The rules of the game
How it works
Post about $BURNIE on X. When real people engage with your posts, you earn points. Every week the pool is split among the top 100 by points. That’s the whole game — here is every rule of it, in plain English.
Strong efforts. The plan requires more attempts.
Link your X account
It must be at least a day old. That keeps throwaway accounts minted minutes ago out of the arena.
Connect your wallet
One wallet per X account, one X account per wallet. No doubling up, in either direction.
Hold $50 of $BURNIE
Your wallet must hold at least $50 worth of $BURNIE. We check the balance once a day — you keep full custody, we only read it.
Original posts, quote posts, and replies all count. Pure retweets don’t. For a post to enter the arena it needs at least one of:
- the $BURNIE cashtag
- a mention of the official project account
- the contract address
The post only qualifies if you were holding your $50 of $BURNIE on the day you posted it.
You do not get points for posting. You get points for the engagement your post earns. A post nobody reacts to is worth close to nothing — a post people quote and repost is worth a lot.
| Someone… | You earn |
|---|---|
| Quotes your post | 8 points |
| Reposts your post | 5 points |
| Replies to your post | 3 points |
| Bookmarks your post | 2 points |
| Likes your post | 1 point |
| Views your post | 1 point per 100 views |
Then small boosts multiply on top:
- +40% for a video, +25% for an image, +15% for the contract address, +10% for tagging the project — capped at 2× combined
- Streak: post on consecutive days and every post gets +5% per day of streak, up to +50% after 10 days
Top 5 posts per day
Only your 5 highest-scoring posts each day count. Post a hundred times and we score your best 5 — the rest earn zero.
One post can’t win a week
A single post’s score is capped at 25,000 points, however viral it goes.
Humans review anomalies
A post that suddenly gets 10× the engagement its author normally gets is flagged for human review — never auto-banned, because genuinely viral posts look the same from the numbers alone.
Bought engagement, engagement pods, and sybil accounts are against the rules and get you removed. The details live in the Terms of Service.
Every post gets a 72-hour windowto collect engagement, then its score locks for good. Weeks run Monday to Monday (UTC). At the close, everyone’s locked points are added up and the 1,000 USDC pool is split among the top 100 in proportion to their points. More points, bigger slice.
A post published in the last three days of a week is still measured for its full 72 hours, so it counts toward the week its window closes in — your dashboard shows exactly which week each post lands in. Payouts are sent manually after the close.
Quests
The quest board pays fixed bounties for specific goals — check it on your dashboard and collect as you go.
Referrals
Invite people with your referral code and earn 10% of the points they make — capped at 50% of your own, so inviting can boost a grinder but never replace the grinding.
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