FAQ

Straight answers, links to the long versions.

How do I join the alpha?

Get test ETH and stock tokens from the official Robinhood Chain faucet (the Faucets page has the link), open alpha.gntlt.net, connect your wallet, deposit and play. Everything is on the Alpha page.

What do I need to play?

A browser, a wallet and a stock token to stake. No download, no account, no email. During the alpha it runs on the Robinhood Chain testnet instead: a wallet and test tokens from the faucet are enough. Start here.

What can I stake?

A Robinhood stock token: TSLA, AMZN, PLTR, NFLX or AMD. Stock tokens are ERC-20 tokens that track a stock's price; they are not the shares themselves. Your stake stays a token: you win and lose in stock tokens, and a cash-out pays tokens back, not dollars. Economics has the details.

Why Robinhood Chain?

Because the stock tokens live there. Robinhood Chain puts stocks onchain, and Gauntlet gives them a job: collateral in a game where every token you win comes out of another player's stake. Its blocks land about every tenth of a second, which suits a real-time arena.

Is it actually fair?

The tape is a seeded, replayable synthetic price anchored to the live market price: latency sniping does not pay, and any round can be replayed bit for bit from its seed. The Game Price has the details, and the same commit-first doctrine runs through season parameters and withdrawal roots.

Who am I trading against?

Other players, only. The economics are pari-mutuel: winners collect exactly what losers pay. There is no house position, no market maker, no funding rate.

Can the team take the pot?

There is no function in the vault contract that moves funds to the owner: no sweep, no rescue, nothing to "trust" on that point. Exits are claimed by your wallet with an on-chain proof, behind delays and caps that bound everyone, including a compromised operator. Read the trust model: we prefer explaining it to sloganizing it.

What if I disconnect mid-game?

Your position holds for a 30 second grace: frozen, still exposed, still eatable (cable-pulling dodges nothing). Reconnect in time and you resume it, signed by your wallet. If the server itself crashes, open positions are refunded at their last journaled mark. The Arena covers both.

Why does my name look like 0x1a2B…9fD0?

Because you are your wallet. Nobody can type your name, wear your reputation, or chat as you: the server derives identity from the address that signed your entry. That name shows on the boards, the feed and the chat; in the arena, your cell shows your live position instead.

What are the numbers on the cells?

Each cell shows its live equity in dollars and its PnL since entry; bigger cells also carry a tag like 10x LONG ETH. The ring around it tracks equity against stake, colored by heat. Everyone sees everyone's: The Arena explains how to read them.

Are points worth anything?

Points are the score of the game: mined by playing, harder every epoch, never reset, permanently on record per wallet. They are not a promise of money: the more points you earn, the more $GNTL you might receive at launch, and $GNTL itself carries no promise of gain. The rest belongs to the redacted pages.

Wen token?

██████████. The ticker will be $GNTL; everything else is sealed until real. If you found a "$GNTL" trading today, it is a scam: Tokenomics.

Is this financial advice?

No. It is a knife fight in a spreadsheet. Read the Risk Disclaimer and size accordingly.