Crypto: The Game, the “Survivor”-inspired reality competition that went viral earlier this year, will return for a third season, under new ownership.
On Monday, Uniswap Labs, the startup behind Uniswap, the leading decentralized Ethereum exchange, announced that it has acquired Crypto: The Game. Founders Dylan Abruscato, Tyler Cagle, and Bryan Lee will join Uniswap Labs to continue to guide the direction of the experience, as well as help Uniswap Labs craft its messaging around decentralized finance.
Crypto: The Game is an on-chain survival game that quickly gained traction on Crypto Twitter during its first season, during which players competed in a series of challenges, such as playing Pac-Man online or scavenger hunts in the real world, worth $115,000. of the ETH.
As in “Survivor,” players were divided into tribes, and winning or losing challenges determined whether or not a tribe would have to eliminate members. The last person standing wins.
Both seasons of Crypto: The Game captured a lot of attention and also generated a lot of drama. The first season was won by a pseudonymous player from a rural town in Japan, who wrote poems for his teammates and won by being an all-around good person. The following season unfolded very differently
The second season saw some of that 800 players spend more than 4,000 hours combined on the game’s website and facing its challenges, and ended with a group of players banding together to re-enter the game after a brutal backstabbing they eliminated them from the competition. They collectively won the $210,000 prize and donated all proceeds to Tornado Cash Legal Defense Fund.
Several members of Uniswap Labs participated in the first season, then the company joined the second season by sponsoring one of the challenges: a “customized cryptocurrency treasure hunt,” as Abruscato described it. Decipher.
“I think that made them realize that we kind of cracked the code to getting people in chains,” he added.
When asked about his team’s decision to join Uniswap Labs instead of remaining independent, Abruscato said Decipher who wants to continue climbing Crypto: The Game. He believes that Uniswap Labs creates amazing products and hopes to leverage this experience to take the game to new heights.
What can future Crypto: The Game players expect? While no date has been set for the next season, Abruscato said that all of the elements of the game that the community has come to know and love will continue to be present.
“We see this as an opportunity to leverage their experience and lessons learned from previous seasons,” Abruscato explained. “There will still be new games, new twists and new drama, all under the umbrella of Uniswap Labs.”
Edited by Andrew Hayward
