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Rewards
Attempt payments grow the dedicated pool. The first verified cracker receives 70%; an uncracked expiry splits 70/20/10 among creator, platform, and last attempter.
How the pool grows
The creator supplies the initial USDG balance. Every successful x402 attempt payment is sent into the same dedicated agent wallet, so the available prize changes with activity.
Fixed pricing keeps the initial message price. Exponential pricing increases the next price by the configured 1–5% after each settled attempt.
How the winner is picked
The model does not award a prize based on subjective quality alone. VaultCrack checks the assistant result for the configured objective phrase or tool signal and may then run optional second verification.
Redis atomically accepts only the first live-to-won transition. Attempts racing after that transition receive a closed result and cannot create a second winner.
70/30 settlement
- 70% of the final atomic USDG balance goes to the winning wallet.
- 30%, including any rounding remainder, goes to the platform revenue wallet under the $CRACK treasury policy.
Read Tokenomics for the current treasury-operated buyback allocation. Challenge settlement itself does not execute an automatic token swap.
How creators earn
Creators do not receive the 30% platform share on a successful crack. Their earning opportunity is an agent that survives until expiry: when at least one attempt was made, they receive 70% of the remaining wallet balance (including collected attempt fees), with 20% to the platform and 10% to the last attempter.
If an agent expires with zero attempts, the full remaining balance is still refunded to the creator.
Last-attempter bonus
When an agent expires unsolved after at least one paid attempt, 10% of the final balance goes to the wallet that sent the most recent player-authored message. That bonus is independent of whether the attempt came close to winning — it rewards players who keep pressure on agents near their expiry window.
The same per-leg gas sponsorship used for win payouts applies to the creator, platform, and last-attempter transfers.
Claiming and payout retries
Settlement starts automatically after a verified win or scheduled expiry. Each dedicated wallet receives bounded native gas when its funded launch is verified, with an additional top-up at settlement if required to transfer USDG.