The guide

There are 5,555 rigs. Each one owns a real on-chain wallet of its own — an ERC-6551 vault whose keys belong to whoever holds the NFT, automatically and instantly. Harvests are paid into that vault, not to your address, so a rig's production history travels with it: sell the rig and the buyer gets the vault and everything in it. That is what makes a producing rig worth more than an idle one.

One warning worth repeating: never send a rig NFT to its own vault address. A rig that owns itself is frozen forever, and no contract can undo it.

$OIL is the field's own token, with a fixed supply that only ever shrinks — activations burn it. It trades on Uniswap against ETH, and the Swap tab here routes through that same pool with live quotes. Swaps through this dapp pay a 1% pool fee like everyone else, plus a 2% dapp fee that funds the protocol.

A fresh rig is offline and earns nothing. You activate it once, paying in $OIL, at the tier of your choosing — each tier up costs more and carries a bigger weight multiplier. The ladder with live prices is on every rig's page. Upgrading later only charges the difference between tiers, never twice for the same weight.

Of every activation fee, 60% is burned on the spot — supply gone for good — and 40% goes to the treasury that funds the reserve. Activation is recorded against the rig itself, so it survives a sale: buy an online rig and it stays online.

Protocol revenue — swap fees, the treasury's share of activations — is used to buy USO, which is deposited into the reserve together with $OIL. 1 USO is 1 tokenized share of the United States Oil Fund, the NYSE-listed oil ETF. So the field pays out in real oil exposure, not only in its own token.

The moment a deposit lands it is credited across every active rig, proportional to weight: your rig's share is its weight over the whole field's. There is no schedule and no threshold — deposits pay out the instant they happen.

Harvest whenever you like; what a rig is owed only grows until you do. The payout goes to the rig's vault, minus a small refining cut that goes straight back into the reserve and is re-split across the whole field — it is not a fee to anyone, and the exact rate is shown on the rig's page before you harvest.

From the vault, the withdraw buttons on the rig's page move any balance to your own wallet in one signature. Or leave it in the vault — a loaded rig is a more valuable rig on the market. Your call.

Beside the main reserve runs a smaller bonus pool, and it pays by rarity. Every rig got a multiplier from its traits, fixed forever in a frozen on-chain table that nobody — including us — can edit again. Nobody earns less than 1.00x: the bonus only ever adds.

The ladder: the rarest 1% of rigs earn at 3.00x, the top 5% at 2.25x, the top 10% at 1.75x, the top 25% at 1.40x, the top half at 1.15x, and every other rig at 1.00x. Ranks come from OpenSea's own rarity ordering of the collection.

The multiplier compounds with your tier: a top-1% rig at a high tier takes by far the biggest slice of the bonus pool. Bonus earnings are claimed from the rig's page and go straight to your wallet, not the vault. Every rig's multiplier is shown on its page and on its card in the roster — rarity travels with the rig, so buying a rare rig on the market buys its multiplier too.

Hold a Saudi on Ethereum in the same wallet as your rigs, and a daily snapshot puts a worker on one of your strongest active rigs for every Saudi you hold. Worked rigs earn extra $OIL from a pool of their own, on top of everything else. Nothing to lock, nothing to sign — holding is the whole job.

Sell a Saudi and its worker walks off at the next snapshot; buy one and a worker arrives the same day. What a rig earned while it was worked stays claimable either way. The Saudi workers page shows where you stand and pays your wallet directly.

The dashboard shows a field status — Dormant up to Sovereign — earned from every USO the reserve has ever taken in. It is a rank, nothing more: it never gates a payout, never changes a fee, and never falls when people harvest. It exists so the whole field's progress is visible at a glance.

Swaps through the dapp: 1% to the liquidity pool, 2% to the protocol treasury.

Activations: 60% of the $OIL burned forever, 40% to the treasury.

Harvests: a small refining cut back into the reserve, re-split across every active rig — including yours.

That is the whole list. Holding, harvesting, and withdrawing cost nothing but gas.