Welcome to Stock City

Stock City is a living, isometric city you can own a piece of. It's built on Robinhood Chain, an EVM Layer-2, and every street, tower, and plot is on-chain.

The map is divided into thematic districts — TSLA, NVDA, AMZN, with more decided by the community. Inside each district, land is carved into a fixed number of plots, minted as NFTs. You buy them, hold them, trade them, and watch the city move around you.

And it does move. Stock City is alive: when a district's theme is running hot, the streets brighten and rally-glow washes over the skyline. When it cools, the district goes red, smoke drifts through the blocks. The city reflects a market state — it doesn't grant one.

At the center sits the Exchange, a hub with a live ticker board and the most contested land on the map. The closer a plot sits to the Exchange, the rarer and scarcer it is.

A few things to be clear about up front:

$STOCK is a utility token that powers the game. It is not a stake in any company.
Plots are game assets — scarce digital land inside a themed city, not shares, securities, or claims on anything off-chain.
Districts are thematic. Owning a plot in the TSLA district is not ownership of, affiliation with, or exposure to Tesla or its stock.

Stock City is a game about owning scarce land in a beautiful, reactive world. This documentation walks you through how it all works — the token, buying land, rarity, and how the city grows. Start at Getting Started and take the first plot.

Getting Started

You can walk into Stock City in a few minutes. Here's the path from zero to owning land.

1. Connect a wallet. Stock City runs on Robinhood Chain, an EVM Layer-2. Any standard EVM wallet works. On first connect, the app will prompt you to add the network — approve it and you're on-chain.

2. Bring some ETH. You don't need to pre-buy anything. If you're paying with ETH, our one-tap ZAP handles the rest (see below). You only need enough ETH to cover your plot plus a small amount of gas.

3. Explore the map. Open the city and move through the districts. Each plot shows its rarity tier, its price, and how many of that tier remain. Scarcity counters are real and read straight from the contracts — "3 legendary · 8 premium left" means exactly that.

4. Pick a plot and buy. You have two ways to pay:

Pay in $STOCK directly, if you already hold it.
Pay in ETH via ZAP — one tap. The contract swaps your ETH to $STOCK inside the same transaction and completes the purchase atomically. No manual swapping, no pre-buying, no second signature.

5. Own it. The plot mints to your wallet as an NFT. It's yours to hold or list for resale, right there on the map.

Every land trade carries a small fee. That fee funds two things: buyback & burn of $STOCK, and the protocol treasury. It's automatic and transparent on-chain.

That's the loop: connect, pick, buy, own. From here, dig into The Token to understand $STOCK, or jump to Buying Land for the mechanics in detail.

The Token: $STOCK

$STOCK is the utility token of Stock City. It's the currency of the city — you use it to buy land, and it's what every plot is priced in. It is a game and utility token, not a security, a share, or a claim on any company or off-chain asset.

What $STOCK does:

Buys land. Every plot is denominated in $STOCK. Pay with it directly, or let ZAP convert your ETH into it at the moment of purchase.
Captures fees. Every land trade in Stock City charges a small fee, split between buyback & burn and the treasury.
Powers governance. Holders help decide which new districts open next (see Expansion & Governance).

Buyback & burn. A portion of every trade fee is used to buy $STOCK back from the market and permanently burn it. As the city trades, supply is continuously removed from circulation — the token is designed to be deflationary by construction. This is a mechanic of the game economy, not a promise of price or return.

The treasury. The remaining fee share funds the protocol treasury, which supports development, new districts, and the long-term health of the city.

You don't need to pre-buy $STOCK to play. The ZAP flow means ETH holders can buy land in a single tap without ever manually acquiring the token first. $STOCK is there when you want to hold the city's currency, transact directly, or take part in governance.

A note on framing: $STOCK's value, if any, comes from its use inside the game and the mechanics of its economy. Nothing here is a promise of profit, yield, dividends, or returns. Treat $STOCK as what it is — the fuel for a living on-chain city.

Buying Land

Land is the heart of Stock City. Each plot is an NFT minted on Robinhood Chain, tied to a specific location in a specific district. There is a fixed number of plots per district, and rarity is baked into where a plot sits (see Rarity & Value).

Two markets, one map:

Primary mint — the house lists district inventory. When you buy a fresh plot, you're minting it into existence and it lands in your wallet.
Secondary resale — plots owned by other players, listed for sale right on the map. Buy directly from holders; ownership transfers on-chain.

Two ways to pay:

$STOCK — if you hold the token, pay directly. Simple and gas-light.
ETH via ZAP — one tap. The contract swaps your ETH into $STOCK and settles the purchase in the *same transaction*. No pre-buying $STOCK, no manual DEX step, no second signature. What you see is what you pay.

The trade fee. Every land trade — primary or secondary — carries a small protocol fee. It splits automatically between buyback & burn of $STOCK and the treasury. It's on-chain and visible; nothing happens off the books.

Reselling your land. Any plot you own can be listed for resale from the map. Set your price in $STOCK, and it appears to every player browsing that district. When it sells, funds settle to your wallet, minus the standard trade fee.

What ownership means. A plot is a game asset: scarce digital land in a themed, reactive city. It is not a security or a claim on anything outside the game, and holding it is not an investment position. You own the land because you want to hold ground in a living city — its scarcity, its location, and its place in the skyline. Nothing here promises resale value or return.

Rarity & Value

Not all land in Stock City is equal. Rarity is structural — it comes from where a plot sits relative to the central Exchange and each district's landmarks. It's visible on the map before you buy, and the scarcity counts are read live from the contracts.

The four tiers:

Legendary — closest to the central Exchange. The most contested ground in the city and the most scarce. Very few exist per district.
Premium — adjacent to district landmarks. Prime blocks, tightly limited.
Standard — the inner district. The core of everyday city life, more available.
Common — the district edges. The most plentiful land, the entry point to a district.

Scarcity is real. When the map says "3 legendary · 8 premium left," that's the actual remaining primary supply for that tier — not marketing. Once a tier is minted out, the only way to acquire one is from another holder on the secondary market.

Why location matters. Legendary and Premium plots sit at the heart of the action — nearest the Exchange, next to the landmarks players gather around, and most affected by the city's live rally-glow when a district runs hot. They are the rarest and most visible ground on the map.

On "value": rarity in Stock City is about scarcity, position, and prestige inside the game — how rare your land is and where it stands in the skyline. It is *not* a promise of price, resale value, appreciation, or return. A Legendary plot is desirable because there are almost none of them and they own the best address in the city, not because anyone guarantees what it will be worth later.

Choose your tier by how you want to hold ground: front-row at the Exchange, beside a landmark, or a foothold on the edge of a rising district.

Expansion & Governance

Stock City is built to grow. The districts live today — TSLA, NVDA, AMZN — are the beginning, not the whole map. Across the city you'll see "Coming Soon" districts: reserved ground for future themes, waiting to be unlocked.

Holders decide what opens next. New districts represent new thematic assets, and which ones join the map is a governance decision made by the community — not dictated from the top. If you hold $STOCK and land in Stock City, you have a voice in where the city expands.

How expansion works:

Proposals surface candidate themes for new districts.
Holders vote using $STOCK-based governance.
Winning districts move from "Coming Soon" to live, opening a fresh, fixed supply of plots across all four rarity tiers.

Because each new district launches with its own scarce inventory — including a tiny number of Legendary plots near its landmarks — expansion keeps the city fresh without diluting the land that already exists. Every district has its own hard-capped supply.

Why governance matters. The map is a shared world. Letting holders steer expansion means the city grows in the direction its community actually wants, and that the roadmap is legible and on-chain rather than opaque. Governance covers which themes launch, the cadence of new districts, and how the treasury supports growth.

A compliance note: districts are thematic labels for neighborhoods in a game. Voting a "district" onto the map is choosing a visual and cultural theme for new land — it is not the creation of, affiliation with, or exposure to any company, stock, or off-chain asset. Governance participation is part of playing the game, not an investment activity, and confers no promise of profit or return.

The city is never finished. Bring your vote, and help decide what rises next.