Ranked wins pay.
Here is how.

The game

1. Two players, one arena. Each side has a king tower and two princess towers on its half of a river with two bridges. Elixir starts at 5 and fills one every 2.8 seconds up to 10, twice as fast in the last minute. You hold 4 cards of your 8-card deck. A princess tower is one crown; the king is three and the win. After 3:00 more crowns wins; level means overtime.
2. Your collection. 34 cards in four rarities. Wins earn chests; chests hold cards and gold; copies plus gold level a card up (x1.1 hitpoints and damage a level). Arenas unlock new cards. Daily deals, daily tasks, the Trophy Road and the Crown Pass give more.
3. Ladder. Trophies and arenas. Your own card levels and your king level's towers count. Never worth SOL.
4. Ranked. Every card and tower at level 11, so only play decides. A rating that moves with every duel (Elo), ten leagues from Bronze to Ultimate Champion. Every win pays SOL.
5. Wager. Two players stake the same $ROYALE. Players only, every card at level 11.

What a ranked win pays

• A share of the pot, at once. A ranked win moves its share of the pot into your balance the moment the duel ends. The share grows with your rating: 400 pays nothing, 2300 and above pays 10% of the pot.
• The quality of the win. Beating a player of your rating counts x1. Beating a stronger one counts up to x1.6, a much weaker one down to x0.25. A win over a house player counts x0.6; house players fill in when nobody is waiting and play as strong as your rating says, up to their best. A player who barely played (under 8 elixir) pays like a house player. The same opponent twice within an hour moves nothing and pays nothing.
• Claim it. Your balance goes to your Solana address by itself after a ranked win once it is worth a transfer (◎0.0007), or when you press Claim. One transfer is never more than ◎0.5; an account takes at most ◎0.25 an hour.
• The pot. Every creator-fee claim of $ROYALE lands in the pool; 30% of each claim goes into the pot at once and the rest flows in at 25% an hour, the pot never holding more than 30% of the pool. However many win, no more than the pot can leave: a rush only makes each win smaller until it has filled again. 2% of every fee claim buys $ROYALE on the market and burns it.

Wagers and gems

• Your balance. Connect a wallet (it signs a message to prove it is yours; nothing is sent). Deposit $ROYALE: your wallet signs one transfer to the vault . Withdraw any time, to that wallet only.
• Stakes. Pick a stake; you meet a player with the same stake. Both stakes leave the balances for the duel in one booking. The winner takes both less 5%, which is burned. A draw gives both back. Leaving for 20 seconds is a loss; both leaving is a draw.
• Gems. Priced in SOL and paid in $ROYALE at its price that moment. From your wallet you burn your own coins; from your balance the vault burns them.
• The vault's books. Deposited = balances + stakes in play + withdrawn + on their way + waiting to burn + burned, always. The vault checks it holds at least that before anything leaves.

The ledger

Every fee claim, ranked win, claim, payment and burn in SOL, newest first. Payments link to their transaction.

The coin ledger

Deposits, wagers, the rake, gems, withdrawals and burns of $ROYALE, newest first.