A fully onchain RPG, filled with high seas adventure, treasure, & unexpected surprises | Built by
@ProofOfPlay
, backed by
@a16z
| Pirates always win 🏴☠️
Welcome to Pirate Nation, an on-chain RPG by
@ProofOfPlay
, built at the intersection of casual gaming, web3 technology, and shared ownership & incentives.
A thread 🧵 covering what you need to know about our game, ecosystem, & team.
Let's jump in. 👇 1/many
📢 PIRATE NATION MINT 📢
We are excited to share Pirate Nation mint information at last!
🪙 MINT PRICE: Free
📅 PHASE 1: Goldlist - Nov 8th
📅 PHASE 2: Stowaway - Nov 9th
More info in Medium ⬇️
INTRODUCING: THE 1/1 MARKS FRIGATE. 🚢
This one-of-a-kind Frigate is the mystery 1/1 item that some lucky scallywag will win from the raffle! 🎁
There's only ONE other 1/1 ship in the game. 👀
We'll draw the winner later this week! ⏳
Link to enter the raffle below.
Game on Scallywags!
Complete our mission on
@Metaverse_HQ
new app to earn early access be able to mint a Pirate for free, and start playing Pirate Nation!
GM everyone
Give us a hearty YARGH in the replies if ye wish for a Gen1 mint code
We'll give away the codes at random, just as the sea swells on a voyage 🌊🏴☠️
🦭
#TheSealsWereSaved
🦭
Thanks to the heroics of every last one o’ ye; we saved arrr Seals from that sappy-scallywags burn address!🍻
To thank ye we be givin’ away:
✨1x
@SappySealsNFT
✨
To enter:
• RT
• Follow
@PirateNationNFT
• Tag 1 mate
🏆Winner announced in 48hrs🏆
🏴☠️ Founder’s Pirate Giveaway! 🏴☠️
To celebrate the launch of our beta we arrr givin’ away:
✨1x Founder’s Pirate✨
To enter:
▪️Follow
@PirateNationNFT
▪️Like/RT
▪️Tag 2 mates!
Winner in 48hrs! Be sure to try out the beta at 🍻
🏴☠️ 20k Scallywags 🏴☠️
3 days ago we thanked you for 10k & we’re already here again!
Cheers, crew.
Now… let’s raise 20,000 tankards o’grog to
#ArrNation
!🍻
Finally, to welcome ye aboard, we arrr giving away 20x Goldlist spots!
RT & comment “
#PirateNation
🍻” to enter.
💃 We're celebrating our new Holiday Shop launch. Sound: on 🔊
To mark the occassion, we're giving away 15 Winter Island lootboxes!
To enter:
- Follow
@PirateNation
& like this tweet
- Comment yer New Year's resolution
We'll draw winners in 48 hrs!
GM everyone
New BOOTY Quests are LIVE 👀
We're bringing BOOTY to Twitter 🏴☠️ now you can fly the Pirate flag across everyone's timelines
Check yer BOOTY dashboard on the Pirate Nation site for all the ways to earn BOOTY!
Want a mint code? Give a YARGH 🦜 for a chance to win
🏴☠️ CALLING ALL PIRATES: SEASON 1 OF JOLLY ROGER IS NOW LIVE! 🏴☠️
You can now earn BOOTY Points by playing Pirate Nation and by collecting Founder's Pirates & other game items.
Rank up on the leaderboards to secure MAXIMUM BOOTY!
Here's how to JOIN and EARN. 🧵
💥 COMBAT v2 IS NOW LIVE.
We’ve completely overhauled our combat gameplay, introducing new depth & choices to make during each battle. Also, it's A LOT more fun.
🧵 on how we reinvented combat, and why you need to try it:
Pirate Nation's World Boss event launches in a few hours. 💥
To celebrate this epic moment in web3 gaming, we're giving away a special & rare Piratetron NFT worth 0.4E!
TO ENTER:
🔸 Like this tweet
🔸 Comment your ENS / ETH wallet address below
🔸 Follow
@PirateNationNFT
1/n
🕺 Disco Ship Skin Lootbox is now LIVE in our Game Shop.
To celebrate the first animated ship skins in Pirate Nation we're giving away 10 lootboxes! 🎁
- Follow
@PirateNation
& like this tweet
- Comment yer favorite disco song
Winners in 24hrs!
Proud to announce our collaboration with our friends at
@SkyborneLegacy
,
@Revolving_Games
.
Giving Founder's Pirates holders 45 Guaranteed WL to Skyborne's upcoming ecosystem mint RG BYTES!
Join our community to get involved!
🏴☠️ Release 47 🏴☠️
BIG COMBAT UPDATE 💥
We've just gone live with multi enemy combat 👹 👺 👾
Now you're outnumbered. But will you be outgunned?
That's up to you, matey. Get ready to face your toughest challenges yet.
🧵 with details!
Exploration is LIVE! ⛵
You can now sail your Ships to the procedurally generated islands of the Infinite Isles. Seek out hidden coves & unchartered territories as you collect Pirate Gold, Wood, Iron Ore & Cotton.
Here are all the details you need. 🧵
Ships: Coming Soon
Pirates are setting sail to track down the dreaded megalodon... Will they succeed or will the beast claim yet another ship?
Giving away 1x Founder’s Pirate to join the fleet!
Enter:
🔸RT
🔸Follow
@PirateNationNFT
🔸Tag 2 mateys
Winner drawn in 24hrs
🏴☠️Collabs Are Closed🏴☠️
Cheers to all the projects that reached out & continue to reach out to us for collabs. However, that ship has now sailed.
Thanks for your overwhelming interest!
World Boss
#2
: Sea Serpent
The mighty sea serpent crushes any ships it can get it's scaly body around.
Pirates need all the firepower they can gather to stand a chance!
Giving away 1x Founder’s Pirate to take it on
🔸RT
🔸Follow
@PirateNationNFT
@ProofOfPlay
🔸Tag 2 mateys
Ahoy crew!
Our CEO
@amittm
will join
@LostRealmsXYZ
on a spaces today at 6:30pm EST to chat all things Pirate Nation.
PLUS 2x Founder’s Pirates will be up for grabs!
To enter:
🔸Like & RT
🔸Follow
@PirateNationNFT
&
@ProofOfPlay
🔸Be in the spaces!
The Founder's Pirates are all claimed!
That means two things are coming up
1) Reveal the art
2) Launch the beta
The art reveal will take place this Friday during The Weekly Yargh
Get a Founder's Pirate
Set your reminder 👇
AHOY
@pudgypenguins
IT IS TIME TO PARLEY. 🤝
For the next 24hrs, you can mint a free Pirate & start playing
@PirateNationNFT
.
We think you'll find our waters pleasantly warm and very welcoming.
The timer starts now! ⏳
Pirates, it is time: BOOTY Points are now yours to claim!
To thank the Pirates who've sailed with us on our voyage so far, our players & collectors can immediately check & collect BOOTY Points.
And for even more BOOTY, make sure ye don't miss Season 1 — coming SOON.
🏴☠️ 🧵
🚨3x RooTroopNFT Giveaway🚨
In honor of a bullish week for
@RooTroopNFT
we decided to give away 2x Joeys and a Roo. To enter the giveaway, read until the end for the rules ⬇️
🌙🐈⬛WIN A MOONCATZ NFT🐈⬛🌙
A couple of catz got caught in our nets, and our crew be full on grog so…👀⬇️
We’re giving away 1x
@MooncatzNFT
!
How to enter:
• RT & Like
• Tag 3 mateys
• Follow
@PirateNationNFT
&
@MooncatzNFT
🏆Winner in 12hrs🏆
#theTakeover
AHOY
@playSHRAPNEL
WE BE OFFERIN' PARLEY
For the next 48 hours, Operators can mint a free Pirate and immediately play Pirate Nation. No gas fees, no confirmations, and seamless onchain gameplay.
Snapshot taken on block 18663980.
No time for standin' around, ye scoundrels!⏳
36 hours till mint registration closes
If ye be lookin' for Goldlist, tell us what you think more people need to hear about Pirate Nation in the comments below 👇
⏳ Registration Is Closed! ⌛️
We arrr one step closer to bringin’ you & your Pirates together. There’s just some info you need first to make it happen.
🧵⬇️
THE WISHING WELL ✨
To play: toss in your Worn Copper Coins, fate will do the rest! 🪙
Will ye get a Founder's Pirate or a Gen 1 Pirate to bolster yer crew, perhaps a fine Ship, or a Legendary Ship Skin?
2,000 Wishes to be claimed before the Well runs dry.
The all new Pirate Creator Program is now LIVE!
#PirateCreator
We're excited to empower community creators who are passionate about Pirate Nation, and have built a program packed full of perks to support creators. 🤝
The Creator Hub in our Discord is open, here's the TLDR. 🧵
Founder’s Pirate NFT Giveaway!
We’re goin’ live with Crypto Unicorns at 4pm EST, and to celebrate the event we’re givin’ away a
#FreeNFT
!
Founder’s Pirate
#112
!
To enter:
🔸Follow
@crypto_unicorns
&
@PirateNationNFT
🔸Like
🔸Comment your ETH wallet address
🔗🧵
MIGRATION COMPLETE!
Bridging = GONE 💥
Founder's Pirates all live on Ethereum while items, ships, and our game contracts are now hosted on
@arbitrum
Nova.
Our infrastructure has been optimized, mirroring is live, & the game is ready for you to resume playing 🎮
It's been a BIG week for
@ProofOfPlay
and Pirate Nation!
➜ We announced our $33m seed, led by
@a16z
& Greenoaks.
➜ We're now free-to-play, & have launched custodial wallets.
➜ Two exciting mints, one Mystery Chest, and one Mystery 1/1 Item!
Scroll this thread for links 👇
Pirates, we've been heads down preparing a number of massive upgrades to Pirate Nation, and the
@ProofOfPlay
game suite.
The first of which is ready to be revealed:
We are delighted to announce our migration to
@Arbitrum
Nova. 🥳
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🏴☠️ The Weekly Yargh! 🏴☠️
Ahoy & welcome to Ep.11 of ‘The Weekly Yargh’ where Co-Founder
@DotZeb
, Product Lead
@fern
& Producer
@YorkGaskins
will discuss our upcoming mint!
✨Plus Goldlists will be raffled to listeners!✨
To enter:
• RT & Listen in!
Pirate Nation's Product Lead
@fern
uses his twitter to provide you product updates on Pirate Nation
If you aren't following him, you're messing up
We'll be giving away 2x Goldlist today to people that follow
@fern
and
@PirateNationNFT
Get to it, ye scallywags
AHOY
@0xRaiden
IT IS YOUR TURN... FOR PARLEY!
For the next 48 hours, Gaming Chronicles pass holders, as of block 18941792 can mint a free Pirate and immediately begin playing Pirate Nation. No gas needed!
We support wallet delegation so you can mint with your hot wallet. 🤝…
We've been excited about
@pudgypenguins
and couldn't help ourselves, we had to pick up this Pudgy Pirate for our treasure chest! 🐧🏴☠️
It even has the P on its necklace, for Pirate Nation, of course!
Ye didn't think we'd just announce funding today and not ship anything... did ye, matey?
📧 No wallet? No problem. Sign in with email.
Custodial wallets are now LIVE in Pirate Nation. 💥
Yes, this means yer auntie can play too (if she has an invite code!)
& more. 🧵
🏴☠️ Todays Quest: Art Reveal 🏴☠️
Who’s excited to get those Pirates out of their barrels?!
Join The Weekly Yargh spaces today at 5pm EST & celebrate the reveal with us!
🏴☠️🐸THE PLAGUE GIVEAWAY🐸🏴☠️
Seein’ as
@ThePlagueNFT
won arr poll durin’ the week, we picked up a Frog to stow in arr treasure chest…
If ye want to plunder it:
🏴☠️RT/Like
🏴☠️Follow
@ThePlagueNFT
@PirateNationNFT
🏴☠️Tag 1 mate
🏴☠️Be in arr Space tomorrow⬇️
Hold tight, Pirates!
We encountered some rough waters and will be pushing out maintenance mode & the subsequent game update into Wednesday!
Join our discord and see what some of the keen eyed scallywags in the community have figured out about what's coming 👀
🏴☠️🔥10x in 10 days!🔥🏴☠️
Pardon me interruptin’ yer Saturday night parrrty fever, but we arrr just after passin’ 40k scallywags! To think only 10 days ago we were bobbin’ at 4k.
Cheers to every one o’ye & here’s to a smooth maiden voyage next week!✨
NOW BACK TO THE RUM!🍻
It's been an incredible year for Pirate Nation.
And we're grateful to YOU 🫵 our community & players, for making it so!
🧵 on the BIGGEST things we've accomplished together in 2023. 🤝
We've just been voted best onchain game at
@GAM3Sgg_
#GAM3Awards
✨
YARGH!
We're honored, and grateful to our awesome community & everyone who voted for us. It's never been a better time to be a Pirate! 🏴☠️
🏴☠️ Pirate Service Announcement 🏴☠️
Goldlist is gaining 1000 new spots
We did not take this decision lightly and debated it intensely and ultimately decided this was the right thing for the community
In this thread, we'll explain our reasoning
Soon we release ᴍɪʀʀᴏʀɪɴɢ: a paradigm shift for how games are built on the blockchain, giving gamers the best of all world's across onboarding, gameplay and trading.
The power of ᴍɪʀʀᴏʀɪɴɢ: Trade on L1 // Play on L2.
A 🧵 on this technical feat, by team
@ProofOfPlay
.
▪️Why Pirate Nation?▪️
Ye spoke; we listened. Goldlist spots have been increased!
But what interests ye most about Pirate Nation?…🤔
Our 3 favourite responses will earn Goldlist!⬇️✨
#Yargh
#ArrNation
The Voxelizer is NOW LIVE! ⚡
Transform your Pirates to shiny NEW voxel art in this massive upgrade. ✨
Quick 🧵 with details, make sure you post your new Pirates once you've voxelized!
World Boss
#1
: Megalodon
Ships are disappearing left and right! The seas aren't safe.
It seems a prehistoric creature has survived against all odds and is hunting pirates!
Coming soon to
AHOY
@Yogapetz
IT IS YOUR TURN... FOR PARLEY!
For the next 24 hours, KzG and Kubz holders, as of block 18313445, can mint a free Pirate and immediately begin playing Pirate Nation. No gas needed!
The timer is ticking! ⏳
INTRODUCING: THE SHIPWRIGHT 🏗️
Use the Shipwright to merge & upgrade your ships, and more.
It is a new type of building - a Settlement Building - allowing you to provide goods & services to other players in Pirate Nation. 🏪
Here are the details you need 👇
'Twas the night before mint, when all thro' the ship, not a Pirate was stirring, not even a yargh... 🎶
As we sail towards the Founder's Pirate mint, the crew has a message for ye👇
⌛️Goldlist
Tuesday 9am UTC -8
⌛️Stowaway
Wednesday 9am UTC -8
Islands are now LIVE in Pirate Nation. 🏝
Build & customize a new home for your Pirate as your expansion across the high seas begins.
Every player gets a Starter Island. 🆓
It's time to BUIDL. Some details:
Join us tomorrow for a live Spaces session between our co-founder & CEO,
@amittm
, and
@HeyJeremyHorn
, COO of Xterio & Overworld Co-Founder, for a Founder's Fireside chat
We will be giving away 4 WHITELIST spots to mint
@OverworldPlay
. Do not miss!
The winner of the Marks Frigate has been drawn.
From 30,000 entrants... the winner is
@JinElCazaoui
! 🎉
Congratulations scallywag! We'll be in touch to deliver this unique vessel!
🔹Stowaway Mint!🔹
The Stowaway Mint will commence at 09:45AM PST today, 9th of Nov. after a short period from when Goldlist ends.
This mint is FCFS & there will be up to 3x Founder’s Pirates mintable per wallet.
⚠️Only use official links from Discord & Twitter⚠️
Be Savvy!
Pirates, don't miss the raffle for this 1/1 legendary ship, the Apex Sloop, the FASTEST ship in
@PirateNation
. ⚡️
The ship is based on our Multichain, a constellation of ultra fast blockchains optimized for fully onchain gaming.
GOODLUCK!
WE ARE LIVE ON
@arbitrum
!
Following a short downtime we have successfully, and uneventfully, migrated our game contracts
On top of that: ᴍɪʀʀᴏʀɪɴɢ is live! Founder's Pirates never need to leave Ethereum for you to play Pirate Nation
In other words... Trade on L1, Play on L2!
🏴☠️BORED.eth Space!🏴☠️
Join us as we sail alongside
@BoredElonMusk
with CEO
@amittm
, Product Lead
@fern
, and Head of Studio
@williamschmitt
to chat about our upcomin’ game!
There be Goldlist buried for listeners
To enter:
▪️RT & Listen
Welcome to Pirate Nation, an on-chain RPG on Ethereum by
@ProofOfPlay
. A game built at the intersection of casual gaming, web3 technology, and shared ownership & incentives.
A thread 🧵 covering what you need to know about our game, ecosystem, & team.
Let's dive in. 👇 1/many
🛠 Building 100% on-chain
⚡️Frictionless gameplay: No wallet confirmations
💰Gasless: We pay gameplay transaction fees
The systems described above have been audited by
@HalbornSecurity
- as have all of our contracts. Halborn’s 125 page audit is visible on our website!
#Yargh
How to receive royalties on
@opensea
&
@blur_io
at the same time
Example code to implement handlers / registry hooks in your own NFT contract:
Read more:
🧵
🎉 Had a fantastic discussion on
@PirateNationNFT
@ProofOfPlay
, hosted by
@eli_defi
@arbitrum
This thread covers takeaways from the Spaces, including game improvements, our commitment to decentralization, and collaboration opportunities 🏴☠️
Listen back
🎆 1000 Gen 1 Pirates Minted 🎆
That's a lot of Pirates! Seeing so many new faces in the Pirate Nation community discover all the delightful moments in-game has been our pleasure.
Here's to the next 1000 and beyond! 🍻
Pirate Nation 🤝
@CoinbaseWallet
We are proud to collaborate with Coinbase Wallet
To celebrate, we are offering 150 Goldlist spots to any of our crew that use Coinbase Wallet!
Connect to with your Coinbase Wallet to be eligible
Proof of Play 🤝 NIM Network
We’re delighted to announce that Founder’s Pirates holders are receiving one of the largest allocations of
@nim_network
airdrop. 🫡
Claiming site only requires a wallet connection (no signature or transaction).
Looking for a code to get a free Pirate?
Hit us with your best Pirate Nation meme!
Post a Pirate Nation meme to your timeline and tag
@PirateNationNFT
We'll pick our favorites to provide codes to later today!