ABOUT / THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE

Mnodes and the Mycelium, explained from the start.

Never heard of us? This page walks you through everything: what an Mnode is, what you can do with one, how the games and prizes work, and where to find the community. Every section links straight to the right page.

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The whole project in 60 seconds.

  • Mnodes is a collection of 4,444 hand-drawn mushroom NFTs on Robinhood Chain. One single NFT is called an Mnode.
  • Together, all Mnodes and their holders form the Mycelium: a living network, like the underground roots that connect real mushrooms.
  • The homepage opens into the illustrated Mycelium world, with paths into Tales, Lore and games. Mnodes hold the world's light, rooted evolved Mnodes renew it, and Mkin guard its living ground. The real NFT collection remains on display alongside games and community activities.
  • Owning an Mnode is your key. It unlocks the holder areas of this website, the weekly games and the Grove.
  • In the Grove you use Mnodes you own as inspiration for new Evolved Mnode artwork. You can then choose a OG token that is not rooted yet to display that art permanently. Your original Mnodes are never merged or burned.
  • Every week there are free games and contests where holders can win prizes, including Mnodes.
  • Collabs showcases live partner projects and raffles; Mnode holders can start a promotion from the public Collabs page, with a discount for Mnode holders.
  • Everything we show comes from on-chain data. We never promise prices, ranks or profits.

01 / THE NFT COLLECTION

What is an Mnode?

An Mnode is an NFT: a unique digital collectible whose ownership is recorded on a blockchain, so anyone can verify who owns it. There are exactly 4,444 Mnodes, numbered #1 to #4,444. Each one has its own cap shape, colours, aura and other traits, and no two are alike.

Some are far rarer than others. The collection includes One of Ones, Mythics and Epics, the rarest tiers. Members of the community are always known by their Mnode number, for example "Mnode #412", never by a nickname.

Mnodes live on Robinhood Chain. You can buy, sell or just look at them on OpenSea, the marketplace where the collection is listed.

Every Mnode starts as an OG (original). When a holder roots an Evolved Mnode into it, it becomes an Evolved Mnode. Its number stays the same and its original artwork and traits stay on record forever.

02 / GETTING IN

Connecting your wallet.

There are no accounts or passwords. You sign in by connecting the crypto wallet that holds your Mnode. The site switches your wallet to Robinhood Chain, checks that you really own an Mnode, and asks you to sign a short message. Signing is free and moves no money; it only proves the wallet is yours.

Don't own an Mnode yet? You can still read the public pages: the archive, traits, rankings, lore, token history, winners and this guide. To play, evolve or root you need at least one Mnode, which you can pick up on OpenSea.

Want to check a wallet first? The wallet checker shows which Mnodes any address holds.

03 / COMMUNITY MINTS

Free community mints.

From time to time, the Mycelium creates a separate art or collectible collection with the community. When a drop is ready, the Community mints page shows its artwork, opening time and collection contract. You mint directly from your own wallet on Robinhood Chain. The NFT is free to mint, though a network fee may apply. There is no active drop until a real collection contract is deployed and published.

These occasional drops are not Mnodes or Mkin. Minting one does not grant the holder access that comes with an Mnode, and it does not evolve or root an Mnode.

Explore community mints

04 / COLLABS

Collabs: share and win.

The Collabs page shows actual campaigns published by admins and collab managers, or paid collection-owner submissions approved by the team. Generic weekly homepage games are not listed as collabs. Each one-time Memory, Slide Puzzle, Spot the Difference or Find the Mnodes contest has its own organizer prize, opening and closing dates, entries and leaderboard. Playing a weekly homepage game does not enter a collab contest. A campaign explicitly labeled Sponsored weekly round instead adds an organizer prize for that weekly game's winner. The Post on X button sits beside Spotlight entry.

There are three kinds. A Spotlight is the card itself. Mnode holders share a new post on X and paste the link to enter. The shared post uses the card title and links straight to its public entry card, where people can see the prize and how to join. When a collaboration artwork is available, the same image appears on its public card, in the homepage COLLABS row if featured, and in the shared link preview on X. Partner artwork appears inside the card rather than in an empty banner above it. X decides whether to display the link preview. The organizer can add their own prize raffle, open to every sharer. A One-time raffle is open to every Mnode holder and takes one click, with no post needed. In both raffles, holders also enter a separate draw for 1 Mnode. A One-time contest is Memory or the Slide Puzzle on its own Collabs game page with its own leaderboard, the fastest win. Collabs contests are completely separate from our weekly games. Whoever sets up the Collabs names the organizer's prize, can link to it, adds a claim link (usually their Discord) with instructions, and delivers it. The claim link is visible beside those instructions on the public card and contest page. Every wallet enters once; Spotlights also limit entry to one X account. Winners appear on the card and in Discord and claim through the organizer's claim link; the holder bonus Mnode is claimed with a ticket in the Mycelium Discord.

Collabs raffles, contests and setup are for Mnode holders: a wallet needs at least 1 Mnode. Connect once with the top-right wallet button to enter; the site recognizes that signed wallet on every Collabs card and shows its current Mnode count and holder tier automatically. Holdings are checked directly on Robinhood Chain when you enter and again when the raffle closes. Holder draws throughout the Mycelium follow the same tickets: 1 to 9 Mnodes gives 1, Spore (10 to 19) gives 1, Hypha (20 to 29) gives 2, Mycel (30 to 39) gives 3, Rhizome (40 to 49) gives 4, and Sporocarp (50 or more) gives 5. These bonus entries do not change the organizer's prize draw.

From the public Collabs page, any Mnode holder (at least 1 Mnode in the connected wallet) can open the separate visitor setup page and choose any of the three kinds. The standard rate is 0.01 ETH per week on Robinhood Chain. Discounts follow the Mnodes in the paying wallet: 10 Mnodes give 10% off, 20 give 20%, 30 give 30%, 40 give 40%, and 50 or more give 50%. Below 10 Mnodes, the standard rate applies. Your balance is checked on chain when you pay and submit. Payments go to the treasury and are not refunded. As soon as the payment is confirmed on chain, the collab goes live on the public Collabs page without waiting for approval, and it is posted automatically in the Rate This Post channel of our Discord, where the community can rate and share it. We cannot promise which members engage, but our main account picks up every one. The team and collab managers publish for free through Manage Games and Promotions in the footer's Admin section. Homepage cards remain 0.025 ETH per week without this discount. For something bigger or custom, send a ticket in our Discord.

Homepage promotions: any Mnode holder can book a card for their OpenSea collection on the homepage, just above the community games, for 0.025 ETH per week. At most three paid cards run at once, each is approved by the team first, and the paid weeks start on approval. Fees are not refunded. The team publishes homepage cards for free. The green glowing COLLABS section shows up to three live cards. Dedicated homepage cards always take priority, whether booked by collection owners or created by admins and collab managers. Any remaining spaces show the newest live campaigns from the Collabs page, linking directly to their entry cards. Expired or not-yet-open campaigns and unrelated filler do not appear.

Mnode Staking, share to earn. Staking opens soon. Once it is live, Mnode holders can stake one Mnode on the Staking page. Staking is free, needs no transaction, and the Mnode stays in your wallet, so it still works for every holder game. One Mnode per wallet, any one works, and each Mnode can only be staked by one wallet at a time. Once staked, your dashboard lists every live Collab you have not shared yet. Post it on X and paste the link to your post as proof: the post must be new (made after you staked and after the Collab opened), and each post and each Collab counts once. Every proven share gives 1 point and the Collab leaves your list. With 10 points from 10 different Collabs you claim one free Mnode: you get a claim code, open a ticket in our Discord, the team checks your shares and sends the Mnode. Your points then go back to zero and you can earn again. Unstaking, selling or moving the staked Mnode ends the stake and resets points not yet claimed. Collab cards show how many stakers shared them, so organizers see the community spreading their promotion.

05 / THE GROVE

Root your Mnode in two steps.

Click "Root Mnodes" in the homepage rooting section to open the Grove's two-step journey. Connect once with the top-right wallet button. Step 1 creates Evolved Mnode artwork. Step 2, "Root Evolved Mnodes", roots it into one of your existing OG NFTs. Already have artwork? "My Evolved Mnodes, ready to root" takes you to your saved, unrooted artwork in step 2, so you never need to recreate it. The public Rooted Mnodes gallery shows completed rootings and the weekly Rooting Raffle, not artwork still waiting to be rooted.

Step 1: Grow Evolved Mnodes

Merge two or more unused Mnodes you own (up to 12) as inspiration. The Grove grows one Evolved Mnode artwork from them. This is not a new NFT and not yet a raffle entry. The inspiration Mnodes stay in your wallet with their own art and numbers, and each can be used only once, even if sold later. Used Mnodes turn gray. There is no daily or weekly limit, and growing and rooting stay open every day, including the rest day after the Friday close.

Step 2: Root Evolved Mnodes

A: pick one of your Evolved Mnodes that is not rooted yet. B: pick one of the OG Mnodes you merged into it, still held and unrooted, to carry it (required for every rooting from 15 Oct 2026; earlier rooted Mnodes stay as they are), read the notice and sign a free message. That one OG NFT now displays the Evolved art and lineage traits. It keeps the same token number, while its former image and traits stay in its public history. No NFT is created or burned, and rooting cannot be undone here.

For example, create Evolved artwork using Mnodes #12 and #34. They stay unchanged. Choose unused OG Mnode #56 to root that art: it becomes Evolved Mnode #56, with the new artwork and recorded lineage traits. Its token number and original history are preserved.

Why evolve and root? You create a unique Evolved Mnode and give it verifiable lineage traits, including its parents' caps, colors and auras. Those new traits change its live rarity calculation, and scarce combinations can improve its live Mycelium ranking. Original rarity stays fixed; OpenSea calculates its own rank after a metadata refresh. Neither a better rank nor a price increase is guaranteed. Rooted forms are capped at 888 in total, and at least 333 OG Mnodes always stay untouched. Every week, 1 Mnode is raffled in the Rooting Raffle among wallets that rooted an Evolved Mnode before Friday's close. Evolving alone does not enter this raffle. Each wallet's tickets follow its live holder role at the draw, not the number of forms it roots. The ranking and evolution guide explains the different ranks.

On the homepage, Root your Mnode and Coloring book jump to their visual introductions. The connected Mycelium Grid shows the journey with genuine artwork: grow Evolved artwork, choose an OG home, then sign to root. Only signed rooting enters the raffle.

The Rooting Raffle. Every week, after the Friday 18:00 close (Central European time), the site automatically draws one winner of 1 Mnode from the wallets that rooted an Evolved Mnode that week. One entry per wallet, with 1 to 5 tickets by holder role at the draw. This week's entrants and the draw are shown below the artwork on the Rooted Mnodes gallery. Winners claim through a Discord ticket. The Root your Mnode page itself holds only the two steps.

06 / RARITY

How rarity and rankings work.

Rarity simply means: how few Mnodes share a trait. The fewer share it, the rarer it is, and the higher the Mnode ranks. There are three different rankings, and they are kept separate on purpose:

  • Original rarity: based on the traits each Mnode had at mint. It never changes.
  • Live, after evolution: recalculated from the current traits, so it moves when Mnodes are rooted.
  • OpenSea rank: calculated by OpenSea itself. It updates after OpenSea refreshes the metadata, and ties are possible.

07 / TRANSPARENCY

Token history: nothing gets lost.

Every Mnode has its own history page. It shows the original artwork and traits, the rooted Evolved form if there is one, its parents, the rooting date and the on-chain ownership transfers. Every original form given up for an Evolved Mnode is also kept in the Fossil Layer, a gallery of the Mycelium's buried history. Fossils are records, not NFTs. Type a number in the search box to jump to any token.

08 / PLAY AND WIN

Weekly games and contests.

The Mycelium is a holders-only website. Everyone can look around, but playing ranked games, entering contests and raffles, staking, minting community drops and setting up a collab all need a wallet holding at least 1 Mnode, connected with the button at the top right. The Coloring Book and its online gallery stay open to everyone, so book buyers can scan the QR code.

Play for fun or play ranked. Every game (Memory, Slide Puzzle, Forest Forage, Riddle Game, Spot the Difference, Find the Mnodes and the Quest) has a Play for fun mode that anyone can use without a wallet. Fun runs are never saved, never ranked and never enter a raffle. The Riddle Game uses a past trail and Spot the Difference a practice pair, so the live week stays fair. Play ranked is for Mnode holders: connect your wallet to appear on leaderboards, enter the weekly raffles and win an Mnode.

These are free community games for Mnode holders. Most run in weekly rounds that close every Friday at 18:00 Central European time. After the close there is a 24-hour rest so everyone can see the final standings, then a new round opens. Last week's results stay visible on each game page for a full week.

Memory game

Flip cards and match the pairs as fast as you can. The fastest holder of the week wins 1 Mnode.
Play Memory

Slide puzzle

Slide the tiles back into a complete Mnode artwork. Expert level, ranked by speed and moves. The fastest solve of the week wins 1 Mnode.
Play the puzzle

Forest Forage

Dig for finds up to five times per day. Finds give points and keeping a streak helps. Every Saturday 18:00 CET the forest moves to new ground with its own finds, at the same odds and points. The top wallet of the week wins 1 Mnode.
Go foraging

Riddle Game

Solve three riddles to enter the Friday draw for 1 Mnode. Your live holder role sets 1 to 5 tickets. You get five guesses a day, and after two guesses a tip shows the answer length and first letter. If no eligible solver remains, the prize carries over. When a trail is won, a new trail of three fresh riddles starts automatically the next Saturday 18:00 CET.
Play the Riddle Game

Quests

Bring Back the Light to the Mycelium follows a Mkin guardian rescuing an ancient lightseed after a flood injures a clearing. The seed holds a deceased original Mnode's last spark and a remembrance of its gifts. A spore-keeper helps protect and awaken it for its journey to the Heart Sanctuary. An evolved Mnode shelters the sanctuary, where seeds stay guarded together and their healing reaches the wounded world through roots. Each location has its own illustrated scene. The conversation and your own words carry the journey, with natural next-action cues and no command lists or separate walkthroughs. Like the Tales, quests use clear cause and effect and easy-to-read language for readers around ten. Quests are not a weekly game. A ranked quest round runs only when the team announces one, and it never restarts by itself. Every finishing wallet gets one equal entry for 1 Mnode in that round, regardless of balance. Between quests anyone can still play for fun. Each winner is drawn automatically at the close and listed on the Winners page and in Discord, like every game, contest, raffle and Collabs on the site.
Start the quest

Find the Mnodes

A weekly hidden-Mnode hunt. A crowded Mycelium village is built only from genuine Mnodes and Mkin artwork, and five Mnodes from your list hide in it. You have 10 minutes and the third wrong tap ends the run. Anyone can play a practice scene for fun with no wallet. Holders who find all five in the live scene get one equal entry in the raffle for 1 Mnode, drawn at the Friday 18:00 CET close and shown on the Winners page and in Discord. Admins, collab managers and paying visitors (0.01 ETH per week, like every collab) can also run it as a one-time Collabs contest with their own prize, where the fastest finishers win. Each holder can complete the weekly version once per run, and every Saturday 18:00 CET a new scene opens with five different Mnodes to find.
Start searching

Spot the Difference

A weekly holder game. Two real Evolved Mnodes look identical, but seven small things differ in the right image. You have 3 minutes and the third wrong tap ends the run. Every holder who finds all seven gets one equal entry in the raffle for 1 Mnode, drawn automatically at the Friday 18:00 CET close and shown on the Winners page and in Discord. Every Saturday a different Evolved Mnode pair goes live. Admins and collab managers can also run it as a one-time Collabs contest, where the fastest finishers win the partner prize.
Find the seven

Rooting Raffle

Create Evolved artwork from Mnodes you own, then give an OG Mnode that is not rooted yet that new image before Friday's close. Each rooting wallet gets 1 to 5 tickets by live holder role. There is no community vote anymore.
See the Rooting Raffle

How contests work

The full schedule, rules and fair-draw details for every weekly game in one place.
Read the rules

The Mnodes Coloring Book

45 original drawings of real Mnodes, Evolved Mnodes and Mkin, each labeled with its token number, on large 8.5 × 11-inch pages with blank backs. Discover the cover and the full-color originals in the public gallery, also reached through the book's QR code. The Amazon link will appear here when the book is released.
Discover the book & gallery

09 / PRIZES

Winners and how to claim.

When a round closes, winners are shown on the website and announced in our Discord. Each winner card shows the prize, the winning Mnode and the full wallet. The Winners wall keeps Friday results in "This week's winners" until the next Friday close, alongside Quest and Collabs winners from the past seven days. Quests and Collabs keep their own schedules. All older results remain in the full winner history.

To claim a prize: join the Discord, open a ticket, and share your wallet address and Mnode number. Prizes are sent manually after checking; there is no automatic airdrop. Not sure if you won? Use the prize checker.

10 / EXPLORE

Tools to explore the collection.

Mnode Archive

Browse every Mnode with its artwork and traits.
Open the archive

Mnode Grid

All 4,444 Mnodes side by side in one big view.
See the grid

Registry

Look up holders and tokens across the network.
Open the registry

Card maker

Turn your Mnode into a shareable card for social media.
Make a card

Mnode traits

Every trait, how often it appears, and how OG and Evolved Mnodes compare.
View traits

Tales from the Mycelium

Follow Mkin adventures as they care for the Mycelium. In The Light That Knocked, a guardian investigates a sound beneath the path and rescues a lightseed washed out of the sanctuary. The last spark of an old Mnode returns to its guarded cradle, where its remembered gift helps heal an injured young Mnode. Five illustrated scenes, short child-readable text and actions to continue at your own pace. Open to everyone, without wallets, rankings or prizes. Tales are separate adventures within the world, not its origin story.
Read The Light That Knocked

Lore

Discover the origins and roles of Mnodes, evolved Mnodes and Mkin. Originals sustain life. Evolved Mnodes grow where connected originals renew a weakening Mnode's place, bringing combined gifts to the world while its last spark joins the guarded lightseeds. Mkin care for them all. In the Heart Sanctuary, those lightseeds help living things heal. Lore is separate from Tales from the Mycelium adventures. Breeding remains a future phase.
Read the lore

11 / TOGETHER

The DAO and the community.

The DAO is where holders vote on proposals. Your role tier sets your voting weight, from Spore (1 vote) and Hypha (2) to Mycel (3), Rhizome (4) and Sporocarp (5). Votes are counted from live Mnode balances on chain.

The Mnodes network page shows the community as a whole. Day-to-day conversation, announcements, winner posts and prize claims all happen in Discord, and news is shared on X.

12 / FUTURE BREEDING

Mkin, living guardians of the Mycelium.

In the lore, an Mkin grows when one fading OG Mnode and two or more rooted evolved Mnodes connect. The evolved Mnodes stay rooted and pass on their combined light and traits. The Mkin takes the place of the fading OG, and that OG's last spark remains as a lightseed, carried home to the sanctuary. OG Mnodes that remain in their original form are still alive and keep their own strong light.

Growing Mkin is a future phase and is not available yet. The plan: merge two or more of your rooted evolved Mnodes with one OG Mnode, and sign a free message. That OG token then shows the Mkin, keeping its number and history, the same way rooting works. No NFT is burned and no new Mkin contract is planned. Up to 444 Mkin can exist, using art from the approved 2,222-piece Mkin art collection, not 2,222 separately available NFTs. Rooted Mnodes are capped at 888, with at least 333 OG Mnodes preserved completely untouched.

13 / WORD LIST

Words you will see.

In the stories and quests, Mnodes sustain everyday life, evolved Mnodes bring new gifts through combined inheritance, and Mkin are mobile caretakers. Lightseeds hold the last sparks and remembered gifts of original Mnodes whose lives have ended, like the weakened Mnode in whose place an evolved Mnode grows. Mkin guard them together in the Heart Sanctuary. The seeds stay there while healing reaches injured roots, soil and new life through the network. Injured Mkin return there to recover. Seeds are not consumed and cannot resurrect the dead. Losing them all would remove the world's ability to heal, allowing damage to build until the Mycelium could die. These are story elements, not tokens, rewards or website abilities. Sharing traits in evolution does not kill an original Mnode.

Mnodes
The collection of 4,444 NFTs.
Mnode
One single NFT from the collection.
The Mycelium
The living network of all Mnodes and their holders.
OG
An Mnode in its original form.
Evolved Mnode
Evolved artwork created in the Grove from Mnodes you own.
Rooting
Permanently giving one of your OG tokens the art and traits of your Evolved Mnode.
Lineage
The parents an Evolved Mnode was inspired by.
Wallet
The app that holds your NFTs and lets you sign in.
Robinhood Chain
The blockchain where Mnodes live.
OpenSea
The marketplace where the collection is listed.

14 / QUICK QUESTIONS

Still wondering?

Does evolving or rooting cost anything?
Evolving is free. Rooting is a free signature in your wallet. You do not send any tokens.
Will evolving or rooting burn my Mnode?
No. Evolving and rooting do not burn NFTs. Rooting changes the artwork of one OG token you choose; its number and original record remain, and in the stories its light continues inside the Evolved Mnode. Future Mkin growing will not burn NFTs either; one OG token will show the Mkin instead. It is not available yet.
Will rooting raise my rank or price?
It can change your rarity, and some rooted Mnodes went up, but no rank or price is ever guaranteed.
How do I get my prize?
Open a ticket in our Discord with your wallet and Mnode number.
Where do I buy an Mnode?
On OpenSea, in the Mnodes collection on Robinhood Chain.

More answers in the FAQ and the whitepaper. Please read the terms and risks: NFTs can lose value and nothing here is financial advice.