Invite drops

The auctioned front door: ten-minute public auctions for invites, in the market's own mechanism.

Omnious is invite-gated at launch, but there is no waitlist and no code to beg for. Entry is auctioned. Every ten minutes, aligned to the clock, one round of the Drop clears: a sealed-bid, uniform second-price auction where the top bids win invite grants and every winner pays the same price, the highest losing bid, floored at a reserve. The winner's surplus (bid minus clearing price) refunds instantly.

The point is not scarcity theater. It is that the front door runs the same mechanism as the market behind it. By the time someone gets in, they have already used a second-price auction and been handed a visible surplus by one. Every post-round receipt, bid this, cleared at that, kept the difference, is the product thesis taught in one screenshot. The public ticker of past clearing prices turns demand into a number no waitlist length can fake.

Chips, not money

Bids are placed in chips, the game's only currency. Chips are soulbound to one wallet, spendable on exactly one thing, and cannot be bought: joining mints a small stipend, referrals that lead to real engagement vest more, and losing rounds drip a small comeback amount. Losers get 90% of their escrow back (the 10% burn is what keeps bidding your whole balance from being free), and a wallet that loses three genuine rounds receives guaranteed access. Winning writes the grant directly to the wallet, no resellable code exists, and the winning wallet retires from the game permanently.

Each round publishes its clearing price, seat count, and a SHA-256 digest over the full bid set, anchored on-chain through the same settlement adapter that anchors epochs. The ticker is provably un-rewritable.

Play it at /drop in the web app: join, name a referrer if you have one, and bid. Or lose three rounds honestly; that works too.