1. SPREAD YOUR $FLOWER DEPOSITS WEEKLY
If you plan to deposit $FLOWER, sending it in weekly slices instead of one lump gets you strictly more — same points, more rewards. The reason is that the leaderboard is really two competitions running at once, and a bulk deposit only enters one of them properly.
The two competitions
| Final ranking | Weekly ranking | |
|---|---|---|
| Based on | Your total points, all-time | Points you earned that week |
| Resets | Never — it accumulates | Every week |
| Pays out | Once, at early access in Q4 2026 | Every single week until then |
| Rewards | Legendary / Rare Monster, early-access wave | Resource box, food box, raffle ticket, loot box |
A bulk deposit is one enormous week followed by nothing. Weekly slices enter you into every weekly race between now and Q4.
Why bulk is overkill
The weekly board doesn't reward you for winning by a wide margin. Finishing first with 60,000 points pays exactly what finishing first with 7,500 points pays. Everything above the line you needed is surplus — and a bulk deposit is almost entirely surplus, spent in a single week.
Same $FLOWER, identical total points — eight shots at the weekly prize pool instead of one. ★ marks a week you're competitive in.
Splitting costs you nothing
The obvious worry is that you'd sacrifice bonus points, since bigger deposits earn better rates. You don't. The bonus rate is set by your deposited total, not by the size of each individual deposit. Send 5,000 $FLOWER in one lump or in eight slices and the rate you end up on is the same, because what the system reads is the total you've deposited.
| Deposited total | Bonus rate | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 50 $FLOWER | — | 50 |
| 500 $FLOWER | +10% | 550 |
| 5,000 $FLOWER | +20% | 6,000 |
| 50,000 $FLOWER | +40% | 70,000 |
Those rates apply to the total, however you got there. So the choice between bulk and weekly isn't a trade-off at all — it's the same points either way, and one option additionally enters you into every weekly race.
Case study: 5,000 $FLOWER over 8 weeks
Deposits open Aug 9 at 8:00 PM ET and the leaderboard runs to early access in Q4 2026, so call it eight weeks.
| One bulk deposit | Split over 8 weeks | |
|---|---|---|
| Each deposit | 5,000 $FLOWER × 1 | 625 $FLOWER × 8 |
| Deposited total | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| Bonus rate on that total | +20% | +20% |
| Total points | 6,000 | 6,000 |
| Final ranking | Identical | Identical |
| Weekly reward shots | 1 | 8 |
Same 6,000 points, same final rank, same everything — except one route collects resource boxes, food boxes, raffle tickets and loot boxes eight times instead of once. That's the whole tip.
It scales with the stack
Because the rate follows your total, this holds at every size. Nobody has to weigh boxes against bonus:
| Your stack | Bulk | Split over 8 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 $FLOWER | 550 | 550 | None |
| 5,000 $FLOWER | 6,000 | 6,000 | None |
| 20,000 $FLOWER | 24,000 | 24,000 | None |
| 50,000 $FLOWER | 70,000 | 70,000 | None |
What the final ranking pays
For reference, since your final rank is the half of the competition that doesn't reset:
| Band | Reward | Early access |
|---|---|---|
| 1 – 100 | Legendary Monster A | Wave 1 |
| 101 – 500 | Legendary Monster B | Wave 1 |
| 501 – 1,000 | Legendary Monster C | Wave 1 |
| 1,001 – 5,000 | Rare Monster | Wave 2 |
| 5,001 – 20,000 | Early access | Wave 3 |
| 20,001 – 50,000 | Early access | Wave 4 |
| 50,001 – 100,000 | Early access | Wave 5 |
Splitting your deposits doesn't move you anywhere on this table. It only adds to what you collect on the way there.
Practical notes
- Points land in the week the deposit confirms, so send a slice early in each week rather than at the boundary.
- Minimum deposit is 5 $FLOWER, on Base or Ronin — so even small stacks can be split several ways.
- Your deposit address is issued when deposits open on Aug 9 at 8:00 PM ET.
- All $FLOWER can be withdrawn once you gain access to the game.
- Weekly points come from every source, not just deposits — daily nurture, referrals and X posts all count toward the same weekly total.
2. NURTURE AFTER 12:00 UTC, EVERY DAY
Daily nurture is the main points lever for anyone not depositing, and it pays more the longer your run goes. There's also a grace period built into it — but the grace period only actually protects you if you nurture in the second half of the UTC day. That's the whole tip, and the reason is a quirk of how two separate clocks interact.
What a streak is worth
Tap your egg three times to nurture it, once a day. Each nurture pays 5 points plus a streak bonus that climbs with the run:
| Streak day | Points per day |
|---|---|
| Day 1 – 2 | +6 |
| Day 3 – 4 | +7 |
| Day 5 – 9 | +8 |
| Day 10 – 29 | +9 |
| Day 30+ | +10 |
A full week at day 30+ is 70 points. Run it unbroken from early August to the free mint on October 1 — 57 days — and daily nurture alone is worth about 526 points.
What breaking it costs
Miss the window and your next nurture starts again at day 1. You don't just lose one day — you drop from 10 points a day back to 6, and it takes 29 days to climb back to the top rate. That rebuild is 44 points you'd have banked by staying on the ladder, on top of the day you missed.
| Over 57 days | Points from nurture |
|---|---|
| Never broken | 526 |
| Broken once | ~474 |
| Broken four times | ~420 |
The two clocks
Two rules govern the streak, and they don't line up:
- One nurture per day, and the day rolls over at midnight UTC.
- You always have 36 hours from your last nurture before the run resets.
36 hours is a day and a half, which is where the “a single missed day need not cost you the streak” promise comes from. But whether it actually covers a missed day depends entirely on when in the UTC day you tapped.
Same 36 hours, different protection. Nurture before noon UTC and the grace period expires before the next day is over; nurture after noon and it carries you past it.
Why noon UTC is the line
Nurture at time T and your deadline is T plus 36 hours. For that deadline to land past the end of the next day, T has to be at least 12:00 UTC. Tap at 08:00 and your window closes at 20:00 the following day — you're still on the hook tomorrow. Tap at 20:00 and it closes at 08:00 the day after — you can miss a whole day and be fine.
| 12:00 UTC is… | Local time |
|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 5:00 AM |
| New York | 8:00 AM |
| São Paulo | 9:00 AM |
| London | 1:00 PM |
| Berlin | 2:00 PM |
| Istanbul | 3:00 PM |
| Mumbai | 5:30 PM |
| Manila | 8:00 PM |
| Tokyo | 9:00 PM |
| Sydney | 10:00 PM |
Practical notes
- Nurturing late one day and early the next is fine — they're different UTC days, so both count and the run continues.
- The 36-hour grace is a safety net, not a schedule. Using it every other day means you're nurturing half as often and earning half as many points.
- Nurture points feed your weekly total as well as your all-time one, so a consistent run helps in both competitions at once.
- Set a repeating alarm for the same time each evening. That single habit is worth more than any other free action on the board.
- Be realistic about scale: 526 points over 57 days is a fraction of what a large $FLOWER deposit pays. It's the best free lever there is, not a way to out-earn capital.