Shadow Ronin: September 16 mint announced on Arc, with little verifiable information

What the project says it is

Shadow Ronin (SHADOW//RONIN) is an NFT collection that says it will launch on Arc. The project's X bio describes it as a 3,500-piece, entirely original cinematic collection themed around twelve lost martial gates, launching on Arc Mainnet on September 16, 2026, with "Shadow List" applications open.

This article is shorter than a typical introduction because the available material is limited. The scan could read only three posts from the project's X account, while its website consists of a single page of roughly 120 words. No documentation page was found, and there is no Discord or Telegram link. The available information consists entirely of the project's own announcements.

What the project says

The pinned post announces the application process and includes an important caveat:

"Shadow Gate, open. SHADOW//RONIN Shadow List application reception begins. 3,500 units. 12 martial gates. To Arc Mainnet. Application: shadowroninarc.xyz *Note: Applications do not guarantee selection or mint slots."

In other words, submitting an application guarantees neither selection nor a mint slot. The project itself states this.

A second post names the network and marketplace for the collection: Arc as the network and OpenSea as the place where it will be listed.

The project's own site presents three figures: 3,500 pieces, 12 "orders", and a statement that 100% of the pieces are procedurally generated.

NFT

The collection's contract address is absent from the fact set, so this article does not publish an address. That is expected for a collection that has not yet been minted: the announced mint date, September 16, 2026, falls after the date of this article.

The fact set contains no information about the mint price, Shadow List allocation, selection criteria or total mint duration. No marketplace data could be read, which is also expected because the collection is not yet live.

The critical point as mint day approaches will be the source of the collection's contract address. Once an address is published, it must be verified through the project's official X account or through an unbroken link chain beginning at that account. No address circulating without that verification should be treated as reliable.

Team and funding

The fact set contains no named team member and no funding record. The project's single-page site has no team section either. The account was created in August 2026, making it roughly one month old when this article was written.

What to watch

• September 16, 2026: the announced Arc Mainnet launch. If the contract address appears that day, it must be verified through the official account.
• The mint price, supply distribution and Shadow List allocation have not been disclosed.
• The Shadow List selection criteria are not documented. The project says an application creates no entitlement, but does not explain how selection will work.
• There is no information about the team.
• The bio describes the collection as "entirely original", while the site says its pieces are "100% procedurally generated". Both statements could be true, but the production method is not explained anywhere.

Conclusion

At present, Shadow Ronin amounts to an announcement: the date, collection size and network are known, while everything else remains uncertain. Until the mint date, the only externally verifiable information comes from the project's own statements. That makes the source of the collection's contract address, and whether it can be traced to the official account once published, the most important question about the project.