New hit game on the Solana chain: Is Noodle.gg, which allows you to eat snakes while grabbing SOL, a treasure map or a Ponzi trap?

Original Title: 'Eat Other Snake, Take Their Money': Slither.io Solana Clone Goes Viral

Original author: Ryan S. Gladwin

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Compiled by: Daisy, Mars Finance

"Devour Other Snakes, Take Their Money": Slither.io's Solana Clone Game Noodle.gg Goes Viral

In this cryptocurrency-driven Noodle.gg game, players either devour others or get devoured by others—earning Solana tokens in the process, while the associated meme coin prices soar.

Noodle.gg is a crypto clone of the popular browser game Slither.io.

Players need to pay Solana as an entry fee. If you consume other players' snakes, you can take their SOL.

As the game goes viral, the associated Solana meme coin NOODLE skyrockets in value.

Cryptocurrency speculators have found a new gambling game, driving the market cap of the Solana meme coin to nearly $20 million.

Cryptocurrency variant of snake games

Noodle.gg mimics the gameplay of the free browser game Slither.io: players control cartoon snakes, and each time they consume an enemy snake, they grow longer. Its blockchain feature is that players need to pay an entrance fee using Solana, and when they consume other snakes, they can seize the opponent's funds. If they die, they lose all their assets.

"This should be interesting. Eating other snakes = taking their money," game creator Alex Leiman wrote on the X platform (formerly Twitter), along with the Solana contract address. The tweet quickly went viral, reaching over a million views in less than a day.

The meme coin with no substantial function skyrockets.

The NOODLE token currently has no actual use and is essentially just a meme coin. But even so (perhaps because of this), with the game's meteoric rise, the market cap of NOODLE reached a peak of $19.43 million within 14 hours of its launch. According to DEX Screener data, it has now fallen back to $14.4 million.

Leiman hinted that NOODLE may replace SOL as the gaming chip in the future.

The boom under regulatory restrictions

Leiman stated that the game attracted 1,000 active accounts within two hours of its launch, despite being open in only 75% of states in the U.S. due to "regulatory reasons." The official X account reported that the first day's crypto fund flow exceeded $75,000.

mixed reviews

Some players enjoy the possibility of earning money while playing nostalgic childhood games, but there are also critics who accuse Leiman of merely copying Slither.io rather than being original. "The so-called 'innovative Web3 product' is nothing more than a lazy Web2 imitation with a crypto label," commented an anonymous user, Cremedupepe, "completely lacking originality, only copy-pasting and buzzwords. Besides, how do you actually withdraw?"

Withdrawal Mechanism and Risks

Players need to press and hold the enter key for three seconds (during which they cannot die) to enter the settlement interface to view their earnings. It seems that they can cash out by submitting a Solana address and withdrawal amount. However, please note: the user agreement states that the platform has the right to restrict withdrawals, including time limits, minimum gaming duration requirements, or temporary freezes. If cheating is detected, all balances will be confiscated.

Not the first "money-making game"

Last month, the crypto mining simulation game Bigcoin, based on Arbitrum, attracted speculators. Players purchase miners to earn BIG tokens (simulating the Bitcoin mining mechanism) to upgrade equipment and earn more BIG. According to DEX Screener data, its token market cap skyrocketed to 66 million USD within three days before plummeting by 83%, being labeled a "Ponzi game" by industry observers. However, some speculators continue to search for the next gambling target.

Last year, Telegram's click-to-earn games were also all the rage, with hundreds of millions of users frantically clicking the screen in anticipation of airdrops. However, in most cases, users complained that the value of the airdrops was too low, and the frenzy faded after a few months.