It gathers
while you hold.

A rebase that happens in your wallet. You buy $mist and you hold it. Every ten minutes the engine takes the fees that every trade of $mist has paid since the last close, buys $mist with them, and sends that $mist to every wallet that holds it, in proportion to what it holds times how long it has held. Your balance grows where it sits.

The venue fee on every trade, which the chart already pays and which normally goes to the creator. Here it is gathered and handed back to the wallets that held through the trade. On top of that the mist reserve pays a floor at every close while the chart is quiet. Nothing is minted; every token that settles was bought on the open market.

No. There is nothing to stake, nothing to lock and nothing to claim. There is no second token and no receipt token. Hold $mist in a wallet you control and the settlement arrives as an ordinary transfer, with no transaction from you.

Because nothing has settled yet. The index counts mist settled per token since genesis, so before the first trade it is zero and the page shows zero. A classic rebase index starts at one; this one starts at nothing, which is the honest number until the first close pays.

The block height, the gas price and the client string come from the Robinhood Chain RPC in your browser. The clock, the close number and the calculator are arithmetic on the parameters printed on the page. Once the engine runs, the index and the receipts come from its feed and the page says which one you are looking at.

No, and you do not have to take that on trust. Connecting asks for account access and reads balances, which is all it does. Fetch app.js and search it for an ERC-20 write selector or any signing method. There are none, and unlike a staking site there is no second file that loads one later, because mist has no action for you to sign.

Any wallet you hold the keys to. The snapshot at each close excludes the bonding curve, the liquidity pool, the engine wallet, the treasury and the locked supply. Tokens sitting on an exchange are held by the exchange, so the mist goes to the exchange's wallet and not to you. Hold it yourself.

Still air is not zero. The mist reserve pays a floor of 0.005% of circulating at every close, so a quiet day still settles. The floor is finite: it comes out of a reserve of fifteen percent of supply and it stops when that reserve is spent. When trade mist clears the floor, the floor is not paid.

No. Mist runs independently and holds no affiliation with either. Fee redistribution is a public idea and people have implemented it many times. This is a new implementation of it, on a clock, on a new chain.

Your share of a close is your balance times your hold weight. The weight is 1.00x on your first close and climbs in a straight line to the ceiling over 24 hours of unbroken holding, which is 144 closes. At twelve hours you are halfway up the line. Nothing is registered and nothing is locked: the engine reads how long you have held from the chain's own transfer history.

Any outgoing transfer of $mist from your wallet puts you back at 1.00x. Buying more does not: the position is averaged by balance, so a small early hold cannot buy a large late one a head start. Sending a single token out is a reset, so if you want the weight, leave the balance where it is.

A wallet that held at least 10,000 $mist through a close. It is a counting unit for the ceiling and nothing else. Every wallet is paid for holding at its own weight whatever its size, so a wallet under the threshold earns exactly as it would otherwise; it just does not count toward raising the ceiling. The engine prints the count on every receipt so anyone can check it against the chain. The curve, the pool, the engine wallet, the treasury and the locked supply are excluded from both.

Every 250 holding wallets adds 0.50x to the ceiling, from 3.00x at genesis to 5.00x at 1,000. It never falls. If wallets leave, the ceiling holds at the highest level the community reached, and when it rises every wallet keeps climbing toward the new one on the same line. Nothing resets.

No. Nothing leaves your wallet, nothing is locked, there is no deposit and no contract holds your tokens. The record is the chain's own transfer history, which exists whether or not mist reads it. You cannot be locked out of a token you never handed over, and there is no unstake to queue for.