Raffles

In a raffle, a seller puts one artwork up as the prize and sells a fixed number of tickets. When the raffle ends, one ticket wins the artwork. Every other ticket wins nothing, and its price isn't returned.

This page is for collectors. Sellers should read Raffle.

Who holds what

Raffles on mallow run on the Rafffle program from Famous Fox Federation. mallow shows the raffle and prepares the transactions, and the program does the rest:

Buying tickets

You can buy more later, up to your limit, for as long as the raffle is open and tickets remain. Once you hold tickets, the page shows You have N tickets and your Current chance: your tickets as a share of all tickets sold so far. It falls as other collectors buy.

The seller can't buy tickets in their own raffle.

How many tickets you can buy

Two limits apply to each wallet, and the lower one wins:

• The 40% cap. No wallet can hold more than 40% of a raffle's total tickets, rounded down. This applies to every raffle
• The seller's limit. A seller can set a lower number

The Wallet limit on the page is the result. A 100-ticket raffle allows 40 tickets per wallet at most. A 3-ticket raffle allows 1.

The limit counts every ticket your wallet has bought in that raffle, across all your purchases.

Holder-only raffles

A seller can restrict a raffle to collectors of up to three creators or collections that they name. Eligibility is checked against the wallet you're buying with:

• The wallet must hold an artwork by one of the named creators, or from one of the named collections
• The artwork must be in that same wallet. An artwork in another wallet linked to your profile doesn't count
• Compressed NFTs don't count

If your wallet doesn't qualify, the button in the Buy tickets window reads You are not allow-listed and you can't buy.

The draw

Ticket sales stop at the raffle's end time, or sooner if every ticket is sold. A raffle doesn't need to sell out:

After the end time, the page shows Draw pending... until the winner is recorded on chain.

You find out in two places:

• On the artwork page. If you won, it reads Raffle Winner and You won! Otherwise it names the winner and how many tickets they won with
• In your mallow notifications. The winner is notified when the draw is recorded. Ticket holders also get a reminder about 30 minutes before the raffle ends

Claiming the prize

Winning doesn't move the artwork by itself. It stays with the raffle program until you claim it.

1. Open the artwork's page while signed in with the winning wallet
2. Click Claim NFT
3. Approve the transaction

The page confirms with NFT claimed, and the artwork is under Owned on your profile.

The prize always goes to the wallet that holds the winning ticket, whichever wallet signs the claim. mallow sets no deadline for claiming.

Refunds and cancellations

Tickets are never refunded, whether you change your mind after buying or your ticket doesn't win. Each ticket is spent as soon as the transaction confirms.

A seller can cancel a raffle only while no tickets have been sold. Once one ticket is sold, the seller can no longer cancel or take the artwork back, and the raffle runs to its draw.

Physical artworks

A raffle's prize can include a physical piece. The artwork page then shows This listing includes a physical. Click it to read the seller's message, and any Unlocks at amount they have set.

mallow doesn't ask a raffle winner for a shipping address, so delivery is arranged with the seller directly. Read their message before you buy tickets, and ask them if anything about the physical is unclear. Physicals are the seller's responsibility to deliver, and mallow doesn't resolve disputes about them. See Physicals.

What you pay

Nothing is added to the ticket price. The raffle fee is taken from the seller's proceeds after the draw. The current amount is on Fees.

Tickets are paid in the raffle's own token. Swapping from another token isn't offered here.

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