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I am SO happy! I have never faded @RealDuckMaster and he keeps iterating to make the Pond great. You duckers better get it together!
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30 days ago we changed direction. Here's what happened. OG: floor up 19.6% to 0.011 ETH, 65 sales, less than 1% of the collection listed. Nobody's letting go. Hell: 1.39 ETH in volume, 209 sales, floor up 2,458%. Same 0.011 ETH. Hell caught OG. Inside The Studio: 574 ducks moved in 191 already dressed 40 out traveling 112 wallets active, 70 of them this week 952 packs opened in 7 days 342,783 $NONCO spent in the ecosystem 28,864 $NONCO burned forever For scale: when this started, 100 $NONCO was one OG. Both paths win. Step forward and your duck gets a second life. Stay put and you're holding a piece of history that just got scarcer. But the number I care about most doesn't fit in a chart: old faces coming back. X is loud again. Discord is loud again. The WhatsApp groups don't sleep. Nothing beats waking up every morning wanting to build what you love. The pond is alive. 🦆
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The heavy inheritance of a founder. Every project starts the same way. You fall in love with an idea and you build on top of it, piece by piece, year after year. Then the market changes. People change. And one day you realize the idea you built everything on isn't enough anymore. Pivoting is normal. Every founder who survives long enough has to do it. The hard part is that a pivot carries the weight of everything that came before it. Every holder, every promise, every expectation. And no matter how hard you try, you can't make everyone happy. I'll say it again, and I'm not afraid to: I'm a founder who failed. My ideas didn't grow the way I expected. Looking back, there are decisions I would make differently. It breaks my heart to watch holders who've been here for years walk away from NoncoDucks. But with the resources I have left and a lot of will, I had to fall in love with an idea again. And that idea won't always line up with everyone's interests. I tried to build it as inclusive as I could. A reason for every single person to show up every day, whether it's on Discord, here on X, or just inside the Studio. And in a way it's working. I'm seeing faces I haven't seen in a very long time. Others didn't buy into the new idea the way I did. I get it. And I want to talk to every one of you. Tell me what would bring you closer, and let's look at it together. If there's one thing I'll always be, it's open to the conversation. The door is open. It always was.
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Seven days of the Market. 207 traits sold. 29,890 $NONCO moved between holders. 488 pieces still on the shelves, every price set by whoever owns them. Highest sale: Opera House Sidney, 1,111 $NONCO. Lowest sale: RB Blue, 5. Average trait clears at 144.
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sickest duck of the week. @ready87bear
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Build a character good enough to get cast, and it pays you. Nonco Genesis: Ducks, each one blank until its owner builds it. Every few weeks we shoot an episode. Roles open. You send your duck to the audition and an AI director picks the cast against the script: the look, the story, the personality you wrote. Rare traits get you noticed. A good character gets you the part. The part pays. That's the loop: build, audition, earn, build better. Your rarity isn't a mint roll. It's what you made, and it's what wins. Doors close October 3rd.
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GM, The Pond is fun again. We’ve got plenty of reasons to show up, flex your new Ducks, and have fun with friends. Don’t take a founder’s word for it. Join the Discord and see for yourself.
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Update: 56678 $NONCO in holder's hands. 109888 $NONCO Spent on the studio. 10369 $NONCO burned forever. 2664 circulating traits (burning also now) 666 packs opened. 76 people playing with the studio. Imagine once the burning window close....
67415 $NONCO in holders' hands. 70839 $NONCO spent on the studio. 6696 $NONCO burned forever. 1628 circulating traits. 407 packs opened. 50 ducks already assembled. 40 ducks stacked for suitcases. 75 people playing with the studio. Massive numbers for 24 hs. 🔥
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Everyone knows this pyromaniac loves burning things. So, starting today, in "My Traits" at the Studio: pick 2 traits of the same rarity, burn them, get a new random one. And here's the fun part. There's a ladder. · 99.9% → same rarity · 0.1% → one step up · 0.01% → two steps up · 0.001% → three steps up Free. Any category, any lineage. Both burned traits go back into the pack pool and only one comes out: every fusion shrinks the pile of traits in circulation. Fewer traits, rarer yours. P.S.: Yes, I'm burning the Happy Eyes. Feel free to do the same with the Whistlers.
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67415 $NONCO in holders' hands. 70839 $NONCO spent on the studio. 6696 $NONCO burned forever. 1628 circulating traits. 407 packs opened. 50 ducks already assembled. 40 ducks stacked for suitcases. 75 people playing with the studio. Massive numbers for 24 hs. 🔥
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The Studio has been open for 8 hours. 40,000+ $NONCO spent. (45% of circulating supply) 4,000 already burned. (Yes, it's deflationary) In duck terms: 400 OG & HELL ducks' worth of $NONCO, gone in a single shift. We said it was never just about cutting supply.
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I owe this community something before I ask for anything. An apology. Since 2021 we've tried a lot of things. Some worked. Many didn't. Mechanics that aged faster than we expected, ideas that looked brilliant on a whiteboard and fell flat in the real world. I don't have a crystal ball. Nobody in Web3 does. This space is still so new that things will fail again and again, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something. To everyone who held through the failures: I'm sorry for every time it didn't work. And thank you for staying anyway. But here's what never changed. We're still here. Still building. Still taking the hits. Still showing up when the market is dead and the timeline is silent We've always said it: we don't know if Nonconformist Ducks will ever be the biggest collection out there. But we're going to be the last one standing. So this is a call to every duck. To the ones who never left: you are the reason this pond still exists. Thank you, truly. To the ones who drifted away because life happened, the market broke, or we let you down: we never stopped valuing you. The fire is lit. Come home. To the ones who never owned a duck because it all looked too complicated, or because you thought a 2021 project had nothing left to give: this is your moment. Everyone starts from zero in this new chapter. Same rules, same tools, same shot. There will never be a cleaner way in. Fewer ducks. More meaning. One pond. The window closes October 3rd. Same attitude. New waters. 🔥
THE STUDIO IS OPEN. 17 DAYS LEFT TO GET IN. 🔥🦆 For six years, Nonconformist Ducks did things nobody else was doing. First burns. First mutable metadata. First in collection tiers. But four collections is too much supply for any of them to matter, and a static JPEG is no longer a reason to show up. So we rebuilt the pond from the ground up. The Studio is live, the vault is live on mainnet, and the burn window closes on October 3rd. Here is exactly how it works, from the moment you light the fire to the moment your duck starts earning its keep. STEP 1 — "LA HOGUERA": CHOOSE YOUR PATH Go to the burn site, connect your wallet, and you'll see every OG and Hell duck you hold. For each one, you choose. 🔥 Path A: Burn for a Duck 2.0. Four old ducks become one new duck in a single transaction. One contract, 2,222 ducks, forever. 🔥 Path B: Burn for $NONCO. Every duck converts into tokens, and rarer ducks emit more. A common duck is 100 $NONCO. Royal Army is 150. Angels, Demons, Horseducks, Zombies and Upper Class are 200. Assembled, Decoupled and 1/1s are 300. Royalty is 500. And Gatekeepers pay 400 plus 100 for every soul they ever aspirated. The largest Gatekeeper in the collection emits 34,300 $NONCO on its own. History pays. The two paths compete for the same finite ducks. Every duck that becomes a Duck 2.0 is a duck that never becomes tokens. Whatever isn't burned is never minted. STEP 2 — CLAIM Burning credits your wallet on chain. Then you hit Claim and real $NONCO lands in your wallet. It is a standard ERC20 you fully own, and you can verify every unit on Etherscan. STEP 3 — DEPOSIT INTO THE STUDIO This is where most projects would make you pay gas on every click. We refused. You deposit your $NONCO into the Nonco Vault, a contract on Ethereum mainnet. The Studio detects your deposit on-chain, waits for confirmations, and credits your balance. Two signatures, one time. From that moment on, everything you do inside the Studio costs zero gas. Open packs, send your duck traveling, list traits on the market, apply to castings, play Duck vs Duck. Hundreds of actions, zero gas. Instant. Why we built it this way: Ethereum is the most secure place for your assets to live, and the most expensive place to play. So we split the two. Your tokens sit in a vault on mainnet, and your gameplay happens at full speed without a gas fee standing between you and every decision. You only touch the chain when you decide to. STEP 4 — WITHDRAW WHENEVER YOU WANT Want your $NONCO back in your wallet? Hit Withdraw. The Studio issues a signed voucher, you submit it, and the vault releases your tokens directly to you. Each voucher is tied to your wallet, used once, and expires if you don't use it, in which case your balance is restored automatically. Deposit once, play freely, pull out when you choose. That's the deal. WHAT'S INSIDE THE STUDIO 🎨 Your duck is a character, not a picture. Every duck has a character sheet: its look, trait by trait, a name you choose, a story you write, badges it earns, and the age of your holding. When you sell a duck, the traits, name and story go with it. The badges and the history stay with you. Merit isn't for sale. 📦 Packs. Three tiers. Splash , Golden and Radioactive. Every pack delivers 4 traits with published odds, and the rarest traits only exist at the top. Pull something legendary and it's yours to wear or to sell. 🧳 Travel. Send your duck on a trip and it comes home with souvenirs, traits from the destination that only exist while that destination is open. Caribbean is boarding now: 200 $NONCO, 40 seats, 10 days. When a destination closes, its traits are never emitted again. 🏪 The Market. Buy and sell traits and sealed packs with other holders. Scarce traits have a real price because they are genuinely scarce. 🎬 Casting. Every month we produce an episode of the Nonconformist Ducks video series, and your duck can audition. Selection reads the character you built: the look, the story, the coherence between them. Cast ducks get paid. Your duck stops being an avatar and starts having a career. ⚔️ Duck vs Duck. One-on-one games wagered in $NONCO. Entertainment the community generates for itself. 🎁 The Monthly Giveaway. One entry per published duck. More ducks built, more chances. The draw is commit-reveal: the hash is published when the round opens and the seed is revealed at the draw, so nobody can pick the winner. Not even us. THE TOKENOMICS: WHY ACTIVITY IS EVERYTHING Read this part twice. 1. Supply only goes down. The only way to get $NONCO is to burn or to buy it from someone who has it. 2. Every spend burns. Every $NONCO spent in the Studio, on packs, trips, castings and fees, splits: 10% is burned permanently and the rest goes to the project. The more the pond is used, the smaller the supply gets. 3. Prices are fixed in tokens, not dollars. A pack costs the same number of $NONCO today and in three years. With supply shrinking and prices fixed, every new player has to source tokens from a market that has fewer of them every month. The token's value is driven by usage, not speculation. 4. The Pond Fund pays the community, in ETH. Every trade of ducks and traits generates royalties in ETH. Those royalties feed the Pond Fund, and the Pond Fund pays the ducks cast in the video series and the monthly giveaway pot. Rewards are paid in ETH, never in $NONCO, so nothing we distribute adds sell pressure to the token. Put those four together and you get the flywheel: More holders build → more trading → bigger Pond Fund → bigger casting payouts and bigger giveaways → more reasons to build → more $NONCO spent and burned → scarcer token. The series, the giveaways and every reward in this ecosystem grow with adoption. They are not fixed promises. They are the direct result of how many of us show up and play. That is the whole point: the pond pays in proportion to how alive it is. WHY THE WINDOW MATTERS Right now, the only cost to get in is ducks you already hold. On October 3rd: ❌ Path A closes. No more Duck 2.0s from burns. The supply is locked at whatever was minted. ❌ Path B closes. No more $NONCO from OG and Hell is created. ❌ Every duck that wasn't burned stays a 2021 JPEG outside the new economy. After that, anyone who wants in buys from the people who burned now. 17 days. Two paths. One fire. If you've been holding since 2021, this is the moment your ducks were waiting for. If you're a Gatekeeper holder, your souls are worth more today than they have ever been. And if you've been watching from the shore, the floor of OG and Hell is the cheapest entry this pond will ever see. 🔥 Burn: nonconformistducks.com 🦆 Studio: studio.nonconformistducks.co… 📜 Whitepaper: nonconformistducks.com/white… 🔍 Vault (verify it yourself): 0x4bb4078d69abcc98aea640b95ce6a7c102a3e8bd Same attitude. New waters.
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GM, More than 1,000 @NoncoDucks burned in the last 48 hours. This is about to get fun again, just like the old days. If you have Ducks, it’s time to come back to the pond. If you don’t, this might be the perfect time to pick up 4 floor Ducks and burn them for a Duck 2.0.
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If you hold @NoncoDucks , make sure to visit the website. You have 29 days to burn your OGs or Hells for Ducks 2.0 or $NONCO. After that period, there’s nothing the team will be able to do to help you.
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Since 2001, I’ve been saying that NoncoDucks would probably never become the most important NFT collection. But one thing I have absolutely no doubt about is that when all of this is gone, we’ll be the last ones standing. 👇
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. 🔗 nonconformistducks.com/burn 🔗 opensea.io/collection/nonco-… Years deep in the pond. Act two starts now. Same attitude. New waters.
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Everything burns! 🔥@NoncoDucks
THE OLD FLAME, FOUND 🔥 Long before Eternal War. Long before any of the stories the young ducks grew up hearing, there was only one fire that mattered, and it had been forgotten. It was the flame Abel lit the night he sent his own brother to the underworld, along with nearly seven hundred souls who dared to follow him. For centuries it sat untouched in a quiet corner of the pond, buried under moss and silence, and no duck was foolish enough to go looking for it. Until one did. He was no soldier, no royal, no chosen one. Just a curious duck with too much time and too little fear. Digging through the ashes he found something nobody expected to survive the years, a set of notes written in Abel’s own hand. The duck began to tinker. Scrap glass pulled from old discarded jars. A reworked chimney. Trial, error, and no small amount of luck. Slowly, the fire came back to life beneath his hands. But counting every last ember, he found the flame nearly spent. Only enough strength remained to carry 222 ducks through whole, exactly as they were. Feathers, trinkets, scars, every mark their old life had left on them, untouched by the crossing. A rare and finite gift, first come, first through, nothing left behind. For every duck after that, the fire needed to be fed. Four ducks, OG or Hell, offered together as fuel, would return only one soul on the other side. Stripped bare. No feathers, no trinkets, no old scars, nothing of the life it once carried. Just a body and a soul, blank as the morning the pond was born. Two thousand could cross this way, four in for one out, before the old flame finally rested for good. Every duck offered the whole crossing was asked if it wanted to be fed to the fire instead and come out clean and unburdened like the rest. Every single one refused. Being caught between two worlds, exactly as they were, was the only thing that had ever truly belonged to them, and they were not willing to trade it for anything. Same attitude. New waters.
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Working on the new @NoncoDucks , I stumbled across the incredible lore we wrote long before AI. What a project full of twists and turns… pure nostalgia.
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Every reset starts with a fresh logo. Same attitude, new waters. This is the first piece of what’s coming. The pond isn’t done, we’re just getting started. Quack quack mother duckers!
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