ISSUED · 2026-10-21 00:00:00 UTC

01   Statement

A taxed token pointed at $BALANCE

$BALANCED trades on Pons, Robinhood Chain. Each trade pays a 10% tax. Six percent of that tax buys $BALANCE on Ethereum. Three percent buys $BALANCED back. One percent funds operations and marketing.

Community project. Unaffiliated with Jack Butcher, Visualize Value, Credits, and Balance.

02   Registration

SEED BALANCE-STRATEGY-UNSET

Released

1 POINT = 1 $BALANCE

STATUS
LOCKED
ARTWORK
REMAINS
STATEMENT
NON-TRANSFERABLE
WALLET
ERC-721 STAYS, INCLUDING AT ZERO
LAYER BITS ON HEX
C 28 3316f402aa1b9433
M 27 1b5989c64450aa69
Y 26 07b86a4aad60a40c
K 30 5e53150bd3a14a65

Four 8×8 grids from one SHA-256. Cyan, magenta, yellow, black. Overprint plates in Consolidated are a rotation and an inversion of those bits: a diagram of stacking, not a Statement.

Summed rating

A Statement’s rating is the sum of the ratings of the Credits burned into it, rounded down. Overprints add ink, rating, and history. At seven overprints the paper stays black.

03   Stack

Credits are burned into Statements. A Statement can be locked to release $BALANCE. The path runs one way.

STEP OBJECT RULE
01 CREDIT 122,154 works from $8 payments. Each transaction id becomes four 8×8 grids. Rating 80–800.
02 STATEMENT Burn 80 Credits. Rating is the sum, rounded down. Cap 1,526. Overprint up to 7, then the paper stays black.
03 BALANCE Lock to release 1 point as 1 token. About 53,752,386 at most. The wallet artwork stays, including at zero.

04   Machine

Ten percent of each $BALANCED trade is collected and split on the receipt below.

LINE SHARE USE
TOTAL 10% Collected on each $BALANCED trade
ACQUIRE 6% Buy $BALANCE on Ethereum
BUYBACK 3% Buy $BALANCED
OPERATIONS 1% Operations and marketing

05   Acquisition

The six percent buys the cheapest $BALANCE.

That spend uses the public market on Ethereum, and the rating path when Credits or Statements are the cheaper source of points. Locking releases points at one token each. Burning Credits is permanent. A locked Statement leaves circulation as a transferable NFT and remains as artwork.

MOVE EFFECT
$BALANCE HIGHER Can raise demand for Credits, the material for Statements and for releasing more tokens.
$BALANCE LOWER Mainly reduces demand for burning.
REVERSE Tokens do not convert back into Credits or Statements.
TRAITS
PALETTE, BITS, CELLS, EIGHTS ×2, PRINT
EIGHTS
DOUBLE WEIGHT IN THE RATING
PATH
CREDIT → STATEMENT → BALANCE

06   Ledger

FIELD VALUE WHERE
$BALANCED UNSET Robinhood Chain · Pons
$BALANCE UNSET Ethereum
TREASURY UNSET Accumulation wallet
BUY UNSET Pons
X UNSET Social