the chicken$CHICKEN

the gospel

the longer you sit, the more you eat. lift one foot off the perch and start over.

the rule

$Chicken is an ERC-20 paired with ETH on a single Uniswap v4 pool. Every swap on that pool — buy or sell — pays a 3% fee in ETH into a shared pot. (Sells pay in $Chicken; the hook auto-swaps the token slice back to ETH in the same transaction so the pot stores a single legible currency.) Nobody can withdraw from the pot directly. It only empties one way.

Once per round, the pot pays out to the twenty wallets with the most time-weighted patience. Then the pot resets to whatever flowed in since, and the next round begins.

tenure

Every wallet has a single number stamped on it: holdSince. When the wallet first receives $Chicken, the stamp is set. Every block that passes after that, the wallet's score grows bybalance × 1 second.

A buy or any transfer-in does not touch the stamp. Adding more chicken to a long-tenured wallet is fine — the new tokens immediately ride the old clock. A sell, even a single token, sets holdSince = now. The accumulated score is wiped to zero in the same block.

Patience compounds. Impatience erases.

the round

Every 7,200 blocks — about a day on Ethereum mainnet — the next swap that lands closes the round. The hook reads the top 20 wallets by score, splits the pot, and resets:

  • rank 1 takes 50% of the pot
  • ranks 2–5 split 30% equally — 7.5% each
  • ranks 6–20 split 20% equally — about 1.33% each

Payouts are pull-based — the hook records each wallet's claim and waits for them to come collect. Unclaimed prizes do not roll into the next round; they sit until claimed.

what the hook does, concretely

  1. beforeSwap: skim 3% of the input. ETH on a buy goes straight to the pot; $Chicken on a sell is auto-swapped to ETH in the same call.
  2. afterSwap: re-rank the buyer (or, on a sell, reset the seller's tenure to zero).
  3. If the current block is past the round-close target, settle and reset.

contracts

all on ethereum.

$Chicken token— pending deploy —
Cockfight hook— pending deploy —

risks, plainly

  • If you sell in the last block before round-close, you lose the round you'd otherwise have won.
  • If nobody ever sells, the pot funds entirely from buy-side fees. Pots can be small.
  • Top-20 means rank 21 gets nothing. The cliff is real.
  • The hook is bespoke. It has been tested but not audited at the time of launch. Read the source.

that's the entire game. the chicken is patient.