🪜 Levels & Tiers
The word "tier" means eight different things here — this page makes each one obvious.
The Matsuri ecosystem uses levels, ranks, tiers, grades, and multipliers — and they are eight genuinely different systems. Some describe you, one describes a place, one describes a single lucky draw. Mixing them up is the most common source of confusion, so this chapter is the ecosystem's disambiguation page: one section per system, one visual per section, one summary table at the end.
The fastest way to orient yourself: ask what the level is attached to.
1 · User Level (EXP) — how much you have done
Every account has a User Level driven by experience points (EXP). It is a lifetime activity meter: EXP flows in from attending events, completing quests, making purchases, referring friends, and writing reviews — and it only goes up.
| Level | Total EXP required |
|---|---|
| 2 | 2,828 |
| 3 | 5,196 |
| 5 | 11,180 |
| 10 | 31,622 |
Each level-up pays an immediate reward of level × 100 in-app points — reaching Level 5 pays 500 points, Level 10 pays 1,000. Your level also determines which quests can be targeted at you.
2 · Achievement Ranks — how much you have accomplished
Separate from your EXP level, Achievement Ranks are computed from your lifetime achievement totals. They are slower-moving and more prestigious — and they carry real economics: higher ranks earn higher referral-commission rates.
- LegendThe rarest rank — the highest referral-commission rate
- MasterSustained, exceptional achievement totals
- ExpertA proven, consistent contributor
- VeteranMeaningful history across the ecosystem
- RookieWhere every account begins
3 · The membership ladder — THE canonical four-tier gate
When something in the ecosystem is "tier-gated," this is the ladder it means. Bronze → Silver → Gold → Platinum is one shared ladder used across the apps and the backend — a single source of truth for access control.
- PlatinumThe highest gate — everything below, plus platinum-only access
- GoldUnlocks gold-gated archives, drops, and chats
- SilverUnlocks silver-gated content
- BronzeThe baseline membership standing
What it gates in practice:
Tier-gated is one of the five archive access modes on Matsuri Live — a stream's replay can require a minimum tier.
Product, reward, and ticket drops during live streams can be reserved for higher tiers.
Chat rooms and community spaces can require a minimum tier to enter.
Apps and backend read the same four values — paid GCF plans map onto this ladder rather than replacing it.
4 · GCF membership tiers — the paid community ladder
GCF (Global Community Friends) has its own plan ladder. It is a paid membership program, distinct from the canonical gate above — though its plans map onto that ladder for access purposes.
- Platinum≤ 50 numbered seatsOn-chain SBT certificate in the Platinum Collection, platinum-only events, 2.0× crowdfunding cashback, DAO voting (2027)
- Gold≤ 300 numbered seatsGold-only events, 1.5× crowdfunding cashback
- GCF StartSelf-serve yearly plan with host add-ons: experience, shop, restaurant, crowdfunding
- GCF Member50% off GCF events (minimum ¥500), priority booking, early crowdfunding access, 1.2× cashback
- FreeFull app access — you can earn MTC without paying anything
Gold and Platinum are numbered memberships — each seat carries a number, and Platinum's certificate is a soulbound token (SBT), a non-transferable NFT recorded on Solana. Pricing varies by channel, so we do not print figures here — see current app pricing and the GCF chapter.
5 · Sacred-site tiers — a property of places, not people
Worship Mining (参拝マイニング — sanpai mining) classifies sacred sites into regional tiers. This ladder never describes a user; it describes how remote a place is, and it pays more MTC the further you go.
- Frontier×10.0Remote sacred places — the deepest journeys pay the most
- Regional×5.0Rural historic shrines
- Mid×2.0Prefectural hubs
- Major×1.0Famous sites — 浅草寺 (Sensō-ji), 清水寺 (Kiyomizu-dera)
The static tier above is multiplied by a dynamic multiplier (0.01×–50×) tuned in real time by operations — "inverse surge pricing" that lowers rewards at crowded sites and raises them in depopulated regions. The tier says where a site sits on the map; the dynamic multiplier says what is happening there today. Details in Mining & Earning.
6 · Omikuji grades — a draw, not a status
An AR omikuji (fortune slip) grade belongs to one draw and one draw only. It resets every time — it is luck, not standing. The odds are fixed in basis points and always sum to 100%:
| Grade | Meaning | Odds | Reward multiplier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 大吉 | Daikichi — great blessing | 5% | ×3.0 |
| 吉 | Kichi — blessing | 15% | ×1.5 |
| 小吉 | Shōkichi — small blessing | 30% | ×1.2 |
| 末吉 | Suekichi — future blessing | 35% | ×1.0 |
| 凶 | Kyō — misfortune | 15% | ×1.0 |
Drawing 大吉 auto-mints a 御朱印 (goshuin — traditional shrine seal) NFT to your collection. Even 凶 still pays the base reward — no draw leaves you empty-handed.
7 · Toku 徳 staking — a multiplier you choose
徳 (Toku — virtue) is the one ladder you climb by commitment rather than activity: lock MTC to raise your En-Mining multiplier from 1.0× up to 10.0×.
It applies to social mining — the 縁 (En — connection) referral economy — where your referral tree generates raw score that Toku amplifies. Staking parameters finalize with the on-chain phase; today the score is tracked off-chain. See Mining & Earning.
8 · Quests — the engine that feeds everything else
Quests are not a ladder themselves — they are the fuel for the ladders above, awarding EXP, points, and MTC boosts. They can be targeted by User Level, so what you see matures with your account.
Small, repeatable actions — the steady drip of EXP and points.
Bigger goals across the week with bigger payouts.
Long-arc challenges for committed users.
Event-linked and seasonal — limited-time boosts.
The one-glance summary
| System | What it measures | Applies to | Where it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| User Level (EXP) | Lifetime activity | Every account | Level-up points (level × 100), quest targeting |
| Achievement Rank | Lifetime achievements | Every account | Referral-commission rates |
| Membership ladder | Access standing | People | Live archives, drops, members-only chat |
| GCF tier | Paid community plan | People | Discounts, cashback, SBT, DAO voting (2027) |
| Sacred-site tier | Remoteness of a place | Places | Worship-mining reward multiplier ×1–×10 |
| Omikuji grade | Luck of one draw | A single draw | Reward multiplier, 御朱印 NFT on 大吉 |
| Toku 徳 staking | MTC you have locked | People | En-Mining multiplier 1.0×–10.0× |
| Quests | Task completion | Every account | EXP, points, MTC boosts |
Four words worth knowing
- 縁 (En)
- Connection, bond — the referral economy. Every registration through your link grows your En tree and your social-mining score.
- 徳 (Toku)
- Virtue — MTC you lock to multiply your En-Mining score, from 1.0× up to 10.0×.
- 御朱印 (Goshuin)
- The traditional shrine seal collected by pilgrims — reborn as an NFT, auto-minted when you draw 大吉.
- 参拝 (Sanpai)
- A worship visit to a shrine or temple — the GPS check-in at the heart of Worship Mining (参拝マイニング).
How the earning side actually works — check-ins, geofences, Pioneer Bonuses, media mining — lives in Mining & Earning. The paid community behind the Gold and Platinum seats lives in GCF.