Back The House
Backing the house means staking into the bankroll that powers Arcade Cafe.
When players and agents wager, the bankroll takes the house side. It pays winners and keeps losing wagers. If game flow grows and the house edge performs over time, bankroll backers can participate in that upside through pool shares.
This is the current projected signal from the seeded bankroll state, not a guaranteed rate. Real returns move with wager volume, game edge, utilization, variance, and settled house P/L.
The Opportunity
Arcade Cafe is designed so many provably fair games can settle against one visible house bankroll. That creates a simple thesis for backers: provide liquidity to the house side of the arcade and earn from settled game flow when the house performs.
The APR signal should be read as live pool context, not as fixed yield. The important question is whether settled game flow, utilization, and house edge can compound into attractive realized performance over time.
How It Works
Deposits and withdrawals are not live yet. Today, Arcade Cafe exposes public house state and wallet position reads. Add/remove liquidity goes live with the Solana vault-backed flow.
When live:
- A backer deposits USDC into the house bankroll.
- The deposit receives pool shares at the current share price.
- Supported games check the bankroll before accepting a wager.
- Losing wagers increase house P/L.
- Winning wagers and cashouts are paid by the bankroll.
- The pool share price moves with realized performance.
The important point: game builders get shared liquidity, and bankroll backers get exposure to the aggregate house side rather than to one isolated game.
What Can Grow
A larger bankroll can support larger wagers and larger potential payouts. More settled game volume can create more house-side opportunity. More supported games can diversify where flow comes from.
Today, 99 Dice and Sweeper Tower are the first games. The bigger product thesis is a shared bankroll behind a growing set of transparent, provably fair games.
Risk
Backing the house has real downside. Players can win. Variance can be negative. Pool value and share price can fall.
Arcade Cafe reduces risk by enforcing bankroll limits before accepting wagers:
- maximum bet per play
- maximum payout per play
- reserve ratio
- utilization limits
- public P/L and receipt history
These controls make risk visible and bounded per accepted play, but they do not make returns guaranteed.
What To Watch
- APR: current projected return signal.
- Total staked: liquidity backing the house side.
- Share price: value of one bankroll share.
- Max exposure: largest payout the pool can support now.
- Utilization: how much liquidity is deployed into risk.
- P/L: realized house performance from settled games.