FAQ

About the project

Is this affiliated with Robinhood?

No. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Robinhood Markets, Vlad Tenev, or any token team. Robinhood's terms reserve their marks with no ecosystem carve-out, so nothing here uses the feather, the wordmark, their mascot Roby, or the trademarked 24 Hour Market phrasing. Our night circuit is called The Market That Never Sleeps for exactly that reason.

Do I need to hold CASHCAT or any other token?

No. There is no token gate, no snapshot, and no partnership with any of the nine projects. This is a collection about them, built with respect and a lawyer's caution, and none of them owe us anything.

Why these nine memes?

They were scored on culture before market cap: Robinhood-native significance, X mindshare, historical importance, visual recognizability, on-chain relevance, kart potential and longevity, in that weighting. CashCat picks itself. Little John is in at 180 pieces despite a chart that is down over 99%, because the folklore cluster is load bearing and the grid needs a human. The full scoring is in REPORT.md.

Why is Hoodrat not in it?

On pure culture it would have scored mid-seventies and made the roster. The art traces directly to Matt Furie's published 2011 book The Night Riders, and Furie has an active record of enforcing meme IP, including a $4M NFT collection delisted from OpenSea in 2021. It is excluded and it is not coming back without a licence.

Is the art traced from the token projects?

No. Every faction is an original rig drawn from scratch as parameterized SVG. What survives the translation is each meme's anchor: the cash fist, the pipe, the bandana, the glow. Several of the source artworks have unknown provenance and no stated licence, which is exactly why none of their files are used. Identity anchors.

Is Vlad Tenev in it anywhere?

No. He embraces the memes and has granted no likeness rights, and the absence of an objection is not consent. Events involving him are referenced through objects and scenes: a phone glowing on a dashboard, a two-tone livery split down the centreline. Never a face.

Collecting

When is the mint and what does it cost?

Neither is decided. No contract is deployed, no key has been used, and the price and per-wallet limit are set in a single call at launch. The mint page shows the cold garage state until an address is configured, which is the honest thing for it to display. Deployment status.

Does my faction affect how well I race?

Visibly yes, statistically no. MowCat really is the fastest in a straight line and really does handle badly. Across 648 measured races the spread between the best and worst faction win rate is 3.9 points against an even share of 16.7%, which is inside sampling noise. The measurements.

Can the art change after I mint?

The genesis image and traits, no. Those are covered by the provenance hash and locked further by freezeMetadata(), which cannot be undone. Race history is composed on top by the renderer as non-destructive overlays, so a champion gains a laurel and a metadata version bump while the picture underneath stays the picture it minted as.

How do I know the shuffle was not rigged?

Because the fingerprint of every trait assignment goes on chain while supply is still zero, and the contract refuses to set it twice or to set it after any token exists. If the published metadata ever stopped hashing to that value, anyone could show it in one command. The provenance hash.

Is there a rarity ranking?

Yes, and it uses the ordinary sum of inverse trait frequencies rather than a private formula, so third-party rarity tools will agree with it. Faction is excluded from the score, because fixed supply proportions already say what they say. How rarity works.

Racing

Can I race without owning one?

Yes. Before the collection mints everyone drives a test driver with all nine factions unlocked, and results are recorded and marked unranked. You do not have to connect a wallet at all to drive.

Does racing put my NFT at risk?

No. Signing in is a message signature, not a transaction: it approves nothing, moves nothing and costs no gas. The message says so in plain text and you can read it in your wallet before you sign. Nothing in the race loop touches a token.

What happens if I modify the client?

The run gets rejected at replay and the whole payload is logged with the claimed time next to the replayed time. Edited timers, teleports and impossible lap times do not survive a re-simulation, so there is no partial credit for a clever one. The rejection table.

So could I just write a bot?

Yes, and we would not catch it. Replay validation proves a run is physically possible, not that a human did it, and at the level of a five-bit button stream there is nothing to tell them apart. That is why this system awards points and leaderboard places and nothing with cash value. The limit, stated plainly.

Does it work on a phone or with a controller?

Both. A five-button touch overlay appears on the first real touch, and gamepads connect live through the Gamepad API with analog steering and an analog throttle. All three input paths quantize to the same button state, so none of them is faster than the others. Controls.

Is there sound?

Yes, and none of it is a file. Engine notes, tyre scrub, wind, the countdown and the fanfares are synthesized at runtime, so the game ships zero recorded audio and zero image assets. Press M to mute.

Chain and wallets

Which chain and which wallet?

Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum Orbit L2 with ETH gas, chain ID 4663. Any EVM wallet works, and yours may ask to add the network the first time. That prompt is normal. Network facts.

What does gas cost?

Robinhood subsidizes gas on the chain until roughly late September 2026, so transactions are close to free until then. The wallet still needs a balance. It also means every transaction and active-address figure from this ecosystem is inflated right now, ours included, and anybody quoting those numbers at you without that caveat is selling something.

Where do I verify the contracts?

The Blockscout instance at robinhoodchain.blockscout.com. Note that robinscan.io is a working explorer UI whose API does not work for verification. Also note that a verified checkmark means source was uploaded and nothing else: every meme name on this chain has between five and fifty verified clone contracts.

Are the market figures in the research current?

They are a snapshot dated 2026-08-12 and they were volatile then. Some of them conflict across sources and the research says so rather than picking a flattering number: HMM was reported at $3.9M and at $22.2M on the same day, and chain TVL was reported at $774M on 2026-08-05 and $473M on 2026-08-11. Those are recorded as unresolved. Nothing on this site depends on any of them.