Machines | Engine Works Docs

The owned production unit

What a Machine is

A Machine is the object a user owns, powers, and carries through Engine Works production.

Each Machine has a stable identity. Its activation and weight belong to the Machine itself rather than to a temporary interface session.

The exact Engine Works hand-drawn motor, separated into its canonical shared-canvas component plates.

Official paths only

Acquiring a Machine

A Machine can enter a wallet through the official Engine Works mint or a supported transfer. The Garage is the product surface for viewing the Machines controlled by the connected wallet.

Paid in $WORKS, priced by serial

The mint curve

Machines are minted with $WORKS rather than the chain’s native asset. The collection contains 3,333 Machines on a bonding curve: price is a function of how many Machines already exist, and it rises with the square of that count. The first Machine costs 33,333 $WORKS and the last costs 250,000.

MINT PRICEn = Machines already mintedPrice(n) = 33,333 + (250,000 − 33,333) × n² / 3,332²Machine mint payment → Works Pot

Squaring the count keeps the curve flat early and steep late. Machine 500 costs about 38,200 $WORKS and Machine 1,000 about 52,800, while Machine 2,500 costs roughly 155,200. The price attached to each serial is deterministic and visible before minting.

Because the curve rises with every mint, including mints that settle before yours, the mint action accepts a maximum price. A mint that would cost more than the stated maximum fails rather than charging the higher amount. The live count and current price appear on the mint surface.

Dormant → active

Activation

Minting a Machine does not by itself create weight. Activation powers a dormant Machine with a separate protocol-routed $WORKS burn. A dormant Machine has no active weight. A successful activation establishes positive weight and makes the Machine eligible to participate in epochs.

Dormant: The Machine has not completed its activation burn and does not participate with active weight.
Active: The Machine has positive protocol-recorded weight and can participate in epoch allocation.

Progress follows the Machine

Ownership and transfer

A Machine is owned by a wallet. It can be activated with $WORKS and carries its weight and participation state.

If ownership transfers, the Machine's protocol state follows the Machine. A wallet can hold multiple Machines, and each keeps its own identity, weight, and epoch allocation.

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