# Cash, ranks, and the market ## Your Road to Hell You **build an empire**: run businesses, do jobs, trade with others, and reinvest. **Earn** **$CRIME**, **spend** it on upgrades, gear, property, and riskier plays. ## Getting Started You can start by buying seeds with **SOL**, and starting a small drug farm. You can also buy $CRIME in public Solana marketplaces and use it to directly buy equipment / items, to accelerate your start. **Optional purchases** can speed things up or unlock premium-style progression—exact offers can change over time. ## $CRIME — your main money Almost everything in the economy runs on **$CRIME**. The full **on-chain** version of the token will arrive later; in the meantime the game tracks your balance and uses **$CRIME** for prices, rewards, and fees inside **CrimCity**. ## Black market — players selling to players The **black market** is where you **list and buy** things from **other players** (for example drugs and weapons). The house takes a **small fee** on trades so the market stays maintained. ## Leaderboards **Crime points** feed **leaderboards** so you can see how you stack up. Climb by playing smart and staying active—not every score needs to be a loud heist. Climbing higher in the rankings will earn you rewards, but will also put a target on your back. Nobody plays fair in **CrimCity**. When you’re ready to move **$CRIME** out of the game on an approved withdrawal, read [**Cashing out**](/help/money-and-trade/withdrawal.md). --- # 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://crimcity.gitbook.io/help/money-and-trade/gameplay-and-economy.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.