Chamán Pirate 🇦🇷

Wine + Nft + Crypto + blockchain lover/enthusiast + PoP

[Pirate Nation Foundation @PirateNationFDN]

The $PIRATE airdrop for the Plunder Certificates event is now complete.

There were 1,247 Pirates who qualified for the airdrop by plundering over 1M certificates.

We are also working towards granting Proof of Play Points to all Plunder Certificates holders (not just those who received $PIRATE in today's airdrop) to recognize their journey with Pirate Nation Classic. Stay tuned.

[Pirate Nation @PirateNation]

Proof of Play exists because of you, our earliest and strongest supporters. We’re determined to make sure you’re at the heart of this journey going forward.

While our approach is shifting, we’ve always taken a long-term view and are committed to our mission of onboarding millions of people to web3 through fun, innovative products.

First, we hear you loud and clear, we fumbled the Founder's Pirate sunset. We miscalculated how to maintain long-term alignment with Proof of Play and the attachment holders had to their Founder’s Pirates. We are going to make some changes to bridge the divide.

Regarding the distribution, there are constraints on the amount of $PIRATE that could be given out. The community bucket for Pirate Nation only had ~90.7M tokens in it. That amount needed to be split between several groups (Founder’s NFTs, plunder event rewards, staking incentives, and future rewards). Founder’s NFTs were allocated 20M of the 90.7M which is around 22% of the total amount available.

Despite the limitations, we believe there are ways to soften the sunset process. Here's the plan:

Plunder Event
🔹Increase plunder allocation from 1M to 5M $PIRATE token (5X the amount). Airdropped to those who plundered 1 million or more certificates on the leaderboard so it’s concentrated to the most active players. 1,247 players qualified for these rewards.
🔹These top players will also be eligible to receive Proof of Play Arcade credits and Shiba Story Go Gems. Redemption details to be shared separately.
🔹All plunder holders (not just those that received $PIRATE token) will receive Proof of Play Points to recognize their history within Pirate Nation.

Founder's Pirates (FP)
🔹An additional claim pool of 10M $PIRATE will be made available to all FP holders based on a snapshot at time of burn announcement. Will utilize the same rarity algorithm as the burn claim to determine amount per FP.
🔹Granting Proof of Play Points (quantity of FPs and rarity taken into account) to further align holders with future efforts.
🔹We’re planning on using the past 3 months of NFT royalties on strategic $PIRATE buybacks.
🔹For FP holders that asked for new game benefits, we will also be making Arcade Credits and Shiba Story Go Gems available to FP holders. Redemption details to be shared separately.
🔹Final $PIRATE claim, PoP points and new game benefits will be granted based on a snapshot at the time FP burn was announced to ensure all previous holders benefit.
🔹New Discord role for anyone that burned a FP so that they retain community status going forward.
🔹The collection remains a purely collectible, tradeable PFP.

Additional Key Points
🔹Proof of Play has no plans to launch another token; the only ticker is $PIRATE.
🔹Even though unlocks started in July, neither team nor investors have sold (or hedged) $PIRATE or any of the treasury NFTs so far.
🔹We’re considering open market purchases of $PIRATE to restock our supplies.
🔹Proof of Play Arcade has already generated $500K of revenue in the last 2 months and is growing. We've also recently added $PIRATE sinks to the Arcade..
🔹We still view Proof of Play points as being aligned with our future. However, we are evaluating several options and do not have concrete plans yet to share regarding how points will play out.
🔹We will make these rewards available as soon as possible and will have separate announcements once they go live.

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As we end this chapter, it’s important that we set out a clear vision for where Proof of Play is going and why we’re fired-up about the future:

🔹Our veteran team has been building for years together, knows how to rapidly ship and live-operate products, has continually overcome impossible technical hurdles, and has deep conviction in what we have cooking.
🔹Our new mobile game is ambitious, looks great, has early testers excited, and is in a category of games that do $100M+/yr in revenue. It will also be the first mobile game in our portfolio to incorporate our new invisible and frictionless marketplace service.
🔹We have a superpower with our marketplace API, it allows us to add DeFi revenue streams to any mobile game or app via trading fees and stablecoin yield. We support settlement on any chain and are already launched on our first chain, BASE, and are expanding to others.
🔹There are multiple ways to generate protocol revenue tied to usage of these products -- fees on marketplace volume, yield from stablecoins, onramp/offramp fees, additional DeFi services (such as swapping) within the in-app wallets we create.
🔹In addition to B2C revenue from our first-party games, we earn B2B revenue streams from developer partners that utilize our payment frameworks.
🔹Recent developments in stablecoin legislation and changes in mobile app store rules enable new types of commerce in mobile apps that were simply not possible before. These are tailwinds for our strategy.
🔹Our new products have no strategic baggage – fully onchain games were always a risk, we gave it a go, it didn’t work out so we pivoted. We know our new products have a clear market and can make money because we’re targeting the $94B+ mobile gaming market made up of 2 billion players. Simply put: instead of trying to bring games to web3, we’re bringing web3 to games.

Ultimately, we remain firm believers in the potential of the decentralized internet. Our goal to accelerate the adoption of web3 by onboarding millions of people remains unchanged.

We plan on doing that through a suite of practical stablecoin-based features (P2P marketplaces, onchain settled payments, and stablecoin-generated yield) that can be adopted by any application, gaming or otherwise – starting with our own products.

For third-party developers the pitch is simple: We make it easy for you to integrate cheap stablecoin-based payments and marketplaces in your products. This enables new revenue streams while lowering the fees on your existing transactions through invisible blockchain rails, no prior crypto knowledge required.

We see these advantages as disruptive to multiple industries. Once one company adopts it, all their peers will need to as well to remain competitive on pricing and monetization.

While it is important to note we won't reach our full potential overnight – the plan is bold and we’re builders at heart that are locked-in for the long-term to win. We’ve never been more bullish on our future and invite you to ride along with us for this new chapter – the ticker is $PIRATE.

[Chamán Pirate 🇦🇷 @Crypto_Chaman]

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[Chamán Pirate 🇦🇷 @Crypto_Chaman]

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[Gigaverse @playgigaverse]

gigaverse mints on @AbstractChain on monday 3rd feb, starting 11am ET.

here's our second game trailer and details you need for the mint. 🧵

[Dith @0xDith]

k final stretch before @playgigaverse by @GLHFers announces mint details.

We've always built differently - so here's what u should know.

also giving out final final WL spots to ppl who thoughtfully interact with this post.

let's go:

1. What's @playgigaverse?

gigaverse is an onchain RPG which is easy to play (understand / know what to do without reading docs) and nostalgic af. contains risk / reward decisions, degenonomics, an item economy (tradeable ERC 1155s), character skill progression, customization (skins), PvE combat and PvP launching soon after we go live, with wagering.

We've been quietly building since early 2024 but only announced once it was ready to launch. Once live, we'll continuously ship updates so the game stays fresh + meta evolves.

2. Why build on @AbstractChain? Why be powered by @ProofOfPlay?

Abstract: actually making moves to streamline the EVM experience for newcomers to the space, heavily supporting creators / streamers, and many of the best builders I know (incl. my friends / chads at onchain heroes, cambria, duper and more) are deploying on Abs.

The team is strong, they are long term ppl, and I respect that they haven't taken TVL-juicing shortcuts as you commonly see in new ecosystem launches.

Proof of Play -- the POP VRF + other parts of the stack to come online in the weeks & months ahead, is simply the most performant and scalable onchain infra stack there is.

Abs <> POP is a very strong combo. The god stack.

3. What's gigaverse upcoming mint on Abstract for?

We're minting gigaverse ROMs, a factory NFT collection that gives holders: early access to the game (skip the waitlist), daily energy boost (can play / farm more), weekly claimable rare resources (ROM holders control this part of the item economy), and ofc future exposure to gigaverse.

oh and gigus (sentient AI creator of the gigaverse) admires the ROMs.

this is just the initial set of utility and we'll look to add more over time.

4. Will people without a ROM be able to play gigaverse?

We ultimately want as many ppl to enjoy gigaverse as possible, so yes. However, at launch, there will be a waitlist for people who want to play without a ROM. So if you want to start playing gigaverse immediately, minting a ROM is the way to go.

5. Abstract XP?

Yes, as we're using AGW as our primary sign-in method for the game, our players will all be eligible to earn Abstract XP. ✳️

6. Abstract Badge?

Yes, entering gigaverse will earn you an Abstract badge. 😉

More on this soon.

7. Streaming?

Yes, I'm biased but I think gigaverse will be one of the most streamable apps on Abstract and will personally lean in to support any creators - large or smol - who want to stream gigaverse.

8. Long term plans?

Despite officially being a no-roadmap project we've shipped a bunch of stuff: GLHFers (imo the top gaming pixel collection), Adjutant (programmatic WL system), Auctioneer (a smart contract that creates a deflationary flywheel), Dungetron (Discord game), unreleased game on Farcaster, and ofcourse now, gigaverse.

We'll continue to operate in this manner, so when we ship stuff it continues to surprise & delight and isn't ItS aLL PrIcEd In BrO.

9. What about @GLHFers?

GLHFers is our genesis collection and will always be important to the work we do. Auctioneer has 120+ more auctions to run very slowly over time (he uses auction funds to sweep & burn the floor of the collection) so I expect the collection will become significantly more deflationary over time.

The strongest long term alignment to our ecosystem is to have a GLHFers + a gigaverse ROM. For new people entering to play gigaverse, you'll have plenty of fun with a ROM and don't need to sweat. That said, as the saying goes -- there's never been a better time to GLHF.

10. Team

You should think of GLHF as a decentralized game studio comprised of veteran game devs + crypto native degens. Everyone involved is highly experienced, knows what good looks like, and operates extremely quickly. We have 5 core team members (follow @0xgarnish & @0xBunyoo who are the ones with twitter accounts), and an extended group of 10+ contributors -- some of whom you'd know if we chose to namedrop them.

11. Other stuff

- We've received a bunch of external interest in our Adjutant programmatic WL product and expect to serve many upcoming mints & airdrops in 2025.
- If you haven't bridged to Abstract yet for our upcoming mint, we'll share a v straight guide (literally 2 lines) to do so.

Excited. Appreciative of all the excitement & support so far. It's almost time. 🫡

[Chamán Pirate 🇦🇷 @Crypto_Chaman]

@PirateNation to a Tiki Bar where a lime and mint cocktail is waiting for us.

[Pirate Nation @PirateNation]

YARGH! What be this map we found in our boots today?

Where does it lead, mateys? Give us yer guesses and ye may find some treasure 🏴‍☠️

[Amitt @amittm]

A lot of useful conversation, healthy venting & necessary criticism in the @PirateNation ecosystem over the last few days.

I wanted to address some of the questions and reiterate our focus areas in the coming days/weeks. To be clear, we are a hybrid team of OG game devs, veteran founders, and crypto-native degens. Balancing between these different ideals is essential for a team to succeed in this space.

1. Let's start with the thing most people really care about: $PIRATE.

The biggest structural issue I see is the current staking system, which is clearly too harsh and off-putting to later entrants. This is reflected in the data and qualitative feedback from people who are interested in our ecosystem but don't enter.

The @PirateNationFDN partially addressed this with their last update by introducing a long-term loyalty multiplier, so later entrants can partially catch up -- but it's not enough. From a design perspective, it's crucial that people feel able to catch up. (Long-lock mechanisms that other products employ are one way of doing this, but there are many others.) Nobody likes to feel late in crypto, especially not at a time when there are so many opportunities to be early to something else.

The great news is that the foundation has prioritized resolving this issue and has constructed a plan.

For starters, the $PIRATE staking multiplier cap is being raised to 700%, and the weekly accrual rate is increasing to 100% so everyone can hit the maximum multiplier.

2. How $PIRATE and Proof of Play intersect.

To date, it has been largely unclear what the plans for $PIRATE are regarding @ProofOfPlay's future ecosystem. If you don’t have Proof of Play Points yet, don’t worry—"You are not late." Owning $PIRATE, whether holding or staking, is what matters.

This is just the beginning—we can adapt quickly based on feedback. We recognize that the lack of information and clarity to date is a problem. Thankfully, like the other areas and issues discussed above, there is a simple solution: tell you how it will all work by being as clear and direct as soon as it is possible to do so.

Coming up, our #1 priority is to clarify $PIRATE's role in the Proof of Play ecosystem.

There’s also a lot of confusion as to whether or not we’re focused entirely on Pirate Nation or on Proof of Play infrastructure. Pirate Nation has always been central to our Proof of Play's growth strategy. It’s a showcase application and ecosystem to demonstrate how you can build scalable, efficient onchain applications using our technology. There is no Proof of Play without the success of Pirate Nation and its ecosystem.

We do not build infrastructure in isolation — every infrastructure effort has been in service of enabling new gameplay and/or scaling Pirate Nation. Pirate Nation players are proving and demonstrating the potential of Proof of Play technology. It is a case study that shows the services we’re building are useful, fast, gas-efficient, and scalable to millions of users.

For this reason, our primary focus is ensuring that Pirate Nation players, holders of $PIRATE, and stakers who have earned Proof of Play points are a major part of the Proof of Play ecosystem and story going forward. We’ll have a separate announcement about Founder’s Pirates' role in that ecosystem in the near future.

3. Proof of Play is NOT a gaming chain — it’s an any-chain, any-app set of services for ambitious, scalable applications.

Our vision is to power the next generation of gas-efficient, scalable apps through an affordable set of onchain services. We believe in the decentralized internet and are building for the future in which every single person is onchain — most of whom will never realize it because the crypto is beneath the hood.

We’ve started to announce some of our plans around how the work pioneered with Pirate Nation & battle-tested by the Pirate Nation community will benefit other builders in the Ethereum ecosystem. Onchain Heroes and Gigaverse are both using Proof of Play’s technology with their game launches on the Abstract chain.

This has resulted in two significant milestones for PoP in the last week:

- Proof of Play is now a multi-chain service provider (running on both Arbitrum and ZKSync chains, with plans to expand to more).

- Multiple third parties are now utilizing Proof of Play’s technology.

4. Future Game development.

Thankfully, most of our players are here because they care about playing great games and want to know what we will do with the gameplay for Pirate Nation. Pirate Nation has been live for two years, but let me be clear: it's still in development (we're not even v1.0 yet!).

There are core features people want that are in our near-term backlog - such as 'proper' PvP (the current version is essentially an early preview.) Every time someone says 'X isn't fun' or 'Why don't we have Y yet?' - that's an opportunity for Pirate Nation. This includes the elephant in the room: mobile.

Over 100 game updates have been shipped since the launch of the game. That's around one per week. Now that many core game systems are in place, as is the necessary infra to scale, we can ship faster than ever before. My prediction for 2025 is that more significant game updates go live than the previous two years combined.

However, growing the player base, making the game much more fun, and launching mobile is only part of the solution.

5. Getting the word out.

While a great game, utility, and sinks for a token are important, we’re under no delusion that these things are enough to make a game or its token successful. Ecosystems live or die based on distribution.

As with most tokens, usage and adoption are tightly correlated with sentiment. The importance of marketing (including the right people saying, "This is a good coin.") cannot be overstated. The ideal scenario is one in which product fundamentals (DAU/retention/ARPU) are supported & juiced by marketing.

As a team, I believe our emphasis on fundamentals is a strength, not a weakness. We don't cut corners. Following our work over the last six months, we are now in an ideal position to ramp up our marketing to grow awareness and mindshare of our ecosystem, welcome more players to the game through mobile, and loudly amplify what’s coming from Proof of Play.

6. TL;DR.

The purpose of this post is not to pre-announce everything we're about to do. (You'll see all that for yourself over the days and weeks ahead.) It's to articulate how we got here, how deeply we think and care about our ecosystem, and what remaining problems we are working to solve as quickly as possible.

The best is yet to come. If you've stuck around this long, then know we are all in. If you're considering joining us just now, over the months ahead, we'll make sure you look back at this moment and realize this was an inflection point. Onward 🏴‍☠️

[Bry DiSanto 🤙 @brydisanto]

Spot on. And great company to be in, as we love the @ProofOfPlay team and take great inspiration from them as builders. 🎯⚡️

For @InfiniGods and the Godcoin ecosystem, it all starts with @KingOfDestinyIG as we lead with quality content, user growth, and distribution — but make no mistake, the endgame for $GOD is disruption to the entire mobile gaming industry. Ambitions are lofty.

$GOD will power not just KOD and all future IG mobile games, but act as a gateway for mobile developers and users to incorporate blockchain in accretive ways. That includes infrastructure and tooling that not only power our own games as a studio, but later made available for external developers and new audiences. This also has dramatic implications for distribution and user acquisition, adtech, data, liveops content, and much more (much of which is AI-powered).

Ultimately, with value accrual back to $GOD and its various stakeholders at the center.

Mobile gaming has the largest TAM, yet it's incredibly stagnant and ripe for disruption.

⚡️ Mobile gaming is bigger than AAA, console, browser, & PC gaming – combined.
⚡️ Mobile gaming is bigger than the film and music industries – combined.

Blockchain fundamentally changes user behavior, in a way that improves KPIs for developers — as well as experience for users. Win-win, when implemented effectively with inclusive ethos & intent.

Enter @KingOfDestinyIG as our flagship game, which is the #1 Luck Battler in Web3. It may not always look the sexiest on X, but Luck Battle is the fastest growing and highest monetizing genre in Mobile (e.g. MonopolyGo, CoinMaster) and already heavily features user behavior that lends itself strongly to crypto-leaning behaviors (i.e. they spend aggressively, they're degens, they seek out risk/reward social casino type gameplay, they trade & collect items heavily, and user status/power is coveted). It's a behemoth of a category.

Now throw assets and token into that dynamic.

We often talk about product-market fit (PMF), but genre-market fit (GMF) is also a real thing. Some genres are particularly receptive to crypto behaviors & economies, others really don't need it.

Luck Battle is the #1 genre fit for crypto gaming, in my opinion, alongside onchain gaming (e.g. @ProofOfPlay, @onchainheroes, @wolfdotgame) and something much more ambitious like an MMORPG (e.g. @pixels_online, @playcambria, @RuniverseGame).

In a small pilot at the end of last year, users spent $500K+ in USDC and IAP (credit card) in @KingOfDestinyIG during a brief competition for $GOD. This all happened in the native mobile app, in the App Stores, with an external crypto webstore integration. That P2E and risk-to-earn faucet will begin to flow shortly after TGE, with ongoing micro competitions and liveops events as cornerstones. Short attention/time, high impact, potentially massive rewards (jackpot mindset). You'll want $GOD to participate and perform.

The above amounts to a total powder keg, especially when the anatomy and friction are all stripped away. As we always say, it should be so easy that your mom can do it. If she can't buy, spend, use, and win $GOD (and other onchain rewards) like it's second nature, we haven't accomplished our goal. Incoming features will make that possible – for Web2 users at scale.

They're coming for your coins.

$GOD is the ticker.

$GOD is the token.

$GOD is mobile gaming.

And our ambition for it is industry-defining at the highest possible scale. We hope you'll join us.

The ride begins this month.

To Valhalla, and no less. ✊⚡️

[Dith @0xDith]

The first game @GLHFers was gonna make in 2024 was a side scrolling beat em up, a la Streets of Rage. Parked it bc we wanted to go more expansive and turned @playgigaverse into an RPG instead.

May bring back the beat em up at some point, maybe as a minigame in gigverse.

[Chamán Pirate 🇦🇷 @Crypto_Chaman]

The Road to Valhalla ends in two days!
Complete missions (easy and quick) to get $GOD.
@ValhallaFdn will put the crypto world upside down.

[Chamán Pirate 🇦🇷 @Crypto_Chaman]

Almost no time left for @GOD. Get a Vault, their completely undervalued and gives you a nice multiplier. @ValhallaFdn

[Pluid @tryPluid]

GLHFers launched 1 year ago.

1 month ago, their NFTs were sitting at 0.03 ETH

Now, they're sitting at 0.56 ETH (18x)

Why?

They’re launching one of the most-hyped games coming to Abstract — @playgigaverse

[Murdoch @TheGodMurdoch]

Proof of Play logo!

This can only mean one thing about @playgigaverse ......

Powered by Proof of Plays gaming engine?

The same one that runs the best Fully on chain game Pirate Nation!

With $POP coming still ....

[Valhalla Foundation @ValhallaFdn]

THE ROAD TO VALHALLA ENDS SOON

And it will finish 115+ partners strong. ⚡️💪

In preparation for $GOD, the ROAD TO VALHALLA will end on Thursday, January 16th.

⚡️ Holders can instantly claim Bonus Thunder for every qualifying NFT or ERC-20 held, with no limit. More Thunder = greater $GOD rewards.
⚡️ Additional new partners include @onchainheroes (genesis rings), @playcambria (founders), and Real Agents (@RealAgencyHQ). These are our last.
⚡️ You must join the Valhalla Leaderboard prior to the deadline to collect Thunder and be eligible for $GOD rewards.
⚡️ After the 16th, the leaderboard will go through a brief finalization period where additional partner leaderboard bonuses will be assigned.

This is may be the end of the Road... but it's just the beginning of an epic journey ahead for the $GOD community & ecosystem.

TO VALHALLA, TOGETHER! ✊⚡️

[Chamán Pirate 🇦🇷 @Crypto_Chaman]

@ValhallaFdn @InfiniGods @weallsurvived @ESPNBET @cryptoundeads

[Slingshot @SlingshotDAO]

We’re excited to announce the official Discord for SlingshotDAO!

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[Pirate Nation @PirateNation]

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