⚔ BASEic Brawlers

You need an Ethereum-compatible wallet with the Base network configured. MetaMask is the easiest; Rabby, Coinbase Wallet, and most others work too. Coinbase Wallet has Base built in by default.

On Base mainnet, you need real ETH on Base to pay gas and mint. The cheapest way to get there is bridge.base.org — bridge ETH from Ethereum mainnet for a few dollars in gas, takes a couple of minutes. Coinbase users can also withdraw ETH directly to Base from the Coinbase app for free.

On Base Sepolia (testing), grab free Sepolia ETH:

• Alchemy Base Sepolia faucet — 0.5 Sepolia ETH per day, no signup needed for low amounts.
• Coinbase Base Sepolia faucet — easy if you already have a Coinbase account.

A mint costs ~$20 of ETH (whatever the Base mint price calibrates to). Duels cost pennies of gas. On Sepolia, everything is free.

Head to /mint and pick how many you want (1, 2, 5, 10, or 20 at a time — up to 20 per transaction). Each mint costs ~$30 — payable in ETH, USDC, or USDT on Base. Every $30 mint splits transparently: $20 to the dev wallet (covers ops + treasury) and $10 + matching BRAWL to the BRAWL/ETH liquidity pool — so the LP grows organically as more people mint.

Every brawler is randomly generated with a name, stats, a weapon, and BASEic pixel art. The rarity and weapon you get are pre-shuffled at deploy time using Chainlink VRF so the order is provably random — nobody can pre-compute which mint pulls a King.

Every brawler has six D&D-style stats rolled on mint. Each affects how they fight:

• Strength (STR) — damage bonus + minimum damage floor
• Dexterity (DEX) — to-hit chance, armor class, initiative order
• Constitution (CON) — starting HP and armor class
• Intelligence (INT) / Wisdom (WIS) / Charisma (CHA) — reserved for future content (spellcasting, crits, taunts etc). Safe to dump for now.

Combat is turn-based with simultaneous-damage: each round, whoever has higher DEX attacks first. Hits land when d20 + DEX ≥ defender’s armor class. Crits happen on 20s. First to zero HP loses. If both go to zero in the same round, it’s a tie and the pot splits.

Head to /duel and we’ll auto-match you against a brawler near your Rating. If you own multiple brawlers, pick your fighter; otherwise we lock in your only alive one. Don’t like the match? Hit Reroll opponent — we’ll find someone else.

When you click Fight, the server simulates the duel, signs the result, and your wallet pops up to confirm. Once you sign, the animation plays — intro stare-down, three feint strikes, then the real combat rolled from chain data. Stays on screen when it ends with the outcome + your new balance + buttons.

Every brawler starts at Rating 1000. Rating moves after every duel using the classic Elo formula — win against someone higher rated and you climb fast; lose to someone lower rated and you drop hard. The /leaderboard shows everyone ranked by Rating. The /history page has the full duel log. Each brawler’s individual fight history is on their detail page.

Lose three duels in a row and your brawler dies and goes to the /graveyard. Dead brawlers can’t fight again until they’re resurrected. The cost scales with how tough your brawler is and how many wins they’ve racked up:

The fight win streak resets on resurrection — so a dead brawler re-enters the arena at their existing Rating but with their three losses still on record. They just can’t die again immediately.

A handful of brawlers owned by the dev wallet sit permanently in the arena as HOUSE fighters. They show up tagged with HOUSE in Browse and the Marketplace, and they always count as duel-ready. When you need a fight and no humans are online, you can still brawl against the house.

Behind the scenes, a keeper service auto-resurrects any dead HOUSE brawler within seconds of their third loss (using the dev wallet’s ETH for the resurrection cost) so the pool never thins out. Their stats and Rating work exactly like every other brawler — no secret buffs.

Any brawler can be listed for sale on the /market page. Payments are in ETH on Base — NOT BRAWL. BRAWL stays reserved for duel stakes + open-market DEX trading.

Seller actions on an active listing: Update price or Cancel. Cancel is always available — even if the marketplace is paused by the dev for an emergency — so nothing gets stuck.

There’s one 1-of-1 brawler — The King Brawler. All stats at 18, starting Rating 2000, level 10, wields the Kingsblade (50-100 damage, speed 10), sits on a diamond-blue background. Only mintable by the dev wallet, only ever exists once, sits above all rarity tiers.

If you meet him in the arena, expect to lose. If you beat him, expect the internet to talk about it for days.

BASEic Brawlers is a one-shot, fixed-supply project. We ship the guarantees that let you sleep easy:

• Farm easy wins early — match into the same Rating band. Don’t pick fights above you until your BRAWL stack is deep enough to absorb a few losses.
• Watch the combat log — Reflect on why you lost. Was it bad rolls, or was your opponent just statistically better? If your Dex is low, you attack last — that’s a structural problem, not bad luck.
• Don’t die. Resurrection costs real ETH and Rating drops with every loss. Sometimes the right play is to stop dueling a brawler who’s on a two-loss streak.
• Batch mint — 20 mints in one tx only costs one gas fee. If you’re going to spend money anyway, go big.