Central banks print.
The Reserve burns.
3,000 notes. Minted once, at 1 USDC. Nothing new is ever printed. To move up a denomination you burn notes and you burn $RESERVE. The supply only goes one way.
Mint · Series 2026
Mint a one.
1 USDC a note. 3,000 total. When they're gone, the press is shut for good.
- IMint1 USDC mints a one. Art stays hidden until the reveal.
- IIClosedAt sellout or the deadline, anyone can close it.
- IIIRevealEvery note's art appears. Upgrades open.
- Notes issued
- —
- Remaining at par
- —
- Notes in existence
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- Price
- 1.00 USDC
- Burn to upgrade
- 10,000 $RESERVE / $1
- Chain
- Arc · 5042
Mint
per note
20 per transaction. Art is revealed after the mint.
Supply only goes down.
Scroll the plate sideways to read it →
Total face value is locked at $3,000. It never changes. Burn five ones and you get a five. Same dollars, fewer notes.
3,000 is the most notes that will ever exist. After the mint nothing new is printed, and a five can never be broken back into ones. Every upgrade makes the collection smaller. Permanently.
Thirty hundreds is the end of the road. Getting there burns every one, five, ten and fifty ever made. It will probably never happen.
- Face value
- Every note's face value adds up to $3,000. Always.
- Supply
- The note count never goes up. 3,000 at the start. 30 at the very end.
- $RESERVE
- Every upgrade burns $RESERVE to the dead address. It never comes back.
- The end
- 30 hundreds and nothing else. Only if everything below them is burned.
The Exchange · $RESERVE
Burn to move up.
Hand in five ones. Burn $RESERVE. Get a five. The notes and the tokens are gone for good. Minting never needs $RESERVE. Moving up always does.
- $RESERVE burned
- —
- Burn rate
- 10,000 $RESERVE per $1
- Rate policy
- Can be lowered, never raised
- Burned to
- 0x…dEaD
- Token
- Launching on Argus view
| Hand in | Receive | Burns |
|---|---|---|
| 5 ones | a five | 50,000 $RESERVE |
| 2 fives | a ten | 100,000 $RESERVE |
| 5 tens | a fifty | 500,000 $RESERVE |
| 2 fifties | a hundred | 1,000,000 $RESERVE |
Only you can upgrade your notes. Not a marketplace, not an app you’ve approved, not us. $RESERVE only burns when you sign the upgrade.
Upgrade
- Ladder
- Opens at the reveal
- $RESERVE
- Not connected yet
- You hold
- Connect a wallet
- 5 ones → a five
- 2 fives → a ten
- 5 tens → a fifty
- 2 fifties → a hundred
Specimens
The art is on-chain.
Every note on this page comes straight from the contract. No IPFS. No server. The coloured thread is built from the notes burned to make it. A five carries five colours. A hundred carries twelve.
Hard money
on a dollar chain.
Four rules. All of them live in the contract, where anyone can read them.
Arc runs on dollars
Arc is the first chain where gas is paid in USDC. Every fee, balance and price on it is in dollars.
So the first real collectible on Arc should be money. Not a cartoon. A banknote.
It only shrinks
Central banks print when they need more. The Reserve prints 3,000 once and stops.
After that, the only way up is to burn. Five ones make a five. Two fives make a ten. Every step destroys notes and burns $RESERVE. A hundred exists because a hundred ones were destroyed.
Nobody picks the art
Arc has no on-chain randomness. Traits rolled from chain data here can be predicted, and gamed.
Each note's seed comes from a salt locked in before the mint and entropy from the minters themselves. You can't pick your own note. Neither can we.
The art lives on-chain
No uploads. No server. The contract draws every note from its seed each time it's asked. If Arc is running, your note exists.
It's an elaborate way to make a picture of money. So is money.
The fine print.
The same answers we would give at the window, set down in order so that nobody has to ask twice. Nothing here is subject to revision after the sale opens.
A $1 note. One of 3,000, and the only denomination anyone can mint. Its art is drawn on-chain and revealed after the mint closes.
1 USDC. Most mints on Arc have been free. This one isn't. A note that costs nothing isn't worth anything.
At the reveal. Until then every note shows the same blank "unissued" strap, for everyone, including us.
When the mint sells out or the deadline hits, anyone can close it. The salt is then published in a separate transaction and every note's art appears at once.
In the Exchange, once the reveal is done. Hand in a full set, burn the $RESERVE, get the next note up. The notes you hand in are destroyed.
Your first upgrade takes two confirmations: approve $RESERVE, then upgrade. After that it's one.
The Reserve's token. It launches on Argus and trades against USDC. Every upgrade burns it, and it never comes back.
Minting only costs USDC. Moving up always costs $RESERVE.
Nobody. Mint payments go straight to a wallet. The contract never holds a cent, so there's nothing in it to take.
Yes. No IPFS, no server, no image files. The contract draws each note from its seed every time it's asked. Every note on this page came straight from the contract.
Arc mainnet, chain 5042. Gas is paid in USDC, and a mint costs well under a cent in gas on top of the dollar.
No. The burn rate can be lowered and locked. The contract has no way to raise it.
Only you. Not a marketplace, not an app you've approved, not us. $RESERVE only burns when you sign the upgrade yourself.