Points land in the week the deposit confirms. It's the single biggest points lever in pre-registration — a 50,000 deposited total is worth 70,000 points, which no amount of daily nurturing will match. We're not telling you to deposit; we're telling you what the numbers say.
Why the docs say “10 August”
Because they're quoting the UTC date. 8:00 PM ET on Sunday Aug 9 is midnight UTC, which is already Monday Aug 10 in London and everywhere east of it. Same instant, two calendar dates — if you're in the Americas, the evening you want is Sunday the 9th.
Don't rush the whole stack in
The obvious move is to deposit everything the moment the address appears. It's usually the wrong one. The leaderboard runs two competitions at once: a final ranking on your all-time points, and a weekly ranking that resets every week and pays a resource box, food box, raffle ticket and loot box each time.
One bulk deposit gives you a single enormous week and nothing after it. The same $FLOWER split into weekly slices enters you into every weekly race between now and early access — and because the bonus rate follows your deposited total rather than each individual deposit, it earns exactly the same points either way.