There are 3,333 Orbs and the mint price is zero. The only cost is Robinhood Chain gas, which runs to about a cent, so what a whitelist spot really costs you is the effort of earning it.
Below is what an Orb actually contains, the real drop tables, and the exact point value of every task on the board.
What a whitelist spot actually gets you
A spot reserves one Orb from the 3,333. An Orb is not a finished character, and that trips up almost everyone arriving from a normal PFP drop. The chain of events is short:
- You mint a sealed Orb. Its tier is unknown, even to you.
- You open it. Opening burns the Orb and mints seven random parts, or eight from Gold up straight to your wallet.
- You equip one part into each of eight slots: background, body, equipped, eyes, face, inventory, mane and tail. That forms a Cub.
Every part is its own token, and parts re-equip at any time, so a Cub is never locked to the way it minted. There are 155 trait artworks across those eight categories, which multiply out to 13,250,591,640 possible Cubs. Rarer parts raise a Cub's rarity score and its combat power, so a rebuild is a stat change as well as a look change.
The supply maths is worth a moment. The whole drop is 3,333 Orbs at seven parts each, eight from gold upwards, so around 25,300 parts exist and each Cub locks eight away. Division says about 3,160 Cubs, but a Cub needs one part in every slot and the draws never land perfectly even, so the real ceiling is around 3,000 Cubs at once.
What is inside an Orb: the five tiers and their real drop tables
Orbs come in five tiers, and the tier stays sealed until you open it. These are the actual on chain drop tables, not a marketing approximation:
Opening takes two transactions and about a minute, and the delay is deliberate. The tier and the parts are decided by a seed nobody knows at the moment you open. If the outcome settled inside your own transaction, a determined minter could simulate, revert and retry until a Sapphire appeared. So the Orb burns, the seed reveals, and the parts land after.
A forge path is designed in as an alternative to opening, burning the Orb for a token payout scaled to its tier instead of parts. The token is not live on any chain yet, so treat forging as planned, not available.
How to earn an Ethernal Cubs whitelist spot
Spots are earned, and they stack. There are three routes.
Route 1: hold Proud Lions Club or GUI Lions on Aptos
Holding either Aptos collection is worth 1 spot, plus 1 more per 2 Proud Lions Club and 1 more per 3 GUI Lions, capped at 30 spots per holder. The holder snapshot was already taken, so buying more now changes nothing, selling does not cost you what you earned, and NFTs sitting listed for sale still count. The catch: you have to connect that Aptos wallet, sign a message binding it to your EVM address, and verify during the campaign. A holder who never shows up gets nothing.
Route 2: tasks, quizzes and referrals
50 points buys 1 spot, up to a maximum of 4 spots from tasks. The live board:
Do the arithmetic before you start, because it changes how you play it. The fixed list totals 150 points, which is exactly 3 spots. The fourth has to come from referrals, and only 4 referrals are counted, worth 60 points. A full clear plus four counted referrals lands on 210, past the 200 needed for the cap.
Two mechanics people hit cold:
- Three tasks unlock the rest. Joining Discord, following on X and joining Telegram are gates. Until all three are done, the rest of the Discord and X work, Instagram, TikTok, all three quizzes and referrals stay locked. Aptos verification is deliberately not gated, so a holder claiming spots they already earned is not asked to follow three accounts first.
- Verification is honest about what it can prove. Discord and X tasks are checked through OAuth and credited automatically. TikTok and Instagram expose no API that can confirm a follow, so those are reviewed by hand: leave a link to what you posted and a human grades it.
Route 3: competitions
The team runs games and competitions that award spots directly rather than points. Those are judged manually, are uncapped, and are announced in Discord and on X.
Mint day: Thursday 29 October 2026, 14:00 UTC
- Opens: Thursday 29 October 2026, 14:00 UTC. That is 18:00 in Dubai, 19:30 in India, 22:00 in Singapore and Hong Kong, 14:00 in London, and 10:00 in New York.
- Where: the OpenSea drop page, opensea.io/collection/ethernal-cubs-orbs.
- Contract:
0x39c7CaC949BeEb899a412ac9f5e53a48d209acDa, an ERC-721 on Robinhood Chain, chain ID 4663. Check the address before approving anything, and look the collection up by contract, never by name. - Cost: mint price 0. You pay only Robinhood Chain gas, which runs to about a cent.
- Wallet: any standard Ethereum wallet with Robinhood Chain added. MetaMask, Robinhood Wallet and passkey wallets all work. Nothing bridges from Aptos: those holdings are only proof of eligibility, and the Orb mints on Robinhood Chain.
One clarification, because the name misleads: Robinhood Chain is a public EVM Layer 2, not a brokerage product. You do not need a Robinhood account to mint, nothing here touches one, and no broker is involved in or associated with this collection.
What your Cub does once you have built it
It is a build, not a pull. A Cub's stats come from the parts equipped, and parts re-equip for free, so the collection rewards accumulating and rearranging rather than flipping a lucky mint. Your first Cub is free to form, each one after costs 0.005 ETH, and deconstruction costs 0.001 ETH.
Battles have real stakes. Staking a Cub costs 0.003 ETH. A match is three rounds, best of three, with your three stat picks sealed in advance so nobody can counter pick them. Losing drains a battle gauge that carries between matches instead of resetting, and an emptied gauge hands your Cub, with all eight parts inside it, to whoever beat you. If you would not want to lose a build, take it apart first.
There are prizes, and there is a record of shipping. Proud Lion Studios has been building on chain since April 2022. Its GUI LIONS collection sold out 2,000 pieces in two hours and fifteen minutes on 14 January 2024 and still has a thousand separate holders. Its 2022 fusion mechanic, one of the earliest on Ethereum, was used 98 times by holders. All of that is verifiable on chain, which is the only kind of track record worth quoting.
The AI companion layer is not switched on yet. The design is that each Cub is a companion you talk to, with a personality drawn from the parts it is built from, extended by Power Orbs for Memory, Creative, Knowledge, Wisdom and Vision. A Power Orb is an upgrade for a finished Cub, a different object from the sealed Orb you mint. Treat it as the direction of travel, not a day one feature.
FAQ
Is the Ethernal Cubs mint actually free?
Yes. The mint price is 0. The only cost is Robinhood Chain gas, about a cent. It is not open to everyone though, because spots are earned rather than bought.
Am I minting a Cub or an Orb?
An Orb. It is sealed, its tier is unknown until you open it, and opening burns it and mints seven random parts, or eight from Gold up, that you assemble into a Cub.
How many whitelist spots can one wallet get?
Routes stack. Tasks are capped at 4 spots, the Aptos holder route at 30 spots per holder, and competition awards are uncapped.
Do I need a Robinhood account?
No. Robinhood Chain is a public EVM Layer 2 with chain ID 4663. Any standard Ethereum wallet connects to it, and no brokerage account is involved.
Does buying more Aptos NFTs now increase my allocation?
No. The snapshot has already been taken, so the count is fixed, and you still have to connect and verify during the campaign for it to become spots.
Where do I start?
The whitelist board is live at ethernalcubs.icu. Clear the three gate tasks first, Discord, X and Telegram, because everything else stays locked until you do.