Most chains are sad, but this one will make you happy.

Introducing HappyChain, where you can start playing games in seconds, not hours. No wallet to install, no gas fees to pay: you can log in with your social accounts and play straight away. Even your mom can do it.

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Most chains are sad, but this one will make you happy.

Introducing HappyChain, where you can start playing games in seconds, not hours. No wallet to install, no gas fees to pay: you can log in with your social accounts and play straight away. Even your mom can do it.

Full article: https://mirror.xyz/0x20Af38e22e1722F97f5A1b5afc96c00EECd566b2/gdfC_lMuutG32oH6ma7Q9o0kW4UaVNBqo8j4CfdL5Es

Free-to-play? Try free-to-pay-to-play! 😊💰

With universal happy income, every day players can earn some $HAPPY tokens which lets them try out real-value games without spending a dime.

For builders, HappyChain aims to be the ultimate onboarding and distribution channel — the easiest way to get players to try your games, bar none.

Free-to-play is the major player acquisition funnel in Web2 — it's crazy it doesn't exist in Web3. Asking users to pay $50 to try a game is absurd.

We're here to fix that, and bring in the Web2 users while we're at it.

Additionally, HappyChain will provide a best-in-class experience for building innovative games and social apps:

• Synchronous randomness: think EVM Math.random()
• Private information support beyond simple reveal-commit schemes
• Event and state-based automation, with a buttery smooth onchain UX
• Anti-sybil technology: grant extra benefits and target airdrops at verified players
• First-class support for offchain compute and zero-knowledge primitives

HappyChain will be part of the @optimism Superchain and use @celestia for data availability.

These are two of the most legitimate infrastructure projects in the space. and they've also generously given us grants to support our happy vision ✨

With their help, HappyChain will be decentralized and secure from day one.

Thanks to @calderaxyz , we will also benefit from rock-solid battle-tested infrastructure.

Why a new L2?

Simply put, the web3 onboarding experience sucks. You have to install a wallet, secure your seed phrase, wire funds, understand gas and gas tokens, ...

What if you could just login with Google / Facebook / @farcaster and start playing immediately?

That's the Happy Account: a single chain-wide account, social-login enabled and free via gas sponsorship.

But beyond the Happy Account and our other technical plans, we just want to build a different kind of blockchain.

Finance is cool, but what if we built a chain that wasn't about getting rich, but about having a good time?

We want to promote fun and engaging — sometimes stupid — experiences and experiments, not shill glorified Ponzi schemes.

HappyChain is poker night with your friends and your local board game hangout, not high-stake roulette with the sharks.

HappyChain is a chain for everyone who wants to build or discover new experiences, new ideas, new games.

It's a chain for builders that want to put their creations in front of as many people as possible, not only a small initiated cabal.

So where are we at?

We're just getting started: a dev team has been assembled and we're looking to get cracking right after EthCC.

We have ambitious timelines, so expect to hear from us pretty soon!

To stay in the loop, be sure to:

• follow us on Farcaster: @happychain
• follow us on X https://x.com/happychaindevs
• subscribe on Mirror: https://mirror.xyz/0x20Af38e22e1722F97f5A1b5afc96c00EECd566b2
• join the mailing list: https://happychain.ck.page/173e280ac8

If you're at EthCC next week, catch @norswap at one of his talks about HappyChain (to be announced soon).

He's interested in talking builders to figure out what they need and how we can work together, and maybe become an official launch partner like @0xsmallbrain

What would YOU like to see on HappyChain?

What features do you need? What games do you want to see?

How can we make sure that interacting with HappyChain makes you smile?

Let us know below 👇

Until next time,
Stay Happy my friends 🤠

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HappyChain is an Ethereum L2 chain that brings free-to-play and zero-friction onboarding onchain.

Play fun & engaging games at no cost on HappyChain, and collect universal happy income to use as game credits.

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