concept

Every day at 1pm, users join and answer 12 trivia questions. Players who answer all questions correctly split a prize fund sponsored by advertisers. The questions are written about general encyclopedic topics, not about crypto.

You need to set up a crypto wallet to play. Every question answer is a transaction. The payouts are sent with USDC.

The game is completely free to start and doesn’t provide much advantage to experienced players, making it fun for newcomers. However, it still works fully on-chain and allows to introduce new people to self-custody. We contribute improvements to octane, the gasless relayer, to make free transactions possible.

Why do it at all?

Next 1B users in crypto need their first web3 application: something fun and simple to start. It’s also has to be social and viral to spread fast around the users. The trivia show is our best approximation of this ideal first web3 application.

We target to onboard a lot of people who never used crypto self-custodially: have them setup wallets and run first transactions on Breakroom. Also, free transactions for onboarding people to crypto haven’t been tried before in part due to octane novelty (and the novelty of underlying concepts).

We also will purposefully optimize every screen for mobile.

distribution

We are building out 2 growth flywheels:

Virality. We give on-chain extra lives to users for each friend who joins the game. Extra lives allow users to stay in the game if they responded incorrectly to one of the questions. This mechanic proved itself to be extremely powerful in other live trivia shows.
Prize funds. More users => more advertisement interest => bigger prize funds => motivates more users to play.

Additionally, we’ll work with influencers on Twitch and Twitter to promote the shows.

the work on riptide

(Disclaimer: we started working on the project a little before hackathon began, so we’ll be showcasing only the work that we’ve made after February, 1st. According to Chase Barker: “Just make a good presentation and expect judges to evaluate code that is done during hackathon but you are fine to submit this one.”. If you would like to learn more about Breakroom as a whole, go to our company page.)