Fanton
Fanton is a blockchain-based fantasy football game that runs on TON (The Open Network) blockchain platform. It allows users to build and manage their own virtual football teams composed of professional players from around the world.
Fanton was founded in 2022 by Eldar Khayretdinov, Vadim Kostomarov-Sterlin, and Alexey Frolagin. The three co-founders have extensive experience in the gaming and technology industries. Prior to Fanton, they managed a gamification platform with over 50M MAU. They have also worked at major technology firms like Goldman Sachs. Fanton has raised from investors including Yolo Investments, Existential Capital, First Stage Labs, and TON Starter.
Gameplay Dynamics
At its core, Fanton gameplay revolves around constructing a team of professionally contracted footballers represented as NFTs. Users acquire these unique player NFTs by spending Toncoin, the native cryptocurrency of TON. Fanton covers players from over 30 football leagues globally.
With their NFT player roster assembled, managers can construct teams, determining tactics, formations and starting lineups. Successful team performances are rewarded with Toncoin payouts, incentivizing strategic team building and management. A user's earnings potential increases the stronger their selections and in-game decisions.
How to get started
- Visit the website of the Fanton Game then click on the play now or directly search FanTonGameBot on Telegram.
- The above step will redirect to Telegram Bot and now click on the play button on Bot.
- Next step is to connect wallet from your Telegram wallet or any other (TON Keeper).
- Now you can participate in tournaments by buying NFT’s and winning prizes or simply participating in free tournaments.
- In the free tournament make your team and then after results see what prizes you got.
$FNTF
Total supply = 500M tokens
$FNTF token is distributed across various allocations to fund and incentivize different facets to the ecosystem. A portion of 6% was allocated in a pre-seed round to finance the starting stage of the project's expansion. This was followed by a seed round allocation of 7% to raise further capital for continued development milestones. A public sale of 1.5% of tokens was held to allow more community participation.
The largest segment of 25% is assigned for a play-to-earn rewards pool, providing tokens as incentives for users to actively participate through gameplay. Another 5% was devoted to the advisory board, giving the project with industry expertise and guidance. Founders behind Fanton received 17.5% of tokens to ensure proper resourcing and alignment of incentives.
Additionally, 23% is designated to an ecosystem treasury and liquidity pool to facilitate growth, partnerships, and maintaining healthy market liquidity. The remaining 15% facilitates promotional campaigns, community events, partnerships, and other efforts aimed at driving widespread adoption of the platform.
Token Utility
Within the Fanton ecosystem, the $FNTF token has several uses:
- Entry Fees: $FNTF tokens can be paid as entry fees for participating in special tournaments and competitive leagues on the platform. Generally, higher $FNTF entry fees correspond to larger potential reward pools.
- Tournament Rewards: Users who perform well in tournaments and leagues by achieving high ranks or winning are rewarded with $FNTF token payouts. The better a user's team performs, the larger their share of the token reward pool.
- Staking: Fanton allows users to stake their $FNTF tokens in order to earn additional token rewards over time. Staking helps secure the network while earning stakers a passive income.
- Loot Boxes: Users can spend $FNTF to purchase randomized loot boxes containing NFT player cards, power-ups, and other in-game assets and boosts.
- Token Demand: As the user base of Fanton grows and more users require $FNTF for entry fees, staking and purchases, the increasing demand for the token on exchanges could lead to appreciation in its market value over time.
NFT
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) represent special cards that users can collect and utilize to create their own fantasy football teams. NFT player cards come in different levels and rarities, which determine their value and market worth within the game. Card rankings are determined by a blend of real-life factors including market value, team affiliations, age, and national ranking. Higher levels represent the exceptional power of cards in the game. These NFT player cards can be purchased from Getgems.
Rarer cards carry higher point multipliers, incentivizing users to acquire them for competitive advantages. Legendary cards provide the maximum 2x point multiplier boost.
This level and rarity system will create an economy of scarcity, with rarer cards being more coveted and holding greater value for both utility and collectibility purposes. Users must strategically curate their card collections, balancing roster needs with asset valuations. Obtaining powerful rare and epic NFT cards is key to fielding highly competitive fantasy teams.
Fanton in The Open League
Fanton has taken part in the pilot season of The Open League, a program that supports projects building on TON blockchain, where users had to pass a quiz to receive a SBT granting them early access and scoring a rank in these quests helps users to improve reputation in community.
There are the tasks of following the Telegram channels, connecting the wallet and participating in the tournaments.