Back of the box

Manual

Everything this shop does, including the parts that cost you money. Read the risks section before the rest if you are short of time.

What this is

A shop where screen time turns into a real share. $POWER charges a fee on every buy and sell. That fee arrives in a tokenized equity — the same asset the shop pays out in — so nothing anywhere in this system swaps, quotes or routes. There is no price to check against and no venue to route through, because the fee asset, the deposit asset and the payout asset are one token.

What separates this from any dividend token is one line: the payout is weighted by attention, not only by balance. Holding without being present pays nothing. The launchpad’s own dividend feature pays purely by balance, which is exactly why it is switched off here.

Power, Runs and Rounds

Time is cut into Rounds of 300 seconds. Press POWER UP and you are in a Run; your browser sends a Pulse every 30 seconds while the tab is in front of you. Stop pulsing for 90 seconds and the Run ends — POWER LOST.

Your Power for a Round is:

power = eligible balance × (screen time ÷ round length) × combo × (1 + lock + boost)

Eligible balance is the minimum, not the snapshot

Your balance counts at its lowest point across the Round. A balance borrowed for one block at the boundary is worth nothing. So is a cartridge passed between wallets mid-Round — the cartridge count is a minimum too.

Screen time is the honest part

A signature proves you control a wallet. A Pulse proves something sent a heartbeat with the right rolling nonce. Neither proves a human is looking at a screen, and this Manual is not going to claim otherwise. What the system does is make the cheap attacks worthless: the nonce chain means a captured request is good for exactly one beat, one wallet gets one Run no matter how many tabs are open, and a Run expires daily so it cannot be left going forever from one signature. Somebody running headless browsers still earns. That is inherent to the idea, and it is why the balance term is there.

Redeem

At the end of each Round the pool that arrived at The Stockroom is split across everyone who was present, in proportion to Power. Entitlements are cumulative: skipping ten Rounds and collecting once costs one gas fee and loses nothing.

The weights are computed off-chain — attention is not an on-chain quantity — and committed as a merkle root. Three things make that safe to rely on as far as it needs to be:

Solvency is enforced on-chain. A root can never allocate more than The Stockroom has actually received. Nobody can promise money that is not there.
Allocations only ever grow. A later root cannot take back what an earlier one granted.
The inputs are published. Every Round is served in full — every player, every factor, every allocation — so the arithmetic can be replayed.

What the root can do is split the pool wrongly between players. That is the trust boundary, and it is stated here rather than discovered.

The Counter

Burn $POWER, leave a deposit, take a cartridge. Hand it back any day at the Trade-In Value. The burn is gone; the deposit returns.

Write P for The Float and N for the cartridges on the shelf. TIV is P / N. Three things move it and all three move it up or leave it flat:

TRADE UP at f × (1 + premium) → f × (1 + premium / (N+1))
TRADE IN at f × (1 − fee) → f × (1 + fee / (N−1))
fee income x → (P + x) / N

There is no arrangement of trades that lowers it. That is a property of the contract, not a promise in a document, and it takes one contract read before and after any transaction to check.

What it costs you

At 2% in and 2% out, an immediate round trip loses roughly 4% on a busy shelf. TIV has to grow by about that much before an exit breaks even — and it grows from other people trading. A cartridge is a bet that trading does not stop, not a free option.

The number on the tag

The figure worth quoting is not TIV but TIV × (1 − restocking fee) = —. Below that price, anyone can buy a cartridge on the secondary market and trade it in for a profit, so it does not trade there.

The display copy

Serial #1 is held by The Counter itself and can never be traded in — no caller exists who could. That keeps the shelf permanently non-empty, which is what makes P / N always defined and removes any moment at which a single mint could collect the whole float. Its deposit permanently backs The Float.

Combo

Cartridges multiply your Power inside a Run and nowhere else. A cartridge in a sleeping wallet does exactly as much as a token balance in one: nothing.

combo = 1 + 0.15 × √cartridges, capped at ×2.00

The square root is deliberate. Twenty-five cartridges are worth five times the bonus of one, not twenty-five times — which keeps the ceiling reachable, expensive, and impossible for one wallet to dominate. It also makes wallet-splitting strictly unprofitable, so there is no anti-sybil rule to enforce.

Combo is positional

When everybody owns a cartridge, the multiplier stops telling players apart. What remains is the burned supply and a higher trade-in price. Said here, plainly, rather than left to be worked out later.

The collection

Each cartridge is one CZ Miner: 24×24 pixels, a fixed palette, stored in the contract itself. No pinning service, no CDN, nothing to keep paying for — the same read that proves the price proves the picture.

The metadata carries only what cannot change: Edition, Serial, and the mint date. TIV, Combo and Run status are deliberately absent. Marketplaces cache metadata on their own schedule, and a cached TIV is a wrong TIV — always wrong in the direction of understating it. Live numbers belong on this site and the vault card, both read fresh.

Serials are never reused. A traded-in cartridge takes its number off the shelf permanently: serial 421 exists exactly once across the life of the collection.

How to check any of this

The trade-in price: call tradeInValue() on The Counter before and after any transaction.
The floor: guaranteedFloor().
The backing: the payout-token balance of The Counter against floatBalance().
Your rewards: every Round is published in full through the API, and the merkle proof is verified before the site hands it to you.
The wiring: the status page reads every check live from the chain.

Risks, stated plainly

The operator can withdraw the funds

Every contract that holds value here has an explicit withdrawAll function that moves its balance to the operator key. That includes The Float behind the cartridges and the rewards sitting in The Stockroom. It is an operator decision, it is on the contract in public, and it means the trade-in guarantee is only as strong as that key. Calling renounceOperator() would remove the exit permanently — until that is done, treat the guarantee as conditional.

The pair asset carries its own risk

$POWER trades against a tokenized equity and moves with it, regardless of what $POWER itself does. Cartridge deposits sit in that same asset and inherit the same exposure. There is no alternative route.

A tokenized equity is a security question

The payout asset is a tokenized share. That is an unresolved legal question, not a solved one, and a collateral fund in a tokenized equity with a guaranteed buy-back is described in language a regulator reads differently from the language of a meme coin.

The names are not ours

The retail identity this shop borrows belongs to a company, and the miner on the cartridge evokes a real, living person. Those are two separate risks, not one, and both were taken on knowingly.

The launchpad's guardian holds our rights in the vault

The vault specification requires the launchpad’s Guardian to hold the same permissions we do, and forbids making that access revocable. It does not extend to The Counter or The Float.

Screen time cannot be proven

Attention mining cannot prove attention. The measures here raise the cost of faking it; they do not eliminate it.

Rewards are computed off-chain

Solvency and monotonicity are enforced on-chain. The split between players is not — it is computed by the weight engine and published for replay.

Launchpad contracts are third-party code

The fee path runs through contracts we did not write, and after launch the fee receiver cannot be changed by us.

Glossary

Here	Means
Player	You
Power	Your weight in a Round
POWER UP	Start a Run
POWER LOST	Your Run ended
Run	A period you were present for
Round	A settlement window
Pulse	One heartbeat inside a Run
Player Status	Your eligible balance
Redeem	Collect what you have earned
The Stockroom	Where holder rewards wait
The Counter	The trade-in desk
The Float	The fund backing the cartridges
Cartridge	One CZ Miner, one position at the desk
TRADE UP	Mint a cartridge
TRADE IN	Hand a cartridge back at the floor price
Trade-In Value (TIV)	The buy-back price per cartridge
Shelf premium	What a mint pays over TIV
Restocking fee	What an exit gives up
Combo	Your cartridge multiplier
Serial	A cartridge's number, issued once, never reused