🌳 The Orchard

NFT staking, with nothing staked.

A creator pours any token over a collection. Everyone holding those NFTs earns from it until it runs dry — and never sends an NFT anywhere. No transaction, no network fee, no custody. Your art stays in your wallet the whole time. What you give in return is your word: hold until the pour ends, or forfeit what you have not harvested to the holders who did.

What is growing now How it works Three chains Pay your holders
Live on WAX, Base & Solana
A great tree with a mint-candy canopy, gold-framed collectibles growing in it like fruit, syrup running down the bark into a stone basin
—groves growing
—NFTs planted
—holders earning
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Every other staking platform asks you to hand over the thing you bought.

That is a strange trade. You bought an NFT because you wanted to own it, and staking it means giving it to a contract, paying to get in, paying to get out, and not having it for a while. The Orchard asks for none of that, because it never needed the NFT in the first place — only the answer to who owns it, which the chain already publishes. What it asks for instead is a commitment, and it makes breaking one cost you rather than making it impossible.

No transfer

It never moves

Ownership is read straight from the chain. The NFT sits where it always sat. Nothing about it changes when you plant, and nothing changes when you stop.

No fee

Free to enter, free to leave

There is no transaction to sign, so there is nothing to pay for. On WAX a normal staking contract costs you RAM and CPU both ways. This costs zero, both ways.

A real term

You commit until it runs dry

Planting is a promise, not a visit. Sell before the pour ends and you forfeit what you have not harvested — to the other holders, never to us. Harvested is yours for good, so take it early and often.

No custody

MENTA cannot lose your art

A token balance that goes wrong can be made good. A one-of-one that goes wrong is gone. We hold reward tokens in escrow. We never hold anybody's NFTs.

Four steps, and two of them are only done once.

This is a real sequence, so it is worth numbering. Everything after step three happens on its own.

Link a wallet, once

WAX takes one memo transfer; Base takes a signature. Both are free, both move nothing, both are the same wallet linking that already decides your server roles — and you never do it again.

$wallet add yourwax.wam $wallet add 0xyour…

Plant in a grove

MENTA reads your wallet, counts what matches that grove's collection, and tells you on the spot. Nothing leaves your wallet, then or ever.

$plant chadpunks

Hold until it runs dry

That is the whole job, and it is the deal. Every few minutes MENTA re-reads the chain and pays out for the stretch just gone. Sell before the pour ends and you forfeit whatever is still unharvested; once it ends you can leave with everything.

Harvest whenever

It lands in your MENTA balance, ready to tip, swap, put in a pot or withdraw. There is no deadline and nothing expires.

$harvest

⚖ What stops someone showing up for one minute and taking the pot

Ownership is sampled on a timer rather than watched continuously, and that is exactly the gap a flash buy would aim at: buy a hundred NFTs a minute before the snapshot, sell them a minute after, collect as though you had held all week.

So a period pays out at the smaller of the count at its start and the count at its end. Held it the whole way through, you are paid the whole way through. Not there at the start, that period pays you nothing.

Held all period 12 at the start, 12 at the end.
Bought during it 0 at the start, 40 at the end.
Sold during it 40 at the start, 0 at the end.
Bought more, kept the rest 5 at the start, 30 at the end.

It also means a brand-new planter earns from their second sweep rather than their first, which is the same rule seen from the other side, and is worth saying out loud rather than leaving to be discovered.

🔒 A lock that holds nothing

Planting commits you until the pour runs dry. Nothing physically stops you selling — MENTA never has your NFT to hold on to — so the commitment is enforced the only honest way left: break it and you forfeit whatever you have not harvested. It goes to the holders who stayed, never to us.

Harvested already Yours for good. Nothing here is ever clawed back, so harvest early and often.
Unharvested, you sell early Forfeited to the other planters, in proportion to their shares.
Unharvested, pour ends Leave whenever you like from then on and take all of it with you.

The date is fixed the moment you plant and is never extended behind your back. A pour the creator starts next week does not lengthen a commitment you accepted today — otherwise a grove could hold a room forever by topping up, which is a trap rather than a term. Plant again and you take on the new date knowingly.

A creator who would rather ask for nothing can open a grove with no lock at all.

What is growing right now.

Read from the live ledger. Numbers are totals only — a wallet's contents are public on chain, but which Discord account holds it is not.

Pay your holders, in any token you like.

Your collection is on WAX or Base; the reward does not have to be on either. A pour can be any token MENTA supports across eight chains, so a WAX collection can pay in a Base token and nobody bridges anything. Opening a grove needs Manage Server, and takes a single line.

$grove check chadpunkswax Look up a collection before you commit. On WAX: who runs it and its schemas. On Base: which standard it implements, and therefore whether you can weight rarity.
$grove new chadpunks chadpunkswax Open a grove on WAX. Add a schema name to narrow it to part of a collection.
$grove new apes 0xabc… Open one on Base. Paste the contract address — MENTA asks the contract whether it is an ERC-721 or an ERC-1155 and sets the grove up accordingly.
$grove pour chadpunks 5m CHAD 30d The reward. It leaves your balance now and drips to holders across those days.
$grove weight chadpunks 123456=5 Rarity, optional. That template — or ERC-1155 token id — counts as five ordinary ones. Not available on a plain ERC-721.
$grove close chadpunks Stop new planting. Pours already running keep paying the holders who are in.
Irrevocable

A pour cannot be taken back

The tokens leave your balance into escrow when the pour starts, and no code path returns them. That is the point: somebody deciding whether to hold for a month has to be able to rely on the number they were shown.

Never wasted

An empty grove pauses, it does not burn

While nobody is planted the drip cannot advance, so the end date slides out by the idle time. Launch the pour before you announce it and you lose nothing.

On chain

The chain decides who gets paid

Ownership comes from the AtomicAssets contract on WAX, and from the NFT contract itself on Base — never from an indexer's cached answer. If every NFT API went down this afternoon, the right holders would still be paid the right amounts.

🔗 Multichain

Wherever the NFT lives, the Orchard grows there.

Three chains live, and a grove reads ownership straight from whichever one its collection is on — while the reward can be any token MENTA knows, on any of the seven. Your collection on Solana can pay in a WAX token. Nobody bridges anything.

WAX

Live

AtomicAssets. One read returns a holder's whole inventory, so a grove can narrow to a single schema or weight a legendary template as five commons.

Collections Schemas Rarity weights

Base

Live

ERC-721 and ERC-1155. The fastest chain we read — one call, no paging, 59ms a wallet against WAX's ~300ms. Editions carry their own weight, one per token id.

ERC-721 ERC-1155 Rarity on 1155

Solana

Live

Metaplex collections, read straight off the chain. Only membership the collection authority has verified ever counts — an unverified claim is just text a minter typed.

Metaplex Verified only Not compressed
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And the rest

Next

Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism and Avalanche already carry MENTA balances, and their NFTs read exactly the way Base's do. Three chains in, the pattern holds: a new one is a reader, not a rebuild — every grove's maths already runs the same on all of them.

Ask and it moves up the list

Two things stay true on every chain: nothing is ever transferred, and the chain itself decides who gets paid — never an indexer's cached answer. What differs is only how much detail a chain will hand back, and each card above says exactly what its own does.

Standing, and the pieces you are missing

The Orchard pays holders. Two newer things read the same collections and pay nobody at all — they are about status, which is the other reason people collect.

Clout — $clout

A score read straight off the chain: what somebody holds, what they have listed, what they have bought and sold. Listing is worth more than holding, and holding without listing costs points — a collection that moves is worth more than a drawer. It also counts what people do: playing the games, tipping, filling the room’s jar. That half needs no wallet at all, so everybody in a server has standing, not just collectors. Points buy nothing. They are not a balance and nothing pays out against them.

Sets — $sets

Every set in a collection, how far through it somebody is, and the exact pieces they are missing — each one linking to the market. A set can be a schema or any field the artist minted, so sets can span several schemas. See a collection laid out →

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