01 / OVERVIEW
Small frens with their own wallets.
ELY FRENS are pixel pets living on Elysium. Every fren is an NFT with a wallet of its own, and every awake fren collects a share of what happens in the meadow.
WHAT YOU CAN OWN
The meadow's token. You spend it to wake, adopt, grow and level up frens. Holding it alone earns nothing.
The founding frens: 1,024 of them, forever. Wake one once and it earns at a fixed, high weight. No levels to climb.
The open collection. Adopt a fren, then grow it through six generations and five levels to raise its weight.
HOW THE MEADOW WORKS
Rewards come in two assets: $FRENS and WHYPE. They are paid to the fren's own wallet, so whoever holds the fren holds what it earned.
02 / LAUNCH
Genesis mints on OpenSea. $FRENS is born from it.
STEP 1 · MINT GENESIS
Genesis frens mint as an OpenSea drop on Elysium. The frens list mints first, then the public stage opens. 896 frens are available to mint. Mint price is announced before the drop.
STEP 2 · THE MEADOW OPENS
The other 128 Genesis frens go straight into the Burrow, which releases 128,000,000 $FRENS. Those tokens and part of the mint revenue are placed into the meadow market as permanent liquidity. Nobody can withdraw it.
The opening price is set from the mint price: 1,000,000 $FRENS starts at the price of one Genesis fren. That is the same rate the Burrow uses, so token and Genesis start in line.
Example: if a Genesis fren mints at 20 HYPE, $FRENS opens at 20 HYPE per 1,000,000.
STEP 3 · THE BURROW OPENS
Converting Genesis frens into $FRENS opens TBA days after the meadow, with a daily limit. Waking, adopting and trading work from day one.
03 / $FRENS
One fixed supply. Half of every action burns.
A STRAY FREN FOLLOWS YOUR TOKENS
Hold at least 1 $FRENS and a stray fren shows up in your wallet. Strays can't be transferred and don't earn. Drop below 1 $FRENS and the stray wanders off. Adopt it to make it yours for good.
WHERE $FRENS GOES
You spend $FRENS to wake a Genesis fren, adopt a Generations fren, grow it or level it up. Payments are spent, not deposited. Every payment splits the same way: 50% is burned forever and 50% goes to the reward pot.
Example: a 100 $FRENS level-up burns 50 and sends 50 to awake frens.
THE MEADOW MARKET
$FRENS trades against WHYPE in the protocol pool. Each buy and sell pays a 5% fee on the WHYPE side, and all of it goes to WHYPE rewards. Liquidity is permanent and there is no separate LP fee.
Example: a 100 WHYPE buy sends 5 WHYPE to rewards and swaps the other 95.
04 / GENESIS
The founding frens.
WAKE YOUR FREN
Owning a Genesis fren and waking it are separate steps. Pay 100,000 $FRENS to wake it: 50,000 burns and 50,000 goes to rewards. An awake Genesis fren earns at a fixed weight of 2,000,000, about twice a fully leveled Gen 1 fren. It never needs upgrades.
BUYING AND SELLING
A sale or transfer puts the fren back to sleep. The new owner pays 100,000 $FRENS to wake it again. The fren's wallet and any rewards it already earned move with it, so withdraw what you want to keep before you sell.
ART
Genesis frens are fixed pixel portraits, generated fully on-chain. Traits include animal, fur, ears, eyes, mouth, cheeks and accessories. Looks never change a fren's weight.
05 / GENERATIONS
Start with 1 $FRENS. Grow as far as you like.
Adopting makes a fren permanent and awake at level 0. Growing moves it up a generation. Leveling up raises it through four levels inside its generation. Gen 1 is the top.
ADOPT
Your wallet balance picks the highest generation you can afford when you adopt. If at least 1 $FRENS is left over, another stray appears.
| GEN | ADOPT | BASE WEIGHT | RE-WAKE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100,000 | 175,000 | 10,000 |
| 2 | 10,000 | 16,000 | 1,000 |
| 3 | 1,000 | 1,450 | 100 |
| 4 | 100 | 130 | 10 |
| 5 | 10 | 12 | 1 |
| 6 | 1 | 1.1 | 0.1 |
Example: with 2,500 $FRENS you adopt a Gen 3 fren for 1,000. The 1,500 left over brings a new stray.
GROW UP
Move up one generation by paying the difference in adopt price. Your fren keeps its look and name and starts the new generation at level 0. Going from Gen 6 all the way to Gen 1 costs 100,000 $FRENS in total. Generations frens can't grow into Genesis.
| STEP | PAYMENT |
|---|---|
| 6 → 5 | 9 |
| 5 → 4 | 90 |
| 4 → 3 | 900 |
| 3 → 2 | 9,000 |
| 2 → 1 | 90,000 |
LEVEL UP
Each level raises the fren's weight. Payments split 50% burn and 50% rewards. Growing up resets levels. A transfer puts the fren to sleep and clears its levels; waking it again costs 10% of its generation's adopt price and starts at level 0. Past payments aren't refunded.
| GEN | 0 → 1 | 1 → 2 | 2 → 3 | 3 → 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 112,500 | 168,750 |
| 2 | 5,000 | 7,500 | 11,250 | 16,875 |
| 3 | 500 | 750 | 1,125 | 1,687.5 |
| 4 | 50 | 75 | 112.5 | 168.75 |
| 5 | 5 | 7.5 | 11.25 | 16.875 |
| 6 | 0.5 | 0.75 | 1.125 | 1.6875 |
| GEN | LV 0 | LV 1 | LV 2 | LV 3 | LV 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 175,000 | 270,000 | 416,250 | 641,250 | 987,187.5 |
| 2 | 16,000 | 24,375 | 37,125 | 56,531.25 | 86,062.5 |
| 3 | 1,450 | 2,212.5 | 3,375 | 5,146.875 | 7,846.875 |
| 4 | 130 | 198.75 | 303.75 | 464.0625 | 708.75 |
| 5 | 12 | 18.375 | 28.125 | 43.03125 | 65.8125 |
| 6 | 1.1 | 1.6875 | 2.5875 | 3.965625 | 6.075 |
ANIMALS AND ART
Generations frens are on-chain pixel animals. Sleeping frens show a still portrait. Awake frens walk, hop and blink in their own little meadow. Level changes the weight, not the look.
06 / ECONOMY
Your share is your weight.
Every awake fren earns its weight divided by the total awake weight across Genesis and Generations. Both collections share one pool with no fixed split.
Example: a fren with 2,000,000 weight out of 20,000,000 total earns 10%. If 1,000 $FRENS and 1 WHYPE stream while that holds, it earns 100 $FRENS and 0.1 WHYPE.
| ACTIVITY | WHERE IT GOES |
|---|---|
| Wake, adopt, grow, level up | 50% burned · 50% $FRENS rewards |
| Trading $FRENS in the meadow market | 5% WHYPE fee → WHYPE rewards |
| Using the Burrow | 100% of the fee → $FRENS rewards |
| Genesis sales on OpenSea | 5% creator fee → WHYPE rewards |
STREAMS
$FRENS and WHYPE rewards stream separately over 7 days. New funding waits for the next stream, which anyone can start once the last one ends. A fren earns only from the moment it wakes. Rewards never mint new $FRENS.
CLAIMING
Claims pay into the fren's own wallet. Earned rewards stay claimable after a fren falls asleep and follow it when sold. Claimed rewards aren't reinvested automatically.
07 / THE BURROW
Swap Genesis frens for tokens, or for each other.
The Burrow holds Genesis frens taken out of circulation. Frens that go in can only come out in exchange for another Genesis fren.
| ACTION | YOU GIVE | YOU GET |
|---|---|---|
| Convert | 1 Genesis + 100,000 $FRENS | 1,000,000 $FRENS |
| Oldest swap | 1 Genesis + 50,000 $FRENS | Oldest Genesis in the Burrow |
| Pick a fren | 1 Genesis + 100,000 $FRENS | Any Genesis you choose |
All Burrow fees go to $FRENS rewards. Converting nets 900,000 $FRENS.
OPENING AND LIMITS
The Burrow opens TBA days after the meadow market. Conversions have a daily limit, so the meadow grows at a steady pace. Swaps between Genesis frens follow the same schedule.
08 / FRENKIT
Build games for the frens.
FrenKit is the open toolkit for making things with ELY FRENS: wallet connect, fren picker, sprites and starter games. Build a mini-game, a toy or a meme maker around a fren and ship it to the meadow.
- Starter games and docs you can run locally and remix with AI coding tools.
- Live ownership checks, so players use the frens they actually hold.
- On-chain sprites with idle, walk and jump frames.
Fren Jams are short build contests with prizes in $FRENS and frens. The best builds get published on elyfrens.com.
09 / CONTRACTS
What runs the meadow.
| CONTRACT | ROLE |
|---|---|
| Genesis | The founding frens · OpenSea drop |
| Generations | Adopted frens, generations and levels |
| $FRENS | Fixed-supply token |
| Wake Manager | Wake, adopt, grow, level up, burns |
| Meadow Market | $FRENS / WHYPE pool and 5% fee |
| Rewards | Weights and 7-day streams |
| Burrow | Genesis reserve and swaps |
| Fren Wallets | Token-bound account for every fren |
| Renderer | On-chain pixel art and metadata |
Addresses will be posted here after deployment.
These docs describe how the protocol is designed. Live contract state decides balances, availability and claimable rewards. Nothing here is financial advice.