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# Overview

**bye.fun is the crowd-owned gacha machine for tokenized graded trading cards on Solana.** There's no operator in the middle: the crowd supplies the cards, the crowd governs what the machine stocks, and the crowd owns the upside it creates. Load the pool with your own tokenized cards, or roll from it for a flat price and draw one at random. Either way, you're playing against the crowd, never a house, and every card in the machine belongs to the player who put it there, until the moment it's drawn.

## Every other gacha is a house. This one belongs to its players.

In every gacha machine that exists today, an operator buys the inventory, stocks the pool, sets the odds behind the scenes, and takes the spread. The collectors whose passion makes the whole market real supply everything that matters and own none of it. bye.fun removes the operator from the middle, and ownership doesn't stop at the cards. It runs through three layers:

| LAYER 01 · SUPPLY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | LAYER 02 · GOVERNANCE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | LAYER 03 · UPSIDE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| <p><strong>The crowd fills the pool</strong><br>Collectors supply every card. Odds are a pure function of what they deposited - published on-chain, checkable by anyone, before a dollar is spent. No operator inventory, no operator-set odds.</p> | <p><strong>The crowd decides what it stocks</strong><br>The community raise is governed by a futarchy mechanism and used to buy high-value cards that go into the pool. The crowd collectively chooses the grails the machine holds - not an operator.</p> | <p><strong>The crowd owns the ecosystem</strong><br>The people who create the traction earn the token - but the rebate is performance-gated, so owning means continuing to build, not dumping and leaving. Short-term extraction is designed out.</p> |

### Pick your side.

Both sides earn points toward a 50% share of the Builder tranche (the Team allocation) from Season 1 through Season 9. Loaders also earn an extra 10M $BYE allocated to Season 0.

**Loaders**

* Load a tokenized card into the pool.
* Earn a share of every roll's fee while it waits, turning their TCGs into yield-bearing assets
* No price to set, no odds to pick.

**Rollers**

* Pay a flat fee to roll the pool.
* Every roll returns a real card, or a blank paid out in $BYE.
* No hidden odds, no house setting them.


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