What is Nine Lives?
Nine Lives is a pixel-cat play-to-earn game on Robinhood Chain. You mint an NFT cat, then Work, Play, and Feed it to earn $CAT rewards. The economy is designed to be anti-inflationary: rewards come from a pre-funded vault, never from freshly minted tokens.
The Collection
- 9,999 total pixel cats (ERC-721).
- 99 reserved for the dev/treasury, 9,900 publicly mintable.
- Rarity tiers: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary — higher tiers get better energy caps and multipliers.
Minting
Mint is paid entirely in $CAT. The mint contract pulls the $CAT and auto-splits it on-chain in a single transaction. The price is set on-chain and can be adjusted by the team.
Mint
| Phase | Price | Per-wallet | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUBLIC | 9,999 $CAT | 10 | Open to all |
Public mint is open to everyone — no whitelist required.
The Game Loop
- Work — steady $CAT yield. Drains energy, has a cooldown.
- Play — variance yield (RNG × tier multiplier). Higher risk, higher ceiling. Drains more energy.
- Feed — burn $CAT on-chain via the FeedBurn contract to restore energy and gain a temporary "Well-Fed" buff (decays over time).
- When energy hits zero the cat is Exhausted and can't play until fed. Rarer cats have bigger energy caps and cheaper feed costs.
Rewards & Claims
Play, work, and feed happen off-chain so the game stays fast. Your earnings settle on-chain when you claim:
- You play; the game tracks what each cat earns.
- You hit Claim; your earnings are sent straight to your wallet from the vault.
- Every claim is verified before it pays out, so only what you actually earned can be withdrawn.
How it stays safe: the game can approve a payout but can never move funds on its own. The vault only ever holds what came in from minting, so payouts can't exceed the real runway. If the vault runs low, payouts pause by design.
Payout tokens
- $CAT — native, highest multiplier (~2.5–3.0×), recirculates via feed-burn.
- CASHCAT — ~1.5× (optional, added post-launch).
- USDG — 1.0×, capped to a daily vault budget so real-money payouts never exceed runway.
$CAT Tokenomics
- Fixed 1,000,000,000 supply, launched on ponsfamily.com. No mint function after launch.
- Every mint auto-splits both tokens on-chain, with a different split per token:
| Token | Split |
|---|---|
| $CAT | 15% Dev · 45% RewardVault · 25% Burn · 15% Ops |
| USDG (0.99) | 50% RewardVault · 25% Dev · 25% Ops |
Every mint routes a large chunk of $CAT through the contract, creating steady buy-pressure on the pons pool as phases escalate. The USDG that flows to the vault is the real-money runway for stable payouts.
Chain
Nine Lives runs on Robinhood Chain.