Tokenomics

Two tokens. RDLN is the money of the hunt: what you buy riddles with, guess with, and are paid in. RON is reputation: earned by finding, never transferable, the key to authorship. Every number on this page is read from the deployed contracts on Polygon Amoy. Where the testnet differs from the mainnet plan, it says so.

1. Supply and allocations

One billion RDLN exist. They are minted by allocation, each with its own cap in the token:

Nothing outside these allocations can be minted. The token’s contract enforces the caps.

2. The four-way split

Every RDLN payment made inside the game goes through one function of the token, and that function splits it the same way every time:

This applies to every mint, every guess and every claim. Nothing is refunded. The split was 50% burn / 25% / 25% until 2026-09-27, when the token was upgraded in place to add the liquidity quarter; the reason is in section 6.

On Amoy the grand prize wallet and the treasury are the deployer’s address, and the liquidity reserve is 0xa9Cd5a6b1726436d144dF0FF583Ff72a7CF05abD. On mainnet the grand prize wallet is a contract nobody holds keys to.

3. What the hunt charges

Worked examples at today’s pots:

The counters live on the NFT, not the wallet. A hundred NFTs on one riddle are a hundred independent guess ladders, and the ladder travels with the token when it is sold.

4. Pots and shares

Each riddle’s pot is set by its difficulty and reserved from the hunt contract’s balance when the riddle is released. It belongs to that riddle for as long as the riddle stands.

On a riddle with N NFTs, the k-th finder’s share of the pot is

share(k) = pot × (1 / k) ÷ (1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + … + 1/N)

so that if every NFT finds it the pot is exactly emptied. Every finder is paid; earlier finders are paid more; scarce riddles pay their first finder far more than crowded ones.

A share is booked at the scan and released when enough finders follow: one on Easy and Medium, two on Hard, three on Legendary. Completion releases everyone still waiting. A share that is booked but not yet released belongs to whoever holds the NFT when it is released. Nothing expires: a riddle nobody finishes keeps its pot, and a finder nobody follows waits with their share booked.

If all 1,000 riddles are released at the testnet pot mix, the pots total about 29,000,000 RDLN, 4% of the prize-pool allocation. Pots can be raised without touching anything else.

5. Where the money goes over the hunt

Simulated over the full thousand riddles with the deployed pricing, the random NFT counts, and the 10 RDLN floor halving every two years:

Against pots of about 29M paid out. The burn is real and permanent, but at these pot sizes it is small against a billion-token supply. Two things follow, and both are already in the design:

• The pot is the lever. Because the ticket price is a fifth of the pot per NFT, mint volume scales with the pots. Raise the pots and every quarter of the split, including the burn, rises with them.
• A share needs a market. Burning tokens does not give a finder anything to do with a share. The liquidity quarter does. That is why the split changed from 50/25/25 to four quarters.

6. Why the split changed

Under the old 50% burn, the same simulation burned about 0.1% to 0.2% of supply over twenty years and built no market at all. Moving 25 points from burn to a liquidity reserve costs almost nothing in scarcity and buys the thing a prize denominated in RDLN cannot do without. The reserve holds RDLN only; the treasury pairs it with POL or a stable and adds liquidity on a schedule.

7. Limits and switches in the token

• No single game payment above 1,000,000 RDLN and no more than 10,000,000 through the split per day, across every game contract. A launch-day rush can hit the daily cap; the site says so.
• The token can burn 1% of every ordinary transfer. The switch is off.
• The token can be paused by its admin, which pauses every game payment and withdrawal. It never has been.
• Game payments need no approval: the game contract charges the player directly, and only contracts holding the token’s game role can do so. Two hold it today, the hunt and the retired first game.

8. RON

RON is reputation. It cannot be transferred, approved or bought; the token reverts on every attempt. It is minted only by contracts holding its game role, and only when someone finds.

Today every find awards a flat 100 RON, the deployed contract’s placeholder amount, so the tiers are far off for everyone; the thresholds are set to be lowered as the network proves itself. The tiers are what the whitepaper hands rights to: proposing riddle pieces, reviewing them, and eventually sitting as the house. The airdrop’s merit drops are proportional to RON, so they can only reach people who played.

9. Testnet versus mainnet

Addresses are on Contracts.