2 months ago
It’s here — a crypto game for mass audiences.
Everything you need to know about
@solana
's new mobile shooter -- FTW 🔫👇
========================================
jungle_xyz’s FTW is a fast-paced mobile shooter where players can play casually or win real rewards by competing in tournaments and PVP wagering matches.
While FTW has multiple ways to play—Free-for-Alls, Team Deathmatches, and Extractions (akin to capture the flag)—its main mode is Showdown, where 10 players face off in a 3-minute Battle Royale. Here, players spawn with randomized load-outs of different heroes, weapons, and gadgets and can respawn during the first 2 minutes, battling to rack up points and buffs.
After this, the playing zone starts closing and respawns are disabled until the last player standing claims victory. Along the way, players can pick up new weapons and equipment scattered across the map. These come in four rarity levels: White, Blue, Purple, and Yellow, each offering increased power for an edge as the match progresses.
⚔️ Qualifiers (Mon-Fri): During weekdays, you can play Showdown matches for free and collect points to prepare for the weekend Finals. This mode helps you accumulate upgrades, currencies, and tickets, which will be crucial for weekend competition.
🎖Finals (Sat-Sun): The weekend Finals require one ticket per match, and only these games count toward the leaderboard for prizes. Players can win $USDC , $SOL , in-game rewards, and whitelist spots for Jungle’s Genesis mint — though you must connect your wallet and Discord to be eliglible.
Additionally, there is a Monthly Leaderboard on FTW’s Jungle Discord, where your Finals scores accumulate throughout the month. Players who perform well can qualify for boosted rewards.
How to Get Started:
Additional Features:
🎯 Auto-Aim: FTW lets you choose between manual and auto-aim in its settings. While it may burn through your bullets, personally I’d recommend auto.
💥 Hero Ultimates: Each hero has a unique ultimate ability like airstrikes, poison gas, or shock blasts, which charges up as the match goes on and you rack up more stats.
🧰 Hero and Weapon Upgrades: XP will be earned as you play, alongside crates offering unique boosts which can be used to upgrade your heroes and weapons, increasing traits like their resilience, precision, and speed.
How to Earn:
FTW’s tournaments are where the money’s made, and these events are split into Qualifiers and Finals:
📲 Download FTW: The game is available on the iOS App Store and Google Play in early access worldwide.
✅ Sign Up: Once downloaded, create your account through your email or Google.
🔗 Link Your Account: To qualify for rewards, join the Jungle Discord and complete your profile under the profile channel by linking your FTW account (a code will be provided in the app) and Solana wallet.
🏆 Join Tournaments: Participate in weekly Qualifiers to earn points, and use tickets to join the weekend Finals for a shot at the prizes.
And that's all it takes to get started here!
With mobile games feeling ripe for crypto adoption by augmenting their casual gameplay with onchain rewards, Jungle looks to be flying under the radar as a studio to watch.
Move quickly, though! The last Qualifiers for this first “Play-to-Mint” tournament end on September 27th, though we can expect more down the line.
✍️ by wmpeaster
Everything you need to know about
@solana
's new mobile shooter -- FTW 🔫👇
========================================
jungle_xyz’s FTW is a fast-paced mobile shooter where players can play casually or win real rewards by competing in tournaments and PVP wagering matches.
While FTW has multiple ways to play—Free-for-Alls, Team Deathmatches, and Extractions (akin to capture the flag)—its main mode is Showdown, where 10 players face off in a 3-minute Battle Royale. Here, players spawn with randomized load-outs of different heroes, weapons, and gadgets and can respawn during the first 2 minutes, battling to rack up points and buffs.
After this, the playing zone starts closing and respawns are disabled until the last player standing claims victory. Along the way, players can pick up new weapons and equipment scattered across the map. These come in four rarity levels: White, Blue, Purple, and Yellow, each offering increased power for an edge as the match progresses.
⚔️ Qualifiers (Mon-Fri): During weekdays, you can play Showdown matches for free and collect points to prepare for the weekend Finals. This mode helps you accumulate upgrades, currencies, and tickets, which will be crucial for weekend competition.
🎖Finals (Sat-Sun): The weekend Finals require one ticket per match, and only these games count toward the leaderboard for prizes. Players can win $USDC , $SOL , in-game rewards, and whitelist spots for Jungle’s Genesis mint — though you must connect your wallet and Discord to be eliglible.
Additionally, there is a Monthly Leaderboard on FTW’s Jungle Discord, where your Finals scores accumulate throughout the month. Players who perform well can qualify for boosted rewards.
How to Get Started:
Additional Features:
🎯 Auto-Aim: FTW lets you choose between manual and auto-aim in its settings. While it may burn through your bullets, personally I’d recommend auto.
💥 Hero Ultimates: Each hero has a unique ultimate ability like airstrikes, poison gas, or shock blasts, which charges up as the match goes on and you rack up more stats.
🧰 Hero and Weapon Upgrades: XP will be earned as you play, alongside crates offering unique boosts which can be used to upgrade your heroes and weapons, increasing traits like their resilience, precision, and speed.
How to Earn:
FTW’s tournaments are where the money’s made, and these events are split into Qualifiers and Finals:
📲 Download FTW: The game is available on the iOS App Store and Google Play in early access worldwide.
✅ Sign Up: Once downloaded, create your account through your email or Google.
🔗 Link Your Account: To qualify for rewards, join the Jungle Discord and complete your profile under the profile channel by linking your FTW account (a code will be provided in the app) and Solana wallet.
🏆 Join Tournaments: Participate in weekly Qualifiers to earn points, and use tickets to join the weekend Finals for a shot at the prizes.
And that's all it takes to get started here!
With mobile games feeling ripe for crypto adoption by augmenting their casual gameplay with onchain rewards, Jungle looks to be flying under the radar as a studio to watch.
Move quickly, though! The last Qualifiers for this first “Play-to-Mint” tournament end on September 27th, though we can expect more down the line.
✍️ by wmpeaster
3 months ago
Daily Memecoin Recap - September 2
The past week has been absolutely dead, but volume picked back up today
GameFi Coins
$explore -> ExploringOnSOL
, functioning game coming out, team is good, hope this starts a new meta
Ethereum Pump Fun
$vista -> hit $30m , ethervista
- Users are responsible for creating their own coin contracts, EtherVista only offers a "Launch" feature
- By supplying coins and ETH, users receive LP tokens for EtherVista's DEX, with the option to burn these tokens
- The DEX has a fixed-fee structure, distributing fees to LP providers, coin creators, and $VISTA developers
- This is more of a unique UniswapV2-style DEX rather than a typical pump-and-dump scheme
Fascist.eth Coins
$xd -> hit $9m , someone threatened that they would leak psyoptrick's past & nudes, instead she did it herself
$obama -> hit $552k , "Bitcoin Obama", pushed by
psyoptrick
Runners Of The Day
$yukie -> $150k to $630k , dog meme, launched in August heavily pushed today, ATH $1 .65m
$tommy -> hit $3 .2m, another cute dog, coordinated push
$gib -> hit $2 .5m, "A marketplace for work"
$ultra -> hit $800k , "UltramanGodzillaNebulaM78", good content
$look -> hit $800k , "Look bro...", viral meme on CT these past few days
$pin -> hit $730k , Post-It Note, memes on a post-it note
Wei Wu Trolls Ansem
$wisdom -> hit $580k , based on WuWei113
, who beefed with blknoiz06 recently
Dexscreener introduces new boosts & gold tickers
$abcde -> hit $850k , slow grind up since launch, based team
Fwog Is King
$fwog -> $45m to $91 .6m (2.03x from the low), one of the strongest memes despite the market downturn
$fwag -> hit $1 .3m, gay $fwog , " You missed $FWOG ? You must be a $FWAG "
Smoking Chicken Fish Betas
$dcc -> hit $2 .5m, "Drunk Chicken Centipede", $scf vibes
$btc -> hit $785k , "Big Titty Chicken"
Other Cooks
$bud -> hit $1m
$bullet -> hit $450k , functioning game
$gugu -> hit $396k , CTO
$frfr -> hit $340k , "Fref & frof"
$katana -> hit $309k , "First Blind Dog On Solana"
$fwc -> hit $258k , "Farting Whoopie Cushion"
Differentiate having a long-term outlook on your spot bags vs a short-term outlook when trading memes
The past week has been absolutely dead, but volume picked back up today
GameFi Coins
$explore -> ExploringOnSOL
, functioning game coming out, team is good, hope this starts a new meta
Ethereum Pump Fun
$vista -> hit $30m , ethervista
- Users are responsible for creating their own coin contracts, EtherVista only offers a "Launch" feature
- By supplying coins and ETH, users receive LP tokens for EtherVista's DEX, with the option to burn these tokens
- The DEX has a fixed-fee structure, distributing fees to LP providers, coin creators, and $VISTA developers
- This is more of a unique UniswapV2-style DEX rather than a typical pump-and-dump scheme
Fascist.eth Coins
$xd -> hit $9m , someone threatened that they would leak psyoptrick's past & nudes, instead she did it herself
$obama -> hit $552k , "Bitcoin Obama", pushed by
psyoptrick
Runners Of The Day
$yukie -> $150k to $630k , dog meme, launched in August heavily pushed today, ATH $1 .65m
$tommy -> hit $3 .2m, another cute dog, coordinated push
$gib -> hit $2 .5m, "A marketplace for work"
$ultra -> hit $800k , "UltramanGodzillaNebulaM78", good content
$look -> hit $800k , "Look bro...", viral meme on CT these past few days
$pin -> hit $730k , Post-It Note, memes on a post-it note
Wei Wu Trolls Ansem
$wisdom -> hit $580k , based on WuWei113
, who beefed with blknoiz06 recently
Dexscreener introduces new boosts & gold tickers
$abcde -> hit $850k , slow grind up since launch, based team
Fwog Is King
$fwog -> $45m to $91 .6m (2.03x from the low), one of the strongest memes despite the market downturn
$fwag -> hit $1 .3m, gay $fwog , " You missed $FWOG ? You must be a $FWAG "
Smoking Chicken Fish Betas
$dcc -> hit $2 .5m, "Drunk Chicken Centipede", $scf vibes
$btc -> hit $785k , "Big Titty Chicken"
Other Cooks
$bud -> hit $1m
$bullet -> hit $450k , functioning game
$gugu -> hit $396k , CTO
$frfr -> hit $340k , "Fref & frof"
$katana -> hit $309k , "First Blind Dog On Solana"
$fwc -> hit $258k , "Farting Whoopie Cushion"
Differentiate having a long-term outlook on your spot bags vs a short-term outlook when trading memes
4 months ago
After years of development behind the scenes, the Paladin team is finally showing its hand. Proposing a more egalitarian approach to MEV rewards, Paladin aims to discourage MEV frontrunners and provide an alternative that is more profitable for everyone.
With MEV bots reportedly extracting millions from Solana DEX markets every month, Paladin might just be the knight in shining armor that Solana DeFi needs.
Fully decentralized, open-source, and permissionless, Paladin’s mission is to eliminate predatory MEV on Solana. But how does it work?
THE PALADIN BOT
Designed to run within the Jito client, the Paladin bot is a fast open-source arbitrage bot. It runs locally in a validator and only operates when that particular validator is the leader.
The Paladin bot relies on three distinct features to improve a validator’s APY (Annual Percentage Yield):
- Atomic Arb Bot - Not to be confused with a frontrunning sandwich bot, Paladin is a high-performance arbitrage bot that is faster than external searchers.
- CeFi/DeFi Arb - Leveraging a permissionless DeFi bulletin board that communicates directly with slot leaders, Paladin is able to capture MEV through CeFi/DeFi price discrepancies.
- PALAggregator - Running exclusively within the leader, Paladin bot knows with certainty the exact price of every asset in real time. The bot can use this advantage to find a better path on trades and share the surplus rewards with the wallet that executed the transaction.
Essentially, the Paladin bot is a powerful tool that is altruistically employed to benefit and incentivize honest validator behavior.
To reap the benefits of Paladin, validators need to operate the Paladin bot, which in turn rewards holders and stakers of the protocol's native token, PAL.
PALADIN REWARD DYNAMICS - THE PAL TOKEN
Breaking the trend of providing speculative governance tokens, Paladin has opted for a more tangible token economy driven genuine value accrual.
PAL, the protocol’s native token, serves as the means by which MEV rewards are distributed to stakers and validators running the Paladin Bot, or ‘Palidators’.
MEV rewards captured by Palidators are distributed as follows:
- 90% is returned to the leader
- 5% is directed to Palidators and their stakers, proportionate to the amount of SOL staked
- 5% is passed to PAL token holders. However, given that 50% is airdropped to validators and PAL stakers, unstaked PAL holders receive 2.5%
While PAL is not a governance token, it does play a crucial role in the ecosystem outside of reward distribution. If Palidators are believed to be operating dishonestly, PAL stakers can vote to slash that Palidator’s stake, burning its PAL.
The protocol aims to distribute MEV rewards among honest ecosystem contributors in a way that everyone wins, as opposed to a competitive scramble for larger pieces of the MEV pie.
Despite a relatively muted social presence, the Paladin launch is generating excitement behind closed doors. In an exclusive statement with SolanaFloor, Paladin representative Uri Klarman revealed that “8% of Solana stake have committed to being a launch partner and run Paladin ahead of the launch.”
Additionally, the protocol has plenty of resources to encourage continued development and expansion from ecosystem developers.
According to Klarman, a budget of $5M per year has been committed to continued development, meaning that ecosystem developers may be sufficiently inspired to expand Paladin beyond the Jito client to Firedancer and any subsequent clients in the future.
Paladin’s unique approach to MEV and reward distribution acknowledges that it’s impossible to prevent validators from frontrunning transactions. However, should the Paladin protocol prove successful, its reward structure would be a more economical alternative, hopefully making Solana an efficient DeFi ecosystem for all users.
With MEV bots reportedly extracting millions from Solana DEX markets every month, Paladin might just be the knight in shining armor that Solana DeFi needs.
Fully decentralized, open-source, and permissionless, Paladin’s mission is to eliminate predatory MEV on Solana. But how does it work?
THE PALADIN BOT
Designed to run within the Jito client, the Paladin bot is a fast open-source arbitrage bot. It runs locally in a validator and only operates when that particular validator is the leader.
The Paladin bot relies on three distinct features to improve a validator’s APY (Annual Percentage Yield):
- Atomic Arb Bot - Not to be confused with a frontrunning sandwich bot, Paladin is a high-performance arbitrage bot that is faster than external searchers.
- CeFi/DeFi Arb - Leveraging a permissionless DeFi bulletin board that communicates directly with slot leaders, Paladin is able to capture MEV through CeFi/DeFi price discrepancies.
- PALAggregator - Running exclusively within the leader, Paladin bot knows with certainty the exact price of every asset in real time. The bot can use this advantage to find a better path on trades and share the surplus rewards with the wallet that executed the transaction.
Essentially, the Paladin bot is a powerful tool that is altruistically employed to benefit and incentivize honest validator behavior.
To reap the benefits of Paladin, validators need to operate the Paladin bot, which in turn rewards holders and stakers of the protocol's native token, PAL.
PALADIN REWARD DYNAMICS - THE PAL TOKEN
Breaking the trend of providing speculative governance tokens, Paladin has opted for a more tangible token economy driven genuine value accrual.
PAL, the protocol’s native token, serves as the means by which MEV rewards are distributed to stakers and validators running the Paladin Bot, or ‘Palidators’.
MEV rewards captured by Palidators are distributed as follows:
- 90% is returned to the leader
- 5% is directed to Palidators and their stakers, proportionate to the amount of SOL staked
- 5% is passed to PAL token holders. However, given that 50% is airdropped to validators and PAL stakers, unstaked PAL holders receive 2.5%
While PAL is not a governance token, it does play a crucial role in the ecosystem outside of reward distribution. If Palidators are believed to be operating dishonestly, PAL stakers can vote to slash that Palidator’s stake, burning its PAL.
The protocol aims to distribute MEV rewards among honest ecosystem contributors in a way that everyone wins, as opposed to a competitive scramble for larger pieces of the MEV pie.
Despite a relatively muted social presence, the Paladin launch is generating excitement behind closed doors. In an exclusive statement with SolanaFloor, Paladin representative Uri Klarman revealed that “8% of Solana stake have committed to being a launch partner and run Paladin ahead of the launch.”
Additionally, the protocol has plenty of resources to encourage continued development and expansion from ecosystem developers.
According to Klarman, a budget of $5M per year has been committed to continued development, meaning that ecosystem developers may be sufficiently inspired to expand Paladin beyond the Jito client to Firedancer and any subsequent clients in the future.
Paladin’s unique approach to MEV and reward distribution acknowledges that it’s impossible to prevent validators from frontrunning transactions. However, should the Paladin protocol prove successful, its reward structure would be a more economical alternative, hopefully making Solana an efficient DeFi ecosystem for all users.
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