# Payment Registry The Arena Payment Registry is designed to streamline and automate the distribution of competition rewards. This smart contract allows participants to predefine how their potential winnings should be allocated, enabling efficient and transparent payouts without requiring additional actions after a competition concludes. ### How It Works 1. **Integration with Arena Core**: The Payment Registry is queried by the competition modules during competition distributions. 2. **User-Defined Distributions**: Participants can set their desired distribution patterns before a competition is fully-funded (activated). 3. **Immutable Records**: The distribution is locked in at the competition's activation block height. 4. **Automatic Payouts**: When rewards are distributed, they are automatically subdivided according to the predefined allocations. ### Key Features #### 1. Flexible Distribution Setting Users can define complex distribution patterns to suit their needs. For example, a team could set up a distribution where: * 50% goes to the team captain * 30% is split equally among other team members * 20% goes to the team's charity fund #### 2. Immutability for Fairness Once a competition is activated, the distribution set in the registry becomes immutable for that specific competition. This ensures that participants cannot change the payout structure after seeing the competition results, maintaining fairness and preventing disputes. #### 3. Efficient Querying The registry is designed for efficient querying, allowing the Arena Core to quickly retrieve distribution information for multiple participants when processing competition rewards. ### Use Cases #### Team Payouts A gaming team participating in an Arena tournament can predefine how their winnings should be split among team members, coaches, and the organization. This eliminates the need for manual calculations and transfers after each competition. #### Affiliate Programs Influencers or affiliates can set up distributions where a percentage of their winnings automatically goes to their followers or community members who supported their participation. #### Charity Contributions Participants can allocate a portion of their potential winnings to charitable causes, automating their contributions and increasing transparency. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.arenadao.org/the-arena-architecture/payment-registry.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.