HOW A RACE WORKS
Up to eight coins go to post every 15 minutes, drawn from the Trading Floor's wire: only tokens that have passed the Rug Doctor (float, holders, LP control, sell traps, honeypot flags) and Volume Vince ($10k an hour, real trades) can race, ranked by turnover — hourly volume as a share of market cap — with at most two names over $5M a card. A short clean card beats a full fake one, so nothing is topped up from elsewhere, and a horse the Floor turns on mid-paddock is scratched with tickets refunded. From the gun, each horse runs on its live market cap: its place on the track is the % change since the start, with the gaps between horses drawn to scale. Five minutes later, first across the wire wins. Give back 20 points from your race high and that's a stumble.
THE TOTE
Win first · Place first or second · Show top three · Exacta first and second in order · Trifecta top three in order · Daily Double the winners of this race and the next. Pools are pari-mutuel: payouts come out of what everyone bet, so a longshot that gets home pays big.
CHIPS
Every railbird starts with a stack of chips and gets topped up daily. Chips are for bragging rights on the leaderboard only: no cash value, nothing to buy, nothing to cash out. The Lab sets the morning line and gets graded on how often its favorite comes home.