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.
Free to download and free to play. A wallet is only needed for staked matches — read the docs.
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
Download, connect, play
A normal PC download and a normal wallet connection. Nothing is staked until you choose to stake it.
Gauntlet
Windows client · free to play
No account, no launcher, no wallet required to install and play practice arenas.
- Platform
- Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Download
- Announced with the first public build
- Version
- Playtest, invite-only
- Wallet
- Optional. MetaMask or Rabby on Robinhood Chain, for staked matches only.
Download and install
Grab the Windows client and run it. Nothing about the install touches a wallet or asks for a key.
Play free
Practice arenas cost nothing and always will. Learn the maps and the guns before any money is on the line.
Connect a wallet
Sign a message to prove the address is yours. It is not a transaction, it moves no funds and it costs no gas.
Stake when it opens
Deposit into the escrow contract, enter a staked arena, and withdraw your balance whenever you want.
Enter the Gauntlet
First playtest invites go out on X. No email list, no waitlist form, no spam.