1. Everyone posts the same buy-in. The market splits into tickers — your opening position becomes your settlement asset: win, and you're paid in that tokenized stock.

2. Each turn: buy adjacent float — free money, and mandatory while your frontier has any. Once you're out of float, launch hostile takeovers on rival tickers. 10s shot clock — stall, and the desk trades for you.

3. Takeovers settle by mind games: 🚀 pump squeezes 🐻 short · 🐻 short bleeds 💎 hodl · 💎 hodl starves 🚀 pump. Ties rethrow; three ties and the takeover collapses.

4. The VIX only rises — leverage climbs, takeovers move more tickers. Hit zero tickers and you're margin-called.

5. Corner the whole market and take the pot. At the closing bell everyone settles pro-rata — the pot always pays in full, minus the 5% exchange fee.