⭐ Overview
What is The Old Castle Defense?
The Old Castle Defense is a GameFi & DEFI platform with short-term, high-yield $DEGEN & NFT staking system. Staking occurs during the game(Siege). By upgrading NFTs (free to play to earn) and staking $DEGEN, users increase their Faction's attack, with all funds pooled into the Faction's Treasury. NFT - free to play to earn. The faction with the highest attack wins Battles and the Siege. Victorious users reclaim their staked funds and share the defeated Faction's treasury among themselves.
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The winning Faction wins the treasury of the losing team. Winning Faction Treasury refunds back to Investors with rewards.
- The game doesn't have timing. It's the on-chain game - it has blocks, where 1 block ≈ 2 sec;
- The Old Castle Defense is completely decentralized. This means that users control the game themselves: they start a new battle, confirm the NFT upgrade, or end the game by sending rewards to the winners by clicking the "Unstake & Claim" button.
- $SPH: Game Utility token;
- $DEGEN: Treasury token on Base Blockchain;
- Warrior: Any user that owns an NFT from Terrible Creatures or Knights of the Kingdom NFT collections.
- Factions: Opposing sides: the Terrible Creatures versus the Knights of the Kingdom;
- Investor: Any user who has not staked an NFT, but has staked $DEGEN on either one or both factions during the game. If the investor wins, the investor receives a reward, and all invested DEGEN is returned to the winning team;
- The Siege: The length of each entire game, approximately lasting undefined blocks;
- Battle: A game event that takes place every undefined blocks;
- Blocks: 1 block-time ~ 2 seconds. You can track blocks by the block explorer;