ed4n takes the familiar open edition mint pay a fee, get an NFT — and adds a live elimination game on top.

You mint. You're alive. Then, every 4 minutes, half the remaining tokens get randomly eliminated by verifiable on‑chain randomness. The last four standing split the prize pool. If your token gets cut, you can buy someone else's "alive" token on any NFT marketplace and jump back in.

It's part survival game, part market for probability, and entirely on‑chain.

you can find a comprehensive paper here(wip);

ed4n (WIP) | Notion

ed4n: The Survival Game for Digital Art

https://miracleotugo.notion.site

How a game plays out

1. An artist creates a game They upload artwork, set a mint fee, and burn some $ed4n tokens to launch. The smart contract locks, and no one can change the rules.

2. You enter Pay the mint fee. You get an NFT. Your artwork shows a green "ALIVE" badge. Of your fee: 45% goes to the artist, 45% goes to the prize pool, and 10% buys back and burns $ed4n.

3. The cuts begin Minting window closes. Now, every 4 minutes, anyone can trigger a cut. Chainlink VRF randomly eliminates roughly half the remaining alive tokens. Your metadata updates instantly — green to red, ALIVE to ELIMINATED.

4. You're not stuck Got eliminated? Go to the secondary market and buy an alive token from someone willing to sell. The closer to the final four, the more expensive those tokens get — but they're always available if you're willing to pay the market price.

5. Four survivors win When only four tokens remain, the game ends. They split the prize pool. Their metadata turns blue "WINNER." The rest become collectors' artifacts of the battle.

$ed4n: the protocol token

To create a game, artists burn $ed4n tokens. The protocol also uses its 10% fee to buy back and burn more $ed4n from the market. Every game, every cut, every prize pool feeds back into the token's scarcity.

$ed4n would be launched by burning token.works Ten Thousand Tokens NFT #1397 — whose on‑chain artwork happens to show an "M" glyph (for Miracle, the creator) that rotates into an "E" (for ed4n).

Why secondary trading changes everything

In a normal raffle, if your ticket loses, you're done. In ed4n, your eliminated token is proof you were here(doesn't get burned just removed from the pool), but your game isn't over. You can buy someone else's alive position.

Sellers get to cash out early rather than risk elimination. Buyers get to re-enter at a price set by the open market. A token with high survival odds costs more. A token one cut away from winning costs a premium.

This creates a live odds market where:

• You can sell early to lock in profit

• You can buy in late at higher cost but higher odds

• You can stack multiple alive tokens to increase your chances

• A wealthy player could buy up the remaining field if the prize pool is big enough

The game doesn't stop at the mint. It runs on the marketplace.

Why ed4n exists

Open editions made art accessible, but they lost urgency. Mint, receive, move on. ed4n gives the format a pulse.

Artists earn immediately and get sustained attention as players return every 4 minutes to watch cuts, trade tokens, and talk about the game. The artwork itself changes state — alive, eliminated, winner; creating a living canvas that evolves with the competition.

Players get more than an NFT. They get a position in a game they can trade, hedge, and strategise around.

The bottom line

ed4n is a bet that art and competition belong together. You mint, you survive, you trade, you watch the cuts, and if you're one of the final four, the prize pool is yours.

No central operator. No hidden rules. Just an open edition, a shrinking field, and a market that never closes.

What Is ITS?

itstheseason.xyz is a card-based game by megatruther(on X) on MegaETH where:

• Players mint booster packs (NFTs)

• Open(burn) them to receive cards (also NFTs)

• Use play(burn) cards to affect the game

• Compete for a epoch(an epoch is usually 20hrs previously used to last for a week) reward pool

Everything happens onchain:

• Packs = NFTs

• Cards = NFTs

• Actions = transactions

The Goal

Every “epoch” usually 20hrs(team has experimented with 1week and hour epoch in the past) : The Top 20 players on the leaderboard split majority of the reward pool and a portion also goes to koth(King of the Hill, thats whoever spends most time at #1). The pool(including koth) is funded mainly by booster pack mints.

How Booster Packs Work

1 pack = 1 NFT

When you:

• Mint a pack(price starts at ~0.001eth) → price increases slightly(~$0.01) for the next buyer

• Open a pack → it is burned

• You receive 5 random cards(random rarity, random card types)

Important:

• as per current game mechanics pack prices are “up only” during minting

Cards Explained

Cards come in 4 rarity levels:

• Common

• Rare

• Epic

• Legendary

Cards also come in 6 card types:

• Growth

• Redistribution

• Aggression

• Destruction or Chaos

• Heal

• Reflect

see images below

card has an effect, for example:

• Add points to yourself

• Steal points from others

• Redistribute points

• Chaos/random effects

Card Types (Simple Guide)

1. Growth: Gives you points (e.g. +2).

How to use it: Use anytime. It’s the safest way to steadily build your score.

2. Aggression

What it does: Takes points from last player and gives them to you.

How to use it: Best used late in the game to steal points and overtake players.

3. Chaos

What it does: 50/50 chance:

• You lose some points

• OR you steal points from the last player.

4. Redistribution

What it does: Takes points from the top player (#1) and gives them to the bottom player.

5. Heal

What it does: Adds point to both you and the last player

6. Reflect(autoplayed)

What it does: Sends an incoming attack(aggression and redistribution) back to the attacker. chaos/destruction attacks can't be reflected.

The points you get or steal or reflect increases by rarity

Getting started

1. sign up on https://itstheseason.xyz/ you can use my ref code D2RR4Z

2. deposit eth on mega and send to your ITS embedded wallet.

3. mint booster packs see videos below

4. play cards to get points( more explanation on what cards do below). need gas to play(You’ll need a small amount of ETH in your embedded wallet to play cards. Keep around 0.006 ETH as a buffer for gas; this won't be used btw actual costs are infinitely lower, but this ensures your transactions go through smoothly)

5. try to top the leaderboard as top 20 win pot or go more aggressive and try to say on top of the leaderboard for longest to win King of the Hill.

6. rinse repeat for the subsequent epoch

How to Earn Points and Win (Leaderboard & Epochs)

Your goal is to earn points and secure a spot on the leaderboard.

• Points: You earn points by using (playing) the cards you have opened.

• Leaderboard: Your points total is displayed at the top left of the game interface.

• Top 20 + KOTH → split the reward pool at epoch end.

• Cards Carry Over: Any unused cards you have at the end of an Epoch will carry over to the next one.

sources and links

• megatruther twitter https://x.com/megatruther

• ITS: https://itstheseason.xyz/ referral code: D2RR4Z

• older article I wrote on ITS: https://x.com/compose/articles/edit/2027699388324143104

• ITS tg; https://t.me/+UQIoB7pviIxjYjFk

• Dune dashboard(WIP): https://dune.com/miracle7/its

• my ref link: https://itstheseason.xyz/?ref=D2RR4Z

Radoff(Jon Radoff, the game design thinker) frames player motivation on two axes (players involved, and reward type) and summarizes four motivation quadrants: Immersion, Achievement, Cooperation, Competition. Using that as the comparison lens is a simple way to break down the major categories of motivation for any game in his book, Game On.

Introduction

Fantasy Premier League (FPL) has long been the entry point for millions of fans who want to translate their football knowledge into competition. It is simple, free to play, and rewards patience, foresight, and tactical planning across a season. Football.Fun, by contrast, is similar to FPL but places the experience on-chain, with real stakes and real money attached to player ownership. To unpack how these two games differ, it’s useful to apply Jon Radoff’s Game Player Motivations framework, which identifies four broad drivers of play: Immersion, Achievement, Cooperation, and Competition.

1) Immersion (stories, roleplay, exploration, emotional / qualitative rewards)

• FPL: Moderate immersion. Managers build narrative around seasons, captain choices, long-term strategy and league banter. The game is stable and supports personal storytelling (“my differential that won the mini-league”).

• Football.Fun: Lower passive immersion but different flavor: ownership + market dynamics create a portfolio identity (you “own” players on-chain). The metagame (trading, packs, market-driven narratives) creates episodic discovery rather than continuous roleplay.

Net: FPL gives steadier, narrative immersion. Football.Fun’s immersion is transactional/collectible and spikes around drops, market drama, and pack openings.

2) Achievement (progress, mastery, measurable skill)

• FPL: Pure achievement design — points, weekly rank, chips, season-long mastery; successful play is primarily football knowledge + fixture management.

• Football.Fun: Dual achievement axis: football skill and market skill. You earn measurable rewards (TP/SP) and Skill Rating based on efficient picks (top-11 scoring players count; top performers get multipliers). So achievement is both on-pitch performance and capital allocation.

Net: FPL = football-only mastery. Football.Fun = layered mastery (football selection + trading/position-sizing).

3) Cooperation (social, shared goals, group creativity)

• FPL: Strong social cooperation off-platform (leagues, friends, social media). The app itself is modestly social (leagues, mini-leagues).

• Football.Fun: Cooperation is functional to growth (referrals, Discord/alpha groups) and can become financial (coordinated buys/hyping). The product’s mechanics include referral/invite systems and community-driven scouting; plus, prize pools grow with platform trading volume, so cooperative promotion helps everyone.

Net: FPL’s cooperation is social/communal. Football.Fun’s cooperation often blends community and economic incentives (helping onboard users increases trading volume & rewards).

4) Competition (scarce resources, leaderboards, direct win/loss)

• FPL: Classic competition via leagues and season tables — zero-sum relative ranking.

• Football.Fun: Heavy competition; tournaments, on-chain leaderboards, and a market where scarcity and share ownership directly determine reward shares. Important mechanics: each winning player’s reward pool is split by active shares (so owning a larger % of a less-owned winner => outsized gains), and trading fees, anti-dump taxes and contract mechanics shape competitive behavior.

Net: Both are competitive, but Football.Fun’s comp includes market competition (liquidity, supply %, timing) on top of on-pitch competition.

Conclusion (what this comparison reveals)

• Motivational breadth: Radoff’s quadrants show Football.Fun activates all four motivations more intensely (achievement + competition + collect/earn incentives + social onboarding), while FPL focuses tighter on immersion and achievement. The result: Football.Fun attracts both football fans and traders/speculators, producing higher volatility but broader motivational hooks.

• Design tradeoffs: Because Football.Fun monetizes play directly (Gold = USDC, trades & packs, TP/SP mechanics), it turns motivations into real money signals — that’s powerful for engagement, but it also invites exploitative behavior (market gaming) that Radoff’s framework doesn’t dichotomize explicitly.

  
  

What I take from this is simple: even if you strip away the market cap conversations or the crypto gloss, Football.Fun still works as a genuinely fun and skill-testing game. I’ve tried to write this with minimal focus on price or volume because the core experience stands on its own. If you’re curious, you can join with my invite 🔗.

Tools to get started:

• Dune: https://dune.com/fookin_no_wan/footballdotfun

• My personal dune dashboard: https://dune.com/miracle7/fdf-terminal

• Opta ranks:https://dataviz.theanalyst.com/opta-points-hub/

• FDF tracker: https://fdftracker.io/footballfun

• FDF companion: https://fdfcompanion.xyz https://pic.x.com/zgvuqUhxJm

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