Crabada

A picture with Crabada's logo and a several Crabada NFTs, originally posted on the project's first Medium article.

Crabada is a play-to-earn project on Avalanche, founded in August of 2021. Players of Crabada collect crab NFTs (called Crabada) and can use them in many different ways throughout the game. Users earn the in-game currency TUS (and CRA for a short time) while battling other Crabada in the idle game, renting their crabs out in the Tavern, and there will be a battle game tentatively launching on May 15th 2022.

History

Crabada first tweeted on August 23rd 2021, which seems to be the first communication to the public. A Medium article was released in September detailing the idle gameplay and how potential players will be able to obtain Crabada. 6,490 Origin Crabada would be available in the Special Breeding Event, although it seems that number was changed to 5,640.

In October, it was announced that Crabada would launch their governance token, CRA, on Avalaunch.

Crabada received $600k in a strategic private investment round from Avalanche, Avalaunch, Skyvision Capital, Not3Lau Capital, Zee Prime Capital, Devmons, Wangarian and more.

On November 2nd, 2021 Crabada opened registration for their Token Distribution Round 1 on Avalaunch. The sale was for 22,000,000 CRA at a price of $0.018 and a total of $400k was raised.

Crabada also had a Community Bootstrapping Event on their native platform on November 10th for whitelisted users, and November 11th for the public. This had a max allocation of 60,000 CRA per user and sold all 37,777,777 CRA for $0.018 per token.

The Special Breeding Event began on November 13th and ended on November 29th.

CRA and TUS launched on Trader Joe on November 13th.

The Crabada Idle-Game began on November 14th as an open beta.

On November 30th, the project released a Battle Game prototype.

The Swimmer Network, an Avalanche Subnet for Crabada was announced on March 4th.

An anti-bot patch for the Idle-Game was released on March 6th to help users loot more.

Tokens

CRA is the governance token of Crabada that can be earned through the Idle-Game.

TUS (Treasure Under Sea) is earned through playing the Idle-Game and renting Crabada in the Tavern. Users are required to spend TUS and CRA to breed crabs.

Gameplay

Crabada

Crabada is not only the name of the project but also the name of the NFTs that players will use in the game. There are 8 classes of Crabada which impact different base attributes.

Idle-Game

The Crabada Idle-Game has two options for users that own 3 Crabada. Users can choose to go on Mining expeditions with their Crabada teams, or choose to Loot other crabs with their teams.

Mining Expedition

Mining takes 4 hours if you do not have a team with >230 Mining Points in total. In that case, the Mining Expedition will take 3.5 hours. The breed of Crabada Prime has a specialty in mining and will increase the in-game currency rewards received from Mining Expeditions by 10%.

As a Miner if you are not attacked by a Looter within 1.5 hours, you will automatically win the Expedition and receive the maximum reward. It is likely you will need to reinforce when you are on a Mining Expedition.

Miner's Revenge is a mechanic introduced to give a chance to Mining teams that are weaker than their Looting counterparty. Miner's revenge is based off of your Crabada team's Mining Point (MP) total, with a maximum of 40% chance of Miner's Revenge occuring. If Miner's Revenge is triggered, it is an automatic win for a Mining team.

Looting Missions

Looting Missions in Crabada now require Looting Points, which are obtained after completing a Mining Expedition. Previously, this was not required. It was added in an attempt to balance the weight of rewards as most of the CRA and TUS from the Idle-Game was going to Looters. The reason Looters were able to make more in-game currency was because the Looting Missions were faster with a variable range of completion from 1 to 3 hours. Looters can also see ahead of time what team they will be looting. This means they cam simply avoid any team that is stronger than them and loot weaker teams for guaranteed wins. In an attempt to limit this, Crabada implemented a faction system.

• 1 Mining Expedition grants 4 Looting Points
• 1 Looting Mission consumes 1 Looting Point
• Looting Points are directly attached to teams (TeamID)
• Looting Point cap = 12

The game flow of a Looting Mission is roughly the same as a Mining Expedition. Depending on the timing of reinforcements, the amount of time needed to pay attention to the actual game is minimal hence why it is called an Idle-Game.

Game flow and reinforcements

Reinforcements are optional and require the user to spend TUS on other Crabada that are up for rent in the Tavern. A Crabada team will start mining and within 1.5 hours, the Looters will need to declare an attack to have a chance at winning. 30 minutes after the Looter declares an attack, the Mining team can call for a reinforcement crab from the Tavern. Next, it is the Looters turn to reinforce. This continues until both the Miner and Looter reinforce twice and have 5 total Crabada on their respective teams.

Rewards

If a Miner wins, they earn 3.75 CRA and 303.75 TUS. This is increased by 10% if your team has 1 Prime class of Crabada.

A Looter will take 65% of the Miners rewards if he wins, which is 2.7375 CRA and 221.7375 TUS. Looters will earn 0.3 CRA and 24.3 if they lose.

Swimmer Network

The Swimmer Network is an Avalance Subnet that uses TUS as the gas token for the network. The Swimmer Testnet was launched on March 4th, 2022. Users could bridge to the testnet and were airdropped testnet-versions of Crabada to use in the Idle-Game. TUS.E was used as gas during the testnet. Originally set to fully migrate to the mainnet of Swimmer Network towards the end of March, it was been delayed to an estimated date of May 15th.

Tokenomics

A chart showing CRA Token Emissions over time.

Distribution

	Distribution	No. CRA Tokens	Vest
Private Round	6%	60,000,000	1 year (3 months cliff, followed by quarterly release)
Community Bootstrap Event	6%	60,000,000	-
Ecosystem Fund	20%	200,000,000	50% no vest, 50% unlocked 1 year later
Play-to-Earn	30%	300,000,000	-
Staking Rewards	13%	130,000,000	-
Advisors	3%	30,000,000	2 years (6 months cliff, followed by quarterly release)
Liquidity	5%	50,000,000	-
Team	17%	170,000,000	2 years (6 months cliff, followed by quarterly release)