Building a game at the liquidity layer

SPACE WARS

A war economy encoded in a Uniswap v4 hook. Five thousand Genesis ships, created by the market rather than sold to it.

Genesis fleet deployed
/ 5,000

5,000 still unclaimed. There is no mint page and no sale.

The rule

Buy 0.08 WETH net, and a ship is minted to you.

Not a mint page. Not an allowlist. A wallet becomes eligible when its qualifying buys exceed its qualifying sells by 0.08 WETH on the canonical market. Cross the line and the ship appears in the same transaction.

Netting is the point. A gross counter would be farmed by cycling the same small buy and sell over and over. Here a sell before qualification pushes you back down, and a sell after it changes nothing at all: the ship is yours, and the tokens stay free to move.

Threshold
0.08 WETH
net qualified buy
Per wallet
1
direct mint, ever
Supply
5,000
immutable hard cap
Your qualification

Harvester

Produces ORE, and decides when to bank it.

Everything it has mined but not yet banked is exposed. The more it carries, the more progress it is holding, and the better a target it becomes. Banking is safe and boring; carrying is neither.

Max exposed cargo600 ORE
Daily raid-loss cap20%
Rare modifier1.08x

Raider

Takes a strictly capped share of what is exposed.

A raid can only ever touch unbanked ORE, never a wallet, never a token, never an NFT. Eight percent of exposed cargo, sixty ORE absolute, one attempt per target per day. The caps exist so the victim keeps playing.

Max steal per raid8% / 60 ORE
Repeat-target cooldown24h
Rare modifier1.08x
Protocol levy
2% / 3%
buy / sell, on the canonical pool
Levy collected
external revenue, not printed
Staked
SWARS earning a funded stream
Rewards remaining
already funded, not promised
Where the money goes

The levy is WETH, which means the treasury holds something the protocol cannot print.

Revenue

Two percent of a buy and three percent of a sell, taken in WETH on both sides. It accumulates rather than firing a buyback on every trade, because a predictable order on the tape is a gift to whoever is watching.

Buybacks

An epoch sorts the WETH into four sealed pockets, and a bounded execution turns the staking and season pockets into SWARS. Those tokens go straight to the contracts that pay users. Nothing waits in a treasury wallet.

What that is not

It is not a price floor and not a yield. If volume falls, revenue falls, buybacks shrink and rewards shrink with them. The system is built to pay less rather than to borrow against a promise.