# The Gluebook ($GLUE handbook) > $GLUE is a horse race on Solana. Each race launches five horse coins on pump.fun. The highest USD market cap at the bell wins, and the winning coin's top 40 holders (3% per wallet cap) get real SOL payouts. A progressive jackpot pays one holder the whole pool. 35% of every pot buys and burns $GLUE. Horses keep careers, and a horse with five losses in a row becomes glue (retired forever). This is the index of the official handbook; each link is the raw markdown of a page. ## Handbook - [Start Here](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/start-here.md): What $GLUE is today: a horse racing track you bet on. Highest market cap wins, real SOL payouts, most horses become glue. And the first layer of something much bigger. - [Where We Are](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/where-we-are.md): Season 1 status. Phase 1 The Minting is complete (100 horses minted). Phase 2 The Gauntlet is next. - [How a Race Works](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/how-a-race-works.md): 5 horses, every race runs a flat 1 hour, highest market cap at the bell wins, tie broken by mint address. - [Payouts and the Split](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/payouts-and-the-split.md): Every pot splits 50% to the winning horse's top 40 holders (3% cap), 35% buy and burn $GLUE, 10% jackpot, 5% keeper. Snapshot frozen at the bell. - [The Jackpot](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/the-jackpot.md): A progressive pool fed by 10% of every pot. When it pops, one holder of the winning horse takes the entire thing. Already paid 12.18 SOL on chain. - [Careers and the Glue Factory](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/careers-and-the-glue-factory.md): Every horse keeps a permanent record. Five losses in a row and it becomes glue, retired forever. Survivors get rarer as the field thins. - [Seasons and Phases](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/seasons-and-phases.md): Season 1 runs in two phases: The Minting (100 horses born) then The Gauntlet (the survivors race each other). - [The Gauntlet](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/the-gauntlet.md): What happens when all 100 horses are minted. The field closes forever, the survivors race each other, and the real game begins in gluniverse. - [$GLUE the Token](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/glue-token.md): The through-line of the whole track. 35% of every pot buys and burns $GLUE forever. Real on chain SPL burns. - [Glue Congress](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/glue-congress.md): $GLUE holders vote to name an upcoming race's horse. Voting is message signed and free. Propose names with a larger bag. - [The Stable and HorseX](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/surfaces.md): A tour of the app: the track, the stable of careers, and the HorseX coin screener and pages. - [Proofs and Transparency](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/proofs-and-transparency.md): Real on chain data only, never mock. Every race has a proof page with the frozen snapshot and every payout, burn and treasury transaction. - [FAQ](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/faq.md): Straight answers: why hold after the bell, is it fair, what happens to losing horses, is my money safe. - [What Is Gluniverse](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse.md): A play to earn MMO built by the $GLUE team. Wake as a horse or as a human, find your companion, and walk a persistent world that keeps growing. - [Get Started](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-enter.md): How to enter the gluniverse alpha: connect your wallet and sign, no transaction and no fee. Wake in the dead forest, talk to the scarecrow, find your companion, and the world opens. - [Make Your Horse](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-make-your-horse.md): Before you enter you make your soul: choose your form, your look, and spend your starting stat points. Your form is permanent once you cross into the world. - [Your First Steps](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-first-steps.md): Every soul wakes alone in the Dead Forest with nothing. A short guided arrival teaches you the whole loop, and your companion opens the shared world. - [What Keeps You Alive](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-what-keeps-you-alive.md): Two bars run your body: health and stamina. Health heals slowly out of a fight, stamina is the pool you spend to run and work, and some places will come at you. - [A Map of the World](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-map.md): How the world lies: the Foal Pen, the Dead Forest at the center, four zones on its edges, and Glueburg beyond. - [The Dead Forest](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-dead-forest.md): The starting zone. Ash, bone gray trees, and the sap that starts the economy. Rebuilt from zero. - [The Four Edges](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-four-edges.md): The four zones ringing the Dead Forest: the Ashfell, the Hollow, the Shore and the Mire. Same world, four moods. - [Glueburg, the Town](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-glueburg.md): The town: Market Row, the pub, the Gloo Bank and the trading floor of the Gloo Exchange. - [Gathering](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-gathering.md): Everything in the economy starts here. Walk up to a node, press E, and pull raw material from the world. Some is common, some is scarce and Power gated, and every pull runs the world down. - [Crafting](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-crafting.md): Made things are worth more than raw material, because making them destroys what they came from. Three stations, a real recipe tree, and the best gear is gated behind the scarcest materials. - [Carrying and Keeping](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-carrying.md): Everything you gather and make rides in your trough, and it has limited room. What is in it follows your wallet across sessions and only leaves when you choose. - [Damage, Healing, and the Husk](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-husk.md): Part of the gluniverse game guide. Coming soon. - [The Economy](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-economy.md): Almost everything in the world is finite. Zones hold a fixed amount of each resource, gathering is rate limited, vendors will buy at a floor price in gloo, and the Gloo Exchange is a real order book where rarity is a live reading of remaining supply. - [Scarcity and the Cap](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-scarcity.md): The one hard rule underneath everything: nothing is infinite. Every material is fixed, gloo is capped, and rarity is a fact because the world genuinely runs out. - [What Is Worth Holding](https://gibglue.xyz /gluebook/gluniverse-worth-holding.md): Part of the gluniverse game guide. Coming soon.