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About Onchain Heroes
Onchain Heroes is an onchain RPG built on Abstract, an Ethereum Layer 2, where players send heroes into expeditions with permanent consequences—failure can remove a hero from circulation forever. The core loop is simple: risk heroes for rewards, with 50% of HERO tokens spent during a season redistributed to top leaderboard players. Access is gated by NFTs (Genesis Heroes, Weapon NFTs, Genesis Rings), but the game avoids heavy pay-to-win dynamics.
The project's key pivot came from a hard lesson: a fully onchain model was too expensive and slow, with every interaction requiring fees and confirmations that broke gameplay rhythm. In response, Onchain Heroes adopted a hybrid architecture—financial transactions stay onchain, while game logic and secondary interactions run offchain. This cut data indexing times from four hours to about twenty minutes and enabled far more complex gameplay.
Between March and September 2026, the game underwent major changes. In April, it introduced Valor, a USD-pegged offchain currency for marketplace purchases, while repositioning HERO as a premium currency for exclusive functions. The custom marketplace launched with Eve Keys as the first tradable item. In September, the Dragma Unleashed event ended, distributing 750,080 VALOR to players, and Sir Jackalot returned as the temporary Throne gatekeeper. Expedition Mode entered Phase 2, shifting from risk-free testing to live, reward-bearing expeditions with real stakes. Recent updates also removed certain special rooms, reduced special-room drop rates from 20% to 10%, and made energy soulbound—non-transferable between wallets.
Onchain Heroes rebuilt Maze of Gains from the ground up as MoG 2.0, calling it “Not a patch – a whole new game,” with reworked combat, progression and rooms. The first playtest launched July 1 with an NFT/Pass gate; the second opened to all players, who can earn Arcade Keys by submitting feedback . The team also shifted from a fully onchain model to a hybrid architecture: payments settle on Abstract, while gameplay logic runs offchain, cutting indexing time from four hours to about 20 minutes .
The economy was overhauled with Valor, a USD-pegged stablecoin acquired via USDC on Abstract Mainnet, enabling instant offchain trades with zero gas fees. $HERO transitioned to a premium currency, reserved for features such as Weapon Remixing. Energy is now soulbound and acts as a bridge between Maze of Gains and OCH World .
Looking ahead, a custom marketplace will launch before OCH World, starting with Eve Keys as the first tradeable item. OCH World, the persistent player-driven world, was delayed from Q4 2025 to early Q1 2026 for quality and stability; its first playable zone, Primora, will include mining, forging and cooking at launch. Season 2 $HERO rewards will be credited automatically on day one of OCH World .
Based on available reliable information, Onchain Heroes has only one confirmed founder and core lead: Skarly (Twitter: @skarlywarly). Skarly has ten years of software engineering experience across payments, logistics, and accounting. He entered onchain gaming during the late-2021 NFT craze, first building trading tools as a Wolf Game community member, then joining the team as lead engineer for about two years, where he helped build its hybrid onchain/offchain architecture and tokenomic systems. In 2024, he founded Onchain Heroes, positioning it as an onchain RPG for degens, secured angel funding, and planned to launch on the Abstract chain. No other co-founders or core executives with reliable public information were identified.