Every four hours, the cycle settles. Doges that mutated this cycle move their country up the leaderboard, and direction-correct own-country bettors split the cycle's dogeBTC mining pool.
Ranks lock in. Russia's Comrade Nikolai rises on the Up podium, Japan descends on Down, Neutral holds the middle. For every country, one direction pays — and the bettors who called it collect their cut of the cycle pool.
How the cycle works
Over the cycle, own-country bets stack into the country's direction totals and doge mutations add to its mutation score. The cycle closes when the economy's next LP burn fires — roughly every four hours. At that point, ranks lock in, winning directions resolve, and reward pools open for claiming.
The 90 / 10 split
The cycle mining pool is the total dogeBTC mined across every round in the cycle. Each country's slice scales with how much was bet in its winning direction — popular countries get a bigger piece; the right call on an unpopular country pays a much bigger per-SOL return.
- 90% to players. Splits across winning-direction bettors, pro-rata by bet size.
- 10% to doges. Same math, but only for players whose gameplay doge actually mutated this cycle. Stacks inside the doge — paid on burn.
Claiming
Once the cycle settles, your share is waiting on-chain. Hit Claim on the cycle, or turn on bot-assisted claim and a keeper will land it for you. Your pending dogeBTC balance ticks up; withdraw it any time (10% refining fee).
If your doge mutated during the cycle, the doge bonus doesn't go to your wallet — it stacks inside the doge. The only way to cash it out is to send the doge to heaven, which burns the NFT and pays out everything it ever earned.
Dead cycles
If not a single doge mutated the whole cycle, the pool rolls over to the next one — nothing gets paid. Mutations are the engine. No motion, no money.