Questions, answered straight.
The questions a careful buyer asks before they tap, answered concretely.
Is this a rug?
There is no owner key, no pause switch, and no fee dial — nobody can drain the vault, redraw a ticket, or change the fee. The vault is held by the hook contract itself, not a team wallet. The source is verified on Etherscan: two contracts, read them before you buy.
Does it really pay out?
Yes, and that is the one part the mechanic guarantees. The difficulty mark eases every 500 cold draws. Thirteen eases down it covers the whole range — by the 6,500th unclaimed draw, the next ticket wins for certain. The vault transfers in the same transaction that settles the winning ticket. No claim page.
What's the catch?
Early on, the odds are long and the vault is small. At the opening 1-in-8,192 mark you are buying a roll at a jackpot, not a calculated bet — the same engine every lottery runs on. As the vault grows and the odds ease, each ticket buys a bigger pot at shorter odds. After a win it resets: the vault drops to a 1/16 seed and the mark snaps back to strict.
Is the math in my favour?
Not at the open — at long odds against a small vault it is not. It becomes friendlier as the vault deepens and the mark eases, and it resets after every win. What the draw actually keeps is plain: the draw is guaranteed to pay, the odds only ever shorten, and the vault is real ETH.
Do I have to hold $DRAW?
No. Your ticket is registered the moment you buy — what you do with the token afterward is your choice. Buying a ticket and holding the token are two separate things. You buy, you get a roll, the vault can land on you.
What happens to the vault after someone wins?
The winner takes all of it but a 1/16 sliver, which stays behind to seed the next round — so the table is never cold. The mark snaps back to the strict 1-in-8,192 opening odds, and the next draw begins. The vault grows again from there.
Can I be sniped?
Your number is the hash of your own buy block — sealed only after you sign, drawn by whoever buys after you. There is no winning address to grind and nothing to precompute, because the number does not exist yet when you buy. One edge case, a fully stalled pool, is covered on the security page.
What if the pool goes quiet?
Tickets settle one step behind, so a later buy is needed to draw an earlier one. If buys stop, unsettled tickets simply wait for the next buy. There is a fallback for tickets left past the 256-block window — read exactly how it works, and its one limit, on the security page.
Where does the 0.30% LP fee go?
To liquidity providers, like any Uniswap v4 pool. It is separate from the draw fee and it never changes. The draw fee funds the vault; the LP fee funds liquidity. The only moving part in the whole design is the prize.