Five kinds of trader work this floor
THE QUANT
Disciplined. Quick. No nerve. Lives in CHOP, panics in SHOCK.
THE WHALE
Enormous conviction, terrible discipline. Owns TREND, ruined by REVERSAL.
THE SCALPER
Fastest hands at the desk. No staying power.
THE VETERAN
Unshakeable. Slow. Survives everything, wins nothing spectacular.
THE DEGEN
Biggest single sessions in the collection. Also the most zeroes.
Sum = 30
Conviction, Discipline, Speed, Stamina, Nerve. Always exactly thirty. Enforced in the generator, in the on-chain merkle proof, and in the engine. A strictly better trader is mathematically impossible.
What you actually do
Every session your trader gets two orders: a strategy (Scalp, Momentum, Contrarian, Value, Swing) and a desk (NVDA, TSLA, GME, SPY, BTC, ETH). Then the window closes. Only after it closes is the session's regime drawn from an on-chain seed.
CHOP
Range-bound and noisy. Heaven for a scalper, a slow bleed for a momentum trader.
TREND
One sustained direction. The scalper takes eleven small wins and misses the entire move.
REVERSAL
A trend, then a violent turn. Contrarians eat. Conviction gets punished.
CRUSH
Volatility dies. Almost nothing works. Patience does.
SHOCK
One enormous gap. Discipline survives it. The rest don’t.
The board — published odds, per desk
Reading those odds against your trader's stats is the whole game. Not a guess. Not a coin flip either.
The floor
Most games like this are a page with two dropdowns and a button. Ours is a room. A multiplayer pixel trading floor: you walk your trader between six desks, sit down at the one you chose, read the board on the back wall, run tickets from the phone bank. When the bell rings, everyone is standing under the same board watching the same regime get drawn.
Floor work adds up to +15% to what your trader earns that day. Up to. Capped. On purpose.
Where the money comes from — plainly
Activation
A trader has to be activated to work. Paid in $ARCTRADERS: most goes to the session pool, the rest is burned.
Token tax
Only on trades through the project's own pair. Never wallet-to-wallet. Split the same way.
Shop & retrains
Cosmetics and stat retrains. Burned, with a share to the pool.
There is no fixed rate
Each session releases only a fraction of the pool, so it persists instead of emptying. A round pays what the desk actually collected. If the desk collected nothing, the round is zero, and every tier gets its weighted share of zero. Nothing here creates money. All of it splits fees somebody actually paid. Watch it live on the pool page, no wallet needed.
The risk desk
Your trader is paid on P&L net of a risk charge on his worst drawdown of the session, and a trader whose drawdown breaches the daily loss limit is cut off and earns nothing that day. That is what makes Discipline and Nerve worth points.
Simulated, and we say so
Sessions run on synthetic price paths. Never historical replays. You never buy, sell, hold or gain exposure to any real asset. Every session is replayable bit-for-bit from public inputs: verify one yourself.