What’s Crypto Twitter buzzing about now? A game built around Crypto Twitter, believe it or not—one offering sizable rewards and incentives for players.Fantasy TopCrypto’s biggest tweeters have excitedly embraced it, promoting their own in-game cards or sharing their lineups, as well as bragging about how much their NFTs have surged in value in a short period of time. They’re even forming private groups of holders to discuss strategies and incentivize buyers.Launched on Blast mainnet on May 1 by pseudonymous creator Travis Bickle, Fantasy Top is effectively Sorare if it were built around outspoken crypto personalities and traders rather than professional soccer players. The influencers in question earn a small cut of each trade of their own cards, along with other perks—but many appear to have invested significantly into building their own lineups, too.This is an attention economy And @fantasy_top_ is gamifying it pic.twitter.com/nkN9QYYvY8— Tenacious (@TenaciousBit) May 6, 2024The list of in-game NFT “heroes” includes Machi just deposited 700 ETH into his @fantasy_top_ walletExpecting some big sales today pic.twitter.com/lxWtxOcfU2— Clemente (@Chilearmy123) May 6, 2024Farokh Sarmad of Rug Radio, which is merging with Decrypt, is another one of the featured personalities.It’s about more than just buying the There’s another curious wrinkle to consider: Scoring is based on your lineup’s actual social media engagement, which raises the question of what counts as quality engagement—and how that could potentially be manipulated.One “hero” in question, content creator Jenn Duong, temporarily “People don’t want to play fair and I’m not going to risk messing up my X algo,” she tweeted, “You’re fucking up the systems for other creators,” she added.Please do not bot my shit. I don’t need it. I’m betting on me, and I want to win on my own merit. You’re fucking up the systems for other creators.— Jenn (@jenndefer) May 5, 2024But the Fantasy Top hype continues unabated, and arguably hit a fever peak early Monday with the announcement of the prize pool for the While 50 ETH is no small change for a crypto game that launched last week, the far bigger prize could come from the Blast Gold. Crypto industry observers estimate the value of each Blast Gold trading volume is on the rise for @fantasy_top_ as we approach main tournament #1current volume is > 50% of Ethereum mainnet’s total NFT volumesrc: https://t.co/q91HcFqt6A pic.twitter.com/1N8tlxnOFm— hildobby (@hildobby_) May 6, 2024Players scrambled to buy up cards on the Fantasy Top marketplace, generating millions of dollars’ worth of trading on scaling network Blast in the process—equaling A Fantasy Top has been a shot in the arm for Crypto Twitter denizens, resuscitating the positive vibes that have been missing in recent weeks amid a market lull. But we’ll see whether a fantasy sports riff featuring Twitter influencers has the depth and intrigue to maintain momentum after the initial novelty and Blast network incentives fade.Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
