Tab
Press once and leave the tab open. Your browser hashes until one hash is low enough, and the furrows on the plot show how far it is. Then the wallet asks once, for the network fee only. You get the Ley ploughed: bare earth, all yours.
How the ring works
8,888 Leys of farmland inside a ring in orbit. Everything here is paid for in one of three ways: with your tab, with HYPE, or with some of each. All of it is below, with the numbers.
1A Ley
A Ley is one plot of 100 strips. Every strip is either ploughed or sown. Ploughed is bare earth. Sown is the crop, and the crop is what earns.
One Ley, three states. The circles came with a lucky hash and the lake is the water: both are further down.
2Taking one
Leys go in order, 1 to 8,888. The next one is the only one on offer, and it is open from the first block. Three ways to take it.
Both
Drag the field. The strips you give to coin are sown at once, the tab ploughs the rest. Ten strips by coin is a tenth of the fare and nine tenths of the work.
Coin
Pay the fare. The Ley is yours in that transaction, sown whole. The count takes up to 50 Leys at once.
While the tab works you can pay for the strips it has not done and take the Ley that moment.
While the ground is soft, up to Ley 3,232, a wallet takes two Leys by the tab alone. After those two it puts at least ten strips of coin beside the tab, as often as it likes. A Ley with ten strips or more in coin is never counted.
3Sowing one
A ploughed strip can be sown later, by whoever holds the Ley. Same three ways.
Tab
The tab sows what it ploughed. Sowing a whole Ley is the work of taking the next one. Open from Ley 3,233 on.
Both
Coin sows some strips, the tab sows the others in the same transaction. While the ground is soft the tab sows nine strips for each one paid in coin.
Coin
Pay for the strips at the fare of that day: all that is left, or a part by tens.
A strip sown by the tab is a sown strip. A Ley sown whole by the tab earns what a Ley sown whole with coin earns, to the wei.
4What it costs
The fare
Starts at 0.02 HYPE and doubles every 2,222 Leys.
| Ley | Fare, HYPE |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.02 |
| 2,223 | 0.04 |
| 4,445 | 0.08 |
| 6,667 | 0.16 |
| 8,888 | 0.3199 |
The work
Starts near 4 million hashes and doubles every 404 Leys.
| Ley | Hashes | A laptop at 5 million a second |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4.2 million | 1 second |
| 1,213 | 34 million | 7 seconds |
| 2,425 | 268 million | 1 minute |
| 3,233 | 1.1 billion | 4 minutes |
| 4,041 | 4.3 billion | 14 minutes |
| 5,253 | 34 billion | 2 hours |
| 6,465 | 275 billion | 15 hours |
| 8,888 | 17.6 trillion | 40 days |
The page times your own machine and says how long the next Ley takes on it. These are averages: a hash is luck, so twice as long happens and so does half.
A strip costs a hundredth of the fare or a hundredth of the work, at a taking and at a sowing alike. Nothing is added on top: the tab pays the network fee and that is all.
You pay for whole strips at the fare of the block your transaction lands in. Whatever you sent beyond that comes back in the same transaction.
5What a Ley earns
Every payment in coin is shared in the transaction that pays it.
60 %sown strips15 %ploughed strips5 %water20 %maker
- A Ley earns from every payment after it. Its sown strips earn from the 60, its ploughed strips from the 15.
- Sown strips share four times what ploughed strips share, and only sown strips draw for the water. That is the reason to sow.
- Reap whenever you like, one Ley or all of them. What you leave keeps waiting.
6The water
- Every 404 Leys is a round. There are 22. 5 % of a round's payments is its water.
- When the round is full, a block 64 blocks later picks one Ley of that round and the whole water goes to it. Its field gets a lake.
- The chance goes by sown strips, however they were sown. A Ley sown whole has 100 chances, a Ley ploughed whole has none.
7The look
- A Ley's look is drawn by the chain itself from a block that comes after the Ley is taken. Nobody chooses it, the maker included. Until that block the Ley reads Not surveyed yet.
- 12 crops, 4 soils, 4 times of day, 6 lays of the land.
- Circles in a field are luck: the hash was far lower than it had to be. About 1 ploughed Ley in 8 has one, 1 in 64 has three, 1 in 512 has five. They pay nothing.
8Resale and chores
- A resale carries 6 % to the collection: a third to the maker, a half to sown strips, an eighth to ploughed strips, the rest to the water. Marketplaces on this chain do not enforce it.
- Taking a Ley does the ring's chores on its way. When nobody comes, anyone can do them from the page for the network fee: let a closed round's water go, send the surveyor to new Leys, bring in what resales left.
9The honest part
Early Leys earn from later ones, and only if later ones come. If nobody comes, you own a picture of a field. It is a good picture.
A graphics card ploughs faster than your laptop, and from Ley 3,233 on it sows for nothing too. The sixty is shared with every sown strip, whoever sowed it.
Nobody holds a key to any of this: no pause, no upgrade, nothing to set. The contract names an owner for the marketplace's page, and that name opens nothing. The pictures are drawn on chain and cannot be changed.