The Solwaris economy

This page says where every cent goes. What a staked match costs, what the winner takes, what we keep, what cuts our share and what cannot be bought. The numbers below are the ones in the code, not an intention: the guide is checked by a test bench that compares them with the game’s values on every change.

Staked matches

A stake server matches two players who picked the same amount. Both stakes go to an address dedicated to that match, derived for it alone: they never enter a common pool, and nobody — us included — can move them anywhere but to the winner.

At the end, the pot goes back out in a single transaction: the winner’s share, our fee, and where applicable the referrer’s share. A drawn match gives each player their stake back.

Won, a staked match also gives a chance at a Legendary Crystal, higher than in a free duel and rising with the stake and the league; a defeat gives nothing.

One player, one account

A staked match only makes sense between two different people. Two accounts held by the same player would fight each other to move money, pump a leaderboard or claw back a fee through referrals: so the game makes sure each player has only one account that stakes.

• Same browser — two wallet accounts opened in the same browser are both blocked from staked matches.
• Same IP address — two wallet accounts seen on the same address less than seven days apart: same rule.
• No VPN — behind a VPN, a proxy or a relay (iCloud Private Relay, WARP…), staked matches are closed: the address there is shared by thousands of strangers. Just turn it off to stake.
• Never face to face — two linked accounts (same browser, same address, funds passed from one to the other) are never matched against each other in a staked match, even when their two owners really are two people.

Two brothers under the same roof, a family computer, a shared connection: these cases exist, and a block can be lifted. Write to us on Discord; an unblocked account stakes normally again. Everything else — repeated duels between the same accounts, transfers between their wallets, play habits — is never sanctioned automatically: a human looks before deciding.

To do this, the game keeps, for wallet accounts only, the connection IP addresses and a browser identifier (a cookie, sw_app) for at most one year, and connection times for 90 days. This data is used only to fight fraud and is never shown or shared.

The fee, and where it goes

The base fee is 25% of the stake. Put another way: on a pot of two stakes we take 12.5%, and the winner walks away with 87.5% of the pot.

Rounding always goes down on the fee: when a split falls between two hundredths, the extra hundredth goes to the player, never to us.

The referrer’s share is taken out of that fee, and only out of it. It is not added to it: a referred player gets exactly the same as a player with no referrer.

The bonuses: what cuts our share

Every equipped item — a skin, a weapon, an aura — reduces the fee taken from your winnings. All three stack, up to 15 points at most: the fee then drops from 25% to 10% of the stake, and the winner of a 10 USDC duel receives 19 USDC instead of 17.50.

Referrals

Every player has a code, in the Wallet tab of their account page. The referrer takes 5% of what their referee wins — that is, of the stake they take from their opponent — and that share is taken out of our fee, paid in the same transaction as the winner’s winnings.

A referee who loses brings in nothing: they won nothing. A referral is permanent and is set once, within 48 hours of creating the account; after that, a referrer can no longer be entered.

You cannot refer yourself — not from a second profile, nor from the same network address or the same browser. The share is never paid to a player in the match — a loser does not get back part of their loss because they referred their opponent.

The Battle Pass

The pass has 50 tiers, which climb as you play — it is the XP from your matches and from daily quests that unlocks them, nothing is bought tier by tier. The free track hands out some of them; the premium track, at 20 USDC, opens the rest and, retroactively, every tier already reached.

What you find there: crystals — Common Crystals and two Legendary Crystals on the free track, a crystal at every tier on the premium track, including 14 Legendary Crystals — and coins. The premium track also gives the Crystal collection: a weapon and a skin per class, and the Amethyst aura, which are not sold and come out of no crystal. The tier-by-tier breakdown is on the Loot page.

The XP and coins from a match

Every online match pays XP, which raises your level and the pass, and coins, the currency for the Common Crystal and the initiative bid. Coins, like all loot, only go to accounts: a guest earns the XP, not the coins (see guest or account).

• Endurance — 3 XP per turn past the third, up to 40, and up to 10 coins.
• Clean victory — 20 extra XP for winning with at least 60% of your health.
• Training against the AI — 40% less XP, and no coins: gold is earned online.
• Match too short — stopped before the 4th turn, a match pays neither XP nor coins (except a draw). Forfeited before that turn, it earns the player who stays nothing in the league; the one who leaves, though, takes their loss: forfeiting does not erase a loss.
• Against yourself — two profiles of the same player, two connections from the same address or the same browser, or two linked accounts: the match pays nothing, on either side.
• Forfeit — whoever forfeits earns nothing; their opponent keeps every reward of the match, if it reached the 4th turn. See Forfeiting a match.

The initiative bid

Before the first turn, the draw picks one player. The other has 5 seconds to buy the first turn back from them, in steps of 100 coins. Either player can raise while the clock runs.

When nobody follows any more, the last bidder starts — and they alone pay, the price reached. Whoever dropped out pays nothing. In training against an AI there is no bid: the draw decides, for free.

It is spent in coins, never in USDC: the initiative cannot be bought with real money.

What Solwaris does not do

• No token to buy, none to mine, none to resell. The only currency that comes in and goes out is USDC.
• No NFT, no item resale between players, no secondary market.
• No hidden odds: crystals have random contents, but every chance is shown in the game and on the Loot page before you open one, and the draw happens on the server.
• No betting on other people’s matches. You only stake on your own, and the result is decided by play.
• No deposit, so no withdrawal: there is no balance to claim back. Your USDC stays in your wallet until the match, and your winnings land there directly. Only weekly boss entries wait on the week’s public address, until the prize pool is paid out.

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