Freedom To Experiment · Experiment No. 1

A meme card designed to pay you back.

Break Even is a 333-edition Memes submission built around one question: can minters get their ETH back? Its phases target 50% → 100% of every minter's ETH returned, funded by real mineral specimens, the first pieces already in hand, and a real business with public revenue. These are goals with a funded plan behind them.

First the card has to win its drop slot, and that takes TDH votes. Voting costs you nothing.

Vote for the card on 6529.io →See the live MRR →

I've been experimenting with the memes ecosystem since 2023. I published a Steam game based on the 6529 memes with support from the memers, drove to the highest motorable road on earth for Onchain Summer, bringing summer.jpg everywhere, and experimented with .6529 names, sending every bit of the proceeds to Casa Nua toward a real, physical 6529 Museum.

My end goal is getting a new mineral officially named Summerite, and I'll be running multiple experiments along the way to get there, starting with Break Even. You're not backing any single experiment. You're backing the person running all of them, me, directly.

Before I get into how, let my proof of work speak. It's all below with timestamps, along with how I became SummerMaxi :)

IProof of Work
February 24, 2023
First playable build of the game

I had an idea and built it, a playable game environment based on the Meme Factory card from punk6529's Memes collection. It was the first real step toward a bigger project I was calling Memeside.

February 24, 2023
Founding Fathers, to buy a graphics card

I didn't have a GPU good enough to keep building the game, so I minted an NFT collection to fund one. 330 Founding Fathers were minted by people who wanted to see the game get made.

Founding Fathers NFT
Founding Fathers
330 minted
View on OpenSea →
April 9, 2023
Steam trailer

Put out the trailer for Memeside, on its way to Steam, exactly 50 days after that first playable build.

April 9, 2023
Crediting everyone who supported

That same day, I added a credits section inside the game listing every minter's address or ENS name, everyone who helped get Memeside made.

May 1, 2023
Steam approval, after a fight

Steam's review team doesn't make it easy for games that touch NFTs or blockchain, and it took a full 30 days of back and forth before Memeside got approved.

May 4, 2023
Memeside goes live

May the 4th be with you. Memeside shipped on Steam, free for anyone to download and play.

May 20, 2023
summer.jpg

Released a 3D filter for Instagram and Facebook that turned anyone into summer.jpg.

February 26, 2024
Family

My sister got married. One very happy summer family.

May 26, 2024
Bringing the summer character to life

Brought the summer character to life by blending 3D renders with real-life scenes, with a nod to XCOPY along the way.

June 1, 2024
The Meme's Ambassador sets off

On my birthday, after months of preparation, I started the biggest trip of my life, driving The Meme's Ambassador from Kanyakumari, the southernmost point in India, north for Onchain Summer.

June 3, 2024
summermaxi.eth

Registered summermaxi.eth, moving on from Neevan.eth as my onchain name.

summermaxi.eth
Registered Jun 3, 2024 · Expires Jun 3, 2028
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June 9, 2024
Meeting other Meme Maxis along the way

Stopped in Mumbai and met up with fellow Meme Maxis spreading the same message along the drive north.

July 7, 2024
Umling La, 19,000 feet

Reached Umling La, the highest motorable road in the world, summer flag in hand. The air up there has about half the oxygen of sea level. I got dizzy taking the photo and had to head back down within minutes.

December 2, 2024
The Ambassador keeps driving

The Meme's Ambassador became my everyday vehicle after the trip. Rolled into Bengaluru for Unfold24, and it's still taking me to web3 conferences.

May 21, 2025
summer.jpg, in your hands

The filter that started back in May 2023 finally became something physical, a 3D printed summer.jpg collectible toy.

October 31, 2025
The .6529 Experiment

Launched an experiment I'd been sitting on for a while. I own the .6529 domain through the Handshake Protocol, the same idea as owning a .com or .dev. Every bit of revenue from registrations goes to Casa Nua, working toward making a real, physical 6529 Museum possible.

May 15, 2026
A notebook, hand embroidered

Commissioned a local artist to make a custom hand embroidered summer.jpg notebook. It arrived, and it's better than I imagined.

August 20, 2026
Summerite submitted

Submitted Summerite, an interactive 3D visualization of all 6,239 mineral species approved by the IMA, each one orbiting a central sphere of the same name, a mineral that does not exist yet. It's below, live.

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IIThe Artwork

Summerite

Every mineral ever formally recognized on Earth, rendered as one living structure.

At its center is a single sphere that every one of 6,239 known mineral species orbits directly, each defined by the one chemical element that makes it unique.

6,239
Mineral species
70
Defining elements
314
Known since antiquity
Structure
Position and color both come from one rule. Each element's rank sets its distance from Summerite, and the golden angle (137.5°) steps its angle and hue, the same math that spaces sunflower seeds.
Time
The year slider filters minerals by when they entered the record. Drag it back to watch the mineral kingdom grow from antiquity to now.

Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, or search any species by name.

Mineral data from Mindat.org.

2026
IIIThe Experiment

Break Even

Experiment No. 1 asks one question. Can minters get back every bit of ETH they put in?

The edition is 333 memes, following 6529's standard mechanics. Before any paid minting even starts, a free airdrop already gives away about 30 cards to the 6529 team, 20 to me, and 10% of the edition, about 33, to the 6529 Museum. What's left, up to 250 cards, is what actually mints for ETH at the fixed 6529 price of 0.06529 ETH. Whether that sells out or not, the experiment moves through three phases, each one measuring how close minters get to getting their ETH back. These are targets, not promises. I prefer to under promise and over deliver.

333
Edition size
250
Paid mint slots
0.06529
ETH mint price
Phase 1
Getting the card dropped and fully minted. Before any minting happens, the card needs enough TDH votes on 6529.io to reach the top of the leaderboard and win a drop slot. Once it's live, Phase 1 is about getting all 250 paid slots minted out.
Phase 2
The target is minters getting back 50% of the ETH they put in, funded by selling the Karur Amethyst. That plan works best with about 5 ETH in artist share.
Phase 3
The target is minters getting back 100% of the ETH they put in, a full return, funded by the next Phantom Quartz find. That needs closer to 9 ETH in artist share to be realistic.
Real Backing
This isn't funded on hope alone: a real business that is already generating monthly recurring revenue backs this card to complete the phases. Its numbers are public and refresh automatically.
See Execution plan →
Try the math

Move the slider to see how much a mint like this raises.

75 / 250 paid
ETH raised
4.90 ETH
Artist share
2.45 ETH
Where each phase lands
Phase 1
~75 mints
Phase 2
2.45 ETH
Phase 3
4.90 ETH
IVExecution

Execution

This is how I'll actually run each phase of Break Even. I'm a geologist, so I can only execute this on my own turf, which is rocks. The plan runs through real mineral specimens, some pretty rocks, and a new pocket find.

Rockhound App
Rocks run through everything I build, including software. Rockhound is my iOS app that identifies rocks, minerals and fossils from a photo, with real geologists verifying the tricky ones. And it's not a side story: revenue from Rockhound also goes toward fulfilling the phases of this card, another engine behind Break Even alongside the rocks themselves. Here's the deal. A full mint puts around 8 ETH in my hands, and that becomes runway for the next 12 to 24 months so I can dedicate myself fully to the business. Right now the app hasn't even been updated: what the dashboard shows is purely organic revenue. From the day the mint happens, all of Rockhound's revenue goes into a safe multisig and gets distributed to the card owners. Depending on how many cards mint, my estimate is that the minters' ETH is fully given back within 6 to 12 months. That makes this the first revenue-backed Meme card: a real, actual revenue-generating meme card. In the same open spirit as this experiment, its business numbers are public: a live MRR dashboard fed straight from RevenueCat, not screenshots.

See the live MRR →

Phase 1
I believe my proof of work so far, unlike any other Meme submitter, will at minimum earn me enough TDH to make this a winning card. This isn't an art card, it's a Science card. It brings mineral names into The Memes for the first time, and it's a stepping stone toward funding a real path to getting a new mineral officially registered as Summerite. What I explain for Phase 2 and Phase 3 below is also meant to convince enough memers to mint out the full edition of 333, not just clear the threshold.
Phase 2
Funded by the Karur Amethyst, a pocket of amethyst specimens from Karur, Tamil Nadu. I already have about $500 worth of the best pieces directly sourced, and I'll be negotiating with a seller for more right after the card submission. I'll run this as a live example, showing exactly how the funds get used to procure specimens and then sell them.
A Karur amethyst specimen held in hand

In hand. I already have a few crystals too. I'll put them up for sale slowly, with some rock porn along the way, and direct that revenue to the card as well. Sold directly to collectors, instead of letting multiple hands pass them along and make them far more expensive.

The full Karur amethyst stock laid out More of the Karur amethyst stock laid out A closer look at the Karur amethyst stock laid out

This is the stock I'll be negotiating for right after the card submission. About 5 ETH in artist share gets this and more, sold directly to collectors.

Phase 3
Funded by a new pocket find of Phantom Quartz. I've seen the new pieces in person and can't share details yet, but they're incredible. I can't show this find yet, so here's how the last one went instead. We were the only source, and mineral dealers were fighting to get a piece in hand.
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VWhy Now

Why Now!!

I've been a fan of the Network State, and a fan of the 6529 memes and summer, as you've seen from my proof of work. My recent trip to Network School for the July cohort left me more motivated and inspired than ever.

I'm a geologist and I love rocks. I did my master's in Geology, and I run Geology Love, a social media page with 600k followers where I post about rocks every day. I have friends around the world who love rocks, I attend mineral shows around the world, and I have direct contacts with top mineral dealers globally, some of whose pieces sell for millions of dollars. My lifetime goal is to build a mineral museum, with an ice cream parlour. Haha.

So after coming back to India from Network School, I went looking for something that lets me work with rocks and run an interesting experiment in the 6529 memes ecosystem at the same time. I'm going to love this, and it's going to be fun. I already had fun travelling, finding dealers, and buying minerals straight from the source. Also, Karur Amethyst flowers look like the summer.jpg head with the spikes, haha.

And there is one more reason the timing is perfect. Mining has started on a brand new pocket find, and those pieces will reach the market in about two months. I have seen them in person and they are incredible. A window like this does not open often, and I want the card live so the experiment can ride it. That is a big part of why I am doing this card now.

October 25, 2022
All India ride for Network States

Rode across India, talking about Network States to thousands of people along the way.

Speaking at a Web3 roadshow stop during the All India ride Presenting the Network State thesis on stage

Photos taken during my talk.

June 28, 2026
Hosting an open show in Chennai

Hosted an open show in Chennai to showcase my fossil and mineral collection. About 200 people walked in, and around 50 kids sketched dinosaurs and crystals, more than enough to keep me working toward my lifetime goal of building a mineral museum.

Visitors examining fossils and minerals on display in Chennai A kid laughing at the open show The crowd at the Chennai open show More of the crowd at the open show A kid examining a specimen with a magnifying glass Visitors looking closely at the specimen table A crowd of kids and adults around the display table A kid sketching on the steps Visitors seated on the steps at the venue Presenting a specimen to the crowd Talking through the collection with visitors

200 walked in. About 50 kids sketched dinosaurs and crystals.

All the sketches by the kids who came to the show, laid out on a table

All the sketches done by the kids who came to the show.

July 2, 2026
Network School, Malaysia

Visited Network School, the first attempt at a physical Network State. Seeing the network effects in person was incredible. It was one of the best days, and one of the best memories, of 2026 so far. It made me rethink how 6529 is a Network State too. I'm pumped.

A talk in progress at Network School The Network School community, group photo

I'm looking forward to having fun, and to running an interesting experiment in the memes ecosystem. Freedom to Experiment has been my way of doing things. I've been experimenting since 2022, and I'm sure more people would like to experiment too. I hope this meme card drives more experiments from people of diverse backgrounds.

I'm pumped! I'm excited, and there's just a feeling of happiness that fills you whenever you're doing something exciting and fun.

The card is live for voting on 6529.io. Appreciate the support with your TDH and ETH :)

– SummerMaxi :)
19.08.26