The 7
On this pageWarning: these seven Strategy contracts have a bug that can lock NFTs they purchase. NFTs confirmed to be locked should be treated as effectively burned. NFTs that remain held and listed can still be purchased, but their availability does not remove the contract risk. An absent listing alone does not prove a permanent burn.
The 7 are shown in their own category, separate from ordinary ERC-721 Strategies. The category identifies these original Ethereum contracts, even if a token changes its name or ticker.
| Token | Collection |
|---|---|
| APESTR | Bored Ape Yacht Club |
| MEEBSTR | Meebits |
| BIRBSTR | Moonbirds |
| PUDGYSTR | Pudgy Penguins |
| DICKSTR | CryptoDickbutts |
| TOADSTR | CrypToadz |
| SQUIGSTR | Chromie Squiggles; the Strategy is now called DayOneStrategy |
When NFTs should be treated as burned
The bug can prevent an NFT held by one of these contracts from returning to the normal purchase-and-resale cycle. Once locked, the asset should be treated as effectively burned rather than as an NFT available for resale. This describes the loss of access to the asset; it does not necessarily mean the NFT was sent to a burn address or destroyed onchain.
Affected activity has been observed in APESTR and DayOneStrategy. The warning applies to all seven contracts because they share the bug, not because every NFT they hold is already locked.
Until an NFT becomes burned or locked, an available listing can still be purchased. NFTs subsequently purchased by these contracts can also be affected by the bug.
How the site displays affected assets
Pixelated fire marks The 7 in the strategy list and on their pages. Identified affected BAYC records with no listing price and a reported sale below 0.01 ETH are shown as locked NFT burns instead of ordinary sales, and are excluded from sales and profit totals. These records should not be read as normal completed sales or as prices at which the NFTs are available to buy.
DayOneStrategy: unlisted holdings and retained listings
DayOneStrategy was originally SquiggleStrategy. Squiggles were swapped out for Genesis by DCA and Construction Token by Jeff Davis, which share the original Art Blocks NFT contract. Its normal purchase range still targets Squiggle token IDs 0–9999; the replacement NFTs arrived through the exploit.
The swap retained listing prices on-chain under the original Squiggle token IDs. DayOne’s page separates the replacement NFTs it actually holds without listings from those retained listings for original NFTs it no longer owns. These are different inventory states; being held without a listing does not by itself establish a permanent burn.
For example, this swap transaction moved Squiggle #8746 out while its listing price remained in place, and brought Genesis #179 into the strategy without a listing price.
Held, unlisted NFTs are shown without a fire overlay or purchase controls. The original NFTs appear under Retained listings, with their retained prices. They cannot currently be purchased through the strategy while it does not own them, and they are not counted as currently held or burned. A retained listing can become usable again if its NFT returns to the strategy and its price remains in place. Only NFTs both held and positively listed appear as purchasable inventory.
Historical records below 0.01 ETH are retained separately as nominal-price activity, with exact wei amounts, and excluded from ordinary sale and profit totals. These events do not establish which NFTs are locked today. Missing ownership or listing information is shown as unverified rather than assumed purchasable.
The project-specific names use Art Blocks edition numbers, while marketplace links retain the full contract token IDs. See the verified DayOne contract and official metadata for Genesis #179 and Construction Token #168.
For more context, see the posts from 0xQuit and TokenWorks.