Austraverse opens its doors today, and nothing like it has existed before. It is a free, real-time 3D world where crypto is the economy and you are a citizen. You ride a delivery bike for your first naira, trade Bitcoin at its live price and launch a coin of your own. Whales move, hype builds, scams appear and regulators open cases, and you live through all of it.
It plays in your browser, on your phone or your laptop. None of it is real money, so you get every win, every rug pull and every panic, and you walk away knowing exactly what you’re doing.
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What Is Austraverse?
Austraverse is a free 3D crypto city game that runs in your browser. Lagos is open, London opens beside it, and Dubai is coming. Every street has a real player on it, and the player counts are real, because Austraverse never seeds fake numbers.
Everything you touch is simulated. A bad decision here costs you a lesson and nothing else.
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Why Learning Crypto Feels So Hard
You know the story already. Your cousin put his salary into something his friend swore by. A colleague went quiet about her savings. And you nodded when someone said “liquidity” in a meeting, then looked it up in the bathroom.
Nobody tells you how much shame sits inside not knowing. The words are built like a wall: wallet, gas, slippage, rug pull. Half the people explaining them are selling you something. So you wait, you watch from the edge, and your own money slips a little further out of reach.
Waiting is a tax too. You just don’t get a receipt.
How Austraverse Works
Roll your birth
Every player rolls a birth once. The roll happens on the server, it’s audited, and it decides where you start in your city. Some start with a head start. Some start with nothing at all.
Then the game does the thing life rarely does. A board called Biggest climb rewards how far you rise, not where you began. The player who rolled the smallest start can still be the name everyone is talking about on Sunday night.
Earn your first naira
You wake up with a bike, a market stall or a delivery route. You take a job from the Jobs board, you ride across town, and the money lands. It’s pretend money, and your chest still does the little jump when it arrives. That jump is where it starts. You want a second delivery, then a better job, then something to do with what you’ve saved.
Trade Bitcoin at live prices
Bitcoin trades at its real price. So does MNA, the city’s own coin, and so does every coin another player has created. Prices change every ten seconds, and on the live ticker one coin can be up 49.6% while another is down 27.3%. You will feel both in your stomach, and you will have lost nothing.
Open your net worth and everything is there at once: the cash in your bank, what’s sitting on BullX, what’s held at Steward, and what you’ve staked. One honest number tells you where you really stand.
Launch your own coin
This is the part you only ever watched other people do. In Austraverse you create a coin on a bonding curve, run a presale and gather a community around it. You post on Bullhorn and the hype starts to carry.
Then the city teaches you the other half. Hype moves prices. A regulator opening a case moves them too. Some mornings a whale wallet shifts and the room goes quiet. A coin you built can rise, and a coin you trusted can collapse, and you will understand exactly why.
Learn from every mistake in the Academy
Every mistake you make turns into a 60-second lesson in the Academy. You don’t need to read a book first. You get hurt a little, you get the explanation immediately, and it stays.
You learn what a pump looks like from the inside. You learn what a rug pull looks like from the inside. You learn that anyone who asks for your recovery phrase is a thief, and you learn it before it can cost you a kobo.
The Mystery of Manna and Gandoki
Every coin in the city runs on a chain called Manna, and Manna has a creator nobody can find. His name is Gandoki. He left behind a white paper and nine public wallets, and everyone watches them.
- Fixed supply: there will only ever be 200,000,000 MNA, and nobody can print more.
- Burn mechanism: every time someone launches a token, a fifth of the launch fee is burned and gone forever.
- The silent wallet: five million MNA sit in one wallet that is never supposed to move. If it ever does, the story says to stop trusting anything he wrote.
- Live alerts: when another of his wallets stirs, the ticker tells you.
The first block carries a headline about the naira hitting a new low while banks limited dollar withdrawals. Anyone who has stood in a bank queue will recognise the feeling behind that line. The chain was built to answer it.
Austraverse also has Satoshi Watch, where the real Bitcoin wallets of Bitcoin’s creator appear live in the game. Market prices and news come from real feeds, so the world around you behaves like the real one.
Life in the City
Everyone on the street is a person with a handle above their head. You can chat, trade, wave and invite people home. Night falls and the clubs fill, the dance floor lights up, and a Big spenders board counts down the night’s biggest names.
Your clock, net worth, inbox, mood and energy sit along the top of the screen. A dock at the bottom takes you to the map, your hustle, your phone, Bullhorn and your bank.
Every Sunday at 11:59 pm, the weekly boards close in every open city on its own clock. Then everyone starts again.
Ads in Austraverse
Every city has 25 billboards, along with Bullhorn posts and the BullX sponsor strip. Every ad carries an “Ad” label, there are no ad trackers, and a real person reviews each placement within 24 hours.
How to Reserve Your Austraverse Username
Your handle is the one thing in the city that is only yours. Only one person can have each name. Reserving takes a minute:
- Go to the game website. Visit austraverse.app/soon.
- Pick your name. Use 3 to 15 letters, numbers or underscores.
- Add your email. Your name is locked to it, so nobody else can claim it.
- Confirm your reservation. Tap the link we send you.
- Sign up at first light. When the doors open today, sign up with the same email and the name is yours. It is held for 72 hours after the doors open.
- Bring your people in. Share your link so they can reserve their names too.
Nobody using a different email can take your name.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Austraverse free to play?
Yes. Austraverse is free and runs in your browser, on your phone or your laptop.
Is the money in Austraverse real?
No. Game cash is not real money, it can’t be sold for real money, and nothing in the game touches a real blockchain.
Which cities are open?
Lagos and London open together. Dubai is coming.
Who can play?
Austraverse is a game for adults aged 18 and over.
How long is my reserved username held?
Your name is held for 72 hours after the doors open.
Is anyone selling MNA outside the game?
Anyone offering you MNA outside the game is a scammer.
Reserve Your Name and Start Playing
Everything else is real. The fear of getting it wrong is real, and so is the relief of finally understanding how the thing works.
Reserve your name. Roll your birth. Make the mistake that teaches you.
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This is great, already reserved my username, can’t wait to play a crypto game ooooo. Been wishing for this in like forever now.