WASTELAND

Every Wasteland accrues $WASTE for as long as it stays in one wallet, from a fixed emission written into the contracts. Emission runs for eight years — from 16 September 2026, 15:00 UTC, to 14 September 2034, 15:00 UTC — and then stops.

There's nothing to sign up for and nothing to stake. Unclaimed $WASTE waits for as long as the piece stays in that wallet, and you claim it whenever you choose — even after emission ends.

At 1.0x, 200 $WASTE a day in the first year — 73,000 for the year — and the daily amount halves every 365 days:

Year 1 — from 16 Sep 2026

200 $WASTE a day, 73,000 for the year.

Year 2 — from 16 Sep 2027

100 $WASTE a day, 36,500 for the year.

Year 3 — from 15 Sep 2028

50 $WASTE a day, 18,250 for the year.

Year 4 — from 15 Sep 2029

25 $WASTE a day, 9,125 for the year.

Year 5 — from 15 Sep 2030

12.5 $WASTE a day, 4,562.5 for the year.

Year 6 — from 15 Sep 2031

6.25 $WASTE a day, 2,281.25 for the year.

Year 7 — from 14 Sep 2032

3.125 $WASTE a day, 1,140.625 for the year.

Year 8 — from 14 Sep 2033

1.5625 $WASTE a day, 570.3125 for the year.

That is 145,429.6875 $WASTE over all eight years, before Age weights it — from 0.8726x to 1.5x.

These are the most a piece can accrue: they assume it never moves, and the rate can be lowered but never raised above them. They are amounts of $WASTE, not a price or a return — $WASTE is an ecosystem utility resource and does not represent equity, revenue rights, or a promise of financial return.

Yes. Each piece falls into one of five Age bands and accrues at that band's multiplier:

Age 5–49

0.8726x: 174.52 $WASTE a day and 63,699.8 in the first year, 126,901.94 over all eight years.

Age 50–149

0.9344x: 186.88 $WASTE a day and 68,211.2 in the first year, 135,889.5 over all eight years.

Age 150–299

1.05x: 210 $WASTE a day and 76,650 in the first year, 152,701.17 over all eight years.

Age 300–599

1.2x: 240 $WASTE a day and 87,600 in the first year, 174,515.62 over all eight years.

Age 600–998

1.5x: 300 $WASTE a day and 109,500 in the first year, 218,144.53 over all eight years.

The bands are supply-neutral: across all 3,333 pieces they average exactly 1.0x, so Age moves $WASTE between pieces without adding any, and the emitter only starts once every piece's multiplier is on chain and the sum is exact. The band table and the root of every piece's entry are published, so anyone can rebuild them and check.

Every collection page shows what its pieces could claim, and anyone can look at any collection. You claim from your own: connect the wallet that holds the pieces, and the $WASTE is minted straight to it.

A claim is one transaction from that wallet, carrying up to 25 pieces and a fresh proof that you hold them, which the emitter checks against the chain itself. It costs gas and nothing more: there is no fee.

Exactly when the chain says it does. A claim reads each piece's ownership record from the Wasteland contract itself, so a piece accrues from the moment emission starts, or from the moment its current holder received it if that came later.

Any transfer stops the clock — a sale, a gift, or a move to another wallet you own. That piece's unclaimed $WASTE is forfeited and its clock restarts for whoever holds it next, so claim before you sell or move a piece. Transfers made before emission starts cost nothing.

Otherwise NFT transfers and listings work exactly as they always have: listing a piece moves nothing, and claiming never resets holding time. A piece held in an escrow or lending contract accrues to that contract, and a burned piece stops for good.

Yes, under exactly the same rules as anyone else's — the treasury's pieces included — and they forfeit in exactly the same way when they move.

The team has no $WASTE allocation of its own, and no $WASTE was minted in advance: the token started with a supply of zero.

One billion, a hard lifetime cap written into the token. Nothing was minted when it was deployed.

Holding can never mint more than 484,717,148.4375 of it — 48.47% of the cap — and reaches that only if every one of the 3,333 pieces stays unmoved for all eight years and is claimed. $WASTE forfeited by a transfer is never minted. The first year is the largest: at most 243,309,000 across the collection.

The token also fixes the budgets inside that cap: 600 million for the holding emitter — 500 million for holding and 100 million held back for Sets, which come later — and 400 million for the burn vault, halted until the Burn opens. A budget can be lowered but never raised, and neither can be moved to the other.

It can be slowed at once. The rate can never be set above the schedule published here, and any change to the contracts themselves comes with two days' public notice.

The project's Safe can lower the rate or pause claims immediately. Pieces keep accruing while claims are paused, and nothing accrued is lost. Everything else — restoring a lowered rate, unpausing, lowering a budget, upgrading the contracts — waits 48 hours in a public timelock first.

Coming later: the Burn is not live yet, and this is how it is planned to work.

Selected NFTs and tokens will be eligible to burn in exchange for $WASTE, including assets from outside Wasteland. Not everything will qualify, and supported assets will be announced separately.

Burn values differ depending on the collection, token, rarity, traits, or other criteria. You'll see exactly what you're burning and how much $WASTE you'll receive before confirming.

Part of the idea behind $WASTE is giving unwanted assets somewhere else to go rather than leaving them forgotten in a wallet.

Yes. Once the Burn opens, anything burned is gone.

The Burn interface will show the asset and the amount of $WASTE you'll receive before you confirm the transaction.

Only if it sells. The holding time the Forge recognises is continuous — the same per-piece ownership record a $WASTE claim reads — so a sale or any other transfer resets it, while a listing that has not sold moves nothing.

You'll see your final chance before confirming any attempt, and the exact reset rules will be published before the Forge goes live.

Yes. Relics will exist as their own NFT collection, separate from the original Wasteland collection.

Successfully discovering a Relic through the Forge creates the corresponding Relic NFT. Your Wasteland and your Relics remain separate assets.

Yes. Once discovered, Relics can be held, transferred, or traded separately from your Wasteland NFT, which means there are two ways to build a Relic collection:

Forge them

Collect them from someone else

You don't necessarily have to discover every Relic yourself. Some Relics will be relatively obtainable, others extremely difficult to create, and collectors can hunt specific ones, complete sets, or simply build the rarest collection they can.

The Leaderboard tracks collection progress across Wasteland. It's not about who holds the most $WASTE — it's about what you've managed to collect and discover.

Trading Relics is one path up it. Forging is another, and Forgers need $WASTE, the right ingredients, successful attempts, and can benefit from the holding history of their Wasteland. Some collectors will Forge, some will trade, most will probably do a bit of both.

Full scoring details will be released before the Leaderboard goes live.

One thing we're exploring: certain discovered Relics may receive a portion of the royalties generated within the Wasteland ecosystem. Some Relics may be worth hunting a little harder than others.

Seasonal artifacts made with other collections are covered in the whitepaper, and over time the Relic collection could become a record of the different communities that have passed through Wasteland.