Fair play
We do not think we can stop anyone from running a script. What we can do is make sure that a script earns exactly what a player earns, no more, and that nobody's earnings come out of another player's pocket.
The five rules
| Rule | What it stops |
|---|---|
| Only earned LEMON can be withdrawn. Bought LEMON never leaves the game until you have earned an equal amount by playing. Earned LEMON releases over 30 days. | Buying cheap, dumping on players. Any wallet that has not played has no exit. |
| Bound SEED is never redeemable. Welcome bonuses and the free stand pay bound SEED only. | Thousand-account farms collecting free money. |
| Capped output per stand; 3 stands per account until the 10,000th stand is sold, then 10; one account per Telegram identity. | Whales scaling linearly. Ten stands earn exactly ten times one stand, and the ladder itself charges every later stand more. |
| Dynamic city prices. A crowded city pays less per cup to everyone in it. | Farms concentrating a thousand stands. They lower their own price. |
| Redemption budget shared proportionally. If a wave of redemptions exceeds the Bank, the rate scales down for everyone in that month. | Whoever is fastest getting a better rate than everyone else. |
What a bot can do
A bot can buy stands, buy supplies, set an average formula and open the round every day. All of that is what the Bank wants: the bot pays the ladder price, pays 40% of its gross back in supplies, and hits its cap like everyone else. The round randomness cannot be mined (see The daily round) and the formula rewards attention to weather that an average script does not have. A bot earns the average; a good player earns more.
What a whale can do
A whale can buy up to the account limit (three stands at launch, ten once the 10,000th stand is sold), and more on another Telegram identity. Every stand is capped, the ladder raises the price of every stand after it, and every crowded city pays less. Ten stands earn exactly ten times what one stand earns — there is no bulk discount and no bulk bonus. The whale pays a lot into the Bank and takes out the same multiple per stand as anyone else. What the whale cannot do is buy 100,000 LEMON and sell it on players' heads: without earnings there is no withdrawal allowance.
What we cannot do
The team cannot mint LEMON outside the rules in Tokenomics, cannot withdraw the perpetual fund, cannot lower the band floor, cannot change the round's numbers after a commitment exists, and holds no LEMON at all: its income is 10% of the GRAM (ExTON) the game collects plus a share of staking yield. Every one of those is a contract property, and every contract is verified. If we ever wanted to steal from this game we would have to do it in public and on-chain.
Reporting
A verification page lets anyone recompute any day's round, any box opening, any month's redemption budget and the fund's daily burn from published data. If a number does not match, tell us; if we cannot explain it, we were wrong and we will say so.