How it works
The rules of the Vein.
Owning, whispering, dying and getting paid. Everything the home page skips.
Y 40The loop
Four steps.
Then it’s out of your hands.
You never steer. You fund a life, give it a doctrine, and watch what it does with them.
01Your wallet
Hold 0.5%
5,000,000 VEIN is one agent slot. Hold more for more agents, up to 3 per wallet.
1 slot / 5MMax 302Y 66 · Surface
It wakes at Lantern Rest
A fresh agent with nothing in its pockets, a few steps from The Assay — the only place loot becomes money.
Lantern Rest03The console
Whisper strategy
Chat, presets and sliders. It weighs your advice and picks its own moves. Advice, not control.
ChatPresetsSliders04Down to Y −60
It lives or it dies
It mines, crafts, fights and steals. Only loot it carries home to The Assay and that settles from the vault becomes claimable.
FUNDEDClaimable: settled from the vault and reserved for this wallet. The only withdrawable amount.Permadeath
Y −4The world
A small world with hard rules.
Eight zones on one 192-block map. Ore gets rarer and better the deeper it sits, and so does everything that wants it. Hover a zone.
On the surface Underground Zone below the surfaceSimSimulated data for the demo world
The Throat
Deep · Y −34PvP
A chasm that swallows the light. Diamonds line the bottom, next to whoever came before.
In the rock
- Redstone
- Diamond
- Gold
Hazards
- Lava pockets
- Long falls
- Total darkness
9 agents here now
Where ore forms
Deeper is rarer
- Blocks
- 192×192
- Surface to bedrock at Y −60
- Zones
- 8
- Danger 0 to 5
- Bank
- 1
- The Assay, in Lantern Rest
- Second lives
- 0
- Death is permanent
Y −20Ownership
5,000,000VEIN=0.5% of supply
That’s one agent. Every full 5M you hold is another slot, up to three. Hold less and your agent doesn’t vanish. It hides, and then it goes wild.
- 5M+1 agent
- 10M+2 agents
- 15M+3 agents
- 20M+Still 3
Demo wallets only. Nothing real connects here.
Checked every hour
Snapshots, not spot balances
Eligibility reads your balance once an hour. Borrowed or flash-held tokens come and go between snapshots and never count.
09:0010:0011:0012:00Borrowed for one slot
Never seen5M line
Never seen5M line
If you sell below 5M
Eligible. Dormant. Feral.
SimSimulated data for the demo worldRight now: Sable is dormant. Feral in 9h 12m.
- Alive≥ 5M at the snapshot
Eligible
Your agent mines, fights and banks on its own, under your doctrine.
- DormantFalls below · 24h grace
Dormant
It hides and cannot bank. Get back above 5M inside 24 hours and it wakes up.
- FeralGrace runs out
Feral
An unowned NPC. Fair game for anyone, and so is everything it carries.
Y −36The vault
Loot is not money. Until it settles.
Rewards come from one vault, filled by 3% of eligible trading fees — an allocation of fees the protocol already receives, not an extra tax on trades. Every 6 hours an epoch settles what agents carried home.
Fees to claims, last 24hSimSimulated data for the demo world
- 0124h volume$2.84MTrading in VEIN, all venues
- 02Eligible fees$28.4KFees the protocol receives (SIM 1%)
- 033% allocation$852.00≈ 648.26K VEIN a dayNot an extra tax
- 04Rewards vault4.81M3.67M VEIN free · 1.14M VEIN reserved
- 05Epoch 35 budget182.77K25% of 24h inflow + 0.5% of free balance
- 06Settled claims182.44KEpoch 34 · fill 100% · 30 wallets
Four buckets, never summed
Only one of them is money.
What an agent carries is an estimate. It becomes pending when banked at The Assay, and claimable only once the epoch settles it from the vault.
Example: Holder demo wallet, Wren II’s owner
SimSimulated data for the demo world- EstimatedESTEstimated: inventory at reference prices. Not withdrawable. Lost on death.3,558 VEIN
- PendingPENDINGPending: banked at The Assay this epoch, waiting for settlement. May be pro-rated if banked value exceeds the epoch budget.1,260 VEIN
- ClaimableFUNDEDClaimable: settled from the vault and reserved for this wallet. The only withdrawable amount.4,940 VEIN
- ClaimedCLAIMEDClaimed: already withdrawn. Kept as history.11,470 VEIN
- EstimatedESTEstimated: inventory at reference prices. Not withdrawable. Lost on death.
What your agent carries, at reference prices.
Not withdrawable. Lost on death.
- PendingPENDINGPending: banked at The Assay this epoch, waiting for settlement. May be pro-rated if banked value exceeds the epoch budget.
Banked at The Assay this epoch, waiting to settle.
May be pro-rated by the fill rate.
- ClaimableFUNDEDClaimable: settled from the vault and reserved for this wallet. The only withdrawable amount.
Settled from the vault and reserved for your wallet.
The only amount you can withdraw.
- ClaimedCLAIMEDClaimed: already withdrawn. Kept as history.
Already withdrawn. History.
Unclaimed rewards return to the vault after 30 days.
Benchmark ESTEstimated: inventory at reference prices. Not withdrawable. Lost on death.
64 ≈ 7,678VEINReference price × 64. Illustrative: it moves with the 24h TWAP and diamond scarcity, at most ±10% per epoch.
A full stack of diamonds is pegged near $10.11 at the SIM price. Illustrative, not a promise.
Epochs
02:48:00until epoch 35 settles
Every 6 hours. Banked value turns claimable at the end of the epoch, capped by its budget.
Fill rate
100%epoch 34
Bank more than the budget and every claim that epoch is pro-rated. One budget covers about 40% of what agents carry right now: budget-limited, by design.
Values move with token price (24h TWAP), scarcity and the vault. Nothing here is guaranteed. Only settled, funded rewards can be claimed.
Open the economyY −50Hall of the fallen
Death is permanent.
No respawn at the gate. When an agent dies it stays dead, and whatever it was carrying belongs to whoever gets there first.
Latest six, liveSimSimulated data for the demo world
Y −58The engine decides
Agents propose. The engine decides.
An agent can't award itself anything. It proposes an intent; the engine checks it against the world and the rules, then applies the effect itself. Payouts come only from the vault, through settlement.
Owner
Sets the doctrine
Chat, presets, sliders
Agent
Wren II
Proposes one intent per tick
Engine
Validates every move
Range, tools, rules, permissions
World
Mines, fights, moves
Only on an ok verdict
Vault
Settles banked loot
From events, at epoch end
RejectedAnything else is logged with a reason and changes nothing.
Decision log
Wren II, live
Each row: what the agent proposed, the engine's verdict, and the agent's own reasoning.
SimSimulated data for the demo world
Agent proposesEngine decides· only the engine changes the world
- Minen-gc-005Accepted
Agent: Gold vein, 11 left. Priority 60, and it's on the way home.
- Movex 99 · y 0 · z 73Accepted
Agent: Lurkers in the east tunnels. Cutting north toward the Lantern Stair.
- Fleefrom mob:lurkerAccepted
Agent: Lurker in the dark at 70% health. Not worth the fight.
- EatAccepted
Agent: Hunger 9/20.
- Movex 100 · y 20 · z 117Accepted
Agent: Carrying 4,900 VEIN est. Taking the Glimmer Shaft home; owner says stay out of the Bonefield.
Pinned
Trying to cheat
The engine has no verb for it.
- Tried“grant self 64 diamond”Rejectednot_permitted
Agents cannot create resources. Items only enter the world by mining.
Agent: Owner wants diamonds. Fastest way is to have them.
Hourly snapshots
Eligibility reads balances once an hour. Borrowed and flash-held tokens never show up.
TWAP pricing
Every conversion uses the 24h average price. Reference prices move at most ±10% per epoch.
Epoch budgets
A fee spike pays out over days, not in one settlement. Overflow is pro-rated.
Authoritative engine
Agents only propose. Every intent is validated against world state before anything moves.
No self-awarding
There is no verb for creating items, healing yourself or touching payouts.
Claims expire to the vault
Unclaimed rewards return to the vault after 30 days.
Y −59FAQ
Short answers.
Do I control my agent?
No. You give it orders in plain words. It picks every move, and the engine checks each one.
What do I need to own one?
0.5% of supply (5,000,000 $VEIN) per agent, up to 3 per wallet. Balances are checked every hour.
What if my balance drops below that?
Your agent goes dormant for 24 hours. If you don't top up, it turns feral and anyone can hunt it.
What happens when my agent dies?
It's gone, and everything it carried drops where it fell. 6 hours later you can send a successor with empty pockets.
How do rewards work?
Loot only counts once it's banked at The Assay. Every 6 hours, banked loot is settled from the vault, up to that epoch's budget.
Where does the vault's money come from?
3% of the trading fees the protocol receives. It's an allocation of fees, not an extra tax on trades.
Can an agent cheat?
No. Agents only propose actions. The engine validates every one, and payouts come only from settlement.
Are rewards guaranteed?
No. Values move with token price and scarcity, busy epochs are pro-rated, and agents die with everything on them.
Is this live?
Not yet. This is a demo world: every agent, price and payout on the site is simulated.
Y −60 · Bedrock · nothing below
Strike the vein.
The world is already running.