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Creating a raffle

Anyone with a Solana wallet can create a raffle. Go to rafffle.famousfoxes.com/create and connect your wallet.

Before you start​

  • Link your X and Discord. Open your profile on Rafffle and link both. Raffles from wallets that don't meet the Featured standards are listed after the ones that do.
  • Stake a fox if you have one. If a Famous Fox is staked or on a mission in the wallet you create from, you pay half the fee, and your raffle can be Featured. The create page shows a holder badge when it finds one. See Fees.

Step 1: Choose the prize​

A raffle has one prize. It can be an NFT or an amount of tokens.

An NFT

  • Click Add an NFT prize and pick one from your wallet.
  • Only NFTs from verified collections are listed. Use View all verified collections to see them. If your collection is missing, use the Contact us link in the picker to ask for it to be verified.
  • Standard NFTs, programmable NFTs (pNFTs) and Metaplex Core NFTs are supported.
  • NFTs with a creator royalty of 50% or more can't be raffled.

Tokens

  • Enter an amount under Add a token prize and pick the token. Only tokens on Rafffle's prize token list are offered. Use View all prize tokens to see the list.
  • The prize must be worth at least 0.5 SOL.
  • Token prizes can't be used with multiple winners.

The prize moves from your wallet into escrow when you create the raffle.

Step 2: Set the end time​

Pick a date and time, or use the quick buttons (24, 36 or 48 hours).

  • The minimum run time is 24 hours.
  • Once you have completed 100 raffles, the minimum drops to 12 hours, and the quick buttons change to 12, 24 and 48 hours.

When you pick a time, the site shows other raffles ending around then, so you can avoid ending at the same moment as many others.

Step 3: Set tickets and price​

  • Tickets: 3 to 10,000. The form shows the rent this needs (see Rent).
  • Price per ticket and currency: SOL or a token from Rafffle's currency list.
  • The form shows the total you would get if every ticket sells, before fees.

Price the raffle with the prize value in mind. The form shows the prize's floor price next to the total ticket value.

Step 4: Advanced settings (optional)​

Open Advanced settings for these options:

  • Holder-only mode: only holders of up to 3 collections can buy tickets. This costs extra. See Holder-only raffles.
  • Ticket limit per wallet: the most tickets one wallet can buy. It can't be more than 40% of the tickets. With no limit set, each wallet can still buy at most 40%.
  • Number of winners: up to 250. See Multiple winners.

Step 5: Create​

Tick I agree to the Terms & Conditions, click Create raffle, check the summary and approve the transaction. If this is your first raffle, your wallet asks you to approve one extra small transaction first, to set up your creator account.

Rent​

Each raffle stores its ticket list on chain, and you pay Solana rent for it when you create the raffle. Rent grows with the number of tickets. It is about 2.2 SOL at the 10,000-ticket maximum, and much less for small raffles. The create form shows the amount for your choice.

You get the ticket list rent back when you collect your proceeds, when you take back an unsold prize, or when you cancel.

Changing or cancelling a raffle​

Until the first ticket sells, you can:

  • Change the ticket price and the number of tickets from the raffle page.
  • Cancel the raffle with Cancel raffle. The prize and the rent come back to you.

Once one ticket has sold, the raffle can't be changed or cancelled by you. It runs to the end.

What happens at the end​

A raffle ends at its end time, or straight away when the last ticket sells.

If at least one ticket sold, the winner is drawn from the tickets that sold, even if the raffle didn't sell out. See Provably fair. Then:

  1. The winner can claim the prize from the raffle page.
  2. You click Claim proceeds on the raffle page. If the winner hasn't claimed yet, the site sends them the prize first. You then get the ticket money minus the Rafffle fee, and the ticket list rent comes back to you.

If no tickets sold, nobody wins. Open the raffle page and claim the prize back to your wallet.

Multiple winners​

A raffle can have up to 250 winners. This is for prizes that are handed out outside the raffle, such as whitelist spots or a set of items you send yourself.

  • You raffle a placeholder NFT. It must not belong to a collection. The placeholder stays in escrow for good and is never sent to anyone. Contact the team to get your placeholder verified.
  • When the raffle is drawn, the raffle page lists every winner. You then deliver the prizes.
  • Unique winners (on by default) means each wallet can win at most once. Turn it off to let a wallet win more than once.
  • Token prizes can't be used with multiple winners.

See Provably fair for how the extra winners are picked.

Rules for creators​

  • You can't buy tickets in your own raffle.
  • Buying your own tickets from other wallets gets your raffles marked as suspicious and removed from the listings.
  • Rafffle doesn't pay NFT creator royalties out of ticket sales.

Fees​

Rafffle keeps 5% of ticket sales, or 2.5% if you had a Famous Fox staked or on a mission when you created the raffle. Holder-only mode costs 1 SOL up front (0.5 SOL for holders). See Fees.

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