TILT404 is a backed-NFT protocol on Robinhood Chain. Each NFT — a Table — is minted by locking a fixed amount of $TILT404 in escrow, so from the moment it exists it carries a hard, on-chain redemption floor. Holders can cash that floor back at any time, or burn it once to convert the Table into a permanent, yield-earning asset.
It delivers the mechanics popularised by the “404” meta — a fused token/NFT economy with draws, rarity and a jackpot — without the fragility that broke them. There is no custom logic inside a token transfer to get wrong. The launch token is an ordinary fixed-supply ERC-20; the NFT layer is a plain ERC-721 sitting on a separate escrow. We call it the safe 404.
$TILT404 — the launch token. A standard, fixed-supply ERC-20 launched on the pons v2 launchpad. No mint authority, no transfer hooks, no rebasing.
Tables — the ERC-721 collection. Minting one deposits a whole UNIT of $TILT404 into the vault’s escrow. The token and the NFT are separate contracts; the NFT merely holds a claim on escrowed tokens.
The invariant. The vault’s $TILT404 balance always equals the total escrowed backing of every BACKED table — to the wei. It is enforced in code and covered by a dedicated invariant test suite that fails loudly if it ever drifts.
This is the single property that makes the redemption floor real: a BACKED table can always be redeemed because the tokens behind it provably exist in escrow.
- DRAW — Deposit one UNIT of $TILT404 plus the entry fee and receive a random Table. It runs in two steps — commit, then reveal & mint — so the outcome does not exist in readable form when you commit. No one can peek at the tier and farm the rares.
- BACKED — Fresh from the draw, the Table escrows its UNIT. Anyone holding it can REDEEM for exactly that UNIT of $TILT404 at any time — a hard floor, not a promise. Don’t like your pull? REROLL into a new random draw for one entry fee.
- ACTIVATE — The one-way door. It burns the backing forever (sent to a dead address), so the Table loses its floor and becomes permanent — and starts earning reflections. There is no un-activate function at any address.
- CLAIM — An ACTIVE table accrues reflections continuously. Claim them to your wallet whenever you like; unclaimed rewards travel with the NFT on transfer.
- REFUND — If a draw round is ever abandoned (never revealed), reclaim your full deposit after the deadline. Your money never traps.
Every Table belongs to one of four pinball eras. The tier is fixed at mint from a pre-committed, publicly reproducible assignment (see Provenance) and sets the Table’s reflection weight — its share of the reward stream once ACTIVE.
| Tier | Era | Supply | Reflection weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Electromechanical | 1,200 | ×1 |
| T2 | Solid state | 420 | ×2 |
| T3 | DMD | 150 | ×5 |
| T4 | Modern LCD | 30 | ×20 |
| Total | 1,800 Tables · higher tier = rarer & heavier reflection weight | ||
Each Table renders as a pinball machine head whose display technology matches its era — mechanical score reels, red 7-segment, amber dot-matrix, or a full-colour LCD — with a BACKED (screen-off) and an ACTIVE (screen-on, earning) state.
Where rewards come from. The creator fee on $TILT404 trading (via the pons launchpad) streams into the protocol and is paid out to ACTIVE tables in $NVDA — tokenized NVIDIA on Robinhood Chain — accruing 24/7, market open or shut.
Reflections are distributed by weight: an ACTIVE T4 earns 20× the per-table share of an ACTIVE T1. They are rewards, not dividends, and confer no promise of profit.
JACKPOT. Every reward that arrives before the first-ever activation pools up and goes, whole, to the first Table anyone activates.
Honest warning: it is a race won on timing, not an early-supporter reward. And pending reflections travel with the NFT — always re-read them right before you buy or sell.
| UNIT | 100,000 $TILT404 — the backing escrowed per Table (fully redeemable while BACKED). |
| Entry fee | 110,000 $TILT404 per draw — burned, making the game deflationary by construction. |
| Cost of a draw | 1 UNIT (refundable via REDEEM) + entry fee (burned) ≈ 2.1× UNIT total. |
| Collection | 1,800 Tables, fixed. Every ACTIVATE permanently removes one UNIT from circulating supply. |
| Reward asset | $NVDA (tokenized NVIDIA), streamed to ACTIVE tables by weight. |
| Royalty | 5% creator earnings on secondary sales, enforced via ERC-721C. |
| Network | Robinhood Chain (Arbitrum Orbit) · chain id 4663 · ~0.127s blocks. |
Rerolling is priced so it is never +EV — no one can farm rare tiers by churning the pool.
- No owner backdoor. There is no privileged control over your money. Two roles exist: an operator that reveals draw seeds, and a pauser that can pause new draws only — nothing else.
- Exits are always open. REDEEM, ACTIVATE, CLAIM and REFUND can never be paused, blocked, or touched by any admin. Money never traps.
- Exact backing. The vault balance equals escrowed backing to the wei, enforced by an invariant suite. Redemption is a property of the contract, not a favor.
- Tested on real infrastructure. The full lifecycle — draw through redeem, reroll, activate, claim — is exercised on-chain and forked against the live pons launchpad, not mocks. An independent review precedes mainnet.
- Enforced royalties. ERC-721C keeps creator earnings from being stripped by marketplaces that honor the standard.
The id→tier assignment is fixed by a single published seed.
Anyone can reproduce the assignment byte-for-byte and check its hash against the
assignmentHash committed in the contract — nothing about the collection is reassignable
after deploy. Two frozen IPFS trees ship at launch: one for the BACKED (screen-off) art and one
for the ACTIVE (screen-on) art; a Table moves from the first to the second exactly once, when it
is activated.
Art is deterministic per token — name, score, accents and motif derive from the token id — and animated: a still image for galleries plus a self-animating vector on the item page.
| DRAW | Deposit UNIT of $TILT404 → get a random table. Two steps (commit → reveal & mint) so no one can farm rare tiers. |
| BACKED | A table still holding its backing. Redeemable; has a hard price floor. |
| ACTIVATE | Burn the backing to make a table permanent + earning. One-way, irreversible. |
| ACTIVE | An activated table. Earns reflections. No floor. |
| REDEEM | Cash a backed table back into its UNIT of $TILT404. |
| REROLL | Swap a backed table for a fresh random draw (one entry fee). |
| REFUND | Reclaim your deposit if a draw round is abandoned. |
| JACKPOT | Reward pot the first-ever activation collects whole. |
| reflections | Rewards streamed to active tables in $NVDA, by weight. Not dividends. |
| UNIT | The fixed $TILT404 amount (100,000) backing one table. |
| tier | T1 Electromechanical · T2 Solid state · T3 DMD · T4 Modern LCD. Higher tier = more reflection weight. |
- Is this an ERC-404?
- No. It is a plain ERC-721 collection plus a token escrow. The “404” is just part of the name. This construction is safer: your backing sits in escrow under an exact balance invariant, and the token has no custom transfer logic.
- What is a “table”?
- An NFT in the collection. Each one is minted by DRAWing, and while BACKED it holds UNIT of $TILT404 you can REDEEM at any time.
- BACKED vs ACTIVE — what’s the difference?
- A BACKED table has a hard floor (redeem for UNIT). An ACTIVE table destroyed that backing to earn reflections — it has no floor. They are different assets; a mixed marketplace “floor price” is meaningless.
- Why does a DRAW take two steps?
- So the outcome doesn’t exist when you commit. If it did, a bot could commit, peek at the tier, and revert if it isn’t rare — farming the good ones. The operator reveals a pre-committed seed after the round closes; it can’t target you.
- What if the operator disappears?
- Minting freezes, but your money never traps. After the deadline you REFUND any un-revealed round and get your deposit back in full. REDEEM, ACTIVATE, and CLAIM never depend on the operator.
- What is the JACKPOT?
- Rewards that arrive before the first activation pool up and go, whole, to the first table activated. Honest warning: it’s a race won on latency, not an early-supporter reward.
- Where do reflections come from?
- The creator fee on the $TILT404 launch, streamed to active tables by weight in $NVDA. Pending rewards travel with the NFT — always re-read them right before you buy or sell.
- Can the team rug the backing?
- No. There is no owner privilege over escrowed funds. A pauser can pause new draws only; REDEEM, ACTIVATE, CLAIM and REFUND are always open.
- Experimental software, no warranty
- TILT404 is experimental on-chain software provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind. You interact with the contracts at your own risk.
- Not financial advice
- Nothing here is financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. $TILT404 and the tables are not securities offerings and confer no promise of profit. Do your own research.
- ACTIVATE is irreversible
- ACTIVATE permanently destroys a table’s backing — there is no un-power function at any address. Once activated, a table has no floor and cannot be redeemed.
- Self-custody & keys
- You are solely responsible for your wallet and keys. Transactions are irreversible; the site never holds your funds and adds no telemetry — all reads and writes go straight to your wallet and the configured RPC.
- No owner backdoor
- There is no owner privilege over your money. A pauser can pause new draws only; REDEEM, ACTIVATE, CLAIM, and REFUND are always open.
- Royalties
- Secondary sales carry an enforced creator royalty (ERC-721C). Marketplace behavior and availability are outside the protocol’s control.