DEGENERUS PROTOCOL
Mechanics
The game runs in levels. While a level's pool fills, daily draws pay tickets, ETH, and FLIP. Once the target is met, five logical jackpot draws distribute the active pool, partly as ETH and partly as tickets for the next level.
A day of draws, playable. Your ticket's four traits against the day's drawn traits: scratch the matches to reveal prizes.
During the purchase phase, ticket sales fill the level's prize pool. The moment it reaches what the previous level raised, the jackpot phase begins. That creates a target ratchet within a 100-level cycle. After an x00 century level, the next target resets to one-third of the futurepool, so neither targets nor payouts rise forever.
| Draw | When | What it pays |
|---|---|---|
| Daily drip | Every purchase-phase day | 1% of the futurepool as bonus tickets and ETH to trait-matched holders, plus a FLIP jackpot |
| Luckbox | First jackpot day of a level | 3% of the futurepool to players who held next-level tickets early |
| Logical days 1–4 | Jackpot phase | A random 6–14% budget per logical day. One-fifth becomes next-level tickets; the ETH portion is split across four trait buckets, with the solo bucket receiving the remainder |
| Logical day 5 | Jackpot phase finale | The remaining active pool budget; one-fifth becomes next-level tickets and 60% of the ETH portion goes to the solo trait bucket |
Winners are ticket holders whose traits match the drawn ones. Each bucket's daily slice spreads across many winners at descending prize sizes:
| Winners per bucket | Prize size |
|---|---|
| 25 | Small |
| 15 | Medium |
| 8 | Large |
| 1 solo winner | The largest single share: 40% of the day's pool on days 1–4, 60% on the day-5 finale |
The base winner counts scale with the ETH budget; the solo slot stays one winner. Which quadrant is solo is random, with gold drawn traits favored when present. Fast levels compress the schedule: five logical days become three physical days if the pool fills in three, or one if it fills in one. Draw entropy comes from Chainlink VRF, subject to the dependency and fallback risks described in the trust model.
Every ten levels, the special event jackpots fire on top of all of this.
The Decimator Big Ass Flip