9,999 FROGS WENT LOOKING FOR THE FLEECE · AFTER ACK

Pepenauts

Sing to me, Muse. Something with a swamp in it.

9,999

SUPPLY

24×24

PIXEL GRID

1 OF 1

GOLDEN FLEECE

AIRDROP

NO SALE

NONE

ROADMAP

810

IN THE RESERVE

BASE / CLASSIC

What this is

The Argonauts sailed first — 9,999 pixel busts by Alpha Centauri Kid, ancient mariners with vapes and gold teeth. Pepenauts is the same voyage run by frogs, made for the people who were already aboard.

One sprite. Nine materials. The same 24×24 bust turns up plain green, fossilised, cast in silver, tarnished gold, colonised by coral, sprouting flowers, charred to ash, irradiated — and nine times in 9,999, a vivid blue alien.

Every body is missing pieces. The swamp punches straight through the torso in patches, the way anything looks after long enough in the mud.

The grain is baked into the plate. Almost no two adjacent pixels share a colour, and the jitter repeats identically across a trait. Each token carries exactly three translucent specks of dust, unique to it forever.

Not sold. Airdropped to Argonauts holders. No roadmap, no utility, nothing promised for later. Just frogs, in a pond, for the people who get the joke.

The Pond

Thirteen of them. The other 9,986 are still under the water.

Alien Pepenaut: vivid blue frog bust on a bubblegum field — ALIEN · 9 OF 9,999

Silver Pepenaut: frog bust cast in silver with oversized lenses, on a sky-blue field — SILVER · DESIGNER LENSES

Floral Royalty Pepenaut: green frog sprouting flowers under a violet hood, on a muse-green field — FLORAL / ROYALTY · VIOLET HOOD

Prehistoric Pepenaut: fossilised frog bust on a sky-blue field — PREHISTORIC · FOSSIL TIER

Coral Corsair Pepenaut: frog bust colonised by coral under the Corsair crown, on an off-white field — CORAL / CORSAIR · 91 EXIST

Radioactive Pepenaut: magenta-mottled frog bust with cyan sparks, on an off-white field — RADIOACTIVE · 20 EXIST

Gold Pepenaut: tarnished gold frog bust with neon lenses, on a slate field — GOLD · 76 EXIST

Classic Pepenaut in a bandana: green frog bust on a muse-green field — CLASSIC / BANDANA

Servant Hood Pepenaut: pale cloaked frog bust on an off-white field — SERVANT HOOD · RAREST CLOAK

Petrified Pepenaut: frog bust charred to ash on the near-black Void field — PETRIFIED / VOID · CHARRED TO ASH

Classic Pepenaut in a violet five-panel cap with a neon bill, on a blush field — CLASSIC / FIVE-PANEL · NEON BILL

Classic Pepenaut under the Death hood, on a siren-orange field — CLASSIC / DEATH HOOD

Base Pepenaut: the plain green frog bust with no traits, on a punk-blue field — BASE / CLASSIC · NO TRAITS

How they're made

01

One sprite, nine materials

Variety comes from what the swamp did to them, not from new drawings. The same frog, cast, fossilised, charred and overgrown.

02

Grain is baked, not generated

The jitter lives in the source art and repeats identically per trait. Same plate, same grain, every impression.

03

Three specks of dust

Per-token uniqueness is exactly three translucent dots. Enough to make every print individual; never enough to break the plate.

04

The body is half gone

The background shows straight through the torso. Nothing is ever drawn back in — the rot is the design.

The Golden Fleece

1 OF 1

One Golden Fleece exists. Gold skin on the Void field, under a woollen gold pelt.

Crown and skull fuse into one solid-gold bust. It carries no other traits, and it never will.

One morning somebody is going to open their wallet and find it sitting there.

The reserve

790 Argonauts have never been minted, and a handful more were sent to the burn address. Their frogs — 810 of them — are not in the drop.

They sit in the reserve. Mint your Argonaut and yours is still there waiting for you; the pond keeps a spot.

Whatever nobody comes back for gets burned. No second airdrop, no quiet sale later — nobody inherits a pond they never swam in.