Soft staking — soldiers stay in your wallet. Burn $1337 to activate at any rank, plus a flat 0.01 ETH to the vault. Claiming is free.
Activate into any rank directly; upgrades cost the difference. Activation costs 10% of the mark in ETH plus the rank's burn. Both claims are free, and claiming one leaves the other untouched.
Every ETH fee the protocol charges accrues in a contract with no owner and no withdrawal path. Once the pot crosses the threshold anyone can convert it to $GME in one call and keep a cut for the gas. It then releases to activated soldiers over 30 days.