Send a whale into The Deep
Pick a whale from your pod, keep up to 2 of its traits as Relics, sign a dive intent (free), then send one transaction on the real Whacky Whales contract. Supply drops for everyone, forever. Legendaries never dive.
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How The Deep works.
Everything in one place: the loop, the numbers, the rules, and what the team has to do once.
Dive → Krill → Relics → Lab
Points for the brave
Every dive pays 1,000 Krill. The first 500 dives are Founding Legends and pay double. Consecutive-day dives add +10% per day, capped at +50%.
Remix your pod
Put a Relic on another whale you own — same slot only. Metadata is rewritten on this server and OpenSea refreshes automatically. Every dived whale keeps a permanent Legend card.
Krill rules
| Rule | Value |
|---|---|
| Base reward per dive | 1,000 🦐 |
| Founding Legends (dives #1–#500) | +1,000 🦐 (×2) |
| Streak bonus | +10% per consecutive UTC day, max +50% |
| Rarity bonus | none — we don't pay extra for rare whales |
| Relics per dive | 0–2 traits, chosen before the dive |
| Dive without an intent (burned elsewhere) | Krill only, no Relics |
| Lab swap | −200 🦐 |
| Other sinks | whacky-wheel spins · raffle tickets |
Krill is points, not a token. The ledger is append-only on this server and can move on-chain later.
Lab rules
- Same slot only. Head → Head, Body → Body. Five slots: Backgrounds, Skin, Body, Face, Head.
- Owner of record only. You edit whales you hold right now.
- 200 🦐 per swap and a 24h cooldown per whale after every apply.
- No duplicates. No two whales may end up with an identical 5-trait set.
- Swapped traits return to your Relics. Filling a none-type slot ("Bald", "None") is an add — nothing returns.
- 1/1s are frozen. #1, #1000, #2068 and #10000 never dive and are never edited.
- Listing warning. OpenSea can cache metadata for a while after a swap — check the whale page before listing.
For the team
The Deep works today without any owner action — the site renders forged traits itself. One transaction from the contract owner makes OpenSea (and every marketplace) show them too.
- Repoint the base URI — call
setBaseURI(string)on 0x9c890D7e4d9beCb20f7b612D5Df3c4157a0837dC with exactly:https://whackywhales.art/meta/ - Tell marketplaces to refresh — call
emitBatchMetadataUpdate(1, 10000)(ERC-4906) right after. - Layer files — send us the artist's layer PNGs (1466×1466, transparent, one file per trait value, named exactly like the on-chain strings) so forged whales render as real composites instead of the original art. Until then the whale page shows "render pending layer files".
- Rewards — confirm what Krill can buy (whacky bags, wheel entries, WL) so the leaderboard pays out.
Technical note: a dive is an on-chain burn — the holder calls burn(tokenId) on the real contract; The Deep observes Transfer(from, 0x0, id) logs and credits Krill and Relics. No new contract, no approvals, no custody.
Metadata endpoints: /meta/[id] (original ⊕ swaps, identical to IPFS for untouched whales) · /img/[id].png · /contract-metadata.
FAQ
Only gas — one transaction on the Whacky Whales contract, usually around $0.30. There's no fee to the team. Lab swaps cost 200 Krill 🦐, never ETH.
Yes — the whale dives into The Deep and becomes a legend with a permanent memorial card. That's the point: supply drops for everyone. Before diving you keep up to 2 of its traits as Relics, and you earn at least 1,000 Krill. (Technically, a dive is an on-chain burn.)
Lab swaps (200 🦐 each), whacky-wheel spins and raffle tickets. Krill is points, not a token — it lives on the Whacky Whales site and the leaderboard.
Yes. When you apply a Relic in the Lab, the whale's metadata is rewritten and OpenSea is refreshed automatically. Same slot only (Head→Head), 24h cooldown per whale, and no two whales can end up with an identical 5-trait set.
The four 1/1s — #1 whacky no1, #1000 Whoker, #2068 Whalien and #10000 Molten whale — can never dive and can never be edited. They're the pod's crown jewels.