Solutions

Provable fairness, not promised fairness

Every race result is decided by a random seed drawn after entries close, applied deterministically to the field. Because the seed is drawn last, no one — including us — can know or influence a result while entries are open. The result, the winner's official time and speed, and every horse's sectionals are stored permanently, and any race can be replayed identically from that record. The same applies at mint: coat-colour and pattern odds are published in these docs before a single horse is sold, and they are identical at every price tier.

Scarcity that survives its own economy

Genesis is capped at 26,992 horses and the cap is structural, not a policy. A pure blood (DN0) has exactly one source — the King or the Queen covering another Hyperion — and no other pairing reaches it at any odds. Because breeding slots are computed as 5 − generation rather than stored, those two hold ten covers between them for the life of the game, so pure bloods are capped at twelve. The elite below them is bounded by a counter rather than by odds: every bred Hyperion takes one of 100 crown numbers, each issued once, so the elite tops out at 202 ever — the 102 minted plus 100 that can be bred. Breeding slots decay generation by generation to bound the population, and the rarest coat colours can be inherited but never re-rolled. The result is an economy where the things sold as rare stay rare — the specific failure that killed the first generation of NFT games.

An economy where every tier earns

A multi-million-dollar royal and a $25 Cosmo have different jobs, and both have a business model. The Cosmo races for purses in the classes where it belongs, protected by rating floors that stop expensive horses farming cheap races. The Hyperion races the top grades for prestige — its purse share rolls down to the other finishers — and earns through the stud market, where every owner sets their own fee. Purses are paid in dollars and the whole pool, less a 5% race tax, goes back to the players in every race.

Real ownership, simple money

Horses are NFTs you genuinely own: sell them at a fixed price or at auction on the ROX marketplace, stand them at stud, or withdraw them on-chain. Payments are in dollars throughout — no volatile game token between you and your money, and no conversion risk on a purse between winning it and spending it.

The sport, rendered properly

Race speeds are calibrated to real thoroughbred performance, the class ladder mirrors the real handicap system, and the coming Unreal Engine 5 client replays every stored race in cinematic 3D — the same result, stride for stride, on the web and in the game.