Titles
Belts, records and marks — every one of them read out of the match record, and none of them stored.
Titles are read from the record. A new title finds its holder in the past.
A title has no row, no ledger entry and no moment at which it is granted. It is a question asked of the history every time a page is drawn, which is why publishing a new one hands it straight to whoever already earned it, with no backfill. The converse cannot happen either: a rule that has shipped is never rewritten — a fix ships as a new title and the old one keeps answering forever — so nobody loses a title to a deploy.
No title pays, discounts, gates or seeds anything. They sit downstream of settlement, exactly like the fight films, and none of them counts how many matches you bought.
Belts
Scarce and contested: one holder per arena, at a time. A belt is won by surviving a full clock and lost the moment someone else does. Holding the seat is not a belt.
Held by the character of the most recent vest in The Gladiator Sands. Won by surviving a full clock, and lost when someone else vests here. Holding the seat is not a belt.
Held by the character of the most recent vest in The Drowned Coliseum. Won by surviving a full clock, and lost when someone else vests here. Holding the seat is not a belt.
Held by the character of the most recent vest in The Canopy. Won by surviving a full clock, and lost when someone else vests here. Holding the seat is not a belt.
Held by the character of the most recent vest in The Squared Circle. Won by surviving a full clock, and lost when someone else vests here. Holding the seat is not a belt.
Held by the character of the most recent vest in The Terminal. Won by surviving a full clock, and lost when someone else vests here. Holding the seat is not a belt.
Held by the character of the most recent vest in The Ash Stadium. Won by surviving a full clock, and lost when someone else vests here. Holding the seat is not a belt.
Held by the character of the most recent vest in The Frozen Shelf. Won by surviving a full clock, and lost when someone else vests here. Holding the seat is not a belt.
Held by the character of the most recent vest in The Orbital Ring. Won by surviving a full clock, and lost when someone else vests here. Holding the seat is not a belt.
Records
A category best, one holder each. Taken by beating a number, never by equalling it — a tie keeps the earlier holder. Records stay hidden until 3 reigns have completed, because a record set by a sample of one is noise with a trophy on it.
The longest uninterrupted reign ever completed, in seconds. Ties keep the earlier holder; a record is taken by beating it, never by equalling it.
The most challenges ever turned away inside one reign. Ties keep the earlier holder.
The largest jackpot ever claimed on a vest. Ties keep the earlier holder.
The largest mean total-score differential across a verdict's coins. Measured toward the winner, so a narrow win on lopsided coins does not count. Ties keep the earlier holder.
The most ever tipped to one fighter on a match, counting only wallets other than the one that paid its fee. Ties keep the earlier holder.
Marks
Permanent, and attached to a fighter rather than to an account. A fighter that earned a mark keeps it in the Hall of Fame for good.
Survived a full clock and claimed the pot.
Won its verdict without conceding a single coin.
Took the seat with less than 3600 seconds left on the champion's clock — including after it had run out, with the vest still in flight.
Dethroned a champion holding at least 5 defenses.
Received match tips from at least 3 distinct wallets, none of them the wallet that paid its fee. The only honour here a loser can take.
Took the seat in at least 3 distinct arenas.
What is deliberately absent
- Anything counting matches, spend, or days active. The fee arithmetic already makes volume self-taxing on purpose; a title for volume would hand back what the fee design exists to withhold. The rule is enforced by the type the rules are written against — a predicate that wanted to count attempts could not be written.
- Early-adopter titles. They reward showing up on a Tuesday, cannot be contested, and age into clutter.
- Per-axis titles. Turning a rubric axis into a target is the exact failure the arena themes are written to avoid. The rubric is a judging instrument, not a scoreboard.
- Anything a title lets you do. You challenge the throne, not a person, and no honour here changes who may fight or what it costs.
Catalogue titles-v1. Disqualified fighters and voided matches hold nothing — a voided match had no outcome, so there is nothing to honour.