How Sats Rewards Work

A fixed portion of net platform revenue — memberships, broadcast sponsorships, licensed drops, and partner pools — is allocated to the community rewards pool each cycle. The allocation rate is published before every payout on the rewards dashboard.

No member funds are pooled, lent, or invested on members' behalf. The pool is funded by the business, not by other members.

Every member has a loyalty score for the cycle:

loyalty_score =
  tier_multiplier   // 1× Patzer · 3× Hustler · 8× Master · 20× Grandmaster
  × activity_factor // games, broadcasts, annotations, study streaks
  × tenure_bonus    // up to 1.5× after 12 consecutive months

your_payout =
  rewards_pool × (your_loyalty_score / sum_of_all_loyalty_scores)

Higher tier and more activity = bigger slice. Members who pause their membership stop accruing score immediately — there is no passive yield.

Payouts run on the 1st and 15th of every month. Sats are sent over Lightning via OpenClaw to the wallet linked to your account. The previous cycle's full breakdown — pool size, total score, your slice — is published the same day.

You can auto-stack any portion of your payout straight back to your own Bitcoin wallet (default), or route it to top up your next membership cycle. Either way, the sats land in your control. There is no separate on-platform "treasury account" you are buying into.

Under the 2025 Bitcoin tips / digital-asset clarifications in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, sats received as loyalty rewards from a platform you use are treated as a return of membership value (ROC) rather than investment income (ROI). For U.S. members this generally means no 1099-style reporting at receipt and tax recognition is deferred until you dispose of the sats.

This is general information, not tax advice. Rules differ by jurisdiction and your personal situation — talk to your own tax professional before relying on it.

• Not a security, share, token sale, or investment contract.
• Not a yield product — rewards are funded by platform revenue, not by trading, lending, or staking member funds.
• Not guaranteed — payout size varies cycle to cycle and can be zero.
• Not transferable — your loyalty score is tied to your account.

Every payout publishes: total pool in sats, total loyalty score across all members, the BTC/USD reference price used, the OpenClaw batch ID, and a Nostr note signing the payload. You can verify your slice against the published totals at any time.