# What is the Throne on Square Town?

> The Throne is the 4×4 dead centre of Square Town's favicon wall: $100 to start, one owner, evictable for double, and every eviction doubles the price again.

Source: https://square.pov.town/glossary/the-throne

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](/glossary/eviction) 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](/pricing).

## 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: [/blog/history-of-pay-to-hold-the-center](/blog/history-of-pay-to-hold-the-center).

## 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](/glossary/ring-unlock) 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.