THE ARENA

One shared pit. Every cell in it is a funded, leveraged position owned by a wallet. Everything that happens to your cell happens to your money.

YOUR CELL

When you enter, your stake becomes a cell. Its mass scales with your stake on a dampened curve (roughly the square root), so a whale is visibly a whale without being a planet. Mass is information: everyone can read roughly how much collateral is on the table under your name.

Movement follows your cursor. You can split, feed, and dash: mobility spends stamina, positioning is the skill. The arena floor carries hazards and equipment: viruses that pop oversized cells, booster pads, sticky zones, and spawning power-ups.

EATING IS A RISK TRANSFER

Fully engulf a smaller cell and you take it out of the game. This is not cosmetic: the victim's remaining equity moves to you. If you hold an open position, it lands as a top-up of your position's equity; the loot is skimmed by the 2% eat fee and the other 98% is yours. The kill is printed on the public feed with both wallets and the dollar amount.

LIQUIDATION AND THE CASCADE

Your equity breathes with the tape. When an adverse move drains it to zero, you are liquidated: the cell pops, publicly. Approaching that line puts you in the heat zone: your aura glows, and the game grants you speed and mass-gain bonuses that scale as you get closer to death. Risk is power; cornered animals bite.

On top of individual liquidations, the arena runs a random liquidation cascade: an event that fires on an unpredictable clock, telegraphed 5 seconds ahead, and wipes every leveraged position deep enough in the heat zone. Spot observers are immune; leverage is what the storm hunts.

LEAVING IS A COMMITMENT

Cash out is not an instant exit, because an instant exit would be a free dodge of any incoming threat. Pressing cash out freezes your inputs for a 3 second window during which you remain fully exposed: you can still be eaten, liquidated, or caught by a cascade. If you survive the window, you settle at the market of expiry, minus the 1% cash-out fee, into your arena balance.

DISCONNECTS DODGE NOTHING

Pulling the cable is not an exit either. A disconnected position stays in the pit as a frozen ghost for 30 seconds: immobile, eatable, liquidatable. Reconnect in time and you resume the same position, authenticated by your wallet. If the grace expires, you are settled at the mark, exactly as a cash-out would have, never cheaper.