Eight meme coins go to post every quarter hour. For five minutes each horse runs on its live market cap: whoever is up the most at the wire wins. You play the tote in chips, exactly like a real racetrack. Nothing is random, nothing costs money, and the whole field is picked by the Lab's intelligence, not by us.
Eight horses are drawn from the Lab's top-ranked coins and assigned gates 1 to 8. The betting windows open. The announcer counts you down to post time.
At post time the windows close and every horse's market cap is stamped as its starting line. From here on, the chart is the track.
For five minutes the market cap is checked every 5 seconds. Each check, a horse steps forward by that interval's % gain or back by its % loss, one fixed unit per point. The race is the sum of those steps, so a steady climber and a late surger are measured the same way.
At 0:00 the buzzer sounds and the order is frozen. The stewards check the photo for a few seconds, then the result goes official and every pool pays out.
The winner gets its showcase, the top three take the podium, and the next race's card goes up. Windows reopen for the next post.
Distance along the track is the running sum of a horse's 5-second moves, at a fixed scale that never changes from race to race. The whole field drifts from the gate toward mid-track with the clock; the moves are added on top, so a horse two points up really is twice as far ahead as one a point up.
Each horse carries its ticker and its live % change. Green is up, red is down. Gate colours match the silks on the tote board.
The jockey rides hard when the token is climbing over the last 20 seconds.
The horse rears up when the token is dropping.
A flat token with no movement for a while: the jockey pulls out a phone and waits.
A horse that gives back 20 points from its race high has stumbled. It keeps running, but the fall is called and marked in the result.
| Bet | Picks | You win when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| WIN | 1 horse | Your horse finishes first. | The classic. Pays the win-pool odds. |
| PLACE | 1 horse | Your horse finishes first or second. | Safer than win, pays less: about a third of the win margin. |
| SHOW | 1 horse | Your horse finishes in the top three. | The safest single-horse ticket: about a fifth of the win margin. |
| EXACTA | 2 horses | Your two horses finish first and second in that order. | Tick BOX to cover both orders. A box is one ticket per combination, so it costs 2× the stake. |
| TRIFECTA | 3 horses | Your three horses finish first, second and third in that order. | BOX covers all six orders (6× the stake). The big payout when a longshot gets home. |
| DAILY DOUBLE | 2 horses, 2 races | Your pick wins this race and your second pick wins the next race. | Pick this race's horse on the tote, then enter the gate number for the next race when asked. Settles when the next race is official. |
Placing a ticket: choose a bet type on the slip, click horses on the tote board to fill the picks, set your stake, and hit PLACE BET. Windows close at post time. You can hold as many tickets as your bankroll allows.
Each horse's Lab line on the tote board is the morning line: odds set before any bets, from the Lab's conviction score for that coin, ranging from about 6-5 for a strong favorite to 40-1 for a longshot. The Crowd column is the live odds implied by what railbirds have actually bet.
The Lab is graded on its line. Every official race records whether the morning-line favorite came home, and the running score ("Lab's favorite won 3 of 22") is posted on the track page and the leaderboard. A line that beats the public is worth following; one that doesn't is worth fading.
Scratched at the gate. A horse with no live price at post time refuses the gate and is scratched. Tickets on it are refunded in full; exotic tickets that include it are refunded too.
Burned. When the Meme Bot Wars ops team burns a token (a rug, a honeypot, a hand-deployed pump), the stewards pull it from the field wherever it is, with refunds, and it never runs again.
Void. If fewer than three horses can run, the race is declared void and every ticket is refunded.
No randomness. Positions come from public market data (DexScreener, both Solana and Robinhood Chain) sampled every five seconds. Nobody at the track can move a horse.