The Last Arrow

The temporary top spot: the address that a confirmed chain event most recently named as the current last eligible buyer. The scene shows that address as an outlaw seated in the Sheriff's hall at Nottingham. It is only ever what a confirmed event said: a purchase you have submitted but that has not confirmed never moves it, and neither does anything happening in the 3D scene.

Every confirmed purchase seats its buyer; there is no minimum beyond the key price. Whoever holds the seat when the deadline passes is the round's winner.

Buying keys/shares means sending ETH to the contract for one key. The scene presents that purchase as an assault on Nottingham Castle, an arrow loosed from the Sherwood treeline; what your wallet signs is an ordinary purchase call, and the amount the wallet shows is the amount that can leave your account.

Each purchase buys exactly one key at the current price, and you must choose one of the four factions. Taking the seat from another faction adds 5% of the key price, paid into the pot. You may send more than the price; the contract refunds the surplus in the same transaction.

The countdown is the time until a round can end, measured against the deadline the contract reports. The scene draws that countdown as the castle's portcullis-fall timer. Between blocks the figure counts forward from your own device clock, so it is an estimate that can drift, not a reading from the network.

A round waits until its first key, which starts the opening timer. Purchases are accepted up to the deadline and the round can be settled the moment it passes; there is no hidden window after zero. The phase names (Greenwood, Raid, Torchlight, Hue and cry) are this interface's labels for time left, not contract rules.

Time the contract adds to the countdown when it accepts a purchase, which the scene draws as the portcullis being winched back up. It happens only once the purchase is confirmed on chain — a submitted or pending purchase has changed nothing about the deadline.

Every key after the first adds a scheduled extension that halves after a fixed number of keys. Once the extension is shorter than the endgame reset, a purchase only tops the deadline back up to that reset, so late purchases keep a round alive without banking time. There is no overall cap. This deployment's values are listed with its dials.

The balance the contract holds for the current round. The scene shows it as the castle vault beneath the keep, and the vault's size is a presentation tier rather than a measurement you can read a number off.

After any referral reward, 65% of what is left of each key price goes into the pot, plus any cross-faction levy. At settlement the final ruler receives 65% of the pot, the winning faction shares 25%, and 10% seeds the next round. Anyone may also add ETH to a round that has not started; it buys no key and cannot be withdrawn.

What a purchase would have cost at the one block the quote was read against, which the scene draws as a longer bowshot from the treeline. A quote goes stale: the cost can move between the block it was read at and the block your transaction lands in, and someone else's purchase in between is enough to move it.

The price starts at a fixed floor and rises by a fixed step for every key already sold in the round, so it resets when a new round opens. Because another purchase can land first, the purchase form lets you send a maximum above the quote; whatever the contract does not need is refunded.

A share of every purchase paid to the people already holding keys in the round. The scene draws carts of alms leaving Nottingham for Sherwood, one for each share paid to holders.

After any referral reward, 10% of what is left of each key price is split among every key holder in the round and 15% among key holders of the buyer's faction, in proportion to keys held. You earn on keys you already hold, never on the key you are buying. Dividends are claimed, not sent to you, and a round's unclaimed dividends expire 90 days after it settles.

Choosing the one banner a wallet supports for a round. All four banners follow the same economic rule; names, looks and character are presentation only.

A faction is required to buy. Your first purchase in a round locks your faction until that round ends, and the next round starts clean. At settlement the final ruler's faction shares 25% of the pot in proportion to eligible keys. Keys bought in the short muster cutoff before the deadline count for everything except that share. If the winning faction has no eligible keys, its share seeds the next round.

An address credited when someone who arrived through you makes a purchase. The scene calls it swearing a new outlaw into your band under the Major Oak.

A referrer earns 10% of the key price when locked into the buyer's faction this round, or 5% otherwise, taken before the rest is split. A referrer earns only if they bought a key this round or in the last few rounds, and naming your own wallet earns nothing. Referral rewards are claimed from the contract.

When a round ends at settlement, the contract alone defines any winner; holding the temporary top spot does not itself decide that result. The escape into Sherwood that the scene plays is drawn after the fact from a confirmed chain event; it is an illustration of a result, never a cause of one.

The winner is whoever holds the seat when the deadline passes. They claim 65% of the pot, and the claim must be made within 90 days of settlement or it rolls into a later round's pot.

A round ends only at settlement: a confirmed on-chain event saying it ended. The scene draws settlement as the portcullis falling and the King's men riding into Nottingham. A countdown reaching zero on your screen is not settlement: until a confirmed chain event says the round settled, this interface says it is waiting for one.

Once the deadline passes, anyone may settle the round, and if nobody does, the next purchase settles it and opens the following round in the same transaction. Settlement opens every claim for 90 days; anything left unclaimed after that rolls into a later round's pot.