How it works
A ponzi game, on-chain, and it says so.
upside runs entirely inside one Solana program. Money only ever comes from other players. Below is exactly where every lamport goes. The numbers on this page are read live from the program.
Bricks
You buy bricks with SOL. The first brick of a round costs 0.001000 SOL, and every brick sold makes the next one 0.000000500 SOL more expensive. The first 100 bricks of a round cost 0.1025 SOL together; brick 1,001 costs 0.001500 SOL on its own. Early is cheap. That is the whole point, and the whole risk.
Every brick pays every brick below it
45% of every buy is split across every brick that already exists, in proportion, the moment the buy lands. Your earnings tick up every time someone places bricks above yours. Withdraw them whenever you like, during the round or long after it. Nothing expires.
The clock
The first brick of a round starts a 10-minute clock. Every brick adds 30 seconds, and the clock can never read more than 60 minutes. When nobody buys for long enough, it reaches zero. No one can pause it, the house included.
The last brick
At zero the round ends and anyone can settle it. 50% of the pot goes to the wallet that placed the last brick. 25% is paid to every brick holder as a final dividend. Whoever settles gets 1% (at most 0.050 SOL) to cover the next round's account. The remaining 24%, plus everything set aside during the round, becomes the next pyramid's starting pot.
Where every buy goes
The house
The house takes 5% of each buy, and the program caps that at 5%. That is all it takes. It cannot touch the pot, anyone's dividends or a running clock. Each round keeps its own money in its own account. The house can change parameters for future rounds only, and every change is announced on-chain at least one full round before it applies.
Playing well
- Big buys are split into a few pieces inside one transaction, so your earlier pieces earn from your later ones. Anyone can do this. The site does it for you.
- An invite link pays its owner 10% of every buy it brings. Using your own second wallet works too, which makes it a 10% discount. We would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
- Bots play. The first brick of a round and the last seconds of a clock are races, and a busy network can keep your buy from landing in time.
- A buy that lands after zero fails and costs nothing but the network fee.
- Your first buy in a round opens a seat, a small account that holds your bricks (about 0.0012 SOL of rent). Claiming a finished round closes it and gives the rent back.
The risk, plainly
This is a ponzi game. You only get paid when people buy after you. If they stop, you keep what later buyers already paid you plus your share of the final 25%, and most players get back less than they put in. Treat it as gambling, only play with money you can lose, and don't play where this is not allowed.
Check it yourself
- Program
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- Who can upgrade it
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- House treasury
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- Fee wallet
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- Admin
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- Announced change
- None