How fueling works

Fuel → score → rank → burn. Plain language.

One fuel, two things

Fuel a creator $100 and two things happen at once:

She gets paid: directly, every time
Lands on her rank score: +$100.00

The score gets the full amount. Fueling is never weakened by her getting paid. The score is a score, not held money: it exists to be burned.

Read this before you fuel

Fuel is a tip plus a score. The tip is real and immediate; the score is a game.
The score burns at $0.10/min and is not refunded as it drains. You are buying her time on the chart, and that time is consumed as it passes.
She is paid regardless of rank. Whether she holds #1 for a week or goes cold in an hour, her money already landed.
The burn rate is set by fuel.fans and can change. It steps up as the whole chart grows. If it goes up, the same score lasts less time.

1. The burn

Her score drains continuously at $0.10/min, computed from the clock rather than a nightly job, so the number you see is accurate to the second. Stop fueling and she slides down in real time. Presets today: $5 (~50m), $20 (~3h 20m), $50 (~8h 20m), $100 (~16h 40m). $5 keeps her burning about 50m at the current rate.

2. Rank is the live score, not the lifetime total

The chart is ordered by what's left of each score right now, not by how much has ever been fueled. A creator whose fans fueled $500 last week can sit below one who got $50 this morning. That is the point: the chart shows who's loved now, not who paid once. Highest score wears the crown.

3. Going cold

At $0 the score stops burning (it cannot go negative) and the listing goes cold. A single fuel revives it on the spot. Total fueled never decays: everything her fans have ever put in stays on the record, cold or not.

4. Paying with crypto

Today, fueling runs on USDC, discreet by design: nothing on a card statement, and her money settles the moment the chain confirms. Card payments come later and work the same way on the chart.

5. Self-fuel

Creators can fuel their own listing, but self-fuel buys score only. It never pays her. Her own money moves her rank; fan money moves her rank and pays her.

6. For creators

Only you can list yourself. Verification is a private DM (a one-time code sent from your linked social account; nothing public, no bio edits) plus an ID check that proves you're 18+ and that the face on the chart is yours. Your dashboard shows every fuel to the cent, with amount, payment method, your cut, and when it's yours to withdraw. Payouts land in USDC.

7. Consent & safety

Only verified creators are listed, and fans can never create a listing. The chart itself is SFW (names, avatars and numbers, nothing explicit) and the whole site is 18+. Takedown is instant: "That's me, remove it" via /report pulls the listing down first, questions after.

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