Chimps

JULY 2026

It sold out. Then it died.

9,953 Robinhood Chimps went to about 1,700 wallets on a brand new chain — then sat completely dead for a month. No team, no posts, no buyers.

≈ 2.7 ETH TRADED IN A MONTH

AUG 14

Traders found the art anyway.

Nobody was promoting it. There was nobody to promote it. People bought the chimps regardless, and in one week the floor went up fifteen hundred percent.

15,600 SALES · 59.84 ETH · 7 DAYS

AUG 16

Then a "dev" turned up.

An official-looking account appeared after the pump — not the artist, not a founder. A freelancer paid $100 to deploy the contract, who'd never owned any of it.

PAID $100 · FORWARDED THE $550 MINT

AUG 18

We tried to buy the project.

About forty holders built a Discord and negotiated to purchase it outright. The deal collapsed over one question he couldn't answer: who actually owns the artwork?

DEAL AGREED · THEN UNDONE

AUG 19 · 14:42 UTC

He renounced it — and locked us out for good.

Nine minutes after announcing he was gone, he threw away the keys. That sounds like freedom. It isn't. It means the 5% royalty pointed at his wallet can never be removed, and nothing about that contract can ever be fixed by anyone. Ever.

5% TO HIM · FOREVER · UNCHANGEABLE

So we're not taking
the old contract.
We're leaving it.

You can't repair a contract nobody owns. The only way to actually control this project is to build a new one — and move the chimps into it ourselves.

Burn a Robinhood Chimp, mint a Chimp. Same ape, same traits, new background, written permanently on-chain. As the old collection burns down it empties out, and the one left standing is the one this community owns.

▎ ROBINHOOD CHIMPS

The contract we can't fix

Owned by nobody — renounced and frozen
5% of every sale to the old deployer, forever
Artwork hosted off-chain, rights unresolved
Nobody can update, patch or defend it

▎ CHIMPS

The contract we own

Deployed and controlled by the community
Royalties come back to the project
Art stored fully on-chain — no host, no link to break
Sixteen backgrounds instead of one

READ THE FULL RECEIPTS

Feed it a chimp.

Your Robinhood Chimp goes in and is burned. The same chimp comes back out on a new background, stored on-chain in the contract we control. The original never comes back.

CHIMPS · BURN TO MINTAWAITING CHIMP

PICK ONE
BELOW

ROBINHOOD CHIMP

▶▶BURN

YOUR CHIMP
APPEARS HERE

ON-CHAIN

▎ YOUR WALLET

0Burned

0Minted

12In wallet

Real artwork from the new collection. Backgrounds shown are the ones actually assigned to these chimps.

Straight answers.

We got here because someone told this community a lot of things that weren't true. So here's the version with nothing left out.

▎ IS BURNING PERMANENT?

Yes. It's gone.

Your Robinhood Chimp is destroyed to create the new one. There's no undo, and nobody can reverse it for you.

▎ DO I GET MY CHIMP?

The same one

Same ape, same traits, same number. The background changes and the art moves on-chain.

▎ IF NOT EVERYONE BURNS?

Still being decided

The mechanics for anything left behind aren't settled yet. When they are, they'll be posted here and in Discord before anything goes live.

▎ WHO OWNS THE NEW ONE?

This community

Which means royalties come back here — and it also means we're accountable for it. That's the trade.

▎ THE ARTWORK RIGHTS

Still unresolved

The original artist has never been reachable. We're looking for them, and the offer to sort it out properly stands.

▎ PROMISES

None

No floor, no roadmap, no treasury, no guaranteed anything. Forty people and a plan is what's actually on offer.

Burn your way out.

Mint details and the burn date get announced in Discord first. That's the only place they'll come from.

JOIN THE DISCORD THE OLD COLLECTION

Community-run project. Not affiliated with Robinhood Markets, Inc., OpenSea, or the original developer. No admin will ever DM you first. Nothing here is financial advice. Verify every contract address against the block explorer before you sign anything.