FAQ — quick answers
Short answers to real questions. Every one links to the page with the full story.
Money & fees
Why does a cabinet's pot hold COIN-OP instead of ETH? Because every machine earns its fees in the coin it's paired with, and most cabinets trade against COIN-OP. Your ETH becomes COIN-OP on the way in (ETH → BTC → COIN-OP → cabinet), so the fees arrive as COIN-OP. Full story: The refill.
Does a machine ever earn fees in ETH? Every cabinet pairs with WETH, the mother included, so that is what a pool's fees arrive as — a pool can't earn what isn't in it. The floor counts them in sats, which is why every bar and every shelf is a sats figure. The refill.
What does "ready to burn" under the refill bar mean? Coins of the machine's own kind that landed in the pot — like unclaimed prizes swept back to REFILL. They need no buyback — they wait in the pot and burn with everything else when the bar fills. The machine never sells its own coin. The refill.
Why doesn't the bar count the coins sitting under it? The bar measures buy pressure — the pair currency that will buy the coin back. Coins already in the pot don't buy anything; they burn. Two effects, two lines, nothing inflated. The refill.
When a paired cabinet buys back and burns, is that a double burn? No — one burn. The COIN-OP the pot spends isn't destroyed; it lands inside the pair's pool as liquidity depth. The cabinet's coin burns; the mother coin goes to work. The refill.
Who pays the gas for all this? The House pays for its own machinery (harvests, refills, burns). You pay only for your own plays and claims. Gas & fees.
What's the difference between REFILL and the JACKPOT? Same move — buy the coin, burn the coin — different scope. REFILL is each machine's own automatic buyback from its own fees. The JACKPOT is one shared pot for the whole floor: at the trigger, a verifiable random draw picks one machine (weighted by holders) and the whole pot buys and burns that coin. The flywheel.
What if the flywheel buys or converts right before a big price move? Then that's the price it got — every action fires on a published rule, never on someone's read of the chart. Burns don't care (smaller supply either way, and the House holds no bag), and the big promises don't convert at all: the prize wall accrues sats natively and its promises are in Bitcoin — shelves from 0.01 to 0.5 BTC and 1 whole coin on top — so there is nothing to time and no bar ever runs backwards. A machine that timed the market would be a trader with your fees. The flywheel.
Playing & winning
Are the numbers on the meters real? Every meter is a live on-chain balance or a settled chain fact — never an estimate, never a projection. If a pot is empty, its bar is empty.
Can the House win its own raffles or rank on the boards? No. The deployer and the floor's pots are excluded from every draw and every board. The House runs the arcade; it doesn't play in it. The House.
Can a draw be re-run until the House likes the result? Never. One VRF roll per draw, published with its proof, final. Prizes & fairness.
Does trading volume earn tickets? Not by itself — volume lights the ROLLER power-up (+0.5x) on coins you actually hold. Empty bag = zero, the bonus is capped, and sell-churn breaks your RUN, so wash trading always nets negative. The boards.
How do I light the ROLLER bonus? Move volume through the machine this weekly round (rounds start Monday, UTC): full +0.5x at volume equal to 25% of your bag, proportional below. Buys count — the honest way to light it is simply buying more. It re-earns every week; a quiet week just means that power-up rests. The boards.
What's the COIN bonus? Hold at least 10,000,000 COIN-OP (0.01% of supply) — the arcade's own coin — and every machine you play gets +0.5x on your combo. Score and tickets.
What does MAX mean on the board? Every coin rested 30 days and an unbroken 30-day run — endurance fully maxed. The rainbow COMBO is the only rainbow in the arcade, and one sell turns it off. MAX does not require the weekly ROLLER or COIN power-ups — those push the number up to x3.5, but the rainbow is earned by endurance alone, so it never flickers off in a quiet week. Score and tickets.
I moved coins to my other wallet and my streak reset — why? Any outbound transfer counts as a sell: the chain can't read intent, so the board only sees coins leaving. Streaks count from your last outflow. Score and tickets.
Can I tip at claim? No — there are no tips anywhere on the floor anymore. A claim is a full claim, and unclaimed prizes roll into the next round instead of going to the House. The tip jar was retired on purpose: every coin that leaves your hand should do something you can see. Prizes & fairness.
New cabinets & the road ahead
Whatever happened to the orange bar (the launch window)? Retired. It gated new cabinets on the mother's depth because every cabinet hung on her pair. Now every cabinet trades on its own WETH pool — nothing hangs on her, so there is nothing for a depth gate to protect. THE CLAW's 100,000 sats of rent governs instead: a cabinet earns the floor with its own trading. THE CLAW.
Can I put my own coin on the floor? One door, and it is open to anyone: THE ASSEMBLY LINE. Name your coin, give it its first coin, sign the deploy from your own wallet, and your coin is born in the LOADING DOCK with its own WETH pool. It reaches the main floor by paying 100,000 sats of rent, or by a FLOOR TICKET — COIN-OP worth half the bar, burned. The Assembly Line · THE CLAW.
What happened to CO-OP MODE? Parked for phase 2. It let a coin that already existed seat an exotic pool — COIN-OP paired with that coin — and join the floor without redeploying. The floor decoupled on 09-04, so every cabinet now trades against WETH and reads no other cabinet's pool, and an exotic pool is the opposite shape by definition. It also was not finished as a game, and a seat asks real liquidity of a dev. Seats that exist are untouched. CO-OP MODE.
Does every cabinet get its own refill and prize rounds? Yes — that is the point of the decoupling. Every cabinet on the floor and in the dock runs the same four machines on its own pool: REFILL, its own HIGH SCORE, its own JACKPOT, and the RENT it pays the House. No cabinet's payout depends on another cabinet. The flywheel.
What are golden tickets? Are they my tickets? Not any more, and the name is moving. Golden tickets used to belong to a cabinet and weigh a shared jackpot's draw between machines. That jackpot is retired — every cabinet has its own pot now, so nothing is weighed against anything. The name is being given to the rare entry in a cabinet's own HIGH SCORE, with ordinary tickets the ones you earn by holding and spend at the PRIZE COUNTER. Decided, not yet built. Golden tickets.
Does the House get extra jackpot weight for its own cabinets? Never. One formula, every cabinet. The House doesn't tilt its own raffle. Golden tickets · The House.
What does the Assembly Line cost? Gas only — no fee, no tip. A coin born on the dock pays its swap fees into its own floor machines (90%), to you, the creator (8%), and to the House (2%, which pays the floor's gas as it grows); a coin in storage pays you 90% and the House 10%. The line's own share is the shared jackpot and prize-wall legs every dock cabinet feeds. The Assembly Line.
No cash value. Everything above is entertainment — the arcade experience, not an investment. Play for the game.