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Built to hit a deadline the team couldn't move
Gambit wanted fans to trade, play, and earn with tokenized athletes in real time. We built and launched the app ahead of two fixed dates: the NBA playoffs and the European football season.
Launched a working alpha ahead of two fixed dates: the NBA playoffs and the European football season.
Built a lighter blockchain integration that gave fans a real trading experience while holding off on full on-chain settlement until the alpha proved people wanted it.
Grew from a 130,000-person waitlist to 27,000 active alpha users who played more than 2,000 fantasy contests.
Gambit's vision was a full crypto economy for sports fans: buy, sell, and play with tokenized athletes on a blockchain marketplace. To get there, the team needed the app live before the NBA playoffs and European football season, two sports calendars the team didn't control.
Building the on-chain infrastructure the long-term vision called for, wallet-to-wallet transfers, escrow, and balances reconciled against the blockchain in real time, was going to take longer than the runway allowed. The question wasn't whether to build it. It was whether to build all of it before anyone had used the product.
A mobile-first app for trading and playing with real athletes
We built a web and mobile app where fans could buy, sell, and enter tokenized athletes in fantasy contests, backed by real-time NBA and FIFA data.
Buy, play, and watch the game move your portfolio
A fan picks athletes they believe in, enters them in a contest, and watches the games decide who wins. There's no waiting for a season to end or a trade to clear. The value of what you hold moves with the game in front of you.
The right amount of blockchain, not the most
Full on-chain settlement meant every wallet balance reconciled against the blockchain in real time, on infrastructure the industry itself was still stabilizing. Building that correctly before launch risked the deadlines that mattered.
Instead, we built a lighter version for launch: token transfers were initiated on-chain, but the app didn't block a fan's experience on waiting for settlement to confirm. Fans got the real feel of owning and trading tokenized athletes. The team could harden the ledger and reconcile balances once real usage showed the product was worth the investment.
That decision kept the launch on schedule and let Gambit use real user behavior, not assumptions, to decide how much blockchain infrastructure to build next.
"The Fluxon team was critical in bringing our vision to reality. They lent expertise, professionalism and first-class engineering to the project, enabling us to launch full-featured mobile and web apps for Gambit's Alpha launch."
From a waitlist to a working product fans actually used
Gambit's alpha launched on schedule and gave the team real proof that fans wanted what they'd envisioned.
27,000+
alpha users, drawn from a waitlist of over 130,000
130,000+
waitlist signups ahead of launch
2,000+
fantasy contests played during alpha
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