Update 0.3.0 is here, bringing major changes to the price engine, a new GPU dust and cleaning system, two new mini games, and a significantly expanded world.
GPU DUST AND CLEANING
Mining GPUs now accumulate dust over time, and dust costs you twice. A dusty card mines less, with output gradually scaling down as dust builds up. It also runs hotter, which raises your room temperature and increases the need for fans and air conditioning. That means neglecting your rigs can quietly raise your electricity bill even before you notice the loss in mining output. To clean a card, pick it up and enter Cleaning Mode. The GPU fans extend outward and can be scrubbed using the mouse. Cleaning progress is tracked per surface, so you can stop halfway through and continue exactly where you left off later.
PRICE ENGINE
The market cycle no longer moves every coin in lockstep. Coins are now split across independent cycle groups, so one group can be in a bull phase while another is already in a bear phase. Previously, the entire market rose and fell together, which meant that during a downturn there was nowhere to hide and picking a different coin only changed how hard you fell.
The cycle has also been rebalanced so a full rotation is now net neutral. Previously, each rotation closed at roughly -3%, which compounded heavily on high-beta coins and caused long sessions to drift downward regardless of how you traded. If you felt permanently underwater, that was real, and it is now fixed.
Bull phases are now longer while bear phases are shorter. Declines are faster and sharper, while rallies build over a longer period of time. The previous setup had this backwards: the pain was stretched out and the gains were compressed.
Market liquidity depth has also been recalibrated. Order slippage at large balances was wildly overstated, making high-balance play feel rigged and allowing prices to be pushed around too easily through repeated orders. Both issues have been addressed.
TWO NEW MINI GAMES
HashCrack
HashCrack is a code-breaking race against AI miners. Build a guess from the palette, submit it, and use the peg feedback to determine whether a symbol is in the correct position, in the code but in the wrong position, or not present at all. The round is timed and AI miners are solving the same puzzle alongside you, so the first to crack the code takes the round. HashCrack also includes betting and a full race history.
RugPull
RugPull puts you behind a token audit desk. Each case presents a set of audit signals rated across three levels, and your job is to decide whether the project is legitimate or a rug pull. You can pay for a Deep Scan to reveal hidden signals, but honest projects and scams deliberately have overlapping signal distributions, so there is no fixed formula that solves every case. Some projects are genuinely ambiguous, exactly as they are in reality. RugPull also includes betting and a case history.
WORLD
The explorable area has been significantly expanded. You are no longer limited to the small yard outside the house, and much more of the surrounding map is now walkable. Additional interactions are planned for future updates.
Three NPCs have also been added alongside a new dialogue system built around rumors. NPCs may sometimes pass along genuine advance information about news that has not broken yet, but they may also spread rumors that turn out to be completely false. You cannot tell which is which from the conversation alone. They will not hand out tips on demand, so this is a source of information to weigh and interpret rather than a feed to farm.
A lemonade vendor now operates in the park across from the house. The price is better than what you pay at home, but you have to walk there and back. The market does not wait for you.
