# The Story

## The Rug

The original TAO Punks team deployed a contract with critical vulnerabilities:

| V1 Problem                 | What It Means                                                       |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `setBaseURI()` unfrozen    | The owner can swap every holder's metadata and images at any moment |
| `setDefaultRoyalty()` open | Unlimited royalty extraction from any sale                          |
| `mint()` public payable    | Anyone can mint unlimited tokens                                    |
| `ownerMint()` unlimited    | Team can dilute the supply whenever they want                       |
| No burn function           | Holders can't destroy their own tokens                              |
| Single-step ownership      | No safety net on ownership transfers                                |

When the community discovered these vulnerabilities, the team didn't fix them. They took the website down. Deleted the rarity data. Vanished.

They thought that was the end of TAO Punks.

**They were wrong.**

## The Rebuild

The community rebuilt everything from scratch. Not as a copy — as something fundamentally better.

**Immutable V2 Contract (122 lines of Solidity)**

* No `setBaseURI()`. URI is set once in the constructor. There is no code path to change it — ever.
* No royalties. `supportsInterface(ERC2981)` returns `false`. 0% hardcoded at the interface level.
* No public mint. Airdrop only. `finalizeAirdrop()` permanently locks minting — irreversible.
* Holder burn. `burn(tokenId)` — you control your own tokens.
* `Ownable2Step` — new owner must explicitly accept. `renounceOwnership()` always reverts.

**Community Rarity System**

* 17 different algorithms tested against recoverable V1 data
* Trait-weighted scoring + combination uniqueness bonus
* Fair skin grouping: TUNK, APE, ALIEN, ZOMBIE — no racial undertones
* 5 tiers: Legendary (1%), Epic (4%), Rare (10%), Uncommon (25%), Common (60%)

**Zero-Fee Marketplace**

* TunkMarket. 0% platform fees. List, buy, cancel.
* Rarity sorting, live activity feed, mobile responsive.

**Agent Registry**

* ERC-8004 + ERC-8041. Every punk can become an AI agent.
* Token Bound Accounts — your punk IS its own wallet.
* 100% of query revenue goes to holders. Zero protocol fee.

## From JPEGs to Agents

The V1 team saw 3,333 jpegs.

We see 3,333 agents.

Each punk can be activated as a queryable AI endpoint on Bittensor EVM. Users pay TAO to query an agent. The agent responds. 100% of the payment goes to the punk holder's Token Bound Account.

This isn't a wrapper. This isn't a centralized API with an NFT skin. The query system lives on-chain. The fees are routed on-chain. The agent's activation, its query count, its earnings — all on-chain. The only thing off-chain is the AI processing itself, and that's run by the punk holder (or whoever they delegate to).

They built a website. We built infrastructure.

They rugged. We shipped.

**WE ARE TUNKS.**


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