A Node is one of 8,888 machines from a dead network. It isn't a picture with a rarity table — it's a worker. From the moment a wallet holds one, it does its job.
It syncs. Slowly, on its own — no staking dashboard, no daily claim, no task list. Sync is the number that decides everything: how big a cut of the protocol fee stream your Node takes, how close it is to its next art state, and how hard it pushes the collective bar that wakes the network.
Hold it. That's the floor — a wallet that never opens the site still pushes the bar.
Everything past that is optional: hardwire a Quotron into its socket for 2x sync, take it on runs to push past its idle rate, or merge it with another chassis when you'd rather run one strong machine than two weak ones.
Every collective unlock ships new art states and new relics to every Node at once. The machine you mint is the dormant version of the machine you'll be holding a year in — same chassis, more scars, more sync, bigger cut.