THE FIRE IS LIT 🔥
The burn is LIVE on mainnet. No public mint, this is the only door.
Path A: 4 ducks (OG or Hell, any mix) = 1 Duck 2.0
Path B: burn for $NONCO ,the rarer the duck, the more it pays. Gatekeepers get paid per soul.
Paths don’t mix. Grails pay WAY more as $NONCO than as a quarter of a Duck 2.0, the site warns you before you do something you can’t undo.
Window closes October 3rd. Written in the contract. When it closes, OG and Hell emission ends forever.
2nd Gen and Upside: your stage comes later, with its own table. Don’t burn anything yet.
Your Duck 2.0 arrives blank : Lineage and Body, nothing else. The Studio opens after the window and everything it becomes is yours to build. We hand out empty canvases. The paint comes after.
EVERY BURN IS IRREVERSIBLE. READ THE WHITEPAPER FIRST.
First Duck 2.0 already crossed. 1,999 left.
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Years deep in the pond. Act two starts now.
Same attitude. New waters.
Pond Wood is open.
The movie capital of the Pond, where your ducks stop being pictures and start working for a living.
Here’s the shape of it. There are forty lots and no more. You buy one, you build a studio, and from then on you release one film a week. Monday the billboard tells you which genres the public wants. Monday to Thursday you build your film in secret. Friday every poster in town goes public and you finally see what you’re up against, too late to change anything. Sunday night the box office comes out, film by film, last place to first and the best films are paid in ETH.
Your duck’s affinity isn’t a number someone assigned it. When a duck is published, an AI screen test reads its final look as a whole and scores it for all six genres. Not trait by trait: a mummy wrap reads horror against a dark background and comedy next to a party hat. Those scores are public, on OpenSea, on every duck, go look at yours right now. Some of you are sitting on a 92-Horror lead and don’t know it.
Then there’s the part nobody can see. Every genre has eight roles; four are on the call sheet each week, the same four for everyone. You name your character and pick the part. Each role secretly looks for certain answers in your duck’s profile and runs from others, and it judges the look too. Born for the part: +20. Absurd in it: −20. A 90-Horror duck in the wrong role plays like a 70, and you don’t find out until Sunday in front of everyone.
Every drop now has its week on screen. Hall of Fame is this week’s Action edition, Stardust is Sci-Fi. Two traits from a collection make a duck ✦ for it, one pack is usually enough. Declare the edition on your call sheet and the poster carries the name: Sci-Fi · Stardust Edition. Each ✦ lead adds +6. Two traits, not ten: dressing a duck head to toe in one collection wins you nothing extra. It’s a casting call, not an arms race. Editions rotate with the drops.
You don’t need a lot to play. List a duck on the job board for 5 $NONCO a week and set your cut, a percentage of the prize of any film that hires it. Producers pay that out of their own winnings. Set your ducks’ profiles, publish a look that reads like something, and let other people’s studios pay you. ✦ ducks get picked first when someone is casting that edition.
Legacy ducks act too. They can’t equip traits, so they perform with their sealed art, exactly as it was forged. Their affinities never change. Veterans, typecast for life, and all 122 are already on the call sheets.
Where the money goes: 60% of everything spent in Pond Wood comes back as prizes. Weekly box office pays the top 12, the Golden Duck takes a quarter of the pot. Indie Darling goes to the best Backlot of the week, so a shack can beat a tower. After six weeks the season champion takes the season pot and a star on the Walk of Fame. All in ETH.
How to be in the first box office, in four steps:
Open the Studio and fill your duck’s profile: nine questions, two minutes. No profile, no casting.
Publish its look. The screen test runs on its own a minute later and gives you your six genre scores.
Buy a lot: 5,000 $NONCO, yours to resell with your studio’s level, trophies and history attached.
Pick a genre, name your characters, lock the film by Thursday 23:59.
No lot? Stop at step two and list the duck instead.
We’re opening on a Friday, so the whole weekend counts as Monday of week one, buy, cast and build with no clock on you. First box office: Sunday the 25th, 21:00 BA.
Forty lots. When they’re gone, the only way in is buying one from a holder.
This is Daddy Duck! It was fun to build this @NoncoDucks this picture sums up how life is with work and kids 🤣 but we keep moving forward! Can’t wait for my next build.
If you haven’t checked out the new @NoncoDucks Studio, you’re missing out. We are having too much fun. Build challenges, market moves, and more burning. And I finally completed the set of Pond Judges:
Premiere Night 01 is in the books. 🎬
75 ducks walked the red carpet as THE FIERCEST WARRIOR. One by one, live, judged by a panel with strong opinions and one very drunk aristocrat.
🥇 Grimjaw takes it with 26.5
A Jason mask over a chained fur coat. "Nobody stopped him because nobody COULD."
Then it got tight: five ducks tied at 26. The panel had to break it.
🥈 Duck #2140
🥉 Peter Quill
.12 Prize pool paid in ETH to the top 10.
The next Premiere Night is coming. Open envelopes, dress your duck, take the stage.
🥈 My Duck #2140 took SECOND out of 75 ducks in @NoncoDucks’ first Premiere Night: The Fiercest Warrior, winning 0.0297 ETH! 🦆⚔️
You can build and customize your duck, collect and trade traits, give it a name and story, send it travelling for souvenirs, and enter competitions like this one—where the theme, harmony and originality of your build matter.
If you enjoy art, collecting or building characters, come explore what’s being built here. You can try the builder for free, with no wallet needed:
🔨 Build your first duck https://t.co/zhzFXc6uHc
🎬 See the results and replay
Premiere Night 02 is coming. Come meet the pond 🦆🔥
My little quacker took straight to the Studio, check out his quoted "Coolest Duck!". Let's ducking go!
He's a big fan of the shades and any shader effects 😎 🌴 💀
@NoncoDucks#NoncoFamily
22,953 ducks walked into the fire. 897 came out.
A Duck 2.0 is a character you build from 1,341 traits, then send to runway tournaments, castings and an ETH draw.
Try it free, no wallet. Buy one before Dec 31 and your first 100 $NONCO are on us.
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Tokyo sold out in under an hour.
Next departure: the Greek Islands 🇬🇷
80 seats. 500 $NONCO. 12 days.
White cliffs, blue domes, and a sealed suitcase of souvenirs you will never find in a pack.
When the seats are gone, they are gone.
Rush to the Studio.
A little over 24 hours left to go in the @NoncoDucks burn. FOMO is setting in. Almost 40 Canvases 2.0 were minted in the last hour. So, what are you waiting for? Get in while you still can. This is just the beginning.
The Studio is just too much fun. Won some games and earned some more $nonco. Also played around and published a few more @NoncoDucks 2.0.
What are you waiting for? Burn your ducks and join us.