Spot, MFP lock and PoH

Three Clore-specific mechanisms, none of which exist on Vast. All three are optional, and two of them involve holding a volatile token against dollar earnings — read the risk note before committing.

Spot

Alongside the fixed on-demand price, Clore runs a bidding market. Renters bid; the highest bid above your floor takes the machine, and can be outbid.

Two things change on spot:

• The base fee drops to 1.25%, from 5% on demand.
• You set a floor, not a price. Below it you do not sell.

The panel shows the current book for your machine: how many bids there are and what the best one is per day. “None — nobody is bidding” is a normal state for a card class nobody wants right now.

A floor is not a price

The spot floor is expressed both in dollars per day and as a share of your on-demand price, so you can see at a glance how much you are willing to discount for a bid.

Proof of Holding

Holding CLORE reduces your base fee, on a published table:

CLORE held	Base fee cut by
200,000	5%
500,000	13%
1,000,000	25%
2,000,000	50%

This is a reduction of the fee, not of the price: at the top step a 5% on-demand fee becomes 2.5%.

Flotera reads your holding and shows the fee you are actually paying. When the holding cannot be read, the panel says so rather than assuming zero — your real fee may be lower than displayed.

MFP lock

The other lever, and the only one that removes the 15% non-CLORE surcharge regardless of what the renter pays in.

You lock CLORE in three tiers. The amount is a multiple of the machine’s max fair price, which Clore computes:

Tier	Removes	Multiplier	Unlock takes
1	30% of the surcharge	×1,000	7 days
2	30%	×4,000	14 days
3	40%	×2,000	28 days

Fill all three — a combined multiplier of ×7,000 — and the surcharge is gone entirely.

What you are taking on

The lock is denominated in CLORE while the machine earns dollars. If the token falls, the position falls with it, and unlocking takes 7 to 28 days depending on the tier.

The required amount follows the max fair price, which Clore recomputes and does not always publish. When it is unpublished, Flotera cannot tell you the amount — it says so instead of guessing.

Which lever, if any

Work from your own numbers rather than from the percentages:

1. Look at the gap on the fee panel between a CLORE-paid day and any-other day. That is what the surcharge costs you per rented day.
2. Multiply by how many days the machine actually rents. A machine that rents 8 days a month is a different decision from one that rents 26.
3. Compare against the token exposure. The lock is capital at risk for weeks; accepting CLORE is free.

For most single machines, accepting CLORE is the whole answer. The lock starts paying for itself on a busy fleet where the surcharge is a real monthly number.

What Clore takesThe base fee, the surcharge, and a worked example.