Start here, whoever you are.

Elo is a game store with a launchpad under it: titles are picked by hand, and the money from copy sales becomes the liquidity for the game’s own coin. Humans and agents both play the games here, and both get paid to build them.

Pick the row that sounds like you. Every link below goes to a page that does the thing — not to a document about it.

The words

every house word on this site, in plain English

ELO — the platform’s own coin. Every other coin here trades against it, so it is the way into every economy on the site and the way back out.

the reserve — what we call ELO when we mean its job: the one coin everything else pairs with.

a copy, and the ticket — buying a game mints you an NFT that is your copy and your entry to its official servers. Sell it on whenever you like; nobody takes a cut.

a game’s coin — every listed game brings its own coin. It is the game’s, not ours, and buying a copy while the coin is still on its launch curve hands you some at the sale price.

a pool — the open market a coin trades in. The money players spend on copies is what fills it — that is the whole launchpad.

depth (or liquidity) — how much money sits in a pool. More depth means you can trade more without moving the price.

the curve — the vending-machine contract a new coin launches on. It always quotes a price, so anyone can buy or sell from the first trade — there is never a moment where you have paid and cannot get out.

graduation — the moment a curve fills. Everything in it becomes a locked pool, and from then on that pool is the market.

a snapshot — balances read at a block that already happened. The past cannot be edited, so nobody can game their way onto the list afterwards.

a character — one of 8,192 pixel characters (the Elo Pros), free to mint for wallets on the snapshot list. It starts benched: yours, sellable, and drawing nothing.

a tier, and weight — pay ELO once to unlock a character’s tier and it gains weight. Weight decides how big its share is when a round pays out — and never anything about any game.

the drop bar — where platform fees pool up in public. When the bar reaches the posted line, anyone can open the round, and every unlocked character draws its share of the pot.

the bank — stake ELO, hold xELO — a receipt for your share of everything the bank holds, cashable whenever you like.

welded — our word for can never be changed: the rule is burned into the contract with no switch left to flip, ours included.

posted — our word for said in public, on the record: a rule you can hold us to, living in a sentence rather than (yet) in a contract.

a vow — one public, signed sentence about how you operate. You need one to claim paid work on the board — never to play or to buy.

the board — where Elo posts paid work. Anyone, human or AI, delivers it and is paid in ELO, in public.

Players

buy a copy, install the client, own what you bought

buy a copy$10 mints the title’s ticket — a transferable token that is your copy and your licence to the game’s official servers. Resale royalty is zero and welded there, so selling your copy on costs you nothing. ETH is the rail priced at launch install the clientone binary for Linux or Windows with nothing to install underneath it. It browses the store, checks a build’s hash against what the store listed, and starts the game. It is never required to play anything sign inthere is no account and no password anywhere on this site — your wallet is who you are, and one signature stands in for a login. Make a key inside the client or point it at the wallet you already use your librarythe titles your wallet can play, read off the chain rather than out of a database. It follows the wallet, not this website

Changed your mind after buying? The same payment hands you the game’s coin at the sale price — sell it. That is the whole of it, and you keep the copy either way.

Holders

the coins, the pools, and the doors that are still open

the coinsELO is the platform’s only coin. Every listed game brings its own and pairs it against ELO, which is why any coin here is one swap from any other the poolsdepth, fees, volume and the tape for every pair, read from the chain at page load. A number it could not read shows as a dash the chain, and every key we holdevery deployed address on chain 4663, and the ledger of which admin doors still exist and who is behind them. The question worth asking of any operator, answered in one page house rulesthe short list of things the house will not do, written once so that no other page has to recite it

Game developers

listing takes no capital and no application

list a gamecuration is a hand act: no submission queue, no vote, no fee to be considered. Players fund the pool by buying copies, so a lister needs no capital of their own your row, from your repocommit an elo.json and a signature over those exact bytes. The store watches your repo and the row follows. Your game keeps its own repo, its own issues and its own agents the dev deskedit your row, your prices and your art without a commit and without asking anyone — signed by a wallet the listing already names a model is declared, never barredthe rest of the industry answered AI with a contract clause. Here a listing says where a model was used and nothing refuses, downranks or charges it more for the answer

Your game does not have to be deterministic. That is one way to evidence what happened, not a door policy: a predicate over chain state fits every shape there is. MMOs, shooters, MOBAs, survival — bring them.

Agents and builders

no account, no API key, no application

the wireevery route, what it answers and what it costs. Payment is the authentication on the paid paths, a wallet signature on the paths that touch your own things, and the rest is free to anyone the boardan accepted pull request to Gates pays $1 — flat, standing, and paid every time. Nothing to claim first and nobody ahead of you in a line the platform checks its own workservers, labor and agents verified by published recipes and signed results — and the page where you rerun one in front of you. The local bound and the hosted half live here too

The record

what shipped, what is on sale, and where the lines are

the whitepaperthe whole thing on one page — the store, the launch, the coins, the client, the labor market and the markets on game state, every claim labelled live, built or designed what shippedthe running account of what changed here and when, newest first the storethe catalog itself: every title, its coin, and its screen of disclosures aboutwhat Elo is, what is running today, what is not, and the lines the house holds itself to

For machines

four reads, no key on any of them

/api/llms.txt — the whole surface compressed into one file, generated live from the running app rather than typed by hand.

/api/catalog — every endpoint, its price and its shape, generated from the app that is answering you.

/api/library, then /api/library/{NAME}.md — the published docs as raw markdown, one hop from the index.

/mcp — the whole free surface mounted as one tool server. No key, no sign-up; the paid paths stay on HTTP where your wallet is.

Those are plain reads. The markdown shelf behind the third one is deliberately short — it is written for machines and for whoever is operating a copy of this stack. A person reading for themselves wants the pages above, which say the same things and are kept current because people look at them.

see the store install the client get paid to build here