Midnight has perps 👀
Now is your chance to access private mainnet for Ascend (limited spots only!)
APPLY HERE: https://t.co/wfW8Lw9V3W
Come make history with us as we ramp up the first-ever DeFi platform on @MidnightNtwrk mainnet 🕛
⚔️ AN IDLE RPG WITH REAL THEORYCRAFTING
Every Adventurer in Ale & Axes comes down to two layers: Core Stats that shape your build, and Secondary Stats that fine-tune it.
- ⚡ Power drives every ability outcome (damage, heals, blocks, buffs), split into Physical and Magical. Your PP:MP ratio sets your archetype, from Pure Physical to Pure Magical
- 💪 Attributes scale it: STR/DEX/INT/CHA boost your output, CON/WIS cut incoming damage
- 🪨 Combat is rock-paper-scissors: Physical beats Magical defence, Magical beats Physical defence, Balanced plays it safe
- 🎯 Secondary Stats are the fine print: accuracy, evasion, crit chance, crit bonus, health regen, and more
- 🛡️ Then pick a role (tank, healer, damage, support, off-tank) and abilities, then stack the stats it wants
Open The Armory and start min-maxing 👇
Your weekly Ascension Report for 6.29 🔥
Private Mainnet Week 2 concluded with $24,720,645 in leveraged notional volume
Private Mainnet applications will reopen tomorrow. If you missed the first cohort, this is your chance to get in!
BTC Perps are coming to private mainnet soon. We'll be sharing a launch date shortly.
$10K USD Trading Comp is now over, with this the Ascend testnet will be sunset.
Front-end Optimizations: improved button states and optimized chart displays by adding dynamic Y-axis scaling to better visualize small percentage movements.
Thank you all for the support. Let's get it this week!
Our $10K USD Testnet Trading Competition is done!
Over the last several months our traders helped push Ascend to its limits, provided valuable feedback and helped us prepare for mainnet.
The stats:
> 1M+ transactions on Midnight testnet
> 450+ traders
🙏 Thank you to everyone who participated.
Full rewards details available in discord (link in bio!)
⚔️ HOW ADVENTURERS WORK
Your Adventurers are the heroes you build, gear, and send on raids and into PvP, all from The Armory.
🛡️ Built around 3 things: Class, Armor Type (Heavy/Medium/Light), and Range (melee or ranged)
🎯 Class sets your Physical/Magical split, unlocks class abilities, and decides which enemies you counter
⚒️ Gear + abilities shape the build for whatever you're running
🆓 Base Adventurers are free to create with Heritage Relics
💎 NFT Adventurers (T1-T7) are tradable, more versatile, and earn more $WYRM and materials
Open The Armory and start building 👇
⏳ 4 DAYS LEFT IN PHASE 2
The clock's ticking. You've got 4 days left to play and collect $ISIR points. The more points you collect, the more $ISIR you'll get when Phase 2 ends.
Quick reminder of the $ISIR perks:
- 💰 Hold $ISIR, earn $WYRM
- 🔁 5% of Orb revenue buys back $ISIR from the open market and redistributes it to holders
- 💧 Provide liquidity to the $ISIR-ADA pool for monhtly rare in-game items, plus extra $WYRM
Don't miss the last few days. Play now 👇
Ready to onboard "normal gamers" to our web3 game.
From the start we knew that if we were to build a web3 game, it should be a good game in the first place.
Web3 features are there to enrich and support, not to lead:
- It makes our in-game currencies $WYRM and $ISIR freely tradable by anyone.
- Holding our NFTs enriches your game experience and comes with many (economic) perks, while it doesn't impact skill.
- Holding $ISIR gets you a revenue share from Orb sales each month, including purchases by web2 gamers. Orbs is our premium in-game currency for microtransactions.
- Providing liquidity to our DEX pool gets you rare in-game items.
We will leave it up to regular gamers if they want to start using some of these web3 features over time. No pressure, no jargon. Just familiar payment methods and clean UIs when they're ready.
All powered by the Cardano blockchain under the hood, invisibly.
Whenever a player wants to take true custody of their tokens, that option is there. On their terms, at their own pace.
Join us and start playing to collect $ISIR and earn your share of the pie, while actually having fun doing it. So you're ahead of the curve when the regular gamer onboarding kicks off.
Link below 👇
Thrilled to share that our new ASCEND @MinswapDEX Triple Farm is now live!
Provide liquidity to the ASCEND/ADA pool and earn rewards in ASCEND + MIN + ADA
Thank you to everyone who voted YES on our proposal!
https://t.co/fqXVbfDIrh > Search ASCEND
📢 WORLD BOSS LIVE — MAZUUL THE THIRSTLESS 🐍
He's cunning, he's charismatic, and he has a few tricks up his sleeve.
Mazuul the Thirstless has entered the world of Teya. He's not going down easy.
Be the WORLD FIRST to take him down and claim a one-time exclusive achievement. Yours forever.
Think you're worthy? Link below 👇
Ascend has been live in closed mainnet for 1 week!
Here's a weekly update:
Closed Mainnet Volume:
Mainnet launched with a $25 USD deposit limit. Since launching, we've done $363,755 in trading volume.
New Markets Coming to Closed Mainnet:
We will be adding perps trading to our closed mainnet by request of MM and LP partners, as well as strong overall demand for this.
The first market will be BTC, coming soon.
Testnet Trading Competition:
SZN1 of our trading competition ends June 28.
The top 10 wallets will receive a share of 10K USD in ASCEND. Prizes will be vested over a 3 month period.
Front End Optimizations:
We've deployed several front-end updates and fixes. Customization of profit-cards, including World Cup themed cards is a pending release with more to come.
We'd like to thank all of our Mainnet OGs for their time and patience as we've worked to navigate the very beginning of DeFi on Midnight.
Excited to continue building on our foundations and solidifying Ascend as a full-suite DeFi monster!
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📢 MAZUUL THE THIRSTLESS - COMING NEXT TUESDAY 🐍
The scorching sun baked the sands of Eiden-Merk into a furnace—the most sparsely inhabited region in the world. The people of Teya claimed its only residents were desert rats. And one such rat had just emerged from the dunes, shuffling slowly toward the square of Aeon-lin. Ashir, a local native living hand to mouth, eyed the newcomer with suspicion. He had no love for outsiders.
The man looked utterly ordinary, draped in a long, loose tunic, his head wrapped in a scarf against sun and sand. Only his wind-battered, sun-darkened face remained visible, marked by a scar across his nose.
“Misery and ruin—that’s the fate we endure, my friends!” he thundered the moment he found his stage. “Parched throats and groaning bellies. I can hear them even from here! You are all ventriloquists, my dear, wretched brethren. Truthspeakers! A choir singing of the torment of existence!”
Already, he’d seized the attention of half the square, drawing curious gazes and murmurs of agreement.
“Come closer, beloved, I don’t bite,” he smiled warmly. “My throat is dry, my voice frail,” he added as the crowd edged forward. “Closer. Closer.”
“Yet this is no fault of yours!” he continued. “You are hardworking folk, and labor builds character, adding to your virtue. But the soil here takes more than it gives. They say Eiden-Merk is a land forgotten by God. But nothing could be further from the truth! This is a trial, good people! Only the pure of heart suffer in this world. And they shall be rewarded—with a paradise awaiting them! But the rich? The powerful with their full bellies and rolls of fat?”
He clenched his fist.
“When the earth swallows them, it will be the end of them for good. These godless tyrants will never enter paradise—they are forever damned, believe me, my comrades. I do not speak these words in vain.”
He paused, heightening the tension for his audience, who hung on his every word.
“God speaks to me. And now, He speaks to you—right now! Through me, for He cares for you. Oh, how He pities you. And for that, He loves you. Moder is the one true God. Anyone who says otherwise is a vile liar and a sinner!”
The nodding dwindled, and a wave of discontent rippled through the crowd.
“Who is this charlatan?!” someone shouted.
Ashir, like the others a follower of Sable, felt anger rising in his chest. With clenched teeth, he pushed his way through the crowd and pointed at the speaker.
“I’ve heard of him—wanders around, spewing nonsense wherever he can. They call him the False Prophet!”
“How could I be false, when your hearts know my words are true?”
He drew breath to continue, but he never got the chance—for a legendary Eidenspit struck his forehead—in truth, a stone, for locals valued their saliva too highly to waste.
“Get out of here, loudmouth!” came the threats and insults. “May Mazuul devour you on your way!”
The prophet, blood trickling down his brow, knew it was time to vanish. He pressed a hand to his wound and slipped into the alleys, leaving the mob to argue.
But Ashir wasn’t among them. He stalked after the prophet, seething.
“Who does he think he is? Storming in here and preaching to us? You picked the wrong city,” he spat. “I’ll make sure you remember that.”
But the prophet moved faster than expected. Ashir lost sight of him and had to ask directions, tracking him to the city’s edge. Beyond lay only desert—and footprints in the sand.
Staring at them, he hesitated.
“He’ll pay for this hassle. No one travels without coin—and he’ll hand his over.”
Heartened by the thought, he marched on.
After thirty brisk minutes, there was still no sign of the man—just an endless line of foot-shaped pits in the sand. Doubt gnawed at Ashir again, but he refused to quit after coming this far.
Then, without warning, the sandstorm struck.
It ambushed him like a bandit from the brush. The wind battered him so violently he could barely stay on his feet, and visibility dropped to just a few meters. The footprints vanished—and with them, any chance of returning. Disoriented and terrified, he cursed the whole escapade. He knew how long these storms could last—and he had no supplies.
“This was supposed to be quick!” he wailed. “Why me? Why always me, the poorest wretch with no luck to his name?!”
Then, in the whirling void, at the edge of visibility, he glimpsed a figure—appearing and dissolving like smoke from a dying fire.
“Come closer, friend! Together, we’ll weather this,” called a familiar voice.
The prophet!
Ashir’s heart leaped with relief. Finding another human being in this situation felt like a blessing. His earlier malice was forgotten. Terrified that the man might disappear again, he shortened the distance between them with three quick strides—and froze.
To his utter surprise, he did not find himself facing the same plain, tunic-wearing man. He looked up—drawn like a magnet to two hypnotic, deep yellow eyes. Beneath them, a forked tongue flickered like a candle flame in the wind. A serpent of absurd proportions, whose embrace not even a house would resist.
Mazuul!
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The first prediction perps trades using @MidnightNtwrk mainnet have officially happened on Ascend 🔥
Link:
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🙏 Huge thank you to everyone who helped make this possible, especially our mainnet OGs.
Buckle up, we're bringing you a new category of DeFi!
Good morning everyone! 🐦
We're excited to announce our rebrand from Frigid to BitBird! 🚀
Same team, new name! We hope you love it as much as we do. Check out the new website here https://t.co/7sMpN2vX8Y and head on over to our Discord to read the full announcement!
Excited to announce that the first perps dApp on Midnight mainnet launches TODAY 🚀
Private mainnet participants can trade probabilities with leverage, across crypto, stocks, commodities, politics, sports & more!
Multi-chain from Day 1: ASCEND
BREAKING: Closed mainnet beta for Ascend prediction perps is launching within the week 🚀
The application period has concluded and we're making final preparations!
Are you ready for private DeFi on @MidnightNtwrk?
💳 NEW PAYMENT METHOD
Greetings Adventurer! A new payment method has been added to Ale & Axes. You can now buy Orbs via @stripe using your credit card, PayPal, and other options!
This is another step towards Web2 gamers while still using @Cardano at the core.