Four Stages of the Afterlife
Every PONZU is a soul on a journey. Hold long enough and the stage trait advances — your NFT literally evolves on-chain. Mortal at day zero. Ascended at day ninety. Sell once and it all resets.
Mortal
The flesh-and-bone scrub. Clocking in. Pre-mummification. Day-shift at the temple clinic.
Mummified
Wrapped. Preserved. The work continues, just quieter.
Weighed
Heart on the scale. Anubis verifying. Don't sweat the feather.
Ascended
Passed the scale. Promoted to the divine. Pixel halo, full regalia, infinite shift.
All four stages live. Variants seeded on-chain at launch.
From Mortal to Ascended
Watch the journey. Ninety days of ritual, four stages of transformation. Each stage marks a tier unlock and a new yield multiplier. The temple keeps the record on-chain.
Final Tax 1 / 1
Regular Uniswap V4 hook. One percent on buys, one percent on sells. Routed atomically at the point of exchange. Nothing exotic.
One percent fee in ETH on every buy. Routed via the V4 hook into the project treasury.
One percent fee in PONZU on every sell. Same hook, same path. Same treasury.
Tax is taken from the input currency via a regular Uniswap V4 beforeSwap hook. Buy tax in ETH. Sell tax in PONZU. Both flow to the TAX wallet above. The TEAM wallet receives only its initial 500 PONZU allocation — no ongoing tax revenue.
What You Do. What You Get.
Three actions. Real outcomes. The pyramid only works if you climb it.
Hold
Become a soul. Get an on-chain pixel-art identity that lives in the contract forever.
- Each PONZU is a soul with deity, stage, traits, accessories
- Renders entirely from on-chain SVG path data
- Visible on Etherscan, in your wallet, anywhere
- No IPFS. No off-chain server. Just contract bytes.
Stake
Place an offering at the temple. Earn from the staking pool seeded with 2,500 PONZU at launch.
- Stake any amount. Withdraw any time.
- Earn from the 2,500 PONZU temple pool
- Yield distributed by tier weight (see ladder below)
- TAX wallet flows back into rewards over time
Climb
Tier up. Stake amount × continuous days = your rank. Higher rank, bigger slice.
- Five tiers: Initiate → Priest → Vizier → Pharaoh → Eternal
- Multipliers from 2× up to 50× the base share
- Tier badge visible on your profile
- Eternal tier unlocks treasury voting (v2)
- T5Eternal50×100+ PONZU · 90d
- T4Pharaoh25×50+ PONZU · 60d
- T3Vizier10×10+ PONZU · 30d
- T2Priest5×1+ PONZU · 7d
- T1Initiate2×any stake · 0d
Initiate: any stake · Priest: 1 / 7d · Vizier: 10 / 30d · Pharaoh: 50 / 60d · Eternal: 100 / 90d
Each tier earns a higher share of the staking distribution. Tier is computed from the smaller of your stake and your continuous staking days. Climb by holding longer or staking more.
Buyers pay 1%. Stakers earn from temple. Climbers earn the most.
Sell once → everything resets. See Diamond Hands below.
Sell Once. Start Over.
The pyramid was built by those who never left. Hold and stake long enough, your NFT evolves and your yield multiplies. Sell — even once — and the temple resets you to dust.
The path of the diamond hand
The path of the paper hand
Paper hands rebuild from the bottom.
Diamond hands inherit the tomb.
Tier and stage are tracked from the timestamp of your earliest unsold PONZU. The on-chain record is public — anyone can see who stayed and who folded.
Built Brick by Brick
Every holder is a stone. Every staker, a row. The capstone glows when the temple is whole. The structure outlives whoever built it.
Buyers and stakers. The base of the pyramid. Without them, no structure.
Diamond hands tier up through the stages. The middle layers are where multipliers compound.
The Eternal tier. Day 90 holders. Treasury voting in v2. Inheritors of the tomb.
The Path to Ascension
Four phases. From sealed tomb to starfield ascension.
Tomb Sealed
- Contract architecture designed
- 116 tests passing on Base mainnet
- Pixel-art trait system finalized
- Egypt Scrubs brand identity locked
- Website live
- Pre-launch community building
The Awakening
- ETH mainnet deploy (token + hook + staking)
- Uniswap V4 pool initialized
- On-chain traits seeded (etheism, stage, traits, accessories)
- Trading opened via hook
- Socials linked on-chain
- Contract verified on Etherscan
Pyramid Built
- Staking UI live — stake PONZU, earn rewards
- Tax stabilized at final 1 / 1 (regular V4 hook)
- Community governance discussions begin
- Trait viewer dApp
- Token listed on DexScreener / DexTools
- First community event
Ascension
- maxTx limits removed (no_limits())
- Full community-driven development
- Expanded pixel-art trait ecosystem
- Cross-community collaborations
- Long-term project sustainability
Join the Tomb
Pharaohs don't build pyramids alone. The community is the project.