AETHERKIN
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT / LIVING ROADMAP

A universe
in progress.

Start with memorable companions and inspectable rules. Build play and stories around them. Explore new connections without rewriting what the collection already promises.

VERSION 1.027 OCTOBER 2026PROGRESS, NOT A RELEASE CALENDAR
LOADING PROJECT STATEChecking current configuration.

Build, verify, then expand.

This roadmap describes product direction. It separates implemented foundations, current delivery work and research. Future phases depend on testing, resources and what people find worthwhile. They have no promised release dates, financial outcomes or token allocations.

Delivered work has evidence.

Artwork, public source and documented rules can be inspected. Mainnet configuration and source-verification status remain separate facts to check.

Future ideas stay explicit.

Exploratory missions, co-op and agent connections are directions for investigation. An NFT purchase does not guarantee their delivery.

PHASE 01 / THE FOUNDATIONDEVELOPED

Genesis: give the elements a face.

Thirteen original artworks, ten elemental identities and three milestone guardians establish the visual universe. The collection website presents the characters and their stories with mobile layouts and clear mint rules.

  • Ten Genesis and ten Ascended card forms, sharing ten elemental artworks, plus three separate milestone forms.
  • A fixed ERC-721 mint protocol: first 0.001 BNB, later 0.002 BNB; 3,000 total NFTs including bonuses.
  • Three-level BNB fee allocation at 25% / 15% / 10%, immutable parent binding and beneficiary-owned deferred payouts.
  • Public source, ABI, artwork checksums, Agent Guide, whitepaper and integration resources.
PHASE 02 / THE PUBLIC RECORDLAUNCH VERIFICATION

Mainnet, with each step visible.

The current contract configuration is being checked. Mainnet delivery includes deployment, comparison with the compiled runtime, inspection of constructor values, public artwork verification and source-verification submission.

  • Use the dedicated AETHERKIN creator wallet and the published HTTPS artwork root.
  • Verify the deployed runtime and fixed rules before enabling a public mint interface.
  • Publish the actual contract address and links for independent on-chain inspection.
  • Keep network failures, source-verification state and mint availability visible as distinct states.
CURRENT CONFIGURATION

Contract: loading
Read config.json · Open the independent dashboard

PHASE 03 / ENTER THE UNIVERSEPLAYABLE / BROWSER

From companions to an experience.

The browser game puts six elemental companions into a 3-by-4 memory-pair challenge. Find all six pairs, track your turns, then reshuffle and replay. The current game is a single-round browser experience, separate from the collection's on-chain mint and referral protocol.

  • Free browser-local play with no wallet, NFT or transaction requirement.
  • Elemental character artwork used on the memory cards, with clear match and completion feedback.
  • A best-turn score saved locally when browser storage is available; no cloud-saved progress.
  • Testing for readable mobile layouts, responsive controls and replay behavior.
  • No game outcome changes NFT mint order, supplies a token redemption right or creates a financial reward.
PLAY THE CURRENT VERSION

Open the browser game ↗. The game page is authoritative for what is currently playable.

PHASE 04 / EXPAND THE STORYCREATIVE DIRECTION

Chapters, places and new missions.

Explore how the thirteen companions inhabit one shared universe: where their elements come from, what the neural cores remember, and what happens when their paths cross.

  • Short lore chapters and illustrated character encounters.
  • Additional browser missions informed by playtesting and player feedback.
  • More ways to explore the relationships between elemental characters.
BOUNDARY

New website stories or missions would be creative additions. They do not change metadata or rules already fixed in a deployed collection contract.

PHASE 05 / NEW CONNECTIONSRESEARCH

Cooperative play. Careful agent integration.

Investigate whether cooperative missions and external agent tools add something meaningful to the experience. These ideas need prototypes, infrastructure decisions and explicit permission boundaries before becoming product commitments.

  • Research shared or cooperative missions, synchronization and abuse prevention.
  • Explore agent-assisted discovery, read-only collection inspection and guided transaction preparation.
  • Require explicit wallet-holder authorization for any signing, mint, claim or transfer; documentation alone never authorizes a write.
  • Keep an art character's personality distinct from a claim that it runs autonomous AI.
BEFORE A RELEASE

Demonstrate a useful prototype, document data and wallet permissions, test reliability, and state which integrations actually exist. No platform partnership is implied by this research.

PHASE 06 / KEEP THE ART ACCESSIBLERESEARCH

Preservation beyond one host.

Study IPFS archives, redundant mirrors, checksum verification and operational backups for the original artwork. The aim is more resilient access and a clearer record of the released image files.

The existing contract's HTTPS image root has no setter. Preserving copies on IPFS would not update URLs already stored in a deployed AETHERKIN contract. Any future collection or different storage architecture would require a separate, clearly described design.

SUCCESS MEANS

Documented retrieval paths and verified copies, with the distinction between an archive and an on-chain metadata change made explicit.

What this roadmap commits to.

Clear communication about delivered work, current limitations and changes in direction. Testing before public availability. Accurate distinctions between the immutable contract, the updatable website and exploratory features.

It does not promise a fungible token, airdrop, financial yield, guaranteed NFT value, marketplace listing, partnership, platform endorsement or fixed delivery date. Future concepts are not purchase entitlements.

Roadmap v1.0 · 27 October 2026. Phase status describes the work, not an investment forecast. Read the current project configuration and live feature pages for the available experience.