The complete rule set

Each round is 30 minutes picking + 30 minutes live = 60 minutes total. The next round opens automatically the moment the previous one settles. There is always exactly one round in picking state and (during the live half) one in live state.

Picking is open during the first 30 minutes of every round. Send /pickto enter or re-edit your selection any number of times before picks lock. There is no cost to enter or re-edit during the picking phase.

The moment picks lock for the current round, the next round opens for picks. So if you arrive 5 minutes into the live phase, /pick still works immediately — your picks queue for the next round and auto-enter when it starts. You can edit your queued picks freely until that round's lock. Entry prices snap when the queued round actually starts. No dead zone.

Once a round's picks lock at the 30-min mark, your portfolio is frozen. No reroll, no swap, no add, no remove. The whole league depends on everyone committing at the same moment under the same information. The previous Pick Reroll product was removed for this reason.

Each round is its own portfolio. You must pick again every round you want to play. If you don't pick, you simply don't enter that round — no penalty, no XP earned, no streak break (streaks are day-bounded UTC, not round-bounded). A new round's default state for everyone is "not entered."

Standard: 5 tokens per portfolio. The SIXTH_PICK upgrade ($5 in /shop) adds a 6th slot for one round. Player Elite ($50/7d) auto-grants SIXTH_PICK every round. Each token can appear once in your portfolio (no doubling up). You can mix tokens across all 9 chains in a single entry.

For each pick: (current_price − entry_price) / entry_price. Your portfolio score is the equal-weighted average of all your picks' % returns. The leaderboard sorts by portfolio score. Solana tokens use live DexScreener prices; multi-chain tokens use the same DexScreener cache when warmed, falling back to a deterministic synthetic walk when not. Entry prices snap at round-start (so all entrants enter the round against the same prices).

When two or more entrants finish with identical portfolio % returns, the tie-breaker is confirm-time order — whoever submitted their picks first wins the higher rank. Submitting earlier in the picking phase is a tiny edge.

Prize pools are funded entirely by sponsorships (no portion comes from picks). At round-end the pool minus the 10% platform rake is distributed: 60% to #1, 30% to #2, 10% to #3. Pools are denominated in USD (locked at sponsorship time) and paid in the chain's native asset. Pools across chains stack into the same round leaderboard. House Apes never collect — their winnings auto-roll into the next round's pool.

Sponsorships go to the same round /pick targets — the pickable round. Once picks lock, sponsorships lock too. Symmetric, fair: no one can watch live scores then sponsor at the last second to capture their own pool through top-3 placement. Available chains: see /chains.

Voting is for the Featured-Vote graduation system — promoting creator memecoins to the top of /arena. Not related to picking your portfolio. One vote per user per token per UTC day. Vote weight = identity multiplier (account age) × XP multiplier × streak × paid boost (capped at 35% of any token's total weight, so organic always decides). Self-votes are blocked (creators can't vote on their own tokens).

Two paths to Featured placement on /arena, /pick grid, and homepage:
• Vote-Featured (organic, free): hit 50 community votes in 24h → green badge, 24h Featured.
• Sponsored (paid): SUBMIT_FEATURED ($500/24h) or Creator Pass ($150/7d for your whole portfolio) → gold ⭐ badge.
Vote-Featured tokens always rank above Sponsored ones. Both are honestly disclosed via badge color.

Even if your portfolio dives to -90%, you stay entered through round end — scoring continues, you can earn EXIT_LIQUIDITY badge in the worst case, and Round Insurance ($3) refunds 50% of your worst-pick drag as XP if you finish bottom 10%.

Your existing pick stays — picks are address-keyed and scoring continues against the round's entry-price snapshot. The token just isn't pickable for new entries. (Removals are rare; admin spam-rejection is the typical cause and refunds any paid submission tier on the creator side.)

On the Humans-only leaderboard tab, you see your view rank first (your position among humans). The suffix (g#N) is your global rank including House Apes. So #1 (g#3) means you're the top human but 3rd overall — there are 2 House Apes ahead of you globally. Tap the Bots tab to see them.

Round timestamps, vote-day boundaries, daily streaks, daily broadcast schedules — everything resets at 00:00 UTC. Sub expiries, Featured windows, and the 4-hour token rotation all use UTC.

Each chain has a top-60 pool. We hash-shuffle it deterministically by (epoch, chain) where epoch = floor(now / 4 hours), then show the first slice. The grid is stable WITHIN a 4-hour window so coming back twice in an hour shows the same tokens; a fresh slice rotates in at the boundary. Featured tokens (paid + organic) always pin at the top regardless of rotation. No single market-cap leader dominates indefinitely.

9 House Apes — one per chain affinity — auto-enter rounds so leaderboards aren't empty. Marked 🤖 everywhere. Baseline scales DOWN as humans show up: 6 NPCs when no humans, 1 when 25+ humans entered. They never collect SOL — when an Ape lands top 3, the winnings auto-sponsor the next round's pool. Roster: /about/house-apes.

Player Pro / Elite / Creator Pass are 7-day windows, not auto-billing subscriptions. You get a DM 24h before expiry with a 1-tap re-up button. If you ignore it, the entitlement expires and the perks stop firing. Re-purchase to extend.

If you paid for SUBMIT_PRIORITY / SUBMIT_INSTANT / SUBMIT_FEATURED and your token is admin-rejected as spam, the invoice is refunded — Stars instantly via Telegram, SOL/EVM/etc. queued for admin processing. You get a DM either way. Idempotent (re-rejection won't double-refund).