We are excited to announce we will be moving to Base this season.
Since 2021 we've been on ETH mainnet and it's been good to us. Millions of dollars in prizes paid out, our main contest has doubled in sales every year since going live. ETH was home.
But we're done playing small. New era is here. We want to take our fantasy football best ball contest and our company to the next level, and the way we get there is on Base, using USDC.
Better user experience. Built to scale.
Here's why we're doing it:
1. Entry fees shouldn't be volatile. When ETH rips, the entry fee gets pricey and discourages people from drafting. We saw it last year with how entry basically doubled from $25 to $50 mid contest. We can't have that. The price needs to be the price.
2. Gas on ETH sucks. The spikes are real and users end up paying way more than the entry fee itself. That's a broken experience. Base is cheap af and we're going to eat those fees ourselves.
3. Prize pools shouldn't be volatile either. Yeah it's amazing when ETH rips and the prize pool grows. But when it tanks? Bad taste in everyone's mouth. This is a season-long contest where you're waiting months for it to settle. The less volatility, the better.
4. Web2 users finally get a real experience. $2 is $2. No hurdles. Social login creates a wallet (we're using Privy now, totally seamless), credit card and Apple Pay payments, and onchain transactions happening cleanly under the hood. Your buddy from your league chat can actually play.
Add this to all the new features and updates coming this year and we're going to explode. Our product is the best and most fun way to play fantasy football, the way it was meant to be.
You are the best community on the planet and we appreciate every single one of you who's been on this journey with us.
We are the only onchain fantasy drafting platform.
The only platform where you can buy and sell teams.
The only platform where your teams don't die with injuries, thanks to our team-position format.
The only platform where you can skip the finals with added gamification.
Banana Best Ball IV will be the best contest yet. Going live in June.