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Unlocking a Huge Market: Multi‑billion‑dollar PvP frontier
In the fast-growing $80B+ mobile gaming landscape, a quiet revolution has been unfolding. Casual PvP gaming with real cash prizes—has exploded into a $21+ billion sector growing at a blistering 14% annually. This category welcomes everyone (18-55+) - the college student between classes, the parent after bedtime stories, the grandparent sharpening their mind.
Casual PvP (player-versus-player) games transform simple casual games into electrifying experiences by letting everyday players compete directly against each other for real cash prizes:
What makes Casual PvP games engaging? Real competition with real money:
Players connect and each wager a small amount
They compete head-to-head for 5-10 minutes
Winners receive immediate cash rewards
The platform takes a small commission
This simple formula taps into our natural competitive instincts and desire for recognition, transforming casual games into engaging experiences that players return to repeatedly.
Despite massive potential with 2.5B+ casual mobile gamers worldwide, even the most successful casual PvP platforms remain trapped within national boundaries. The culprits? Outdated Web2 financial infrastructure creating three critical bottlenecks:
Fragmented Global Matching: Regional payment systems prevent players from different countries from competing against each other, dramatically reducing player liquidity and limiting prize pools
Inefficient Financial Rails: Every market requires rebuilding the payment infrastructure—high setup costs, slow settlement times, and currency conversion spreads cripple unit economics
Value-Leaking Loyalty: Player rewards exist as temporary coupons that disappear when switching between games, preventing true lifetime value accumulation
This fragmentation creates a lose-lose scenario: players miss out on global competition and meaningful rewards, while studios sacrifice global reach, network effects, and sustainable retention.
The result? A unified global arena where players earn, own, and compete across borders—creating powerful incentives for studios to develop better games while capturing worldwide revenue without rebuilding infrastructure for each market.
Got Questions? Ask our GPT →
We see you.
We see the hours you pour into worlds that don't belong to you. The creativity you unleash in games that treat you as just another user ID. The communities you build while someone else holds the keys to the kingdom.
We feel that quiet frustration too. That sense that something fundamental is broken.
What if we told you it doesn't have to be this way?
Picture this: You wake up tomorrow and the digital world has been reborn. Your late-night gaming sessions don't just entertain - they build equity. Your creative spark doesn't just fill someone else's library - it grows your own digital garden.
Here's the truth we can't ignore:
Every moment you spend in a digital space, you're creating value. You're the electricity that powers these platforms. You're the soul that gives them meaning.
Yet you've been told to just grind and expect nothing back?
Nature whispers the truth: "Nature is the ultimate blockchain, and human beings are the NFTs." You are irreplaceable. Your attention flowing through time creates something that has never existed before and will never exist again.
This is our love letter to you.
Imagine logging into a game where every achievement builds your actual wealth. Where communities govern themselves. Where you never have to start over because a platform changed its rules.
We're a movement trying to return value to you. We do this by building fun experiences and the infrastructure to let gaming creativity flourish - a living economy for both Web3 pioneers and Web2 explorers.
Our sacred commitments:
We lead with heart, not hype.
We build real products and experiences that create real joy.
We nurture authentic communities focussed on passion and purpose.
We believe in economies rooted in shared ownership.
We create lasting value, not quick flips.
We're here for the long game, the deep game, the human game.
We’re building a new paradigm where gameplay generates ownership, where community evolves into a living economy.
The mobile casual gaming market itself is worth $80 billion a year. What if just 10% of that lived in a world where players and creators shared in that prosperity?
Join us & let's build the nation of tomorrow, together.
Welcome to the Hike Gaming Nation.
Got Questions? Ask our GPT → gpt.hike.xyz
Our business model is engineered around a core principle: create a sustainable ecosystem where player success drives platform growth:
Minimal Platform Fee: We maintain only a 10-15% platform fee across all gameplay
Player-First Economics: The vast majority of value flows directly back to our community
Proven Scale: We've distributed over $400M in rewards to players in the last 12 months alone
Comprehensive Rewards Ecosystem: Our sophisticated retention strategy includes loyalty programs, free tournament access, referral incentives, and recovery mechanics for non-winners—creating a vibrant community with low churn and high lifetime value.
By conquering one of the world's most competitive and low ARPU markets, we've developed unparalleled expertise in user engagement and monetization within the casual gaming sector.
Most blockchain gaming ventures struggle with fundamental challenges that we've already solved:
Revenue-First Economics: Instead of relying on token speculation, we build on the proven PvP gameplay model—where users directly pay for utility they value
Exceptional User Experience: Our team brings a track record of delivering sophisticated yet intuitive interfaces in highly competitive markets, ensuring seamless adoption
Proven Market Demand: While many Web3 projects chase theoretical problems, we address entrenched inefficiencies in a validated market with millions of daily players
The foundation of Casual PvP gaming has always been a sustainable business model where players willingly pay for valued competition. By introducing Web3 infrastructure and the $HIKE token, we're not reinventing the wheel—we're removing the friction that has prevented this wheel from rolling across the entire globe.
Rush App will continue as our fiat-only flagship product tapping India's 1B+ user base. It will act as the foundation on which we build new game modes and retention mechanics.
Got Questions? Ask our GPT → gpt.hike.xyz
The player-vs-player (PvP) format is key to scaling and bringing the $80B Mobile Casual Gaming market on chain.
How Casual PvP Works → Players pay an entrance fee to compete on casual skill-based real-time matches to win cash prizes. Our platform takes a small commission while managing global matchmaking, scoring, and instant payouts.
The Mobile Casual PvP market has exploded into a $21+ billion sector, serving a global audience of 600M+ players. This segment is growing at a 14% CAGR and has reached an inflection point—poised for breakout growth.
Our Thesis → Every casual game in the future, will have a PvP mode. Just like how multiplayer transformed AAA gaming, PvP will do the same for Casual Games and unlock net new revenue streams by making casual games social and competitive.
We are creating the first MMO Casual PvP Gaming ecosystem—a digital nation where gaming skill is properly rewarded through crypto and NFT's, players truly own their digital assets and gaming progress, and the community actively governs and evolves the platform.
We're forging a living economy where every participant shapes our world.
In 2021, we launched Rush in India—a single app featuring 14 games, that proved our thesis and demonstrated the huge potential of Casual PvP over the past 4 years:
$480M+ Annual Gaming Volume: Business model validated in India's challenging market
5M+ Monthly Active Users: 32%+ D7 retention rate, best in class to major mobile titles
Robust Engagement: 100M+ games played per month, 28-minute average daily sessions
Technical Excellence: Proprietary enterprise-grade infrastructure with millisecond latency
New game - Bingo Champions launched in the US market in Q1'25.
As we built games at Hike Studios, we created custom infrastructure for user onboarding, matchmaking, anti-cheat etc. all from scratch. We are incorporating our technology into the Hike Protocol — infrastructure purpose-built to hyperscale PvP gaming.
Building on our Web2 success, we aim to build the MMOCPG vision through five interconnected components:
Stablecoins: USDC/T unlock global gaming by solving instant global settlement and unified global prize pools at a fraction of the cost of similar web2 solutions
$HIKE Token: The economic engine fueling rewards, governance, access to special features and value capture through platform activity, aligning incentives of all participants
NFT's as Energy Containers: Capturing player attention and contributions as owned digital assets and granting the user a share in the value generated in the ecosystem
Hike DevKit & Platform: The infrastructure that enables developers to tap into our distribution. Payment, wallet, Avatar rails, PvP-as-a-Service, and security for rapid integration
We're building something real—real users, real revenue, and proven metrics. We will combine the best of both worlds:
Web2 Benefits: Seamless mobile-first UX, validated business model with strong retention and unit economics, proven gamification expertise
Web3 Unblocks: Global payment rails, borderless communities, digital ownership and community governance
Our interfaces will hide all away the web3 complexity, letting users jump into games with any asset, from any chain, using any wallet.
With a single window for both web2 and web3 users to play and compete for tokenized rewards, we are creating the bridge for mass adoption of blockchain technology.
Our dream state is a self-sustaining digital nation that is not just a community but a living economy.
Economic Foundations:
GDP Driver: Casual PvP gaming generates real economic activity through millions of games played everyday
Currency: Multi-token system with stablecoins for stability and $HIKE token loops for growth and governance
Treasury: Protocol-owned reserves that grow with ecosystem adoption and secure long-term sustainability
Participants:
Players win tangible rewards through skill-based competition
Developers access a large global player base with built-in monetization
Capital Allocators tap into transparent, on-chain yield opportunities
Our phased approach to building the nation scales from games to infrastructure:
Rush (2020-2024): Prove PM Fit & Casual PvP Business Model with $480M+ Annual Gaming Volume and 5M+ MAU
Going Global (Q2'25): Expand proven model with multiple games across key markets
Stablecoins (Q3'25): Enable global, instant settlement with minimal volatility
NFT Economy (Q4'25): Avatar system capturing player value and achievement
Token Launch (Q4'25): $HIKE token introduction with comprehensive utility
Developer Platform (2026): Opening our ecosystem to third-party studios
Future Innovations (2026): GenAI Studio for user-generated content and Hike Launchpad for new game economies
On top of the above, we’re also architecting revolutionary experiences that will fundamentally transform how participants experience, create, and profit in the gaming nation:
Hike Passport: Sign in with Hike and take your games, identity, and rewards wherever you go
Hike Launchpad: Hike Launchpad will be a fast track to launching token-powered games
GenAI Studio: Use our internal AI agents to create new experiences and economies
Growth Forge: Growth financing for studios and new games to help achieve escape velocity
Native Stablecoin Hike USD: Build our own stablecoin to capture additional yield
AI Gaming Agents (2027): Train, own and monetize AI competitors that battle for real rewards
Hike: Our established product development powerhouse founded by Kavin Bharti Mittal that built Rush app, and previously Hike Messenger (12M DAU & 1B+ Messages/day
Backed by world-class investors including Jump Crypto, Republic Crypto, Tribe Capital, Polygon, Tencent, Softbank and founders of Tinder, Zynga, Flipkart, and CRED.
Hike Labs: New entity incubated by Hike dedicated to building the Hike Protocol and deploying $HIKE, staffed with cross-functional experts in Web3, tokenomics, and blockchain infrastructure.
Hike Gaming Nation brings together proven traction and powerful fundamentals to reshape the future of mobile casual PvP gaming. Here's why we will win:
Perfect Market Timing: We address the massive mobile casual skill PvP gaming market ($21B+) at precisely the moment Web3 technology can solve its critical scaling challenges—creating a potential 100X growth opportunity.
Revenue-First Economics: Built on a validated business model, with $480M+ gaming volume and 5M+ monthly active users as the starting point. The Protocol earns revenue from Day1
Studio + Infra Combo: The rare combination of a successful dedicated Web2 gaming studio (Hike) with Web3 infrastructure and token focussed team (Hike Labs) creates an execution advantage that pure crypto or pure gaming companies cannot match.
Join us in building the future of competitive gaming—where everyone plays, competes and wins
Got Questions? Ask our GPT → gpt.hike.xyz
We're building beyond a single game or product. Our sustainable economy design will redefine casual gaming, aligning with the broader movement toward user ownership and fulfilling the promise that the next generation of gaming will be "for the players, by the players."
"Consumers care about value, not whether it's Web2 or Web3" – this fundamental truth guides our entire approach.
While many projects force users to choose between Web2's accessibility and Web3's ownership, we eliminate this false dichotomy. We're building on proven business fundamentals with real users and revenue, versus products driven by speculative tokenomics.
We've mastered what makes traditional gaming businesses thrive:
Data-Driven Retention: Sophisticated engagement loops generating 32%+ D7 retention rates
Market-Leading Unit Economics: $480M+ Annual Gaming Volume, with healthy LTV/CAC ratios in one of the world's most challenging markets
Growth Metrics That Matter: User acquisition, revenue per match, and session time
In Web2, there’s no margin for error—success demands mastery of product, revenue, and growth, all of which we’ve executed repeatedly with precision.
We enhance this foundation with blockchain's transformative capabilities:
Borderless Infrastructure: Our stablecoin layer enables instant global competition, settlement, and prize pools without currency friction
True Digital Ownership: Players finally own their gaming progress through tokens and NFT's with practical utility beyond speculation
Value Alignment: Value flows to the actual value creators—players, developers, and active community
We make this integration invisible to the end user—no seed phrases, gas fees, or blockchain knowledge required. Our ecosystem works with any chain, any wallet and any asset! By abstracting technical complexity while delivering ownership benefits, we're creating the perfect bridge to onboarding millions of new users into the world of web3.
The result? A system that combines Web2's user experience and business discipline with Web3's innovation and value distribution—creating sustainable growth that benefits all ecosystem participants.
What’s the Ultimate Goal for Hike Gaming Nation?
Tech always gets better faster cheaper and so will Web 3 (Consensus 2023, Coindesk)
Got Questions? Ask our GPT → gpt.hike.xyz
PM Fit & Scaling: Distributing $400 M+ / year in Player Rewards
In 2021, we launched Rush App in India as our "Web 2 test-bed" with the goal of finding Product-Market Fit & scaling it to see whether the model works. Within just 4 years, we've achieved remarkable growth, scaling to over 5M monthly active users and generating $480M in Gaming Volume.
You can download the Rush App here (iOS, Android).
Our platform features a carefully curated ecosystem of 14 skill-based PvP casual games exclusively in India—spanning diverse genres from trivia and word puzzles to carrom and racing.
True Skill-Based Competition
1v1 duels and compact tournaments
Outcomes determined predominantly by player skill
Mobile-Optimized Experience
This "easy to learn, hard to master" competitive framework has proven extraordinarily effective in player acquisition, engagement, and monetization—creating the perfect foundation for our transition to blockchain technology and tokenized incentives.
Watch the product video !
Rush app has both a free and a cash experience opening the door wide for all types of gamers.
In addition to the Rush App, we also two free apps on the Play Store ().
These apps enable us to tap into mainstream mobile distribution, comply with evolving store policies, and create a frictionless entry point for new users before they engage in real-money gameplay. It's a powerful acquisition and brand-building engine. Today, our F2P apps serve nearly 2Mn+ users monthly, with over 25Mn+ games played each month. In addition, our free experience serves as:
A low-risk sandbox to test game mechanics, content, and features before rolling out to high-stakes environments.
A retention funnel where users build familiarity and habit before converting into transacting players.
A compliance-friendly growth lever, ensuring sustained visibility in India’s mobile-first market even as real-money gaming policies evolve.
Together, this hybrid strategy allows us to maximize top-of-funnel scale while preserving the depth and monetization power of our core PvP app.
Become part of our Rush revolution across our growing ecosystem:
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Battle-Tested Platform & Execution Excellence
Over the past 4 years, we've developed proprietary technologies that set new industry standards for performance, fairness, and scalability in competitive gaming. Our technological foundation is designed to seamlessly transition to blockchain integration:
Enterprise-Grade Native Applications
Industry-leading stability with 99.8%+ crash-free user rate
Optimized for minimal battery consumption and maximum performance
Proprietary Gaming Architecture
Our proprietary matchmaking technology creates the perfect balance of accessibility and competitive integrity:
Advanced Skill Computation: Machine learning model based on Bradley-Terry algorithm providing accurate real-time skill assessment
Instantaneous Matching: Priority queue system delivering P95 matchmaking times under 10 seconds while maintaining skill parity
Enterprise-Scale Architecture: Sharded queue system supporting 1,000+ concurrent tables each processing 500+ users per second
Our comprehensive anti-cheat technology ensures the integrity required for token-based gaming:
Current Protection (Anti-Cheat v1)
Script Detection: Automated identification of artificial inputs and exploitation attempts
Code Integrity: Advanced obfuscation preventing client-side manipulation
Randomization Mechanisms
Our exceptional game delivery system achieves unparalleled speed to market:
Whiteboard to Production: Complete game development cycle in weeks, not months
Proven Track Record: 22 competitive game titles successfully launched in just 49 months
Strategic Portfolio Management: Data-driven focus on highest-performing titles
Our iterative development approach ensures perpetual improvement:
Robust Feedback Loop: Community-centric development with real-time user input
Aggressive Update Cadence: 100+ major releases refining gameplay mechanics
Data-Driven Design: Every change validated through comprehensive metrics analysis
This technological foundation—unprecedented in scale, performance, and user experience—creates the perfect launchpad for our evolution into the crypto gaming space.
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Quick 3-5 minute contests
Designed for high-frequency play sessions and retention
Immediate Value Exchange
Real cash contests with micro-entry fees
Instant winner payouts to in-app wallets
Integrity & Fair Play
Proprietary matchmaking algorithms ensuring balanced competition
Advanced anti-cheat systems with deterministic game logic
KYC & Compliance
Streamlined identity verification for regulatory compliance
Multi-tier verification system scaled to user activity levels
High-Performance Gaming Servers: Custom-built solution supporting 10K+ concurrent users on minimal hardware (4x capacity of leading open-source alternatives)
Revolutionary Unity Loader: Breakthrough technology delivering P90 game load times under 7 seconds
Network Resilience Mechanism: Advanced optimization ensuring smooth gameplay even in challenging network environments
Transaction Processing Engine
Sharded Architecture: Highly scalable infrastructure designed for massive parallelization
Industry-Leading Performance: Supports 10K+ transactions per second (expandable to 20K+)
Ultra-Low Latency: Transaction processing in under 75ms, ensuring real-time gameplay economics
Next-Generation Security (Anti-Cheat v2 - Coming 2025)
Collusion Detection: Identifying secret alliances and coordinated gameplay
Identity Verification: Advanced multi-account detection
Real-Time Protection: Instantaneous cheat detection and prevention
Community governance ensures all stakeholders share in ecosystem growth
Building the Future: The Hike Gaming Nation Roadmap
As we transition into 2025, we are methodically executing the next phase of our MMO Casual PvP Gaming (MMOCPG) nation vision—creating an integrated economic ecosystem built on five core technological pillars:
: Prove PM Fit & Casual PvP Business Model
PM Fit & Revenue Positive ✅
: Build global distribution by expanding our proven model across key markets worldwide with multiple localized games
First Game Launched in US ✅
: Expanding globally with localized games powered by volatility-free stablecoins for predictable economics and instant global settlement.
In-progress 🟢
: Uniting players, studios, and capital allocators in one ecosystem with enhanced staking mechanisms and governance rights.
Yet to start ⭐
: Avatar NFT's that track player contributions while creating revenue through innovative utility and cross-game compatibility.
Yet to start ⭐
: Orchestrating ecosystem interactions through specialized wallets, APIs, and comprehensive SDKs for seamless developer onboarding.
Yet to start ⭐
: Building the future of gaming with GenAI Studio, Hike Passport and other products
Yet to start ⭐
Dive into the pages below to discover how we're revolutionizing the future of Casual PvP gaming!
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"Your Gaming Soul: The Evolution of Digital Identity"
Your Gaming Soul: Single Sign-On, Level Up & Trade
The Hike Avatar the manifestation of our NFT energy container concept. It's your evolving, fully-owned NFT identity—tracking your progress, achievements, and style across our entire Hike ecosystem. Optimized for mobile and built on-chain, it's more than a character—it's your gaming passport.
Your avatar levels up with wins, achievements, and contributions
Unlock exclusive cosmetics, animations, and customization options
Earn gameplay perks like higher rewards and access to elite competitions
Avatars gain value over time with added utility and rare features
Tradable, rentable, and verifiable on-chain—your skill becomes an asset
More powerful avatars earn protocol rewards and unlock deeper gameplay
A web3-native trading hub where NFT's are not just collectibles but real economic assets. Players become stakeholders—buying, selling, and monetizing their avatars and in-game items in an open, player-owned economy.
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Web2 & Web3 Compliant: So Growth Never Stalls
Our platform stands apart by focusing exclusively on real-money skill games, placing us in an advantageous regulatory position:
Skill-Based Model: Our platform rewards strategic thinking, decision-making ability, and practiced skill – creating a fair environment where better players consistently succeed
Clear Legal Standing: Operating solely in the skill-based sector maintains compliance in jurisdictions permitting skill gaming
Proprietary Fair Play Systems: Our matchmaking algorithms ensure balanced competition while deterministic game logic and anti-cheat systems maintain integrity across matches, meeting regulatory standards for fair skill-based gaming.
We undertake Comprehensive KYC verification and strict AML/CFT/Sanctions adherence to ensure highest regulatory compliance standards. We continually track regulatory developments to keep our compliance framework up to date and aligned with emerging standards:
Legal Affirmation: Recent developments in the US (Pennsylvania), Brazil & Peru reinforce the legality of skill-based gaming
Clearer Legislative Frameworks: Several US states are advancing legislation for transparent regulatory structures for skill-based gaming, further legitimizing the industry
Market Expansion: Regulatory flexibility continues to enhance the integration of interactive skill-based elements within digital gaming, broadening appeal and engagement opportunities
Our stablecoin strategy marries innovative technology with regulatory compliance:
Dollar-Pegged Stability: USDC/USDT utilization eliminates volatility concerns that have challenged crypto adoption
Enhanced Financial Access: Opens doors to players with limited traditional banking access while maintaining full compliance
Trusted Infrastructure: Partnerships with leading custodians ensure we meet or exceed security and compliance standards
We continually track regulatory developments to keep our compliance framework up to date and aligned with emerging standards:
US Regulation Breakthroughs: Fed, FDIC and OCC now permit banks to engage with crypto when risks are managed properly. The SEC's new Crypto Task Force is creating clearer distinctions between utility and speculative tokens to help with compliance
Stablecoin Regulatory Renaissance: Regulators have warmed to USDC and USDT. Banks can now hold reserves and participate in blockchain networks as clearer frameworks encourage adoption
Global Progress Acceleration: The EU has unified crypto standards through MiCA. Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong have established robust rules, the UK is improving its regulations, and the UAE and Brazil are developing forward-thinking frameworks—all helping drive legal certainty and mainstream adoption.
Embracing the Future: At the forefront of the evolving digital gaming landscape, we're embracing regulatory changes as opportunities for growth. Recent regulatory developments have created an opening for compliant, skill-based platforms like ours to flourish.
Our commitment to transparency isn't just a value – it's built into our operational DNA:
Clear communication about our operating jurisdictions
Regular third-party audits of our skill-based algorithms
RNG/no-bot certifications & planned third-party audit of smart contracts in pipeline
These recent developments further solidify our strategic commitment to transparency, compliance, and innovation, positioning us to lead in compliant skill-based gaming globally.
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Power to the Players: The Path to Decentralized Gaming Governance
A DAO is a decentralized form of governance, which allows community members to shape the way a protocol makes decisions. This is the Hike Gaming Nation's ultimate goal.
This process will need to be done with the utmost care as decentralizing DAO governance will need to be balanced with speed of execution. The right tools & systems need to be available (and built) to truly unlock the potential of governance.
We will follow a path of 'progressive decentralization' where the process of decentralization will occur gradually over time as $HIKE is distributed among our community members.
Our Hike team will take the responsibility of developing the Hike Protocol in it's early phase of development. This is incredibly important as it will provide a cohesive vision, fast execution & also prevent hostile actors from disrupting our ecosystem during the early phases of development.
$HIKE would allow stakers to propose and vote on governance proposals in the Hike DAO to determine future features, upgrades and/or parameters of the Hike Gaming Nation, or provide feedback, with voting weight calculated in proportion to the tokens staked. It will over time take decisions on:
Feature development priorities
Protocol upgrades and improvements
Economic parameter adjustments
Treasury fund allocation
We're laying out broadly the phases towards becoming a full functioning DAO.
The transition to full DAO governance will occur in measured stages:
Foundation Phase: Our Hike team maintains primary development responsibility to establish a cohesive vision and ensure rapid, coordinated execution.
Limited Governance Phase: Community voting begins on specific, bounded decisions while core development remains centrally coordinated.
Expanded Authority Phase: DAO control extends to broader protocol decisions with increased treasury management rights.
Mature Governance Phase:
This measured approach prevents potential disruption from hostile actors while gradually building our community's capacity for effective self-governance—creating a truly player-owned gaming ecosystem.
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In network economies, the truly scarce elements aren't physical—they're attention and contribution.
While platforms like Facebook and Instagram measure success through engagement metrics, they keep the resulting value for themselves. Web3 fundamentally changes this equation by allowing users who generate value to actually share in it.
Attention × Contribution = Energy
This energy is the lifeblood of any network. It powers everything that matters:
Drives user engagement and retention
Creates all measurable on-chain activity
Forms the foundation for all capital flows
Determines the network's ultimate value
Without this energy, even the most sophisticated blockchain infrastructure remains an empty shell.
In our Gaming Nation, NFT's serve as vessels that capture this energy in its purest form. When a player invests hours mastering a game, competing at high levels, or achieving remarkable feats, that investment shouldn't disappear when they log off.
Our NFT's transform these moments into permanent, owned digital assets. They provide irrefutable "Proof of Play" that lives forever on-chain—a record not just of participation, but of excellence and dedication. Players can showcase their achievements or monetize their skill, creating new economic possibilities beyond the games themselves.
The NFT landscape has been dominated by projects built on artificial scarcity and speculation. Our vision takes a fundamentally different approach:
The value of our NFT's derives from genuine human effort:
The skill demonstrated in competitive play
The time invested across the Hike ecosystem
Contributions to the growth of the protocol
This shift means players finally own the value they create. Gaming evolves from mere entertainment into a legitimate form of digital ownership and wealth creation. The countless hours spent perfecting skills now generate assets with real, lasting value—transforming how we think about both gaming and digital ownership
Got Questions? Ask our GPT → gpt.hike.xyz
Our global rollout targets key regions with established gaming communities and favorable regulatory environments and experience that blends Web 2 & 3 together seamlessly.
We're bringing this to life first with Bingo Champions in the US and we will expand game titles and markets in 2025/26 including the Hike arcade, our comprehensive gaming app for the world.
A full list of countries
Initial Market Focus: US, Brazil, Taiwan, Malaysia, Chile, Madagascar, Niger, Burkina Faso, Angola, Marshall Islands, Panama, Seychelles, Costa Rica, Kenya, SVG, Malawi, Uzbekistan, Curacao.
Strategic Expansion Pipeline: South Korea, UK, Mexico, Italy, Ghana, Colombia, Vietnam, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Austria, Romania, Iceland, India, Cyprus, Malta, Nigeria, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Liechtenstein, Norway, Singapore, Denmark, Philippines, Australia
We convert all incoming tokens to either USDC or USDT which forms the backbone of our global casual PvP strategy.
This allows us to connect liquidity globally, increase prize pool sizes and provide instant payouts to our players - expanding our addressable market and achieving superior unit economics beyond what any Web2 competitor could match.
Our games allow players to onboard with any asset, on any chain and with any wallet. Our platform converts any crypto to stablecoins automatically solving fragmentation across asset types.
This simplifies the UX tremendously and removes the stress that a user would have in remembering which chain, tokens etc.
In addition to Stablecoins in select markets (like US) we’ve also integrated fiat rails in our games allowing players to spend with Paypal, Visa, MasterCard or Bank Transfers.
These are powered by our partners that include Coinflow, Checkout.com and Apple Pay. They allow for an incredibly seamless UX inside our games.
Bingo Champions contributes 10–30% of its revenue directly to our Hike Protocol treasury — making our economy cash-flow positive from launch and setting the tone for sustainable, global scale.
We will also solve revenue attribution from the Rush india app towards the Hike Protocol treasury, since it will also be leveraging the same infrastructure
Got Questions? Ask our GPT → gpt.hike.xyz
"The Creator's Canvas: Weeks to Global Scale"
Get to Global Scale in Weeks, not Months
The next step of our roadmap opens the Hike Protocol to gaming studios worldwide. Why should only we have all the fun? 🥳
As a result of building and growing Rush, the Hike Protocol infrastructure already handles millions of paid matches every day. Our platform has been battle-tested over the last 4 years before a single token was minted.
The Hike Protocol will deliver a comprehensive suite of developer tools that bring Web3 benefits to casual PvP gaming without all the complexity. Our infrastructure enables any studio to rapidly implement competitive token mechanics, regardless of their blockchain expertise.
We share revenue with Developers from Day 1. Our fee would be anywhere between 10-40% depending on the services developers would like to opt-into. For example
10% for full integration
All the way up to 40% if developers use our extra distribution and marketing tools on the platform
This creates aligned incentives and a sustainable, cash-flow-positive economy for all.
Our DevKit aims to minimize integration effort with existing game codebases. Studios can implement our complete Hike competitive infrastructure through straightforward API calls, supported by comprehensive documentation and sample implementations across multiple programming languages.
Integration will typically require less than one week of development time, allowing studios to maintain focus on core gameplay while leveraging our battle-tested competitive layer which has maintained an uptime of 99.999% for multiple years of operation.
PvP Gaming Infrastructure
Our platform offers a comprehensive infrastructure for skill-based PvP gaming with several core components:
Player Matching AI: Our lightning-fast algorithm delivers sub-100ms global matchmaking with adaptive skill prediction that learns from players across games, ensuring balanced competition worldwide
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"The Hybrid Force: Web2 Scale Meets Web3 Innovation"
The Hybrid Force: Web2 Scale Meets Web3 Innovation
Our Hike serves as the core contributor to the Hike Protocol, bringing proven expertise from scaling Hike Messenger (12M DAU, 2B daily messages) and the Rush App (5M+ MAU, $480M Gaming Volume).
Under founder Kavin Bharti Mittal's leadership, our Hike transitions from sole operator to ecosystem cornerstone, leveraging our game development prowess to seed the platform with high-quality content and also develop the underlying infrastructure.
Instantly activates 5M+ existing players for immediate adoption
Sets industry standards for fair PvP design and Web3 integration
Maintains continuous dev pipeline through 100-member development team
Aligns success with ecosystem growth via significant $HIKE token stake
Kavin Bharti Mittal - Founder & CEO (Product & Design) → ,
Gaurav Arora - VP & Head of Engineering → ,
Karan Chadha - VP, People Operations & Recruiting → ,
Strategic Investors: , , , , ,
Crypto: , , ,
Founders & Super Angels: (Co-founder, Tinder), (Co-founder, Tinder), (CEO, Softbank Vision Fund), (Tribe Capital), (Founder, Zynga), (Investor & Founder), (South Park Commons), (Founder Radix, Zeta, Flock), (Co-founder, Coda),
Our team incubated by Hike and operates as an independent entity focused on building economic rails and technical infrastructure to scale PvP gaming globally. This specialized team brings deep Web3 expertise and blockchain development experience.
Hike Labs Leadership:
Kavin Bharti Mittal - Founder → ,
This powerful combination of Web2 scale and Web3 innovation creates a uniquely positioned team capable of bringing crypto gaming to billions of users
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Hike Passport
Hike Launchpad
GenAI Studio
Growth Forge
Native Stablecoin Hike USD
AI Gaming Agents (2027)
With our Hike Passport, one sign-in connects you to the entire gaming universe—seamlessly carrying your profile, rewards, and achievements across every experience.
Mobile-first UX optimized for touch, speed, and session-based gameplay.
One gamer profile, one wallet—your wins, NFT's, and rep follow you wherever you go
Implement advanced security features while maintaining user-friendly interfaces
Secure, seamless sign-ins with temporary wallets that expire when you're done playing.
Instantly view, trade, and use in-game items and token rewards across games and chains
Our Hike Launchpad is your fast track to launching token-powered games - with built-in liquidity, players, and a fair, web3-native economy from day zero.
Instantly launch with integrated $HIKE payments, PvP game modes, and distribution
Day-zero liquidity for your game economy, plus exposure to a tokenized player base
No pre-sales or insider deals—stake $HIKE to demonstrate commitment to public access
Earn revenue from in-game fees while supporting ecosystem growth;
Each launch boosts your game —driving $HIKE demand, visibility, and long-term value.
Unleashing our internal AI agents to transform Hike into a community-driven arcade—where players become creators.
User-facing AI agents (Game Creator, Avatar Generator, etc.) available via simple APIs
Game Creator Agent cut time-to-market from 90 days to 30; next: 7 days
Avatar Generator reduced build time from 25 days to 2.5 hours; next: 25 seconds
All creation plugs into the $HIKE economy to blitzscale user-generated content
With our Growth Forge, developers will get access to growth financing to help them scale their applications at warp speed
Strategic investment in acquisition debt to accelerate developer onboarding
Establish grant programs to subsidize innovative gaming experiences
Solve access to capital within and outside of our Hike Ecosystem
Our native decentralised store of value supercharges our ecosystem while protecting us from centralisation risks
Develop native stablecoin infrastructure to capture yield from the economy
Reduce dependency on external financial systems and centralisation risks
Decentralised store of value - backed by T-Bills and equivalent assets
Create foundation for more complex financial mechanisms within the gaming economy
Our AI Gaming Agents ecosystem enables capital allocators to train, own, and compete:
Train your personal AI agents to master specific games, investing in their development and earning returns when they compete in tournaments
Pay entry fees for your agents to participate in Hike competitions against real players, with winnings automatically distributed to agent owners
Create a marketplace for trading high-performing AI agents, allowing investors to build portfolios of competitive digital athletes
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PvP Infrastructure: Our battle-tested architecture handles 1,000+ concurrent game tables processing 500+ users per second, with enterprise-grade stability and 99.999% uptime
Payments & Compliance
The backbone of our borderless gaming economy combines seamless transactions with bank-grade security and regulatory expertise:
Unified Payment System: Our sophisticated rails handle both crypto and fiat transactions in a single integrated flow, with instant settlement across borders
Wallet Management: Our dedicated wallet system facilitates seamless in-platform transactions with minimal friction, supporting micro-transactions that power our competitive economy
Compliance Suite: Our comprehensive KYC, AML, geo-location, and tax compliance systems operate invisibly in the background, allowing players to focus on competition, not regulations
Appchain
Our Hike appchain powers the $HIKE economy and unifies liquidity, developers, and players into a single global community"
Chain Abstraction: Supports any chain, wallet, and asset with automatic conversion—breaking down barriers between gaming ecosystems
High-Performance Infrastructure: Our optimized architecture processes millions of asset transfers with an external data availability layer for throughput optimization and fee reduction
Technology Stack: We're evaluating both EVM-compatible chains and Solana VM to build the perfect foundation, with integrated DEX and NFT marketplace functionality baked directly into our infrastructure
Security Framework
Hike's security framework includes multiple layers to ensure fair play and system integrity:
Anti-Cheat AI: Our sophisticated detection systems identify collusion, fraud, multi-accounting, and exploitation attempts in real-time, maintaining competitive integrity across all matches
ZK-Proof Verification: Our cryptographic systems ensure fair matchmaking and tamper-proof game logic execution with blockchain-verified outcomes that players can trust
24/7 Monitoring: Our industry-leading tools with AI-driven anomaly detection provide continuous protection and immediate response to potential threats, securing both player assets and gameplay integrity
User Analytics Suite
The Hike platform leverages comprehensive analytics to optimize the gaming experience:
Segmentation Tools: Our sophisticated dashboard categorizes users based on wallet content and platform behavior, enabling targeted experiences that drive engagement and retention
Engagement Systems: Our purpose-built in-app communication channels power marketing and player retention strategies with personalized messaging that strengthens community bonds
Data Stream API: Our premium feed of anonymized gameplay data enables third-party analytics and strategy tools, creating additional revenue streams while respecting player privacy and security
Ensures global regulatory compliance and secure token decentralization
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The information in this whitepaper is subject to change or update and should not be construed as a commitment, promise or guarantee by us relating to the future availability of services related to the use of the tokens or to their future performance or value.
Regulatory frameworks governing digital assets are rapidly evolving. [$HIKE] may be impacted by legislative, judicial, or regulatory actions that may materially affect the utility, transferability, or legality of the token. Specifically, in relation to public knowledge and understanding of emerging technologies, such distributed ledger technologies, smart contracts and other innovative technology arrangements, are still limited as at the date of registration of this whitepaper. The legal and regulatory risks arising out of such may not be fully comprehended as of yet and new additional risks may arise in the future.
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It may become impossible or difficult to trade [$HIKE] or trading may need to occur at an extremely adverse price due to token market trends or trading volumes.
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The value of [$HIKE] is not guaranteed and could fluctuate greatly depending on restrictions under applicable laws and regulations, token market trends, political and geographical factors, technological factors, natural disasters, wars, and various other factors. Furthermore, [$HIKE] token holders do not retain the right to receive dividends or the right to receive a distribution of profits. Besides that, [$HIKE] holders have no right or title to claim repayment of the funds transferred in connection with the private or public [$HIKE] offering.
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“Engineering the Invisible Layer That Powers Seamless Global Gaming”
Engineering the Invisible Layer: Powering Seamless Global Gaming
Our AppChain architecture will prioritize frictionless interactions for players, developers, and capital allocators. We're evaluating both EVM-compatible chains (OP, Arbitrum, ZKsync) and Solana VM stack based on the following requirements:
High-Performance Infrastructure
External Data Availability layers for throughput optimization and fee reduction
Capacity to process millions of concurrent asset transfers
Security Foundation
Comprehensive Tooling
Oracle services for verifiable randomness and off-chain data ingestion
Indexing solutions for efficient on-chain data consumption
Cross-Chain Functionality
Optimized Proof Systems
Fast and cost-effective proof generation for off-chain computation verification
Evaluating Risc0 and Succinct frameworks for implementation
On-Chain Verification
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Thoroughly researched, documented, and audited codebase
Account Abstraction
Gasless transactions for seamless onboarding
Simplified user experience without technical barriers
Seamless bridging with chain abstraction
Movement of funds across any blockchain ecosystem
Accessibility
Broad wallet support across platforms
Fiat on/off ramps for traditional currency conversion
Pushing proofs to blockchain for transparent verifiability
Maintaining trust minimization while improving performance
This architecture enables us to deliver high-throughput gaming experiences with blockchain-grade security and web2-level user experience.
The Economic Heartbeat: Uniting Players, Developers, Investors
The next step is to roll out our $HIKE token.
Casual gaming has faced some critical challenges over the last decade that have limited the growth of the category. Issues such as:
Ad-driven User Acquisition: Studios trapped in endless advertising spend
Poor Player Retention: Repeat gameplay and user loyalty is not rewarded
Fragmented Ecosystems: Success in one game doesn't transfer to another
Broken Value Accrual: Protocol growth does not accrue value to the token
With our token, we believe we can solve these challenges by building an economic engine that fuels rewards, value capture through platform activity, and aligning the incentives of all participants in the ecosystem:
User Acquisition at Scale: Community behavior and token emissions through quests and referrals, help lower CAC
Long-term Retention: We help our players accumulate assets that accrue value as the protocol continues to scale
Cross-game Network Effects: We've designed a common currency that unites communities across all of our games, studios and interfaces
Aligned Studio Commitment: We fund user acquisition for studios who further earn $HIKE via in-game utility
Our token has been crafted to be a multi-faceted utility token that touches every part of the Hike Protocol experience. The $HIKE token drives:
Competitive Play: Pay entry fees for special matches, provide discounts, and enable exclusive tournament access
Achievement Recognition: Skill rewards through match winnings, leaderboard bonuses, and quest completion incentives
Digital Ownership: Purchase of in-game items, avatar NFT upgrades, and limited-edition content
Community Engagement: Increased participation via premium tournament staking, loyalty rewards, and governance rights
As our token achieves market distribution, we envision a thriving economy governed by its community of players and creators. $HIKE will maintain natural demand through its essential utility within the protocol, supported by a carefully controlled inflation rate that sustainably rewards ongoing participation.
$HIKE isn't just a token—it's the economic backbone of a gaming revolution where players finally stand at the center of value creation.
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Value Capture for Holders: The token accrues value as a function of in protocol utility and revenue growth versus pure speculation
Ecosystem Development: Platform expansion through studio collateral requirements, quality assurance, and integration rewards
Economic Sustainability: Creates a self-reinforcing economy through fee capture, buyback-and-burn mechanisms, and ecosystem-linked value appreciation
"The 3-Pillared Economy: Building Gaming's GDP"
$HIKE & Stablecoins: Building Mobile Casual Gaming's GDP
The Dream State is a living economy, not just a community.
We reimagine competitive gaming as a complete economic ecosystem—a virtual nation where players, developers, and investors share in the value they collectively create. By structuring our platform around real economic activity rather than speculation, we've designed a system that grows more valuable with every match played. We’re building a living economy, not just a community.
Our native token connects all ecosystem participants through utility and value accrual:
Serves as entry mechanism for premium tournaments and exclusive content
Powers NFT creation, evolution, and marketplace transactions
Captures value through systematic buy-backs tied to platform revenue
Provides governance rights proportional to ecosystem participation
Our economy generates sustainable revenue through four complementary channels:
Player Activity
Millions of daily micro-transactions from competitive matches
NFT acquisitions, upgrades, and marketplace trades
Community growth through referrals and social engagement
Our treasury system transforms gaming activity into sustainable token value:
Revenue Collection
Every transaction across our platform contributes fees to the treasury
Growth scales directly with usage, creating perfect economic alignment
Complete transparency through on-chain verification
Participation from all three groups increases the token’s utility and desirability over time. The cyclical economy design is meant to drive network effects across all participants.
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Studio Contributions
New games continually expanding transaction sources
Revenue sharing creating mutual benefit for developers and platform
Integrated $HIKE mechanics generating additional fee streams
Investor Participation
Liquidity provision ensuring efficient markets
Capital allocation fueling development and growth
Yield generation through staking and governance
Infrastructure Services
Exchange fees from token swaps and fiat conversions
Marketplace commissions on digital asset transactions
Infrastructure fees from developers utilizing our DevKit
Value Distribution
Programmatic buy-back of $HIKE tokens from the circulating supply
Used activity based token burning mechanisms
Rewards for $HIKE stakers and unity builders
Ecosystem Reinvestment
Player rewards and tournament prizes driving engagement
Development funding for platform improvements
Self-sustaining marketing and growth initiatives
