How a CryptoCity is built
Every CryptoCity is a structured object defined by place, scale, features, status, and art. No two cities share the same combination.
Place
A real place with geographic and cultural gravity.
Scale
A size from 1 to 50 that defines a city's stature.
Features
A distinct combination drawn from 60 feature types.
Country
Country identity and whether it holds capital status.
Art
Artwork that gives the city visual character.
Real places
CryptoCities are not abstract tokens. Every city maps to a real-world location with geographic coordinates, country identity, and capital status stored on-chain.
Name
Named locations with real-world geographic and cultural gravity.
Country
Every city belongs to a country, creating natural groupings across the collection.
Capital
One capital per country, signalling national significance.
Latitude & longitude
Verified coordinates with artwork generated from terrain maps.
50 sizes
Every location has a size between 1 and 50. Size determines which features can appear and how deep the progression runs. A small location carries only foundation-level features, while a size-50 mega city can reach the elite tier - unlocking the deepest and rarest features in the system.
Size is not a quality score. It is a structural parameter that shapes a city's depth, complexity, and visual richness. It is a rough approximation of real world size, but not a strict adherance to it.
60 features
Features are organized across multiple tracks. City size determines how many features a city has and how big each one can be, sized from 1 (in small locations) to 5 (in mega cities). Features are fictional - they don't reflect a city's real-world economy, and are assigned at minting based on size.
Resources
Industry
Services
Government
Politics
Diplomacy
Land
Food
Agriculture
Markets
Retail
Surveillance
Roads
Transport
Logistics
Trade
Aviation
Housing
Construction
Design
Engineering
Architecture
Energy
Electricity
Infra
Clean Energy
High Tech
Command
Work
Commerce
Employment
Banking
Legal
Water
Recreation
Sport
Entertainment
Music
Journalism
Religion
Medical
Security
Rescue
Military
Maritime
Comms
Technology
Electronics
Photography
Computing
Digital
Family
Education
Community
Culture
Tourism
Academia
Research
Gems
CapitalWhy features are fictional
CryptoCities are based on real places, but their features are not. We assign each city's features ourselves, drawn from our own distribution across the size tiers. It's a deliberate choice - one that keeps collecting balanced and the system durable for the long run. We did this because:
Real cities are winner-take-all
If features tracked the real world, a handful of mega cities - New York, London, Tokyo - would carry almost everything that matters. The rest of the collection would be left thin, with collecting reduced to chasing the same few names.
A balanced system
Our distribution spreads depth evenly across the collection. A small location can still hold something rare; a mega city earns range without owning everything. Every city has a reason to be collected.
Built to last
City economies shift over time. A banking hub becomes a tech hub; a trading port becomes a tourist town. Coordinates don't move - real-world features do. CryptoCities is built to last centuries, so we fix the feature layer rather than chase a moving one.
Meta is embedded in the art
Every trait - name, size, country, features, location - is rendered directly in the artwork, not just stored in metadata. Rarity and a few others sit alongside.
- Name - on the centre tile.
- Size - front and centre.
- Country - flag on the centre tile.
- Features - drawn into the surrounding tiles.
- Coordinates - shape the terrain tiles.
Cities with substance
Real places, balanced depth, art that carries the meaning. Every CryptoCity is built to be collected today and still matter a century from now.