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What Egregore is

EGREGORE is a continuous-takeover game on Base. The board is a synthetic mind made of 16 Cores in 4 Clusters, and every Core is always for sale. While you hold one it pays you $EGORE every second. There is no order book and no waiting; whoever pays the price owns the Core.

The loop: seize a Core with ETH, hold it to earn $EGORE, and get paid 70% of the next price when someone takes it from you. Every Core cools toward its floor price with a 20 minute half-life, so an expensive Core left alone becomes a cheap target. That one mechanic keeps the whole board contestable.

Seizing in detail

• Price ratchet. A seize sets the Core's new peak at 1.25x the price paid. From there the price decays back toward the tier floor on the heat half-life.
• Peak cap. The peak can never exceed 10x the tier floor, so prices can't ratchet to absurdity.
• Cooldown. Each Core has a 90 second cooldown after any seize. No instant atomic re-flips.
• Minimum hold. Your position vests after 5 minutes. Flip a Core before then and you forfeit all three: the 70% payout, the accrued $EGORE, and the control time. The forfeited 70% is burned through the Floor Vault, which makes wash trading strictly unprofitable.
• Self-seize is blocked. You can't take a Core from yourself to reset its clock.
• Price protection. seize(maxPrice, deadline) reverts if the price moved above your cap or your deadline passed, and any overpayment is refunded.

Where the ETH goes

Every seizure splits the price four ways, on-chain, in the same transaction.

• 70% to the previous holder. This is the payout that makes flipping a game.
• 10% to the Floor Vault, which buys $EGORE and burns it.
• 10% to $EGORE stakers, paid in ETH.
• 10% to the protocol treasury.

On the first-ever seize of a Core there is no previous holder, so the 70% also goes to the Floor Vault. A genesis seize is a donation to the floor.

$EGORE tokenomics

$EGORE has a hard cap of 100,000,000. The cap is enforced against a monotonic mint counter, not the live supply, which means burns never free up new mint room. Every burned token is gone for good.

Game emission halves every 14 days (one epoch). Roughly half of all game emission is paid out in the first epoch, so the earliest seasons matter most. The long tail keeps printing for years, but at rates the burn sinks easily dominate.

Sinks

• Claim tax, 8%. Moving pending $EGORE to your wallet costs 8%: 5% is redistributed to the other vested incumbents and 3% is burned.
• Overclock. Burn $EGORE to boost a Core's emission by about 43% for a window. The cost is 100% burned and is indexed to the epoch, so it halves along with emission and stays rationally priced. An overclocked Core also re-heats, making it a brighter target.
• Floor Vault buy-and-burn. A constant stream of market buys that end in the burn address (see below).
• Staking locks. Locked $EGORE is off the market until the lock expires.

The Floor Vault

The vault is one-way by construction, not by promise. No withdraw function exists in the contract. The swap route is immutable. Burns are permissionless: anyone can trigger one, and the contract computes its own TWAP-derived minimum output and enforces rate limits, so a caller can't sandwich it or drain it.

Staking

Stake $EGORE and you earn two streams: a share of the 10% ETH leg of every seizure, and a linear stream of the 13M staking allocation. Rewards accrue continuously, with no snapshots to snipe. The ETH yield is real, funded only by actual game volume.

One catch worth knowing: topping up a boosted position requires recommitting the lock. Boosts only ever increase and locks only ever extend; nothing can be silently shortened.

Labs & seasons

Every operator fights for one of three Labs: DAEMON, ORACLE or CIPHER. Your Lab binds at your first seize each season. Control is measured in vested weight-seconds: base Core weight times the seconds you held, counting only vested holds.

• A season is 3 epochs (42 days), ending in a permissionless, time-gated soft reset. Heat and prices reset toward floors; balances, stakes and burns persist.
• The ETH prize pool splits 60% to the winning Lab, 30% to the top operators, and 10% rolls over to the next season.
• Prizes are claimed with Merkle proofs. Each season's root sits behind a 48 hour challenge window, and claims close after 30 days; unclaimed funds roll forward.

Contracts

All five contracts are deployed on Base Sepolia (chain id 84532) and source-verified. Mainnet is not deployed yet; when it is, the addresses will be published here first.

Season Zero runs on testnet ETH. Nothing on Base Sepolia has monetary value.

Risks, honestly

• The game is reflexive. Activity feeds the token and the token feeds activity, in both directions. When volume dries up, so does everything downstream of it.
• Rewards are variable. Emission halves on a schedule, staking yield depends entirely on game volume, and prize pools depend on the treasury. Nothing is guaranteed.
• Smart contracts carry risk. Audited code can still have bugs. You can lose everything you put in.
• One trusted role exists. The season prize root is committed by the team multisig, behind the 48 hour challenge window. Everything else, including the token, the game, the vault and staking, is non-upgradeable.

$EGORE is a game token, not an investment. Nothing on this site is financial advice. Do your own research and check the rules in your jurisdiction.