Protocol Whitepaper
TEN is built so it never has to. Every ten minutes, real holders win real SOL — and winning is designed to make people talk.
Contents
01 — The problem
A memecoin almost never dies because the code broke. It dies because people stop talking about it.
The lifecycle is always the same. A token launches, attention spikes, new buyers arrive, the price climbs. Then the conversation slows. Fewer posts, fewer new holders, the chart drifts down, the community drifts away. The fundamentals never changed — the attention ran out.
Most projects fight this with hype that fades, or paid marketing that stops the moment the budget does. Nothing in the token itself gives holders a reason to keep talking. So the silence always wins.
02 — TEN's answer
TEN turns winning into talking. To unlock the second half of any prize, the winner has to post about it publicly. Attention isn't a marketing line item — it's a built-in product of how the protocol pays.
Every prize is split in two halves. The first 50% is paid instantly, automatically, no strings attached. The second 50% unlocks only when the winner shares their win publicly, with a unique code, within the claim window.
That single rule changes everything. Every winner has a personal, financial reason to broadcast the project — over and over, every ten minutes. More draws, more winners, more posts, more attention, more holders. The loop feeds itself.
What if people don't post?
Then nothing breaks. You still keep the instant 50% for doing nothing. The unclaimed half isn't lost — it rolls into the project's revenue. The system works whether people post or not; it's simply designed to reward those who do.
TEN doesn't promise it can't die. It removes the usual cause of death — and pays people, in real SOL, to keep the lights on.
03 — How it works
Hold TEN, and you're automatically entered into the draws. No staking, no sign-up, no lockups — the protocol reads holders directly from the chain.
04 — The four pools
TEN runs four parallel pools. Small pays constantly and keeps the protocol alive minute to minute; the larger pools build rarer, bigger jackpots. You're entered in every pool you're eligible for.
Every pool draws ten winners. Same rules, different stakes and frequency — frequent small wins on one end, rare large jackpots on the other.
05 — How prizes are split
Each pot is shared among the ten winners by a geometric distribution: every rank receives about 77% of the rank above it, so the 1st-place winner takes exactly ten times what the 10th-place winner takes. Higher ranks win more, but everyone in the ten walks away with a meaningful share.
Then each winner's share is split in two: 50% paid instantly, 50% unlocked by posting within the claim window. The geometric split decides how much you win; the 50/50 decides how you receive it.
06 — How prizes are paid
Small and Medium prizes pay out automatically — the instant half at the draw, the social half the moment a post is verified.
Big and Mega jackpots are secured by a 2-of-3 multisig and paid in a single transaction after the claim window closes. Large sums never sit in an automated wallet.
Why the wait on big jackpots
A few hours' delay on the largest prizes is a deliberate security choice — not a limitation. The biggest money only moves on human signature.
07 — Eligibility & tickets
Two simple numbers govern entry. The eligibility threshold is the minimum you must hold to take part. The ticket size is how many tokens equal one ticket — and tickets are your weight in the draw.
At launch, both are set to 100,000 TEN: you need 100k to play, and every 100k held is one ticket. Hold 250k, you get 2.5 tickets; hold 1,000,000, you get 10. It's linear — no caps on tickets, no bonus tiers.
The threshold only goes down
As TEN matures, we intend to lower the entry threshold over time, so newcomers can play without spending heavily even as the token appreciates. Early holders will always have an edge — that's the nature of being early — but lowering the bar keeps the game open to new players. There's no perfect fix; this is the honest one.
One limit protects everyone: wallets holding more than 1% of total supply (10,000,000 TEN) are excluded from draws. This keeps whales and liquidity pools from capturing the prizes.
08 — Provable fairness
You don't have to believe the draws are fair — you can check them yourself.
The randomness for every draw comes from a Solana blockhash — a value produced by the entire validator network, outside the control of the TEN team. Before any winners are computed, that seed is locked and recorded on-chain. The winner selection is then fully deterministic: the same blockhash and the same eligible holders always produce the same ten winners.
Because it's deterministic, every draw is reproducible. Take the recorded blockhash for any round, run our published draw code, and confirm the winners match — exactly. And every payout is a public Solana transaction: the money moving is verifiable on-chain by anyone, forever.
Verify any draw yourself
The exact algorithm — a Solana blockhash hashed into a deterministic PRNG (xoshiro256**), then used to select ten ticket-weighted winners — is published and downloadable.↓ Download the draw code
09 — Security
TEN is designed so that no single point of failure can drain it.
10 — The numbers
Creator fees fund the pools. Every trade on Pump.fun generates creator fees, split natively and immutably across the pools and the team:
The pots grow with trading volume — the more TEN is traded, the larger every draw. (Pool sizes shown on the live dashboard reflect real fees collected; they are not a promise of returns.)