Ethereum
Why Ethereum Game “Fantasy Top” Is Taking Over Crypto Twitter
What is Crypto Twitter talking about right now? Believe it or not, a game built around Crypto Twitter, offering significant rewards and incentives to players.
Fantasy Top captivates the crypto faithful by turning the industry’s biggest and fastest growing social media personalities into Ethereum NFT trading cards on Blast network scaling. Players can crush their rivals by creating card lineups that deliver the best real engagement on Twitter during each competition, and win crypto and in-game prizes in return.
Crypto’s biggest tweeters have embraced it enthusiastically, promoting their own in-game cards or sharing their comps, and boasting about how their NFTs have increased in value in a short time. They even form private holder groups to discuss strategies and entice buyers.
Launched on the Blast mainnet on May 1 by pseudonymous creator Travis Bickle, Fantasy Top would actually be Sorare if it were built around outspoken crypto personalities and traders rather than professional football players. The influencers in question earn a small share of each trade of their own cards, along with other perks, but many also appear to have invested significantly in creating their own lineups.
The game’s list of NFT “heroes” includes same coin trader of the moment Ansem, Gmoney, founder of 9dcc, Pacman, founder of the explosionfamous weird tweeter Greg16676935420, Frank, creator of DeGodsNFT whale traders Pranksy and Machi Big Brother, and even Su Zhu, the co-founder of collapsed crypto hedge fund Capital of the Three Arrows.
Farokh Sarmad of Rug Radio, which merges with Decryptis another one of the featured personalities.
It’s not just about buying the NFT crypto traders you like and put them in a list for each competition, however. There are multiple rarity tiers for cards, including the ability to trade multiple lower tier cards to unlock a higher tier, increasing points in each competition.
There’s another curious aspect to consider: the rating is based on your programming’s actual engagement on social media, which raises the question of what counts as quality engagement and how that could potentially be manipulated.
Some of the most expensive cards in Fantasy Top. Image: Decrypt
One “hero” in question, content creator Jenn Duong, temporarily make your Twitter account private on Sunday after noticing that one of his videos on Twitter had unusually high engagement rates. She suggested that users were “bottoming” her content or artificially inflating engagement, which she said could cause potential problems with her own game.
“People don’t want to play fair and I’m not going to risk messing up my X algorithm,” she tweeted: add: “Please don’t kick my shit.” I do not need it. I bet on myself and I want to win on my own merit.
“You’re screwing up other creators’ systems,” she added.
But the Fantasy Top hype continues unabated and arguably reached a fever pitch early Monday with the announcement of the Fantasy Top prize pool. first “Main Competition” it’s just started: over $150,000 worth of Ethereum (50 ETH), plus 222,222 Blast Gold that will lead to an airdrop allocation for the network, as well as card packs and other in-game rewards.
While 50 ETH is not a small change for a cryptocurrency game launched last week, the much bigger prize could come from Blast Gold. Crypto Industry Observers Estimate the Value of Each Blast Gold above $10which puts this portion of the prize pool potentially well above $2 million in total.
Players rushed to buy cards on the Fantasy Top marketplace, generating millions of dollars in trade across a rapidly expanding network. Blast in the process, matching more than 50% of total trading volume on the Ethereum mainnet early Monday.
A Flipside Crypto Dashboard from analyst Hildobby shows over 7,000 ETH of NFT trading volume (worth over $21 million at current prices) and over 31,000 total users this week.
Fantasy Top has been a boost for the denizens of Crypto Twitter, resurrecting the positive vibes that have been missing in recent weeks amid a market lull. But we’ll see if a fantasy sports riff featuring Twitter influencers has the depth and intrigue to maintain its momentum after the initial novelty and incentives of the Blast Network wear off.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.