Frequently asked questions

An expedition survival game built around rifts — unstable spaces derived from Bitcoin’s on-chain history. You breach inward from the surface, manage stamina, extract loot to your vault, and fabricate keys and gear in the workshop.

A breach is a run into a rift. You pack your expedition kit on the surface, cross the breach, and either extract with loot or collapse back to the surface.

A rift is a playable expedition space seeded from public Bitcoin data — danger, scale, and density differ rift by rift. Each rift has a catalog reference in the atlas; halving-era rifts carry harsher weight. You select a rift from the ledger, not a generic map list.

You are lost in the breach — unbanked loot stays behind. Worn gear and what you already extracted to the vault return to the surface. Stamina collapse drags you back without a character wipe.

The alpha is single-player. A shared atlas tracks which rifts walkers have charted worldwide; synchronous co-op or PvP is not part of the current scope.

Early access for a small group of testers. You will breach rifts, stress the extract loop, and send feedback before a wider release.

Not yet publicly. Request alpha access and we will invite in batches as the client and backend milestones land.

Sign up on the alpha page. Invites go out manually when we are ready for the next cohort. Check your spam folder.

Web-first in the browser. No native mobile build is planned for the alpha.

No. The alpha runs entirely off-chain. No wallet connection, no gas fees, no NFT minting.

Strikes are the sole settlement currency for player-to-player trade on the marketplace. Breaches drop items and reagents, not Strikes. You obtain Strikes through fiat purchase or by selling items to other players (buyer pays; seller receives net after platform tax).

Breachwalker is item-first, not a pay-to-login reward loop. You grind gear and reagents inside rifts, craft in the workshop, and trade on the marketplace. Economic upside comes from item value and skilled play — not from a token drip for showing up.

Planned after the core breach loop proves out. Strikes settle trades; provenance on high-tier items matters for collector value. The marketplace is not live in the alpha.

Yes. Item NFTs are on the roadmap. The design goal is utility-first gear that remains meaningful inside rifts after you bring it back on-chain — not collectibles with a game reskin.

Most loot lives off-chain in your vault by default. When you choose to bridge out, the item becomes a tradeable NFT and leaves your functional in-game inventory (no duplicate item on-chain and off-chain). Bridge in again — by connecting a wallet that holds that NFT — and the item returns to your playable loadout. If the NFT sells on an external market, in-game function for the previous holder ends after ownership reverification.

Base. Bitcoin remains the substrate for rift generation and lore; tradeable item NFTs target Base for lower fees and mature marketplace tooling. Wallet onboarding is intended to use Coinbase Wallet — including paths that avoid seed-phrase friction for players new to crypto.

We are exploring sponsored minting through a game-operated wallet so your first bridge-out does not require holding ETH for gas. Details and limits will ship with the asset bridge — not in the alpha.

Not in the alpha. There is no minting, wallet connection, or export yet. Closed alpha testers shape the breach loop before the bridge goes live.

Ordinals-era holder partnerships (recognition items, soulbound rewards, bonus rifts tied to historic mints) are planned separately from the Base asset bridge. Verification would use a Bitcoin-aware indexer, not the same pipeline as EVM NFT custody.