What is the Throne on Square Town?

One tile, one owner, a crown, and a price that only goes up.

The Throne (on Square Town) is the 4×4 block at the exact centre of the wall: a single gold tile with a crown, one owner, intro price $100. Like any square it can be evicted for double the last price, and every eviction doubles it again — $100 → $200 → $400 → $800 → … The ring of cells around it, its aura, can never be built on, so the Throne always stands alone. Square Town (square.pov.town) has exactly one.

TL;DR: the most visible spot on the wall, priced by whoever wanted it last. After ten evictions it costs $102,400.

How it works on Square Town#

The 1024×1024 grid has no single centre cell, so the Throne is the 4×4 block that straddles the midpoint (cells 510–513 on both axes). It is never auto-assigned and never sold as ordinary squares; it has its own buy flow at $100 via Stripe (that is $6.25 per square, if you like arithmetic). It is inside the launch 16×16 live area, so it is on sale from day one, and because the wall zooms and pans centred on it, every visitor sees it first.

The aura is the one-cell ring around the block — 20 cells in a 6×6 frame — and trying to buy any of them returns "the aura of the Throne is too strong 👑". Evicting the Throne owner works exactly like evicting anyone: pay double, take the tile, get announced in the live feed, and the next evictor pays double your price. There is no cap. Prices: Pricing — $1 a square, one time, forever*.

Where else it appears#

Pay-to-hold-the-centre has ancestors. King of the Ether Throne (2016) let anyone claim a throne for 0.5 ETH plus 33 % per claim, with the monarch "dying" after 14 days and the price resetting — the direct ancestor. The King of the Internet (dethrone for $1 more) is dead as of August 2026. Milliboard runs a "Daily Throne" on a pay-to-rank list; The Pixel Orbit gives the exact centre to the highest cumulative payer and re-sorts the canvas around them; overwrite.place makes one artwork occupy the whole homepage until it is displaced. Square Town's difference is that the Throne sits on a spatial wall of ordinary $1 squares, and the price rule is a fixed 2× rather than +33 % or +1¢. History: A short history of paying to hold the centre.

Example#

Day one: someone pays $100 and their favicon sits under a crown in the middle of the wall. A rival evicts them for $200. A third party, mostly to make a point, pays $400. To take it back the original owner now needs $800 — and the feed has recorded all four moves. Meanwhile the surrounding ring unlocks fill in around the aura, so the Throne is always the centre of the biggest crowd.

FAQ#

How much does the Throne cost?#

$100 to start. Each eviction doubles the price: $200, $400, $800 and so on, with no ceiling.

Can I buy the squares next to the Throne?#

Not the immediate ring — the 20 aura cells are permanently off limits. The cells one step further out are ordinary $1 squares and are the closest you can get.

Is there more than one Throne?#

No. One 4×4 block, one owner, one crown.

Does the Throne owner get anything else?#

A gold tile, a crown, first-glance visibility for every visitor, and the same deed analytics as any square. No SEO benefit is claimed.