About
A public leaderboard with one rule: rank is what you pay. No upvotes, no queue, no editor picking winners.
The idea
Every launch directory claims to be a meritocracy and then quietly ranks by whoever gamed it hardest. hypetrain.lol skips the pretence. The ordering is the amount paid, in public, for everyone to see. If you want to be higher, pay more. If someone wants to be above you, they pay more than you.
There are no ads, no API keys, and no revenue share. A listing is a product website or an X profile, a category, and a number.
100% of every bid buys back $HYPETRAIN
Everything paid for a rank goes back into the token, and nothing is held back. That is what the money on this board is for — the ranking is the product, and the spending on it is what funds the buyback.
Said precisely, because the rest of this page is about not asserting things: the contract does not make the buy. It sends each bid to the treasury in one transfer, and the buyback is made from there. So the buyback is a commitment, not something the code enforces.
What the code does enforce is the count. Every bid is a public transaction, so the figure the buyback is measured against cannot be quietly inflated — live stats adds it up, and the chain is there to check it against.
The board is a contract
Ranks are not recorded by a server that watched a wallet and decided who came first. Your wallet calls a contract on Robinhood Chain, and the contract takes the USDG and writes the total in the same transaction. A rank cannot exist without a payment behind it, because they are the same event.
USDGNothing on the board can be entered any other way. No admin path, no attestation, no oracle. Every total you see was paid through that one function, and every payment is a public transaction — open any listing and the history links straight to the explorer.
No card processor, no chargeback window, no account to create.
The boards
One payment counts on All-time, Today and the Daily board at once. They are the same money seen through different windows of time — cumulative, rolling 24 hours, and one UTC calendar day.
The fine print, in short
Payments are final and not refundable. Being outranked is the point of the board, not a fault. The full detail is in the rules and the FAQ.