This week, it is expected that over $1.25 million will be distributed among heroes in Fantasy Top (FT).
Written by: Francesco
Translated by: DeepTechFlow
Introduction
With the continuous integration of social media and blockchain technology, a new game called Fantasy Top (FT) has emerged, cleverly combining Twitter's social interaction with card games. This article will provide a detailed introduction to the game mechanics and operation of FT, explaining how to build your deck in the virtual world through trading and upgrading cards, and earn rewards by participating in matches. Additionally, the article will explore how FT utilizes the dynamics of influencers on Twitter to provide players with unique strategic perspectives.
Main Content
If you are enthusiastic about pack openings in FIFA's Ultimate Team and also a cryptocurrency enthusiast, then this game is perfect for you. It's time to invest your time on Twitter using your pack opening and trading skills.
There is a new game called Fantasy Top (FT) that seamlessly integrates the social attributes of Twitter and card games, allowing users to purchase card packs, open card packs, and buy/sell cards to create their own decks.
FT adopts the concept pioneered by Friend Tech, linking the incentives of Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) and cryptocurrency celebrities with retail investors, and further connecting the gameplay of the game with the real-world performance of your cards.
How is this achieved? Next, I will introduce FT step by step, explain how it works, and delve into its unique elements and exciting mechanisms in detail.
Fantasy Top Overview
FT is a card game based on Blast. It can be conceptualized as a "social trading card game," combining elements of collecting and trading cards with strategic thinking:
Trading/upgrading cards
Strategically planning based on the social activities of your favorite CT influencers
The second point is particularly interesting because different influencers perform better at different times. For example, as we approach the Blast TGE, the value of Pacman's cards has soared because users anticipate an increase in his activities and engagement.
Cards are divided into four rarities, each with different bonuses:
Common: Hero score x1
Rare: Hero score x1.5
Epic: Hero score x2
Legendary: Hero score x2.5
FT players can build their own decks with their favorite characters by purchasing card packs or buying cards on the market. All market transactions require a 3% fee. Then, they can participate in FT tournaments and earn rewards.
- Interestingly, over 17,000 people have already registered to participate in the main tournament 1.
How the Game Works
Users can join the game by logging into their Twitter accounts. Once registered, a new on-chain Blast wallet will be created, which users can export at any time.
Since the FT testnet has been running for several months, early users have received free/discounted card packs. Travis (FT team) has mentioned their strategy of providing excess rewards to early users multiple times.
Testnet participants were able to play the game and test features in advance, and received additional FAN points and card packs at launch.
After logging in, if users want to play the game, they must acquire some cards, which can be done by:
Purchasing card packs
Buying cards on the market
Once they have collected enough cards, users can choose their 5-hero team, create their own deck, and register to participate in matches. The ranking and position of users in the tournament are determined by the overall score of their team, based on their Twitter activity.
In fact, the main tournament is the best way to earn rewards and improve your deck. Rewards are distributed in the form of ETH, Blast Gold, FAN points, free card packs, etc. Users are divided into 5 different leagues, and can advance to higher leagues by ranking high in the current division (conversely, ranking low may result in relegation).
About Strategies
If you are familiar with these card games, there are two main strategies:
Purchasing card packs
Trading cards
Purchasing card packs is often not cost-effective, as the cards inside the pack often do not correspond to their cost. The price of card packs is determined by an auction mechanism:
Target price is 0.1 ETH
Daily release schedule
Therefore, the price of card packs is dynamic, based on supply and demand. If card packs sell out quickly, the price will rise, and vice versa. You may want to wait for lower demand to get a better deal, but since the release, the price of card packs has been consistently rising.
If you have played FIFA's Ultimate Team, you know that card packs rarely offer advantages, which is reflected in the behavior of top users who prefer trading cards and only open packs as rewards for matches.
However, users trading cards must be aware that the weekly supply of forged cards increases as the number of participants grows.
Users can click on each card to get more information about card inflation. The higher the number, the more cards are forged.
Additionally, we can observe their statistics, earnings, and "core circle," which is the people they interact with most frequently.
Nevertheless, the prices of heroes are also soaring:
How is the Hero Score Calculated?
The hero score is calculated based on several parameters of their social engagement. Since these parameters are easily manipulated through farming and bot manipulation, FT is implementing several mechanisms to mitigate these:
Anti-bot system to better identify interactions driven by bots
Distinguishing replies from primary tweets
Reducing the variability of heroes to make the game fairer for everyone
Heroes participating in FT will receive income shares from the following:
1.5% fee from their card trading volume
10% of card pack sales evenly distributed among heroes
Their own cards
This week, it is expected that FT will distribute over $1.25 million among heroes, with each hero averaging 7500 FAN points and 2400 Blast Gold. The community has been speculating about the use of FAN points - we will soon learn more about this.
A new gamified recommendation has been introduced: recommending a friend will earn you 11% of their FAN points + 3% of anyone they recommend.
How to Upgrade Card Levels?
Cards can be upgraded, increasing their points accordingly. Users must purchase and destroy 5 identical hero cards to upgrade the card level.
Card Level 1:
Card Level 1.5:
And so on.
Upgrading cards is the basis for achieving higher scores in the team. For this, users must purchase and destroy 5 identical hero cards.
Upgraded cards have higher scores: If we observe the top-scoring teams, they all have a team with upgraded levels.
Upgrading your hero level may also result in changes in rankings, potentially boosting your hero's level by 1 or 2 higher than you expected.
This opens up new strategies: Since each card has its own supply, is it more convenient to purchase and upgrade them? Or should we only purchase basic cards, anticipating the need for more basic cards as more people upgrade their card levels to cope with supply shocks?
Given the increased demand for card upgrades in the initial days, the number of people buying cards at the launch of FT increased significantly.
These are the current leading teams in the main tournament, with all heroes upgraded.
Competition in the rankings is getting more intense.
Eric has a pretty decent deck.
Future Outlook
The impact of heroes on FT already exists. If you see someone writing nonsense articles, they are just promoting their cards!
FT is also one of the applications on Blast that has received the most coins, even before its full launch, it has distributed over 750,000 coins among its users. This ensures that tournament rewards will be very generous.
80% of the coins airdropped by FT Devs will be returned to FAN holders.
Compared to other SocialFi platforms, especially Friend Tech, the interesting thing about FT is that it has no friction as it is directly linked to the Twitter accounts people are already using, without the need to move to a new social network.
This provides an attractive incentive mechanism for players and participating heroes. Imagine someone paying you to go crazy on Twitter.
In the first week, FT has already accumulated:
Over 7000 ETH in trading volume
33k users
3400 ETH in the treasury
236 ETH in market fees
Observing the user distribution is also interesting. Most are traders, and the number of coiners has recently increased (possibly due to the claiming deadline) before suddenly dropping.
How do we use this information? Due to the airdrop, card inflation was initially quite high: many users received discounted or even free card packs and opened a large number of them.
This behavior ended yesterday, along with the airdrop claims, which is reflected in the decrease of over 90% in card pack purchases.
How's your game going?
More charts:
https://flipsidecrypto.xyz/hildobby/fantasy.top-QHNB0u
Finally, I would like to emphasize some "issues" with FT.
Like any other crypto SocialFi app, it heavily relies on influencers. However, compared to other platforms, it does so in a way that is completely consistent with their incentives, mitigating this dependency.
Secondly, it relies on having a Twitter account to log in. One of my friends was just suspended from their account for no reason, so they cannot log in to FT and claim their rewards.
Nevertheless, FT has demonstrated incredible PMF (Product-Market Fit) in the first week (even during the testnet period). Can it sustain the initial hype?
I believe the team will gradually roll out more features, including but not limited to new heroes and game dynamics.
FT is one of the most widely used applications on Blast, and with the Blast TGE approaching (expected at the end of May), things may become even more interesting.
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