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Deposits and Withdrawals on the hood: SOL, USDC, USDT

By the hood · Oct 8, 2026 · 4 min read

Plumbing first, fun after. Getting money onto the hood takes one transfer from your own wallet, and getting it back out takes one request. This page walks both directions with every minimum and fee attached, plus the two mistakes that genuinely cost people funds.

Your own deposit address

The first time you sign in, the site generates a deposit address that belongs to your account alone. It is an ordinary Solana address. Send SOL to it, or send USDC or USDT. A background process watches for the transfer and values it against a Jupiter price snapshot. Your balance then rises by the dollar amount. Each transfer is detected and priced on its own. Two sends simply become two credits.

A $1 equivalent is the smallest deposit that gets credited, or 0.01 SOL when you are sending SOL. Sends below that threshold do not credit. They are accounted for and swept, and the story ends there. If you want to test the flow with a token amount, make it at least the floor. Anything at or above it credits in full, whatever the size.

One warning, stated once and in plain terms. The deposit address lives on Solana, and so do the stablecoin versions it accepts. A USDC or USDT send from another chain never reaches the account. No undo exists for that. Copy the address fresh from your own account screen too: funds sent to somebody else's address belong to whoever holds those keys. A few seconds of checking beats an unrecoverable send.

A balance that reads in dollars

Once a deposit clears, your money shows as USD. The header carries a toggle between a USD view and a SOL view, and the balance underneath does not change between them. Lottery rounds price their tickets in SOL. Duels post their stakes in dollars. The toggle handles the translation.

The dollar figure holds still while the SOL underneath it floats. Deposit at one price and withdraw at another, and the SOL amount differs even though the balance number never moved. Sometimes the float helps. Sometimes it does not.

What you send decides how the number arrives. A stablecoin send converts near its face value. A SOL send converts at the market price of the moment the worker catches it.

How withdrawals run

Cashouts pay in SOL to a wallet you specify. Enter the destination and the amount, and an automated worker takes it from there, converting the figure and broadcasting the transaction. Payouts are usually on their way within minutes. No person sits between you and the queue, and no office hours apply either. Sunday at 3 a.m. gets the same service as Tuesday noon.

Two costs attach to every payout. The service fee runs a flat $1, and the ordinary Solana network fee rides on top of it. Each withdrawal has to clear $5.

Because the service fee is flat, batching saves real money. Pulling $60 once costs one fee. The same $60 in twelve $5 payouts pays that fee a dozen times over, with a network fee on each.

Detection on the way in is automated the same way, and deposits appear once the network confirms them. Neither direction involves a form or a person to persuade.

Where mistakes happen

The two mistakes that genuinely cost people funds were both named above: sending on the wrong chain, and sending to an address that is not yours. Neither has a recovery path. Check both before you hit send.

Not every leak is loud. Repeated below-floor sends vanish into the sweep. Frequent small withdrawals bleed the flat fee. Neither one stings in any single moment, and both add up if a month goes by unwatched.

The numbers at a glance

  • Minimum credited deposit: $1 equivalent, or 0.01 SOL if you are sending SOL.
  • Balance: held in USD; the header can show it in SOL instead.
  • Withdrawals: paid in SOL, $5 minimum each.
  • Fees: $1 flat per payout, plus the network fee.
  • Processing: an automated worker, minutes for most payouts.

Before your first game

Playing here starts with the Terms: 18 and up, no play from restricted jurisdictions. The checkbox shows up before any wallet screen does.

The compact versions of anything this page skipped, price snapshots included, live on the FAQ.

Send on Solana, to your own address. Everything else is bookkeeping.