The mechanism, end to end
Hold $POW, win the hour. This page walks through the entire mechanism, end to end, with nothing hidden.
Every full 100,000 $POW in your wallet counts as one entry, rounded down. There are no tickets to buy, nothing to stake, nothing to claim. Your balance is your position, and it updates the moment you trade.
Every eligible holder is recorded from the public block explorer. Liquidity pools, lockers, the treasury, and every project wallet are excluded from the snapshot. The house cannot hold entries and the house cannot win.
The winning entries are selected using drand, a public randomness beacon operated by an independent consortium including Cloudflare, EPFL, and Kudelski Security. The beacon publishes a new random value every few seconds, and the draw uses the round fixed by the draw's scheduled time. A favorable outcome cannot be shopped for, by us or by anyone.
Each hour draws two separate wallets, with no claiming from either. The fee winner receives of the trading fees collected during that hour, paid in ETH. The ticket winner receives a free lottery ticket, 100,000 $POW, released that day from the locked dev supply. If you win while you sleep, you find out when you wake up.
Each draw publishes its complete holder snapshot, the randomness round it used, and both payout transactions. The full history lives on the $POW tokenomics page and on chain.
Every buy pays a 2% fee and every sell pays a 4% fee. The fees stream in ETH into the Powerhood Vault — a smart contract that splits every payment in half the moment it arrives. At the top of each hour the contract pays the fee winner directly out of its own pot. We cannot withdraw that pot or send it anywhere else. There is no floor and no cap: a quiet hour pays a little, a busy hour pays a lot.
Just over half the total $POW supply — 504,000,000, or 50.4% — sits time-locked in the dev wallet. It unlocks on a weekly schedule, 16,800,000 $POW a week, and is handed out as one ticket of 100,000 $POW per hour, 24 hours a day. At that rate the entire 504,000,000 $POW allocation is given back to holders over 210 days, and the dev wallet ends empty.
You do not have to trust us that a draw was fair. Every draw can be recomputed from public data in three steps:
It lists every eligible wallet, its balance, and its entries at draw time, plus the drand round number the draw was bound to.
Ask the drand network for that round's value at api.drand.sh. It is signed by the consortium and cannot be altered after the fact, by anyone.
Sort the snapshot by address, take the randomness modulo the total entries, and walk the list until you reach that entry. The wallet you land on is the fee winner. The ticket winner comes from the same beacon value, hashed once more, and walked the same way. If either ever differed from the announced winner, the proof of cheating would be public and permanent.
Each wallet rounds down separately. 500,000 $POW in one wallet is five entries. The same tokens across six wallets can only be five entries or fewer, never more. Fragmenting a balance is strictly worse.
Liquidity pools, lockers, the locked dev supply, the treasury, and every team wallet are excluded from each snapshot. The exclusion list is public. Prize money flows one way: outward.
The drand round is a pure function of the draw's scheduled time. There is no way to wait for a convenient random number, rerun a draw, or choose when to sample. The clock decides, then the math decides.
Entries are real the moment you hold, but a round trip pays 2% going in and 4% coming out. Darting in before the hour and out after is a strategy that reliably loses to simply holding, and it pays the winners on the way past.
Every hour, on the hour, around the clock. Two winners an hour, 48 a day, 336 a week.
Nothing. Hold at least 100,000 $POW in a normal wallet and you are automatically in every draw, indefinitely.
Yes, if the beacon lands there twice. Both draws run over the same snapshot, so a wallet with more entries is more likely in each of them, exactly as its share implies.
Nothing. Both prizes are sent to the winning wallets automatically, usually within minutes of the draw.
Two sources. The fee prize is half of the 2% buy and 4% sell fee charged on every trade, so more trading means bigger hourly prizes. The ticket prize is the locked dev supply, unlocking at 16,800,000 $POW a week for 30 weeks. The full breakdown is on the $POW tokenomics page.
The hourly fee prize continues unchanged, for as long as $POW trades. The 100,000 $POW ticket is the launch distribution mechanism, not the whole game.
No. Every project wallet is excluded from the snapshot, and the exclusion list is public and checkable against each draw's published data.