Earning zaps
Four sources, all automatic. Trade, belong, recruit, and your balance moves.
zaps are earned by doing what you already do. There are no daily check-ins, no task lists, no quests. Four sources feed your balance, and none of them require a claim button.
1 · The welcome grant
Your first zaps arrive the moment you link a wallet, before you have traded a single time on Zaps. The grant is computed from your real trading history and zScore, up to 100 zaps, and fires exactly once per wallet. Strong history, strong grant. New wallet, honest small number.
2 · Trading
Your trades are indexed automatically from your linked wallets across the major chains. Real trades earn zaps. That is the core loop, and it needs nothing from you beyond trading the way you already trade.
What does not earn: wash activity. Same-block round trips and fee-dodging patterns score zero, using the same per-trade checks that protect campaigns. Trade genuinely and none of this ever concerns you.
3 · Your clan's growth
Every day, a fixed pool of 10,000 zaps pays out across all growing clans. Members split 70% of their clan's share, weighted by Trader Score. You earn because your room is growing, which makes every member a recruiter. The full mechanics are in The Growth Leaderboard.
4 · Referrals
Invite a trader who joins and qualifies, and you both earn a bonus. The bonus scales with the quality of who you brought: recruiting one genuinely active trader beats recruiting ten empty wallets, by design.
Where zaps go
Earning is half the economy. zaps are spent on entry fees, action fees, vouches, and stakes, and every spend is a signal with weight behind it. The full list of sinks is in zaps, the currency.
One thing zaps never do: cash out. They cannot be traded, withdrawn, or sold, and they never convert to $ZERU. If that surprises you, read zaps vs $ZERU for why the separation is the point.