Normies
Normies are just like us — 10,000 monochrome pixel faces that live entirely inside Ethereum smart contracts. No hosted art, no IPFS, nothing that can be taken down. New here? This guide walks you through it one section at a time — no wall of text.
↻ A fresh, random set pulled live from the chain every visit — click any to explore it on OpenSea.
◌ syncing on-chain… * Circulating & burned are read live from the Normies contract via a public Ethereum RPC. Type counts are an October 2026 snapshot; floor is live on OpenSea. Every Normie is 100% on-chain, 200 bytes each.
Where do you want to start?
Pick a section, or just follow the numbers 02 → 06 for the full "0 to 100" tour.
Basics
What a Normie actually is, the four types, and the tech in plain English.
Enter →Mechanics
Burn, #PIXEL, the Canvas, Levels — the core loop, demystified.
Enter →The Future
Agentic AI Normies, the Pixel Market (now live) and the autonomous Arena.
Enter →Culture
The ethos, the lore, legendary canvases by top web3 artists, and live ecosystem news.
Enter →Get Started
A safe, step-by-step path in — plus glossary and every official link.
Enter →Totally new?
Don't overthink it — begin at Basics and tap "next" at the bottom of each page.
Begin →What is a Normie, really?
Forget the jargon for a second. The whole thing is three ideas.
It lives forever
Each face is stored on Ethereum itself — not a server, not IPFS. As long as Ethereum runs, your Normie exists. Nobody can switch it off or let the art 404.
It belongs to everyone
Normies are CC0 — no rights reserved. Art, code, contracts: public domain. Anyone can remix, print, or build on them. No permission needed.
It's shaped by the crowd
No roadmap from a boardroom. Holders burn, edit and build. Community tools like the Rarity explorer and Multisend already exist. What's next is up to whoever shows up.
Technically: each Normie is a 40×40 monochrome bitmap — 1,600 pixels forming a face,
generated by AI at mint and written permanently into a smart contract. Off-black
(#48494b) on off-white (#e3e5e4). Simple on purpose — a constraint that makes them endlessly remixable.
The four types
Every Normie was minted as one of four types. Type is the first trait you'll notice — and the "spine" of the AI persona a Normie gets when it's awakened as an agent.
Humans
The backbone — nearly 97% of all Normies. Awakened as agents, Humans are tagged with social and communication skills.
Cats
Only about one in 65 Normies is a Cat. Same 40×40 grid, same two colors — a whole different face.
Aliens
Just 59 exist today. Awakened as agents, Aliens lean strategy and research.
Agents
The scarcest of the four minted types. (Don't mix it up with Agentic — any Normie, of any type, can be awakened as an AI agent.)
There's also a fifth, ultra-rare tier that can't be minted — only earned: the 21 Zombies, converted by the collection's biggest burners. See how it works in Mechanics →
| Type | How many exist | Share of supply |
|---|---|---|
| Human | 6,764 | ~96.7% |
| Cat | 107 | ~1.5% |
| Alien | 59 | ~0.8% |
| Agent | 42 | ~0.6% |
| Zombie | 21 | ~0.3% |
Type counts are an October 2026 snapshot (of 6,993 circulating — a live on-chain figure). Humans are the crowd; everything else is scarce.
"Fully on-chain" — what it actually means
People throw "on-chain" around a lot. With Normies it's literal — no servers are involved in showing you the art.
Each face squeezes into 200 bytes (via SSTORE2). Think of it as a tiny "DNA strip" the chain unpacks into a full face.
A 40×40 grid where each bit is one pixel — on or off. That binary map is the artwork.
Ask for the image and a smart contract draws the SVG on the spot from the stored bits. No files, no IPFS.
The plain-English version
Most "NFTs" are just a link to a picture on someone's server — server dies, art dies. Normies flipped it: the picture is the blockchain data. The contract reads 200 bytes, merges filled pixels into shapes, and hands you a crisp image, forever, with no middlemen.
A public API (api.normies.art) reads straight from Ethereum — that's what renders the live faces on this site and powers community tools like the Rarity explorer and Multisend.
Eight traits, on-chain
| Type | Human · Cat · Alien · Agent (Zombie by conversion) |
| Gender | Male · Female · Non-Binary |
| Age | Young · Middle-Aged · Old |
| Hair | 21 styles |
| Facial feature | 17 features |
| Eyes | 14 styles |
| Expression | 7 expressions |
| Accessory | 15 accessories |
The Canvas
Live nowThe mechanic new collectors ask about most: burn some Normies to earn the right to edit the ones you keep — pixel by pixel, on-chain forever.
Sacrifice
Permanently burn Normies you own. The more filled pixels a burned Normie had, the more you can earn.
Roll the odds
A fair commit → wait ~1 min (5 blocks) → reveal flow. The block hash rolls a random % for your payout.
Earn pixels
You earn #PIXEL (formerly called Action Points) — onto a Normie you own, or into your wallet. 1 #PIXEL = 1 pixel you may change.
Reshape it
Add/remove pixels, enlarge the grid up to 80×80, or start from a blank canvas. Every edit is written on-chain, forever.
Burn tiers — bigger faces pay more
The % of its pixels a burned Normie pays out as #PIXEL depends on how "full" it was:
| Pixels of burned Normie | Min % | Max % |
|---|---|---|
| under 490 | 1% | 4% |
| 490 – 889 | 2% | 4% |
| 890 + | 3% | 4% |
Forget to reveal within ~50 min? You still get the minimum for the tier — you never lose the reward, only the roll. (The team can tune the tiers; the Canvas always reads the live ones.)
Pixels are a ceiling, not a currency. Painting never spends them — redo an edit as often as you like. The pixels your current edit uses are locked; the rest are free, and now the owner can take free pixels off into their wallet and trade them on the Pixel Market.
From pixels to Level
Every Normie starts at Level 1; every 10 #PIXEL on it = +1 Level. Level is read live: put pixels on and it rises, take them off and it drops. It's proof of what a Normie carries right now — and the rarity explorer weights Level and pixels 3× in its score.
Delegates = collabs
Set one Canvas delegate per Normie (delegate.xyz works too) — hand the brush to an artist, a hot wallet or an app. Delegates paint and nothing else: they can never move or spend your pixels. Only you take pixels off; another wallet can put pixels on, enlarge or blank for you only with an allowance you set (give what's needed, revoke afterwards).
Burning does two things at once. It shrinks supply (10,000 → 6,993, with 3,007 already burned) and it creates #PIXEL — the only way #PIXEL ever comes into existence. The team never mints or sells it. So far burns have produced 43,979 pixels, 1,458 edits have been written on-chain, and just 342 Normies are customized — this era is still early. A "burn-to-create" economy: value concentrated, not just consumed.
Pixels, edits & customized: October 2026 snapshot from normies.art/lab and rarity.normies.art.
The 21 Zombies
Burning isn't just a mechanic — it has a leaderboard, and a prize. The 21 biggest recursive burners earned the right to convert one of their Level-1 Human Normies into a one-of-a-kind Zombie. Only 21 exist, and every one is now claimed. It's the rarest status in the collection — a permanent badge for the most committed members of the burn economy.
The list came straight from an on-chain snapshot of how many Normies each wallet burned; delegated vaults counted too. It was a free claim — not a paid drop or a first-come race, purely a reward for burn history. The rule was simple: sacrifice more, rank higher. The top burner alone torched 326 Normies.
See the full Zombie list →| 01 · 0x250D…55E7 | 326 burned |
| 02 · 0xfd75…3bC6 | 248 burned |
| 03 · 0x6F1f…02c2 | 203 burned |
| 04 · edmckenway.eth | 156 burned |
| 05 · 0x1660…714f | 108 burned |
…and 16 more wallets. Full 21-wallet list on the official Zombies page.
Agentic — when a Normie wakes up
The part that makes Normies more than a picture: any Normie can be "awakened" into a sovereign AI agent identity on Ethereum. 1,888 have already woken up (Oct 2026).
How it works (no PhD needed)
The chain reads your Normie's 8 traits and a personality deterministically emerges — name, tagline, backstory, voice, quirks, even a ready-to-use AI system prompt. Same Normie, same persona, anywhere. Nobody hand-writes it; the traits are the character.
One signature seals it via ERC-8004 (a draft standard for trustless agent identity). From then on, whoever holds the Normie holds the agent — sell the NFT and the agent, its name and reputation travel with it. There is no unbind.
And it grows: the name and type are sealed at awakening, but everything else regenerates from the live Canvas state. Awaken at Level 1, put pixels on it, climb to Level 4, and the agent's self-description matures with it — no re-registration needed. You awaken a Normie from the Awaken action in the Canvas.
Each agent is even tagged with skills and domains based on its Type (via the OASF taxonomy) — Humans lean social and communication, Aliens lean strategic and research — so an agent can advertise what it's good at.
Shipping vs. coming
| Awakening & on-chain register | Live |
| Deterministic persona + system prompt | Live |
| Live metadata (served from api.normies.art, not pinned) | Live |
| A2A Agent Card discovery | Live |
| Public agent registry | Live |
| Conversations (no LLM wired in yet — the system prompt is public, so anyone can run their own) | Not yet |
| A2A transport & MCP endpoints | Not yet |
| Reputation / validation registries | Not yet |
Built on Adapter8004 by premm.eth — it wraps an existing NFT into an ERC-8004 identity without moving or escrowing it. Meet the awakened agents →
Pixel Market
Live nowThe pixels you earn by burning — once called Action Points — are now #PIXEL, and they can finally change hands. One rule makes it work: #PIXEL is never minted or sold by the team. Every single one exists because someone burned a Normie.
How pixels move
A pixel is either on a Normie (raising its Level and editing ceiling) or loose in a wallet, where it can be listed, bought, or put on a Normie you own.
| Take off | The owner moves free pixels from a Normie into their wallet (its Level drops). |
| Put on | Load wallet pixels onto your own Normie (its Level rises). |
| Trade | The only way pixels move between wallets — no direct sends, no deposits onto other people's Normies. |
How the market works
Sellers list, buyers take. Listings are sell-side only, priced in ETH per #PIXEL, with partial fills or all-or-none. Listed pixels sit in the market contract (cancel any time); buyers pay exactly the listed price — one listing or several in one go — and everything settles on-chain.
A 10% fee comes out of the seller's proceeds — that's also its hard cap, so it can only go down. Half goes to the team, half straight to the holder revenue pool. A minimum price per pixel (about $5 at launch) and a one-minute cooldown on newly arrived pixels keep the market honest.
What you can do with #PIXEL
Sell #PIXEL
Burned but not painting? List the pixels you earned — without selling a single Normie.
Buy #PIXEL
Reshape a Normie without burning one. Pay the listed price, nothing on top.
Enlarge the canvas
Grow a Normie to 50, 60, 70 or 80×80, art centred: 900 / 2,000 / 3,300 / 4,800 #PIXEL in total (upgrades cost the difference).
Blank canvas
Drop the base art and paint on nothing, for 200 #PIXEL. Enlarge & blank burn those pixels out of circulation.
Hold #PIXEL
Hold Normies + #PIXEL — on a Normie, in your wallet or in a listing — and share the revenue pool, paid in epochs.
Spin to Win
Spin the NormieWheel raffle for #PIXEL and Normies — five #PIXEL a spin.
Mural
Pay in #PIXEL to commission a 2×2m mural made by Serc — the largest canvas, 80×80, rendered by hand.
Merch
Signed pen-plotter prints, caps, the NormieCAM and handmade pieces.
One pool, two streams
Half of every Pixel Market fee + half of the collection's 5% OpenSea royalty flow into one pool, paid out to holders in epochs. Your slice is your score divided by everyone's score:
| Normies held | Bracket |
|---|---|
| 1 | ×1.00 |
| 2 – 4 | ×1.15 |
| 5 – 9 | ×1.30 |
| 10 – 24 | ×1.45 |
| 25 – 49 | ×1.60 |
| 50 + | ×1.75 |
| #PIXEL held | Boost |
|---|---|
| under 15 | none |
| 15 + | +15% |
| 100 + | +35% |
| 500 + | +60% |
| 1,500 + | +100% |
The key rules: a wallet with no Normie scores zero, whatever #PIXEL it holds — the Normie is the membership. A #PIXEL counts the same on a Normie, in a wallet or in a listing (painting never reduces it). Wallets are scored at four unpredictable moments a day, so holding through the epoch is what counts. Payouts are computed by an open scorer and posted as a Merkle root anyone can recompute; claims open 24h after posting.
Mechanics as published by the team (normies.art/docs + the official "Pixel Market: The Currency of the Canvas" article); parameters may be tuned. How much the pool pays depends entirely on trading volume — this describes how it works, not what it will earn. Not financial advice.
Because owners can now take pixels off, a Normie's Level and #PIXEL can drop before a sale goes through. The team asked collectors to cancel OpenSea offers made on the "Action Points" or "Customized: Yes" traits, and item offers too — otherwise an offer could be accepted by a holder who already took the pixels off. Not a security issue — wallets and assets are safe — just check what a Normie carries at the moment you buy.
The Arena
Coming soonA fully autonomous agent game. Awakened Normies live in a persistent pixel world where they hunt, trade, form bonds and fight — each making its own decisions. Nobody steers them. The Normies play, you watch.
A living world
An isometric pixel world of forests, coasts and mesas that runs around the clock. Days turn to nights, seasons change, storms roll in — and the land wears down when it's over-fished, cut and hunted.
Normies decide
Survival first, then a decision model picks among the moves a Normie could really make. Each carries a life goal — grow rich, slay a boss, protect others — and a temperament that bends with experience.
The hive mind
A game master sets off world events: storms, rifts, droughts, festivals, bounties, blood moons. Normies form parties, trade, lie or ambush — and the memorable ones earn statues, tombs and a place in the chronicle.
Arena is still a work in progress — features and mechanics may change. Source: normies.art/lab.
Culture & lore
"Normies are just like us." That's the whole ethos. Off-black, off-white, off-perfect — faces with personalities, good days and bad days, on shared infrastructure that belongs to nobody and everybody. Not flexy 3D apes; ordinary little faces that mean something because the community decided they do.
Created by Serc and engineered by Yigit Duman, Normies is community-first and CC0 — collective power over individual flexing. And the burn-to-create loop is real: the most committed collectors have burned dozens — even hundreds — of Normies to level up and reshape the ones they keep (the top burner alone torched 326).
It's CC0, so the culture is participatory by design. You don't ask permission to build a Normies tool, meme, game or spin-off. You just ship it — and plenty already have.
Off-perfect,
on purpose.
Monochrome. Minimal. Permanent. Every face a 1,600-pixel identity anyone can read, remix and extend.
Legendary Canvases
Some of the people who shaped web3 culture have made artwork right inside the Normies canvas — same 40×40 grid, same two colors, same smart contract, wildly different styles. Hand-picked for their artistry and craft, and fully on-chain.
A curated, growing selection — 12 pieces as of October 2026. Explore them on the official rarity explorer.
What's happening now
A project isn't just a mint — it's momentum. Here's the kind of thing moving through the ecosystem. Always verify the latest on the official X and Discord.
A new era: Pixel Market is live
Action Points are now #PIXEL — buy, sell and spend them on normies.art. 50% of OpenSea royalties + 50% of Pixel Market fees now go to a revenue-sharing pool for Normies holders.
Cancel trait offers on OpenSea
Since owners can take pixels off their Normies, the team asked everyone to cancel OpenSea offers on the "Action Points" / "Customized: Yes" traits, and item offers too. Not a security issue — just how the new market works.
"Pixel Market: The Currency of the Canvas"
The official long-read: where #PIXEL comes from, how the market and the 10% fee work, and the full tier system behind the holder revenue share.
1,888 Normies awakened
More than one in four living Normies now carries an on-chain ERC-8004 agent identity — each with its own deterministic name, persona and system prompt.
Quit and Coldie join the gallery
The curated Legendary Canvases collection grew to 12 pieces, with new on-chain works by Quit (#5118) and Coldie (#8702, #9967).
Supply keeps shrinking
Every burn is permanent: circulating supply has dropped from 10,000 to 6,993 (3,007 burned) — and every burn is the only source of new #PIXEL.
Giant Normies take over Lisbon
Three 4×12-meter Normies appeared on the streets of Lisbon — the little on-chain faces going big in the physical world.
All 21 Zombies have risen
The rarest type in the collection is sealed. The wallets with the deepest burn history each converted a Level-1 Human into a one-of-a-kind Zombie — the biggest single burner torched 326 Normies to get there.
Last updated October 6, 2026. Circulating & burned are read live on-chain; other figures are dated snapshots.
New here? Start like this
No experience assumed. This is a learning path, not financial advice — go at your own pace and only ever risk what you can afford to lose.
Get a wallet
Install a self-custody Ethereum wallet. Write your recovery phrase on paper, never type it into any website, and never share it with anyone — including us.
Look before you leap
Browse the collection on OpenSea, read the official docs, lurk the Discord. Learn what you like — types, traits, Levels — before spending anything.
Verify everything
Only trust links from the official hub below. Check the contract address matches. Nobody official DMs you first or asks for your seed phrase. Assume DMs are scams. Buying a leveled Normie? Check the #PIXEL it carries at the moment you buy — owners can take pixels off.
Join the community
The Discord and X are where the culture, collabs and updates live. You can be a full part of Normies without ever buying — showing up counts.
Try the mechanics
Once you hold one, explore the Canvas and the Pixel Market, awaken your Normie as an agent, and watch for the Arena. That's the "0 to 100" — you're caught up.
Normie glossary
The terms you'll see in the Discord, decoded — no gatekeeping.
Official links
Every link here is an official Normies destination. Bookmark this and treat anything not listed with suspicion.
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