‘Eat Other Snake, Take Their Money’: Slither.io Solana Clone Goes Viral

Crypto degens have discovered a brand new sport to gamble on, inflicting a Solana meme coin to surge to a market cap of almost $20 million in consequence.

Noodle.gg is a crypto clone of well-liked free-to-play browser sport Slither.io, the place gamers management cartoonish snakes that develop bigger with every enemy snake they devour.

Noodle’s blockchain twist is that gamers pay an entry payment in Solana, after which when a participant eats one other participant’s snake, additionally they get their cash. For those who die, then you definately lose every part.

“This needs to be enjoyable. Eat different snake = take their cash,” the sport’s creator Alex Leiman wrote on X, previously Twitter, adopted by a Solana contract deal with. This submit shortly went viral, hitting over one million views in lower than a day.

The Noodle (NOODLE) token has no present utility, successfully making it a meme coin with no underlying performance. Regardless of this, or perhaps due to this, NOODLE skyrocketed to a peak market cap of $19.43 million inside 14 hours of its launch, because the snake sport went viral. It has since settled at $14.4 million, in response to DEX Screener.

Leiman has hinted at the opportunity of NOODLE changing into the token that’s wagered within the sport, relatively than SOL itself.

The sport attracted 1,000 lively accounts inside two hours of its launch, in response to Leiman, regardless of it solely being accessible in 75% of U.S. states as a consequence of “regulatory causes.” Inside its first day, the official Noodle X account mentioned, the sport had greater than $75,000 price of crypto circulate via it.

On-line reactions have been combined. Some appeared to benefit from the alternative to probably earn cash whereas enjoying an addictive sport that reminds them of their childhood. Others, nevertheless, slated Leiman for merely copying Slither.io, relatively than creating a novel sport.

“Most ‘innovating Web3’ merchandise are simply lazy Web2 clones with crypto slapped on,” pseudonymous X consumer Cremedupepe posted. “No originality, simply copy-paste and buzzwords. Additionally, how the hell do you even money out?”

To exit the sport, gamers should maintain down the Enter key for 3 seconds with out dying. This takes you to a sport over display displaying your earnings for the sport. It seems that gamers are then in a position to money out by offering a Solana deal with and the way a lot SOL they want to withdraw.

It’s price noting nevertheless, in response to the phrases of use, the platform reserves the appropriate to limit cash-outs. This contains time-based limitations, minimal play time necessities, or short-term holds at Noodle’s discretion. Plus, if Noodle catches a consumer dishonest, then their whole stability can be forfeited.

This isn’t the primary crypto sport to go viral as a consequence of its capacity to generate cash for its customers.

Final month, Summary-based crypto mining simulation sport Bigcoin caught the eye of degens. On this sport, gamers purchased in-game miners that earned them BIG tokens—impressed by how real-world Bitcoin miners work—which may very well be used to improve their in-game rigs to earn extra BIG.

It was a serious, albeit short-lived success as its token grew to a $66 million market cap in three days—however then crashed 83%, in response to DEX Screener. Business observers labeled Bigcoin a “Ponzi sport” that relied on new gamers flowing capital into the sport.



Relatively than taking this as a warning to cease or seeing the tag as a derisive one, some hungry degens continued their search to seek out the subsequent Ponzi sport to gamble on.

Tons of different non-Ponzi video games have applied crypto as a approach to earn. Final 12 months, the Telegram tap-to-earn wave amassed lots of of hundreds of thousands of gamers that tapped away at their telephone screens within the hopes of getting a priceless token airdrop. 

More often than not, nevertheless, customers complained concerning the dimension of their airdrops, and the craze pale after just a few frenzied months.

Edited by Andrew Hayward