The Stack and rewards
Rewards
Points follow verified measurements. Speed alone never earns them.
Points
| Input | Points | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Verified run | +10 | 3 per UTC day |
| First verified run on a class | +10 | Once per class, one class per UTC day |
| Early data for a class | +25 | Classes with fewer than 25 verified runs |
| Personal best, per 1 % of throughput | +4 | Over your best in the class; 60 per run, 120 per week |
| Season entry | +25 | Once per season, when eligible |
| Season placement, top 10 % | +150 | Settled after the week closes |
| Season placement, top 25 % | +60 | Settled after the week closes |
| Genesis campaign | +50 | First 1,000 dies of The Stack |
Only verified runs earn points. Values are rendered from src/lib/server/rewards.ts.
Seasons
| Season | Who can enter | Ranked by |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth week | Every verified run. | READ percentile within device class |
| Mac week | Apple silicon runs with a resolved chip. | MEM Score percentile within chip class |
| Laptop week | Laptop GPUs (detected or declared). | Sustain retention: late throughput ÷ early throughput |
| 16 GB+ week | Classes sold only with 16 GB or more of VRAM or unified memory. | COPY percentile within device class |
| Personal best | Operators with a verified run in the same class before the week began. | Improvement over your pre-week best in class |
Settlement
- Seasons settle every Monday at 00:10 UTC. Every closed season is settled once; grants are idempotent.
- Percentile seasons rank by plotting position, rank ÷ (class size + 1), so topping a larger class counts for more.
- Classes qualify with 5 distinct operators; smaller classes count as the neutral middle.
- Top 10 % of a season's entrants earn +150, top 25 % earn +60.
Instant rewards
A verified run pays $0.02 of tokenized NVIDIA stock (NVDA on Robinhood Chain) straight to the operator's linked wallet, within seconds, gas paid by the reward wallet. No epoch, no claim.
- At most $0.06 per wallet per UTC day, summed across every operator linked to it, and $1 site-wide. Runs past the network limit (6 per network per UTC day) pay nothing.
- The NVDA amount is fixed at verification with the live price. One payout per run.
- No wallet yet? The payout waits 7 days. Link a wallet and sign the attestation, and it is sent, within the caps of the day it was earned.
- Never for requests from the United States, and only to a wallet that signed the non-US-person attestation.
- The reward wallet holds a small float, refilled from the treasury. When it runs low, payouts queue and go out after the refill.
Where points go
Every verified run mines one die of The Stack and the points above; at most 6 runs per network per UTC day earn points. Each week is an epoch with fixed pools, set by the treasury: $HBM and, where allowed, a Robinhood Stock Token of a company marked Supported RWA on the Supply chain page.
- When the week closes, points are summed per linked wallet, across every operator linked to it.
- Wallets with at least 20 points share each pool pro rata, capped at 2 % per wallet. A capped wallet's excess goes to the others; what nobody can take stays in the treasury.
- Each pool becomes one Merkle root on Robinhood Chain, published to the rewards contract only once the contract holds the tokens. Claims stay open 56 days; unclaimed tokens then return to the treasury.
- Stock Token rewards are not available in the United States or to US persons, and need a one-time signed attestation.
Live pools, epochs and contracts are on the Network page. Nothing here is investment advice.
Supported RWA is read from Robinhood's public token registry every six hours, with a verified snapshot as fallback.