HOW IT WORKS

WHALEWARS is a deep-sea battle arena that runs in your browser — no download, no install, no sign-up. You spawn as plankton, eat everything smaller than you, and evolve up the crypto food chain until you're the apex predator or someone else's lunch.

Around the game sits a real weekly prize: every $WHALE trade generates creator fees, and half of every fee goes straight into a pot that pays the week's best players on-chain. Your skill earns your rank; holding a small stake of $WHALE is the only thing that makes that rank prize-eligible.

Hit PLAY, pick a handle, and start with Ranked FFA. Recommended first five minutes:

• Eat the drifting food first. Motes and small prey are free XP — you're too small to fight anyone yet, and that's fine.
• Respect the size bar. Anything a tier above you hits harder than you do. Run first, feed, come back bigger.
• Watch the storm. The arena shrinks — getting caught outside it hurts more than any predator.
• Evolve early, fight late. Each evolution changes your reach and speed. The players on the weekly boards win by out-growing, not out-brawling.

Die, learn the map, go again — matches are short by design. When you can reach the mid tiers without being eaten, take it to the Survival gauntlet — that's where the weekly pot is decided.

You don't need an account to play — ever. A Solana wallet is only your prize identity: connect it in the hub and it becomes your claim address for pot payouts, your relic vault, and your holder profile.

• Connecting asks your wallet to sign one login message — a free signature that proves the wallet is yours. It is not a transaction and spends nothing.
• Prizes, relic withdrawals, and market purchases always settle to your own wallet. WHALEWARS never holds your funds.
• Your ladder rank is earned by play alone. The wallet check only decides whether your finish is prize-eligible — you need at least the posted minimum of $WHALE held through the week.

The food chain runs twenty-one forms deep, and every match starts you at the very bottom. Eat to gain XP, evolve to climb: Shrimp → Squid → Dolphin → Great White → Orca → Blue Whale → and beyond. Every evolution grows your body and extends your reach — bigger form, longer kill radius.

• Bigger = stronger but slower. Every tier trades agility for power. Top predators hit like a truck and turn like one.
• Everything is earned in-match. Every player starts every match as plankton. No purchased power, no head starts — the ladder measures play, nothing else.
• Past the Blue Whale waits the Kraken — and above it, one last form that stays a secret. Climb that far and find out who rules the abyss.

That's the whole kit. WHALEWARS is easy to pick up — the depth is in when you fight, when you flee, and when you evolve.

Three conditions, checked automatically — no forms, no applications:

• Play. Finish the week inside the top 20% of the Survival gauntlet board.
• Link. Have a Solana wallet connected to your player identity.
• Hold. Keep at least the posted minimum of $WHALE (a small stake — roughly $25 worth at launch) in that wallet through the week. The current minimum is always shown in the hub.

Selling below the minimum mid-week drops that week's eligibility — the hold is the whole point: the pot pays players who hold. Your rank on the boards is never affected either way.

After weekly settlement, winners see CLAIM PRIZE light up in the hub. One click, one wallet approval, and your $WHALE lands in your own wallet — no middleman ever holds it.

• Claims stay open for a generous window; unclaimed and dust-sized allocations roll into the next week's pot, so nothing leaks out of the player economy.
• The full weekly distribution is published on-chain — anyone can verify every payout against the public leaderboard.

The license is the optional relic-hunter's pass, bought in the hub with $WHALE. It never grants power — combat stays pure — it arms the treasure side of the game:

• While licensed, your boss kills in the Survival gauntlet earn raffle tickets toward the weekly relic draw.
• Licenses expire weekly, matched to the prize cycle — one week, one hunt.
• More boss kills, more tickets, better odds. Skill still decides how deep you get.

Relics are collectible trophies of the abyss — artifacts dropped from the weekly relic draw among licensed boss-slayers. Each one carries a rarity:

COMMON RARE EPIC LEGENDARY

• Won relics land in your Relic Hold in the hub, tied to your wallet identity.
• Withdraw a relic and it mints as an NFT to your own wallet — provably yours, tradable anywhere, or on the in-game market.
• Relic series are seasonal — when a series retires, its relics are never minted again. Watch announcements for new series.

The market in the hub is player-to-player: list your relics at your price, buy others' finds, all settled in $WHALE.

• Every sale is verified on-chain before a relic changes hands — no honor system.
• A flat 5% market fee applies: 70% goes to the treasury, 30% is burned — removed from the $WHALE supply forever. Every trade makes the token scarcer.
• Prices are set by hunters, not by us. Rare pulls have found good homes.

$WHALE is the game's token on Solana. It has one job on the play side and three on the prize side:

• It never gates play. Every mode is free for everyone, always.
• It gates the prize. Holding the posted minimum through the week makes your gauntlet finish prize-eligible.
• It funds the pot. Half of every trade's creator fee goes straight to the weekly player pot.
• It settles the relic economy. Licenses and market trades run in $WHALE, and 30% of every license and market fee is burned.

Connecting your wallet only signs a login message — it cannot spend your $WHALE by itself. Only purchases you start yourself move tokens.

These are the only official WHALEWARS channels. Anything else claiming to be us — especially anything DMing you about claims, airdrops, or "support" — is fake.

• Game & docs: whalewars.lol
• X: x.com/WhaleWarsX
• Telegram: t.me/WhaleWarsHQ
• Instagram: instagram.com/whalewarshq
• YouTube: youtube.com/@WhaleWarsHQ

• Replay-verified runs. Survival scores are re-simulated server-side from your input log before they touch the board. If the replay doesn't reproduce the score, it doesn't count.
• One best run per week. Grind as much as you like — only your single best verified run represents you.
• Flat-deep payouts + per-wallet caps. The prize curve is built so farming clones mostly cannibalize each other instead of stacking a jackpot.
• Deterministic settlement. Same board, same pot, same result — anyone can re-derive the weekly distribution from the public leaderboard.