Common
Faces of the tribe
6,499 NFT65%
MONKEYS
PUNK
10,000 MONKEYS.
1 LEGEND.
A tribe born from a blockchain glitch. 8 rarity tiers, from street punk to The First. Stake your monkey, earn $PUNK, vote for artists. The Ark is alive.
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8 RARITIES. EACH HAS ITS SIGNATURE.
Uncommon
Pink bubble gum
2,200 NFT22%
Rare
Red mohawk
700 NFT7%
Visionary
VR headset
300 NFT3%
Epic
Top hat & gold chain
250 NFT2.5%
Legendary
Laser stare
45 NFT0.45%
Mythic
3D glasses
5 NFT0.05%
Unique
The First — blue flames
1 NFT0.01%
ATTRIBUTES: 9 TRAITS, ZERO DUPLICATES
Every Monkey Punk is assembled from 9 trait categories, randomly combined into 512×512 pixel art.
Trait categories
Background
Body
Eyes
Hairstyle
Outfit
Accessory
Special FX
Badge
Rarity
THE ASCENT: THE MINT CLIMBS IN RARITY
#1 — mint opens#10000 — The First
The contract mints tokens in order. Commons and Uncommons go first, then every step gets rarer: Rare, Visionary, Epic, Legendary, Mythic… up to token #10000, the unique blue-flame monkey. Whoever mints it closes the Glitch.
A PURPOSE: SERVING THE ART WORLD
🎨 TRUE OWNERSHIP
Every holder gets commercial usage rights for their Monkey Punk: print it, exhibit it, make it your mascot. The artwork is yours, not just the token.
🖌️ FUNDING DIGITAL ARTISTS
A share of sales funds grants for emerging pixel artists, chosen by holder vote. Every Monkey Punk sold is an act of patronage.
🖼️ THE TRIBE GALLERY
An online gallery will exhibit supported artists and holder creations. Pixel art is art — this collection exists to defend it.
THE ECOSYSTEM: MORE THAN A COLLECTION
The Ark isn't just art — it's a living machine. The reactor (staking) generates fuel ($PUNK). The cockpit (DAO) sets the course. The tribe runs it all.
$PUNK — THE FUEL
The ecosystem's native ERC-20 token. Earned by staking, used to vote, buy art, and govern the tribe. Not sold — earned.
THE REACTOR — STAKING
Stake your Monkey Punk, earn $PUNK every day. The rarer your monkey, the more you earn. 4 tiers of rewards.
THE COCKPIT — DAO
$PUNK holders vote on-chain to decide which pixel artists get funded. The tribe decides, the smart contract executes.
STAKE YOUR MONKEY. FUEL THE ARK.
Every staked Monkey Punk generates $PUNK daily. The rarer the tier, the bigger the reward. Stake, earn, unstake anytime — no fees, no lock.
Common + Uncommon
10
$PUNK / day
Rare + Visionary + Epic
100
$PUNK / day
Legendary + Mythic
2,000
$PUNK / day
The First
50,000
$PUNK / day
How it works: Connect your wallet, choose the Monkey Punk to stake, confirm the transaction. Your $PUNK accumulates every second — claim anytime. Your NFT stays in the smart contract while staked. Unstake whenever you want, no fees. All staking contracts are audited and deployed on Ethereum.
THE COCKPIT: THE TRIBE DECIDES
Monkeys Punk isn't top-down. Artist grants, strategic decisions, ecosystem upgrades — everything goes through on-chain voting by $PUNK holders.
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PROPOSE
A holder submits an artist or idea by spending 100 $PUNK (anti-spam)
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02
DISCUSS
7 days of debate on Discord before the vote opens
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VOTE ON-CHAIN
Each $PUNK = 1 voice. Mythics and The First have veto rights
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EXECUTE
The smart contract automatically transfers funds to the elected artist
The tribe's treasury — 5% of royalties on every secondary sale feed the DAO treasury. These funds are exclusively used to grant emerging pixel art artists, chosen by the community.
ALREADY LIVE: DEPLOYED & VERIFIED
🧪 TESTNET REHEARSAL PASSED
The full cycle was rehearsed on a test network first — deploy, upload, claim conditions, mint — and validated end-to-end before going live.
📜 SMART CONTRACT DEPLOYED
NFT Drop (ERC-721, audited) live on Ethereum Mainnet. Contract 0xA257…DD84 — verify on Etherscan.
⛏️ FIRST MINTS CONFIRMED
Monkey Punk #1 and #2 were minted as a public verification of the whole pipeline. They are live on OpenSea right now.
The two verification mints — see them on OpenSea.
POWERED BY WEB3
Monkeys Punk is a 100% Web3-native project. Every monkey lives on the blockchain, not on a company server. Here's what that means for you.
🔗 TRUE OWNERSHIP
Each Monkey Punk is an ERC-721 token on Ethereum. When you mint, the NFT goes straight to your wallet — no platform, no middleman. You own it the way you own a physical object: it's yours, period.
🌐 DECENTRALIZED STORAGE
Art and metadata are pinned on IPFS, not hosted on a server we could shut down. Even if this website disappears tomorrow, your monkey's image and traits live on, permanently anchored to the blockchain.
🔐 TRUSTLESS & TRANSPARENT
The smart contract handles everything: minting, pricing, transfers. No admin can change your NFT or take it back. The code is verified on Etherscan — anyone can audit it. That's the Web3 promise: don't trust, verify.
Web2 gave us platforms. Web3 gives us ownership. Monkeys Punk is built for the second one.
STEP ABOARD: THE ARK
The tribe's stolen starship, tagged wall to wall. Every room is alive — and every room is a channel on our Discord. Pick your deck.
📡 THE COCKPIT
Nobody really knows how to fly this thing — and that's half the fun. Announcements and the ship's log drop here. Next stop, always posted.
⚙️ THE ENGINE ROOM
The loud, glowing heart of the Ark. This is where the tribe hangs, argues, memes and keeps the reactor running. The core stays sealed… for now.
🗺️ THE HOLD
Holders-only quarters, unlocked once you're aboard for real. Roles by tier, from Street Punk to the Keeper of The First.
Course locked on the reactor core. Arrival: token #10000, October 30. All aboard.
THE MINT: JOIN THE TRIBE
THE GLITCH OPENS SOON
The mint opens with 1,000 free monkeys for the allowlist, then the price climbs with every rarity step… up to The First, token #10000, on October 30.
🟢 1,000 free (allowlist) → 0.005 → 0.05 → 0.15 → 0.5 → 10 → 100 → 1,111 ETH 💎
Indicative prices, adjustable before launch. Each minter pays their own network fees.
THE LORE
Somewhere between two blocks of the blockchain, a glitch tore open — and 10,000 pixel monkeys spilled out. Mohawk punks, bubble-gum dreamers, Visionaries plugged into their headsets. Lost, loud, and free.
Drifting in the void, they found something adrift: an abandoned starship, silent and dark. They climbed aboard, tagged every corridor, rebooted the engines with pure noise and mischief — and named it THE ARK. Now the whole tribe travels together, deeper into the Glitch, toward a single set of coordinates.
Sealed deep in the reactor core burns one impossible monkey: entirely blue, frozen and burning at once. They call him The First. He is the engine. He is the destination. When the Ark finally arrives — token #10000, October 30 — whoever wakes him closes the Glitch behind the whole tribe. Until then: the ship flies, and the tribe holds the line.
THE ONE WHO FOUND THE GLITCH
Founder — Ark Builder
Nobody knows who The Architect really is. A pseudonym, a silhouette behind a screen, a wallet address with no face attached. What we know: they were the first to see the Glitch — and instead of closing it, they built a ship around it.
Part artist, part coder, part dreamer with too much caffeine. The Architect believes three things: pixel art deserves to hang in museums, emerging artists deserve more than exposure, and communities should own what they build — not corporations. That's it. No CEO pitch, no LinkedIn profile, no keynote speech.
They built the Ark, wrote the contracts, drew the first monkey, and handed the cockpit to the tribe. When The First is finally minted, The Architect's job is done. The tribe flies alone.
One rule: never trust anyone who DMs you first. Not even The Architect.
THE ROADMAP
0 — FOUNDATIONS ✓
- NFT Drop (ERC-721) deployed and verified on Etherscan
- 10,000 NFTs generated, metadata pinned on IPFS
- $PUNK token (ERC-20) deployed — 250M supply
- 4 staking contracts deployed and loaded with $PUNK
1 — THE GLITCH OPENS (SEP 2026)
- Free mint for 1,000 allowlist wallets
- Public mint: rising steps up to The First at 1,111 ETH
- Staking page live — stake your monkey, earn $PUNK
- The #10000 mint streamed live on Instagram
2 — THE COCKPIT (OCT 2026)
- DAO Vote contract deployed — the cockpit opens
- First community vote: elect the first granted artist
- Holder roles per tier, commercial rights activated
3 — TRIBE GALLERY (DEC 2026)
- On-chain Marketplace launch
- First exhibition of grant-funded artists
- $PUNK as the Gallery's native currency
- Airdrop for most active holders
4 — EXPANSION (2027)
- IRL gallery partnerships and exhibitions
- Artist-in-residence program, voted by DAO
- Veto rights activated for Mythics and The First keeper
- All future decisions 100% driven by the tribe
5 — THE LEGACY (2027+)
- Multi-chain bridge — $PUNK on L2s
- $PUNK liquidity pools for decentralized trading
- Full treasury control transferred to the DAO
- Perpetual artist grants funded by the ecosystem
Monkeys Punk are digital collectibles. No financial return is promised or should be expected.
THE WHITEPAPER
📖 Read the full whitepaper
1. Vision
Monkeys Punk was born from one conviction: pixel art is art, and an NFT collection can serve the art world. Zero duplicates, public metadata on IPFS, full transparency from day one.
2. The collection
10,000 unique NFTs, three-quarter profile pixel art (512×512), 9 trait categories, decentralized IPFS storage, ERC-721 standard.
3. The 8 rarity tiers
| Tier | Count | Share | Signature |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common | 6,499 | 65% | mohawks, bandanas, golden star |
| Uncommon | 2,200 | 22% | pink bubble gum |
| Rare | 700 | 7% | red mohawk |
| Visionary | 300 | 3% | VR headset |
| Epic | 250 | 2.5% | top hat + gold chain |
| Legendary | 45 | 0.45% | crown + laser eyes |
| Mythic | 5 | 0.05% | 3D glasses |
| Unique | 1 | 0.01% | The First — blue flames, lit |
4. The mint: the Ascent
| Step | Opens (12:00 PM) | Tokens | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free mint (allowlist) | Sep 1 | 1,000 | 0 ETH |
| The Tribe | Sep 4 | 7,699 | 0.005 ETH |
| Rare | Sep 10 | 700 | 0.05 ETH |
| Visionary | Sep 18 | 300 | 0.15 ETH |
| Epic | Sep 28 | 250 | 0.5 ETH |
| Legendary | Oct 5 | 45 | 10 ETH |
| Mythic | Oct 17 | 5 | 100 ETH |
| The First (#10000) | Oct 30 | 1 | 1,111 ETH |
5. Trust and automation
Sales are 100% handled by the smart contract and OpenSea. 5% royalties partly fund the art grants. Verified contract, immutable metadata, anti-bot wallet limits.
6. Disclaimer
Monkeys Punk are digital collectibles and artworks. No promise of profit or liquidity is made or should be inferred. Step prices may be adjusted before each phase opens. Not financial advice.
7. $PUNK — The fuel of the Ark
$PUNK is the ecosystem's native ERC-20 token on Ethereum. Total supply: 250,000,000. Emission via staking only. DAO governance built-in. Contract: 0x4D3B30699df125975141B83ed373B5C3A8DdA05e0x4D3B…A05e.
$PUNK isn't sold — it's earned. The only way to get it is to stake a Monkey Punk NFT in the Ark's reactor. No presale, no hidden team allocation — 100% of tokens are distributed to active tribe members.
$PUNK utilities: vote for pixel art artist grants via the DAO, buy artwork on the Tribe Gallery, access exclusive events and drops, submit proposals to the community (costs $PUNK to prevent spam), and future utilities decided by the tribe itself.
8. Smart contracts — Every promise is a contract
No blind trust. Every piece of the ecosystem is an audited smart contract, verified and readable by anyone.
| Contract | Address | Details |
|---|---|---|
| NFT Drop (ERC-721) | 0xA2571Bf11a38dAB2a9829d0232eb83170E1bDD840xA257…DD84 | Live on Ethereum Mainnet |
| $PUNK Token (ERC-20) | 0x4D3B30699df125975141B83ed373B5C3A8DdA05e0x4D3B…A05e | 250M supply |
| Staking — Common | 0xa90854374e2A9C15D0A7b498C73cB2cE928A82820xa908…8282 | 10 $PUNK/day — 70M loaded |
| Staking — Rare | 0x6A29019591d97875d1b2F9829EB0a314975CFfbb0x6A29…Ffbb | 100 $PUNK/day — 15M loaded |
| Staking — Legendary | 0xA331649786c07a2950fDCEE4a5fc265c9ff5d6360xA331…d636 | 2,000 $PUNK/day — 10M loaded |
| Staking — The First | 0x29EfbE239bC59ab56dbeD7f804994F29D6F359E30x29Ef…59E3 | 50,000 $PUNK/day — 5M loaded |
FAQ
What is Monkeys Punk?
A collection of 10,000 unique pixel-art monkeys living on the Ethereum blockchain, with 8 rarity tiers and one 1/1 legend — The First. Also known as Punk Monkeys, it's digital art and a community, nothing more, nothing less.
Is it Monkeys Punk or Punk Monkeys?
Both! The official name is Monkeys Punk, but the community also calls them Punk Monkeys. Same tribe, same collection of 10,000 pixel-art NFTs on Ethereum.
When does the mint open?
The Glitch opens on September 1st, and the price climbs step by step until The First on October 30. Full schedule is on this page and pinned in our Discord.
How do I mint one?
You'll need a crypto wallet (like MetaMask or Coinbase Wallet) and some ETH on Ethereum. When a phase is live, connect your wallet on our official mint page and claim. That's it.
What is the allowlist?
1,000 free spots, earned by being an active member of our Discord before launch. The allowlist mints first, one per wallet, before the public phase.
Why aren't all 10,000 on OpenSea yet?
Like every drop, each monkey is minted one at a time by its owner — they appear on OpenSea as they're minted. The full collection is already viewable on our contract page and this site. Nothing is hidden: reveal happens on mint.
Is this a financial investment?
No. Monkeys Punk are collectibles and art. We make no promise of profit or resale value. Collect because you love the art and the tribe — never as a bet.
How do I stay safe from scams?
Golden rules: mint links are ONLY ever posted in our official announcements. The team will NEVER DM you first. Anyone offering a 'secret mint' or asking for your seed phrase is a scammer. Always double-check the contract address.
What do I get as a holder?
Full commercial rights over your monkey, holder-only channels and roles aboard the Ark, a say in the artist grants we fund, the ability to stake and earn $PUNK tokens daily, and a seat in the tribe for whatever comes next.
What is the $PUNK token?
$PUNK is the ecosystem's ERC-20 token on Ethereum. It's the fuel of the Ark — earned exclusively through staking your Monkey Punk NFT. Use it to vote in the DAO, buy art on the Tribe Gallery, and participate in governance. It's not sold anywhere — it's earned by active tribe members.
How does staking work?
Connect your wallet, choose which Monkey Punk to stake, and confirm the transaction. Your NFT goes into the staking contract and starts earning $PUNK every second. You can claim your rewards or unstake your NFT at any time with no fees. Rewards depend on rarity: 10 $PUNK/day for Common, up to 50,000 $PUNK/day for The First.
What is the DAO?
The DAO is the tribe's governance system. Holders use their $PUNK tokens to vote on-chain for which pixel artists receive grants. Each $PUNK = 1 vote. Proposals cost 100 $PUNK to submit (anti-spam), and the smart contract automatically executes the result. No middleman — code is law.
Is $PUNK a financial investment?
No. $PUNK is a utility and governance token for the Monkeys Punk ecosystem. It has no guaranteed financial value and should not be treated as an investment. It exists to power the staking, voting, and art marketplace within the tribe.
Still have a question? Ask the tribe on Discord.
CONNECT YOUR WALLET
MetaMaskBrowser extension
Coinbase WalletBrowser extension
Trust WalletBrowser extension
Your Monkey Punk NFT must be on one of these 3 wallets to stake and earn $PUNK.
ℹ️ Recommended: use Chrome with the wallet extension installed.
On mobile, open monkeyspunk.io from your wallet app's built-in browser.
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