MegaETH walks the talk with Crossy Fluffle
These days, new blockchains highlight how fast they are with TPS (transactions per second) to show what they’re capable of. However, nothing beats showing vs. telling.
Last week MegaETH launched Crossy Fluffle, inspired by the popular Crossy Road mobile game. Like Frogger, players have to get their Fluffle bunny character as far as possible in 1 minute.
The way the MegaETH team showed it was also notable:
Each move is a transaction, reflected in the lower left corner of the game
The character can only make the next move once the transaction is confirmed. If the transaction takes too long to confirm, you unfortunately get run over 😵
Players could play the game on 3 testnets to compare the game experience: MegaETH Testnet, Base Sepolia, and Monad Testnet
Try it out for yourself and you’ll see what I mean (if you need some testnet tokens, let me know and I’ll send you some).
Speed doesn’t always matter but for use cases like onchain gaming, it certainly does. You don’t want to be in a situation like this:
This show vs. tell moment even caught the attention of Optimism (their tech powers Base), and turned MegaETH’s game into an opportunity to promote their new Flashblocks integration. With Flashblocks, Crossy Fluffle gameplay on Base was nearly as fast as MegaETH’s.
Bravo, MegaETH. I hope this serves as an inspiration for other ecosystems to walk the talk in creative ways.
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Fantasy introduces Clout
Earlier this week, Fantasy Top shared updates to their fantasy sports x Twitter influencer game. The most interesting part to me was Clout, a new points system based on players’ crypto-related Twitter content based on quality, relevance, and virality. You can check out your Clout score here.
At the end of each Season (also newly introduced as part of this update), the top 15 Clout earners become Heroes on the platform and replace the bottom 15 Heroes.
If Clout is making your Spidey Senses tingle you’re unfortunately not Spiderman, but you are right! Clout is similar to Yaps by Kaito, which was launched 6 months ago. And I don’t think this will end with Clout.
Adjacent to this, there are also credibility platforms like Ethos with the goal of helping people understand who is and isn’t trustworthy.
Over time, infofi/socialfi will fuel more dimensions of an individual’s knowledge, influence, and impact. The most obvious use case for this data today is for influencers/KOLs for partnerships and airdrops for posting about certain products and topics:
Top X Yapper for ABC ecosystem on Kaito
Helped Y Protocol reach 10% mindshare in March 2025
Gained 1,000 Clout in Season 2 of Fantasy
This use case is the most applicable today and IMO too narrow when considering the longer-term implications. As these scores continue to be refined (reducing spam, low quality content, farming activity), they can also become:
Supplemental datapoints for certain types of roles (eg: social media manager, content lead, BD etc.)
A qualifier for access to certain products (eg: “Connect your Kaito profile to see if you qualify for early access”)
Perks or discounts on products based on the topics you talk about
There’s also an opportunity for someone to create a composite score across these different platforms to balance the different methodologies of determining who has more influence.
The bigger question around social influence
I can’t put a finger on it yet, but these new approaches to determining social influence feel like the beginnings of an effort to chip away at the prevailing metric on social media: followers.
Followers as a social media metric is great. It’s easy, universally understood, and is a common denominator across every major platform. However, followers as a metric is also flawed in many ways. You can buy them to boost your follower account, they don’t account for recency (you can gain a ton of followers early on and then become irrelevant), and aren’t the most reliable signal for impact.
As a simple exercise, legendary footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is the most followed account on Instagram, with 652M followers. Does that make him the most influential account on Instagram? ❌
And that’s what I believe that’s what Kaito Yaps, Fanatasy Clout, and Ethos scores are trying to tackle. How can you more reliably measure the impact of someone’s social media account?
Do followers take action from your posts?
Do followers trust your thoughts and opinions?
Do followers get inspired from a spark you provide that influences a decision they make weeks, months, or years later?
Followers as a primary metric won’t go away, but in the coming years we’ll likely see other metrics get adopted to make our social profiles more well-rounded to show the impact we make underneath the surface.
See you next week!
