HOW IT WORKS

Each purchase claims distinct pixels in the current round. A pixel cannot have two owners. Your wallet has a stable display color; that color does not change your odds, and colors are not guaranteed to be unique across all wallets.

The final valid purchase fills the board, closes that round and opens the next one in the same transaction. The new board starts with its own ownership, wallet limits and pot. A new round opening does not mean the previous prize has already been paid.

Rounds also have a configured deadline. An unfilled expired round needs an advance transaction before the next one opens; time alone cannot submit it. That expired round becomes refundable. The deployment fixes the timeout for the sequence, with a 24-hour default.

Prices are fixed in ETH, not pegged to dollars. No ETH/USD price service is used. Your ETH payment stays the same when the dollar exchange rate changes; network gas is separate.

Core locks both prices before its first round. Every signed purchase must match those on-chain prices exactly. A missing or mismatched contract price, stale network state or expired quote blocks purchases. Changing an existing price policy requires a new deployment, not an edit to a quote.

The pot and prizes are paid in ETH at the unchanged allocation below. A full board of 10,000 paid Quick pixels at 0.0004 ETH collects 4 ETH: 2.7 ETH Grand, 0.6 ETH platform and 0.7 ETH buyback treasury. Manual purchases and free entries change the total collected, not the percentages.

Per transaction

1-50 pixels

Per wallet, per round

250 pixels

Manual price premium

Position selection, not better per-pixel odds

An unconfirmed signature

Not a purchase and not ownership

Pixel purchases are entries in the game, not individual ERC-721 NFTs. Only the Grand winner can mint that round's canvas NFT. Paid purchases and bonus pixels, when enabled, share the same board capacity and wallet cap.

The split applies to ETH actually collected, excluding network fees. Free pixels do not add payment to the pot. A full board can therefore have a different pot depending on paid purchase modes and bonus participation.

Grand prize

67.5%

Platform

15%

$PIXEL buyback / burn treasury

17.5%

Example: 100 ETH collected allocates 67.5 ETH to Grand, 15 ETH to the platform and 17.5 ETH to the buyback treasury. The former 7.5 ETH consolation allocation now joins buyback. Grand's amount and the platform share are unchanged.

Grand / of winner reserve

100%

Consolation prize

Removed / no cash allocation

Crew / cash allocation

0% / free-pixel model instead

Integer calculations preserve the previous Grand amount exactly, even for tiny pots. The former consolation remainder, including its rounding dust, goes to buyback. Crew has no ETH allocation.

The V4 vault credits the entire winner reserve directly to the revealed Grand wallet when funded. There is no consolation manifest, Merkle claim or unclaimed prize reserve. Existing funded rounds keep their original claim rights under their original contracts; these new rules do not rewrite historical payouts.

Treasury allocation is not a completed token purchase or burn. Automatic $PIXEL buyback/burn is not enabled.

Implemented / Awaiting live verification

The new contracts select up to 10 Crew pixels in a completed round and replace the Crew cash prize with 20 free pixel mint rights for each winning wallet. Its former cash share now belongs to Grand. Crew rewards are game entries, not ETH, $PIXEL tokens or a canvas NFT.

The Grand pixel is excluded from Crew. A wallet may own more than one selected Crew pixel, but it receives at most 20 free pixels from that source round. Ten selected pixels do not guarantee ten different winning wallets. Small rehearsal boards with fewer than eleven sold pixels select only the available non-Grand pixels.

The new contracts require a finalized Crew selection and a funded, nonrefundable source round. A winner can redeem 1-20 pixels at a time in a later active round. Unused rights have no expiry. Each target round accepts at most 200 Crew bonus pixels; board capacity and the 250-pixel wallet cap still apply. A failed transaction does not spend rights, and a refunded target round does not restore already used free pixels.

The profile reads remaining rights from Core, and confirmed Crew mints appear as owned boxes. Public redemption remains closed until source-round funding, Crew mint event indexing and the connected-wallet flow are verified together on the release deployment.

Free means no pixel purchase charge. Network gas still applies. Bonus entries consume board capacity and can reduce paid revenue; they are not a guaranteed cash return or a promise of profit.

A payout-qualified closed round requests randomness once. Fulfillment stores the result; a separate finalization step resolves the Grand pixel. The configured randomness provider must be verified on Robinhood before public play opens. Quick placement is a separate backend-operated process, not this draw.

The verified owner of the Grand pixel is eligible for the round's canvas NFT. Minting requires a finalized result, a payout-qualified outcome and the pot successfully released to ClaimVault. A refunded round has no winner NFT.

There is one canvas NFT per round, not one NFT per participant. The winner mints from their wallet and pays gas. NFT minting and the ETH prize claim are separate actions. Artwork and metadata currently depend on the application's renderer; immutable artwork storage is not guaranteed.

Grand withdrawal

Credited at funding / no expiry

Consolation claims / reclaim

Not available in V4

Unfilled expired round

Paid purchase refund

Unreleased closed-round pot

30-day stale-pot refund escape

V4 credits Grand's ETH to a pending withdrawal automatically when the revealed round is funded. The winner uses a withdrawal transaction to receive ETH; no Merkle proof is needed. NFT minting is independent.

The owner cannot reclaim Grand's credited balance. Grand and treasury withdrawals remain reserved with no withdrawal expiry. There is no remaining consolation prize or post-funding reclaim timer. An allocation estimate is not a verified credit or a withdrawable balance.

A refundable round returns the buyer's recorded purchase payment, not gas. A wallet claims its refund once. Free pixels have no paid amount to refund. A finalized-looking cached result cannot override the current on-chain outcome.

For a closed round whose pot has not been released, Core retains a separate 30-day stale-pot refund path. This applies only before the pot reaches the vault; it never expires an existing Grand withdrawal.

A referral links a new referred wallet to its inviter. The agreed earning policy is 3 pixel rights for the inviter after the referred wallet's first confirmed paid purchase, once per referred wallet. Self-referrals do not qualify.

Once the first paid purchase is confirmed and the referral is verified, the inviter can redeem three pixels in an active round without waiting for a draw or pot funding. A later refund of the referred purchase does not revoke the award. Each referred wallet qualifies only once; a refunded bonus round does not restore used pixels. Board capacity, the 250-pixel wallet cap and the 999-referral-pixel round budget still apply.

Different wallet addresses do not prove different people. Referral attribution is verified by a separate backend signer, and multi-wallet farming remains a promotional risk. The public program stays disabled until its live checks and launch limits are approved.

Referral minting is disabled on the hosted release. Crew awards and referral awards are separate, and neither creates a right to withdraw ETH.

• The contract enforces ownership, capacity, payment and signature replay checks. A signed assignment hash prevents the operator from replacing an already accepted pixel list.
• Quick assignment remains backend-operated. Signatures do not make its selection fully decentralized or prove the backend could not bias a quote.
• Deployment configuration, pot release and treasury operations retain owner/operator trust. V4 resolves Grand from the linked on-chain reveal source, with no prize manifest. That source must itself be verified; a Crew seed alone is not a verified list of Crew winners. A buyback treasury credit does not prove tokens were bought or burned.
• A wallet connection is not proof of ownership. Chat uses one ownership signature per session, not a signature for every message. Chat authorization cannot approve a purchase.
• Game entries carry loss risk. More pixels do not guarantee a win. Testnet or local verification is not a mainnet security guarantee.