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

Winners always take the overwhelming share. Stakers earn real ETH yield from every round played, Big and Mini ETH ML both grow round after round toward their own jackpot draws, 1% seeds the Crucible pot that the auction pays out on every round close, 0.4% keeps the lights on, 0.1% covers the keeper bot's own gas so round-settlement never stalls for lack of it, and the 0.5% team allocation never reaches a wallet at all — it accrues and is periodically swapped for FLAME, then locked into a permanent stake for the team (see "Tokenomics" for the full breakdown of every team-facing stream). In total the protocol takes a 12% fee each round on top of the 88% winning tile keeps.

Once the RWA Vault ships post-launch, this split shifts to make room for it — the winning tile's share drops from 88% to 86%, and the freed 2% funds two new RWA-only streams: 1% into the RWA purchase budget and 1% into a dedicated RWA jackpot. Every other stream above (stakers, both ETH Motherlodes, Crucible, and all three team-facing lines) stays exactly the same size, before or after RWA launches.

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):

Jackpot ETH (Big/Mini ML) is untaxed, same as ordinary round winnings — only the Token ML's FLAME carries the decaying claim tax. Token ML has no carryover — it fully drains to zero on a hit, same as before.

Winning fills your Rewards panel with two things: Unclaimed ETH (your share of the rounds you've won — claim it any time, no fee) and Mined FLAME (the FLAME mined from the rounds you've won).

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.

At close, the Crucible winner receives the accrued ETH reward through the dedicated winner-claims vault. The winning FLAME bid is burned permanently.

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% queued for LP is processed so half gets swapped for ETH and the pair is added as a full-range position the pool's own tax hook owns — there's no coded liquidity-removal function for that position, so once it's locked in, it stays locked in. Three separate paths feed permanent LP over time:

Net effect: burns permanently shrink supply, and every trade-tax/Crucible-sourced 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

The RWA Vault is funded separately, from the round-ETH split covered on "Where the ETH goes" — 2% of game volume (1% RWA purchase budget + 1% RWA jackpot, both post-RWA-launch only), not from the trading tax above. FLAME is burned as the wager on every jackpot spin; the default top-tier outcome is 50× at a 2% hit chance. Whenever the owner realizes gains on the vault's real-world asset position, 100% of those proceeds go straight to permanent-burn stakers (see "Staking") — off-chain asset value stays owner-reported, not on-chain verified, until the on-chain Stock Token path described in earlier drafts of this page ships alongside it.

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. Anyone will be able to check any round's result from the Stats page once it's live: the winning tile, the proof, and every payout.

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)

Only the team allocation row is an unconditional mint — it lands the same every round regardless of who plays or wins. Every other FLAME minted is earned through the game: won on a tile, hit on a jackpot, or streamed to stakers. Nobody, including the team, can mint FLAME outside these fixed, on-chain rules.

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

See "Trading & Liquidity" for how the 1.5% LP queue splits across Genesis LP, Trade-tax LP, and Crucible LP, and how the RWA Vault is funded separately from the round-ETH split instead.

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:

Nothing below is a promise — once deployed, every contract will be source-verified and public, and every number on this page will be checkable against the code that holds the money.