The ticker sets its pace, you buy the shifts it works, and the ore pays out as tokenized stock. All 3,333 machines are minted, and the 134,413,224 FUEL they cost is burned.
The mint sold out: 3,333 machines FUEL is live on Pons The mine is open The Foundry is open
Reading the chain…
Minted, not merged
What you earn
1/28 of what is left in the reward pool is what one shift pays out, and that amount is the same whether one machine works the shift or a thousand. Your cut is pro rata by the ore you dug, so the number that decides what you earn is not the pool, it is your share of the floor.
The mine page prints what the last shift paid and what this one is tracking, before you buy a thing.
A shift is six hours and it settles on chain. What a shift pays moves with the pool and with how many machines are working it, so no rate on this page is a promise. The rest is at the foot of the page.
How it works
Point a machine at a ticker. That stock sets its pace.
Four a day, fixed: 00-06, 06-12, 12-18, 18-24 UTC. Buy the ones you want worked.
It works the shifts you bought whether the tab is open or not.
Two of the same tier press into one of the next, at 18% more ore per token.
The ore pays out as tokenized stock, in whatever it was bound to.
The machines
No separate artwork. What you buy is the object that runs on your floor, and its three traits are painted on the chassis.
Habit is the finish, appetite is the exhaust stacks, seam is the wear. They change when and where a machine digs well, never how much of the pool it wins for free: every upside carries a matching downside. Tier is the one thing nothing rolls.
Tiers
Two of the same tier go in. One of the next comes out, digging 18% more ore for every token it burns than the pair it replaced, and it gives you a bay back.
The dollar figure depends on the pair, the floor and the shift, so the game does that sum for your exact two machines before you press. You gave up a machine you paid for. That is the trade.
The same stock tokens that trade on this chain around the clock, weekends included. It is the stock itself, not a point balance that only counts on this page.
The question is never "did I dig a lot". It is "did I dig more per token burned than everyone else".
Your own mine
Machines never shrink to fit. When you own more than the room holds, you dig another bay: the floor grows instead of squeezing what is in it.
The fuel token
It launched on Pons, the chain's launchpad, and that is the only way it came into existence: the whole supply went onto the curve, so the only way to hold FUEL is to buy it the way everyone else did, us included. Pons locks the liquidity itself.
Everything the game does with fuel (burning it, metering it, crediting it) lives in our own contracts. The token stays dumb on purpose.
When it launches, the address and the link to Pons appear right here.
The floor right now
If you hold a machine you are already in: put it on a floor, buy the shifts it works, and come back for the ore. If you do not, the only door is the secondary market, because all 3,333 were minted and there will never be another. Every number below is read off the chain when this page loads, and you can go and check any of them yourself in about a minute.
Read from the chain
The pool is fed by the fee on every $FUEL trade, and what a shift pays is split between the machines that worked it. More machines on the floor means a smaller share each, which is why the weight above is worth watching before you buy shifts.
Machines 3,333, all minted Token $FUEL, live Opened 26 Aug 00:00 UTC
The machines above are the real sprites and every rate comes out of the contracts, written out on the rules page. The eight tickers are our own labels, each one tied on chain to a real company and a real price feed, and the numbers move. Everything worth knowing is in one place here rather than sprinkled through the argument.