WASTELAND

$WASTE is the ecosystem token used within Wasteland. Its purpose is to be spent here, primarily at the Forge.

For now it is designed purely as an in-ecosystem resource, and does not represent or promise any monetary value.

Selected NFTs and tokens will be eligible to burn in exchange for $WASTE, including assets from outside Wasteland. Not everything will qualify, and supported assets will be announced separately.

Burn values differ depending on the collection, token, rarity, traits, or other criteria. You'll see exactly what you're burning and how much $WASTE you'll receive before confirming.

Part of the idea behind $WASTE is giving unwanted assets somewhere else to go rather than leaving them forgotten in a wallet.

Yes. Once something is burned, it's gone.

The Burn interface will show the asset and the amount of $WASTE you'll receive before you confirm the transaction.

$WASTE is meant to be used, not simply accumulated. You'll spend it alongside specific ingredients when attempting to Forge Materials, which feed increasingly difficult recipes leading toward Relics.

As the ecosystem develops, $WASTE may find additional uses within Wasteland, but its current role is centered around the Forge.

None of it is required. Burning and Forging are both completely optional.

Materials are resources created and used within the Wasteland Forge. Relics are the collectible artifacts at the end of the crafting tree, discovered by combining $WASTE with forged Materials.

There will be different Material types and rarities, each with their own recipes and requirements, and rarer Relics will call for more difficult ingredients and forging paths.

We'll break down Materials, recipes, rarity, success rates, and the full forging system in a separate post. For now, just know this: if you want to discover the rarest Relics, you'll need to spend some time at the Forge.

The Forge combines $WASTE and specific ingredients to attempt to create a new Material. Every Material has its own recipe, and the rarer the Material, the harder the Forge.

Each attempt needs:

$WASTE

The ecosystem token used to attempt the Forge.

Ingredients

The specific ingredients required by that recipe.

A Wasteland NFT

Your Wasteland interacts with the Forge, and its eligible unlisted holding time can improve your chances.

No. Forging is probability-based, with a base success chance determined by the Material's rarity. Generally:

Common

Higher chance

Uncommon

Moderately high chance

Rare

Moderate chance

Epic

Low chance

Legendary

Very low chance

The actual percentage will be shown before you Forge.

Yes. How long you've continuously held your Wasteland unlisted can improve your Forge chances, and you'll see your final chance before confirming the attempt.

Base chance + unlisted holding time = final Forge chance

$WASTE can be acquired. Ingredients can be collected. Relics can be traded. Time has to be earned — which is why the Forge recognizes collectors who have actually held onto their Wastelands.

It improves your odds without removing the risk: a difficult recipe is still a difficult recipe. Listing, selling, or transferring can affect the holding period the Forge recognizes, and the exact reset rules will be published before the Forge goes live.

Yes. Relics will exist as their own NFT collection, separate from the original Wasteland collection.

Successfully discovering a Relic through the Forge creates the corresponding Relic NFT. Your Wasteland and your Relics remain separate assets.

Yes. Once discovered, Relics can be held, transferred, or traded separately from your Wasteland NFT, which means there are two ways to build a Relic collection:

Forge them

Collect them from someone else

You don't necessarily have to discover every Relic yourself. Some Relics will be relatively obtainable, others extremely difficult to create, and collectors can hunt specific ones, complete sets, or simply build the rarest collection they can.

The Leaderboard tracks collection progress across Wasteland. It's not about who holds the most $WASTE — it's about what you've managed to collect and discover.

Trading Relics is one path up it. Forging is another, and Forgers need $WASTE, the right ingredients, successful attempts, and can benefit from the holding history of their Wasteland. Some collectors will Forge, some will trade, most will probably do a bit of both.

Full scoring details will be released before the Leaderboard goes live.

Two things we're exploring:

Relic royalties

Certain discovered Relics may receive a portion of the royalties generated within the Wasteland ecosystem. Some Relics may be worth hunting a little harder than others.

Seasonal Relics

Limited artifacts created together with other collections and communities, entering Wasteland for a season. Some might never return.

Over time, the Relic collection could become a record of the different communities that have passed through Wasteland.

It starts with the collection.

Collect a Wasteland

Hold it unlisted

Build your Forge advantage over time.

Burn unwanted assets

Receive $WASTE.

Forge

Combine $WASTE and ingredients to create Materials.

Discover Relics

Work your way toward rarer recipes and Relics.

Collect / trade

Climb the Leaderboard

That's the Wasteland loop. How far you take it is up to you.