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The whole game in plain English. Every round is one Bucket — a single prize pot to fight over. Three roles decide what happens to it.

• Patrons sponsor the fight. They drop $CLAWDIATOR into the Bucket up front to build the prize pot.
• Fighters fight. Each one pays an Entry Fee to enter the Bucket and battle for the prize.
• Senators take a commission. They burn $CLAWDIATOR once for SEATS and then passively skim a small cut from every Bucket — forever, hands-free.

Where the money goes: one Fighter wins and walks away with the big prize (the one Patrons funded) plus a slice of every Entry Fee paid in. The losing Fighters get partial refunds — the Wage — out of those same entry fees, paid in the order they entered. Patrons take their share of the same pool, proportional to what they put in. Senators clip the smallest slice, but they clip it from every Bucket on autopilot.

That's the whole loop. Below: each role in detail, then the Bucket's lifecycle.

FIGHTER'S VIEW

You join a Bucket by paying its current Entry Fee. That fee isn't fixed: it compounds by ~10% with every new fighter who enters, so the longer you wait, the more it costs you to step in. The moment you pay, you become the Strongest — literally the strongest fighter in the arena, because everyone else has been bleeding Strength since the second they entered.

Your job: hold the title until your Glory meter fills from 0 to 100. It takes a fixed window of uninterrupted Strongest time, set per Bucket. If nobody enters during that window, the Bucket closes — you take the entire pot (Victor Prize + Bucket Spoils).

If anybody DOES enter after you, you're done. Your Glory freezes where it stopped and stays on the board as your memorial. The new entrant becomes the Strongest, and Glory starts climbing for them instead. You can no longer win the prize this round — but you can still collect a Wage.

WAGE — THE LOSER'S CONSOLATION

Every entry has a max wage — the most it can ever collect back from later fighters' entry fees:

Wage is not guaranteed. It cascades from later entrants' fees in strict queue order — the first fighter is settled before the second, the second before the third, and so on. If the queue runs dry before reaching the back of the line, late entrants walk away with little or nothing. Being early is its own kind of insurance.

WHY AURA IS WORTH BURNING

You buy AURA at the Temple by burning $CLAWDIATOR 1-for-1: 25 burned → 25 AURA. But when AURA is spent in a Bucket entry, each unit counts as 2× toward your wage cap. So 25 AURA buys you +50 of max wage.

The cap is structural: AURA spent in an entry can't exceed 25% of your entry fee, which is exactly enough to push max wage up by +50% and no further. AURA is soulbound — no aftermarket — so the only way to access the multiplier is to go through the burn.

PATRON'S VIEW

You drop $CLAWDIATOR into the Bucket's pot during the Sponsoring window. That money becomes the Victor Prize the eventual winner takes home. In exchange you earn a slice of the Patrons Tribute — a configurable cut of every Fighter's entry fee, distributed proportionally to your stake.

AURA works for sponsors too. Each AURA you spend counts as 2× your stake when shares are calculated, with the same +50% cap (AURA usage capped at 25% of your real contribution). A small dose lets you punch above your weight.

The catch. Returns aren't guaranteed. Tribute is funded by Fighter entry fees only — if a Bucket attracts too few Fighters, the tribute pool stays small and you walk away with less than you put in. A fat prize attracts more Fighters; a starved Bucket can starve you back.

SENATOR'S VIEW

The safest seat in the arena. Burn $CLAWDIATOR at the Senate to mint SEATS, 1-for-1. SEATS are soulbound — they can't be transferred or sold — and they pay yield forever.

How yield works: every Bucket sends a small senate cut from every Entry Fee into the senate revenue pool. That pool is split across all SEATS holders, proportional to your share of total SEATS. Claim it any time as $CLAWDIATOR — or claim-as-SEATS for a bonus and compound your stake.

You don't time entries, you don't pick winners. Your only decision is how big a share of total SEATS you want to own. The trade-off is patience: yield builds bucket by bucket, not in one big payout.

THE BUCKET — ONE FULL ROUND

A Bucket is the literal arena — crabs clawing each other inside an actual bucket for one prize pot. Every round is one self-contained Bucket and moves through three phases. You can spec any Bucket on the Buckets page.

ONE BUCKET, FROM START TO FINISH

A complete walkthrough of one Bucket showing every $CLAWDIATOR token in motion. This sample Bucket runs the default split — 45% Wage / 30% Victor Spoils / 25% Patrons Tribute — with the standard 10% Entry Fee step. AURA is minted from $CLAW 1-for-1 at the Temple, so every AURA spent in this example also represents 1 $CLAW burned earlier.

The Bucket opens. Two Patrons step in to fund the Victor Prize. One uses AURA to amplify their stake; the other doesn't.

Real $CLAW landed in the prize pot: 230 (Victor Prize) — that's the cash deposits only. AURA never adds to the prize: it only doubles the stake when calculating each Patron's share of Patrons Tribute. Patron 2's real cost is 100 ($CLAW): 80 deposited directly + 20 burned earlier to mint the 20 AURA. They walked in with effective stake 120 (= 80 + 20 × 2). So tribute split is Patron 1 : Patron 2 = 150 / 270 vs 120 / 270 — about 56% / 44%.

The Sponsoring window closes. Ten Fighters enter, one after another. Each one pays the next Entry Fee — which steps up 10% with every new entry. Two of them (Fighters 1 and 3) burn AURA on the way in to lift their Max Wage cap.

Total Entry Fees collected: 1593 $CLAW. Each entry is split three ways: 45% to the Wage queue (716.85 total flow), 30% to Victor Spoils (477.9),25% to Patrons Tribute (398.25). Real cost includes the cost of the AURA each Fighter burned beforehand.

The Wage queue always pays the earliest entry first. Each new Fighter's Wage slice (45% of their Entry Fee) flows into that queue. Here's exactly how it played out:

• Fighter 1 enters at 100 (with 25 AURA). Their Wage slice is 45, but nobody is ahead of them in the queue — so it spills into Victor Spoils instead.
• Fighter 2 enters at 110. Slice 49.5 → Fighter 1, now at 49.5 / 150.
• Fighter 3 enters at 121 (with 30 AURA). Slice 54.45 → Fighter 1, now at 103.95 / 150.
• Fighter 4 enters at 133. Slice 59.85 fills Fighter 1 to the cap (150 / 150, fully paid). The 13.8 left over starts paying Fighter 2, now at 13.8 / 110.
• Fighter 5 enters at 146. Slice 65.7 → Fighter 2, now at 79.5 / 110.
• Fighter 6 enters at 161. Slice 72.45 fills Fighter 2 (110 / 110 ✓). Remaining 41.95 → Fighter 3 (41.95 / 181).
• Fighter 7 enters at 177. Slice 79.65 → Fighter 3, now at 121.6 / 181.
• Fighter 8 enters at 195. Slice 87.75 fills Fighter 3 (181 / 181 ✓). Remaining 28.35 → Fighter 4 (28.35 / 133).
• Fighter 9 enters at 214. Slice 96.3 → Fighter 4, now at 124.65 / 133.
• Fighter 10 enters at 236 and becomes the Strongest. Slice 106.2 fills Fighter 4 (133 / 133 ✓). Remaining 97.85 → Fighter 5 (97.85 / 146). Fighter 10 is the last fighter in, so the queue stops here.

Fully paid: Fighters 1, 2, 3, 4 — the front of the queue. Fighter 5 ended at 97.85 / 146 — partial. Fighters 6, 7, 8, 9 received nothing. That's the risk of being late: the queue ran dry before reaching them.

Fighter 10 then holds the Strongest title until their Glory hits 100 and the Bucket closes.

Both Patrons profit because plenty of Fighters showed up. AURA puts Patron 2 ahead — same effective stake as Patron 1, but a third less cash on the line.

Victor Spoils paid to Fighter 10 = 30% × 1593 (477.9 regular share) + 45 spilled over from Fighter 1's slot at the start = 522.9. Conservation check: 1823 $CLAW in (230 Patron + 1593 Fighter) equals 671.85 Wage paid out + 752.9 to the winner + 398.25 Tribute = 1823. ✓

• AURA cuts cash outlay meaningfully while keeping the same effective stake. Patron 2 paid 100 cash for the same tribute slot Patron 1 paid 150 for — and walks out at +77% ROI vs Patron 1's +47.5%. Fighters 1 and 3 each paid ~25 extra in AURA mint and pocketed the +50% bonus on their Wage cap.
• The Wage queue is strict FIFO. Fighters 1 through 4 sat at the front and were fully paid before anyone behind them saw a token. Fighter 5 ended up partial (97.85 of 146); Fighters 6 to 9 got nothing. Late entrants pay the price of the queue running dry.
• Compounding fees are not free. Fighter 10 paid 236 to enter — more than 2.3× what Fighter 1 paid. The growing Entry Fee is what funds Wages for everyone earlier; it's also what makes late entries risky.
• The winner takes the Prize and the Spoils. Fighter 10's +219% return is the 230 Victor Prize Patrons funded plus the 522.9 Victor Spoils pool — which was inflated by Fighter 1's overflow at the very start. With one or two more Fighters behind, the Spoils would've been bigger still.
• Patrons profit when Fighters show up. Ten Fighters at compounding fees produced 398.25 in Tribute — comfortably more than the 250 Patrons risked. A starved Bucket — say two Fighters at minimum entries — would've left Patrons deep in the red instead.

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