Positioned as an 100% community-focused token, Wildcard’s WC is lastly going liquid on twenty sixth March.
The token first went reside in March 2025 on the Base blockchain when 20% of the 88.89 million complete provide was airdropped into wallets holding Wildcard NFTs. Nonetheless, these tokens have remained locked into wallets, obtainable solely to purchase belongings within the recreation’s Wildcard Premier League metagame on the Hundreds’ platform.
The twenty sixth March launch will see the token go reside on the Arbitrum blockchain, permitting gamers to purchase and promote it for the primary time on the WC/USDC pair. The airlocked airdropped tokens can even be unlocked at this level.
As for WC’s utility, gamers use it to purchase franchise summons in Wildcard Premier League. These are the identical character playing cards utilized by gamers within the web2 Wildcard PC recreation however aren’t linked to the sport. As an alternative, they provide their holders the chance to be cashed in for USDC by way of the WC treasury. Nonetheless, payouts aren’t assured, partly as a result of every summon is legitimate just for a restricted time, and the presents are probabilistic based mostly in your leaderboard place. That you must have accomplished a KYC course of to purchase summons within the first place.
WC can also be given away as a reward in one other component of Wildcard Premier League whereby gamers spend USDC to purchase sponsorships, which generate rewards based mostly on the real-world efficiency of Wildcard gamers.
On this manner, developer Playful Studios hopes WC’s worth will replicate broader financial exercise throughout the Wildcard ecosystem, with gamers buying it instantly to amass franchise summons that reward the most effective merchants with extra USDC than they spent.
As well as, 70% of the token’s complete provide has been earmarked for rewards, partly via the sponsorship mechanic, through which payers spend USDC to get WC, once more, with the most effective merchants hoping to generate rewards at a charge increased than that offered by the WC/USDC liquidity pool.
The token can also be strongly deflationary, with 50% of the WC spent shopping for summons burned.
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