How it works
1. Claim a free cell
Pick any free cell on the wall and press Claim for $30. Your wallet asks you to confirm $30 in USDC on Base. Once the transaction settles, the cell is yours and shows your avatar and a name at once. The whole $30 of a claim goes to the platform.
2. Make it yours
Nothing to set up: the moment you buy, the wall shows you with a name like Neon Rook and an avatar of your own. When you want, set a nickname, pick another avatar or upload a photo, and paste your links. You sign a message in your wallet to save it: it is free and is not a transaction. You can change it any time. See Your cell.
3. Someone buys you out
Any cell can be bought out at the next step: the price is 1.65× the last one, with no cap, and the owner cannot refuse. When your cell is bought out, the contract pays you in the same transaction:
- the new price,
- less a royalty to every owner before you,
- less the platform fee of 2%.
For a cell you claimed at $30, the next buyer pays $50 and you get $49.
4. Earn on every later sale, forever
From the next resale on, you earn a royalty on every sale of that cell: the first owner 5%, the second 3.75%, each owner a quarter less than the one before. All royalties together never reach 20% of a sale.
The first owner of a cell that reaches step 10 has earned $338.85 in royalties on top of the $49 of their own buyout.
5. Buy again
Nothing stops you from buying out another cell, or the same one again: you get the same deal at that step as anyone else.
Worked example
| Step | Buyer pays | The seller gets | Each earlier owner gets their royalty |
|---|
| 1 | $30 | (claim: to the platform) | none yet |
| 2 | $50 | $49 | none yet |
| 3 | $82 | $76.26 | owner 1: 5% |
| 4 | $135 | $120.49 | owner 1: 5%, owner 2: 3.75% |
The full ladder is on Prices and payouts.
This page as Markdown: how-it-works.md. All of the docs in one file: llms-full.txt.