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01 What this is

Eight real Solana memecoins, replayed candle by candle from the chain. The ticker is blacked out. The house fronts you $1,000 on the first one, and you decide when to sell.

Then you choose: push the whole bank onto the next coin, or cash out and keep it. Everything you see on the chart actually happened to somebody.

Nothing on this site is decorative.

02 The run

Each coin shows you what you left on the table afterwards, and what you would be holding if you had never sold. That second number is usually the one that stings.

03 The daily deck

Everyone on earth gets the same eight coins in the same order on the same UTC day. The deal is done on the server, one day at a time, and a day that has not happened yet is not served to anybody.

That is what makes a score worth posting. Yours means something because somebody else played the exact same charts and did worse.

Endless mode reshuffles freely. It is unranked and does not enter anything.

05 The board

Your first run of the day is the one that counts. It posts to the daily board and the all-time board.

The game never sends a score. It sends the bar you sold on for each coin, and the server replays those against its own copy of the charts to work out what the run was actually worth. Claiming a number does nothing.

The day's eight arrive together, so somebody determined can still read ahead within a day. Treat the board as a scoreboard, not an audit.

06 The daily draw

Entry

The top ten scores carrying a wallet address are entered into that day's prize draw. Entry is free and always will be. There is no payment, token holding, or purchase of any kind required to enter or to win, and no paid action improves your chances.

An address is what makes a score eligible, because a prize has to go somewhere. Paste one next to your handle. You can add it later and change it whenever you like — whatever is on your entry when the day closes is what gets paid. Play without one and you are still on the board, just not in the draw.

The prize

Thirty percent of the creator fees the token earns that day, paid in ETH. Not a fixed pot — a fixed share. Trades pay 3%: a 1% pool fee, of which 70% reaches the creator, and a 2% creator tax. That is 2.7% of volume to the creator, so the prize is 0.81% of the day's volume. On a quiet day that is a few pounds, and the number gets published exactly as it lands.

QuestionAnswer
Who entersThe top ten scores on the daily board that carry an address
Which runYour first run of the day, always the free one
CostNothing. No purchase necessary
Re-runsMove you on the board, never into the draw
Prize30% of that day's creator fees, in ETH
Board closes00:00 UTC, with ten minutes of grace for a run already going
Snapshot00:10 UTC, published, never rewritten
WinnerPicked from the ten by a public randomness beacon nobody controls
PaidTo the address frozen into the snapshot, transaction published

The pick has to be something you can check rather than something you take our word for. At 00:10 UTC the ten entries are written down, published, and never touched again. Published with them is a drand round number that has not happened yet — drand being a public randomness beacon produced on a fixed schedule by a threshold of independent operators. When that round publishes, its randomness decides the winner: read as a number, modulo the number of entrants, counted down the list. The round does not exist when the list goes up, so nobody can steer it, and that includes us.

A seed we picked ourselves would not do. With ten entrants you could simply try seeds until you liked the answer, so the randomness has to come from somewhere we do not control.

You do not need a wallet to play or to place on the board. You need one on your entry to be in the draw, because a prize has to have somewhere to go. Nothing to install and nothing to connect — an address pasted in is enough.

Full draw terms. If a rule here ever disagrees with those terms, the terms win.

07 The token

It lives on Pons, on Robinhood Chain. The charts you play are Solana coins, because that is where the memecoin history worth replaying is; the token is somewhere else, because that is where the fee split makes a prize possible. Trades pay 3% — 1% to the pool, of which 70% reaches the creator, plus a 2% creator tax — so 2.7% of volume reaches the creator, and it arrives in ETH. Thirty percent of it goes straight back out to the board. The rest keeps the lights on.

Held, spent and burned for things that do not touch the draw. A sink is only worth building where the game already makes you want something.

Everything that moves value is written down before it ships. Everything that is merely fun is not.

08 Where the charts come from

Public on-chain pool data, at five-minute bars, via the GeckoTerminal API. A chart only becomes a round if it moved at least 2x from the entry and its peak lands at least eight bars in, because anything flatter has no decision in it.

The pool is drawn from roughly the last quarter. Older launch windows sit behind a paid tier, so the coins you meet are recent and mostly unfamiliar. That is deliberate as much as it is practical: a chart you recognise is a chart you can cheat.

The deck is dealt by the server, one day at a time, and days that have not happened are not served. What a round was worth is worked out from the bar you sold on, not from a number your browser claims.

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