Frequently asked

What does candidate artwork mean? #

The explorer shows the owner-accepted 333-position vector release, including all fifteen Unforgivables. All four release roots were pinned on two providers and retrieved at the October 16 verification; the image-set provenance is committed and finalized on Base. Counsel review of the licensing terms, brand clearance, an external audit and verified storage, backup and signer-custody controls have not been completed; the owner decided the sale could open without them.

What is SASC? #

SASC is the Shameless Ape Social Club — an original generative PFP NFT collection of 333 Shameless Apes. It is a members-only social club with no fixed address and no standards, built as a satire of status signalling. Most Shameless Apes are distinct personalities assembled from an original trait system; 15 are one-of-one characters called The Unforgivables, included in the selected vector run.

How many Shameless Apes exist? #

333 in total: 315 sale allocation + 18 reserve = 333 total. The sale allocation is sold in a single public phase, with no allowlist; the reserve is for team, community and giveaway use. The total is a hard constant in the contract source and cannot be raised after deployment.

What are The Unforgivables? #

The Unforgivables are 15 one-of-one Shameless Apes — members who went too far even for a club whose founding principle is having no shame. They sit outside the trait generator. The selected vector run includes all 15 Unforgivables. Their generator positions are fixed by the seed; which minted token receives each one is decided by the randomized reveal. A separate painted set is not planned for this release.

Is the artwork on this site final? #

The owner accepted the vector artwork for this release, including the fifteen Unforgivables. The acceptance is bound to the deployed release and its finalized provenance commitment. Broader licensing, brand and backup requirements remain unresolved; artwork acceptance alone does not make the sale ready. The black-and-gold portrait elsewhere on this site is an unselected concept.

What rights do I get with an SASC NFT? #

Owning an SASC NFT gives you the token. It does not transfer copyright, trademark or other rights in the artwork or the SASC brand. The Holder Artwork Terms (version 1.1, effective October 18, 2026) give holders who accept them a personal, noncommercial permission to display their NFT's artwork, and let them show it when listing the NFT for sale; commercial uses need separate written permission. The terms apply once you affirmatively accept them — owning or receiving a token alone is not treated as acceptance — and the mint page asks you to accept them before minting there. They have not been reviewed by counsel.

Read the Holder Artwork Terms (version 1.1)

How do I get ETH onto Base? #

ETH needs to be on Base mainnet for Base transaction fees. You can withdraw ETH from a Coinbase account with Base selected as the network, or bridge ETH from Ethereum using a route listed in the official Base documentation. Read the current instructions there before moving funds. The SASC mint page can connect a wallet, but it does not bridge funds or initiate a mint automatically. Live sale status is on the Mint page.

Official Base bridge documentation

What are the planned royalties? #

The deployed contract specifies 5% royalties using ERC-2981, as described on the Mint page. Marketplace enforcement varies.

What blockchain is SASC using? #

Base mainnet (chain ID 8453), using the ERC-721A standard with ERC-2981 royalties and ERC-4906 metadata update events. A Base Sepolia rehearsal comes before any mainnet deployment; test mints and VRF reveal are complete, with metadata freeze pending.

What is the mint price? #

0.0333 ETH on Base, in a single public phase. There is no allowlist and nothing to register for; the public phase allows two per wallet and two per transaction. Payment must be exact. The price is fixed in the deployed contract. Live sale status is on the Mint page.

What is the reserve? #

315 sale allocation + 18 reserve = 333 total. The 18 reserve tokens are for the team, community rewards and giveaways, minted to the treasury multisig. The contract tracks the sale allocation separately, so a sale can never consume an unminted reserve token.

Is minting available right now? #

The public sale opened on October 18, 2026 · 10:02 AM Pacific. The mint page reads the live contract state; its mint button is enabled only while the contract reports the public phase open, not paused and supply remaining, and stays disabled if contract data is unavailable or invalid. No external audit has been performed.

How is the reveal randomized? #

The accepted release has an image-set provenance hash committed and finalized on Base before any mint. After the sale ends — at sellout, or 7 days after the public phase opens — a single random starting index is drawn from Chainlink VRF. Each token then maps to a generator position by a fixed formula, so the pairing of token to artwork is decided by the random draw rather than by anyone on the team. A hash makes substitutions detectable, but does not itself lock URIs. Permanent metadata freezing after reveal is a separate planned step.

Can the team see the artwork before buyers do? #

The team can see the generated image set because they produced it. Its finalized provenance commitment makes the accepted image set independently checkable before mint. In the reviewed design, what nobody can know before the Chainlink VRF draw is which token receives which artwork. The reveal is also blocked while the sale is still open, so the starting index cannot be learned and then used to buy specific positions.

Is the provenance hash on this site the production one? #

The accepted release has a finalized on-chain provenance commitment. It binds the selected image set, and does not approve licensing, brand clearance, storage retention or a public sale. Token metadata freezing is a separate step after reveal.

Is the contract deployed? #

Yes. SASC is deployed on Base mainnet (chain ID 8453), owned by the 2-of-3 Safe, and source-verified on Basescan. The official full address and verification link are on the mint page. Its public sale opened on October 18, 2026; check live status on the mint page. Source verification is not an external audit, and no external audit has been performed. Base Sepolia is the separate testnet rehearsal.

Has the contract been audited? #

No. No independent external audit has been performed, and the owner decided the public sale could open without one. An internal adversarial review closed one High and three Medium findings, each pinned by a named regression test, alongside full-line test coverage, stateful fuzzing of the collection invariants, mutation testing and static analysis. That work is internal and is not a substitute for an independent third-party audit. Basescan source verification shows the published code matches the deployment; it is not an audit.

Where is the official contract address published? #

The official Base mainnet address and source-verification link are published on the mint page. Verify the full address, chain ID 8453 and live contract state there. Source verification is not an external audit. Use only the verified channels listed on this website; treat other mint sites and unsolicited offers as impersonation attempts.

Does SASC have official social accounts? #

The verified official channels are listed on this website. Any channel whose URL has not been confirmed stays hidden. Check the list here before following an account or invite; an invented link is exactly how collection impersonation starts.