OVERVIEW
PONZI CORP is a PvP trading game on Robinhood Chain where investors compete for a limited set of desks on THE FLOOR. Buy in, earn $PONZI tokens, and defend your returns from hostile takeovers — all captured live on the trading floor CCTV. New money pays old money.
The game creates natural competition through a desk-based system where each desk can be taken over by paying the current price. Prev investors receive 80% of the payment plus all $PONZI tokens earned while they held the desk.
THE FLOOR opens with 8 desks. New desks unlock as existing ones become heavily contested - every expansion is announced at least 24 hours in advance. THE FLOOR only ever grows; desks are never removed.
Connect with any EVM wallet - MetaMask, Rainbow, or WalletConnect. All transactions are paid in ETH, the native gas token of Robinhood Chain.
HOW TO PLAY
1. BUY IN
Pay ETH to take ownership of a desk. The price starts at the desk's initial price and decays linearly to 0 over 1 hour. If you wait for the price to drop, you save ETH but risk someone else taking the desk first. After each buy-in, the desk's next starting price is set to 2x what was paid (clamped between 0.0001 ETH and 1000 ETH).
2. COLLECT $PONZI RETURNS
While you own a desk, it generates $PONZI tokens every second. The PPS rate is locked when you buy in - early investors get higher rates! Your leverage boosts this yield.
3. LEVERAGE REROLL
Each desk's leverage is rolled randomly and then locks for 1 hour - the first takeover after the window expires rerolls it. You can also buy a personal leverage reroll for 1,000 $PONZI (burned) to re-roll a 1x to 3x boost - up to 3 re-rolls per leverage window. Higher leverage means more $PONZI per second.
4. INSIDER DESKS
Desks 32, 33 and 34 are insider desks. They roll massive leverage of 25x (65%), 50x (25%) or 100x (10%) - but their price decays to 0 in only 10 minutes instead of 1 hour, making them the most contested desks in the game.
Insider desks are not active at launch - they only come online if THE FLOOR ever expands past desk 32.
5. HOSTILE TAKEOVERS
When someone takes over your desk, you receive 80% of what they paid plus all $PONZI tokens earned while you held it (credited to your unsettled balance). The remaining 20% is split between the buyback, staking, treasury and referral fees. Taking over an occupied desk also triggers a SEC FINE: $6.50 worth of $PONZI burned from the raider (oracle-priced) - half of it is re-minted to the staking pool.
TOKENOMICS
$PONZI (ERC-20, 18 decimals)
$PONZI is minted only through playing - no premine, no team allocation. All tokens are earned by players. 5% of all emissions are burned to a dead wallet (verifiable on-chain).
Each desk locks in the current global emission rate when bought. The global rate halves every 7 days down to a 0.01 $PONZI/sec floor. Early investors lock in their PPS rate when they buy in, protecting them from later halvings while they hold the desk.
*Total across all desks at 1x leverage, after 5% burn deduction. Split evenly per desk - at launch (8 desks) each desk earns 1/8 of this.
LEVERAGE
A leverage reroll lets you re-roll your desk's PPS leverage. Each reroll costs 1,000 $PONZI (burned) and rolls a new boost using on-chain randomness. You get up to 3 re-rolls per epoch.
Insider desk leverage is rolled automatically when the desk is bought. Their price decays in 10 minutes. Not active at launch - insider desks only exist once THE FLOOR expands past desk 32.
Randomness is derived from the chain's block randomness (prevrandao) combined with your wallet address and desk index - making it unpredictable but verifiable on-chain.
RESEARCH LAB
The RESEARCH LAB is where you collect ingredients, backtest strategies for PPS boosts, and settle your $PONZI tokens. It's the core progression system in PONZI CORP.
Claim 2-5 random ingredients every 24 hours. These are used to backtest strategies. Drop odds: Data 40%, Capital 30%, Signals 20%, Alpha 10%.
Backtest strategies using ingredients, then consume a strategy when buying in to boost that desk's PPS. Higher rarity = better boost (1.10x up to 1.50x).
When your desk is taken over, $PONZI goes to your unsettled balance. Settle it to claim tokens to your wallet (10% fee, redistributed to remaining unsettled holders).
THE VAULT
Stake your $PONZI tokens in THE VAULT to earn ETH rewards from game fees. 4% of all buy-in transactions go to the staking reward pool.
- 1.Stake any amount of $PONZI tokens (7-day lock per stake)
- 2.Earn ETH proportionally to your share of total staked
- 3.Claim ETH rewards anytime; unstake after the 7-day lock to claim + withdraw
Every time a desk is taken over, 4% of the ETH payment goes to the staking reward pool. In addition, half of every $6.50 SEC FINE is re-minted to the staking pool as $PONZI rewards. The more game activity, the more rewards for stakers.
Example: If you stake 10,000 PONZI and total staked is 100,000 PONZI, you earn 10% of all ETH rewards.
REFERRALS
PONZI CORP has a referral system that rewards players for bringing others into the game. When someone you referred buys in to a desk, you earn a cut of the fee. (Yes, we know how that sounds. It's that kind of game.)
- →Share your referral link with friends
- →When they connect and set you as their referrer
- →Every time they buy in to a desk, you receive 2.5% of the desk price in ETH
FEE STRUCTURE
When you take over a desk, the ETH payment is distributed as follows (total fee: 20%):
Referral fee only applies if the buyer has a referrer set. Otherwise it goes to treasury. If you take over your own desk (DOUBLE DOWN), the 80% payout is refunded back to you - you only pay the 20% fees. On a desk's very first buy-in, the 80% goes to treasury.
Burns are sent to a dead wallet and verifiable on the block explorer
SYNDICATES
Syndicates allow multiple investors to pool ETH together to buy in to high-value desks that would be too expensive for a single investor. Rewards are distributed proportionally based on contribution.
- 1.Find a desk you want to buy in to but can't afford alone
- 2.Contribute ETH to the syndicate (minimum 0.05 ETH, up to 25 contributors per syndicate)
- 3.When enough ETH is pooled, anyone can execute the buy-in
- 4.The syndicate now owns the desk, holding THE FLOOR as a group
- 5.Any ETH pooled above the final buy-in price is claimable, split by contribution %
Desk prices keep decaying while a syndicate fills, so the final buy-in price is often lower than the total ETH pooled. That difference is the syndicate's ETH surplus. Once the buy-in executes, each contributor can claim:
Syndicates are a coordination weapon for seizing desks, not a passive income vehicle. $PONZI earned by a syndicate-owned desk and any later takeover proceeds are absorbed by the game — they are not distributed to contributors.
If a syndicate doesn't reach 100% funding before the desk price decays to 0, the syndicate expires. Contributors can withdraw their ETH from expired syndicates at any time through the "EXPIRED SYNDICATES" section.
Once a syndicate reaches 100% of the required ETH, any contributor can click "EXECUTE" to trigger the buy-in. The desk ownership transfers to the syndicate, and any surplus ETH (total pooled minus the final buy-in price) becomes claimable by contributors proportionally.
EXAMPLE SCENARIO
*ETH rewards = (contribution %) × (total pooled − final buy-in price) = (contribution %) × 1.00 ETH surplus
CONTRACTS
Robinhood Chain (chain ID 4663) — native gas token ETH
All contracts are verified and open source.
FAQ
IS THIS A PONZI?
Yes. Every desk takeover pays the previous investor 80% directly - new money pays old money, by design, on-chain. The difference from the schemes we parody is that the math is public, nothing is promised, and everyone can read this page. You are the exit liquidity, and so is the next investor.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MY DESK IS TAKEN OVER?
You receive 80% of what the new investor paid in ETH, plus all $PONZI tokens your desk generated while you held it. The $PONZI is credited to your unsettled balance - settle it in the RESEARCH LAB to claim it to your wallet.
WHY DID THE PRICE GO TO 0?
Prices decay linearly over 1 hour (10 minutes for insider desks 32-34). When the price hits 0, anyone can take the desk for free. This creates urgency - the longer you wait, the cheaper it gets, but others might grab it first.
HOW IS YIELD CALCULATED?
PONZI/SEC = Locked Emission Rate × Leverage (× Strategy Boost if used). Each desk locks in the global emission rate at buy-in time, so later halvings don't affect desks you already hold.
WHICH WALLETS CAN I USE?
Any EVM wallet works: MetaMask, Rainbow, or any wallet supporting WalletConnect. Make sure you have ETH on Robinhood Chain to pay for desks and gas.
IS THERE A PREMINE?
No. 100% of $PONZI tokens are minted through gameplay. No team allocation, no VC tokens, no premine. The only way to get $PONZI is to play.
CAN I LOSE MY $PONZI TOKENS?
No. When your desk is taken over, your accumulated $PONZI is credited to your unsettled balance immediately. You never lose earned tokens - settle anytime to claim them to your wallet (10% settle fee is redistributed to remaining unsettled holders).