[how the leaderboard works]

[overview]

The leaderboard is a rolling ranking of wallets by cycle score. It is not a ranking of how much SOL you have already been paid — it measures the $TAKEOVER promotion you shipped inside the current cycle only. Bounty payouts on [bounties] are paid per task; the leaderboard pays a second time, from the cycle pool, to the wallets that pushed the ticker hardest.

[cycles & resets]

A cycle runs 7 days, opening Monday 00:00 UTC and closing Sunday 23:59 UTC. When a cycle closes:

1. 1. submissions stop counting toward that cycle immediately
2. 2. a 12h review window clears the pending queue
3. 3. final ranks lock and the pool is split by tier
4. 4. SOL is streamed to wallets within 24h of lock
5. 5. cycle score resets to 0 — lifetime earned never resets

Anything submitted during the review window rolls into the next cycle. There is no carry-over of points, only of reputation.

[the score formula]

Each accepted action is scored independently, then summed.

points = weight
       × quality        (0.5 – 2.0, set by review)
       × reach          (1.0 – 1.8, log scale on views/likes)
       × streak         (1.0 – 1.25)
       × scarcity       (1.0 or 1.3)

cycle_score = Σ points of all accepted actions in cycle

Reach is capped so one viral post cannot own a cycle: the maximum contribution of a single action is 350 points, no matter how far it travels.

[action weights]

Weight tracks effort, the same way bounty pricing does. Every action must contain the literal string $TAKEOVER or it scores zero.

[multipliers]

Multipliers stack multiplicatively but the product is clamped to 3.5×. Missing a day drops your streak straight back to 1.0.

[quality gate]

Reviewers score every submission before it hits the board. The gate is simple:

[payout tiers]

The cycle pool is split by rank tier, then split evenly inside each tier by share of tier score. You must clear 150 cycle points to be payout-eligible.

Payouts land at the wallet you signed up with. Wrong wallet = lost payout; we cannot reverse a Solana transfer.

[anti-farm rules]

• × no bot accounts, no comment rings, no engagement pods
• × no duplicate or near-duplicate text across accounts
• × no deleting a post after it is accepted — deletion claws the points back
• × no bought views or likes; reach is re-checked 24h later
• × one wallet per human; alt wallets zero every linked account
• × no engagement-farm bait ("comment 1 for…") that never names $TAKEOVER

First offence: cycle score zeroed. Second: wallet banned from the board permanently. Bounty payouts already sent are not clawed back, but future claims are blocked.

[disputes & appeals]

Rejected submission you think was scored wrong? Open a dispute within 48h of the rating with the post link, your wallet, and one line on why. Reviewers re-rate within 24h. Re-rates can move up or down. Three frivolous disputes in a cycle rate-limit you to one dispute per week.

[faq]