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Next draw: Sunday 20:00 UTC · 5d 11:39:23 — buy your ticket
About Ticket4Life
17 questionsTicket4Life is fund management, on chain. You mint one NFT ticket once, paid in USDC, and it is your lifetime seat in the fund: every Sunday the fund's real yield is distributed by draw to 13 tickets, pushed straight to their wallets — forever, with no recurring fees and no action needed. Distributions are funded by the yield the treasury generates, never by drawing down the treasury's capital.
Your mint payment goes to an on-chain treasury vault, and only the yield it generates funds the distributions. Your ticket remains a transferable ERC-721 NFT in your own wallet, and after a one-time 90-day cooldown the protocol buyback lets you sell back at the Backed Price — a treasury-backed price capped at 80% of the mint price, with its live coverage gauge on the Yield Engine page — whenever the facility is open and funded.
Yes. Activate the one-time 90-day cooldown for your wallet (My Tickets page). Once it ends, you can sell any of your tickets back to the protocol at the Backed Price (treasury-backed, capped at 80% of the mint price — live on the Yield Engine page), paid in USDC in the same transaction, whenever the buyback reserve is open and funded — live status on the Marketplace page. You can also list any ticket peer-to-peer at your own price, anytime — on the in-app marketplace or any other NFT marketplace.
250 USDC on Base — the price is set on-chain and shown live on the Buy Ticket page. Buying multiple tickets multiplies your entries in every draw.
USDC on Base — every mint is settled in USDC. Paying with other assets may come later.
Two engines. The primary engine is automated grid trading bots that harvest volatility on Hyperliquid around the clock (ETH live today, more markets to follow) — their live profits are visible on the Yield Engine page. The second is the stablecoin shield: treasury USDC supplied on Aave v3 on Base — live since September 2026, its balance and supply rate read straight from the chain on the Yield Engine page — which keeps the treasury's value intact even in a bear market. Both streams feed the weekly distribution pool.
Grid bots place ladders of buy and sell orders inside a price range. Every completed round-trip locks in a small, fee-adjusted profit — whichever way the market moves. The protocol runs its bots on Hyperliquid and publishes their live stats (net profit, trades, portfolio) on the Yield Engine page.
Yes — the bots trade from public Hyperliquid wallets, listed with a live link in the On-Chain Allocations table on the Transparency page. Anyone can open the wallet on a Hyperliquid explorer and watch every balance and trade in real time. The Yield Engine page streams the same feed: weekly yield, cumulative profit, trades and portfolio per bot.
Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 operated by Coinbase. Low fees, fast transactions, Ethereum security.
Automatically. When the weekly draw completes, the USDC is pushed straight to each recipient's wallet in the same on-chain transaction — nothing to do. In the rare case a transfer cannot reach your wallet, the payout is safely credited to you instead and a one-click Claim appears on your Overview.
No. Your ticket lives in your wallet, all funds live in smart contracts, and this website is only an interface. Ticket4Life never has access to your private keys or your NFT.
No single person or key can. Every contract, the inventory tickets and the buyback reserve are owned by a Gnosis Safe multisig that needs 2 of 3 signatures for any change of money or rules. The weekly automation runs on a separate operator key whose powers are capped inside the contracts: request the draw, move a limited weekly amount from the Safe into the distribution pool, sync the buyback price. It cannot withdraw a cent, change the mint price or move a ticket. The Transparency page reads all of this live from the chain.
There are no recurring fees. Each week the treasury yield is split 80% to the distribution pool / 20% to the protocol. The only other fee is on the in-app marketplace: reselling a ticket to another holder carries a protocol fee set on-chain and hard-capped at 5%. Network gas fees on Base are typically a fraction of a cent.
Follow @ticketNFT4life on X or join the Telegram (links in the footer). Announcements, draw results and roadmap updates land there first.
Smart contract risk exists at every layer — the protocol contracts, the DeFi protocols holding treasury capital, and the exchange running the grid bots. Randomness relies on Pyth Entropy. The buyback pays the Backed Price — it follows treasury coverage, is capped at 80% of the mint price, and can fall with the treasury. Never commit funds you cannot afford to lose.
Ticket4Life is not available in OFAC-sanctioned jurisdictions (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus) and may be restricted in jurisdictions where draw-based products of this kind are prohibited. A country-level check runs when you load the app.
Structurally, yes — it is the same idea moved on-chain. Premium Bonds pay prizes out of the interest your savings earn instead of paying you that interest; Ticket4Life funds its weekly draws with 80% of the treasury's yield, never with your ticket money. The differences matter just as much: Premium Bonds carry a 100% HM Treasury guarantee and monthly draws, while Ticket4Life offers weekly draws, on-chain verifiability and a conditional treasury-backed buyback capped at 80% of mint (after a one-time 90-day cooldown) — but no state guarantee. We wrote an honest side-by-side comparison at ticket4.life/learn/premium-bonds-vs-ticket4life.
Tickets & Buyback
12 questionsThe easiest way: tap Connect Wallet, choose Coinbase Wallet, then Create account — your device creates a wallet with Face ID or your fingerprint (a passkey). No extension, no seed phrase to write down, about 20 seconds. The step-by-step guide at ticket4.life/start walks you through everything, including funding it from your exchange. Prefer a classic wallet? MetaMask (metamask.io) works too — write its recovery phrase on paper and never share it.
Yes — that's exactly what the guide at ticket4.life/start is for. In short: create a wallet with your face (20 seconds, no extension), copy its address, withdraw 250 USDC plus a few dollars of ETH from your exchange to that address on the Base network, and mint. Payouts arrive in that same wallet, and you can send them back to your exchange anytime — always on Base.
The mint costs 250 USDC on the Base network. Easiest path: buy USDC on Coinbase and withdraw it to your wallet choosing the Base network (withdrawals to Base are cheap and fast). Alternatively, most major exchanges support Base withdrawals, or you can bridge USDC from another chain at bridge.base.org. Make sure you also have a few dollars of ETH on Base to pay gas — the fees themselves cost cents.
Go to the Buy Ticket page, connect your wallet, approve USDC if prompted, accept the disclaimer (a signed EIP-712 message), and confirm the mint. Your wallet receives an ERC-721 ticket that enters every future draw automatically.
No. Once you mint, you're automatically entered into all future draws. Hold your NFT and watch the Distributions page every Sunday.
Immediately. Mint any time before Sunday 20:00 UTC and your ticket is in this Sunday's draw — and in every draw after that, forever.
Yes. Each ticket is an independent entry in every draw, so the more tickets you hold, the higher your probability of being selected — your exact probability is shown on the Buy Ticket page and the Overview.
Yes, two ways. On any NFT marketplace at whatever price the market pays — or back to the protocol at the Backed Price — treasury-backed, capped at 80% of the mint price — via the buyback (after your one-time 90-day cooldown).
Activate your wallet's one-time 90-day cooldown on the My Tickets page. When it ends, hit 'Sell to protocol' on any of your tickets: the swap is instant and atomic — your ticket goes to the protocol's inventory and the USDC lands in your wallet in the same transaction.
It gives the treasury time to generate yield before honouring buybacks, protecting the distribution pool for everyone. It applies once per wallet — after it ends, you can sell any ticket at any moment, forever.
They return to the protocol's inventory. Tickets are never burned — the protocol can resell them (on the marketplace) to new holders. The total supply stays at 10,000 forever, and every ticket keeps entering the weekly draws.
It counts the consecutive weekly draws your tickets have entered, derived from on-chain draw snapshots. Since tickets participate automatically, your streak grows every Sunday you hold one.
Draws & Distributions
7 questionsEvery Sunday at 20:00 UTC. Thirteen tickets are selected on-chain shortly after, and the payouts are pushed straight to the recipients' wallets automatically.
Thirteen tickets are selected on-chain using Pyth Entropy — verifiable randomness that nobody, including the team, can influence. Every draw's Pyth Entropy sequence, its random number and the distribution are linked on the Transparency page.
Each weekly draw pays 13 tickets: 50% of the distribution pool to the first tier, 25% to the second, 10% to the third, and the remaining 15% shared equally among the next ten. The exact amounts update live on the Distributions page based on the current pool.
Each ticket is one entry, so your probability is your tickets divided by total tickets minted — shown as "1 in N" on the Buy Ticket page. Thirteen tickets are selected each week, and the same wallet can be paid in several tiers if it holds several selected tickets.
The USDC simply lands in your wallet, and your Overview tracks your lifetime Total Received. The Distributions page lists every draw with recipients and amounts, and the ticker on the Overview shows recent payouts.
Yes. Randomness comes from Pyth Entropy, which publishes a cryptographic proof on-chain with every draw. Follow the sequence number, random number and distribution links on the Transparency page to verify the full chain of custody yourself.
A draw only runs when the distribution pool holds USDC. If a week's yield hasn't been deposited yet, the draw waits — nothing is skipped, and the pool never dips into the treasury's capital.
How the Protocol Works
9 questionsThe core contracts on Base are: the Ticket NFT (ERC-721, USDC mint with signed disclaimer), the Distribution Pool (the PrizePool contract — holds the pool, requests Pyth Entropy randomness, pays the recipients), the Treasury Vault (custody of mint proceeds), the Marketplace (P2P resale plus the treasury-backed protocol buyback), the Cooldown Registry (90-day one-time cooldown), the Draw Registry (full draw history with Pyth proofs) and the Transparency Registry (public treasury allocations). Since V2.2 the Distribution Pool and Marketplace carry a rate-limited operator role, and every contract is owned by the protocol Safe (2-of-3 multisig). All addresses are listed in the Handbook and verifiable on BaseScan, Sourcify and Blockscout.
Everything material is on-chain: mints, draws (with Pyth Entropy proofs), claims, buybacks, treasury allocations. The Transparency page aggregates it with direct block-explorer links, and the Yield Engine page streams live bot performance.
The protocol is owned by a multi-signature wallet (a Gnosis Safe, 2-of-3) that holds the treasury reserve, the inventory tickets and the ownership of every contract. A separate, rate-limited operator key runs the automation only: it can request the weekly draw, move a capped weekly amount from the Safe into the distribution pool, and sync the buyback price under a ceiling — it cannot withdraw funds, change the mint price, or move tickets. Every action of either account is a public transaction on Base.
Four things, each limited in the contract code: request the Sunday draw (at most once every 6 days after a completed draw), cancel a stuck draw (only one hour after the request, pool untouched), pull the weekly yield from the Safe into the distribution pool (within a weekly cap set by the Safe), and re-sync the buyback price under a ceiling. Everything else — withdrawing funds, changing the mint price, pausing sales, moving tickets, changing fees or wallets — requires the multisig. The live limits are shown on the Transparency page.
If the operator key leaks, the worst case is a draw requested early or one week's capped funding moved into the pool — which is then distributed to ticket holders by Pyth randomness; the key can be replaced by the Safe in minutes. If one of the three Safe signer keys leaks, nothing can happen: two signatures are needed, and the remaining signers replace the lost one. Nothing about the protocol depends on a single key any more.
Yes. The source of every protocol contract is published and verified on Sourcify (exact match: the published code compiles to the exact bytecode on-chain, creation included) and on Blockscout, so anyone can read what the contracts do instead of trusting this site. Addresses and links are in the Handbook's Smart Contracts chapter.
Yes. A scheduled job requests the draw every Sunday at 20:00 UTC; the Pyth Entropy callback then pays the 13 selected tickets and records the result in the Draw Registry automatically. The operator can also drive any step manually if ever needed.
No. There is no Ticket4Life token today — no token, no sale, nothing scheduled. Any 'TICKL' or 'Ticket4Life' token you may see elsewhere is not ours. If that ever changes, it will be announced only on ticket4.life and our official X and Telegram.
10,000 tickets — forever. Tickets are never burned: when the protocol buys one back, it keeps it in inventory and can resell it. Your ticket is a permanent key to the protocol's yield engine.