The protocol / The AnvilUpdated 30 Aug 2026

The Anvil.

The always-open counter where Brokers are bought, sniped and sold back at a fixed token price. It is the protocol's biggest fee engine and the real reference for what a Broker costs.

In plain English The Anvil is a vending machine holding about half the collection. Put in 666,666 $STONKBROKER plus an ETH fee, get out a random Broker - or pay a bigger fee to pick the exact one you want. It works in reverse too: feed it your Broker and it hands back the 666,666 tokens, minus a fee. Because this machine never closes and never runs out of tokens to pay sellers, its prices - not marketplace listings - are the collection's true floor and ceiling.

The three routes

Route	What you pay / receive	Fee
Random buy	Pay 666,666 STONK + ETH fee, receive the next vault Broker	10% ETH trade fee
Snipe (specific pick)	Pay 666,666 STONK + higher ETH fee, choose your token id from vault inventory	15% ETH trade fee
Sell back	Hand over your Broker, receive 666,666 STONK minus the fee	10%

Of every ETH fee the Anvil collects, 70% flows to the Clock In reward pot and 30% to the protocol. The vault itself holds no spare tokens; sell-backs are paid from the dedicated escrow reserve described on the $STONKBROKER page. As of the 28 August census the round trip - buy at the vault, sell straight back - cost about 20% of notional, which is the spread that makes the Anvil a fee engine rather than a free exchange.

Why the Anvil is "the price" A marketplace listing is an ask; the Anvil is an executable quote. At the census, a random vault buy cost about 4.87 ETH all-in and the cheapest OpenSea listing was 5.20 ETH - listings sat above the machine's price, as they usually must. When you evaluate any Broker price, compare it to the Anvil's current all-in quote first. And remember the universal rule: a Broker bought anywhere arrives deactivated, because vault deposits and sales are transfers, and transfers clear activation.

Why Brokers become locked: the deflation maths

Here is the subtle mechanic the community means when it says Brokers are getting "locked" in the vault. The official docs never use that word - what happens is arithmetic:

The token's initial supply was minted as exactly 4,444 x 666,666 = 2,962,663,704 - one full backing per Broker, no more.
$STONKBROKER burns constantly: activation fees, fee sinks, voluntary burns. By late August, roughly 19% of initial supply (about 569 million tokens) had been destroyed - the equivalent of about 854 Brokers' worth of backing.
Buying a Broker out of the vault requires the full 666,666. Once tokens are burned, there is mathematically not enough supply left for every vault Broker to be bought out at the reference price. Each burn quietly converts some tail of the vault from "purchasable" to "stranded".

Community trackers frame this as "effective supply": 4,444 minus the burned backings - around 3,590 Brokers at late August burn levels, shrinking as burns continue. The interpretation cuts both ways and the wiki gives you both: it concentrates the collection (fewer obtainable Brokers over time) and it is not an official mechanism - it is an emergent property of fixed backing plus burns, and the "locked" framing is analyst language, not contract language. One nuance worth carrying: the docs do not state where the 666,666 paid on a vault buy ends up; onchain observation suggests buy proceeds have been substantially burned, which is what drives the effect. That is an observation from the chain, labelled as such.

Scale

As of late August 2026 the vault held just under half the collection (2,216 of 4,444 Brokers at the most recent check, with 8 more in the loan vault), trading a handful of times per day in normal weeks. Live inventory and quotes: Live Numbers.

Sources: official docs (stonkbrokers.cash/docs), AMM Vault contract 0xe302733accf4800146e55fc45b46b4e4ffc032d2, token mint event onchain, independent census 28 Aug 2026, RPC checks 30 Aug 2026.

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