The excitement of treasure hunting has reached new heights with the all-new United States version of Treasure Hunter: No Stone Unturned! Dive into the action, test your luck and strategy, and compete for a place on the leaderboard. Ready to get started? Here’s everything you need to know to become a top contender.
How to Play
1. Start Your Journey
Kick off your treasure hunt adventure to compete on the leaderboard.
2. Reveal Tiles
The game is simple but thrilling. Start revealing tiles to uncover:
Points: Boost your score to climb the leaderboard.
Multipliers: Amplify your points and multiply your score! But be careful! Hidden among the tiles are bombs that could end your round and reset your score.
3. Climb the Leaderboard
Will you play it safe or risk it all? The choice is yours. You can secure your points at any time and lock in your score for that round—or you can keep uncovering tiles for an even greater score. Just remember, hitting a bomb wipes out your score for that round, so think carefully before making your next move.
4. Big Rewards Await
At the end of the competition (April 2025), the top players on the leaderboard will win amazing $GALA prizes.
Feeling lucky? Reveal the entire board without hitting a bomb, and you’ll walk away with the ultimate prize of 500,000 $GALA!
Pro Tips for Treasure Hunting Success
Strategize Your Moves: Weigh the risks before revealing more tiles. The higher you climb, the bigger the stakes.
Watch the Leaderboard: Keep an eye on your competition to plan your next steps.
Stay Persistent: Each round is a new opportunity to hit the jackpot!
Join the Adventure Now
With Treasure Hunter: No Stone Unturned, the thrill of the hunt is open to everyone, no matter where you are. Will you play it safe or risk it all for glory? The treasure awaits, and the competition is fierce.
Attention, GalaChain developers… Come get cozy by the $GALA fire! 🔥
We’re turning up the heat this winter with an exciting new community event because It’s Cold Outside! This initiative is an invitation for developers and community members to innovate, collaborate and have some great fun making an impact on the GalaChain ecosystem.
A Toasty $GALA Challenge
We’re calling on developers to create new GalaChain integrated dApps that contribute to the health of the $GALA ecosystem.
Examples on ways to contribute are:
Creating a token in the Project Token Creation Tool
Creating or accepting swaps on GalaConnect
Using $GALA in any of our Telegram mini-app tapper games
Paying $GALA as a transaction fee for transferring tokens
Purchasing a first-party Gala Games item with $GALA
The competition runs until the end of January, with incredible rewards for the most impactful participants, as well as potential TBA stretch goals and reward boosts. Your mission is 3-fold:
Objective 1: Build a dApp that helps the Gala ecosystem
Objective 2: Encourage community participation for your dApp.
Objective 3: Share open-source code to inspire the next generation of GalaChain dApps.
How to Participate
Requirements:
Use a wallet app such as Metamask for user signing and registration.
Generate new headless wallets for users.
Open-source your code by the contest’s conclusion (end of January, 2025)*
Track burns using the unique key in burn DTOs.
*More information about how to prove ownership and submit your open-source code will come at the beginning of January.
Keep an eye on the #galachain-discussion channel in Discord for updates as they become available.
Judging Criteria: Apps will be evaluated solely based on how they help the $GALA ecosystem. Keep it simple and warm yourself by the $GALA fire’s calming glow. ⛄
Why Get Involved?
This is an awesome chance for new creators to become part of the growing GalaChain developer community, as well as an opportunity for veteran GalaChain devs to shine and rake in potential rewards. By creating innovative apps and showcasing your skills, you’re helping shape the future of decentralized applications on GalaChain. Whether you’re a seasoned dev or just starting your journey, this is the perfect opportunity to make your mark.
Getting Started
Need help? Explore the GalaChain SDK and check out the developer documentation to set up your environment and learn how to integrate your dApp with GalaChain. Plus, join our Discord for community support and updates throughout the competition.
This winter, the Gala community is proving that cold weather can’t freeze our creativity. Let’s come together, build something amazing, and help the $GALA ecosystem like never before!
It’s springtime for web3, with new applications and projects budding with new levels of innovation and user empowerment. As we all look forward to the summer of mass adoption with its long days and nonstop memorable events, there’s one crucial spring cleaning chore that blockchain creators need to take care of.
It’s still too hard for newcomers to build in web3.
The GalaChain team’s primary focus throughout 2024 has been solving this problem, because we recognize that lowering web3 barriers for developers is one of the most important pieces of the mass adoption puzzle.
Throughout the past several years, blockchain companies have bent over backwards for investors, speculators and the social media influencers who could shout loudest. It’s high time these solutions were customized for the ones who will really carry this movement forward… The builders.
Building for Builders
You can make a good living as a house builder. After all, lots of people need houses. The population is always growing, and houses wear out as time goes by. If you’re good at building houses and you keep your promises to clients, it’s reasonable to expect a steady stream of jobs that will keep you busy.
As an exceptionally skilled builder, you’re likely to reach a point where you need to hire a team to help keep up with demand as new jobs come in. As your business grows, you’ll continue to scale, adding new positions and specialists to do certain parts of the job more efficiently so you can keep accepting more jobs. Eventually you’ll even be sub-contracting a lot of the work, hiring additional work crews to accomplish things that don’t necessarily require your personal touch.
As you achieve tremendous success in the home-building industry, you may find yourself running a business that employs dozens or even hundreds of workers, bringing in more than enough money and always managing a full workload. Enjoy it, builder champion. Many would say you’ve reached the apex of your game.
But there’s always room to innovate and continue to grow in places you may not expect. When the builder’s time and energy is tapped out, it’s time to think even more about efficiency.
As a smart and successful builder, you begin to imagine not only projects, but systems with the potential to make projects easier for other builders. You may invent and patent a new type of machinery that will maximize time and manpower on a specific type of project, then use profits from your successful contracting business to produce and market your product on an international and commercial scale. Or you may develop systems that can be reproduced for certain types of jobs, expressing your ideas in a book and compounding your income with book sales.
The master builder will reap the greatest rewards from building systems that help builders build better.
GalaChain and Innovation
While Gala Games’ layer-1 blockchain, GalaChain, was built specifically for the demands of entertainment, it was never intended to be limited to entertainment use-cases. The vision may have started with games, but entertainment was chosen because of its tendency to adhere closely to the latest and most cutting edge standards in technology. Simply put, building for entertainment meant building for anything.
The team behind GalaChain believes in the power of blockchain to revolutionize numerous world industries, from supply chains and medical infrastructure to gaming, insurance, conservation, disaster relief and almost anything else you could think of. When they used Hyperledger Fabric to build GalaChain with a vision of decentralization, they were imagining world-changing applications that could empower creators, investors, business owners and philanthropists.
GalaChain presents an ideal and versatile blockchain infrastructure that can strategically insert ownership and tokenization to level up any type of project. A truly decentralized chain with privately operated channels (isochans) makes it possible for builders to do what they do best. The Typescript-enabled GalaChain SDK makes it more reasonable than ever before for traditional developers to make the transition from web2 to web3.
Builders: We built GalaChain for you. Ready to build on it?
On the evening of Wednesday, December 4th, the value of a single Bitcoin surpassed $100,000.
The world watches in wonder as its original cryptocurrency surpasses an historic milestone, taking a moment to reflect on the journey of decentralization that began with the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper in 2008.
This landmark is about much more than price. Representing a powerful populist movement that has spread throughout the world, this achievement goes beyond speculation and opportunity to symbolize the adoption of blockchain technology, a technology that continues to reshape finance and beyond.
At GalaChain, we see this milestone as a pivotal moment for the web3 space, affirming our mission to empower creators and communities worldwide. We join the rest of the blockchain world today in celebrating a most memorable day for Bitcoin, more than 16 years after its revolutionary vision.
Bitcoin’s rise from obscurity to a global phenomenon has been marked by many significant milestones:
2009 – Genesis Block: The first block was mined, introducing the world to blockchain technology.
2010 – First Transaction: Bitcoin’s first commercial transaction—two pizzas for 10,000 BTC—illustrated its potential as a medium of exchange.
2013 – $1,000 Milestone: Bitcoin crossed $1,000 for the first time, gaining recognition as a store of value.
2017 – $20,000 Peak: Bitcoin hit $20,000, solidifying its position as “digital gold.”
2021 – $64,000 Surge: Institutions began adopting Bitcoin, and El Salvador declared it legal tender.
2024 – $100,000 Achieved: The culmination of growing acceptance, technological development, and collective belief in decentralization.
Each of these moments signifies a step forward in Bitcoin’s role as a decentralized, peer-to-peer currency. Bitcoin’s rise tells a story about technology, finance and society. Started as a solution to an outdated financial model that put too much control in the hands of mega-corporations and banks, it has evolved into a powerful grassroots movement destined to return financial control and freedom to people everywhere.
Web3 and Bitcoin: The Broader Vision
Bitcoin’s success has opened the door for innovations like GalaChain, many of whom have spent over a decade building on Satoshi’s decentralized vision. While Bitcoin has pioneered the idea of decentralized finance, projects like GalaChain are building more broadly, bringing blockchain into industries like gaming, entertainment and beyond.
GalaChain is a foundation for creators to thrive in any number of world industries, bringing product features into alignment with the latest and greatest web3 technology.
As we have pioneered further into the web3 era, the user-empowering functions of blockchain have consistently become more accessible and easier to build on. Using GalaChain, traditional developers gain tools to bring their visions to life with scalability, efficiency and decentralization, without requiring them to become experts in blockchain development.
Bitcoin taught the world that decentralization works. GalaChain shows what’s possible when decentralization meets innovation.
High Performance: Built on Hyperledger Fabric, GalaChain delivers the scalability to handle high transaction volumes across diverse use cases.
Empowering Creators: With an easy-to-use SDK, robust security and low-cost transactions, GalaChain supports creators in building decentralized experiences.
Community-Driven Evolution: GalaChain is progressing toward greater decentralization, reflecting our commitment to empowering not just creators but also our community.
The Role of Community: A Celebration for All
We extend heartfelt gratitude to the growing GalaChain community – not only those who have been with us through this journey, but newcomers who are eager to learn and join in this movement. Your passion, creativity and belief in decentralization fuel everything we do.
This milestone for Bitcoin is a milestone for all of us working to build a decentralized world.
Let’s celebrate how far we’ve come—and look forward to what lies ahead. The world is waking up to the power of blockchain, and we’re proud to be a part of this revolution.
Join Us
As we honor this milestone, we invite you to explore what GalaChain can do for you. Whether you’re a developer, a gamer or CEO, there’s a place for you in our creator-first ecosystem.
This moment is about more than Bitcoin’s price—it’s a testament to what blockchain can achieve. Together, we’re shaping a decentralized future.
We’re well into the web3 era now, and blockchain technology has evolved far beyond Bitcoin. As millions and millions of people throughout the world are discovering blockchain for the first time, serious industry creators are now shifting goals.
Let’s explore this new outlook of blockchain development that can best benefit creators with new opportunities and more flexibility than ever before.
Here are the Top 5 ways to support creators in the web3 economy.
Build Accessible Onboarding Tools
One of the biggest barriers for creators entering the Web3 space is the steep learning curve of blockchain technology. For several years, this has been a contentious point between defenders and critics of blockchain technology. Interestingly enough, critics and fans tend to agree that one of the leading obstacles for web3 is its unfortunate lack of accessibility.
GalaChain is leading the charge with an unparalleled developer-friendly ecosystem that was created with developer ease-of-access in mind. GalaChain’s creators recognized that empowering developers was the way to ensure that end users are effectively empowered.
Through integration of the TypeScript programming language used in a wide range of traditional dev words, GalaChain gracefully reduces friction for developers transitioning from traditional Web2 tools. Paired with an SDK that includes prebuilt templates and robust documentation, creators can hit the ground running with minimal delay, even with seemingly complex projects like dedicated node networks, token reward infrastructures and more.
Prioritize Scalability Without Sacrificing Speed
Creators thrive in environments where their projects can grow without fear of technical bottlenecks. GalaChain is designed to handle high transaction volumes, ensuring that even the most data-intensive applications can operate seamlessly. Even in its early days, GalaChain has demonstrated this through its own web3 entertainment platforms of Gala Games, Gala Music and Gala Film.
Created on Hyperledger Fabric, GalaChain is a relatively simple and scalable blockchain solution for developers from any industry for a variety of applications. Its ability to maintain high transactional throughput levels provides the scalability necessary for creators to innovate without limits.
Enable Decentralized Ownership
Empowering creators often means giving them more control over their creations. With GalaChain’s decentralization roadmap (outlined in the GalaChain Decentralization White Paper, the platform is enhancing ownership through new features like upgraded governance capabilities and decentralized community input.
The integration of GalaChain’s existing Founder’s Node network into the consensus process will further democratize the ecosystem while maintaining security and performance. Setting GalaChain apart in the blockchain space is its ability for creators to run permissioned channels that are part of the GalaChain ecosystem. These channels operate like privately owned cars on the GalaChain train, using the power of GalaChain to get where they’re going while under total and sole control of the creators that operate them.
Create Low-Cost Ecosystems
High gas fees have been a major hurdle for creators in blockchain ecosystems. GalaChain addresses this by delivering near-zero transaction costs. This makes it feasible for creators to monetize their work efficiently, whether through minting NFTs, building dApps or processing micropayments. By making blockchain adoption affordable, GalaChain ensures creators retain more value from their work.
$GALA is burned for transactional fees throughout the ecosystem, but channel operators will ultimately be in control of their own channel fee structures.
Foster Interoperability
Creators often find themselves limited by isolated blockchain systems with little opportunity to interact with other blockchains. GalaChain breaks these barriers with built-in interoperability features, allowing creators to bridge assets and projects across multiple blockchain networks. This interconnected approach is designed to expand the reach and flexibility of Web3 projects while keeping creators in control.
The creators of GalaChain have always recognized the need for interoperability in web3 for mass adoption to take hold. While creators and pioneers in blockchain tech have been working heads-down to build systems that work, the ones that create a sense of unity throughout the space will reap the greatest rewards. GalaChain is working toward interoperability that will give users and developers more freedom than ever before.
Creator-First Economy of Innovation
The Web3 economy is unlocking new horizons for creators and ecosystems like GalaChain are at the forefront of this transformation. By offering tools, infrastructure and scalability tailored to creators’ needs, GalaChain is making it easier than ever to embrace the decentralized revolution. As we continue to innovate and grow, creators can trust GalaChain to remain a steadfast partner in their Web3 journey.
Remember when stuff didn’t have microchips in it? Well, that time has passed.
Today we’re absolutely awash in connected gadgets and gear throughout our homes. Think about how many devices you have connected to your WiFi… phone, computer, laptop. Did you remember to count the TV? What about gaming consoles? Security cameras and printers? Do you have smart appliances like a washer/dryer combo or a smart fridge? Smart lights? Yeah… it’s a lot of devices.
This saturation in “smart” technology is only going to get more intense over the next decades. With the growing ubiquity of AI, it’s likely that more of this will be automated soon to some level.
It’s not only that your WiFi is woefully prepared to handle all these devices (it is), but also that your WiFi is just a normal network. It can’t logically prioritize tasks… that’s all on the devices themselves. As more devices come around, that’ll get harder to manage. Luckily there’s a tool that fits the smart home of the future perfectly — blockchain!
The Smart Home of the Future
Forgive us if we slip into sci fi a bit here, but look around you. Even compared to 10 years ago, we are living in science fiction today.
Imagine what the next generation of in-home tech looks like. Will your stove automatically start dinner for you? Will your bookshelf recommend reading material based on your mood? Will your bed retract into the wall if you oversleep like on The Fifth Element? (Notably, I’ve badly wanted this bed-based tech since I was a child.)
There’s already tons of automation in smart homes. People regularly use phone apps to automate feeding pets, time lights or brew coffee first thing in the morning. People really like having stuff done for them, so it’s probably going to get more prevalent to automate household activities.
Will you be able to automate through a simple app when a robot arm is cooking your dinner for you? When your smart home is required to decide whether people can enter your house or not, is that something you really want on a phone app? Wi-fi and apps are simply not suited to this task.
The Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network consisting primarily of independent devices that can communicate and transmit data to other devices. That’s pretty much exactly what your growingly online smart home is.
An internet of things is distinct from a traditional network, in that devices on an IoT typically receive input through sensors, cameras or external controls rather than a direct interface like a computer would. These are devices that serve functions and typically require connectivity and external information to fill those functions.
Our technology hasn’t quite grown into a fully integrated smart home, interconnected wall to wall… yet. We like technology that makes our lives easier, however, so more and more tools will probably be coming to your home before too long.
With AI growing more powerful by the day, it’s probably fair to say that these devices throughout your home will work together more fluidly in the future. This means more information exchanged between them… and more hurdles for security and efficiency.
Securing a Smart Home
As devices around your home work more intelligently and autonomously, your home network is going to start carrying a lot more sensitive information. Let’s say that your alarm knows when the kids have to be to school, so it wakes you up with enough time to get everyone ready. Your coffee is automatically brewed before you ever get to the kitchen, and your phone readily displays the weather two towns over since it knows you have to run to the carpet store this afternoon.
Your smart devices just tapped into a wealth of information about you and your daily routine to compute your likely schedule for the day. If this is stored as traditional data on your network, anyone who compromises your security would know the following:
Where your kids go to school
When you leave in the morning and wake up
Where you’re going this afternoon and how long you’ll be gone
When you start thinking about the kind of huge data sets that AI needs to make decisions, there’s an absolute pandora’s box of information that a personal AI assistant would need to coordinate your home life.
It’s scary enough to think a hacker could know when you’ll be coming and going, but data brokers are also drooling over all this extra demographic information. If your AI can predict what you will do and when, they can do the same with the same amount of data.
This is where a private blockchain comes into play. A private blockchain can logically triage tasks from your personal internet of things, while still maintaining robust encryption in the blocks themselves.
Many companies have switched over to internal, private, permissioned blockchains for their sensitive data. With the ease of creating custom environments on GalaChain, this could be done for personal use as well.
Block Houses
The smart home of tomorrow is built on-chain.
On a private blockchain, each of your devices could function as a peer with its own credentials and permissions. They read information they need from blocks created previously in the channel, and any transactions they submit to a new block are verified through the ordering service.
A household AI would act as the approver node for transactions, but a user interface would also have permissions so that you could view the chain as you want. All the actions and data of your devices stay on the private blockchain, not only protected by the security of your network but also gated behind GalaChain’s asynchronous encryption.
This essentially provides your house its own private network. You could go ahead using your direct input devices directly on your main network, but any autonomous activities taken by your kit would process through your private homechain. Like we said, a fully automated homelife may be in the future… but not that distant of a future. We need to start thinking about how to resolve these issues now, and blockchain is the perfect solution for these kinds of private IoTs.
The tools of tomorrow are built today, and tomorrow’s coming up very, very soon.
