Each Pit Boss NFT is a node license that gives you the right to run a validator node on Rogue Chain mainnet. Validator nodes help to secure the network by independently validating transactions and verifying they are correct. Validators earn network rewards in return for this service. We expect to launch the mainnet in Q4 2024.

Players who place bets using USDT and ARB tokens pay a 3% fee on their winning bets when playing our Rogue Trader binary options game. One third of this fee (1% of 3%) is paid out in real-time as network rewards to the validator nodes who secure the network.
In the closed testnet that is currently running, our bots are placing bets randomly on the Rogue Trader binary options game to simulate the activity of several thousand active players. The network rewards wallet automatically receives 1% of every winning bet in real-time and has made over $500,000 in the last 30 days. These network rewards get shared between the chain validators.
Click here to see the live payments of 1% of every winning bet being sent to the network rewards wallet in real-time.

When you run a validator node, delegators can stake tokens into it which increases your node’s weighting. A higher weighting gives your node a higher chance of being picked to validate the next set of transactions and earn a reward for doing so. Each network reward earned by your node is split between the validator and the delegators according to your node’s “Rewards Split” percentage value.

Validators run the node software that verifies transactions and delegators stake their tokens into the validator to earn a share of the rewards earned by that validator. The more tokens are staked into a validator node, the more chance it has of being picked to validate the next set of transactions and therefore earn a reward.

To earn a share of network rewards as a delegator you stake ROGUEPOOL tokens into the validator node(s) of your choice. ROGUEPOOL is the liquidity pool token of the ROGUE house bankroll smart contract. To get ROGUEPOOL tokens, simply deposit ROGUE tokens into the ROGUE house bankroll which will automatically and trustlessly mint and send to you a number of ROGUEPOOL tokens that represent your share of the total amount of ROGUE tokens in the bankroll. It is these ROGUEPOOL tokens that you stake into the validator node(s) of your choice to earn a share of the network rewards earned by that node.

Validator node owners and delegators receive network rewards in USDT and ARB tokens in real-time as they are collected from fees on winnings.

We will have more technical details about how to run a node when Offchain Labs, the creator of Arbitrum Orbit technology, completes the testing phase of BOLD, a new dispute protocol that will allow permissionless validation for Arbitrum chains.
Currently, permissionless validation is not possible on Arbitrum but BOLD is expected to be ready in time for when Rogue Chain, which is built using Arbitrum technology, reaches mainnet.

The current price is 2.63 ETH. The price rises by 0.01 ETH each day until all 200 NFTs have been sold.

If you already have Ether on the Ethereum blockchain you can easily bridge it over to the Arbitrum One blockchain using the official bridge at https://bridge.arbitrum.io. Another easy way to get Ether onto the Arbitrum blockchain is to buy Ether on a centralized exchange (CEX) and then withdraw it over the Arbitrum network into your Metamask wallet.

Acquire some Ether in your Metamask wallet on the Arbitrum One blockchain (either via the official Arbitrum bridge or by withdrawing from a CEX over the Arbitrum network). Then go to https://roguechain.io/mint-nft and click on the Mint Now button. A popup will open, click on the Metamask button to connect your wallet to our page. Click on the Mint Now button. If nobody else beats you to it then your NFT will be minted and automatically transferred to your Metamask wallet.

When you click on the Mint Now button, your transaction and Ether payment will be sent to the RPB NFT minting smart contract. If the amount of Ether sent is correct and if there are any available NFTs to be minted, this will send a separate transaction to the Chainlink VRF service which will generate a random number and send it back to the RPB smart contract. This random number generated by Chainlink determines which pit boss you get. As with all EVM smart contracts, the source code is fully transparent and anyone can verify that NFT assignments are done fairly using Chainlink’s verifiable source of randomness.

You can see the RPB NFT smart contract on the Arbitrum One blockchain on the official Arbitrum block explorer at https://arbiscan.io/token/0xBbAC3b7F6d98fdF723b3d59615D352EC9CBdFC89.

The maximum supply of RPB is 200 NFTs. You can verify this by reading the getMaxSupply function in the smart contract.