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Base Rarity Weight
Every Ape's natural, immutable head start — computed once from the real collection, frozen before any of it could pay anybody.
All 2,222 Based Apes have a Base Rarity Weight derived from their real trait distribution. Rarity is calculated once from the canonical collection metadata, then converted into a normalized weight between 1.00x and 5.50x.
| Rank | Base Weight |
|---|---|
| #1,900 (typical) | 1.00× |
| #1,000 | 1.35× |
| #250 | 2.10× |
| #40 | 3.50× |
| #1 (rarest) | 5.50× |
Once sealed on-chain, an Ape's Base Rarity Weight can never be changed by anyone — not the team, not governance. It's committed to a hash at deploy time and every value is checked against that hash before the registry will accept it as final.
Rarity is where you start, not where you stay
- Rarity sets an Ape's natural head start — its permanent, unchangeable base weight.
- Burning $BAG adds to that weight on top (see Burn Progression) — the two combine additively, not multiplicatively.
- A common Ape that burns heavily can eventually out-earn a naturally rare one that never burns beyond activation.