Fantasy Top
Fantasy sports where the players were crypto influencers on X
An onchain game where players bought NFT cards of crypto personalities and fielded five-card decks scored on those people's engagement on X, with a cut of card sales and trades paid to the personalities.
- Capital raised (announced)
- Estimated
Recorded announced backing; this is separate from cash received, customer deposits and money recovered.
- Paid out to players, by the company's count
- Estimated
Company-reported lifetime player payouts at May 2026 closure; influencer payments are a separate amount.
Funding
| Round | Date | Announced | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 2024 | ||
| Seed | 2024 |
Announced is what was said at the time. Cash actually received is rarely disclosed and is not assumed to match.
People
| Name | Role | Period | Now | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kipit | — | Not established | Oct 2026 |
Timeline
1 May 2024
A first phase went live on 17 April. DL News, citing DefiLlama, reported $10.6 million in fees within the first two weeks.
13 December 2024
15 July 2025
Brave New Coin, citing DL News, reported monthly revenue of about $200,000 by June 2025.
20 May 2026
Prediction markets and other side games were switched off the next day.
Farewell Fantasy. After 2 years of operations, Fantasy.top will be shutting down at the end of June. What started as an experiment around attention markets and social finance became one of the most viral…
18 June 2026
25 June 2026
How it ended
The company said the trading card model's long-term economics had shown their limits, that card trading volume could not sustain operations, and that a year of adjacent products had not found durable market fit. It said it had been self-funded, had not used investor money for operations, and would refund every pre-seed and seed investor dollar for dollar. It never launched a token.
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Sources
12 sources behind this page.
- 1Fantasy.top's Base Migration Signals SocialFi Revival as Crypto Bull Market Gains Momentum · Brave New Coin
- 2Fantasy Top to shut down after two years, returning $20M to users along the way · Crypto Briefing · May 2026
- 3Fantasy Top shuts down after crypto TCG model breaks · crypto.news · May 2026
- 4Ethereum Crypto Influencer Game 'Fantasy Top' Shutting Down · Decrypt · May 2026
- 5What is fantasy.top? The latest SocialFi project rakes $11m in 10 days · DL News · May 2024
- 6Fantasy Raises $4.25 Million for Web3 Card Game · GAMES.GG · Dec 2024
- 7Dragonfly Leads $4.25M Seed Round for Blockchain-Based Card Game Fantasy · NFTgators · Dec 2024
- 8"Fantasy" Crypto Trading Card Game Debuts on Blast Mainnet · The Crypto Times · Apr 2024
- 9Posts from @fantasy_top_, 19-22 May 2026 · twitterapi.io
- 10X account record for @fantasy_top_ · twitterapi.io
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- 11Latest posts by @0xKipit · X (via twitterapi.io)
- 12X user search results for "kipit" (includes @0xKipit) · X (via twitterapi.io)
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