Term reference
Every term,precisely defined.
Ringo runs on a Kick chat bot and an on-stream overlay — no dashboard, no manual. This page defines every term either one uses: the round, the overlay, the money and who can run what, each one traced straight to the bot's own code, not marketing shorthand.
32 terms · traced to the bot's own code
01The round
One prediction, start to finish.
Every round moves through the same shape — a claim, a stake, a pool to fill, a lock, a settle. These are the exact words for each part.
- Claim
- The exact sentence a streamer puts in quotes when they open a round — the thing chat is confirming or denying. It lights up on the overlay while the pot fills, so it has to be short and unambiguous.Command:
- Stake
- What one side puts up to back its position — the streamer's stake when they open the round, or a viewer's stake when they join the other side.
- Pool
- The amount the other side has to fill to match the streamer's stake. Symmetric by default — the pool equals the stake — but the streamer can size it directly with a second amount, or set a payout multiplier instead and let the pool size itself.
- Pot
- The streamer's stake plus whatever the pool has filled so far — the running total riding on the round. It's what the overlay's progress bar tracks in real time.
- The two sides
- Every claim has exactly two sides. The streamer backs one when they open the round — YES by default, unless they set it to NO — and joining the round always takes the other side. There is no third option.
- Taker
- A viewer who has joined the other side of the round. The overlay lists every taker by handle and stake, ranked by how much they put in.Command:
- Default stake
- The amount a bare join uses when a viewer doesn't type a number. Set once and it applies to every round after; clear it and Ringo falls back to a safe $5.Command:
- Lock
- The moment nobody can join anymore — the pool fills completely and the round seals. The overlay flips from OPEN to LOCKED the instant it happens.
- Settle
- The round's real outcome, decided on-chain once the claim's oracle question finalizes, after which the contract pays out automatically — no claiming, no signing. A streamer or mod can also call the round early, which flips the overlay's verdict immediately while the on-chain settlement still runs its normal course behind it.Command:
- Cancel
- Calls off a round before it locks. If nobody has joined yet, nothing moves — no stake was ever taken. If some of the pool already filled, only the unfilled remainder closes; the takers already locked in ride through to a normal settle.Command:
02The overlay
What's actually on screen.
The overlay moves through six states, shows a live payout multiplier, and ships in three sizes. These are the real labels a viewer sees on stream.
- PREDICTION AWAITING
- What the overlay's status chip reads when no round is open on the channel. The footer tells viewers to wait for the streamer to predict.
- PREDICTION OPEN
- The status chip while a round is live and chat can still join. The bar fills toward the pool, and as it closes in the overlay switches to an ‘ONLY $X LEFT’ callout and then to ‘FILLING NOW’.
- PREDICTION LOCKED
- The status chip once the pool is fully matched and no more entries land. A LOCKED seal stamps the card the same moment.
- RESOLVING
- The status chip while the claim's outcome is being verified on-chain, after the round has locked but before a winner is declared.
- PREDICTION RESOLVED
- The status chip once the round is decided. The footer names the WINNER — the streamer's handle, or the viewers collectively when the takers won — and the card stamps WON or LOST to match.
- PREDICTION CANCELLED
- The status chip after a round is called off. The footer confirms the prediction was cancelled and the card stamps CANCELLED.
- Edge
- The implied probability the streamer's own order assigns to their claim holding, on a scale of 0 to 100. It's what splits the pot between the streamer's stake and the pool chat has to fill — a higher edge means the streamer is staking more of the total themselves.
- Payout multiplier
- What a winning stake gets multiplied by, shown live on the overlay as ‘X.XXx · payout if you win’. It's the inverse of the edge — 1 ÷ (1 − edge) — so it always lands between roughly 1.05x and 20x.
- XL
- The wide-dock overlay format — a full-width hype banner under the streamer's cam with every taker on screen as the pot fills. Built for big moments.
- MD
- The standard-panel overlay format — a tidy side panel showing the live pot, the taker wall and the join prompt. The everyday default.
- XS
- The compact-ticker overlay format — a quiet corner ticker that tracks the pot without sitting on top of the gameplay.
03The money
Credits, funds and fees.
Two pools of money, one welcome bonus, and a flat fee schedule. These are the real numbers, not rounded marketing figures.
- Credits
- Free, promotional balance that lives only in Ringo's database, never on-chain. It comes from the one-time welcome bonus or from quests, and it spends exactly like real funds inside a round.
- Funds
- Real USDC, held on-chain in the viewer's own wallet — created automatically the first time they show up, no signup or wallet-connect step required.
- Balance
- Credits and funds, reported separately so a viewer always knows which pool they're spending from.Command:
- Welcome bonus
- A one-time credit grant any viewer can claim once, ever, on a given Kick account. Each channel's operator sets — and can switch off — the amount; there is no fixed platform-wide number.Command:
- Creator fee
- A 1% cut of the pot that goes to whoever created the market — normally the streamer — on every round settled on their channel, whether or not their own claim won. It's the streamer's direct cut of hosting the action.
- Total fee
- Ringo takes a flat 5% off each side's winnings, all-in — the creator fee, the oracle fee that funds resolution, an optional linked-community cut and Ringo's own protocol fee all live inside that 5%, never stacked on top of it. Ringo's own share is whatever's left after the others are paid: 5% minus the 1% creator fee, minus a 0.5% oracle fee, minus a community's cut when the market has one.
- Payout
- What a winner receives once the round settles — their own stake back plus their share of the other side's pool, minus fees, delivered straight to their wallet by the contract. Nothing to claim, sign or click.
- Invalidation fee
- A separate 1.5% fee, kept outside the normal 5% cap, reserved for the rare case a round has to be invalidated rather than settled normally.
04The roles
Who can run what.
Three roles, no hidden tiers. Every command a role can run is listed here in full.
- Streamer
- The Kick account the channel belongs to — either the exact username matching the channel, or any account carrying the channel's broadcaster badge. Can open, cancel, clear, hide and show the round, and call it early: create · cancel · won/defended · lost/broken · clear · hide · show.
- Moderator
- Any Kick account carrying the channel's moderator badge. Has exactly the same command power over a round as the streamer — every command above is also mod-run, with no separate mod-only tier.
- Viewer
- Anyone in chat, no role required. Can join a round, check its status, check their own balance, claim the welcome bonus, set a default join stake, and ask for help: join · status · balance · claim · default · help.
That's the whole vocabulary.
Thirty-two terms, no jargon left undefined. If a word shows up in Ringo's chat or on its overlay, its exact meaning lives on this page.