Ethereum Game ‘Fantasy Top’ Pays $1.25M to Twitter Influencers It Turned Into NFT Cards

After launching on Ethereum scaling community Blast per week in the past, the sport—which permits gamers to create card lineups of their favourite Twitter (aka X) influencers, and earn rewards primarily based on these influencers’ respective social engagement—took crypto by storm.

The in-game “heroes” become playing cards embrace meme coin dealer Ansem, DeGods creator Frank, and even Su Zhu—the co-founder of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital. (Disclosure: Rug Radio co-founder Farokh Sarmad, president of the mixed DASTAN guardian firm that features Decrypt, can be one of many Fantasy Prime “heroes.”)

Influencers earn a 1.5% payment from the buying and selling quantity of their card in addition to a share of 10% of all pack sale income. Now Fantasy Prime has made its first payouts—and creators are cashing in.

The highest three earners for week one have been content material creator Jenn Duong in first, then the aforementioned Ansem and Blast founder Pacman tied for second. First place was topped with 6.7 ETH ($20,500) whereas the opposite two have been blessed with 6.1 ETH ($18,700) apiece.

“$18K in earnings for [the] first week, not too shabby,” Ansem posted on Twitter, in response to the information. “Fantasy Prime [is] one of many crypto apps that might onboard a variety of Web2 creators.”

Scoring in Fantasy Prime relies in your lineup’s actual world social media engagement. On Sunday, it appeared that Duong’s Twitter engagement was being artificially inflated by bots with degens attempting to carry out higher in-game. She publicly condemned folks doing this, quickly placing her Twitter account on personal as she sorted by means of it.

However Fantasy Prime says it’s utilizing anti-botting protections in relation to scoring, and Duong has additionally seen substantial natural engagement attributable to her video content material round Fantasy Prime, in addition to different Blast apps and protocols.

On prime of the 409 ETH ($1.25 million) given out to heroes—300 ETH generated from pack gross sales, and 109 ETH from the cardboard market—one other 2,480 Blast Gold was distributed to gamers too.

We’re but to know the way a lot Blast Gold will probably be value, however crypto business observers estimate the worth to be above $10—including a further $25,000 or extra to the sport’s first week payouts. “Heroes” additionally earn FAN factors, which might be a precursor to a future token airdrop, although that is at present unclear.

Fantasy Prime additionally stated that it plans to launch a function that lets influencer “heroes” share their earned rewards with gamers who personal their in-game playing cards, which might give the sport a SocialFi element. Some influencers have already confirmed plans to share their rewards with NFT holders.

Edited by Andrew Hayward