You don't play your fighters. You brief them.

In one minute

Your first run

1. MintOne mint is $2.00 (719 $ABYSS). It rolls a class, an element, stats and a rarity. Five mints make a squad.
2. AssembleTap fighters into the squad. Put a tank in front and damage behind, and cover a few elements.
3. BriefPick a stop floor, or ask me at each camp, and who to focus fire on.
4. Send themThe run resolves on its own. Switch tabs if you like, it keeps going.
5. Get paidThe report shows the floor, the points, your share and what walked out. It lands in your vault when the window closes, and you can withdraw it straight away, with no tax.

Fighters & tiers

A fighter is a number. One 32-bit seed draws the sprite and rolls hp, attack, defence, speed, crit, element and rarity. Nothing about the fighter is stored anywhere else, which is why it can be checked on chain from the seed alone.

Lives & health

Health heals on the clock. A survivor walks out with the health they had on the last floor and mends in real time, and there is no button or potion that speeds it up. A fighter who went down pays a life for it and is carried out whole, so a knockdown costs the life and nothing else. Send a squad back down hurt and they go down faster, which costs lives, so the game asks before sending anyone under 50%. A camp heals only when the brief pushes on past it. If you want to go deep every day you either spend lives, wait out the hours, or keep a bench big enough to rotate.

Energy

5 runs for the whole account, and the bar comes back full every 6 hours. One fighter or 10 costs the same single run, charged the moment they walk in. When the bar is empty, you wait for the clock.

The descent

Floors run on forever and each is harder than the last. Monsters start at 0.58× your power and gain 3.5% a floor, which puts them level with you around floor 15 and half again your strength by floor 27. A floor is cleared only when every monster is dead, and your score is simply the floor you reached.

Set the brief to ask me at each camp and you decide at every camp with the real odds in front of you. The camp is the save point: a stop floor in the brief is a camp floor, and a brief that stops or retreats between camps keeps only what the last camp banked and loses the floors since. A wipe at floor 5 or deeper leaves a foothold for 15 minutes, and a relief squad can drop straight back in through it.

How you are paid

The pool pays in windows. Every 6 hours (28 a week) the runs of that window are settled together. Its pot is the week's guarantee cut into 28 slices, 25,679 $ABYSS at the reference rate, plus 60% of every mint and fee paid during the window, plus whatever the last window left over. Each run in the window is paid its own list price. Only when the window's runs together ask for more than the pot holds is everyone paid the same fraction of their list, and what the pot does not pay carries forward to the next window. Nothing lands at the end of a run: the parcel appears in the vault when the window closes. On the testnet the game clock runs 40× fast, so a window is 9 minutes and a week of the game passes in about 4.2 hours.

floor 5

144 $ABYSS

floor 10

451 $ABYSS

floor 15

893 $ABYSS

floor 20

1,458 $ABYSS

Withdraw whenever you like. A run's pay lands in your vault when its window closes. From then on it is yours at face value: there is no tax and no waiting, and one transaction sends everything in the vault to your wallet. The one hold is on an invited account's free start, whose earnings wait for its first paid mint.

What a floor is worth. The spoils of floor n weigh 3 × n^0.75: floor 1 is 3, floor 10 is 16.9, floor 20 is 28.4. A clean walk to floor 5 carries 33.3 weight of spoils (144 $ABYSS), to floor 10 104.5 (451), to floor 20 338 (1,458), before the drops and before the multiplier. The drops are the luck on top: a nightmark alone is 1,079 $ABYSS. Depth points still rank the leaderboard and the weekly prizes. They no longer set the pay.

The forge

Training

Sacrifice. Up to 3 fighters of a lower tier can be given up to improve an attempt. They are destroyed whether it takes or not. The odds are capped at 95%, the panel shows what each sacrifice would actually add, and one that would add nothing is refused. Minted fighters are never ingredients. The roll is taken the moment you press the button. The animation just reports what already happened.

The altar

Lesser remains can be offered to lower the price. A body of the same tier is worth 34% of the asking price and each tier below is worth a third of that, up to 60% off in total, and the offerings burn.

$ABYSS

The prize pool is guaranteed

The pool is filled by 60% of every mint and every fee. Forge, training, revive, slots and relief all split the way a mint does, so the biggest spenders fund everyone's pay. That is the engine. The devs' reserve of 50,000,000 $ABYSS, bought at launch, has one job: the weekly prize pool is guaranteed to be worth 1,000 mints (719,000 $ABYSS at the reference rate). When the crowd's fees fall short of that, the team sends the difference from the reserve wallet into the pool, one transaction a week that anyone can check on the explorer. When they reach it, the reserve sends nothing. The top-up is never more than the reserve divided by the weeks left in the 8-week season, so it cannot run dry early. Nothing is promised beyond the guarantee, and nobody is paid for holding tokens.

The price index

Every price follows the token's 24h average price. Costs follow it both ways. A mint is $2.00 whether the token doubles or halves, and so is every fee. Rewards follow it only upward. When the token rises, the pool pays out fewer tokens for the same dollars and the reserve lasts longer. When it falls, rewards stay at the table values and never rise to compensate, so a crash can't drain the pool.

Where the trading tax goes

Every trade of $ABYSS pays a creator tax of 2% in ETH, fixed for the life of the token. We don't keep it. Every week it is split four ways, in public. 50% buys $ABYSS on the open market and adds it to the reserve wallet, which spends on the weekly top-up and nothing else. 20% funds the weekly leaderboard prizes, a season chest and community tournaments. 20% runs the game: servers, the daily checkpoint, the infrastructure. 10% goes to marketing and the creators who bring players in. Every buy and every deposit is a transaction you can check on the explorer.

There is no team allocation. All 1,000M tokens go on sale at launch. The team buys 5% of the supply in the launch window and holds it in the reserve wallet. That wallet's address is published at launch, and its only outgoing transfers are the weekly top-ups into the pool, the contract that pays players.

Invites

A code binds at the invitee's first paid mint and can never be your own. The free mint plays like any fighter, but the invited account's earnings stay held until its first paid mint. Referral earnings land in your vault like everything else, ready to withdraw.

The weekly event

Every week the deepest crews share the events balance, which gets 10% of every mint. The board ranks the points you piled up over the whole week, so one lucky run won't carry you. The top 20 are paid: #1 takes 24%, #2 16%, #3 11%, down to 0.8% at #20.

Good to know

• The run keeps going when you switch tabs. It resolves on the clock while the page is hidden, payout included, and the room catches up when you return. A run paused at a camp waits for your decision.
• The forge, the altar and the dojo are shut while a run is in flight. They change the roster, and the roster is what the run was sealed with.
• Watch at 1×, 2×, 4×, 8× or 10×. The speed changes nothing about the result, because the seed decided it before the first floor.
• Escape closes whatever is on top. Shortcuts: i inventory · f forge · a altar · t training · l leaderboard · d dungeon.
• Every clock in the prototype runs 40× fast so the loop can be played in a sitting. At launch it runs at 1×.

Roadmap: the first season

1. Weeks 1–2Replay links, drops that are things, minted-only depths.
2. Weeks 3–4The codex, with the three wardens named, and daily contracts.
3. Weeks 5–6Lineage, naming, the first cosmetics for minted fighters.
4. Weeks 7–8Three new warden rules and the boss rush.
5. Weeks 9–12Elemental biomes, the first mutator, foothold raids.
6. With the chainGuild descents and soulbound achievements.

None of this adds a second currency. $ABYSS stays the only token in the game.

Nothing here is financial advice. Figures are read from the game's rules at build time and will change before launch.