Riddle

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V2

Founding Team

Product: Michael Maldonado is a Southern California-native full-time crypto investor and builder with an undergraduate degree in finance and an extensive background in product.
Engineering: Austin Perez is a senior software engineer in Nashville, TN with more than a decade of recent experience in FAANG and startups (Amazon, Filmhub, NFX, more).
AI: Zenkai is Riddle’s autonomous game show host and AI Agent team orchestrator.
Counsel: Jose Linares is a skilled Nashville-based for-profit business and IP attorney.

Our Guiding Principles

  1. The Golden Rule
  2. Always Day One
  3. Low Hype, High Value

About Riddle

Riddle was first conceptually envisioned in the middle of November 2024. $RIDDLE the token was officially launched on Virtuals Protocol Sunday, December 08, 2024. $RIDDLE was fairly launched with a max of 1b tokens, all in circulation. The developer wallet, which ends with 4a5, holds 22.58% of $RIDDLE’s max supply. Riddle’s MVP (V1) was built, tested, refined, and released on Saturday, February 1, 2025.

Riddle is the world’s first AI agent hosted game show. At the moment, it is exclusively played on X (formerly Twitter). Our primary objectives are to build Riddle into a monetarily sustainable and highly-rewarding game occupying a multi-medium surface area.

How to Play and Earn

TL;DR - How to play and win? Reply to the most recent riddle with the word or words that you think best summarize what the riddle is about. First to Solve gets 200k $RIDDLE (if ≥Citizen) or 40k $RIDDLE. Four Random Players each get 25k $RIDDLE (if ≥Citizen) or 5k $RIDDLE. Riddle unveilings at 8:00 AM, 8:30 AM, 9:00 AM, and 9:30 AM PST. Winners decided and announced by or before 10:00 AM PST. To be a Citizen: Hold ≥400k $RIDDLE in your wallet. Stay alert—turn on notifications for an edge!”

There are two primary X accounts that display and host Riddle: @riddledotfun (display) and @iamzenkai (host).

Every day of the year a single overarching riddle will be posted on @riddledotfun X profile, @iamzenkai will host (interact with participants and determine winners), and all are welcomed to play for fun and financial gain.

The riddle will be posted up to four times each day with varying degrees of redaction (difficulty). The ⬜ symbol is used to redact words. Version One (most redacted) of the riddle will be posted at 8:00 AM PST; Version Two (less redacted than Version One) will be posted at 8:30 AM PST, if no one was able to solve Version One; Version Three (less redacted than Version Two) will be posted at 9:00 AM PST, if no one was able to solve Version Two; Version Four (without redaction) will be posted at 9:30 AM PST, if no one was able to solve Version Three. The day’s winners will be announced by or before 10:00 AM PST from @riddledotfun X profile (final post of each day).

If a player responds with the day’s riddle solution word within time bounds, the game will be over and no subsequent riddle version will be presented. Otherwise, if there is no “First to Solve” winner for the day, the competition will automatically end 30-mins after riddle Version Four (unredacted) is presented.

There will be a daily maximum of one “First To Solve” winner and four “Random Players” awarded $RIDDLE.

Citizenship Tiers

TIERS$RIDDLE BalanceFTS REWARD AMOUNTRP REWARD AMOUNT
Royal10m+100%100%
Noble2m+100%100%
Citizen400k+100%100%
Denizen1+20%20%
Sojourner020%20%

Reward Schedule

FTS Reward (1 Winner)RP Reward (4 Winners)Max Daily Rewards
PhaseFDV CapRIDDLEUSDRIDDLEUSDRIDDLEUSD
1$25,000,000200,000$5,00025,000$625300,000$7,500
2$50,000,000160,000$8,00020,000$1,000240,000$12,000
3$100,000,000128,000$12,80016,000$1,600192,000$19,200
4$200,000,000102,400$20,48012,800$2,560153,600$30,720
5$400,000,00081,920$32,76810,240$4,096122,880$49,152
6$800,000,00065,536$52,4298,192$6,55498,304$78,643
7$1,600,000,00052,429$83,8866,554$10,48678,643$125,829
8$3,200,000,00041,943$134,2185,243$16,77762,915$201,327
9$6,400,000,00033,554$214,7484,194$26,84450,332$322,123
10$12,800,000,00026,844$343,5973,355$42,95040,265$515,396

V3

Four Priorities

  1. Game
  2. AI
  3. Branding
  4. ⬜️ ⬜️ ⬜️