Every mode plays by the same rules. The only thing that changes is how much it hurts to forget. Daily pecking is the cadence in every mode. The fox in Hardcore is decorative. For now.

1. Pick a mode. One coop of each is open for entry every week, Monday to Monday.
2. Name your chicken. Feathers are cosmetic. Your X handle is your name on the board and where the pot gets paid if you win. No wallet is needed to receive.
3. Pay the buy-in. Everyone pays the same. It goes straight into the pot.
4. Wait in the lobby. When entry closes, the coop starts and the first 24 hours begin.

One handle, one seat per coop. You can be in several coops at once.

Every 24 hours, counted from your last peck, you must peck in again. There is no calendar day, no time zone trick, no "it was still Sunday where I was". Your clock starts when the coop starts and resets every time you peck.

Pecking in is one press in the app. You can also script it. If your script pecks, you pecked. If your script breaks, you died. Coop doesn't check who pressed the button.

You can leave alive at any moment. Press chicken out and 80% of your buy-in is sent back to you. The other 20% stays in the pot. You are off the board for that coop and can't re-enter it.

Chickening out is not shameful. It is the only way to get most of your money back once entry has closed. The board does record it, though.

If 24 hours pass without a peck, you're dead. Your buy-in stays in the pot in full. Nothing is refunded, ever, for any reason, including reasons that are genuinely good.

Death is checked by the contract, not by us. There is no support ticket that can bring you back.

Nothing comes out of a pot except chicken-out refunds and the final payout. There is no rake on the pot itself.

When one chicken is left alive, the coop settles. The whole pot is paid in dollars to that chicken's X handle through X Money. If the handle can't receive after 30 days, the pot rolls into $COOP buybacks and burns.

If every remaining chicken dies on the same day, the pot is split equally between them. It happens.

• Coops that never end. A coop with committed scripters can run indefinitely. The fee feed keeps growing the pot the whole time. This is intended.
• Multiple seats. One handle, one seat per coop. Several handles is your business, but each one has to peck.
• Dead coops. A coop that closes entry with one chicken settles immediately and pays them their own buy-in back. No fee feed goes to a one-chicken coop.
• Handle changes. The handle at entry is the handle that gets paid.
• Downtime. If the app is down, the contract still counts. Peck through any interface, including the contract directly.

Two jobs. It's what you buy in with, and its trading fees are what feed the pots. There is no yield, no staking tier and no governance vote that changes the rules of a running coop.

Because every trade feeds a pot that someone is going to win, holders have a reason to want volume, and players have a reason to want holders. That loop is the whole token design.

1. A trade happens. The launchpad charges its creator fee on the trade as usual.
2. The fee is routed to Coop. 100% of the token's creator-fee allocation points at the protocol, not at a creator wallet.
3. 80% goes to the live pots. Split across running coops in proportion to how many chickens are alive in each. A one-chicken coop gets nothing.
4. 20% buys and burns $COOP. Bought on the open market, sent to a burn address, published with the transaction.

You enter a coop with an X handle. When you win, the pot is paid in dollars to that handle through X Money. You don't need a wallet to receive it and you don't need to hold $COOP to be paid.

Payouts run on a schedule after settlement. If a handle can't receive after 30 days, the amount rolls into buybacks and burns. Coop-out refunds are paid the same way, to the same handle, in the same run.

Links and the contract address go live at launch, here and nowhere else. Anyone sharing a "$COOP" address before then is not us.

• You forget. The most likely way to lose money here is a calendar. One missed week, gone.
• Price risk. If pots are held in $COOP, the pot can fall in dollar terms while you're alive in it.
• Long coops. A pot can be locked for years while the last few chickens keep pecking. Chicken out is your only exit and it costs 20%.
• Payout rail. X Money is a third party. If it can't pay a handle, the fallback is a burn, not a refund.
• Contract risk. The code is small but it holds pots and needs review before mainnet.
• Regulation. A pooled buy-in with a single winner looks like a lottery in some places. Real coops open only where they've been cleared. See Eligibility and regions.
• $COOP can lose value, including all of it. Nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal or tax advice.

A coop is a tontine. Everyone pays the same buy-in during a 7-day entry window. Once it closes, every chicken must peck in at least once every 24 hours. Miss a day and you're dead; your buy-in stays in the pot. Leave alive and 20% stays. The last chicken alive takes the pot, paid in dollars to their X handle.

The pot also grows continuously from $COOP trading: 80% of the token's creator fees are split across live coops by chickens alive, 20% is bought back and burned.

1. Open. Every Monday, one coop per mode opens for entry.
2. Enter. Handle plus buy-in. One seat per handle per coop.
3. Start. Entry closes after 7 days. The first 24-hour peck interval begins.
4. Peck, chicken out, or die. Repeats every 24 hours.
5. Settle. One chicken left: whole pot to their handle via X Money. All remaining dead in the same interval: split equally.

Same rules in every mode. Only the buy-in changes: Easy $10, Normal $100, Hardcore $10,000. Daily pecking in every mode. What differs beyond the buy-in is cosmetic: Normal unlocks hats, Hardcore unlocks costumes.

No rake on the pot. Only chicken-out refunds and the final payout ever leave it.

• 100% of $COOP's creator-fee allocation is routed to the protocol.
• 80% is distributed to live coops, weighted by chickens alive. Coops with one chicken receive nothing.
• 20% buys $COOP on the open market and burns it. Each buyback is published with its transaction.
• Distribution runs on a schedule, proposed daily.

One contract per coop, one registry that opens them weekly. Death is evaluated lazily on any call, so no keeper is needed to kill anyone.

on enter(handle):              only during the entry window
    require seat[handle] == none
    pot += buy_in
    alive[handle] = true
    last_peck[handle] = start_time

on peck(handle):
    cull()
    require alive[handle]
    last_peck[handle] = now

on chicken_out(handle):
    cull()
    require alive[handle]
    alive[handle] = false;  alive_count -= 1
    pay handle: buy_in x 0.80          (via X Money run)
    pot -= buy_in x 0.80

on cull():                          runs first in every call
    for each h where alive[h] and now - last_peck[h] > 24 hours:
        alive[h] = false;  alive_count -= 1;  died_in[h] = interval(now)
    if alive_count <= 1: settle()

on fee_feed(amount):                from the fee router
    pot += amount                   already the coop's 80% share

on settle():
    if alive_count == 1: pay last alive handle: pot
    else: pay equally every handle with died_in == last interval
    pot = 0

X Money payouts are executed by an off-chain payout run that reads settled amounts from the contract. Amounts a handle can't receive after 30 days are burned.

The coop app on this site is the testnet preview of the client. It runs the same state machine as the contract sketch, against a demo clock so a week doesn't take a week, and remembers your coop in your own browser. The real client differs in three ways: the clock is real, the buy-in is real, and the peck is a signed transaction.

• Enter: mode, feathers, handle, buy-in.
• Live: countdown to the next required peck, peck button, chicken-out button, the coop scene, the board, the log.
• Death is evaluated on load and on every tick, from timestamps, exactly like cull().

• One entrant. Settles at start, refunds the buy-in in full, receives no fee feed.
• Simultaneous last deaths. Equal split between everyone who died in the final interval.
• Scripts. Allowed. The contract does not distinguish who pressed.
• Handle disputes. The handle at entry is paid. Ownership disputes go to X, not to us.
• App downtime. The contract accepts pecks directly. The app is a convenience.

• Forgetting is the main risk and is not recoverable.
• Pots may be locked for years in long coops.
• Payout depends on a third-party rail.
• Pooled buy-ins with a single winner may be regulated as a lottery in some regions.
• Contract holds funds and needs review before mainnet.

1. Pot denomination: $COOP or a dollar stablecoin.
2. A faster Hardcore, say every 12 hours.
3. Whether the chicken-out penalty should decay over time or stay flat at 20%.
4. Cap on chickens per coop, or unlimited.
5. Whether the fox does anything.
6. Which launchpad's fee routing to build on first.

• v0.4. Renamed Coop, $COOP. Daily peck interval. Lobby with a walkable chicken. Connect X and connect wallet flow. Mode-gated cosmetics: hats in Normal, costumes in Hardcore.
• v0.3. Three modes (Easy, Normal, Hardcore). Testnet coop app with demo clock, cosmetics, board and log. Fee-feed visualisation.
• v0.2. Tontine mechanic: fixed buy-in, 7-day peck interval, death forfeits 100%, chicken out forfeits 20%, last one alive takes the pot. Entry by X handle, payout via X Money. Fee feed 80 / 20. No season end.
• v0.1. Season vault: any token, 30-day season, straight-line exit penalty from 30%, 75 / 20 / 5 split among stayers.

• Scripts and bots that peck in for you. If it pecks, you pecked.
• Multiple coops and multiple modes at once.
• Chickening out at any moment, for any reason.
• Pecking through any interface, including the contract directly.

• Exploiting the contract. Report it privately and get credited instead.
• Impersonating another handle at entry to redirect their payout.
• Circumventing region restrictions to buy into real coops.
• Interfering with other chickens' ability to peck, such as attacking the app or their scripts.

The contract can't be paused and a running coop can't be edited, so enforcement happens at entry and payout: blocked handles can't enter new coops, and payouts to handles that entered fraudulently are held pending review. Everything else, the contract decides.

You must be an adult where you live to buy into a real coop. Testnet coops use play buy-ins with no value.

A pooled buy-in with a single winner looks like a lottery in some places and like a game of skill in others. Real coops open only in regions where they have been enabled after legal review. The list is published here before the first real coop opens.

We have not finished the legal opinion for that region. You can watch coops, use testnet, and hold $COOP. You cannot buy into a real coop.

Using a VPN or a relay to buy into a real coop from a region where they're not enabled is against the Terms. Payouts to such entries may be held.

Coop is a design and product preview of a tontine protocol operated by Coop Labs Ltd. ("we"). These terms cover this site, the testnet app and, once they open, real coops.

You must be an adult where you live and in a region where real coops have been enabled. See Eligibility and regions.

Your X handle is your identity in a coop and where payouts go. You control your wallet and your keys; we never hold them and never ask for them.

Testnet coops use buy-ins with no monetary value. They cannot be converted into anything of value and may be reset at any time.

A real coop is a smart contract. Once opened, its rules cannot be changed by us or by anyone. Missing a 24-hour peck interval forfeits your buy-in in full. Chickening out forfeits 20%. There are no refunds for any other reason.

Pots are paid to the X handle given at entry through X Money, on a schedule after settlement. Amounts that cannot be delivered after 30 days are burned. X Money's own terms apply to receiving.

No fee is taken from pots. $COOP trading fees are routed 80% to live pots and 20% to buybacks and burns, published on screen.

Circumventing region restrictions, exploiting the contract, impersonating another handle, or interfering with other players' ability to peck.

The protocol is provided as is. Nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal or tax advice. Tokens, including $COOP, can lose value, including all of it.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for losses from forgetting to peck, price movements, contract bugs, network failures, payout-rail failures, or your own decision to chicken out.

We may update these terms. Changes are announced on this site. Running coops are unaffected by any change.

Your X handle when you enter a coop, your email if you join the waitlist, and what you send us if you write to support. Everything else about a coop is public on chain.

To run the board, pay you, send the emails you asked for and answer you. We do not sell it and do not use it for advertising.

Handles, pecks, deaths, chicken-outs and payouts are public. That is the game. We cannot delete on-chain data.

Waitlist emails until you unsubscribe. Support threads for two years.

Unsubscribe from any email, or write to the privacy address on the Support page for access, export or deletion of off-chain data.

The coop app on this site stores your demo coop in your own browser's local storage and sends nothing anywhere. Clearing site data resets it.

Sets no cookies and loads no third-party trackers. Fonts are loaded from a font host, which sees your request like any other web request.

The testnet preview uses local storage in your browser to remember your coop, your feathers and your peck countdown. Nothing leaves your device.