How the ring works

8,888 Leys of farmland inside a ring in orbit. A Ley is yours for the time of your laptop, for HYPE, or for some of each. All of it is below, with the numbers.

1A Ley

A Ley is one plot of 10,000 strips. Every strip is either ploughed or sown. Ploughed strips cost your laptop's time. Sown strips cost HYPE. You pick the mix.

A Ley ploughed whole: bare furrows and three circles — **Ploughed whole**No HYPE. Time and gas.

The same Ley half ploughed and half sown — **Half and half**Half the work, half the fare.

The same Ley sown whole, with a lake — **Sown whole**The whole fare. No waiting.

One Ley, three ways. The circles came with a lucky hash and the lake is the water: both are further down.

2Taking one

Leys go in order, 1 to 8,888. The next one is the only one on offer, and there are three ways to take it.

Plough it

Press Plough and leave the tab open. Your browser hashes until one hash is low enough, and the furrows on the plot show how far it is. At the last strip the wallet asks once, for gas only.

Sow it

Press Sow it whole and pay the fare. The Ley is yours in that transaction. The count beside the control takes up to 50 Leys at once.

Some of each

Stop the plough whenever you like and pay for the strips that are left. 37 strips ploughed of 100 means 63 % of the fare.

A ploughed Ley burns gas breaking ground: about 0.002 HYPE for a whole one, less for a part, on top of the usual fee.

3What it costs

The fare

Starts at 0.02 HYPE and doubles every 2,222 Leys.

Ley	Fare, HYPE
1	0.02
2,223	0.04
4,445	0.08
6,667	0.16
8,888	0.3199

The work

Starts near 4 million hashes and doubles every 404 Leys.

Ley	Hashes	A laptop at 5 million a second
1	4.2 million	1 second
1,213	34 million	7 seconds
2,425	268 million	1 minute
3,233	1.1 billion	4 minutes
4,041	4.3 billion	14 minutes
5,253	34 billion	2 hours
6,465	275 billion	15 hours
8,888	17.6 trillion	40 days

The page times your own machine and says how long the next Ley takes on it. These are averages: a hash is luck, so twice as long happens and so does half.

While the ground is soft, up to Ley 3,232, a wallet takes two ploughed Leys at most. A Ley sown whole is never limited.

4What a Ley earns

Every fare is shared in the transaction that pays it.

60 %sown strips15 %ploughed strips5 %water20 %maker

A Ley earns from every Ley taken after it. Its sown strips earn from the 60, its ploughed strips from the 15.
Reap whenever you like, one Ley or all of them. What you leave keeps waiting.
A ploughed Ley can be sown later, the rest of it or a part by tens of strips, at the fare of that day. Those strips earn as sown ones from then on.

5The water

Every 404 Leys is a round. There are 22. 5 % of a round's fares is its water.
When the round is full, a block 64 blocks later picks one Ley of that round and the whole water goes to it. Its field gets a lake.
The chance goes by sown strips. A Ley sown whole has 10,000 chances, a Ley ploughed whole has none.

6The look

A Ley's look is drawn by the chain itself from a block that comes after the Ley is taken. Nobody chooses it, the maker included. Until that block the Ley reads Not surveyed yet.
12 crops, 4 soils, 4 times of day, 6 lays of the land.
Circles in a field are luck: the hash was far lower than it had to be. About 1 ploughed Ley in 8 has one, 1 in 64 has three, 1 in 512 has five. They pay nothing.

7Resale and chores

A resale carries 6 % to the collection: a third to the maker, a half to sown strips, an eighth to ploughed strips, the rest to the water. Marketplaces on this chain do not enforce it.
Taking a Ley does the ring's chores on its way. When nobody comes, anyone can do them from the page for the network fee: let a closed round's water go, send the surveyor to new Leys, bring in what resales left.

8The honest part

Early Leys earn from later ones, and only if later ones come. If nobody comes, you own a picture of a field. It is a good picture.

Nobody holds a key to any of this: no owner, no pause, no upgrade. The pictures are drawn on chain and cannot be changed.