- Crypto Twitter has a new fascination: a game called Fantasy Top that turns social media personalities into Ethereum NFT trading cards.
- The game, launched on the Blast mainnet, rewards players with crypto and in-game prizes based on real-world Twitter engagement.
- However, concerns have been raised about the potential for manipulation of social media engagement scores.
Fantasy Top, a new game turning Crypto Twitter personalities into NFT trading cards, is creating a buzz in the crypto world. The game rewards players with crypto and in-game prizes, but concerns about potential manipulation of social media engagement scores have been raised.
Fantasy Top: The New Crypto Twitter Game
Fantasy Top is captivating the crypto faithful by transforming the industry’s biggest and buzziest social media personalities into Ethereum NFT trading cards on scaling network Blast. Players can crush rivals by creating card lineups that have the best real-world Twitter engagement during each competition, and earn crypto and in-game prizes in return.
Concerns Over Social Media Engagement Scores
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. Content creator Jenn Duong, for instance, temporarily put her Twitter account private after noticing abnormally large engagement numbers. She suggested that users were artificially inflating the engagement, which she feared would cause potential issues with her own play.
Prize Pool and Market Impact
The Fantasy Top hype hit a fever peak with the announcement of the prize pool for the first “Main Competition” that just began: over $150,000 worth of Ethereum (50 ETH), plus 222,222 Blast Gold that will lead to an airdrop allocation for the network—along with card packs and other in-game rewards. Players scrambled to buy up cards on the Fantasy Top marketplace, generating millions of dollars’ worth of trading on scaling network Blast in the process.
Conclusion
Fantasy Top has certainly made a splash in the Crypto Twitter world, but concerns about the potential for manipulation of social media engagement scores could pose a challenge. As the game continues to evolve, it will be interesting to see how these issues are addressed and whether the initial hype can be sustained.
