Every round's deployed ETH is split the same way, automatically, on-chain — this is the split at launch:

Winners receive 85%. Stakers receive 8%; the Big and Small ETH jackpots and Crucible each receive 1%; 0.5% funds team buys that are permanently staked; 0.5% funds operations; and the launch-stage 3% reserve buys and burns FLAME.

The 3% launch reserve changes in one direction as products launch: initially 3% Buy-and-Burn; after RWA activation, 2% Buy-and-Burn and 1% RWA; after Ember activation, 1% Buy-and-Burn, 1% RWA and 1% Ember. Every other allocation remains unchanged.

Three independent, domain-separated drand rolls happen every round — all three can hit in the same round. Built from a brief that wanted more ETH-denominated jackpot winnings than token winnings (less sell pressure, gives miners ammo to keep mining):

ETH jackpot winnings have no separate claim tax. The Motherlode pays as a permanent FLAME stake, not liquid FLAME, and retains its 20% carry.

Winning fills your Rewards panel with Unclaimed ETH and Mined FLAME. Your ETH claim is fee-free, while your unclaimed FLAME may also accumulate Passive FLAME funded by other miners' liquid claims.

When you claim your Mined FLAME outright, a 10% fee comes out, split two ways: 7.5% is paid out as Passive FLAME to miners who haven't claimed yet, and 2.5% is burned outright, permanently reducing supply. In other words, the longer you hold your Mined FLAME, the more Passive FLAME you collect from everyone who claims early — and every early claim also shrinks total supply a little for everyone. No lockups or schedules — patience is simply rewarded.

Stakers share 8% of every round's deployed ETH, paid in ETH. Your weight in the pool is your stake times your lock multiplier — the longer (or more permanently) you commit, the larger your slice of every round:

Your share of the pool is your staked FLAME × your multiplier, divided by the total effective weight of all stakers — as others stake and unstake, your share shifts with the pool. Rewards accrue continuously and can be claimed anytime without touching your staked position; timed positions unlock once their lock expires. The permanent tier is the maximum-conviction play: your FLAME is never destroyed — it stays locked forever, and in exchange you earn at 4× weight for as long as you hold the position.

Permanent-tier stakers get one more thing no other tier does: a fully separate ETH stream funded by the RWA Vault (coming post-launch) whenever the owner realizes gains on the vault's real-world asset position. It's tracked and claimed separately from ordinary round yield, so it's always clear on-chain how much of a payout came from which source.

The Crucible is FLAME's side game — a king-of-the-hill auction, not a lottery. There's no odds gimmick and no random roll: whoever's FLAME bid is standing tallest when the round timer runs out just wins the pot outright. Bidding costs you FLAME, never ETH, so the only people with a reason to play are people already holding FLAME.

Where the ETH pot goes: at close, the contract sweeps the whole accrued pot from GridGame in one shot — the same 1% of every mining round's ETH shown on the "Where the ETH goes" split earlier. That pot always splits the same way:

One percent of each mining round accrues in the dedicated Crucible vault. When a Crucible round completes, its allocated ETH is snapshotted for the recorded winner to pull-claim as real ETH. There is no forced redeployment balance. A round with no valid bid skips cleanly.

The FLAME/ETH pool carries a flat 2% tax on buys and a flat 2% tax on sells (only on real DEX trades through the pool, never ordinary wallet-to-wallet transfers). Every taxed trade destroys part of FLAME and queues the rest for permanent liquidity — nothing from this tax funds the RWA Vault or any jackpot:

The 1.5% route accumulates buy-side ETH and sell-side FLAME in the permanent-liquidity vault. After a 24-hour delay and within capped release limits, a permissionless executor pairs those contributed assets directly into full-range liquidity. It does not sell FLAME to source ETH, and it exposes no liquidity-withdrawal route.

Net effect: burns permanently shrink supply, and every trade-tax LP addition is permanent and one-directional — deeper, locked liquidity and less liquid FLAME in free circulation, on top of whatever claims, trades, and permanent staking already remove.

RWA Vault — a future layer, not live at launch

At launch the RWA allocation is zero and Buy-and-Burn receives 3% of round ETH. When the RWA module is activated, 1% moves from Buy-and-Burn to the RWA treasury, leaving Buy-and-Burn at 2%. When Ember later activates, another 1% moves from Buy-and-Burn to Ember, leaving the permanent 1% / 1% / 1% split. The RWA treasury never receives any portion of the 2% trading tax.

Every random draw — the round's winning tile, and (once RWA Vault ships) each Vault spin — is chosen by a drand beacon, BLS-verified on-chain before winnings move, so no one, including the team, can predict or rig it. The Crucible needs no randomness at all: the highest FLAME bid standing when the timer runs out simply wins, verifiable by anyone from the bid history alone. The Stats page indexes the testnet's settled rounds, winning tiles, emissions, burns and staking activity from confirmed V2 events. Robinhood testnet uses the explicitly labelled mock-drands rehearsal path; production requires the real BLS-verified drand beacon.

Every FLAME number in one place — supply, the halving schedule, taxes, and exactly how much of each round the team ever touches. This page is a reference; the mechanics behind each number are explained on the earlier pages.

Supply

No pre-sale, and no dedicated BOW-migration carve-out in genesis — BOW holders are captured out of the team's own ongoing allocation funds instead (see the team allocation row below), not a separate genesis pool. Everything beyond genesis is mined. Under the halving schedule, total supply converges toward roughly 938,170 FLAME (~94% of the cap) rather than actually reaching it — the 1,000,000 cap is a hard backstop, not the expected end state.

Per-round FLAME emissions (epoch 0 — all three halve together every year)

These emissions apply only to played rounds. The Grid stream is minted only when the winning tile has eligible miners; missed emissions are not carried forward. The 0.040 team emission is credited as permanent stake, not liquid FLAME. Nobody can mint outside this fixed on-chain schedule.

Buy/sell tax — 2% on real DEX trades only

Buy-side ETH and sell-side FLAME accumulate separately, then pair directly into permanent full-range liquidity after a 24-hour delay and within capped releases. The executor contains no swap route and cannot withdraw liquidity.

Everywhere the team touches FLAME or round ETH

Kept deliberately on one list, since it's the thing people actually want to check at a glance:

The current public site is a Robinhood testnet rehearsal using mock drand and test ETH. Its V2 modules are deployed for testing only; production addresses and verified source will be published separately before launch.