Here’s everything that shipped between the end of Round 13 and beginning of Round 14 in Let’s Have A Word! But first, some fun facts:

In the 13 rounds since launch:

• Players have submitted 25,470 guesses

• Nearly 1 ETH has been awarded to players in total, with 0.826 ETH awarded to jackpot winners, 0.132 ETH awarded to early guessers, and 0.0120 ETH awarded to referrers

• Rounds have averaged 62h 52m in duration with an average of 1959 guesses

The upgrade from $CLANKTON to $WORD is complete, and $WORD is now woven into gameplay:

• Bonus guesses. Bonus guesses earned by holding $WORD are now tiered based on amount held and market cap. When market cap is below $150K:

  • 100M tokens → +1 guess/day (Tier 1)

  • 200M tokens → +2 guesses/day (Tier 2)

  • 300M tokens → +3 guesses/day (Tier 3)

  Balance requirements halve at $150K–$300K mcap and again at $300K+ mcap. Staked tokens count toward your balance.

• Burn words. Every round now also has 5 hidden Burn words. Finding one immediately and permanently burns 5 million $WORD. Found Burn words auto-announce via @letshaveaword just like Bonus words.

  

• New/updated Wordmarks. Wordmarks are permanent collectible badges earned for in-game achievements. Players who find Burn words are awarded the new “Arsonist” wordmark as a badge of honor (and +100 XP). “Double Dub” (find two or more special words in the same round) has also been updated to reflect the addition of Burn words. 100M+ $WORD holders also now display the “$WORD whale” badge on leaderboards.

• Top 10 $WORD rewards. The top 10 guessers in each round now receive $WORD tokens on top of their ETH payouts. The amounts awarded scale with the $WORD market cap.

• Bonus words. Each round’s 10 hidden bonus words now distribute 5 million $WORD straight to the guesser’s wallet (was previously rewarded in $CLANKTON).

• New $WORD sheet. Shows player balance, buy & stake options, a live Game Activity section tracking burn words found (and tokens burned) and bonus words found (and tokens distributed), and more.

  

• All bonus/burn words are committed onchain before the round starts using keccak256 hashes, so everything is provably fair and verifiable after the fact.

  The $WORD contract address is 0x304e649e69979298BD1AEE63e175ADf07885fb4b

• Synthetix-style streaming staking. Players can stake $WORD tokens and earn more $WORD over time. Rewards stream continuously (not in lump sums) proportional to the share of the total staked pool. 30-day reward periods are started by the admin (starl3xx).

• Staking UI. The staking modal shows a live ticking reward counter, estimated APR, period countdown, and your XP tier progression. Players can stake, unstake, and claim directly from the app.

• XP-boosted staking yields. Players’ lifetime XP now determines their staking tier: Passive (1.0x), Bronze (1.15x), Silver (1.35x), or Gold (1.60x). Higher XP means higher staking rewards.

• Stats update. “Share my stats” now includes found Bonus and Burn words, as well as lifetime $WORD earned

• Lowered the jackpot seed from 0.03 ETH to 0.02 ETH. The minimum amount needed to kick off a new round is now smaller in order to steer the game closer to self-sustainability. This required upgrading the smart contract on Base (the proxy address stays the same, only the code behind it changed).

• Recover stuck rounds. Built an admin tool to rescue “zombie rounds” — situations where the winner was locked in the database but the onchain payout never went through. This happened in Round 13 and the tool fixes it without manual database surgery.

• Zombie round alerting. If a round gets stuck, a Sentry fatal alert fires immediately. A backup cron check also runs every 30 minutes to catch it if the alert is lost.

• Guess submission resilience. Added a 12-second timeout and automatic retry on the client side when submitting guesses. This prevents the infinite SUBMITTING... hang that caused a player to lose a correct guess in Round 13.

• Notification open tracking. Added a backend proxy for Neynar notification analytics so we can see how many people tap push notifications to open the app. (Finally)

• Automated push notifications. Round start in-app notifications now fire automatically, as well as daily free guess reset notifications at 11:00 UTC. Both notifications use 8 randomized message templates interpolating live round data so players don’t see the same notification every time.

• ETH airdrop tool. Send ETH to multiple wallets at once from the admin panel (for error compensation, etc.).

• Airdrop manager tab. Dedicated admin tab for managing $WORD airdrops (w/prior 100M $CLANKTON holders in mind)

• Dual-contract verification page. The /verify page now shows commitments from both contracts: JackpotManager (SHA-256 for the secret word) and WordManager (keccak256 for bonus + burn words). Links to both contracts on BaseScan with manual verification instructions.

  

• CLANKTON → $WORD. Renamed the token everywhere — frontend, backend, database column comments, documentation, API responses. The old name is gone.

That’s (mostly) everything... the in-game FAQ has received a significant update with specifics about all of the above. Message me on Farcaster if you have issues or feature requests!

Here’s everything that shipped between the end of Round 13 and beginning of Round 14 in Let’s Have A Word! But first, some fun facts:

In the 13 rounds since launch:

• Players have submitted 25,470 guesses

• Nearly 1 ETH has been awarded to players in total, with 0.826 ETH awarded to jackpot winners, 0.132 ETH awarded to early guessers, and 0.0120 ETH awarded to referrers

• Rounds have averaged 62h 52m in duration with an average of 1959 guesses

The upgrade from $CLANKTON to $WORD is complete, and $WORD is now woven into gameplay:

• Bonus guesses. Bonus guesses earned by holding $WORD are now tiered based on amount held and market cap. When market cap is below $150K:

  • 100M tokens → +1 guess/day (Tier 1)

  • 200M tokens → +2 guesses/day (Tier 2)

  • 300M tokens → +3 guesses/day (Tier 3)

  Balance requirements halve at $150K–$300K mcap and again at $300K+ mcap. Staked tokens count toward your balance.

• Burn words. Every round now also has 5 hidden Burn words. Finding one immediately and permanently burns 5 million $WORD. Found Burn words auto-announce via @letshaveaword just like Bonus words.

  

• New/updated Wordmarks. Wordmarks are permanent collectible badges earned for in-game achievements. Players who find Burn words are awarded the new “Arsonist” wordmark as a badge of honor (and +100 XP). “Double Dub” (find two or more special words in the same round) has also been updated to reflect the addition of Burn words. 100M+ $WORD holders also now display the “$WORD whale” badge on leaderboards.

• Top 10 $WORD rewards. The top 10 guessers in each round now receive $WORD tokens on top of their ETH payouts. The amounts awarded scale with the $WORD market cap.

• Bonus words. Each round’s 10 hidden bonus words now distribute 5 million $WORD straight to the guesser’s wallet (was previously rewarded in $CLANKTON).

• New $WORD sheet. Shows player balance, buy & stake options, a live Game Activity section tracking burn words found (and tokens burned) and bonus words found (and tokens distributed), and more.

  

• All bonus/burn words are committed onchain before the round starts using keccak256 hashes, so everything is provably fair and verifiable after the fact.

  The $WORD contract address is 0x304e649e69979298BD1AEE63e175ADf07885fb4b

• Synthetix-style streaming staking. Players can stake $WORD tokens and earn more $WORD over time. Rewards stream continuously (not in lump sums) proportional to the share of the total staked pool. 30-day reward periods are started by the admin (starl3xx).

• Staking UI. The staking modal shows a live ticking reward counter, estimated APR, period countdown, and your XP tier progression. Players can stake, unstake, and claim directly from the app.

• XP-boosted staking yields. Players’ lifetime XP now determines their staking tier: Passive (1.0x), Bronze (1.15x), Silver (1.35x), or Gold (1.60x). Higher XP means higher staking rewards.

• Stats update. “Share my stats” now includes found Bonus and Burn words, as well as lifetime $WORD earned

• Lowered the jackpot seed from 0.03 ETH to 0.02 ETH. The minimum amount needed to kick off a new round is now smaller in order to steer the game closer to self-sustainability. This required upgrading the smart contract on Base (the proxy address stays the same, only the code behind it changed).

• Recover stuck rounds. Built an admin tool to rescue “zombie rounds” — situations where the winner was locked in the database but the onchain payout never went through. This happened in Round 13 and the tool fixes it without manual database surgery.

• Zombie round alerting. If a round gets stuck, a Sentry fatal alert fires immediately. A backup cron check also runs every 30 minutes to catch it if the alert is lost.

• Guess submission resilience. Added a 12-second timeout and automatic retry on the client side when submitting guesses. This prevents the infinite SUBMITTING... hang that caused a player to lose a correct guess in Round 13.

• Notification open tracking. Added a backend proxy for Neynar notification analytics so we can see how many people tap push notifications to open the app. (Finally)

• Automated push notifications. Round start in-app notifications now fire automatically, as well as daily free guess reset notifications at 11:00 UTC. Both notifications use 8 randomized message templates interpolating live round data so players don’t see the same notification every time.

• ETH airdrop tool. Send ETH to multiple wallets at once from the admin panel (for error compensation, etc.).

• Airdrop manager tab. Dedicated admin tab for managing $WORD airdrops (w/prior 100M $CLANKTON holders in mind)

• Dual-contract verification page. The /verify page now shows commitments from both contracts: JackpotManager (SHA-256 for the secret word) and WordManager (keccak256 for bonus + burn words). Links to both contracts on BaseScan with manual verification instructions.

  

• CLANKTON → $WORD. Renamed the token everywhere — frontend, backend, database column comments, documentation, API responses. The old name is gone.

That’s (mostly) everything... the in-game FAQ has received a significant update with specifics about all of the above. Message me on Farcaster if you have issues or feature requests!