Capital flow

The organizer deposits the prize and the fee in a single signature. The prize goes into a contract nobody owns and leaves it only to the creators who won. The fee goes straight to the treasury, where half buys $SHILL on the open market and burns it and half pays for curation, infrastructure and audits. The platform never holds a key that can move a prize.

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One signature locks everything

The organizer deposits the full prize and the protocol fee in the same transaction. The prize lands in the escrow contract; the fee goes straight to the treasury and never touches the vault, so there is no protocol balance sitting in there for anyone to withdraw.

The contract has no owner

No admin, no pause, no upgrade. Once funded, nobody at SHILL can move the prize, redirect it, or freeze it. There is no cancel either: deposited is deposited, so an organizer cannot pull the pot after creators have already produced.

Curation decides, then the organizer signs

Entries are approved and scored by people, and the ranking is frozen before any payout. The organizer cannot settle before curation ends — that window is enforced by the contract, and it is the time a creator has to contest a manipulated placement, because a payout cannot be reversed.

If the organizer disappears, the prize still moves

Past the deadline anyone can trigger the payout, and what it pays depends on how far curation got. If the ranking was frozen in time, the prize goes out exactly as announced: first place gets first place's share, straight from a tier table written into the vault on the day of the deposit and never editable since. If nobody ranked anything, it splits equally among the entries curation approved — not among everyone who entered, since rejected work would be paid for exactly what curation filters out. Either way a verified wallet on that chain is required: if a missing wallet could block it, one entrant could freeze everybody else's money. Sitting on the pot never gives it back.

Creators pull, they are never pushed

Each winner claims against a published merkle root. Anyone can pay the gas on their behalf, but the destination is inside the signed leaf, so whoever pays does not choose who receives.

The fee becomes a burn

Half the fee buys $SHILL on the open market and burns it; the other half pays the people and the servers that run curation. The treasury holds dollars, not partner tokens, so buying $SHILL never means selling the token of the project that just paid. Every buyback and burn shows up in analytics with its transaction.