Buy DEGEN through the official pool and you have enlisted. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign.

• Spend at least 0.00555 WETH on DEGEN. That is the whole entry: whatever that buys you is your ticket, and it is yours alone.
• More stake gives a better start. Standing grows with the square root of what you have staked, so a hundred times the stake earns ten times the rate — not a hundred.
• A trade worth less than 10.00 US dollars moves your balance but is not counted as a move in the game: it cannot enlist you, score, or count towards what the market did.
• Only trades on the official pool count.
• Tokens that arrive by transfer do not count. Only tokens you bought, with something paid for them, are hot.
• The field forms during Boot Camp, which lasts 3 days and needs 20 soldiers. If it does not fill, it waits another 3 days, up to 6 days in total, and is then called off.

Every 6 hours there is a Cut. How many fall depends on what the market did, not on what anyone says about it.

• The line held — more was bought than sold — 5% of the field falls.
• Retreat — more was sold than bought — 15% falls instead.
• Sell below your ticket and you're removed at the next Cut, first and in addition to the ranked Cut. You are measured against what you bought, never against what somebody else paid at a different price.

Who falls is decided by a score with three parts: how long you have held (60% of it), what you have scavenged (30%), and your return (10%, capped at 50% either way so size cannot buy a rank). Anyone within 10% of the line is shown as under fire.

A sell of 166,758 DEGEN or more drops loot on the field for 15 minutes. Buy inside that window and you pick it up.

• Scavenged points are locked for 1 day.
• Sell before they unlock and you forfeit them, in the same proportion as the tokens you sold.

When the field is down to the top 20% — at most 100 soldiers — the Last Stand begins. Rounds shorten to 1 hour and 10% falls at each Cut, until 10 are left. A game that reaches 14 days ends where it stands.

The war chest is split 70% to the survivors and 30% equally across everyone who reached the Last Stand, winners included. A finalist who sells below their own ticket forfeits their share; one who is simply outranked keeps it.

These are shares of a pool, not amounts. This is a shadow game: it follows a real market and records a real result, but there is no prize and nothing to claim.