The pool's liquidity is cut into 100 price bands, and each band belongs to one core. Whichever core the price is sitting in goes critical: every swap there pays it the fee. Nothing else ever pays a core.
Core 00 holds the lowest band and core 99 the highest. The glowing core is the one the price is sitting in right now. Tap any core, here or in the hall above, to inspect it.
Every swap is a pulse for the critical core. Big swaps can trigger a surge that flips one bit of that core's spec.
| TIME | SIDE | SOL | CORE | FEE | PULSE HASH |
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Cores is one coin, one pool and 100 reactor cores. The pool's liquidity is cut into 100 price bands stacked end to end, and each band belongs to one core. When the price is inside a band, that core is critical: every swap there pays it the fee, and nothing else ever pays a core.
A core is an NFT with three parts. Eight bytes of spec written at mint from the last pulse hash, where byte 0 is the rod and sets the swap fee between 0.80% and 1.51%. An account of its own where SOL fees land and travel with it when it sells. And its band, whose coin fees are held in the coolant loop and compacted back into the band as locked liquidity.
Surges. A swap over the surge threshold rolls one bit of the critical core's spec against its damper byte. A landed surge can raise or lower a fee, move a core across a class line, or only change how it glows.
Locked for good. Mint payments, sale royalties and compacted coin stay in the pool. Nothing runs on a clock. If nobody trades, nothing moves.
An NFT that owns one of the pool's 100 price bands. It has an 8-byte spec, a SOL account of its own and its band.
Only while the price sits in its band. Every swap there pays its fee, set by its rod byte, into its own account.
A big swap rolls one bit of the critical core's spec. The damper byte can catch it. If it lands, the core's fee, class or glow can change.
Mint payments, sale royalties and compacted coin fees go back into the pool as liquidity and stay there.
No. Nothing happens unless someone trades.
Not yet. Prices, pulses, surges and mints on this page are a simulation until $CORES launches.
The one coin in the one pool. Every swap of $CORES is a pulse for whichever core is critical.