Your stash and cashing out

Your stash is the one balance that pays for whichever table you join. Money comes in through deposits and winning games, goes out through losing games, and leaves for good when you cash out to your wallet.

#What your stash shows

Your profile page (/me) shows four numbers.

• —Available. What you can sit down with or cash out.
• —Reserved. Buy-ins locked into a game or tournament you are in. They are settled when it finishes.
• —Rakeback. Rakeback you have earned but not yet claimed. See Rakeback.
• —Withdrawing. Money in a cash-out that has a voucher but has not completed yet.

#Where each kind of money lands

Hood NFT mints are paid from your wallet, not from your stash.

#Cashing out

1. 01Choose an amount up to your available balance. Buy-ins reserved in a game or tournament you are in cannot be cashed out until it finishes.
2. 02The server first closes a checkpoint that includes your latest results, so what you withdraw matches what the vault has been told you own.
3. 03The server signs a withdrawal voucher: your address, the amount, a one-time number and a deadline.
4. 04You submit the voucher to the vault in a transaction and pay the gas. The vault checks the signature, checks the number has never been used, checks your on-chain balance, and pays the USDG to the address in the voucher.

A voucher works once. A second attempt with the same voucher is rejected. It is also short-lived: by default it is valid for 15 minutes, and if you do not submit it in time it expires and the amount goes back to your available balance. If a checkpoint is still landing when you ask, the cashier tells you to try again in a moment.

#Limits and the queue

The vault has an instant limit per player per 24 hours, and a cap on how much can leave the whole vault per hour. A withdrawal above either limit is not paid at once. It waits in a queue for a delay that is set in the contract, and the guardian can cancel it during that wait.

Why it exists: if a signing key were ever stolen, this delay is what gives people time to notice and pause before the money leaves. What it costs you: a large cash-out is slower, and the guardian has the power to hold one up. While it waits, the amount is set aside from your vault balance. If it is cancelled, the amount goes back to your balance, and the guardian has no way to send it anywhere else. Custody and your money covers the guardian honestly, and Contracts lists every role.

#If the server disappears

If the settler (the server's signing key) ever stops working, you can still get your money out. This is the escape hatch: you ask the vault for a forced withdrawal, wait 24 hours, then collect it within the next 3 days. It pays the lowest balance you had since you asked, never more than you hold, so winnings credited after the request stay in the vault. A request you do not collect in time expires, and you can simply ask again. It works while the vault is paused and with no settler at all. Your profile page has a button and an explainer for it, and it is also a function on the vault contract itself, so it works without this site. The details and the caveats are in Custody and your money.

#Receipts

Every deposit, voucher and withdrawal is a public transaction on the explorer, and your balance in the vault is readable on-chain. Keep the transaction hashes if you want a record.

#Cash out. Touch grass.

Winning is a good moment to withdraw. Keeping a stash you can afford to lose is one of the simplest limits there is, and the limits and cool-off tools are there if you want a firmer one.