Onchain Community Rules: What Players Can Expect From Others

Key takeaways Fair onchain community rules are written down before anyone plays, apply the same way to every player, creator and club owner, and keep the result out of any single person's hands. In Temptation Token, most of those rules live in the voting contract on Base, so a vote follows the same code for […]
Base Zero Knowledge Proofs: Why Your Trophy Record Stays Put

Key takeaways Base zero knowledge proofs are a new way for Base to prove to Ethereum that its record of transactions is correct, so the record no longer depends only on nobody raising a challenge. For a player, finality means a closed round and a minted trophy reach a point where they cannot be undone. […]
Own Your Onchain Following When the App Changes Hands

Key takeaways To own your onchain following, keep your identity and your fans tied to a wallet you control, not to an app's database. Farcaster changed owners twice, and because its accounts live onchain, users kept their followers while the apps and their rules changed. To own your onchain following, keep your identity and your […]
Stablecoin Prize Payouts: Know What Your Trophy Pays In

Key takeaways Stablecoin prize payouts are designed to hold a steady value against a reference asset like the US dollar, so the amount you win is close to the amount you can spend later. Temptation Token does not pay in a stablecoin: the voting contract pays every share in $TTS, straight to winners' wallets, in […]
Tokenized Stocks on Base and What They Tell a Game Player

Key takeaways Tokenized stocks on Base are Coinbase-issued tokens that track US shares and trade onchain, and they have cleared serious DEX volume. For a player, that is evidence the chain under Temptation Token votes and trophies has real uptime and real users. Tokenized stocks on Base are Coinbase-issued tokens that track US shares and […]
Prediction Markets vs Voting: What a Voter Really Controls

Key takeaways Prediction markets vs voting comes down to who sits across from you: in a prediction market you trade against other people on terms the platform sets, while in a Temptation Token round you vote into a pool on Base that pays out by a fixed, public split. A round still carries real risk, […]
Base Network Outage: What Happens to Your Vote and Round

Key takeaways A base network outage pauses Base; it does not rewrite it. When the sequencer stalls, votes already onchain stay put, pending ones wait, and a round settles once blocks return. A base network outage pauses Base; it does not rewrite it. When the sequencer stalls, votes already onchain stay put, pending ones wait, […]
Base Withdrawal Pause and What to Check Before a Fork

Key takeaways A Base withdrawal pause is one trading platform closing its own deposit and withdrawal queue for a planned network upgrade. It is not the chain breaking. A Base withdrawal pause is one trading platform closing its own deposit and withdrawal queue for a planned network upgrade. It is not the chain breaking. Base […]
Base Cobalt Upgrade: What Changed for Players on Base

Key takeaways Base activated the Base Cobalt upgrade on mainnet in September 2026, its third network upgrade of that year. It adds Validity Transactions, which only become eligible to execute once onchain conditions are met, plus new B20 asset functions. Base activated the Base Cobalt upgrade on mainnet in September 2026, its third network upgrade […]
The Creator Coin Backlash and Why a Round Pays Differently

Key takeaways The creator coin backlash is what happens when a viral launch produces a price chart instead of a business: the coin pays whoever sells near the top, and everyone who arrived late pays for it. A round works the other way. The creator coin backlash is what happens when a viral launch produces […]