BattleYield — DOGS vs CATS, the eternal meme war

Pick a side

Two eras. One pot.

Team choice is emotional, which is what makes switching socially costly. Balance does not depend on the names — the smaller team's points are scaled up to 1.5×, so size is never the strategy.

Team 1 · 🐶

DOGS

Doge, Shiba, Floki (2013–2021)

Join DOGS

Team 2 · 🐱

CATS

Popcat, MEW, Michi (2023+)

Join CATS

Your first stake picks the team. Switching is possible on truce day only: it claims first, burns 2% of the moved stake and sends 2% of the moved LP to 0xdEaD.

How a war works

Six days of fighting. One day of truce. Twelve times.

12 wars × 7 days = 84 days, counted from GENESIS — the timestamp of the deploy transaction. No keeper: settlement is lazy, the first user action after a war's fight ends settles it.

Day 1Fight🔔 the bell
Day 2Fight
Day 3Fight
Day 4Fight
Day 5Fight
Day 6Fightfight ends
Day 7Trucesettle · switch

🔔 The bell

Burns are time-weighted like stake. A burn inside your budget at the bell earns like staking 4 tokens for the whole war; halfway through, like 2. A burn one block before truce earns ~0. "Burn together at the bell" is the ritual — no shared cap, no gas race.

Days 1–6 · Fight

Points accrue every second: T = 518,400 fight seconds per war. The scoreboard — both teams' size, points, the underdog factor and the projected winner — is exact at any second; nothing is revalued at settlement.

Day 7 · Truce

Nothing accrues. Settlement becomes possible, claim auto-stakes your payout, switchTeam is allowed (2% burned). Truce-day sell fees go to the next war's pot.

What you can actually do

Seven actions. That is the whole game.

Stakestake()

Put your $BTYLD in the Arena and pick a side. It starts earning straight away, but sitting still only counts half.

Fightburn()

Burn tokens for your team. Do it and your whole stake counts double for the week. Burn early: at the opening bell your burn is worth four times its size, at the end of the week it is worth nothing.

Fortifyfortify()

Add liquidity in one click, tokens plus ETH, and it is staked for you. Liquidity counts 1.25× what it is worth, because you are also making the pool deeper for everyone.

RecruitbuyAndStake()

Buy and stake in a single transaction. Send ETH, get $BTYLD, it lands staked on your team. No bonus, just one click instead of three.

Claimclaim()

Collect everything you have won. It is added straight back to your stake, so it starts earning again immediately. Nobody can claim for you.

Switch sideswitchTeam()

Change team, on truce day only. It costs 2% of what you move. Loyalty is cheap, betrayal is not free.

LeaverequestExit()

Ask to leave and wait 7 days to get everything back. In a hurry? You can go immediately and burn up to 25% of what you take, less each day you have already waited.

Genesis = the timestamp of the deploy transaction. The full calendar (12 wars: fight start, fight end, truce end, then the aftermath window) appears here at genesis.

Rules card

How you actually earn.

Five things to understand. Nothing here can be changed after the deploy transaction.

Staking puts you in the game. Fighting wins it. Your tokens earn points every second they are staked. Sit still and they count half. Fight and they count full.
Fighting means burning a little of your own stack. Every war you get a fight budget worth 2% of your position. Burn it and your whole position counts full, and the burn itself counts four times over.
Burn at the start of the week, not the end. A burn is worth more the longer it has to work. On the opening bell it counts like four tokens staked all week. In the final hour it counts like nothing.
The team that tries harder wins, not the bigger one. What gets compared is points per token staked. The smaller side is scaled up to 1.5× first, so being outnumbered is not a loss and piling onto the big team is not a win.
The winner takes 60%. The loser is still paid. The losing side keeps up to 40% of the pot, capped so a tiny team cannot farm it. Whatever goes unpaid rolls into next week.

The exact numbers

TOKENOMICS §7.0 — verbatim.
Rule	Value
Passive stake	counts 0.5×
Fight budget	2% of your position per war; burning it makes your position count 1× (proportional below)
Burns inside the budget	4× points, time-weighted (a burn at the bell = staking 4 tokens for the war; halfway = 2)
Burns beyond the budget	1× points, time-weighted
Staked LP	1.25× its fair value (both legs) = 2.5× per BTYLD paired
Underdog	the team with the smaller raw size has its points scaled up to 1.5× → inside 1.5× of size, the higher points per staked token wins
Split	winner 60%; loser up to 40%, but never more than 1.5× the winner's rate per point; the rest rolls into the next pot

Passive stake is dead weight for its own team. It lowers the team's points per staked token. A fully passive team beats a fully fighting team only if it is more than 3.24× bigger. The loser gets its full 40% only when it holds ≥ 30.8% of the points; below that the unpaid part rolls into the next pot.

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⚔️ WAR 1 — 🐶 DOGS vs 🐱 CATS
1. War 1 pays 61.2M $BTYLD: +61% in a week at 10% staked if everyone fights (+59% after your 2% burn). War 12 pays 10.2M.
2. Fight = burn 2% of your stake this war: it counts 4× in the fight and doubles your weight. Passive earns less than half.
3. Sellers pay the fighters: every sell fee (2–6%) goes to the pot; every buy burns 1%. Leaving takes 7 days.

All figures reproducible from the emission schedule (§4) and the yield tables (§12).

Yield, honestly

Quote the table, never one number.

Every yield below carries its assumption: the share of supply staked, and whether everyone fights. Loot = 0 (a bonus, never planned). The chest is finite and front-loaded.

TOKENOMICS §12.1 — weekly yield per staked token. Assumptions: both teams equally sized and equally active (tie → each side 50%); "all fight" = every token on both teams burns its 2% budget at the bell, no other burns, no LP; "half the team fights" = half the tokens fight, half are passive. Loot = 0. APR ×52 = weekly × 52, simple. APY (theoretical, net) = (1 + weekly net)⁵² − 1, compounded weekly — theoretical because it assumes one war's weekly rate holds for a year, which it cannot: the chest decays 15% per war and is empty after 12. The honest compounded figure is the season return under the curve below.
Staked	War	Chest pot	All fight (gross)	Net of the 2% burn	APR ×52 (net)	APY (theoretical, net)	Half fight: fighter	Half fight: passive	LP per $ (all fight)
5%	1	61.2M	122.4%	120.4%	6,261%	70,508,896,488,946,737,152%	167.3%	77.5%	153.0%
5%	6	27.2M	54.3%	52.3%	2,720%	318,130,386,567%	74.3%	34.4%	67.9%
5%	12	10.2M	20.5%	18.5%	961%	676,706%	28.0%	13.0%	25.6%
10%	1	61.2M	61.2%	59.2%	3,079%	3,176,131,654,432%	83.7%	38.7%	76.5%
10%	6	27.2M	27.2%	25.2%	1,308%	11,688,144%	37.1%	17.2%	33.9%
10%	12	10.2M	10.2%	8.2%	429%	6,047%	14.0%	6.5%	12.8%
20%	1	61.2M	30.6%	28.6%	1,487%	47,980,115%	41.8%	19.4%	38.3%
20%	6	27.2M	13.6%	11.6%	602%	29,701%	18.6%	8.6%	17.0%
20%	12	10.2M	5.1%	3.1%	162%	394%	7.0%	3.2%	6.4%
40%	1	61.2M	15.3%	13.3%	692%	66,008%	20.9%	9.7%	19.1%
40%	6	27.2M	6.8%	4.8%	249%	1,039%	9.3%	4.3%	8.5%
40%	12	10.2M	2.6%	0.6%	29%	34%	3.5%	1.6%	3.2%

Season total at constant stake (no compounding): gross 700 / 350 / 175 / 88% at 5 / 10 / 20 / 40% staked; net of twelve 2% burns 676 / 326 / 151 / 64%. A passive token in a fighting team earns 0.463 of a fighter; LP earns 1.25× a staker per dollar (2.5× per BTYLD paired), with IL.

The curve people will actually experience

Auto-stake path: start 10% staked, every reward compounds, nobody else joins. Gross = nobody burns; net = everyone burns the 2% from stake at the bell (the deflation this creates is real: 69.0M burned over the season).

Weekly yield, net path Weekly yield, gross

TOKENOMICS §12.2. Values plotted are exactly the two yield rows of the table below.

Season return (auto-stake) = staked after war 12 ÷ staked before war 1 − 1, same path started at each share; gross = nobody burns, net = the 2% burned from stake at every bell.

5% staked +700% gross · +583% net 10% staked +350% gross · +281% net 20% staked +175% gross · +130% net 40% staked +88% gross · +54% net

Stake ends at 400.0 / 450.0 / 550.0 / 750.0M gross, 341.7 / 381.0 / 459.4 / 616.4M net, at 5 / 10 / 20 / 40% staked (TOKENOMICS §12.2).

Theoretical APY assumes the weekly rate holds all year. It cannot: the chest decays 15% per war and is empty after 12. Quote the season return above instead.

TOKENOMICS §12.2 — auto-stake path, 10% staked at the start. Staked ends at 450.0M (45% of supply) on the gross path, 381.0M (38.1%) on the net path.
War	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Staked, gross (M)	100.0	161.2	213.2	257.5	295.0	327.0	354.1	377.2	396.9	413.5	427.7	439.8
Weekly yield, gross	61.2%	32.3%	20.7%	14.6%	10.8%	8.3%	6.5%	5.2%	4.2%	3.4%	2.8%	2.3%
Staked, net path (M)	100.0	159.2	208.0	248.1	280.7	307.1	328.1	344.6	357.3	366.9	373.7	378.3
Weekly yield, net path	61.2%	32.7%	21.3%	15.1%	11.4%	8.8%	7.0%	5.7%	4.7%	3.9%	3.2%	2.7%

Quote this curve next to the table, never a single number — and read the season-end unravel before quoting the last four columns: on the gross 10% path an exit requested at the start of war 7 forgoes 27.1% of stake, at war 9 13.4%, at war 11 5.2%; being ahead of a ×0.4 dump is worth more than the last pots. The mitigations reward staying; they do not make leaving irrational.

Supply & allocation

1,000,000,000 $BTYLD. Minted once. Only ever decreases.

Fixed supply, 18 decimals, minted in the constructor. Buy fees, fight burns, ragequit burns, switch burns and post-aftermath fees all reduce it. Zero admin keys after the deploy transaction.

1,000,000,000 $BTYLD · fixed supply

Liquidity 60% 600,000,000

Paired with the genesis ETH inside the deploy transaction by a one-shot Deployer contract; the pair's LP tokens are minted directly to 0x…dEaD, so liquidity is burned before the first block ends. Proof: pair.balanceOf(0xdEaD) == pair.totalSupply() − 1000.

War chest 35% 350,000,000

Minted to the Arena. The only way out is the hard-coded 12-pot schedule below, paid by points; whatever is not allocated after war 12 is burned. No sweep, no owner.

Team 5% 50,000,000

Immutable TeamVesting: cliff GENESIS + 180 days (the season ends day 84, aftermath loot ends day 112), then linear over 365 days = 136,986 BTYLD/day = 0.959M/week = 0.096% of supply/week. release() is permissionless; beneficiary fixed in the constructor.

Why 60/35/5 (team fixed at 5%, remainder to the chest): if the entire chest is dumped into the pool the v2 price factor is ×0.277 at 50% LP, ×0.335 at 55%, ×0.399 at 60%. The deepest pool the chest budget allows; 35% still gives degen-grade yields.

The chest empties: 12 pots, decaying 0.85×

pot_w = 350,000,000 × 0.85^(w−1) × (1−0.85)/(1−0.85^12), rounded to whole tokens; war 12 absorbs rounding. Sum = exactly 350,000,000. War 1 pays 5.98× war 12.

Bar heights are relative to war 1. Rendered from the same array both pages use (TOKENOMICS §4).

TOKENOMICS §4. The pot actually paid in war w = pot + loot of that war + rollover of the previous war. Loot is a bonus that may be zero and is never used in a planning table.
War	Chest pot (BTYLD)	% of supply	Cumulative
1	61,206,057	6.12%	61,206,057
2	52,025,149	5.20%	113,231,206
3	44,221,376	4.42%	157,452,582
4	37,588,170	3.76%	195,040,752
5	31,949,944	3.19%	226,990,696
6	27,157,453	2.72%	254,148,149
7	23,083,835	2.31%	277,231,984
8	19,621,260	1.96%	296,853,244
9	16,678,071	1.67%	313,531,315
10	14,176,360	1.42%	327,707,675
11	12,049,906	1.20%	339,757,581
12	10,242,419	1.02%	350,000,000

Fee policy

Every buy burns 1%. Sellers pay 2–6% to the fighters.

The fee lives inside the ERC-20 and applies only on the official Uniswap v2 pair: to == pair is a sell, from == pair is a buy. Wallet-to-wallet transfers are free. The Uniswap 0.30% LP fee is untouched. No ETH is ever collected by the protocol.

Buy · from == pair 1.00% fixed, ceil-rounded → burned (totalSupply decreases)

Sell · to == pair 2.00% → 6.00% dynamic → loot of the current war → the Arena → the fighters' pot

Resting fee 2% the minimum; 24 quiet hours forgive 20M of net sells

One variable. The token keeps one number, S = recent net sell pressure (in BTYLD). Each sell adds its amount to S; each buy subtracts half its amount. S is updated only by taxed swaps, never by exempt transfers.
The marginal fee is a line. 200 + 400 × min(S, 20M)/20M bps: 2% in a calm market, 6% once 20M of net selling has piled up, flat after. S is capped at 60M.
Lump = split. The fee is the integral of the curve over the amount sold, so a lump and a split pay exactly the same: 20M at once = 0.800M; 100 × 200k = 0.800M.
Resting state is the minimum. S decays by 20M per 24h, absolute and frequency-independent. The fee cannot sit at 6% without new selling; even after a mega-dump it is back to 2% within 3 quiet days.
Buying to reset the fee does not pay. Buys count half: resetting before a dump of Y needs a pre-buy of 2Y (1% burned + price impact), strictly worse than paying the fee.

TOKENOMICS §5.1. Marginal fee in bps; the fee on a sell is the integral of this line over [S, S + amount].

TOKENOMICS §5.2 — computed. Simulated week (3,000 lognormal trades, random arrival): average sell fee 201 bps at 50M weekly volume, 202 at 100M, 205 at 200M (50% sells) / 214 (70% sells), 224 / 566 at 400M. The curve is flat at 2% for ordinary flow and only bites on concentrated net selling — a dump day pays the fighters.
Sell from a calm market	Fee
1M	2.10%
5M	2.50%
10M	3.00%
20M	4.00%
40M	5.00%
30M in one day	4.67%
30M as 6M/day over 5 days	2.60% each

Never add liquidity through the Uniswap UI. A transfer to the pair is taxed as a sell and moves S. Use the Arena's fee-exempt fortify() instead.

Removing liquidity pays the buy fee. Pair → user is taxed as a buy: 1%, burned. Same for any LP removal.

Exact-output sells are unsupported by Router02 for fee-on-transfer tokens. UIs use the SupportingFeeOnTransferTokens exact-input paths and must set slippage ≥ the current sell fee (sellFeeBps() view).

Loot

Sellers pay the fighters.

Every sell fee on the official pair becomes loot of the war in progress and is paid out with the chest pot — to points, not to traders. A round trip cannot farm it.

1Sell on the official pairthe token takes 2–6% of the amount, by the curve above
2→ the Arena, as loot of the current wartruce-day fees go to the next war; the token never calls the Arena — it moves the fee and increments its own lootOf[war] counter
3→ paid with the chest pot at settlementPot = chest pot + loot + rollover; winner 60%, loser up to 40% (≤ 1.5× the winner's rate per point); the rest rolls forward
4→ auto-staked to the fightersby points, on claim(). There is no "claim and dump at the truce": leaving takes 7 days or a ragequit burn

Aftermath · days 78 → 112

The exodus pays those who stayed.

From the end of the last fight (day 78) to day 112, every sell fee is credited to a 13th pool and paid to the war-12 fighters in proportion to their war-12 payout, claimable any time with claim(), paid to the wallet. Computed: 350M sold over a week pays them 20.4M (avg fee 5.82%); 350M over four weeks 7.2M (2.05%). War 12's chest pot, for comparison, is 10.2M.

From day 112 the token routes sell fees to 0xdEaD (buy fees were always burned): every trade burns.

Read this twice

Loot is a bonus, possibly zero.

Any second BTYLD pool (Aerodrome, v3, OTC) is untaxed by construction: the fee is pair-only. Aggregators will route there when it is cheaper. 60% of supply sits burned in the official pool and only official LP earns points, so the side pool settles at a discount ≈ the fee — but plan with the chest only. No yield table on this site includes loot.

TOKENOMICS §13.2 — why the selfish move is the healthy move.
Selfish move	Effect on the tokenomics
Fight every war (2% budget at the bell)	−2% of the fighting base per war, burned (69M on the 10% path)
Burn beyond the budget to take the 60%	1× time-weighted, permanent supply removal
Fortify to earn 1.25× per dollar	deeper official pool (the only taxed venue), locked while staked, 7-day exit
Join the smaller team for the higher per-token yield	teams converge to 50/50; wars stay contested
Wait 7 days instead of ragequitting	dumps are staggered by individual timers; 25% burn on impatience
Sell into the official pool	2–6% into the pot of the fighters (or, after day 78, to the war-12 fighters); 1% of every buy burned

Read before you ape

What this is not.

Thirteen things that are true and that a launch site would normally leave out. They are the design, not the fine print.

Not a 1-year product. 12 wars, 84 days, then the chest is empty and the token is a plain deflationary fee-on-transfer memecoin (after the 28-day aftermath window). Season 2 is a new contract with a new chest.
The chest is finite and front-loaded. War 1 = 6.1% of supply, war 12 = 1.0%; the auto-stake path goes 61% → 2.3% per week. Yields are TVL-dependent; quote the table, never one number.
Loot is a bonus, possibly zero. Any second BTYLD pool is untaxed by construction; aggregators will route there when it is cheaper. Plan with the chest only.
Structural floor. If everything emitted is sold into the pool the price factor is ×0.40 (chest) to ×0.33 (chest + 10% initial stake). The exit rules stagger and tax this; they cannot stop it.
Fee-on-transfer UX: Uniswap shows a FoT warning, exact-output sells are unsupported, UI liquidity add is taxed, UI liquidity removal pays 1%.
Fighting is a 2% war tax that stops paying below 3.72%/week (wars 10–12 at 40% staked). Everyone rational fights while yields are high, so the active/passive spread is real early and irrelevant late. Intended: it is the deflation engine.
Contestability shrinks with TVL. At 40% staked and war 12 the 4× budget is 2% of a 200M-per-team stake and −EV: the war is a 60/40 staking pool. Fine — the chest is nearly empty by then.
Auto-staked rewards read as a lock to some degens (7 days to liquidity).
λ lags one war: LP is valued at last week's TWAP. Symmetric for both teams, manipulation-resistant, but LPers see their weight move at war boundaries.
The season-end unravel is rational. Leaving at war 9 forgoes 13.4% of stake; being ahead of a ×0.4 dump is worth more. The mitigations (exit-adjusted yields, aftermath loot, burn-from-stake) reward staying; they do not make leaving irrational.
The two-wallet hedge exists. A whale can park a slice passive on the other team. It is zero-sum, and the slice earns at most 0.75× a sharpened winner per token — never the best rate in the game.
Passive stake is dead weight for its team. A team cannot kick a passive whale; it can only out-fight him, and its fighters earn up to 1.5× per point if they lose anyway.
LP carries IL and the 1% removal tax. The 1.25× is the compensation; it is not free money. An LPer with no BTYLD stake needs wallet BTYLD to fight.

Unaudited. There is no audit report at the time of writing. The contracts are immutable with zero admin keys, which also means nobody can pause or fix anything. Verify every address on the block explorer before signing. Not financial advice.

FAQ

Short answers.

How do I leave? Can my tokens get trapped?

requestExit(stake, lp): the requested amount stops earning immediately and gets its own 7-day timer (per-request entries; a new request never resets an older one). withdraw(id) after 7 days returns 100%. ragequit(id) any time before maturity burns 25% × remaining/7 days of the entry and gives you the rest now:

TOKENOMICS §9 — ragequit burn by day of the cooldown.
Day	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Burn	25.0%	21.4%	17.9%	14.3%	10.7%	7.1%	3.6%	0%

The rule never changes, including after the season. 7 days is the longest any token can be held: nothing can be trapped. Safety valve without admin: if a war stays unsettled 14 days after its fight ended, rescueExit() opens the normal 7-day exit for principal without touching the reward logic.

Can I switch teams?

On truce day only. switchTeam() claims your pending wars first, burns 2% of the moved stake and sends 2% of the moved LP to 0xdEaD (locked forever). It reverts outside the truce, so nobody hops on day 6.

Fortify vs adding liquidity in the Uniswap UI — what is the difference?

Adding liquidity through the Uniswap UI is a transfer to the pair: taxed as a sell (2–6%) and it moves the pressure S. fortify(tokens, ETH) goes through the Arena, which is a fee-exempt sender: tokens + ETH → addLiquidityETH untaxed → the LP tokens are staked for you and count 1.25× their fair value (2.5× per BTYLD paired). Removing liquidity, either way, is pair → user = taxed as a buy: 1%, burned. The 0.25 is the compensation for impermanent loss and that removal tax; it is not free money.

When does fighting pay?

Fighting = burning your 2% budget at the bell. Versus staying passive while the rest of your team fights, it adds 0.537 × y of your position (0.500 × y halfway through the war) for a cost of 2%: break-even y = 3.72%/week (4.00% midweek). Net of position: +30.9% at 61.2% weekly yield, +14.4% at 30.6%, +6.2% at 15.3%, +3.4% at 10%, +0.7% at 5%, −0.6% at 2.6% (war 12 at 40% staked). Fighting is +EV in every war at 5, 10 and 20% staked and in wars 1–9 at 40% staked. Beyond the budget a burn returns (1−τ) × y per token: +EV alone only above 100% weekly yield; otherwise it is team play for the 60% share and permanent supply removal.

What happens after war 12?

The first action after day 83 settles war 12; any unpaid remainder is burned. The Arena rolls no further wars: claim, requestExit, withdraw, ragequit stay open forever with the same rules; stake, burn, fortify, buyAndStake, switchTeam revert. Sell fees from day 78 to day 112 are paid to the war-12 fighters (aftermath loot, to the wallet); from day 112 every fee is burned. Team vesting starts day 180 — 68 days after the loot window closes, 96 days after the season ends; an exit requested on the last day matures on day 91.

Will there be a Season 2?

Season 2 is a new Arena contract. The token is immutable and fully allocated, so Season 2's chest must come from a new source — a community-funded chest deposited into an immutable S2 Arena before its genesis, or a new token paired with BTYLD. DEX fees cannot fund it: routing them to a not-yet-existing contract would need an admin key, which does not exist. Stated, not hidden.

Is there an admin key?

No. Zero admin keys after the deploy transaction: no proxies, no Ownable, no selfdestruct, no delegatecall, no setters. Token, Arena, vesting and liquidity are all created in one transaction; the LP tokens go straight to 0xdEaD; the Deployer has no functions and holds nothing afterwards. Settlement is permissionless and lazy — there is no keeper to go offline. Nobody can pause, upgrade, sweep or rescue anything; that is the trade.

Is the code audited?

Unaudited. There is no third-party audit report at the time of writing. The design has been through several rounds of adversarial review and the contracts carry a fuzz/invariant suite, but that is not an audit. Size your position accordingly and read the list above.

Why 60/40 and an underdog cap of 1.5×?

Inside the normalized zone (size ratio ≤ 1.5) equal effort per token is an exact tie: each side takes 50% and the smaller team earns more per token, so stake flows to the small team and 50/50 is the single attractor. Beyond the zone the big team wins outright, but its per-token yield (0.6 / its share) is still below the loser's because 0.6/0.4 = 1.5 = the underdog cap: the yield tipping point and the normalization cap coincide, so the flow is toward the small team everywhere. A 65/35 split with the same cap leaves a dead zone where the big team parks as a deterministic winner — computed and rejected.

Can I lose my staked principal?

The Arena never takes principal except through your own choices: the fight burns you sign (wallet or from stake), the 2% switch cost, and the ragequit burn if you exit before your 7-day timer matures (0% at day 7). Price is another matter — see the structural floor and the season-end unravel above. Nothing here is risk-free.