Worked examples

Setup

Every example uses one coin, $CAT: 1B supply at a $1M market cap, so 1 CAT = $0.001. The dev locks 200M (20% of supply) and splits it across the Roots below. The other 800M sits with holders. The dev's own wallet never earns from its own lock.

Three holders appear throughout. “Share of holders” is their slice of the 800M held outside the lock, which is what shared payouts split by.

All payouts are in CAT. Dollar values assume CAT stays at a $1M market cap unless an example says otherwise. In practice the 800M changes as people buy, sell and swap in, so treat shares as a snapshot.

The 70M pool pays out every 6 hours over the duration the dev picks, split by share of holdings. Over 7 days that's 28 payouts of 2.5M, and every holder ends the week with 8.75% more CAT.

Selling cuts the payout. Each payout uses a wallet's lowest balance during those 6 hours. If Alice sells half her bag on day 4, every payout after that pays her 3,125 instead of 6,250.

Holding the whole time counts up to 2×. Each wallet's weight grows from 1× when it starts holding to 2× by the end of the run. If Bob holds all 7 days while the average holder only held for the second half, Bob counts at 2× in the last payout and the average holder at about 1.5×. His share goes from 1.25% to about 1.66%, so that payout pays him about 41,500 instead of 31,250.

The dev picks the pace. The total is the same; only the speed changes.

A holder of a vamp in $CAT's bucket swaps into CAT through Root and gets a 5% bonus on the CAT they receive, capped at 500K CAT (0.05% of supply). The vamp is sold for SOL and the SOL buys CAT. Each wallet can swap once per bucket.

The vamp is $KAT: same meme, 1B supply, $400K market cap, so 1 KAT = $0.0004. KAT qualifies because $400K is at least 25% of CAT's $1M and above the $15K floor. Swaps lose some value to fees and price impact; these examples assume about 4% on a small swap and 10% on a large one.

Two more limits keep one vamp from draining the pool:

• Max per vamp: bonuses for KAT holders stop at 20% of the 30M Swap pool, so 6M CAT in total. That covers about 62 swaps the size of Dave's, or 12 at Erin's cap.
• Only vamps in range count: a holder of $CATT, another vamp at $150K (15% of CAT), can't swap yet. CATT has to reach $250K (25% of CAT) first.

The swap also helps $CAT win the bucket. Erin selling 10% of KAT's supply pushes KAT down and CAT up, bringing KAT closer to dying and triggering Frenzy.

When a vamp that reached range dies while $CAT is ahead, 10% of what's left in the 20M Frenzy pool is split among CAT holders by share of holdings. When every such vamp is dead, Last Coin Standing pays 25% of what's left.

A vamp dies when it's down 85% from its peak and stays under the $15K floor for an hour. KAT peaked at $400K, so it dies once it falls below $60K and holds under $15K for an hour. Each holder's share uses their lowest balance through the battle, so buying right before a vamp dies earns nothing.

The percentages are growth of each holder's bag. Dave and Erin, who swapped in, share in these payouts too once they've held through the battle, which slightly shrinks everyone else's share.

Two rooted coins in the same bucket each wager part of their lock on a timer. At the end, the loser's wager is sold and the SOL buys the winner, and those bought tokens are burned. Each side can wager at most 5% of its locked supply.

CAT ($1M, 200M locked) challenges $DOG ($800K, 150M locked) to a 24-hour duel in “Same %” mode, where both sides wager the same share of their lock. The winner is the stronger coin: Root scores each on its final 30-minute average market cap and its 24-hour volume together (the square root of the two multiplied), so a coin can't win on a market cap nobody trades.

DOG's 7.5M wager is worth $5,250 at the end. After about 5% price impact, roughly $5,000 buys CAT at $0.0012, about 4.17M CAT, which is burned. CAT's own 10M wager stays in its Duel pool.

Holders gain from a won duel through the burn and the buying pressure, not a direct payout. In “SOL value” mode both sides wager the same dollar amount instead, for example $5,000 each. If the two strengths end within 1% of each other, it's a draw and both wagers stay where they are.

The first time CAT's 1-hour average market cap crosses a rung, that rung's share of the 20M pool is split among everyone who held for the 24 hours before, by share of holdings.

When CAT's 15-minute average falls 40% below its 24-hour high, a dip window opens. Wallets that buy during it and keep what they bought for 2 days earn 5% of it as a bonus. The window closes once price recovers halfway.

CAT's 24-hour high is $1M. It falls to $600K (1 CAT = $0.0006), so the window opens, and it closes when CAT is back to $800K.

One dip can pay at most 25% of the 10M pool, so 2.5M in total, or 25 buyers the size of Gina.

Every day, 10% of what's left in the 10M Lottery pool is split evenly between 10 winners. Tickets are each wallet's time-weighted balance for the day, and the ticket list is committed on-chain before the draw.

The prize shrinks with the pool: day 1 pays 1M (100K per winner), day 2 pays 900K (90K each), and after 7 days about 4.8M is still left. Smaller holders win less often but gain far more relative to their bag.

The 20M Burn pool is burned every 6 hours over the duration the dev picks, 7 days here: about 714,286 CAT per burn, taking supply from 1B to 980M. Nobody receives tokens, but every holder owns 2.04% more of the coin.

Swap-burns come out of the same pool: Dave's swap burned 19,200 and Erin's 360,000. Each scheduled burn is what's left divided by the burns remaining, so the pool still burns exactly 20M and finishes on schedule.

Creator fees aren't a Root of their own. Any SOL that reaches CAT's own buyback address buys CAT, and the tokens bought are split across CAT's Roots exactly like the locked supply. See Creator fees for how to send them.

The dev adds CAT's buyback address as a fee recipient on pump.fun, and a week of creator fees brings in 10 SOL. At an assumed $180 per SOL that's $1,800, and after about 3% price impact it buys roughly 1.75M CAT. It's added to the lock and split by CAT's allocation:

Bob's share of the Holder top-up, once it pays out, is 1.25% of 611,100: about 7,639 CAT. The buy itself also adds $1,800 of buying pressure.

A buyer purchases CAT through someone's referral link on Root. After a 3-day hold, the sharer earns 2% and the buyer 1% of what the buyer still holds. Each sharer can earn at most 1M CAT (0.1% of supply) in total.

Bob shares his link. Hana buys 5M CAT ($5,000) through it.

Bob's 1M cap covers 50M CAT of referred buys, about $50,000 at a $1M market cap.

CAT and DOG team up for 7 days. Each dev funds an Alliance pool from their own lock, and each pool pays out every 6 hours to wallets holding both coins. A wallet's weight is the dollar value of its smaller position.

CAT puts in 2M CAT and DOG puts in 1.5M DOG, so each payout is 71,429 CAT and 53,571 DOG. Say all wallets holding both coins add up to $50,000 of smaller positions.

A large bag of one coin with a token amount of the other earns little. The payout follows whichever position is smaller.

Anyone can report a coin they think belongs in CAT's bucket. If it's accepted and later qualifies as a competitor (at least 25% of CAT's market cap and above $15K), the first reporter earns 5% of what's left in the 2M Scout pool. At most 3 finds are paid per day.

Each week holders submit memes and vote, and 20% of what's left in the 2M Forge pool goes to the top three, split 50 / 30 / 20. Vote weight is each holder's balance, fixed before voting opens, so Cara's vote counts 20× Alice's.

Summary

Shared payouts grow every holder's bag by the same percentage. Fixed prizes and bonuses favor smaller holders relative to their bag.

The action-based Roots pay whoever takes the action:

Shill isn't shown here: its payout depends on views and engagement on each post rather than a fixed share, so there's no single example that fits. See Shill in the docs.