Every kill
is a payout
Stake to enter the arena. Every elimination pays a bounty from the pot. Walk away with what you earned.
Gauntlet is a first-person shooter where the scoreboard is denominated in money. It is built so that matches settle onchain the moment the round ends, and so your balance never leaves a contract you can withdraw from yourself.
The match
Four steps, one round
No season passes, no grinding for a payout. A Gauntlet match is a closed loop that opens and settles in minutes.
Stake in
Pick a stake tier and join the arena. Your entry goes into the match pot held by the escrow contract, not by us.
Take the shot
Free-for-all. Every confirmed elimination is recorded by the authoritative game server and carries a bounty.
Round settles
The server signs the result and the contract pays every earner from the pot in a single transaction.
Withdraw
Your balance is designed to sit in the contract under your address, withdrawable by you alone — the withdraw path is deliberately not pausable. Not yet open to the public.
Your money
We never hold it
Most money games run a private ledger and ask you to trust the withdrawal button. Gauntlet puts the pot in a contract with no admin key over your balance. Every rule below is enforced by that contract rather than by our policy, so all six hold even if our servers are compromised.
Withdrawing can't be switched off
Pausing the game stops new matches and new deposits. It has no effect on withdrawals. Nobody can trap your balance.
A match can't overpay
Payouts are checked against the pot on every settlement. A match can never pay out more than the players put in, minus the fee.
A dead server can't keep your stake
If a match is never settled, every player reclaims their share of the pot from the contract once the timeout passes.
Paid once, only if you played
Only wallets that actually staked into a match can be paid from it, and each one at most once. Signatures can't be replayed.
The house cut is capped in code
The fee is limited to 5% at the contract level. It cannot be raised past that by anyone, including us.
No upgrade switch
The contract isn't upgradeable. What it does on day one is what it does forever. Changing the rules means deploying a new one in the open.
What the server decides
Who got the kill. That is the whole of it. The contract enforces everything above no matter what the server signs, so a stolen key could misattribute a bounty inside one match — it could not mint, drain, double-pay, or pay a stranger. Full breakdown in the docs →
Latest
Gauntlet News
What has actually shipped, in the order it shipped. Announcements go out on X first.
The first blockchain shooter on Robinhood Chain
A real Unreal Engine 5 shooter, not a browser game with a wallet bolted on. These are arenas from the current build.
Get in
Install the public practice preview
GAUNTLET v0.1.0 is a free Windows preview for offline and LAN practice. Online hosting and paid entry are not included in this build.
Gauntlet
v0.1.0 · Windows public practice preview
Windows Setup lets you choose the install location, verifies the downloads, creates shortcuts, and can launch the game when it finishes. It downloads 9.39 GiB including the latest account-link update and requires at least 22 GiB free during installation. No account or wallet is required to install. The base ZIP does not include the account-link update; use Windows Setup for the current client.
- Offline + LAN only
- No hosted multiplayer
- No paid entry
- Platform
- Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Setup size
- Final installer size will be published here
- Game data
- 9.39 GiB including the latest client update
- Free space
- At least 22 GiB on the selected install drive
- Integrity
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SHA-256
Published after installer verification - Version
- 0.1.0 · Public practice preview
- Network
- Offline and LAN sessions only. No Gauntlet-hosted multiplayer.
- Economy
- Disabled. No live ETH or PONS paid entry.
- Signing
- Unsigned test build; Windows SmartScreen may warn.
Run Windows Setup
Download the official setup app, choose a drive with at least 22 GiB free, and follow its progress. No manual extraction is required, and the preview never asks for a wallet or private key.
Practice offline
Play the three launch arenas with the current weapons, bots, HUD, and settings. No money is at risk.
Play over LAN
Host or join a session on the same local network. Internet matchmaking and Gauntlet-hosted servers are not available in v0.1.0.
Paid play comes later
Live ETH and PONS paid entry remains disabled until the server, escrow, security, and compliance work is complete.
Enter the Gauntlet
Install the GAUNTLET v0.1.0 public practice preview for Windows. It is offline/LAN only and contains no paid entry.