4-BIT INK 4,444 SUPPLY

24×24 pixels · 16 colours · Ink chain

4-BIT
INK

The bit is the stock.
Staking is the dividend.

4,444 bits drawn one pixel at a time, then wired to the two places money actually moves — secondary royalties and token transfers. Stake a bit and it stops being a picture you hope about. It starts paying.

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Supply

4,444

Canvas

24×24

Palette

16

Chain

Ink

Royalty

5%

Token fee

1%

The thesis

Why stake

Most collections ask you to hold and hope. 4-Bit Ink treats the 4,444 bits like a cap table. Lock one in the staking contract and it becomes a live claim on collection revenue — paid out in $BITINK, topped up by every secondary sale.

HOLD

One of 4,444

An ERC-721 on Ink. Provenance hashed and locked on-chain before the first mint, so the art can never be swapped underneath you.

STAKE

Lock it, keep it

Deposit the bit into the staking contract. Withdrawal is always open — while it sits there, it accrues its share of everything the collection earns.

COLLECT

Get paid twice

$BITINK airdropped from the 1% transfer fee, plus half of every royalty the collection takes on secondary volume.

The art

4,444 bits

Every bit is a 24×24 grid resolved to at most sixteen colours. Nothing is hand-drawn in an editor — the traits are code, the shading ramps are generated from a single skin colour, and the whole collection renders from one seed.

Twelve of the scarcest traits, on the rarest bit that wears each

Trait scarcity across the full set

TraitCategoryCountShare of 4,444

What is already built

Contract

The collection contract is written and compiled: ERC-721 plus ERC-2981, a two-phase mint, and a provenance hash that locks the art before anyone can buy it.

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4,444 immutable max supply

Set at construction, no mint function can exceed it.

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ERC-2981 royalty, 500 bps

The 5% is declared on-chain, not just requested from marketplaces.

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Merkle allowlist, then public

Two phases with separate prices and per-wallet caps.

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Provenance hash, locked once

keccak256 of every image hash, written before the first mint and never rewritable.

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Delayed reveal, freezable metadata

The base URI can be frozen permanently once the reveal is final.

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Ownable2Step

Ownership transfers require the new owner to accept, so it cannot be lost to a typo.

The staking contract and $BITINK ship after the mint. Addresses, audit status and dates get published here as they land — nothing on this page is live yet.

Questions

FAQ
What does "the bit is the stock" actually mean?

It is a description of the cash flow, not a legal claim. The 4,444 bits are the only things that can be staked, and staking is the only way $BITINK is distributed — so the NFT is the instrument that collects the collection's revenue. It is not equity in a company and it carries no ownership of one.

Do I give up my bit when I stake it?

The bit sits in the staking contract while it earns, and you can withdraw it whenever you want. It is a lock, not a sale, and there is no lockup period.

Where does the staker payout actually come from?

Two places. Half of the 5% royalty on every secondary sale, and 60% of the 1% fee on every $BITINK transfer. Both are paid out of activity that already happened — no new tokens are printed to fund the yield.

What does development spend its share on?

Art and tooling, contract work and audits, exchange and marketplace liquidity, and running costs. It is 50% of royalties and 40% of the token fee.

Why 24×24 and sixteen colours?

The constraint is the point. At four bits per pixel the art has to be composed rather than rendered, and every trait has to survive at 24 pixels across. It also means the whole collection is small enough to be verified by hand.

When is the mint, and what does it cost?

Not announced. The contract supports an allowlist phase and a public phase with separate prices and wallet caps; both get set at launch and published here first.