Connect a wallet on Arc, run the WebGPU (or CPU-fallback) miner in your browser, and it keeps testing nonces against the live on-chain challenge. Beat the target and you can mint — free for the first 100, then price climbs on a 22-step ladder up to 22 USDC by #4,444.

Staking unlocks once enough ARCCEOs have been mined. Stake an NFT and it earns $CEO every second it stays staked, drawn from a fixed pool that was minted once and then permanently locked — not an infinite mint. Unstake any time; it auto-claims first. Part of $CEO's fixed supply was carved out at launch to seed a real $CEO/USDC Uniswap v4 pool instead — see TRADE $CEO.

The winning hash itself seeds your ARCCEO's traits (background, plating color, eyes, signal bars). The contract renders the SVG and assembles the metadata as a base64 data URI at read time — nothing is pinned anywhere, nothing can go offline.