Coins, diamonds, and what a gift is actually worth

This lesson prepares you to: Convert any coin figure into diamonds and into the dollars you will actually be paid.

Coins in, diamonds out

Helm runs on two units. Viewers buy coins. You bank diamonds. Almost every question creators ask about money comes down to the rate between those two, so learn it once and the dashboard stops being mysterious.

A coin costs a viewer $0.01. That rate is flat across every pack. There is no bulk discount and nobody is penalised for buying small. If a viewer prefers a custom top up, it has to be a whole number of dollars, $5 minimum and $500 maximum, still at 1 coin per cent.

When a viewer sends you a gift, the coins they spend are minted into diamonds at 1 diamond per coin. A diamond is always worth 1 cent of gross value. That never changes. Not with your rank, not with your tenure, not with your fleet.

Here is the part people misread. Your diamond balance is gross, not net. It shows the full amount the viewer spent, before your share is worked out. Your split is applied once, at payout, and never at gift time. So the number on your balance is not the number that reaches your bank.

1,000 coins = 1,000 diamonds = $10.00 gross = $5.00 to you at the 50% base.

Say it in plain terms when you are live. A viewer who spends ten dollars on you has spent ten dollars. You will see 1,000 diamonds. You will be paid five. Both facts are true and neither is a trick, but a creator who thinks 1,000 diamonds means ten dollars in the bank is going to be disappointed on payout day, and that disappointment is avoidable.

So the mental model is short. Coins are what a viewer pays. Diamonds are the gross record of what they paid. Dollars are what arrives after your split lands on top of that gross figure. Keep those three separate and the rest of this track will read like arithmetic instead of policy.