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@PirateNation Alright we're getting somewhere now...

Proof of Play exists because of you, our earliest and strongest supporters. We’re determined to make sure you’re at the heart of this journey going forward. While our approach is shifting, we’ve always taken a long-term view and are committed to our mission of onboarding millions of people to web3 through fun, innovative products. First, we hear you loud and clear, we fumbled the Founder's Pirate sunset. We miscalculated how to maintain long-term alignment with Proof of Play and the attachment holders had to their Founder’s Pirates. We are going to make some changes to bridge the divide. Regarding the distribution, there are constraints on the amount of $PIRATE that could be given out. The community bucket for Pirate Nation only had ~90.7M tokens in it. That amount needed to be split between several groups (Founder’s NFTs, plunder event rewards, staking incentives, and future rewards). Founder’s NFTs were allocated 20M of the 90.7M which is around 22% of the total amount available. Despite the limitations, we believe there are ways to soften the sunset process. Here's the plan: Plunder Event 🔹Increase plunder allocation from 1M to 5M $PIRATE token (5X the amount). Airdropped to those who plundered 1 million or more certificates on the leaderboard so it’s concentrated to the most active players. 1,247 players qualified for these rewards. 🔹These top players will also be eligible to receive Proof of Play Arcade credits and Shiba Story Go Gems. Redemption details to be shared separately. 🔹All plunder holders (not just those that received $PIRATE token) will receive Proof of Play Points to recognize their history within Pirate Nation. Founder's Pirates (FP) 🔹An additional claim pool of 10M $PIRATE will be made available to all FP holders based on a snapshot at time of burn announcement. Will utilize the same rarity algorithm as the burn claim to determine amount per FP. 🔹Granting Proof of Play Points (quantity of FPs and rarity taken into account) to further align holders with future efforts. 🔹We’re planning on using the past 3 months of NFT royalties on strategic $PIRATE buybacks. 🔹For FP holders that asked for new game benefits, we will also be making Arcade Credits and Shiba Story Go Gems available to FP holders. Redemption details to be shared separately. 🔹Final $PIRATE claim, PoP points and new game benefits will be granted based on a snapshot at the time FP burn was announced to ensure all previous holders benefit. 🔹New Discord role for anyone that burned a FP so that they retain community status going forward. 🔹The collection remains a purely collectible, tradeable PFP. Additional Key Points 🔹Proof of Play has no plans to launch another token; the only ticker is $PIRATE. 🔹Even though unlocks started in July, neither team nor investors have sold (or hedged) $PIRATE or any of the treasury NFTs so far. 🔹We’re considering open market purchases of $PIRATE to restock our supplies. 🔹Proof of Play Arcade has already generated $500K of revenue in the last 2 months and is growing. We've also recently added $PIRATE sinks to the Arcade.. 🔹We still view Proof of Play points as being aligned with our future. However, we are evaluating several options and do not have concrete plans yet to share regarding how points will play out. 🔹We will make these rewards available as soon as possible and will have separate announcements once they go live. === As we end this chapter, it’s important that we set out a clear vision for where Proof of Play is going and why we’re fired-up about the future: 🔹Our veteran team has been building for years together, knows how to rapidly ship and live-operate products, has continually overcome impossible technical hurdles, and has deep conviction in what we have cooking. 🔹Our new mobile game is ambitious, looks great, has early testers excited, and is in a category of games that do $100M+/yr in revenue. It will also be the first mobile game in our portfolio to incorporate our new invisible and frictionless marketplace service. 🔹We have a superpower with our marketplace API, it allows us to add DeFi revenue streams to any mobile game or app via trading fees and stablecoin yield. We support settlement on any chain and are already launched on our first chain, BASE, and are expanding to others. 🔹There are multiple ways to generate protocol revenue tied to usage of these products -- fees on marketplace volume, yield from stablecoins, onramp/offramp fees, additional DeFi services (such as swapping) within the in-app wallets we create. 🔹In addition to B2C revenue from our first-party games, we earn B2B revenue streams from developer partners that utilize our payment frameworks. 🔹Recent developments in stablecoin legislation and changes in mobile app store rules enable new types of commerce in mobile apps that were simply not possible before. These are tailwinds for our strategy. 🔹Our new products have no strategic baggage – fully onchain games were always a risk, we gave it a go, it didn’t work out so we pivoted. We know our new products have a clear market and can make money because we’re targeting the $94B+ mobile gaming market made up of 2 billion players. Simply put: instead of trying to bring games to web3, we’re bringing web3 to games. Ultimately, we remain firm believers in the potential of the decentralized internet. Our goal to accelerate the adoption of web3 by onboarding millions of people remains unchanged. We plan on doing that through a suite of practical stablecoin-based features (P2P marketplaces, onchain settled payments, and stablecoin-generated yield) that can be adopted by any application, gaming or otherwise – starting with our own products. For third-party developers the pitch is simple: We make it easy for you to integrate cheap stablecoin-based payments and marketplaces in your products. This enables new revenue streams while lowering the fees on your existing transactions through invisible blockchain rails, no prior crypto knowledge required. We see these advantages as disruptive to multiple industries. Once one company adopts it, all their peers will need to as well to remain competitive on pricing and monetization. While it is important to note we won't reach our full potential overnight – the plan is bold and we’re builders at heart that are locked-in for the long-term to win. We’ve never been more bullish on our future and invite you to ride along with us for this new chapter – the ticker is $PIRATE.

@oneshotakr !howl

One of the best games to ever bless the web3 space is about to drop very soon. And nobody is ready for it. Very soon 🫡

@fluffyonEth @Jakeronthia_ Check @PirateNation by @ProofOfPlay, there you have infra tech and web3 gaming fully onchain and penguin I tell ya, they are not gonna disappoint. #anewhope

@Jakeronthia_ This was my only and last hope in Web3 gaming.... No losses on my end but huge unrealised gains (my fault for believing)

Revolving Games officially scammed his community and investors. By running a node you need to spend more than you could gain. Hatch V2 is not coming War of Nova is not launching No buybacks No statements by the team Radio silence. Another L for gaming community.

@0xSweep How do you not have any @PirateNation? 🫣

Current nft bag: 42x Punks 76x BAYC 261x MAYC 919x Taiyo 60x Degods 103x y00ts 783x Pudgy 105x Kennels 1500x Doginals 27× Azuki 181x Goblin 55x Puppets 5x Remilioz 44x Doodles 23x Mad Lads 5x Clone X 9x Milady 17x World of Women Feeling underexposed, what should I buy?

You pirates ready? We set sail this Thursday. Find us on stream with @opensea.

@opensea @PirateNation Time to set sail on the @opensea , yaaarghh

yo ho, yo ho 🏴‍☠️ a pirate’s life for me new pfp by pirate nation

@0xWave @djDriverless Only real question I have which has most upside. FP or token... Which is most undervalued

I think the simple thesis is that the team is smart and knows that rewarding their supporters and advocates is what will make their eventual PoP launch a greater success Them becoming deep in infra tech is basically the most bullish play we could see. Blockchain infra always gets outsized valuation, and I see it as incredibly unlikely that FP/$PIRATE won't take part in that upside It's much less to me about the specific game PN, although I do hope that grows and sustains

@djDriverless @0xWave Agree with this take

@0xWave thanks, basically agree with you here, its always been then bulding blocks of PN, not PN itself (although i play it for an hour everyday) just wish there was a more coreographed way to direct my energy into PoP

@ProofOfPlay Yo what is this

Proof of Play Arcade - exclusively on Abstract - coming 07.??.2025

@PirateNation 👀

Proof of Play Arcade - exclusively on Abstract - coming 07.??.2025

AGENTIC NPCs WITH CRYPTO WALLETS IN GAMES, APPS AND BROWSERS: WELCOME TO THE YOUMIO PROMISE @youmio_ai has been one of my favorite and most interesting investments I've made. I've been bag holding the ecosystem genesis NFTs for 2 years and I went in on the private sale. So it's certainly been a long hold here and at times a frustrating one. But maybe every destination worth finding should be a hard road to walk. Now I've seen my NFTs bags swing up and down, yet I've only been adding to my positions during dips. As you see, I've been collecting as many "Seed Points" as possibly by staking the NFTs (~43 Ancient Seeds, 243 Mythic Seeds). Here's my Proof of Bags so you know I'm not larping. Initially YOUMIO was marketed solely as just a game, a sort of AI-enabled web3 version of The Sims. But this was only the starter vision. The team built a lot of novel AI tech, tech that can be used for more than just a single gaming experience. In fact you can build an entire multiverse of agentic experiences, all powered by YOUMIO's infra (and tied to presumably an upcoming token). @youmio_ai really is unique in that it's not just an application, not just 'a game' but rather novel AI infra that just uses gaming as one of the many applications. And I think the market is now starting to see this is a technology company building novel infra, NOT just a gaming studio. The company is just starting to warm up their marketing and 'sell' the vision of what they have been building. So far YOUMIO has announced: - L1 AVAX chain (infra) - YOUMIO AGENTS (application infra) - YOUMIO WORLDs (game) On the launchpad side, we've seen a number of them come and go (@virtuals_io being the standout success, though what real AI applications that have come out of these projects have been disappointing and mostly scams), but we certainly have seen NOTHING like what YOUMIO is cooking up. Easily launching 3D agents out that are web3 enabled but can live and exist across different game engines and even in your browser. There are a lot of potential applications here with this. These agents can move seamlessly across diverse digital environments, gaming worlds, and applications (including live within your browser). They are web3 enabled and now due to the L1 chain on AVAX will be able to store state and evolve with each interaction. Next level cool. I for one, see a low hanging use case here with some of these agents living as agentic gaming NPCs, engine agnostic, able to exist and evolve across multiple gaming worlds at the same time, equipped with cryptographic wallets. NPCs who can interact with crypto in and out of game worlds onchain via the Layer1. Like how fucking cool is that? I'll give a few thoughts on the ecosystem as an investment in the next section. Keep in mind I'm probably the biggest NFT holder here so I have my biases. But I legit believe in this team and the product/infra they are building. Over the past 2 years, through market downs and ups and downs, there are only two gaming infra plays I have sized into, continue to size into, and happily holding: @ProofOfPlay and @youmio_ai.

@graildoteth @PirateNationFDN @icobeast @ProofOfPlay Best team to do it. Compare their TGE with other gaming tokens (ehrrmm RG cough cough). @ProofOfPlay is on another lvl

Goated move by @PirateNationFDN taking @icobeast onboard to help crank up the volume about @ProofOfPlay as things progress towards some sort of public launch of the platform ($POP?) I'm GLAD the team are now starting to aggressively push the ProofofPlay narrative. If you have not yet heard about ProofofPlay then maybe it's time to start paying attention. "Proof" is used everywhere by all the onchain games that matter like @onchainheroes @playgigaverse @PirateNation to power all randomization. Every single roll, or flip, or move is powered by Proof's Verifiable Random Function (VRF) generator. If you play any of the Abstract games, you are using Proof's tech with every move. "Proof" is turning into THE infra layer powering onchain gaming, but it also can do so much more beyond just being a BETTER random number generator (which by the way is a big fucking deal) than any of the alternatives. This is not a gaming token or an app, it's infrastructure and with the ability to offer better and cheaper alternatives to major blockchain infra offerings compared to the likes of Chainlink. WHAT ProofofPlay can do for blockchains and apps is the narrative that the PirateNations team needs to start selling in earnest, because few people know yet. But with the ICObeast move, I think that's going to change, and change quickly. On the investor side for undervalued bets, I think grabbing $Pirate to get access to what Proof of Play is doing is a good mid to long term bet here. It's one of the few gaming projects still shipping with some sort of PMF, and it's directly tied to a much bigger, much more important infra layer that can service needs beyond just gaming. The PirateNation eco has been bashed down hard over the past 12 months, yet at the same time the infra powering the game (ProofofPlay) has only been gaining more and more usage as widely used platform. Only the market has not been able to adequately price this in given it's been masked by the game the team have been shipping out (PirateNations). But PirateNations is, imo, the sandbox used to build and optimize ProofOfPlay. The only way you can get access to a potential $POP token (and the infra) is by staking $PIRATE for PoP points or/and loading up on assets in the pirate ecosystem (Pirate NFTs) which will certainly be given some stake in the Poof eco. Been a long time since I shouted out PirateNations, but I have a lot of respect for the team who consistently and stubbornly have been shipping product at both the game and infra level. Where other teams have given up, this team has only been shipping and shipping. I expect a lot of big moves on the gaming side too with some key PirateNation expansions to find some big PMFs. Personally, I have been staking all of my $PIRATE for close to 2 years now. This is my 'seed' investment into ProofofPlay. I'm down $ on my early by (I doubled down my token bags at .18-.20c early 2024) with the rest of the token holders who bought in early...but I'm certainly rich in PoP points. I'll be closely following where things go with ProofOfPlay. Big moves yield big things.

@icobeast moon that

Gm friends I’ve breadcrumbed everyone long enough - it’s time. Beyond excited to finally announce that I’ve joined Proof of Play as their Mindshare Lead (totally not made up, extremely serious job title). I’ve been friendly with PoP for quite a while, and I can only describe the opportunity as serendipity. Big things are happening at the company and they needed someone to help tell the Proof of Play story. I was looking for an exciting new challenge and crypto is one of my favorite things of all time - it’s my dream job. It just makes sense. I won’t lie, I find it very funny that I literally didn’t submit a résumé to them…a CT account and a dream is all you need. So what does it practically mean for you - my incredible audience? Honestly - not a ton changes. I’m still going to be sharing what I’m doing in crypto and talking about what I think is interesting and valuable and trying new stuff and hopefully making money (for me and for you guys). But now I get to intentionally spotlight a great company building a sustainable, real business utilizing the financial unlocks that crypto provides. And that’s part of why this role makes so much sense - I believe in what Proof of Play is building. I believe in the people. I believe in the vision and direction. And I’m really excited to help you all get there. The goal is to have “Powered by Proof of Play” plastered on every app - crypto and not-crypto and for you guys to question why your favorite apps *aren’t* using the services and tools we build. It’s ambitious - and that’s exciting. So - you’ll see some more targeted articles and posts from me about what the company is doing and the way we’re approaching onchain services, games, token design, and a bunch of other bits and pieces. I’ll also be helping architect the comms strategies and overall company narrative. You can be confident that I believe in what we’re doing…or I wouldn’t have signed on. I’m excited to tell the story and help you all see the vision as well. A huge thanks to the team for seeing and valuing my skillset and abilities and recognizing that I can be effective in this role while engaging with the broader CT discourse. I’m of the opinion that it’s *impossible* to be effectively banner carry for a crypto company without being deeply immersed in the culture, vibes, and conversation, and they’re willing to let me prove that out. I can’t share specifics about what is in the chamber, but I would make sure I’m paying attention. We announced on Monday that we value the PIRATE token, and we're done bleeding it out via broken P2E systems. PoP is here to win, and we’re going to catch a lot of people by surprise. Much luv and moon that. -ico

@PirateNation Next stage of PoP ecosystem? 👀

Infinite Tides Legendary Depths Season 3 is now LIVE! Load up the cannons and hoist the sails for a new Legendary Depths Season! A new terror awaits Pirates with enough mettle to last past 25 Waves 🐢👀 To prepare for the next stage of the Proof of Play ecosystem and maximize $PIRATE utility, this event will not include token rewards.

@boldleonidas The day I'm famous enough to deserve a bold 1/1 🥰

Eventually I want every PFP on CT to be a 1/1 Bold 🤝

@amittm That's my founder!

Competition is the point, it drives us to work harder and think smarter about serving users. Rather than relying on a arbitrary walled-garden moat, you have to be confident in your team, your vision, and your ability to meet the needs of your customers.

I've been waiting for people to steal our games. Our game logic is fully onchain. Anyone can take it, replicate it, and launch a direct competitor.