Accrual

The Problem

In any pro-rata pool, the smallest earners are owed very small amounts. Paying out 40 cents costs more in transaction fees than it delivers, and a wallet full of dust payments is worse than no payment at all.

The usual fix is a minimum payout, with anything below it returned to the pool. That quietly transfers money from the smallest earners to the largest. They earned it and never receive it.

Ticker Terminal does not do that.

How It Works

A payout below the minimum is not forfeited. It is credited to your wallet as an accrued balance and carried forward.

Next season your new earnings are added to that balance. Once the total clears the minimum, the whole amount pays out.

total owed = this season's earnings + balance carried in

if total owed ≥ minimum payout  →  paid in full, balance resets to zero
otherwise                       →  the whole amount carries forward

Example

Season	Earned	Carried in	Total	Outcome
1	$0.59	$0.00	$0.59	Below minimum — accrues
2	$0.71	$0.59	$1.30	Below minimum — accrues
3	$2.40	$1.30	$3.70	Paid $3.70

Nothing was lost. It waited.

The Minimum Is $1.00

Anything below $1.00 is held and carried forward.

A flat figure is only safe because accrual exists. Without it, a fixed floor would quietly confiscate from the smallest earners — which is exactly the industry norm this design rejects. With accrual, the floor decides when you are paid, never whether.

How much waits depends on the size of the pool relative to the field:

Season pool	Paid immediately	Accruing to next season
$500	170	210
$2,000	337	43
$10,000	370	10
$50,000	380	0

Modelled on a 500-player season with 380 qualified.

A small pool means more players wait a season. It does not mean anyone earns less.

Note

Accrued balances are an obligation, not spare change. Money owed but not yet sent stays reserved in the Game Rewards Multisig — it is never recycled into the next season’s advertised pool.

Your Balance Is Yours

• An accrued balance survives a season you do not qualify in. It waits until you next clear the minimum.
• It is never returned to the pool, never redistributed, never expires within the project’s operating life.
• It is visible in your player profile.

What Does Return to the Pool

Only the unallocated rounding remainder — the handful of cents left after every share is computed in whole units. That carries into the next season’s pool.

Money owed to a wallet always stays with that wallet.