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The FAQ.
Short answers you can check.

Most answers point at a page where you can verify them yourself: draws on /fairness, fees on /vault, listings on /market. Jump to a section or read top to bottom.

01 - BASICS

Basics.

What Binder is and how you take part.

#What is Binder?: A launchpad for card-buying strategies. Anyone writes a rule, like “PSA 10 Charizard under $500”, and launches a token for it on pump.fun. The token’s trading fees fund a strategy wallet that buys matching graded cards on Collector Crypt, then raffles, keeps or flips each card the way the rule says.
#How do I enter a draw?: Hold at least 10,000 of the strategy’s tokens (0.001% of the 1B supply) in a Solana wallet when the draw’s snapshot is taken. No signup, no ticket, nothing to claim. Pick a strategy on /strategies; its page links to the token.
#What are my odds?: Your balance at the snapshot divided by the combined balance of every eligible wallet. Excluded wallets are removed before the total is counted, so they don’t dilute anyone. A strategy can also cap one wallet’s weight at 1–20% of the eligible supply, and that cap is locked with its rules. /me shows your odds for the next draw of every strategy you hold.
#When does a draw happen?: Every card gets its own timer. When a raffle strategy buys a card, the countdown starts with the window set at deploy: 15 or 30 minutes, or 1, 2, 4, 6, 12 or 24 hours. Each strategy draws on its own schedule, so no shared queue pushes a 15-minute draw back by hours. Upcoming draws are on /raffles.

02 - DRAWS

Draws.

How a winner is picked, who sits out, and what can never change.

#How is the winner picked?: At draw time every holder is snapshotted at slot S and the snapshot’s Merkle root is recorded. The draw then commits to slot S + 32, a block that doesn’t exist yet. Its blockhash, the draw id and the root make the seed, and the seed picks a ticket weighted by balance. Paste any draw id on /fairness to recompute it in your browser.
#Who can’t win?: The deployer and their dev-buy wallet can’t win their own strategy’s draws. The wallet that sold the card on Collector Crypt can’t win it back. The strategy wallet, the platform’s own wallets, the pump.fun curve or pool and the burn address are never counted, and neither are wallets under 10,000 tokens. Every draw lists what it dropped and why; the full list is below.
#Why do recent winners sit out?: To spread the cards around. After a win, a wallet skips that strategy’s next two draws, then comes back with its full weight. The sit-out only applies inside the strategy where it won.
#Can a strategy’s rules change after launch?: No. The buying rule and the card policy, raffle window included, are hashed at deploy. The hash is shown on the strategy page, and there is no edit path for the deployer or for us. A strategy that launched with a 24-hour window keeps it for good.
#What if a prize transfer fails?: The winner is written to the record before anything is sent. If the transfer fails, it is retried to the same wallet until it confirms. A failure never triggers a new draw, so there are no re-rolls. Every draw shows its transfer status and attempt count.

03 - CARDS

Cards.

What a strategy buys and what happens to each slab.

#Which cards does a strategy buy?: Only Collector Crypt listings priced in USDC that match every part of the rule: character, grader, grade, language, year and price. A rule can name several characters and every one is searched, not just the first. Before buying, the worker checks the listing is still live and budgets for fees, so far fewer buys fail. By default it never pays more than 110% of Collector Crypt’s insured value. Try a rule on /market.
#What do RAFFLE, KEEP and FLIP mean?: Raffle: the card is drawn among holders when its window ends. Keep: the card stays in the strategy wallet and its insured value shows as backing per token; that is a figure, not a right to redeem. Flip: the card is relisted on Collector Crypt at what it paid plus the markup set at deploy (5–100%), and the proceeds either buy more cards or buy back and burn the strategy’s token.
#How do I get the physical card?: A prize arrives as a Collector Crypt NFT backed 1:1 by a graded slab in their insured vault. To take delivery, redeem it on Collector Crypt; their process, shipping fees and eligibility rules apply. Binder doesn’t ship cards and can’t redeem for you. You can also just keep or trade the NFT.

04 - FEES & $BIND

Fees & $BIND.

Where the money goes and what the platform token does.

#Where do the trading fees go?: Each strategy token’s pump.fun creator fee lands in its strategy wallet. When the worker claims it, 80% stays with the strategy as its card budget and 20% goes to the platform, split in the same transaction as the claim. Every claim, split, buyback and burn is in the public ledger on /vault.
#What does $BIND do?: It receives the platform’s 20%. Half buys back $BIND and burns it; half funds the Binder Vault, whose cards are raffled to $BIND holders under the same draw rules. Holding it pays no dividend and gives no claim on any card. More on /token.

05 - DEPLOYERS

Deployers.

What launching a strategy costs and what you get.

#What does it cost to launch a strategy?: 0.035 SOL, plus an optional dev buy of up to 2 SOL. You sign once and the token launches on pump.fun with the strategy wallet as its creator, so its fees flow to the strategy from the first trade. Start on /deploy.
#What does the deployer earn?: No share of fees. A deployer’s upside is the tokens from their dev buy, same as any holder’s, except they can’t win their own strategy’s draws. The 2 SOL cap on the dev buy stops a deployer from owning most of the supply on day one.

06 - RISK

Risk.

The small print that matters.

#What can go wrong?: Token prices can go to zero. Cards are only bought while people trade the token: no volume, no fees, no cards. Strategy wallets are run by our worker, and cards on Collector Crypt can carry CC’s transfer delegates, so a bug, a leaked key or an outage on either side could cost funds or cards. This is experimental, unaudited software. Read /terms.
#Is this legal where I live?: Maybe not. A prize draw where holding a purchased token is the entry is regulated or banned in some places. You must be 18 or older and use Binder only where it is lawful for you. Nothing here is financial advice.
#What does the SIMULATION chip mean?: This build isn’t touching real money. Strategies, fees, buys and draws are simulated, and nothing is spent or sent on chain. Each draw shows whether its blockhash came from mainnet or was simulated. When the chip is gone, the numbers are live.

EXCLUSIONS & FIXED RULES

Who sits out a draw.

The same list applies to every strategy. Each draw on /fairness shows the wallets it dropped and the reason.

Who	Why
Deployer wallet	Can’t win its own strategy’s draws.
Dev-buy wallet	Same rule as the deployer.
Card seller	The wallet that sold the card on Collector Crypt can’t win it back.
Last 2 winners	Sit out the strategy’s next two draws.
Strategy wallet	It buys the cards, so it can’t win them.
Platform wallets	The treasury and the Binder Vault never hold tickets.
pump.fun curve or pool	Liquidity, not a holder.
Burn address	Burned supply holds no tickets.
Under 10,000 tokens	Below the minimum at the snapshot.

Fixed rules, in one table.

These are product rules, the same for every strategy. Live numbers (fees claimed, cards bought, next draw) are on /vault and each strategy page.

Rule	Value
Fee split	80% strategy · 20% platform
Platform share	50% buys back & burns $BIND · 50% funds the Binder Vault
Launch	0.035 SOL + optional dev buy
Dev buy cap	2 SOL
Raffle window	15 min to 24 h, set at deploy
Fair-value guard	≤ 110% of Collector Crypt insured value (default)
Sit-out	Last 2 winners, per strategy
Minimum to enter	10,000 tokens at the snapshot
Rules & policy	Hashed at deploy, never editable

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