Genesis

Genesis is the one-time launch event that brings ClaimRush online. It happens once per deployment and is irreversible. After genesis finalizes, the protocol cannot be re-launched, the seed liquidity cannot be reissued, and the launch parameters cannot be re-bid.

This page covers what happened at genesis, what it locked in place, and where to verify it onchain.

What genesis does

The emission clock for both CLAIM streams starts 10 days before genesis. During that 10-day pre-launch window, the King stream is already mining — its emissions accrue into a single one-shot bucket. No one holds the Crown yet, so the bucket is reserved for the launch seed rather than paid to a player.

Genesis is the single onchain transaction that closes that window and brings the protocol live:

Materializes the King-stream CLAIM that accrued during the 10-day window (one-shot, paid to the launch contract — never to a player).
Pairs that CLAIM with a fixed ETH seed (50 ETH on Base mainnet) to seed the canonical WETH/CLAIM pool on Aerodrome.
Sends the LP tokens directly into the genesis LP vault, where they are locked for 24 months.
Activates takeovers so the Crown loop can begin.

Until that transaction lands, no one can take the Crown, no royalties accrue to Barons, no liquidity exists in the WETH/CLAIM pool, and no Furnace bonuses are paid against new locks. Both emission streams are mining against the 10-day pre-launch clock — the King stream into the one-shot Crown bucket the launch contract collects at genesis to seed the pool, and the Furnace stream into accrual that materializes into the Furnace reserve at the first takeover after launch.

The 24-month genesis LP lock

The LP tokens minted from the genesis seed are sent directly into a dedicated vault (GenesisLPVault24M) and locked for 730 days from the moment genesis finalized.

While the lock is active:

The LP cannot be withdrawn.
The lock can only be extended to a later unlock time, never shortened.
The withdrawal recipient is fixed at deploy time.

After the 24 months elapse, the LP becomes withdrawable to the recipient address baked into the vault. At withdrawal, the vault also automatically forwards any accumulated Aerodrome trading fees from the genesis pool to the same recipient — so the recipient receives both the LP token and 24 months of accumulated WETH + CLAIM trading fees in a single transaction. This commitment is intentionally long. It exists so the bootstrapped market depth that backs early takeover pricing and Furnace exits cannot be pulled out from under players during the protocol’s first two years.

The genesis takeover

The very first takeover after launch has no previous King to pay. Its full ETH cost routes to Barons (veCLAIM holders) instead of being split 75 / 25.

Every subsequent takeover uses the standard split: 75% to the previous King, 25% to Barons. See Royalties (Barons).

The two emission streams

ClaimRush mints CLAIM through two deterministic, linear-decay streams. Both rate clocks start at the same moment — 10 days before genesis — and decay to a floor over two years.

Stream	Recipient	Launch rate	After 2 years
King stream (mining)	Whoever holds the Crown	50 CLAIM/s	~5.56 CLAIM/s
Furnace emission stream	Furnace reserve (funds bonuses)	5 CLAIM/s	~0.56 CLAIM/s

Pre-genesis (10-day window). The King stream is mining, but no one holds the Crown. Its emissions accrue into the one-shot genesis bucket. The Furnace stream’s clock is also running, but its CLAIM is materialized only when a takeover happens — which cannot happen yet.

At genesis. The 10-day King-stream bucket is materialized in a single call (collectGenesisKingClaim), paired with the ETH seed, and sent into the Aerodrome WETH/CLAIM pool as locked LP. Takeovers activate.

After genesis. Each takeover materializes both streams together: the dethroned King receives the King-stream CLAIM that accrued during their reign, and the Furnace reserve receives the Furnace-stream CLAIM that accrued over the same span. The first takeover after genesis has no previous King to pay, so its Crown share is not minted to anyone — but its Furnace share, including everything the Furnace stream accrued since launch, lands in the reserve.

The Furnace reserve is what funds every entry bonus and every extension bonus on a lock. This is why the Furnace can give you more veCLAIM than the CLAIM you commit: the bonus is paid out of CLAIM that the Furnace stream has already minted for that purpose.

What was not minted at genesis

The protocol launches with no allocations to insiders:

No premine to insiders. No CLAIM is minted to founders, team, advisors, treasury, or any insider — not before launch, not at genesis, not after. The 10-day pre-genesis Crown bucket is paid into the WETH/CLAIM pool as seed liquidity, not to any wallet.
No team allocation, no team vesting. No address holds CLAIM unless they earned it by playing.
No platform fee. Takeovers, royalties, and Furnace operations carry no rake.

The only CLAIM that exists at the moment genesis finalizes is the King-stream bucket that seeded the Aerodrome pool. Every CLAIM beyond that is mined to Kings on takeover or minted to the Furnace reserve as the Furnace stream materializes.

Where to verify

Protocol Status — The Genesis row reads Finalized once the launch transaction has landed.
Security — The Security page surfaces the canonical contract addresses (including the genesis LP vault) and lets you cross-check them on the block explorer.
Core Concepts — The CLAIM stream and emission schedule.

For the technical specification — LaunchController.finalizeGenesis() semantics, preconditions, the genesis LP vault interface, and the post-genesis wiring sequence — see the developer Genesis reference .