4,444 Terminals exist, but only 1,500 are born first — the rest aren't sold outright, they follow a clear roadmap instead. Step one: Genesis Terminal — 1,500 pieces, minted directly with ETH, no burning required. This is the foundation layer, born earliest, belonging to those who stepped in before everything else was even built. Step two: $OTO launches — the ecosystem's native token, still not live yet. Once it exists, holders will face the exact same choice Terminal already set up: keep $OTO liquid, or burn it. Step three: the burn-to-forge mechanism opens — burning $OTO will mint the remaining 2,000 Terminals, called "forging." This is when the real test begins, because by then the market already knows what $OTO is actually worth, so burning it is no longer the blind bet it was during the Genesis mint. Running alongside this is the 404 Reactor — where anyone can launch a new memecoin or revive an old one, and every token passing through the Reactor gets the same choice: stay liquid, or burn to forge its own "Companion NFT" — distinct from Terminal, which belongs only to Otomate's origin story. The final 944 Terminals aren't sold or earned through burning at all — they sit in the treasury and grant program, reserved to reward the community later on. In short: Genesis is the earliest, cheapest ticket in, precisely because nobody yet knows what the thing being burned later will actually be worth. The further along the burn-to-forge path goes, the more it's tied to $OTO's real value — so the "gamble" involved in burning shrinks over time, but the price of entry stops being as cheap as it was at the start. NFA,Dyor ! @otomate_trade