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Fantasy Top took over crypto Twitter last week. Now, with a huge update shipping, the game has seen a jump in player engagement.
Late last night, Fantasy Top's official Twitter announced a jam-packed week for fans of the social media game, including a reworked scoring system, a huge prize pool, and a noob-friendly tournament.
Most notably, however, over 40 new NFT Heroes are being added to the game, including crypto degen turned boxer Barneytheboi, founder of the Sappy Seals NFT collection wab.eth, and angel investor LilMoonLambo.
Crypto influencers are turned into NFT cards called Heroes for Fantasy Top, which is built atop Ethereum layer-2 network Blast. The influencers get a percentage of their cards’ trading volume, as well as part of the total pack sale revenue. Gamers can then purchase these cards to play in fantasy football style tournaments against others.
Heroes Cohort 2 🦸
Exciting news! We've just added over 40 new Heroes to the lineup, featuring standouts like @wabdoteth, @barneytheboi, @Pentosh1, @LilMoonLambo, @chumbawamba22 @mikadontlouz, and @muzzyvermillion.
Dive in at https://t.co/eqUsXigwmW to discover them and… pic.twitter.com/TlMKyRk9Aw
— fantasy.top (@fantasy_top_) May 12, 2024
In the past 24 hours, Fantasy Top trading volume has jumped over 51%, with the amount of buyers also climbing by 14%, according to DappRadar. Travis Bickle, the pseudonymous creator behind the game, claims that it has seen 67,000 active users in the past week, and 140,000 over the month.
Bot or not?
Shortly after the launch of the game, influencers started complaining that players were artificially inflating their numbers, which was affecting their personal social media goals. Content creator Jenn Duong specifically condemned those doing this.
A new scoring system has been introduced, aiming to curb the influence of bots that were artificially boosting account engagement. On top of this, the OG Heroes are having their stats slightly tweaked and frequent posts will no longer be put at a disadvantage.
Monday, 13th of May ⎮ Introduction of Hero Score v0.3 🧪
We're invigorated by the community's enthusiasm and constructive feedback, leading us to develop a refined version of the Hero Score.
The enhancements will notably:
🧪 Block the impact of follower bots. The updated…
— fantasy.top (@fantasy_top_) May 12, 2024
On Tuesday May 14, the second main tournament will begin with 333,333 Blast Gold on the line. If analyst predictions for the price of Blast Gold are correct, the total prize pool for this week's competition could exceed $3.3 million—a larger prize than the previous tournament.
If your squad isn’t cut out for the big leagues, on Thursday May 16, a “common cards only” tournament will take place which will have an “additional tweak” to promote fairness. The prize pool for this tournament has yet to be announced.
Meanwhile, some cards have begun to sell for huge valuations. A legendary Jenn card sold for 13.37 ETH ($40,000) while a common Travis Bickle sold for 0.49 ETH ($1,4950). As a result, the game saw a boost in cumulative revenue earned, according to a Flipside Crypto dashboard.