How PRISM works

Overview

Every round, three chambers (Red, Blue and Green) draw on one shared reactor made of everything operators deployed. One chamber ignites. Its operators share the yield and also mine one Core of XP between them. A full Core XP bar mints a PRISM CORE, the only NFT in the game. Cores can be staked for a share of the protocol revenue, sold on the market, or bought back and burned by the Reserve.

Head to Mine to start mining, or open Explore for live protocol numbers.

Rounds & chambers

A round lasts 60 seconds. While it is open you can deploy at least 0.01 SOL in total, on one chamber or split evenly over several. When the timer reaches zero the reactor is frozen, the chamber that ignited is revealed and a new round opens straight away.

• Deployments are in SOL only.
• You can add to your deployment while the round is open. Deployments across several chambers are placed together or not at all.
• There is no deploy limit. A round never mines more than 2 Cores of XP in total, so a bigger deployment only changes your share.
• The chamber that ignites is picked by a random seed committed before the round opened (see Verification).

Automine

Automine, which repeats your deployment every round, is not available in the on-chain version yet. For now, deploy from Mine each round.

Yield & fees

The chamber that ignites returns the reactor's SOL: everything deployed in all three chambers, except 10% of the SOL in the other chambers, which becomes protocol revenue. Each wallet receives a yield proportional to its share of the ignited chamber. If you deployed 10% of that chamber, you receive 10% of the yield.

The protocol takes a 1% admin fee on each yield. Your deployments always show the full amount. The fee only appears on the claim button: a 1 SOL yield reads Claim 0.99. Yield can be claimed at any time. If you were referred, the admin fee is 0.8%: the other 0.2% goes to your referrer, and your yield is the same.

Protocol revenue is the 10% taken from the chambers that did not ignite. 90% of it funds the Reserve, which buys Cores back from the market and burns them, and 10% is shared between stakers.

PRISM CORE

One Core of XP is mined every round and shared between the operators of the ignited chamber, by their share of it. If you hold 25% of the ignited chamber, your Core XP bar fills by 0.25 Cores. Another one Core goes into the XP Overload pool every round, deployments or not. So two Cores of XP are created per round.

XP mining follows the reactor, but only for operators. A round mines a full Core for them once 1.00 SOL has been deployed. Less SOL mines proportionally less, and an empty round mines nothing. So a tiny deployment can't farm Cores for free. XP Overload always gets its full Core every round, whatever was deployed, even when the reactor is empty.

Your Core XP is the ring around the inner prism on Mine. When it reaches 100%, press Claim & mint in the Yield panel: your yield and XP are credited and a PRISM CORE NFT is minted to your wallet. Anything above 100% carries over, and several Cores can be minted at once.

XP Overload

Every round, one Core of XP is added to the XP Overload pool, whatever was deployed, even in an empty round. Each round has a 1% chance to trigger an XP Overload. When it does, the whole pool is mined as Core XP by the operators of the ignited chamber, in proportion to their share of it, with no minimum. Then the pool resets and starts growing again.

XP Overload pays Core XP, not SOL. If nobody deployed into the ignited chamber, the round's own Core XP goes into the pool as well, so it keeps stacking.

To show what the pool is worth, each Core is valued at the market floor, but never less than 0.01 SOL (the minimum buyback value). Hover the XP Overload number on Mine to see it in SOL and dollars.

Staking

Staked Cores earn a share of the protocol revenue: 10% of it is paid out every round, in SOL, split equally between all staked Cores. Every Core counts the same.

• No lockups: stake and unstake whenever you like.
• Only staked Cores earn. Idle Cores earn nothing.
• Claim your rewards at any time from the Stake page.

Marketplace

Any Core that is not staked can be listed at a price you choose, and anyone can buy it instantly. The seller gets the price minus the 1% admin fee. Listed Cores can't be staked until the listing is cancelled. Browse them on the Market.

Reserve

The Reserve is the protocol's buyback. 90% of the protocol revenue goes into it. Every round it uses that SOL to buy the cheapest Cores listed on the market, up to 3 per round, and burns them. Supply shrinks and the floor price always has a buyer.

• It starts buying only after 3 Cores have sold on the market (so it has a price reference) and once it holds 0.10 SOL.
• It then pays up to twice the median of the last market sales, so one inflated listing can't drain it.
• The seller is paid the listed price minus the 1% admin fee, like any other sale.
• Every purchase is listed on the Explore page under Activity, Burns.
• The Market page shows the Reserve's balance and how far along it is toward the next buy. A Core is valued at the market floor, but at least 0.01 SOL.

Referrals

Every wallet has an invite link on the Referrals page. When someone joins with your link, you earn 20% of the 1% admin fee on their yield, which is 0.2% of what they earn. It is added to your claimable yield after each round. It comes out of the admin fee (which drops to 0.8% for referred operators), so it never reduces their yield.

A wallet can only be referred once, and never by itself.

Verification

Every round uses a seed-chain commitment. PRISM commits keccak(seed) on-chain before settlement. Deposits close roughly 3 seconds before zero. After that cutoff slot, the keeper reveals the seed and mixes it with the cutoff slot hash and the round id. The animation starts at zero; slow confirmation can delay it. The provider can withhold a reveal, so this test-network design is not a guarantee of unbiased randomness.

• Result: keccak(seed || cutoff slot hash || round id u64_le). Older rounds used the end slot hash.
• Ignited chamber: uint32_le(result[0..4]) mod 3. XP Overload: uint32_le(result[4..8]) mod 10000 < 100

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