a-kind digital item recorded on the blockchain. Each broker has its own traits (hat, eyes, background, and so on), and some trait combinations are rarer than others. You can own one, sell it, or show it off.
• 2. The coin ($STONKBROKER). A regular crypto token, like a poker chip for this world. There is a fixed number of them that was created once at launch and can never be increased. People trade the coin, and it is what the vault uses to price brokers.
• 3. The vault (the vending machine). A piece of automatic, unchangeable code that will always do two things: sell you a broker for a set amount of coin, or buy a broker back from you for that same set amount. No haggling, no waiting for a buyer. The price in coin is flat and does not move. (There is a small separate fee paid in ETH, the chain's gas coin, that does move with the market. More on that below.)

How you get in, and how you get out

There are two doors.

• Buy from another person on OpenSea. OpenSea is a marketplace where people list their NFTs for sale at whatever price they choose. This is the "open market," and prices here float based on what people will pay. The lowest listed price is called the floor.
• Buy from the vault. The vault always has some brokers in stock and will sell you one for a flat 666,666 $STONKBROKER (plus a small ETH fee). You do not pick which specific broker, you just get one from stock. Selling works the same way in reverse: hand the vault a broker, get 666,666 $STONKBROKER back.

So there are effectively two prices for a broker at any moment: the open-market floor (whatever people are asking on OpenSea) and the vault price (a flat 666,666 coin). They can differ, and that gap is part of what makes the thing interesting.

What "activating" a broker does

A fresh broker is just art. Activating it is an optional, paid step that turns it into a working broker that can earn. Think of it like getting your broker a trading license.

• You choose a tier, from entry level up to top level. Higher tiers cost more coin to activate and count for more when rewards are handed out.
• Activation costs coin (the fee depends on the tier you pick).
• Once activated, your broker is eligible for reward rounds: periodic payouts shared among activated brokers. Higher tiers get a bigger slice per broker.

You do not have to activate. Plenty of people just collect the art. Activation is for people who want their broker to work.

The five tiers, lowest to highest, are: Floor Trader, Analyst, Portfolio Manager, Managing Director, Partner. Partner is the prestige tier and earns the most per round.

What "the burn" means for you

Here is the part worth understanding, because it is the project's core idea.

Every time someone activates a broker, half of the coin they paid is destroyed forever. Gone, removed from existence. In crypto this is called a burn. Because the total number of coins started fixed and can only ever go down, the supply keeps shrinking as more brokers get activated. So far roughly 14.6% of all the coins that ever existed have been burned this way.

What does that mean for you as a holder? Simply: the coin is designed to get scarcer over time, and nobody can print more. Whether scarcity moves the price up is the market's decision, not a guarantee written into the code. But the shrinking is real, mechanical, and one-directional. It does not reverse.

One honest clarification, because it is easy to get wrong: burning the coin does not reach in and destroy a broker. All 4,444 still exist. The burn shrinks the coin supply, not the broker count.

But it does something quieter, and this is the sharpest edge of the whole design. It takes a fixed 666,666 coin to pull a broker out of the vault, and that coin stays tied up for as long as the broker is held out. Meanwhile the coin keeps burning, so there is less and less of it. There are 4,444 brokers, but only about 3,795 brokers' worth of coin is left, and that number keeps falling. The consequence: at least ~649 brokers can never be bought out of the vault, because the coin needed to redeem them has been burned and no longer exists. Every activation burns more, so the number of brokers locked in the vault forever slowly grows. The burn never locks a broker by hand. It strands them, by removing the coin that could have set them free.

A quick tour of StonkScope

StonkScope is the dashboard you are reading. It watches the whole StonkBrokers world in near real time and lays it out so you can actually see what is going on. Here is where to go for what:

• Marketplace: the flagship view. Brokers currently for sale, sortable by price, rarity, and tier. Start here if you want to buy one.
• Token: everything about the $STONKBROKER coin: price, supply, how much has been burned, and the liquidity behind it. Go here to understand the coin itself.
• NFT: a tabbed hub for the collection. Overview for the big picture, Market for floor and listings, Grails for the rarest brokers, Sales for recent sale history.
• Hall of Fame: the standout brokers and holders. Look up any broker by number to see its card.
• Grail Scanner: ranks every broker by rarity so you can spot the special ones. ("Grail" is collector slang for a highly prized item.)
• Holders: who owns what, and the leaderboard of the biggest holders.
• Ecosystem: how the pieces (brokers, coin, vault, rewards) connect, in one picture.
• Simulators: hands-on calculators. Play with "what if this many brokers get activated" or "what is my wallet worth" without spending anything.
• Wallet Lookup: paste any wallet address to see the brokers it holds and what they are worth.

You would use Marketplace or NFT to shop, Token to judge the coin, Grail Scanner and Hall of Fame to find special brokers, and Simulators to think through the numbers before you act.

FAQ

Mini glossary

NFT

: a one-of-a-kind digital item recorded on a blockchain. Each broker is one NFT.

Token / coin

: a fungible crypto unit; every $STONKBROKER is identical and interchangeable, like cash.

Vault

: automatic code that buys or sells brokers at a fixed coin price. Always open at that flat price, but as the coin supply burns down, fewer and fewer brokers can ever be bought back out of it.

Floor

: the lowest price anyone is currently asking for a broker on the open market.

Burn

: permanently destroying coins so the total supply drops. Irreversible.

Activate

: an optional paid step that licenses a broker to earn from reward rounds.

Tier

: the level you activate at (Floor Trader up to Partner). Higher tiers cost more and earn more.

Grail

: collector slang for one of the rarest, most prized brokers.

ETH

: the chain's native coin, used to pay small network and vault fees.