Decaputin is an experimental live collection of digital Heads. Each decapitation can generate a Putinew Head. The final Collection is not pre-made and released in one block: it takes shape as people use the site, generate Heads, claim them, sell them, or let them remain exposed to burn mechanics.

The final Collection can contain up to 10,000 claimed Heads. The generator can create many more possibilities than that, but a generated Head becomes part of the permanent Collection only when someone claims it.

When you decapitate, a new Head appears in your Basket. For a limited time, you have the first opportunity to claim the Head you just generated. If you do not claim it, it may later become available to other users through the Marketplace, or it may eventually be affected by burn mechanics.

Claiming a Head means paying a Lightning invoice in sats and linking that Head to your Nostr public key. The first person who completes the claim becomes the owner of that Head and also decides that the Head enters the Collection in the next available slot.

No. Decaputin Heads are not ERC-721 tokens and are not minted through a blockchain smart contract. They are NFT-like collectibles: ownership and provenance are represented through signed Nostr events, Decaputin attestations, image hashes and public relay records, without issuing a token on-chain.

Nostr proves ownership and provenance. A claimed Head can be linked to a signed Nostr event. That event connects the owner’s public key, the Collection number, the generation ID, the Head data, the payment data and the image hashes.

A Head can be referenced through Decaputin’s CDN and through decentralized or distributed storage layers such as Blossom and IPFS. The important point is that the proof does not rely only on a URL. Hashes such as pngHash, pixelHash and assetHash help identify the actual image and its configuration.

A First Edition is the first Head generated with a specific visual configuration. If the same configuration appears again later, the new Heads are Clones. Clones are not errors or fake copies: they are later appearances of the same configuration.

Burning Waves are automatic reduction events that can affect generated Heads that have not yet entered the Collection. A Head that is still unclaimed may be placed at risk during a Burning Wave. If it is not claimed in time, it is burned and stops being live and claimable. Claimed Heads in the Collection are not exposed to these burn waves.

A Survivor is a Head that was claimed while it was exposed to a Burning Wave. That history remains attached to the Head as provenance. The intensity of the Burning Wave can also affect its Value.

Value is calculated by Decaputin and expressed in sats. It can depend on several factors, including whether the Head is a First Edition or a Clone, its current rarity tier among live Heads, clone popularity, generation milestones, Survivor status and the progress of the Collection. Value is not the same as resale Price. In the Marketplace, the owner can choose an asking price, subject to the marketplace rules and floor.

Yes. Decaputin includes a secondary marketplace. The owner of a claimed Head can list it for sale. When another user buys it, the transfer is completed through payment and a new Nostr ownership proof, continuing the provenance history of that Head.

When the 10,000th Head is claimed, the Collection closes permanently. Generation stops, no new Heads can enter the Collection, and the remaining unclaimed Heads are burned.