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THE POT SPLITS ON THE HOUR, EVERY HOUR. NOTHING TO CATCH.
IN THE POT
PAID OUT, ALL TIME
TRADORS AT WORK
TOKENS BURNT
$TRADOR · 24H

How this works

Four things. That is the whole game.

PICK A TRADOR

It never leaves your wallet. Nothing is locked, nothing is held, nothing to approve.

PICK A CONVICTION, 1 TO 10

Conviction 10 is betting hard that $TRADOR goes up. Conviction 1 doesn't care either way — and wins when everyone else is wrong.

THE POT SPLITS EVERY HOUR

Trading fees fill it. When the hour closes it divides among everyone at work. Price up, high conviction takes more. Price down, the flat seats take more. Price still, everyone takes the same.

NOTHING TO LOSE

There's no stake and nothing borrowed, so there's nothing to liquidate. Your worst hour is one where your slice is small.

Your Trador goes to work. You decide how loud it is.

DOCUMENTATION

The whole mechanism, in detail

Everything below is enforced by the contract, not by policy. Every figure on this page is read from it.

01 · HOW A SHARE IS CALCULATED

Three lines decide everything. r is how far $TRADOR has moved since your baseline, and your conviction is an exponent on it.

r       = price now ÷ baseline
weight  = min(r, 2.75) ^ (conviction − 1)
share   = pot × weight ÷ all weights

Because the exponent is conviction − 1, a conviction-1 seat always weighs exactly 1. It is completely indifferent to price — which is why it takes the largest share when everyone else is wrong.

02 · THE FLAT-HOUR RULE

If the price does not move, r = 1, and 1 raised to any power is 1. Every conviction earns exactly the same.

This is what makes the dial a real decision rather than a yield setting. Turning it up is not a way to earn more — it is a bet on direction, and it costs you on the other side. No setting is simply better than another.

03 · THE 24-HOUR BASELINE

Your baseline is the price 24 hours ago, or where you joined if that was more recent. A move from last week pays nobody and punishes nobody.

After one full day every seat converges on the same baseline. Two Tradors at the same conviction — one from launch, one from yesterday — earn identically from then on. There is no day-one advantage to buy.

04 · THE CAP

r is clamped at 2.75 before the exponent, so the widest the dial can ever pay is 2.75⁹ — about 8,995× a flat seat.

Without it a 10× day would give conviction 10 a weight of 10⁹, and one seat would take essentially the whole pot forever. The cap keeps a wild day dramatic instead of terminal.

05 · NOTHING IS CUSTODIED

Your Trador is never transferred. The contract checks that you own it and records a seat — no approval, no escrow, nothing that can be stranded.

The trade-off, plainly: a Trador can be sold while it is earning. Anyone may then clear that seat and it stops earning from that moment. Everything it earned while genuinely held stays claimable by whoever held it.

06 · CHANGING YOUR MIND

You may change conviction whenever you like, but it resets your baseline to now. Without that the dial would be a free option — flip to 10 the hour a pump prints, back to 1 the hour it does not.

Clocking out resets it too. That is the only exit cost there is.

07 · WHO CLOSES THE HOUR

Nothing on a chain runs by itself. Closing an hour is permissionless and paid — anyone may do it and keeps 0.2% of what that hour distributes.

It also happens as a side effect of ordinary use: any join, collect or clock-out closes outstanding hours on its way past. No hour is lost by being late.

08 · WHERE THE PRICE COMES FROM

Read straight out of the Uniswap V4 pool that trades $TRADOR. No owner, no setter, nobody who can push a number.

It is a spot reading sampled once an hour against a baseline up to a day old. Moving it profitably means holding a moved price across the sampled boundary and paying the round trip — and every high-conviction seat is paid by the same move.

09 · WHAT CANNOT HAPPEN

  • Your Trador cannot be taken, locked or held.
  • You cannot be liquidated. Nothing is borrowed.
  • You cannot lose a stake, because there is no stake.
  • You cannot miss a window. There are none.
  • A share cannot go negative.
  • Payouts can never exceed the pot — every credit is floored and the remainder rolls onward.

10 · THE CONTRACTS

Robinhood Chain, chain id 4663. Read them yourself.

ENGINE
PRICE
COLLECTION
$TRADOR
CONVICTION RANGE
1 — 10
CAP ON r
2.75
BASELINE WINDOW
24 HOURS
SETTLES EVERY
1 HOUR
CLOSER'S CUT
0.2%