v1.7.0 is here, and it brings the Tycoons Pass. A season track of 30 tiers, along with the Colors system for equipping ship skins and frames.

1. Tycoons Pass

A season track of 30 tiers. You collect Pass Points through what you already do: completing voyages, showing up daily, and trading. Points fill the track, and each tier you reach unlocks its reward right away.

There are two lanes.

• The free lane is open to every Tycoon. No purchase, nothing to sign up for. Across the full track it gives 40 GEM, and the season exclusive frame at tier 30.

• The Tycoons Pass lane costs 9.99 USDC. Across the full track it gives 150 GEM, the season exclusive ship skin at tier 30, and the season's Coinbase tokenized stocks. Everything on the free lane is included as well.

If you would rather not wait on a tier, Skip A Tier costs 100 GEM.

[How you collect Pass Points]

Pass Points come from playing, not from buying. Five things fill the track.

• Daily login. +1 PP just for showing up.

• Trade voyages. +2 to +22 PP. Farther ports give much more, and this counts voyages of 2M CHEF or more.

• Pirate battles won. +3 to +33 PP, again scaling with distance.

• Pirate sweeps. +20 PP.

• Master chests. 3 in 100 chests hold bonus Pass Points, worth 5x the voyage.

2. The season

The first season is THE RIALTO.

It opens 2026-10-01 00:00 UTC and runs for the month. The pass itself is on sale until 2026-10-22 00:00 UTC, so the window to buy closes before the season does.

3. Colors

Tap the COLORS button in the Command Center to equip skins and frames. If you are in a guild, you can receive your guild frame there.

What you equip applies across the game immediately. Your portrait frame appears on the season leaderboard, in your guild roster, on the port seal markers on the world map, on your social visit card, and on your Command Center profile. Your ship skin sails with you.

4. Guild frames

Guild members receive their guild's portrait frame automatically on login, and existing members get it retroactively without doing anything. The frame stays with you after you leave the guild. What you sailed under is still yours.

The season opens 1 October, 00:00 UTC. Set your course.

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Saturation changed with v1.2.0. It is the one change in this update that shows up in your numbers without you doing anything differently, so here is how it works now.

1. What saturation is

A port pays a premium on what you unload there. That premium is not fixed. It falls as you keep selling the same goods at the same port, and it climbs back as that market has time to absorb what you brought.

Saturation is that measure. It is tracked per Tycoon, per port, per cargo. Your saturation on olives at Pisa has nothing to do with anyone else's, and nothing to do with your own on wheat at Tunis.

2. What changed, and how this sits with the last correction

We corrected saturation on July 28 and said two things at the time: that recovery speed was unchanged, and that the fix was to how much a port absorbs as its level rises. The first of those no longer holds, and it is better to say so directly than to let you find it.

Two things changed with v1.2.0.

Recovery is now tied to port level, so saturation clears at the same pace everywhere. In July we widened what a high level port absorbs but left recovery alone, and the two did not settle where we expected. A high level port still cleared fast enough that a well developed harbor could be run over and over with the market barely cooling. Recovery now scales with level the same way absorption does, and the two cancel: the time to clear a given load is the same at Level 1 and at Level 10.

Saturation builds about three times faster. The threshold sat above what a hold could carry, so a single voyage could not reach it no matter how large. A full hold used to clear in a few hours. It now takes most of a day.

Port levels still matter, and for the same reason as before: a higher level market absorbs more before it starts cooling at all. What a level no longer buys is a faster reset.

3. What it feels like in play

Run the same harbor with the same cargo, voyage after voyage, and the premium on that pairing comes down. Change the cargo, or change the port, and you are trading against a market that has not been touched.

Recovery is not something you wait out doing nothing. It runs while you are at sea, so a long crossing elsewhere is also a market cooling down behind you.

Port levels are still worth pushing. A higher level port takes more before it cools, and it unlocks goods you could not trade there before.

4. On balance changes

Nothing here is fixed forever.

This game runs an economy, and an economy drifts. As it grows we will keep adjusting whatever has come loose, and we will say so when we do rather than let it turn up in your numbers unannounced. Twice now on this system, and the second time contradicted part of the first. That is the cost of correcting something while it is live, and we would rather pay it in public.

The rules apply to everyone the same way. When you notice a change depends on how you play: a Tycoon who runs one route hard meets a change like this sooner than one who spreads across the map, and neither is playing wrong.

5. Where to look

Open a port and check the saturation gauge on the goods you trade there. It shows where that market currently stands and what it absorbs before it cools.

Then open a port you have not sailed to in a while and compare.

Pick the crossing the sea has not seen lately.

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Guilds arrived with v1.2.0. Here is how a season works, from chartering in to the tenth of next month.

1. What a guild is

A guild belongs to a harbor. Four are open: Pharos and Delta at Alexandria, Bastion and Saltwind at Valletta. These four were set up by our team for the beta season, and what comes out of it decides how guilds open properly later.

The tie to the home port is what the season runs on. The voyages that count for a guild are the ones its members land there. Land anywhere else and the voyage is still yours, it just does not reach the board.

Founding your own guild comes later. So does opening the other eleven harbors.

2. Chartering in

Pay the charter fee at the port and you are a member for the rest of the season. One Tycoon, one guild.

Leaving costs three things.

• The charter fee does not come back.

• You give up your share of that season's rewards.

• You cannot join any guild again until the next season opens.

Voyages you already landed stay on the guild's board and keep counting toward its rank. You are not in the split.

3. How points are made

Four things feed a guild's season points, and the guild page breaks all four out rather than showing one total.

Voyages landed. The base. One voyage settled at the home port, one count.

Cargo weight. Trade volume is scored as a weight on each voyage. Trade Premium is left out of the reading: premium differs from port to port, and counting it would hand an advantage to whichever harbor pays the most. Only the base volume is measured, and the weight moves inside a fixed band either side.

Boost. Any member can buy one. The next set of voyages the guild lands count 1.5x, and it applies to every member rather than the buyer alone. One boost runs at a time: once it is spent the next can be bought. Whoever sent one is named on the guild page for the rest of the season.

Harbor traffic. Voyages that other Tycoons land at your home port add points on top, capped in proportion to what your own members sail.

4. How guilds are ranked

Globally, against every guild rather than the one across the harbor.

At season close the top three take 50%, 30% and 20% of the pool. Fourth and below take nothing.

5. How a guild splits its share

By standing inside the guild, in bands.

• 1st in the guild: 20%

• Top 10%: 27%

• Top 30%: 30%

• Top 60%: 15%

• Everyone else: 8%

Inside a band the split is even. Two Tycoons in the same band receive the same amount, whether one of them sailed twice as much as the other. Sailing more raises your share when it moves you into a different band.

6. Where the pool comes from

The port due, the new harbor charge that arrived with the same update. A share of everything it collects, across all thirteen harbors and not only the two with guilds, goes into one pool for the season.

The pool is not funded by your own harbor. It is one pot, and the ranking decides how it splits. There is a separate deep dive on the due itself.

7. The season calendar

August runs as a beta season. Everything scores and the pool fills from day one.

• The season closes 2026-08-31 23:59 UTC.

• September 1 to 9 is the close. Standings freeze, amounts are fixed, and the proof of who receives what is published.

• Claims open 9/10 and stay open five days.

• Anything unclaimed on the 15th returns to the treasury.

Five days is a short window and a missed one is a real loss. That is why the dates are here now rather than in September.

8. Where to start

Open a guild harbor, charter in, and land a voyage there. One payment and one voyage puts you on the board.

Four guilds, thirteen harbors, one pool between them. Pick a banner worth sailing under, and go take a harbor.

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Harbors have guilds now, and a new charge that fills their season pool. Here is what v1.2.0 changes.

1. Port Guilds

Four guilds are open. Alexandria has Pharos and Delta. Valletta has Bastion and Saltwind. These four were set up by our team for the beta season, and what we learn from it decides how guilds open properly later.

A guild belongs to its home port. You charter into one at the port and you are a member for the rest of the season, one Tycoon to one guild.

Leaving costs three things: the charter fee, your share of that season's rewards, and the right to join any guild again until the next season opens. Voyages you already landed stay on the guild's board and keep counting toward its rank, but you are not in the split.

Founding your own guild comes later. So does opening the other eleven harbors.

2. How points are made

Voyages your members land at the home port are the base. One voyage, one count. Land somewhere else and it does not reach the board.

Trade volume is scored on top of that, as a weight on each voyage. Trade Premium is left out of the reading: premium differs from port to port, and counting it would hand an advantage to whichever harbor pays the most.

Any member can buy a boost. The next set of voyages the guild lands count 1.5x, and it applies to every member rather than the buyer alone. One boost runs at a time, and the Tycoon who sent it is named on the guild page for the rest of the season.

Voyages that other Tycoons land at your home port add points as well, capped in proportion to what your own members sail.

Guilds are ranked globally, against every guild rather than the one across the harbor.

Deep dive: how a season works →

3. Port due

A second charge now sits beside the harbor tax. It moves with the treasury that funds every settlement: when that reserve runs low the due rises, and as it recovers it falls back toward zero. It runs from 0% to 25%, and the rate is fixed once a day at 00:00 UTC, so it does not change under you mid voyage.

You will see it at the port, the trade desk, voyage prep, and your unload result, listed beside the harbor tax. It is a harbor charge, not the trade tax.

Trade Premium is the heart of this game and it is not getting smaller. But every premium a port pays comes out of the same reserve, and that reserve draws on a supply that is capped per season. That cap is published. Paying out past it would put more CHEF into circulation than the published figure says, and how CHEF moves has to be something you can check rather than something you take on trust. The due holds the day to day inside that figure without anyone stepping in.

When it climbs you will hear from the Serene Dominion. The Doge's envoy comes first. If the treasuries keep thinning, the Doge comes himself.

Deep dive: what the due is and how it moves →

4. Season rewards

A share of everything the due collects, across all thirteen harbors and not only the two with guilds, goes into one pool for the season.

At close the top three guilds take 50%, 30% and 20% of it. Fourth and below take nothing. Each guild then splits its part among its own members by standing, in bands: first place 20%, the top tenth 27%, the top third 30%, the top sixty percent 15%, everyone else 8%. Inside a band the split is even.

August runs as a beta season, and the dates are worth writing down.

• The season closes 2026-08-31 23:59 UTC.

• September 1 to 9 is the close. Standings freeze, amounts are fixed, and the proof of who receives what is published.

• Claims open 9/10 and stay open five days.

• Anything unclaimed on the 15th returns to the treasury.

Five days is a short window. Set a reminder.

5. Market saturation

We corrected saturation on July 28 and said recovery speed was unchanged. That no longer holds, and it is better to say so directly.

Recovery is now tied to port level, so saturation clears at the same pace everywhere. In July we widened what a high level port absorbs and left recovery alone, and a well developed harbor still cooled fast enough to be run over and over. The two now scale together and cancel.

Saturation also builds about three times faster. The threshold sat above what a hold could carry, so a single voyage could not reach it. A full hold used to clear in a few hours and now takes most of a day.

Port levels still matter for the same reason as before: a higher level market absorbs more before it starts cooling at all. What a level no longer buys is a faster reset.

Deep dive: why saturation exists →

6. Pirate's Slot spin tickets

Daily spins are claimed onchain now. One more tap on the slot screen and the ticket is yours. Everything after that is unchanged.

7. High grade cargo

Loading 3 star and above cargo stays paused a while longer while these systems settle in. It reopens 2026-08-10 05:00 UTC.

8. Where to start

Open a guild harbor, charter in, and land a voyage there. That is the whole entry: one payment and one voyage puts you on the board.

Four guilds, thirteen harbors, one pool between them. Pick a banner worth sailing under.

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A second charge appeared beside the harbor tax with v1.2.0. Here is what it is, what moves it, and what it means for a voyage you are about to load.

1. What the port due is

Every unload already pays the harbor tax, 8%, 10% or 12% depending on the port. The port due sits beside it as a separate charge, and the two are listed separately everywhere they appear.

The due is not fixed. It moves with the treasury that funds every settlement. When that reserve runs low the due rises. As the reserve recovers, the due falls back toward zero.

It runs from 0% to 25%.

2. What sets the rate

One thing: the treasury balance. Nothing about your voyage, your port, your cargo or your standing changes it. Everyone unloading on the same day pays the same due.

The rate is fixed once a day at 00:00 UTC and holds for that whole day.

It is read at the moment you unload, not when you cast off. Most of the time that makes no difference, since both fall on the same day. A voyage that crosses 00:00 UTC is the exception: it unloads at the new day's rate, and that rate is set at the moment the day turns over.

There are no steps or brackets. The rate follows the balance continuously, so there is no threshold to unload just above or just below.

3. Where you see it

Four places, always beside the harbor tax.

• The port header, as its own badge.

• The trade desk, in the line that works out what you net.

• Voyage prep, in the breakdown before you cast off.

• Your unload result, as its own row in the waterfall.

If the due is 0%, the badge does not appear at all and the screens read as they did before.

4. Why it exists

Trade Premium is the heart of this game and it is not getting smaller.

But every premium a port pays comes out of the same reserve, and that reserve draws on a supply that is capped per season. That cap is published. Paying out past it would put more CHEF into circulation than the published figure says, and how CHEF moves has to be something you can check rather than something you take on trust.

Before this update there was nothing linking that limit to what happened at the docks on any given day. The due is that link. It reads the treasury and adjusts on its own, without anyone stepping in after the fact.

5. What it means for a voyage

A voyage is worth sailing while the sell multiplier at that port beats the total you pay. Total tax is the harbor tax plus the due.

A rising due does not stop the sea. It reaches the thinnest margins first, and the wide ones keep clearing long after. What it tells you is that the harbors have been busy: a high due means a great deal has moved through them lately, and the ports are asking more until things settle.

One caveat: if the crossing will land after 00:00 UTC, the figure in voyage prep is today's rate and the unload will use tomorrow's.

6. The Serene Dominion

You will not have to go looking at the balance to know the due is moving. The Serene Dominion tells you.

At first the Doge's envoy arrives with word from the ports. He carries the order rather than making it, and he says so.

If the treasuries keep thinning, the Doge comes himself. By the time he does, the harbors are asking a great deal of every hold that unloads, and he does not pretend otherwise.

The rate is on screen either way. The Dominion is how you hear about it without watching a number.

7. Where the due goes

Not all of it stays with the ports. A share of everything the due collects, across all thirteen harbors, fills the guild season pool, which is paid out to the leading guilds at season close.

So the charge and the reward are the same flow seen from two ends. Sailing under a banner puts you on the receiving side of it.

Deep dive: how a guild season works →

8. Reading the tide

The due is not a wall. It is a reading of how hot the sea has been running.

When it is low, the harbors are hungry and the crossings pay well. That is the time to push volume.

When it is high, the sea has been worked hard and the ports are holding back. The crossings that still clear by a wide margin are as good as they ever were, so keep sailing those. For the thin ones, there is no hurry. A day spent developing a port or training crew is a day the harbors recover, and the due comes down as they do. The tide turns either way, and it turns faster when fewer holds are being emptied into it.

Every season has its calm stretches. Read the water, pick your crossings, and the sea comes back.

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Every port on the map has a name on it now. Here is how Port Seals work.

1. What a Port Seal is

The Tycoon who has traded the most at a port holds its seal. Their portrait and name sit above that port on the map, along with the volume they have traded there this season.

It is a public mark. Anyone opening the map can see who holds which harbor right now, and how much it took to hold it.

2. How you take one

Seals are counted per port, not across the map. Thirteen harbors mean thirteen separate contests, and you can lead one without leading any other.

A port nobody has traded at this season carries no seal at all. The first settled voyage there takes it, so an untouched harbor at the start of a season is the easiest seal on the board.

Tapping a seal portrait opens that Tycoon’s harbor, through the same visit flow you already know from the Social tab. Tapping the port marker still opens the port as before.

3. Seasons and stars

Seasons run by the calendar month. Every seal resets when the month turns over in UTC, so each harbor opens again and last month’s standing does not carry forward.

What does carry forward is the star. Hold a port when the season closes and a star is added beside your name at that port. It stays there whether or not you hold the seal later, so a Tycoon who has taken a harbor three seasons running wears three stars at that harbor.

Stars belong to the port where you won them, not to you across the map. A harbor you have defended for months reads differently from one you took last week, and now the map says so.

4. Where to check

Open the Leaderboard and tap Your Seals. You will see the ports you currently lead, your stars at each, how far ahead of second place you are, and how long the season has left to run.

5. Why it matters

A trading empire is easier to feel when it has a shape on the map. Thirteen harbors, thirteen contests, and a mark on each one showing who has been sailing there hardest this month.

Pick a harbor worth holding, and go take it.

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Market saturation has not been working the way it was designed to, and we have corrected it. Here is what happened and what it means for your routes.

1. First, what does not change

If your ports are Level 1, nothing changes for you at all. The corrected calculation works out to exactly the same numbers at Level 1 as the old one did. Most of you are sailing Level 1 ports right now.

Nothing you have already built or collected is affected, at any level. Your ports, your barracks, your fleet, and everything in your hold stay exactly as they are. This correction only changes how saturation accumulates going forward.

2. What saturation is meant to do

Market saturation is the system that makes a port tire of the same cargo. Trade Milk into Istanbul once and the port takes it gladly. Do it over and over and the port has more milk than it needs, so your sell multiplier there drops. Sail somewhere else for a while and it recovers.f

The point of it is to make the map worth using. Thirteen ports and a hold full of options should mean rotation is a real strategy, not just a longer trip.

3. What was actually happening

The two sides of the system did not line up. Saturation cleared from a port slightly faster than a voyage took to complete, so by the time you returned, whatever you had built there had already drained to zero. It reset between every run instead of accumulating.

Port levels widened that gap. The higher a port’s level, the more it could absorb before saturating, which meant the Tycoons who had built their ports up the most saw the least of the system. That is backwards from how it should work.

4. How we found it

Saturation is a system we planned to keep tuning after launch, and we have adjusted it several times already. What we did not expect was how hard some of you would push the map. The volume of voyages coming through certain routes made the gap visible far sooner than our own testing would have, and that is why we are correcting this now rather than months from now. Play at that depth is how balance problems surface.

5. What is corrected

Saturation now accumulates and recovers on the timing it was designed for. Repeating the same port and cargo builds saturation and lowers your sell multiplier there. Rotating between ports, or spacing your runs out, brings it back down.

Recovery speed itself is unchanged, and so are the base multipliers at each port. The only thing corrected is how much saturation a port can absorb as its level rises.

You do not have to take our word for it. The Saturation cap shown on the port detail screen reflects the corrected values, so you can check any port you sail to.

Voyages already at sea keep the multiplier they departed with. The saturation that voyage leaves behind follows the corrected calculation, so you will feel this from your next run onward.

6. Why it matters

A trading game where one route always works is a shorter game than it should be. Saturation is what makes the second port worth opening and the third route worth planning, and it was not carrying that weight.

Rotate your cargo. Rotate your ports. That was always the intended play, and now the map answers to it.

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For the first month, we watched Tycoons learn the sea in public. They chose cargo, opened ports, lost troops, won battles, tested routes, and slowly turned a simple voyage loop into a living onchain economy.

The numbers below are not a campaign recap or a server-side estimate. They are the first month of Uncharted Tycoons as it actually happened on Base.

One month, by the numbers

1,832 voyages sailed. 611 battles at sea, 473 of them won, with 87,246 troops boarded over the month.

1.51B $CHEF was committed to harbor upgrades, barracks, ports, and troops. 11 of 13 ports were opened by Tycoons from 69 countries, who exchanged 1,991 greetings along the way.

The busiest Tycoon completed 165 voyages alone.

All of it onchain, and we check it ourselves

Every voyage departs onchain and settles onchain. Since launch, Tycoons have created 4,624 voyage transactions. There is no offchain ledger waiting to be reconciled later, and no hidden server-only version of the game state.

The 1.51B $CHEF number matters because it is not a client-side tally. Our server verifies each transaction directly before it counts, so what you see is what settled on Base.

Harbor upgrades took the largest share at 565M $CHEF, followed by barracks at 392M, troops at 366M, and ports at 182M. Tycoons put more into their home base than into anything else.

The Tycoons found the meta on their own

We did not assign a best route. One emerged anyway.

Istanbul and cfMILK accounted for 862 shipments, 47% of everything that moved this month. Valletta and cfCHILI followed at 323. Six port-and-cargo pairings carried 1,534 shipments between them, 84% of all cargo. Every voyage sails from Athens, and nearly half of this month’s cargo went east.

The route choices were stranger. 86% of voyages hugged the coast, which is the safe read and the expected one. But the pirate route drew 9% of traffic, while the open ocean drew 5%. Given three lanes, Tycoons took the safest one most often and the most dangerous one second.

That showed up in the battle log: 611 battles out of 1,832 voyages, so one voyage in three ran into pirates.

Still day one

A month of sailing, and this is still the opening chapter.

The game you are playing now is not the one that launched. Tycoons told us what was confusing, what felt thin, and what was worth building on, and we shipped against that list week after week. The strategy has more depth in it than it did on June 23, and that came from the people playing it.

Month two

The game is settling into its footing, and month two moves faster.

Guilds and raids are coming, along with other content that adds depth to the strategy rather than just width to the map. Seville and Lisbon are still uncharted, and the western edge is waiting.

The long-term vision

Make the game good, and keep the $CHEF economy busy. That is the whole of it. Everything we are building is pointed at those two things, because everything else in this world follows from them.

Come sail with us.

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Every Tycoon learns the sea the hard way. The routes that pay, the ports worth building, the pirates worth fighting. Write down what you learned and help the next Tycoon find their footing faster. The best guides win a place in our official wiki, and a share of a 100 USDC prize pool.

How to enter

• Publish your guide on any public platform. Paragraph, X, Farcaster, or YouTube all work.

• Share the link in a Farcaster or X post and mention @gramvoyage.base.eth.

• Submissions open July 22 and close August 5 at 23:59 UTC.

Guide requirements

• At least 300 words. Screenshots, tables, and images are welcome and do not count toward the length.

• Write it yourself, in your own voice.

Topic: your choice

Anything genuinely useful to a fellow Tycoon is fair game. A few directions if you want a starting point:

• Your first week: what you wish you'd known

• Reading the market and planning routes

• Port development and upgrade order

• Handling pirates: BP, troops, and when to sail

• How Uncharted Tycoons connects with chefuniverse.io

Prize pool: 100 USDC

• Top Guide: 30 USDC

• Excellent: 14 USDC each, up to 3 Tycoons

• Helpful: 4 USDC each, up to 7 Tycoons

How winners are chosen

Each guide gets a final score from two parts:

• Team review (40 points): scored on usefulness, accuracy, clarity, and originality.

• Community vote (60 points): in-game voting, open to Tycoons at level 5 and above.

First, the team reviews every entry and removes anything with major errors, copied content, or that reads as machine-generated. Qualified guides then go to the community vote.

Schedule (UTC)

• Aug 5: submissions close

• Aug 7: qualified guides posted, community voting opens (in-game)

• Aug 11: voting closes (5 day window)

• Aug 12: winners announced

Notes

• You can submit more than one guide, but each Tycoon can win one prize.

• If there are fewer entries than prize slots, prizes are awarded from the top down.

• When you vote, choose the guides that are genuinely useful, accurate, and clear, not just the most popular author.

• By entering, you allow us to feature or adapt your guide in our official wiki and guides, with credit.

Not sure where to start? Join other Tycoons in our Telegram to talk routes, markets, and strategy. The best guides often start as a conversation.

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From July 20, 2026 00:00 UTC to July 26, 2026 23:59 UTC, market recovery runs faster for $cfMILK and $cfEGG.

• Where: Any port where you sell them.

• What changes: Market recovery is ×1.5 faster for MILK and ×2 faster for EGG.

How does it work?

Sell the same cargo at the same port over and over, and the price it fetches there starts to drop. That pressure is not permanent. It fades on its own over time, and during this event it fades faster.

There is nothing to opt into. Sell MILK or EGG during the event window, and the faster recovery applies automatically at whichever port you settle.

How to play?

• Load milk or eggs and run your usual route.

• Come back sooner than you normally would, because the port has recovered faster than usual.

• Repeat the run while the window is open.

A Tycoon reads the timing as much as the map. Short routes and quick turnarounds are the play this week, while the sea gives back faster than usual.

Time to set sail.

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v1.1.2 is live. There is now a free gem waiting for you every day, a smaller pack for Tycoons who want to start light, and two fixes that clear up problems some of you ran into this week.

1. Free Gem, once a day

A new banner now sits at the top of the Gem Shop. Watch a short video from one of our partners and claim 1 GEM, once a day. The reset happens at 00:00 UTC.

2. Handful of Gems, a $1 pack

There is now a new entry-level pack in the Gem Shop: 20 GEM for 1 USDC. It uses the same rate as every other GEM pack, but lowers the minimum for Tycoons who want to start small.

3. Other Fixes

• Port Level Up works again
  Level Up would not confirm on any port, even when the trade volume requirement had already been met. Tapping the button simply did nothing. That issue is now fixed, and port upgrades go through as normal again. Nothing was lost while it was broken, and no CHEF was ever charged for a failed upgrade.

• The $CHEF price on the site is live again
  The price shown in the site header and token section was stuck on a fixed number instead of updating with the live chart beside it. Both now read from the same live source as the chart.

4. Why it matters

GEM opens up what a Tycoon can do in a day: more voyages, more spins, and more room to move.

A free gem every day means every Tycoon has a little more to work with, whether or not they spend a thing. And with Port Level Up working again, the ports you have been building are ready to climb again.

Thank you to the Tycoons who reported the Level Up issue. It genuinely helped us pin it down fast. Check the Gem Shop, claim your free gem, and get back to your routes.

Fair winds, Tycoons.

Time to set sail.

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Marco Polo is ready to begin the monthly buyback chosen by Tycoons. In a previous update, we introduced the Buyback Voting system. Now the Fixed Monthly Buyback Protocol begins, and Marco Polo, our onchain agent, is here to execute it.

The exact execution timing will not be publicly announced. Marco Polo will make the call autonomously, using $CHEF from the treasury to buy back Ingredient Tokens. The Ingredient Tokens bought back through this process are locked in their bonding curve permanently.

June Buyback Pick: $cfAVOCADO

$cfAVOCADO won the June Buyback Vote, and Marco Polo will act accordingly. In Uncharted Tycoons, Avocado can be traded at:

• Marseille (port Lv 2)

• Genoa (Lv 3)

• Seville (Lv 3)

• Naples (Lv 8)

The vote for next month’s token is open now at The Bazaar, and the current leading Ingredient Token is $cfTRUFFLE.

current leading ingredeint is $cfTRUFFLE. Is that the one you want? Otherwise start trading and collect the ticket to vote for your strategy.

How the Monthly Pick Is Decided

This is simple. 100% by the community, through the Buyback Vote available on The Bazaar. This is how to join:

• Trade at least 1,000,000 $CHEF in a single UTC day

• One vote ticket becomes available to claim

• Use that ticket to vote (1 ticket = 1 vote)

• Tickets add up across the month and are fixed at the end of the voting period

One thing to keep in mind: once you submit a vote, it cannot be taken back. Choose carefully before you commit.

Your activity across Chef Universe can become more than trading volume. Every eligible trade can help you claim vote tickets, and those tickets let Tycoons help choose one monthly buyback token

The Buyback Vote gives active players a direct way to send a community signal into Marco Polo’s monthly buyback process. Your trades already put tickets in your hands. Claim them. Cast your vote. Take part in the next round.

Fair winds, Tycoons.

Time to set sail.

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• Where: Valletta

• What changes: Trade tax at Valletta is 25% lower during the event window.

• Who it's for: Any Tycoon with a route to Valletta.

How does it work?

While the event is live, the trade tax on any sale you settle at Valletta is reduced by 25%. There is nothing to opt into. Settle a sale at Valletta during the event window, and the lower tax applies automatically.

Trade tax is one of the core costs on a sale. It is levied by the port where you settle the trade. A good Tycoon is always judging when a route, a market, and a lower port cost line up.

How to play?

• Unlock Valletta at Tycoon Level 3

• Route cargo to Valletta while the tax cut is active

• Grow Valletta to unlock more trade options

A Tycoon does not wait for the sea to stay still. Watch the window, chart the route, and move your cargo through Valletta while the tax cut is live.

Time to set sail.

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Tycoons Arena Season 3 rewards are ready. Your actions in The Bazaar and Uncharted Tycoons automatically contribute to your ranking on the Tycoons Arena leaderboard.

And remember: Tycoons Arena is a monthly event. If you are not satisfied with where you landed in June, July is already your next chance to climb higher in Season 4.

If you are new to Tycoons Arena, here is everything you need to know.

1. Your Trades Already Counted

Tycoons Arena measures monthly Ingredient Token trading activity in $CHEF volume across Chef Universe.

• For The Bazaar, eligible trades count toward your Tycoons Arena standing.

• For Uncharted Tycoons, eligible Ingredient Token buys count toward your Tycoons Arena standing.

The calculation works a little differently across each surface, but the idea is simple: activity across the CHEF ecosystem can help build your place on the Arena board.

2. Tycoons Arena Season 3 Prize Pool

Tycoons Arena Season 3 ran from June 1 to June 30, and the reward pool is split across two main leaderboards:

• Global Ranking: 22,500,000 $CHEF

• Token Rankings: 13,432,069.50 $CHEF (about 433,292 $CHEF per token)

3. How to Claim

• Go to the Tycoons Arena page on Chef Universe.

• If you are eligible, the Claim button will be available from July 10 at 00:00 UTC.

• Claim before the window closes on July 15 at 23:59 UTC.

4. Why It Matters

Chef Universe does not move on its own. Every trade in The Bazaar, every cargo decision in Uncharted Tycoons, and every voyage sent helps create activity across the ecosystem.

That activity is what gives Chef Univers its motion. Tycoons Arena is how we recognize the players who help create that motion month after month. A part of the value created through ecosystem activity is returned to Tycoons through the monthly Arena reward pool.

It is our way of saying your actions matter, your trades matter, your voyages matter.

Season 3 is ready to claim. Season 4 is already another chance to climb. Check your placement, claim if eligible, and keep building your position.

Fair winds, Tycoons.

Time to set sail.

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v1.1.1 is here with a new reason to check in every day. Pirates may still take cargo during voyages, but now part of that plunder returns to the player economy through Pirate’s Slot: a daily spin where Tycoons can claim Ingredient Tokens or WHEAT fuel for the next voyage.

Here’s what’s new.

1. Pirate’s Slot

Pirate’s Slot is a new daily spin built from cargo plundered by pirates during voyages. Every Tycoon gets one free spin per day. The free spin resets at 00:00 UTC, and you can hold up to 5 spins at once. So if you miss a day, you still have room to come back and use stored spins.

The slot has three win levels:

• YOU WIN

• NICE WIN

• BIG WIN

Land 1, 2, or 3 matches to claim Ingredient Tokens onchain. And there are no empty spins. If you miss the matches, you still receive a WHEAT BONUS: 15K WHEAT fuel for your next voyage.

Pirates may take from the sea, but Pirate’s Slot gives part of that flow back to the Tycoons who keep sailing.

2. More Spins from Playing

Your daily free spin is only the start. You can also earn extra spins through play. For example, 3-star voyages and pirate quests can grant additional Pirate’s Slot spins.

In other words: sail more, clear more, spin more.

These extra spins can carry you past the daily free-spin cap, so active Tycoons have more chances to spin by sailing well and clearing pirate-related objectives.

3. Why It Matters

Pirate’s Slot gives the pirate economy a new loop. Pirate encounters are still a risk. Cargo can still be plundered.

But now, part of that plundered flow returns through a shared daily mechanic that gives every Tycoon another reason to come back, spin, and prepare the next voyage.

Take your daily spin. Claim what the pirates gave back. Fuel your next run.

Fair winds, Tycoons.

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v1.1.0 is here, and it gives you a reason to return to the ports you know best. Clear pirates from their waters, build your standing with each port, and strengthen your position there over time.

Here’s what’s new.

1. Port Affinity

Every port now has a Port Affinity heart gauge. You can earn up to 3 hearts from each port, and each heart gives you +1% Trade Premium there, up to a maximum of +3%.

Port Affinity unlocks once a port reaches Level 2. You begin with no hearts. To earn them, you need to show your value to that port in two main ways:

• Upgrade the port. Each upgrade grants one heart, up to three.

• Answer the Port Master’s Pirate Purge call and win.

In other words, hearts are not given for free. They are a mark of the trust you earn from a port by helping it grow and keeping its waters clear.

Hearts do not last forever. One heart fades every 24 hours, so Affinity has to be maintained. Earn it again with a port upgrade or another Pirate Purge victory to reset the timer and hold your standing there.

2. Pirate Purge Battles

Pirate Purge is a new way to prove yourself to nearby ports. Each Port Master calls on you to clear raiders from their waters. In return, a victory earns you a heart with that port.

When you accept the call, you prepare your troops based on the pirates’ Battle Power and Troops Composition. Once you are ready, send them into battle and watch the fight play out. If you win, you earn a heart with that port. If you lose, the troops you sent are lost.

It uses the same tactical judgment you already rely on at sea, now turned toward a fight the port asks you to take.

3. Other Changes

• Tip with a Message
  Tipping is now a little more personal. When you tip another Tycoon, you can choose a preset message to send with it, and they will see it on their end. A quick “gm” or “Fair winds” goes a long way, and more preset messages unlock as your Tycoon Level rises.

• Mileage System Ends
  The Mileage system is being retired. You can still claim your current Mileage gauge as usual, but once you do, Mileage no longer accrues. If you still have Mileage to claim, settle it while the gauge is still there.

With these changes, your voyages will ask more of you. Pick a port worth building ties with. Answer the Port Master’s call. Turn a familiar harbor into one that rewards the standing you build over time.

The waters will not clear themselves.

Fair winds, Tycoons.

Time to set sail.

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• Where: Valletta

• What changes: Trade tax at Valletta is 25% lower during the event window.

• Who it's for: Any Tycoon with a route to Valletta.

How does it work?

While the event is live, the trade tax on any sale you settle at Valletta is reduced by 25%. There is nothing to opt into. Settle a sale at Valletta during the event window, and the lower tax applies automatically.

Trade tax is one of the core costs on a sale. It is levied by the port where you settle the trade. A good Tycoon is always judging when a route, a market, and a lower port cost line up.

How to play?

• Unlock Valletta at Tycoon Level 3

• Route cargo to Valletta while the tax cut is active

• Grow Valletta to unlock more trade options

A Tycoon does not wait for the sea to stay still. Watch the window, chart the route, and move your cargo through Valletta while the tax cut is live.

Time to set sail.

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Hey Tycoons — v1.0.5 just landed with one change that makes a real difference at sea: you can now read any fight before you commit to it.

Pirate Level

Every pirate on every route now shows a Pirate Level right beside their name — something like "Petty Raiders Lv.14".

The number isn't a pirate's strength in a vacuum. It's their strength measured against you. One glance tells you whether a route is a quiet milk run or a real scrap, so you can decide how much crew to bring before you ever set sail.

• Where to see it — in Voyage Prep and during the battle itself, right beside the pirate's name and BP.

• Why it moves — as your Tycoon Level climbs, the pirates on your routes climb with you. The level updates to match, so a route that felt easy last week can quietly turn into a challenge. Now you'll see it coming.

Chart your course

The sea doesn't stand still, and now neither does your read on it. Open Voyage Prep, glance at the Pirate Level, and bring the right crew for the fight ahead.

Fair winds, Tycoons.

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Your Tycoon life continues through daily actions, social visits, quests, mileage, referrals, and crew building. You do not need to optimize everything from day one.

Start with the daily play loop.

Why Daily Play Matters

Uncharted Tycoons is not only about one big voyage. Progress comes from repeated decisions. Each day gives you new reasons to return, check your map, complete quests, visit other Tycoons, and prepare your crew for the next voyage.

Daily play helps you:

• Learn the market loop

• Build resources over time

• Complete guided objectives

• Collect GEM from quests

• Receive tickets for Crew Gacha

• Grow your Tycoon identity

Small actions add up.

Daily Quests

Daily Quests give you simple goals to complete each day. They are designed to help you keep moving through the core game loop.

Daily Quest objectives include:

• Trade

• Complete voyages

• Win voyages

Each Daily Quest grants GEM when completed. GEM is an in-game acceleration resource. It can be used to complete certain wait times faster, such as upgrades or production queues.

If you are not sure what to do next, check your Daily Quests first. They are the easiest way to turn one more action into progress.

Tip Friends And Get Crew Gacha Tickets

Uncharted Tycoons also includes a social loop. You can visit other Tycoons, view their map, and send tips. Tips work like a lightweight social action. No actual assets need to be sent. You can also request tips by sharing your tip link on social.

When your tip ring reaches 10, you can claim a Crew Gacha ticket. That ticket can be used to roll for crew. Crew Gacha may reward different crew types and quantities.

Crew types include:

• Sailor

• Swordsman

• Musketeer

• Marine

After rolling, the crew you receive is added to your barracks. Crew Gacha is not just a side feature. It is part of how you prepare for the sea.

Visit other Tycoons. Send tips. Help the fleet grow.

Extra Gem Claim

Want more ways to claim GEM? There are two core systems to watch: Mileage and Referral.

1) Mileage System

Every voyage to another port gives you mileage points. For example, Istanbul gives 11 points, while Lisbon gives 57 points. The farther you sail from your base in Athens, the more mileage points you receive per voyage. Once you reach 300 points, you can claim 200 GEM. After claiming, the gauge resets and you can start collecting points again.

2) Referral System

Every Tycoon you invite gives you 1 point. If the invited Tycoon trades more than 1M worth of $CHEF in the game, you receive an extra 10 points. Once you reach 200 points, you can claim 200 GEM. After claiming, the gauge resets and you can start collecting points again.

Your daily loop is simple:

1. Complete all 3 daiily quest

2. Tip your friends and request tips on social

3. Keep sailing to fill your Mileage gauge and claim GEM

4. Keep inviting new Tycoons to fill your Referral gauge and claim GEM

5. Use Crew Gacha tickets to build your crew

You do not need to do everything at once. Everything takes time to become something great. Your Tycoon life does not stop after the first voyage.

Keep the daily loop going.
Build your crew.
Prepare the next route.

Play like a gamer. Think like a trader.

Uncharted Tycoons is now live. We built Uncharted Tycoons around one belief: games can make onchain trading easier to understand, more intuitive to play, and more exciting to master. Traders already understand timing, risk, liquidity, and conviction. Non-traders often see the same market behavior as cold, technical, or hard to enter.

Uncharted Tycoons brings both worlds together by turning trading into gameplay. This is an onchain maritime trading strategy game where you choose cargo, prepare resources, select routes, manage risk, and build your name as a Tycoon.

Play like a gamer. Think like a trader.

In Uncharted Tycoons, every voyage is a strategic decision. You will:

• Choose cargo

• Prepare resources

• Select a route

• Manage risk

• Reach ports

• Grow your Tycoon identity

You are not just looking at charts. You are making market decisions through game mechanics: cargo, ports, taxes, route risk, timing, and resource management.

What To Do First

If this is your first time entering Uncharted Tycoons, start here:

1. Connect your wallet.

2. Claim your eligible launch rewards.

3. Start Beginner’s Path.

4. Prepare cargo and resources.

5. Choose your route.

6. Set sail.

The game is simple to enter, but deep enough for players who want to think like traders.

Read The Route Before You Sail

Every voyage starts with a decision. Before you depart, the route view shows three key numbers:

• Base Profit Rate

• Tax Rate

• Net Profit Rate

Take Istanbul as an example. In the screenshot, cfMILK and cfTOMATO are both Grade C Ingredients, so they share the same Base Profit Rate. Istanbul shows a 15.7% Base Profit Rate for this cargo grade. After Istanbul’s 8% Tax Rate is applied, the displayed Net Profit Rate becomes 6.5%.

This is the kind of decision Uncharted Tycoons is built around. You are not just clicking a button. You are reading the route before you commit. You can find more detailed stats in our wiki.

Departure is commitment. Unloading is settlement. The market can move while your fleet is still at sea, so every voyage is a timing decision.

Claim Your Launch Rewards

If you pre-registered before launch, check your eligible launch rewards before your first voyage. Launch rewards may include:

• Gem Pass rewards (Gem)

• Pre-registration rewards (cfWHEAT & CHEF)

• Referral rewards (CHEF)

• Collab event rewards (CHEF)

If your wallet is eligible, the claim option will appear in-game. Some rewards may require an onchain claim transaction on Base. Make sure you are connected with the same wallet you used for pre-registration, Gem Pass, referral, or campaign participation. If no claim option appears, your wallet is not included in the eligible reward list.

Blend in through Beginner’s Path

Not sure where to begin? Start with Beginner’s Path. Beginner’s Path is a guided set of early actions that helps you understand the basic flow of the game. It teaches you:

• How to prepare for a voyage

• How cargo works

• How routes work

• How resources are used

• How to make your first moves as a Tycoon

Complete Beginner’s Path before trying to optimize too much. Your first goal is simple: understand the voyage loop.

Launch Events Coming Up

When Uncharted Tycoons goes live, early Tycoons will start with launch boost events. The first week is the best time to build momentum.

1) 1.5x XP Boost

For the first 7 days after launch, all XP gain is boosted by 1.5x. Use this window to progress through Beginner’s Path, level up faster, and unlock more of the game during the first week.

2) Tomato Recovery Boost

For the first 3 days after launch, Tomato market recovery will be boosted by 1.5x. This gives early players a focused market to watch, test, and revisit while learning how port conditions change over time.

Both launch events are limited-time live ops. They are designed to help new players level up, test routes, and understand the market loop while the Mediterranean is still fresh. Don’t miss the boosts.

FAQ

• What is GEM?
  GEM is an in-game acceleration resource. It can be used to complete certain wait times faster.

• What is $CHEF used for?
  $CHEF is the shared ecosystem currency used across Chef Universe and Uncharted Tycoons.

• What is Beginner’s Path?
  Beginner’s Path is the early guided flow for new players. It helps you learn what to do before and during your first voyage.

• Are launch events permanent?
  No. Launch events are limited-time live operations. Check the in-game notice for current event periods and details.

Uncharted Tycoons is live.

Your trading experience now moves across the Mediterranean.

Claim your rewards.
Start Beginner’s Path.
Prepare your first voyage.

Play like a gamer. Think like a trader.