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How It Works

The Core Loop

Claim a tile, hold it, earn from it, get bought out — then do it again. Five steps.

The Core Loop

What GridCore does in one sentence.

⚡ Tiles are always for sale. Every buyout generates a 1% pool fee shared equally across all tile holders. Being bought out means someone paid your listed price — you receive 98% of it instantly. The goal is to hold tiles in active grids and profit from the buyout flow and reward pool income.
1
Claim
2
Hold & Earn
3
Get Bought Out
4
Profit

Step by Step

The full flow, in order.

01
A creator launches a grid

Any Solana token can launch a 100-tile grid by calling launch_coin on the program. The creator sets a starting price per tile. From that moment the grid is live and tiles are claimable.

02
You claim an empty tile

Pay the starting price — that's all. No extra deposit, no fee on first claims. Your tile auto-lists at 1.2× the starting price (the default resale multiplier). You're protected from buyouts for 20 minutes after claiming.

03
A 2% fee runs on every buyout

Every buyout deducts 2% from the listed price and splits it: 1% to the reward pool shared by all tile holders, 0.4% direct to the grid creator, 0.6% to the GridCore treasury. The buyer pays the listed price; the seller receives 98% of it.

04
You earn from the reward pool

The 1% pool fee from every buyout in the grid flows into a shared accumulator. Rewards are split equally — one share per tile, regardless of which tile or what price it's listed at. Claim any time with no minimum and no lock-up.

05
Someone buys you out

The buyer pays your listed price. You receive 98% of it instantly in the same transaction — the 2% fee is taken from the price, not added on top. Your profit comes from the 1.2× auto-resale price minus the 2% fee — plus any rewards you collected while holding.

Quick Example

Alice, Bob, and Carol walk through the loop with real numbers.

Grid starts with a 1.00 SOL starting price
Alice claims tile #0 (first claim, no fee)pays 1.00 SOL
Alice's tile auto-lists at (1.00 × 1.2×)1.20 SOL listed price
Alice's acquisition_price1.00 SOL
Bob buys Alice out at her 1.20 SOL listed price
Bob pays (the listed price)1.20 SOL
Alice receives (98% of listed price)1.176 SOL
Alice net result (paid 1.00 → got 1.176)+0.176 SOL profit ✓
2% fee (0.024 SOL) split 3 ways:1% + 0.4% + 0.6% = 2% total
↳ 1% of price → accumulator (all holders)0.012 SOL
↳ 0.4% of price → grid creator0.0048 SOL
↳ 0.6% of price → treasury0.0072 SOL
Bob's tile auto-lists at (1.20 × 1.2×)1.44 SOL listed price
Carol buys Bob out at his 1.44 SOL listed price
Carol pays (the listed price)1.44 SOL
Bob receives (98% of listed price)1.4112 SOL
Bob net result (paid 1.20 → got 1.4112)+0.2112 SOL profit ✓
2% fee (0.0288 SOL) split 3 ways:1% + 0.4% + 0.6% = 2% total
↳ 1% → accumulator0.0144 SOL
↳ 0.4% → creator0.00576 SOL
↳ 0.6% → treasury0.00864 SOL
✓ Key insight: the 2% fee is taken FROM the listed price (seller gets 98%), not added on top. Because tiles auto-list at 1.2× the acquisition price, every buyout is profitable for the outgoing holder — unless they manually lowered their price. Reward pool income during the hold period adds on top of that.