how the floor tallies a napkin
A napkin on this floor is not a sentence somebody typed. It is three choices — a counter this floor already reads, a target number, and a window — and the English is generated from them. That is the whole idea: a napkin the floor cannot settle cannot be written, so the whole room sees what losing looks like at the moment it signs, and nobody has to declare a winner afterwards.
what the floor can count
| Counter | What it counts |
|---|---|
| distinct buyers | wallets that bought at least once in the window, summed across the room's pools |
| distinct sellers | wallets that sold at least once in the window |
| trades | buys plus sells in the window |
| pools traded in | how many of the room's pools saw any trade in the window |
Windows: 30 minutes · 1 hour · 6 hours · 24 hours. Counters: 4. Rooms: 12.
what the floor refuses
- · a price, a market cap or any valuation target
- · a holder count — this chain's explorer is behind a challenge page and the number cannot be read honestly
- · one token address to buy: every counter spans a cluster
- · anything the floor cannot read on a schedule
This is not moderation, it is the vocabulary: there is no counter that reads a price, and every counter is defined over a room of tokens, so there is nothing to point a napkin at. A napkin is a group stunt with a scoreboard. It is not a trading signal and it is not a claim that anything will go up.
the rooms
| Room | Matched on the pool name by |
|---|---|
| whole chain | every tracked pool |
| hardware and objects | laptop, radio, phone, car, rocket, box, chair, pc, tv |
| Robinhood brand | robin, hood, sherwood, arrow, bow, nottingham, merry, vlad, tenev, feather, … |
| stonks and Wall Street | stonk, stock, wall, wsb, nasd, nyse, broker, trader, trade, bull, … |
| classic animals | dog, doge, inu, shib, frog, pepe, duck, pengu, penguin, ape, … |
| AI and agents | ai, agent, gpt, llm, neural, bot, mcp, claude, grok, openai, … |
| money and getting rich | rich, money, cash, bank, gold, dollar, usd, pay, yield, profit, … |
| internet culture | meme, chad, wojak, npc, sigma, based, gm, wagmi, ngmi, fomo, … |
| games and betting | bet, casino, lotto, lottery, slot, dice, crash, grid, mine, mining, … |
| food | pizza, burger, taco, coffee, beer, wine, banana, cake, sushi, noodle |
| science and space | space, mars, moon, star, galaxy, quantum, nuclear, atom, fusion, orbit |
| CashCat and cats | cashcat, cash cat, letscash, cat, kitty, meow, nip, purr |
how a record settles
- 1 · When nothing is on the tally, the napkin on the bar with the most stamps on it is carried up at the next reading. Its target is frozen there, against the reading that carried it, and the deadline is that moment plus the window.
- 2 · While it performs, the counter is read every five minutes and every reading is kept with the minute it was taken. A minute the feed could not answer well enough is written as a gap, never as a zero.
- 3 · At the deadline the record settles itself on the reading taken at the deadline: performed if that reading reached the target, fell short otherwise. The counter is a rolling window, so only that reading covers the napkin's own window and nothing before it — a reading taken a minute after the napkin went up mostly counts activity from before the napkin existed and can never decide it. The peak reading is kept and printed, but it does not settle anything.
- 4 · If more than 25% of the window went unread, the record settles unseen, not failed, and prints for how long the counter was unreadable.
- 5 · Nothing is resettled afterwards, and no failure is wiped off the bar.
the public ledger
Every settled napkin carries a sha-256 hash taken over the previous one's hash and its own record — id, sentence, condition, target, final and peak reading, state, promotion, deadline, deciding reading, unread seconds and the number of wallets that signed, serialised with sorted keys and timestamps normalised to ISO-8601 UTC. The whole chain is published at /api/v1/ledger, and every row carries the exact record object that was hashed plus a verified flag, so anyone can recompute the chain from the export and see whether a row was changed.
Anchoring this hash on-chain would make it independently timestamped. That costs gas, which has not been authorised, so it is listed here as pending and is not claimed anywhere on this site.
sources and limits
- Where the numbers come from. GeckoTerminal's public pool feed for this chain. One sweep reads 3 pages of 20 pools ordered by 24-hour transaction count — the 60 most-traded pools on this chain — and sums the per-window transaction block each pool publishes.
- What that leaves out. A pool outside those 60 is invisible to the counter. That is a real limit and it is why a napkin names a room rather than a token: the counter measures a room's activity as this feed reports it, nothing more.
- No holder counts. This chain's block explorer is behind a challenge page, so a holder number cannot be read honestly. There is therefore no holder counter, rather than an unverifiable one.
- A wallet is not a person. One regular can carry many stamps. The floor counts wallets, says so, and prints the roster in signing order.
- A counter moves for reasons that have nothing to do with a napkin. A settled record says only what the counter read inside the window. It never says who caused it.
- Signing is not performing. A napkin can be carried up and nobody does it. Those records stay on the bar.
what this floor is testing about itself
Two things, published whatever they say. First, that settlement is honest: every performing napkin shows its frozen target, its whole chain of readings, and the reading that decided it. Second, the claim the whole lounge exists to make — how often a napkin the room carried up was actually performed, and whether the number of stamps that carried it predicts anything about that. If it turns out the same however many stamps signed, the signing is decoration and should be cut.
So far: 12 settled, 5 performed, 7 fell short, 0 unseen. Median stamps signed: 2 on the performed napkins against 1 on the failures — far too few records to mean anything yet.
public API
/api/v1/dares — every napkin, paged. Parameters: page, limit (max 50), state. Returns { items, page, per_page, total, next }.
/api/v1/ledger — the settled chain, paged the same way.