DEGENERUS PROTOCOL
Mechanics
A ticket is the basic unit of play. Every ticket carries four random traits and four entries into the level's jackpot draws. 100% of ticket ETH routes to game prize pools; no purchase-time share goes to an operator or team.
Each ticket rolls four traits, one per quadrant, and each trait is a symbol plus a color. The jackpot draws pay trait-matched holders, and rarer matches split the prize with fewer people. One ticket counts as four jackpot entries; you can buy fractions, multiples, and future levels ahead of time, which is how passes work under the hood. Future-level tickets stay locked in until their level's jackpot resolves; Salvage Swap lets you sell an unresolved position back if you change your mind.
Two tickets as minted. The quadrants always draw from the same four families: crypto, zodiac, cards, dice. The left ticket's Bitcoin rolled gold, the ~1-in-128 color.
| Trait roll | Odds |
|---|---|
| Symbol, 1 of the 8 in that quadrant's family | 12.5% each, uniform |
| Pink, purple, or green | 25% each |
| Red | 12.5% |
| Blue | 6.25% |
| Orange | 3.125% |
| Silver | 2.344% |
| Gold | 0.781%, 1 in 128 |
Symbol and color roll independently, so a quadrant has 64 possible traits, weighted heavily toward the common colors. Gold is 32x rarer than pink, purple, or green.
| Levels | Price per ticket |
|---|---|
| 0–4 | 0.01 ETH |
| 5–9 | 0.02 ETH |
| x01–x29 of each 100-level cycle | 0.04 ETH |
| x30–x59 | 0.08 ETH |
| x60–x89 | 0.12 ETH |
| x90–x99 | 0.16 ETH |
| x00 century levels | 0.24 ETH |
The ladder climbs through each 100-level cycle and then resets: a ticket at level 101 costs 0.04 ETH, the same as one at level 11. Price alone does not set the size of the prize. A level's pool target is whatever the previous level raised, except for the target reset after each x00 century level. During a level's redemption window, which opens once the pool hits its target and runs through the jackpot days, 1,000 FLIP buys one ticket instead of paying ETH.
| Prize pool for the level being entered | 90% |
| Futurepool, backing daily prizes and future levels | 10% |
| Operator, house, team | 0% |
Affiliate commissions are minted as FLIP on top of the purchase, not carved out of it.
Every ticket bought with ETH or winnings credits the buyer 100 FLIP, a tenth of the ticket's FLIP face value, on top of the jackpot entries. Two bonuses stack on the base:
| Base, every ticket | 100 FLIP |
| Recycled winnings (3+ tickets' worth of claimable in one buy) | +100 FLIP per ticket's worth recycled |
| Bulk buy (10+ tickets) | +50 FLIP per ticket |
A qualifying recycled bulk buy can credit 250 FLIP per ticket, a quarter of face value. Credits arrive as a coinflip stake, so they ~double or die on the daily flip before they are yours to spend. FLIP-paid tickets mint no FLIP back.
See what those four entries are actually drawing for.
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