THE GAME IN FOUR STEPS
- GET HIRED. Mint a Genesis Trader. 8,888 total at 0.025 ETH; free for the whitelist. Mints open Friday, October 23.
- STAKE YOUR TRADER. Hold 10,000+ $CASH and stake your Trader. Pay the seat fee in $CASH. Salary starts at activation.
- PICK YOUR BOOK. A portfolio of 4–8 stocks, set once a week. It takes effect at the next week’s open.
- BEAT THE BENCHMARK. 8 stocks at 12.5% each. Beat it and you are paid in stocks: weekly, monthly and the Season Prize (Quarterly starts in Season 2).
THE 10,000 $CASH RULE. Hold at least 10,000 $CASH to receive stock prints, activate a Trader, claim salary, and have a week count toward bonuses and promotions (checked at each weekly close).
1 · THE GAME
WHAT IS THE FIRM?
The Firm is a stock-picking game built around $CASH, a token whose trading fees buy real tokenized stocks for its holders. Holders receive a stream of stocks. Players mint Trader NFTs, join the Firm, pick portfolios and compete against a Benchmark. Active Traders earn salary in $CASH; winners earn bonuses in tokenized stocks.
STEP BY STEP
- Mint a Genesis Trader: 8,888 in total at 0.025 ETH each; whitelist mints are free. Paid and whitelist mints open together at launch on Friday, October 23.
- Stake and activate it: hold at least 10,000 $CASH and pay the seat’s activation fee in $CASH. Up to 10 staked Traders per Desk (wallet). Salary starts at activation; you compete from the next week’s open.
- For each active Trader, confirm a portfolio of 4 to 8 names from the Coverage List (90 registered assets at launch, 84 of them tradeable), once per Trader per week. It takes effect at the next week’s open, for both printing and scoring. A Trader with no portfolio set prints the Benchmark.
- Beat the Benchmark. Positive alpha is paid Performance Bonuses in tokenized stocks. Season 1 has three horizons: Weekly, Monthly and the Season Prize; Quarterly starts in Season 2.
PORTFOLIOS & THE BENCHMARK
The Benchmark holds eight names at 12.5% each: AAPL, PLTR, AMZN, LLY, GOOGL, MSFT, SPCX and TSLA. Holders who aren’t Firm members print the Benchmark; your Desk prints the aggregate of your Traders’ portfolios, equal-weighted. A week is always scored on the portfolio in force at that week’s open.
2 · GETTING PAID
SALARY
Season 1 pays 100,000,000 $CASH over its 10 weeks, from Monday, October 26 (week 1 opens at 09:30 ET) to Thursday, December 31, the last trading day of 2026; later seasons’ budgets are set by governance before each season. There is no salary pause between seasons: the next season’s salary starts at the previous season’s last close, so salary streams over that weekend like any other. Week 1 opens the following Monday.
The budget streams continuously to all activated Traders in proportion to rank weight. Salary accrued during a week vests at that week’s close; claim your vested salary at any time while you hold at least 10,000 $CASH. Unclaimed salary stays yours.
PERFORMANCE BONUSES
- Pools. The Reservoir’s stock prints are split 90% to the Performance Bonus pools and 10% to the Firm’s team wallet. At launch, half of the Performance Bonus income is shared equally by the Weekly, Monthly and Season pools; the other half goes to the unannounced pools (Floors and Gacha) and builds up through Season 1 until those features are announced. Season 1 has no Quarterly pool; Quarterly starts in Season 2. Income is credited every week, so the longer pools build up progressively; if nobody qualifies for a period, its pool rolls into the next period of the same horizon.
- Who can win. Weekly ranks that week’s alpha. Monthly and the Season Prize (and, from Season 2, Quarterly) rank only Traders eligible from the period’s first week (the Season Prize: the whole season, cumulative). Join mid-month and you can still win the remaining Weekly pools, but not that month. From Season 2, week 1 is not scored for anyone in the Season Prize: it counts weeks 2 to the season’s end, and any Trader staked and active by the week 2 open can rank. Periods follow the season’s weeks, not calendar months; the Season Prize covers all 10 weeks of Season 1.
- What counts as a week. A week counts for you when your Trader was activated before the week opened and stayed staked through the close, you held at least 10,000 $CASH at that close, and the week’s prices are final.
- Alpha. Alpha is your portfolio’s compounded weekly growth minus the Benchmark’s, in percentage points, on official close-to-close prices posted on-chain by the price publisher. Prices for a week appear only after their moment: the opening price from the open, the closing price from the close.
- Payout split. Everyone with positive alpha is paid, like a poker tournament: the split depends only on how many places are paid (1 paid: 100%; 2: 65/35; 3: 50/30/20). With 10 places paid, first place takes 26%; as the field grows it slides to a floor of 15% and never goes below it. Tied places share their combined payout equally. Leave before a period’s last close and you forfeit that period. Ranking results are instant but carry a second, independent signature (2 of 3 approvers). Prizes pay only the real owner of the Trader that earned them.
RANKS & PROMOTIONS — salary weight · requirement · fee
INTERN · WEIGHT 1starting rankASSOCIATE · WEIGHT 2≥ 1 counted week · 2,500 $CASHVICE PRESIDENT · WEIGHT 4≥ 1 counted week, and ≥ 2 weeks or positive alpha · 5,000 $CASHMANAGING DIRECTOR · WEIGHT 8≥ 3 counted weeks and alpha > +5 pp · 10,000 $CASHPARTNER · WEIGHT 16≥ 4 counted weeks and alpha > +10 pp · 25,000 $CASH
You promote one rank at a time. Counted weeks carry across seasons for as long as the Trader stays staked (unstaking starts over), but alpha for a promotion counts only the current season; every counted week needs final prices and at least 10,000 $CASH held at that week’s close. A Trader’s rank is capped by its edition’s ceiling; Genesis Traders can reach Partner.
A week below 10,000 $CASH never helps and never blocks a promotion: it does not count as a week, and its result counts only if it was worse than the Benchmark.
3 · $CASH
$CASH: THE PRINTER
Every buy and sell of $CASH in the official CASH/USDG pool pays a 6% fee at launch, taken in USDG; governance can change it up to a hard ceiling of 10%. A small share of the fees, currently 0.5% (never more than 2% and at most 3,000 USDG a week), pays the keeper’s gas; everything else buys stock for holders.
Bought stock streams to eligible holders and is pushed to their wallets; if a push doesn’t arrive, the entitlement stays on-chain and can be claimed. To receive prints, hold at least 10,000 $CASH.
$CASH can be bought and sold in any app that routes through the official Uniswap pool. The 6% fee applies to every trade. Safes and other multisig wallets cannot hold $CASH. Use a regular wallet.
YOUR BALANCE & PRINTS
- Your print weight follows your CASH balance in the same block: buy, sell, send or receive.
- Desks only (anti-spam): a Desk gets one instant update per 15 minutes; further changes within those 15 minutes count from the end of them, at the lowest balance held.
- CASH you receive counts at once, unless it comes from a Desk making a second change within the same 15 minutes (then it counts from the end of those 15 minutes). The same CASH never earns in two places.
- Your weight is your exact balance; the 10,000 CASH minimum stays.
- Claims and automatic deliveries never wait.
- If an asset in your basket is disabled, that slot earns and scores as the Benchmark until your basket change takes effect.
WHERE FEES GO
Seat activations and promotions go to the Burnback Machine. Its $CASH is permanently locked, not burned: it still counts in total supply and keeps earning prints. Of the stock it earns, 50% is sold to buy back $CASH (which stays locked) and 50% goes to the Firm Treasury. The Treasury will never be withdrawn by the team; it is used only for initiatives that benefit members of the Firm and $CASH holders.
4 · FINE PRINT
SEATS — activation fee per staked Trader
SEAT 12,500 $CASHSEATS 2–85,000 $CASH eachSEATS 9–1010,000 $CASH each
Fees are fixed $CASH amounts, not dollar amounts, and go to the Burnback Machine. Unstaking ends that stake: re-staking means paying the fee again and tenure starts over. Your rank stays with the NFT.
GENESIS SUPPLY — 1,000,000,000 $CASH
OFFICIAL CASH/USDG POOL300,000,000 · 30% · locked liquidityTHE FIRM’S RESERVOIR550,000,000 · 55% · funds the Performance BonusesSEASON 1 SALARY100,000,000 · 10%TEAM VESTING50,000,000 · 5%
Team vesting releases nothing before the end of month 6 after the Season 1 start, then vests in 24 equal monthly releases (the last at the end of month 29).
ROADMAP — NOT LIVE
Planned, not live: a Gachapon and Morpho-based native lending (Season 1.5); Floors and the OE1 Trader edition (Season 2). Half of the Performance Bonus income builds up for Floors and Gacha through Season 1 until they are announced; every live bonus pool pays individuals only.
