WIN POWER (WP) is your weight in every draw, derived purely from your balance:

• · Live: recalculated on-chain from your balance after every transfer (the keeper relays each trade within seconds, and anyone can call syncAccount) — buy more, WP grows; sell, it shrinks.
• · Chance per draw = your WP ÷ total WP of all holders.
• · The Pons curve, V4 pool, fee contracts and system addresses hold no WP — only real holders play.
• · Minimum entry: 10,000 $LUCKY (1 WP). Below that you hold the token but aren't in the draw yet.

Every buy and sell pays 2%: a 1% Pons trading fee plus a 1% $LUCKY creator tax — on the bonding curve and after graduation alike. Pons keeps 0.3% of volume; the project receives 1.7% (0.7%of Pons' fee plus the whole creator tax). An immutable fee collector splits the project's share:

Pons credits the project's share to the fee collector, which anyone can trigger to pay out. The 80% / 20% split is immutable. The curve graduates at 4.2 ETH raised; Pons then moves trading to a Uniswap V4 pool whose liquidity is locked permanently. Price impact and network fees are outside this split.

1. 1
   Snapshot + commit

   When the timer is up, the pot is above the floor and there are 3+ holders, the contract fixes the pot and every wallet's WIN POWER in a Merkle-sum snapshot, then locks in a FUTURE block number. Trading stays open; later balance changes count toward the next draw.
2. 2
   Reveal

   A few blocks later that block is mined. Its hash becomes the random seed — captured on-chain, verifiable by anyone on the explorer.
3. 3
   Verify 3 winners

   The seed rolls three times across the saved WIN POWER snapshot. The keeper supplies proofs, while the contract verifies every wallet and weight against its committed root. Three distinct wallets, no duplicates.
4. 4
   Pay instantly

   In the same transaction ETH is pushed straight to the three winners. If a wallet can't receive, the prize parks in a claim() bucket — never lost.

Full randomness deep-dive (how the future-blockhash seed works and how to verify a draw yourself) — on the Provably Fair page.

The 5% cut is sent to a dedicated buyback burner when the draw settles. The keeper then buys $LUCKY with it — on the Pons curve before graduation, in the Uniswap V4 pool after — with slippage protection, and every token bought goes to the dead address (0x…dEaD), permanently shrinking the supply. If the keeper is inactive for 7 days, anyone can trigger the buyback. If the transfer to the burner ever fails, that ETH stays in the treasury and rolls into the next pot. The split is fixed in the lottery contract, which has no owner or admin.

So the same bags don't farm the pot forever, a win costs part of your weight. Your tokens are never touched — only the WIN POWER counter:

• Calculated from the committed draw snapshot. The 30% / 20% / 10% reduction uses the WIN POWER that actually entered that draw. Example: enter with 70 WP → win 1st → 49 live WP.
• The deduction travels with the tokens. Send 40% of your bag to another wallet — 40% of its remaining deduction and recovery schedule goes with it. Hopping to a fresh wallet changes nothing.
• Every deduction fully recovers automatically over 96 completed draws. One quarter returns after draw +24, +48, +72 and +96 — exactly one day at the normal 15-minute cadence. Transfers keep the same schedule, and the recipient does not need to claim it.
• Selling releases it proportionally. Selling releases the same share of the remaining deduction as the share of tokens sold. Sell the full balance and the deduction reaches zero; a later buy earns fresh WIN POWER from the new net balance.