HYAPE.fun by Theras Labs Inc. A Culturally 3D MMO GameFi

:waving_hand: Hi, we’re back – and growing!

Over 500+ new users are now playing weekly in our community-hosted game jams! and within our social chats.

Who we are

We’re Hyape Party, creators of the 3D GameFi MMO HYAPE.
We previously joined Hackathon S8, and although we didn’t win anything, we never stopped building.

Despite no support, we’ve kept pushing forward — expanding our game’s vision, launching new features, and finalizing our early multiplayer system in March 2025 and our first gamejam, we have now multiples game-jam, in-person event updated, and many more.


Basic Information

Project Name: HYAPE
Project Track: game-media
Team Name: Theras Labs, Inc is a C-Corp registered in Delaware.
Team Members:

  • dale :indonesia: :germany:
  • niels🇩🇰
  • rasmus🇩🇰
  • andrew🇨🇦
  • ezra🇮🇩
  • alex🇫🇷
  • dimitri🇫🇷 TBA
  • jon🇸🇬 TBA

Social Info


Project Overview

Project Goal:
HYAPE is a 3D MMO GameFi platform where communities create and compete on culturally-themed terrains. Each terrain is an NFT game mode inspired by real-world culture — like Teufelsrad🇩🇪 or Pho Bowl Fall🇻🇳
It can be taken their iconic impact from the cultural country too, such as jagermeister event, and future lego event soon.

— with royalties for creators, token rewards for winners, and real-time community engagement. Players earn points, access exclusive token-gated lounges, and even join global in-person tournaments.

Unique Value Proposition:
HYAPE transforms national pride and cultural identity into playable content — letting users build, play, and profit from game terrains. It enables token communities (like TRON or BONK) to launch their own worlds inside the HYAPE metaverse and benefit from cross-chain traffic, growth, and creativity.

We use directly 3D browser engine, so anyone can directly join and PLAY as spectator too:

because we are browser native, user can watch the game like a live youtube, simply
hyape.fun/watch?matchId=1234sample

you can’t do it like this with unity engine, and unity browser engine is quite laggy despite having more quality.

HYAPE Fun is forever under 30mb because of streaming technology in our native-browser :slight_smile:

Project Demo: https://hyape.fun
Expected Completion Date for 2025: → Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4
Current Progress: 88% → need mainnet migration.


Technical & Governance Details

Project Test Instructions:

  • Visit https://hyape.fun
  • Connect wallet (Solana or EVM coming soon)
  • Try Ape-Kart mode or a random terrain
  • Join leaderboard or event lobby

Technical Details:

  • Built with Three.js + WebGPU
  • Multiplayer game-server powered by magicblock + off-chain game server colyseus
  • Smart contracts: ERC-721A, ERC-2771, ERC-4337, ERC-6900
  • WalletConnect integration
  • VibeCode: AI-assisted terrain generator

Governance Model: Hybrid – DAO-guided decisions for terrains and events via JupiterDAO and TRON DAO respective to the network metaverse space itself.


Funding & Business Model

Funding Request:
$120,000

  • $2,000–$3,000 per city for in-person community events (venue, prize pool, travel).
    We are running a global world-tour series, hosting small but high-frequency meetups every 2 weeks — each in a new city.
    In the future, players will need to reach a certain XP level in-game to qualify for attending.
    The prize pools will eventually be community-funded, encouraging ownership and grassroots momentum.

    To maximize impact, we aim to co-host with larger local events to tap into their audiences and cross-pollinate communities.

    We’ve already run events in (independent + co-join):
    Jakarta:indonesia:, Bali:indonesia:, Berlin:germany:, Singapore:singapore:, and soon:
    Ho Chi Minh:vietnam: and Cannes :france:.

  • $10,000 runway for post-TGE growth, marketing, and multi-chain expansion (TRON, Solana, and more).

Revenue Model:

  • Platform fees from Ranked Platformer MMO gameplay
  • Fees from direct player-vs-player bets
  • NFT Terrain sales + creator royalties
  • Token staking for competitive rewards
  • Spectator-triggered NFT interactions (e.g. spawning in-game effects)
  • Branded game modes and licensed terrain partnerships

Interested in TRON Having a Stake?: Yes. We’re open to TRON co-owning TRON-specific terrains and assets.

Preferred Collaboration Method:
Co-branded development of TRON Terrain and TRON Arena, event partnerships, and incubation during TGE rollout.


Ecosystem Impact

Partnerships:

  • PlanetIX (former team members)
  • Coinstore
  • CrazyGames (in progress)
  • BONK, Jupiter DAO, Raydium (Solana)
  • BOLT community
  • Superteam Solana Community :indonesia::germany::vietnam:
  • ADP community event (Indonesia)

Time on TRON: Since Hackathon S8 (2024) – no funding yet, but ongoing development. TRON TGE planned post-Solana release.


Project Milestones

Q1

  • :white_check_mark:ntegrated Solana rollup as multiplayer engine
  • :white_check_mark:Multiple terrain to play
  • :white_check_mark:Added Ape-Kart game mode
  • :white_check_mark:Released leaderboard challenge system
  • :white_check_mark:Testing session keys instead of full ERC-4337

Q2

  1. :white_check_mark:Pitched in Berlin, promoted HYAPE in-person
  2. :white_check_mark:Hosted 2 events in Jakarta and Bali, growing to 200+ group chat members
  3. :white_check_mark:Planning expansion to Vietnam
  4. :white_check_mark:Preparing our 3rd virtual game jam (July) – feel free to join!

Q3

  • Keep running in-person and virtual game jams
  • Launch on CrazyGames (~July)
  • Launch TGE via Raydium (Solana)
  • TRON TGE after Solana rollout

Q4

  • Migrate to full ERC-4337 for gasless automation on Tron Ecosystem
  • Enable spectator interaction + royalties
  • Release Vibecode terrain public

Project in 5 Years

HYAPE becomes the “Roblox of Blockchain” — a cross-chain metaverse where any token or country can build terrains, run events, and grow a game-native economy.


TRON Involvement

TRON users can now VibeCode NFT terrains to build the TRON-SPACE metaverse inside HYAPE. This is fully community-powered. While we prioritize Solana’s rollout first (due to active support), we welcome TRON’s participation and co-creation.


Stay tuned. Since our project is within solana ecosystem too, we have a merged update . We’ll continue updating this post with progress, demos, and community opportunities.

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We are partnering with magicblock team for QUEST EVENT soon because they are in bali right now

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Hello and welcome to TBL!

Quite nice visualization of the game. I liked it!

Regarding your revenue model, you mentioned that bet games are an option. I’m curious—would this model fall under the gambling category, potentially requiring a casino license?

Also, regarding SOL integration, can you explain in basic terms for no experts, what is it about exactly? Thanks!

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No, this won’t be categorized as gambling because we don’t use it directly, and tricking it with NFT.

So it’s like you are buying gift in instagram or tiktok or twitch, and sending it to someone you watch on live stream.

This will be extra steps but it won’t be directly a gambling and already consult with lawyer, although technically it’s like a gambling. we just need to be more tricky :joy:

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sol integration is utilizing their on-chain rollup mechanic to fully run the game-server in blockchain.
This is impossible without fast response time, because 3D MMO need at least 50ms response time, while a blockchain can have response time mostly 1-2secs or perhaps 10secs.

Magicblock solana rollup provide this new groundbreaking technique and also gasless.
We made 12million txs in a single day for a single player, that’s crazy.

but TRON’s world will use off-chain server, and only utilising the tokenomic feature here, and merging with Solana’s community.

I guess so, that part is tricky to manage, hope you find a nice solution. Cheers!

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wow fully run game in a blockchain!!! Really? I need to deep dive into it, I am intrigued. Thanks for your answer, everything is crystal clear to me now.

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some of web3 game is already full on-chain but mostly a turn-based game or not 3D MMO.
and if it’s 3D MMO their game-server is still off-chain like any normal game (pubg, valorant, etc) because it’s better latency.

but yeah as i said, a ground breaking gasless, 10ms latency speed from solana rollup and doesnt mean tron’s product can’t merge with them, we can co-join even as cross-chain asset to be involved here

Hi I am welcoming you to the tbl I am liking your graphics and everything in you’re submission, you are really paying big attention to details, goodluck

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Welcome to TBL, I must commend how the figures in your funding request is quite fair, you talked about your ongoing world tour series, what has been the progress level thus far?

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yes,
we have done IN-PERSON gamejam in (no prizes), just directly got our beta users :

  1. :indonesia:jakarta 20th May
  2. :germany:berlin 13th June
  3. :singapore:sg 18th June ( but this end up, skipped since im too tired to find place )
  4. :indonesia:bali 23rd June
  5. :vietnam:ho chi minh NOW

we haven’t fully released yet, but got 30+ users from vietnam event only, big one is from bali.


I think what’s interesting -
I’ve got a lot of vietnamese exposure, and got key people here to lead community too.

and I’ve got a banking person + CRO project, and he has a huge interest and will join us as our CFO. He has experience in raising funds, $2 million and another seed with $2.5 million, because he really likes my project and my personality as the founder. He saw the proof that has been built, and how people enjoy the game.

So yeah, we will raise funds soon, and if the TRON DAO is interested, of course we are welcoming them. But if not, that’s still fine. We are not waiting for opportunities, we are actively pursuing them.

We will soon have 4 co-founders. A guy from France that I met in Singapore, who now lives in Dubai, will join this enterprise too. I’m the only one who is 29 years old or at least in my 30s, while the other 3 are above 40 years old.

If you haven’t known, we are Theras Labs (https://theras.xyz).
Thank you!

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I presume Jakarta is in Indonesia, pardon my curiosity, what was the experience over there like?

You clearly mentioned here that someone from France will be joining as a co-founder. What role will they focus on precisely?