Rules of the kiln
Most fresh launches crack within a day. Everybody makes the call silently, dozens of times. Kiln keeps score.
The loop
- Draft. The pool is live Solana trending pools from GeckoTerminal, filtered to coins whose oldest DexScreener pair is under 48h old and that hold at least $10K liquidity.
- Call. Pick exactly 3. For each, call SURVIVE or CRACK and stake 50, 100 or 200 rep.
- Snapshot. When you fire the entry, Kiln reads each coin's liquidity on DexScreener (the pair with the most liquidity) and stores it with your entry.
- Fire. 24h later the entry settles: a coin survived if its liquidity is still at least 50% of the snapshot. Less than that, or no pair at all, means it cracked.
- Score. A right call wins its stake in rep. A wrong call loses it. Your rep is the sum over all settled calls.
Tickets and duels
- Every entry has its own ticket page with live liquidity per pick and a share link.
- Fade a ticket you think is wrong: Kiln loads the same three coins with every call flipped and the same stakes. Your liquidity snapshot is taken when you fire, so your bar can differ from theirs.
- A duel is decided by net rep once both tickets settle. It's only a fade if all three coins and all three flipped calls are kept; change anything and it fires as a normal entry. You can't fade your own ticket, and a fade counts toward your one-entry-per-4h limit.
- Fade picks may have aged past 48h by the time you fade. That's by design: same coins, opposite calls.
Limits
- One entry per handle every 4 hours.
- Rep is points, not money. Nothing is wagered, nothing is paid out, no wallet is ever asked for.
- The crowd split on each card counts calls from entries that are still open.
Why liquidity, not price
Price on a 17-hour-old coin is noise; it can 50x and round-trip before lunch. Liquidity is the floor people can actually exit through. When it halves in a day, the coin is functionally done for most holders. That's the line Kiln draws.
Data sources
- Draft pool:
api.geckoterminal.com/api/v2/networks/solana/trending_pools(pages 1–3, 1h trending). - Snapshot, live tracking and settlement:
api.dexscreener.com/tokens/v1/solana/<mints>. - Entries and settlements are public rows on Kiln's own backend.
Honest caveats
- Settlement runs in the browser of whoever opens Kiln after an entry turns 24h old, so it can land a little later than exactly 24h. The settle time is shown on each entry. Scores are recomputed from the stored snapshot, so a settlement row can't inflate them.
- The board covers the most recent 100 entries.
- Handles aren't accounts. Anyone can type any handle; pick one that's yours and keep it.