THE RULES
Every line below is enforced by the CashCatArena contract. Nothing here depends on the team being honest.
- 01
A seat costs a fixed amount
Every seat in every game is exactly 1,000,000 CATDAO. No bidding, no whale advantage. One wallet can hold one seat per game, so the survivor count means what it says.
- 02
Nothing starts until there are two of you
A game sits waiting until 2 wallets have joined. Before that, leaving costs nothing — you take your whole entry back. The moment the threshold is crossed the game is live, permanently.
- 03
There is no player limit
The threshold is a floor, not a quota. There is no cap on players and entries never close, so anyone can buy into a game already in progress. This is also why wallets joining and leaving can never stall a game: there is no seat count to keep empty.
- 04
Folding costs 15%
Once a game is live, leaving returns 85% of your entry. The other 15% goes to the DAO treasury.
- 05
Leaving is one-way
Once you are out of a game you are out for good — you cannot buy back into the same cat, even while its lobby is still filling. Without this, anyone bribed out could pocket the payment and immediately retake their seat, and the briber would have paid for nothing.
- 06
You can put your seat up for sale
In a live battle you can name a price to walk away — in ETH, USDG, or CATDAO, or all three at once. Anyone who pays it removes you from the game on the spot. Nobody can force you out at a price you did not set yourself.
- 07
Bribing is how you buy better odds
Paying someone's asking price knocks them out and improves your own odds. If they were the second-to-last cat, you have just bought the NFT.
- 08
The DAO takes 10% of every bribe
Whatever a rival pays you to leave, 10% of it goes to the DAO treasury and you keep the rest. The briber pays the price they see; the cut comes out of your side, so name a number that still works after it.
- 09
A bribe does not cancel the penalty
Being bought out settles on exactly the same terms as folding voluntarily: you receive the bribe plus 85% of your entry, and the treasury still takes the rest. Price your seat knowing you lose 15% on the way out.
- 10
Last cat standing wins
When exactly one wallet is left it claims: its entry back in full, and the CashCat. The survivor pays no exit fee, because the survivor never exits.
- 11
The final survivor cannot fold
If you are the only wallet left, the contract refuses an exit. You have already won — claim the cat instead. This also means the winner can never accidentally pay a penalty on the way to the finish line.