Harvest week

Every Friday at the close, breeds are ranked. The side that called it right gets more; crowded spots get less.

One week

• A Harvest week runs from Friday 16:00 ET to the next Friday 16:00.
• Money flows into the Harvest pool from fence fees and token trading fees (details). It builds up first instead of being paid out all at once.
• At the end of each week the pool releases 1/8 of its balance. The rest stays for the weeks after.

Why release only 1/8?

Volume jumps around: it's highest right after launch and on big news weeks. If the pool paid out everything at once, the first batch of animals would take the launch spike, and people would time their buys around big weeks. Releasing 1/8 of the balance spreads a spike over the next month or so. Nothing is lost, only paid out more evenly.

The ratio is written into the permanent Harvest pool contract and can never be changed. Even if the team disappeared, the pool would keep releasing 1/8 a week until it's empty.

Ranking and scoring

Each breed's weekly change = Friday close ÷ last Friday's close − 1, from Chainlink. Breeds are ranked from best (rank 1) to worst.

With B breeds and a breed at rank r:

Bull score = (B + 1 − r)²     → the top breed's bull gets the most
Bear score = r²               → the bottom breed's bear gets the most

With 11 breeds, bull scores from rank 1 down are 121, 100, 81 … 4, 1, and bears the reverse. A breed in the middle pays little to both sides. A breed nobody can read pays neither side much.

If a breed has no trustworthy price that week (halted, paused, stale feed, a split), it isn't ranked and both its sides get the average score: no reward, no penalty.

Buckets

Each breed has a bull bucket and a bear bucket. The released Harvest is split across non-empty buckets by score, then split equally among the animals in each bucket.

Example (10 breeds, $18,420 released):

Bucket	Rank	Score	Animals	Per head
NVDA bull	1st	100	80	$30
NVDA bear	1st	1	10	$2
AAPL bull	4th	49	30	$39
AMZN bear	8th	64	20	$77
SPY bear	9th	81	15	$129
SPY bull	9th	4	50	$2

The NVDA bulls called the top breed right but get only $30 each because the bucket is crowded. The SPY bears, a call almost nobody made, get $129 each. Illustration only; real numbers depend on the week.

Fed to claim

An animal gets its share only if it was fed this week:

1. Each week has a ration per head (shown in the app as stake needed per head), between $5 and $200. It's computed on-chain from last week's Harvest per head; nobody sets it.
2. Your effective stake in fences this week is your available stake. Each head fed uses one ration. Bets in the fences count automatically.
3. Only money that took real risk counts: a fence that's voided counts zero, and a lopsided fence counts less. Betting against yourself costs fees that mostly flow back to the Harvest pool.
4. An unfed animal's share isn't given to anyone. It stays in the pool and rolls into next week.
5. You can also feed someone else's animals with your stake.

After the week ends there's a 24-hour grace period for the last fences to settle and feed. Then anyone can settle the week (and gets a small 0.2% bounty for it).

Cool-off means hungry

While you're in a self-set cool-off you can't bet, so your animals can't be fed by you that week. A friend can still feed them. We'd rather you keep the cool-off.

Harvest is booked on the animal

• Once a week settles, each fed animal's share is attached to that animal. Whoever holds it can claim.
• Unclaimed Harvest never expires and goes with the animal if you sell it. Marketplaces should show "Harvest to claim".
• Claiming can never be paused.

New animals

Animals born in an auction take part from the next full Harvest week. The first Harvest is paid at the first Friday close after launch.

No promises

The pool pays out what it holds, nothing more. The app's "estimated per head" is an estimate, never a promise.