Ludo Arena (https://www.ludoarena.xyz) is a real-money 1v1 blitz Ludo game live on Celo mainnet, built for the MiniPay/mobile-first African market. Players stake cUSD in an on-chain escrow, dice are provably fair (commit-reveal), and winners are paid instantly on-chain. Features: soulbound event passes (Race Week), platform-sponsored gas (cUSD via CIP-64 + native CELO for external wallets), an anti-farm pipeline with on-chain game voiding, and a Zealy sprint whose quests are auto-verified against real on-chain games by our own API. 850+ cumulative transactions across 4 contracts; 10% tier rake live.
We are on a mission to bring provably fair, real-money casual gaming to Africa's mobile-money generation — starting with Ludo, the continent's favorite board game, where every dice roll is verifiable and every win is paid on-chain in seconds.
Classic board games like Ludo are played by hundreds of millions across Africa, but online versions offer no real stakes, no fair-play guarantees, and no way to actually win money. Meanwhile, mobile-money users in Africa hold stablecoins (cUSD via MiniPay) with very few fun, trustworthy ways to use them. Existing real-money gaming platforms are opaque: players can't verify dice rolls, payouts are slow or discretionary, and small stakes are eaten by fees.
Ludo Arena is real-money 1v1 blitz Ludo on Celo mainnet, built mobile-first for the MiniPay ecosystem. Players stake cUSD (from 1 cent) into an on-chain escrow smart contract, dice are provably fair (commit-reveal, verifiable by anyone), and the winner is paid instantly on-chain. The platform sponsors gas (cUSD via CIP-64 fee abstraction, native CELO for MetaMask users) so new players can start with zero crypto. Anti-farm protections run at protocol level: soulbound event passes, wash-trading detection, and on-chain game voiding — with quests on our Zealy campaign auto-verified against real on-chain games by our own API.
Rake on staked games: the platform takes a 10% fee on game pots (tiered per stake level, snapshotted on-chain per game). Players stake cUSD from $0.01 to $5 per 1v1 blitz game; the winner takes the pot minus rake, paid instantly by the escrow contract. Secondary revenue: cosmetic items (dice skins, tokens, themes) sold in-app for cUSD. Growth is subsidized rather than extracted: gas and first stakes are platform-sponsored for new players, with balance-aware caps so sponsorship only flows to players who actually need it.
Africa , Latin america
0 USD — fully bootstrapped to date. Applying to ecosystem programs (Celo Proof of Ship).
