On-Chain Settlement, Explained: How a Clash Actually Pays Out

The lifecycle of a clash

Create: your stake transfers into escrow held by the arena contract — a vault with no private key anywhere. Join: your opponent’s equal stake lands in the same vault, and the contract stamps the schedule — start in 30 seconds, end 60 seconds later. Start: at the boundary, the live price is locked into your clash with a signed price attestation the contract verifies on-chain. Settle: at the end boundary, the end price locks the same way, the contract compares the two, and the pot splits 90/5/5 in a single atomic transaction.

Every step is a public transaction you can find from your clash link. The prices that decided your clash are permanent on-chain records, not a screenshot from support.

Ties, stale feeds, and the safety valve

If the end price equals the start price exactly, the contract refunds both stakes in full — no pot fee on a dead heat. If the price feed ever fails to produce a fresh price at a boundary (within a strict staleness window), the clash cannot settle honestly, so it refunds instead.

The safety valve is permissionless: once a clash is past its window without settling, anyone — you, your opponent, a stranger — can fire the refund instruction. It can only ever return the original stakes to their owners, which is why it needs no permission.

What you can verify yourself

Do not take the interface’s word for any of this. Your clash record, its escrowed balance, the locked prices, the settlement transaction with its exact splits, cumulative burn stats, and staking distributions all live on Robinhood Chain in the open.

• The contract holds exactly both stakes between join and settlement
• Start/end prices in the clash record match the attested prices
• The settlement transaction pays 90/5/5 (plus any referral carve) to the correct wallets
• Config values (fee splits, timing, staleness window) are readable on-chain