⚡️ 2024 Recap: $1M Prize Pools, 1.5M Users & More! 🏆️

Hi, Slingers 🎉

With 2024 coming to a close, there's no better time to celebrate the achievements that the community's creativity and passion fueled this year 🥳

Let’s take a look back at these memorable milestones

👥 Community Growth

  • 1.5M active website users generated 3M views 👀

  • X reached 393k followers, driving 8.8M impressions 😱

  • Discord's 51,129 members sent 100k+ messages this month 💬

  • Zealy drove 57.2k participants to claim 599k quests ⚡️

🏭️ Game Factory

  • Launched with a $1,000,000 prize pool across multiple highly competitive seasons 🏆️

  • 6000+ hours of gameplay and 50%+ retention rate 📱

  • Introduced new mechanics for a more engaging experience 🔧

  • Rewarded players for sharing insights that improved gameplay 🙌

🎮️ Game Development

Game Jam #1: 471 SlingJammers delivered 90+ submissions:

  • Best Overall Game: Sparksteel 🥇

  • Runner-up: Volt Runner 🥈

  • Honorable Mentions: Voltage Velocity, System Overload, and more 🏅

Meow Slayers introduced innovative mechanics like Chariot Boosting 😼

Slipshot emerged, boasting immersive gameplay and a sleek movement system 🎯

🖼️ Genesis NFT

2000 free to mint NFTs (excluding gas) offering ecosystem utility:

  • $SLING airdrop 🪂

  • Boosts in Game Factory’s $1,000,000 prize pool 🏭️

  • Staking and governance benefits 🗳️

📢 Marketing

  • Expanded reach to 850k+ members across X, Telegram, and Discord 👥

  • Ran campaigns like the most recent Zealy sprint with $30,000 in prizes with record participation ⚡️

  • Nurtured partnerships with key brands like Motorverse and STR8FIRE, securing opportunities for community rewards and growth 🤝

🛠️ Product & Token Updates

  • Initiated the migration of $SLING from Polygon to Arbitrum 🔄

  • Introduced on-chain governance voting and deployed the Slingshot Layer-3 network ⚖️

  • Enhanced UI/UX in the dApp, Game Factory, and ecosystem 🖥️

  • Launched Slingshot dApp’s Alpha testing phase ⚙️

🏆️ Community Achievements

  • The Slingshot Squadron served as a beacon of leadership, content creation, education, and event hosting 🎖️

  • Weekly Discord events, from UGC contests to AMAs, kept the server buzzing with activity 🕹️

📊 Raw Data

Website 🌐

  • Active users: 1.5M

  • Views: 3.0M

X 🐦️

  • Followers: 395k

  • Impressions: 8.8M

  • Likes: 436K

  • Reposts: 202K

  • Replies: 45.1K

Discord 👾

  • Total Members: 51,129

  • Messages: 100,000+/month

Zealy ⚡️

  • Participants: 57.2K

  • Quests Claimed: 599K

Game Factory 🏭️

  • Retention rate: 50%+

  • Hours of Gameplay: 6,000+

👀 Looking Ahead

Slingshot stands stronger than ever 💪

To every Slinger who played, built, engaged, or shared — thank you 🙏

Let’s make 2025 even more remarkable 🍾