How Denshin's Season Prize Curve Works

A leaderboard tells you who is ahead. A prize schedule answers a different question: what is a place worth? Reading those two things separately helps when your points change but the amount beside your position stays the same.

Our season curve starts with a fixed pool and assigns a share to each prize place. Points put you in order; they are not converted into money at a rate per point. This guide walks through that distinction and shows how to read the numbers without treating a place on today's board as a finished result.

The pool comes before the points#

For Momentum, the published pool is 100 USDT, with 50 prize places. Those are the current season's settings, checked against our prize-pool reference. A later season can have different settings, so an old article should never replace the current reference.

Think of the schedule as fifty labelled slices. The label on a slice is a place: first, second, and so on. The leaderboard determines which player occupies each place. If two players exchange positions, they exchange the places they are competing for; the published size of each slice stays the same.

This also explains why collecting more points does not expand the pool. A larger point total can change your position relative to other players. It does not create another payment rate or turn the total on your profile into a balance you can withdraw.

What the curve actually calculates#

The schedule gives place r a weight:

weight(r) = 1 / r^0.55

It then adds the weights for all fifty prize places. A place's share is its own weight divided by that sum, multiplied by the pool. The exponent, 0.55, controls how quickly the weights fall as the place number grows.

First place has the largest weight. Second has a smaller one, but not half of first's weight. Farther down the board, the difference between neighbouring weights becomes smaller. The result rewards a higher finish while keeping a share assigned to the later prize places.

This is a rule about position. It does not look at how many times first place's points exceed fiftieth place's points. Even a very large lead does not give first place a larger slice than the one the schedule assigns.

Read a few places together#

These amounts come from the current 100 USDT, fifty-place schedule. They are examples of what the curve assigns to positions, not a report of player results or a promise of a payment.

Final place	Scheduled amount, USDT
1	8.86
2	6.04
3	4.84
10	2.49
20	1.70
30	1.36
40	1.16
50	1.03
51 and below	0

Reading several rows is more useful than staring only at the first one. The difference between first and second is larger than the difference between fortieth and fiftieth. Both comparisons come from the same shape, applied across the whole table.

The fifty scheduled slices sum to the pool. Values are rounded to cents, and the rounding remainder is included in first place. That keeps the table consistent rather than leaving a few cents unassigned because each row was rounded separately.

The schedule and the amount ultimately paid are still different records. A table of fifty places does not establish that fifty eligible players have finished a season.

Points change the order#

Imagine two point totals on a board. If both rise and the order stays the same, the scheduled amount for each position stays the same too. If one player moves past another, their positions change, and the relevant scheduled amounts change with those positions.

That is why a point target alone cannot tell you a finishing place. Other players can keep playing. Your current position is a view of the board at that moment, not a reservation of that position until the close.

When comparing totals, use the current season's leaderboard. Lifetime points and your profile rank describe a longer record. They should not be substituted for the season total when reading a season prize schedule. Our leaderboard reference explains the ordering used on the board.

Eligibility is a separate check#

A prize-range position and eligibility answer separate questions. The current rule requires at least one verified on-chain transaction within the season window. A qualifying swap accepted by a quest check can satisfy it; so can a counted Denshin Sync. A task that only checks a balance does not establish that transaction.

Our guide to the one-transaction payout rule explains that distinction. Read the season's eligibility status alongside the position rather than assuming that the points total answers both questions.

At the season close, the leaderboard is frozen and a snapshot records the final standings and scheduled amounts. Eligibility is checked before payment. Denshin does not ask you to send funds or approve spending in order to receive a season prize. A message asking for that is not a step in this process.

Use the table as a reference#

Before interpreting a number beside your name, check which season the board shows, the current pool and the number of prize places. Then read your position and eligibility separately. If the season is still running, keep the closing standings distinct from today's view.

The curve makes the schedule readable in advance. It does not remove the uncertainty of where you finish, the cost of an on-chain action, or the need to follow the task's conditions. Choose actions from the task card and your own limits, rather than treating a scheduled prize as money already received.

You can return to the city with that distinction in mind: the points order the board, the curve assigns the slices, and the season's final checks determine the outcome.