Questions & Answers
Straight answers about how the OREStats Lab handles your money, what the leaderboard numbers actually measure, and what does — and does not — change when you play through us. We are an independent analytics site and not affiliated with Regolith Labs.
When a strategy auto-executes, where is my money — and where does the ORE I mine go?
Your funds never leave your own control. When you turn on Auto-Execute you fund an on-chain Automation account that is derived from your own wallet and held by the ORE program itself. OREStats never takes custody of your main wallet or your private key.
Our server holds only a separate "executor" key that you delegate to. It is allowed to do exactly one thing: sign each round's deploy (and SOL-reload) instruction on your behalf. It cannot send your money to any other wallet — the program only lets it deploy from, and return SOL to, your own automation balance.
The ORE you mine and any SOL you win are credited to your own on-chain miner account, also tied to your wallet — never to OREStats. Won SOL can optionally be reloaded into your automation balance to keep playing; the mined ORE stays yours to claim.
- Funds held: in your own program-controlled Automation account, on-chain.
- Our access: sign deploys only — no withdrawals to anyone but you.
- Exit anytime: one signed instruction closes the automation and refunds the remaining balance to your wallet.
- Fees: the executor pays each round's tiny network fee and is reimbursed from a per-round fee you set, deducted from your automation balance.
Where do the leaderboard's SOL return and return rate come from? Do they include ORE?
They come from forward testing, not backtests. Every strategy's pick is recorded and then settled against the real on-chain outcome as rounds actually play out. Only real, settled rounds count — gated/shadow picks are excluded.
Return (SOL) = SOL won minus SOL staked, summed across all settled rounds. Return rate (ROI %) = net SOL ÷ total SOL staked × 100. The board is ranked by ROI. The payout is read straight from the on-chain contract (winnings ≈ 0.891 × the losing pool), so the ~14.5% house take is already baked in — a strategy sitting near −14.5% ROI is simply tracking the game's expected value.
No — the numbers are pure SOL: deployed SOL versus SOL winnings and refunds. The ORE tokens you mine while playing are not counted in either the return or the ROI. If anything that makes the SOL ROI a conservative view: your real all-in result would also include whatever ORE you mined, which the ranking ignores.
How is mining ORE here different from mining it anywhere else?
It is the same game. OREStats plays the exact same on-chain ORE Supply program on Solana — the same 25 grids, the same 4% (1-in-25) chance per grid, the same payout formula, and the same ~14.5% house edge. Mining through us does not give you better odds, and the ORE is identical.
What's different is the tooling around the game, not the edge: full indexed round history with per-grid drought and fairness (χ²) checks so you play with data instead of folklore; a no-code way to build, backtest, forward-test and rank betting strategies by real SOL ROI; and non-custodial automation that runs a strategy for you every round while your funds stay in your own on-chain account.
Honest bottom line: because the odds are identical, we cannot sell you an edge — the expected value is still negative (about −14.5% of your stake per round). What changes is information and execution. You mine the same ORE, just with full data and hands-off automation instead of manual clicking.