HoodFrens · Game Rules

How the game works

Trade creator cards. Back the timeline. Compete for ETH.
Game mechanics · updated July 2026

The loop in 20 seconds

  1. Buy creator cards
  2. Hold them at the daily snapshot
  3. Creators rank by their X virality through their Pulse Score, calculated daily by the HoodFrens algorithm
  4. Holders of the winning creators split the ETH pot
  5. Sell whenever you choose

The cards

Every creator has their own tradable card, with a live price determined by a bonding curve.

One mechanic collectors should understand: when cards are sold and supply falls, fewer cards remain to divide that creator’s reward allocation. Fewer cards, fatter rewards when that creator places.

The Pulse Score

Every weekday, each creator earns a Pulse Score from 0 to 100, based on the reach and engagement generated by their X content that day.

Post banger content, score high. Ghost your timeline, score low.

The Daily Race

Back the creators you believe in. Buy, top up or sell at any time. No set-and-forget, no holding lock-up.

Once a day the snapshot fires. Rewards are determined by who holds each creator’s cards at that exact moment. Buy before the snapshot and you are in. Sell before it and you are not.

The creators with the highest Pulse Scores take the reward places. Their holders split the ETH pot in proportion to the number of cards they held at the snapshot.

Winnings arrive automatically in your HoodFrens wallet the following day latest.

The daily pot

PlaceShare of pot
🌟 1st place40% (20% standard + 20% StarFren bonus)
🥈 2nd place20%
🥉 3rd place20%
🥉 4th place20%

Holders of the day’s highest-scoring creator receive a double share. As the creator roster grows, so will the number of paid places.

Daily Races run Monday to Friday. Weekends are for touching grass.

Where the pot comes from

HoodFrens funds its rewards through trading activity.

Selling. A 9.4% fee, divided as follows:

Goes toShare
Prize pool4.5%
The creator3.4%
Your referrer0.5%
Protocol1.0%

Launch-window buys. For the first 30 minutes after a new creator card launches, buys carry a 20% launch fee (10% to the prize pool, 10% to the protocol). This seeds the prize pool while making automated launch sniping expensive.

Normal buys. After the 30-minute launch window, there is no buy fee. Ever.

The treasury rollover

HoodFrens seeds every new creator card with launch inventory held by the protocol treasury. Those cards count toward supply like any other, so when a creator places in the Daily Race, the pot is split across all of that creator’s cards, including the treasury’s.

The treasury never keeps its share. Every reward allocated to treasury-held cards is rolled into future prize pools, stacking tomorrow’s pots higher. No house profit from prizes, ever.

Example: a creator wins a $800 slot and the treasury holds half their cards. Holders split $400 by their share of the cards, and the other $400 rolls forward into upcoming pots.

Treasury inventory is distributed into player hands over time through packs and free rewards, so its slice shrinks every day. The rollover is largest at launch and fades as cards reach the community, until pots pay out almost entirely to players.

Series, waves and why early cards matter

Creators join HoodFrens in waves. Series 1 is the founding roster, with creator cards added directly to the open market. From Series 2 onward, new creators arrive through gacha packs. Rip a pack. See what you pull.

In real-world card collecting, first editions are often the most sought-after. HoodFrens builds that principle directly into the game by giving earlier series a permanent Daily Race scoring advantage.

SeriesPermanent boost
Series 1+4%
Series 2+2.5%
Series 3+1.5%
Series 4+1%
Series 5+Base score

A creator’s series boost is locked when their card launches and never changes. Once Series 1 is full, no new creator card will ever receive the +4% boost.

Fantasy mode (coming soon)

Non-tradable Fantasy cards are earned through your trading volume in the Daily game. They cannot be bought or sold. They can only be earned.

Build a lineup of five creators and enter the weekly Fantasy contest. The highest-scoring lineups will split an ETH prize.

Full mechanics coming soon.

For creators

Creators earn from day one. They receive:

Earnings flow automatically into each creator’s HoodFrens wallet. A creator card can even begin earning before its creator has registered a payout wallet; earnings stay with the card until they connect.

TL;DR

Buy Frens.

Hold them at the weekday snapshot.

The creators with the highest Pulse Scores pay their holders ETH.

The StarFren pays double.

Sell whenever you want.

Earlier series score harder, permanently.

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