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Bounty Mode

In bounty mode, a brand stops paying RSNC per event. Instead, every event emits Activity Score, and once a week the brand's RSNC budget is split across every qualifying member by AS share. One payout, paid Monday 00:01 UTC.

This is the earning model for partner brands on Resonance; a brand can also stay on the legacy per-event (additive) model. Resonance Official itself is leaving bounty mode — see the changeover below — but the model described on this page is exactly what partner-brand bounties still run on.

Resonance Official is retiring the weekly bounty — moving to earn-from-play

The network is switching Resonance Official's own RSNC rewards off the weekly bounty and onto earning RSNC directly as you play — node clears, cooking, and other activity paying out on the spot instead of pooling into one Monday payout. See Earning RSNC → Earn by playing for how the new payouts work.

The bounty pool winds down on a set schedule — each week the Resonance Official budget steps down about a third, to zero:

Bounty week (Sun–Sat)Final settlementResonance Official budget
Aug 24–30Aug 31167,500 (first −33% step)
Aug 31 – Sep 6Sep 7112,225
Sep 7–13Sep 1475,191
Sep 14–20Sep 210 — retired

Your Activity Score and everything it feeds (Tune-In, lifetime AS, partner-brand bounties) are unaffected — this changeover is Resonance Official's only. Partner brands keep running the bounty exactly as this page describes.

The three modes a brand can be in​

ModePer-event payoutWeekly bountyWhen you'd see it
bounty_only (default)0 RSNC, AS onlyBrand's full weekly budget → pro-rata to qualifying ASMost brands today
additiveNormal RSNC per eventNonePre-pivot brands, legacy path
splitReduced RSNC per eventSmaller bounty pool from the differenceHybrid configs (rare)

You can tell which mode a brand is in by running /cooldowns on their server. If you see a Projected Weekly Bounty section in the embed, that brand is on bounty_only or split. If not, it's additive.

How the math works​

Each brand's bounty pool is derived from settings on its program config:

SettingMeaningDefault
Weekly budgetTotal RSNC the brand commits per weekSet per brand
Event emissionsWhether a slice of the budget is reserved for per-event RSNC (events_share) instead of the bountyOff — 100% of the budget goes to the bounty
Floor ASMinimum AS / week required to qualify for any share50 AS

The pool for the week is:

event emissions OFF (default):  pool = weekly_budget
event emissions ON:             pool = weekly_budget × (1 − events_share)

And each qualifying member's payout is:

your_payout = max(1, floor(your_AS / sum_of_qualifying_AS × pool))

Worked example: a brand with a weekly budget of 500,000 and event emissions on at events_share = 0.5 → pool = 500,000 × (1 − 0.5) = 250,000 RSNC. A brand with event emissions off puts its entire weekly budget into the pool. (Budgets are set per brand and can change — Resonance Official's own pool is winding down as it shifts to earn-from-play, as noted above.)

If you earned 1,000 AS that week and total qualifying AS across the brand was 200,000, you receive floor(1,000 / 200,000 × 250,000) = 1,250 RSNC. Sustained beats spiky — there's no per-day reset, so a steady week with broad participation outperforms a single-day push.

The weekly payout — compute, then sweep​

Settlement runs in two decoupled phases (a 2026-06-21 refactor):

  1. Compute — at the weekly rollover (Monday 00:01 UTC), a cron sums each brand's Activity Score for the just-finished ISO week, drops anyone below the floor (default 50 AS), computes each qualifying user's share, and writes one pending row per user to bounty_payouts. No RSNC moves in this phase.
  2. Sweep — a separate cron drains those pending rows on-chain roughly every 2 minutes, merging recipients across brands into batched transfers. Your payout lands in your balance over the minutes following the compute — not as a single instant mint.

A summary is posted once to the brand's notification channel (never a DM). You don't have to claim — check /balance a few minutes after the Monday rollover.

What happens if you don't hit the floor​

You earn 0 RSNC from the bounty for that week — but your AS is still recorded. It still feeds your Tune-In Hz progress, and it still counts toward your lifetime AS. The floor exists to keep the pool from being diluted to dust across thousands of one-message contributors.

If you regularly fall just below the floor, the cheapest path to qualifying is to grow into the gated event categories you can unlock with Quest Packs — they multiply the number of AS-emitting events available to you without requiring more time.

Per-recipient cap​

A single user can't receive more than 1,000,000 RSNC from a single brand in a single week, even if their AS share would compute higher. This is the same validateRewardAmount cap that protects the legacy per-event path; it carries over to the bounty cron. At current pool sizes (a few hundred thousand RSNC) it's not a binding constraint — it kicks in only for much bigger pools.

Tune-In discount applies to spending, not to bounty payouts​

Your Tune-In level gives you a discount on RSNC you spend (up to 20% off at L90 Resonate — see Pay-or-Play Parity). It does not scale your bounty payout up — that's purely your AS share. Tune-In's role in bounty mode is gating Quest Packs and unlocking more event categories, which lets you earn more AS.

Why this exists​

The pre-pivot model paid RSNC per event, which incentivized farming volume regardless of contribution quality. The bounty model pays for share of total contribution — your work is judged against your peers' that week, not against a fixed rate.

For brands, it means the weekly cost is bounded and predictable (the pool is fixed, regardless of how many users participate). For users, it means a healthy week of participation always pays — and a slow week pays less, instead of a steady drip of small per-event rewards that don't add up to anything.

See also​

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