FAQ

Short answers. Each links to the longer version.

Entering

Do I have to deposit anything?

No. Holding 10.0K $GACHA in your own wallet is the entire entry. There is no staking contract, no lockup and nothing to approve.

Do I have to claim a win?

No. The keeper creates your token account if needed and pays for it, then sends the shares. They are simply there.

When exactly is the snapshot taken?

At the end of the round, at draw time. Not at the start, and not averaged. Buying with seconds left enters you at full weight; selling with seconds left removes you completely. See Eligibility.

Does the live player count on the board decide anything?

No. That is a preview refreshed every 20 seconds or so. Only the draw-time snapshot counts, and it is published in full afterwards.

Odds

Does holding more give me a better chance?

Yes, exactly proportionally. Every token is one ticket, so double the balance is double the chance. See Odds and ticketing.

Can I improve my odds by splitting across wallets?

No, and that is deliberate. Because tickets are counted per token rather than per wallet, a hundred wallets holding a hundredth each have precisely the same total odds as one wallet holding the lot. Splitting just costs you transaction fees.

Are expensive stocks less likely to be drawn?

No. The stock draw is uniform across every name that passes the liquidity filter. Share price has no effect on the probability, only on how many shares the pot buys.

Can I win twice in a row?

Yes. Each round is independent and there is no cooldown. A large holder winning back to back is unremarkable, not evidence of anything.

Prizes

What can I do with a prize?

Hold it, or sell it on Jupiter like any other Solana token. It is a normal transferable Token-2022 asset.

Why is the prize sometimes a fraction of a share?

Because the pot buys whatever it can afford. A $40 pot drawing a $700 index token buys roughly 0.057 of a share. Fractional ownership is the point of tokenizing them.

How many stocks are in rotation?

17. The full list, with live prices, is on Stocks in rotation.

Rounds and the pot

Why did a round pay out nothing?

It voided. Either the pot was too small, nobody was eligible, or a transaction failed. The SOL rolls into the next round rather than being lost, and the reason is shown in the history. See The pot and fees.

Why is the prize worth slightly less than the pot?

A market buy pays the spread and some slippage. The 3% price-impact filter keeps the gap small, but it is never exactly zero. The figure published is what actually arrived, not the quote.

Can the operator take from the pot?

Not from the pot. The whole spend goes into the prize. The gas reserve is spent on Solana transaction fees rather than kept.

How long is a round?

5 minutes.

Fairness

How do I know the draw was not rigged?

Recompute it. Every settled round publishes the commitment, both seeds, the winning ticket and every entrant's ticket range. Hash the seed, re-derive the ticket, check it lands in the winner's range. See Provable fairness.

Could the operator run rounds only when they like the outcome?

No. The commitment is published before the round opens, and the client seed is a blockhash that does not exist until draw time. Neither side can see the outcome in advance.

Is anything not verifiable?

Yes, and it is disclosed. The stock draw's candidate list depends on live routing depth and cannot be replayed exactly later. Winner selection, the part that decides who gets paid, is fully reproducible.

Practical

Which wallets work?

Any Solana wallet supporting the Wallet Standard, including Phantom, Solflare and Backpack. Connecting is only needed to view your position; eligibility is read from the chain whether you connect or not.

Can a hardware wallet or multisig win?

Yes. Any address holding enough tokens is entered, including program-derived addresses.

Something looks wrong with a round.

Open it from the history. Every round shows its seeds, snapshot, error reason if any, and links to both on-chain transactions.