MoonKarts isn’t just about gunning your kart to the finish line—it weaves together skill, commitment, and quality in its Economy & Rewards engine. As someone who tracks blockchain game economies closely, I find MoonKarts’ approach both fair and motivating.
What Drives Your Earnings
MoonKarts uses four core factors to decide how much you earn:
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Skill – Your performance in races (wins, rankings) matters.
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Time – The more you play, the more opportunities you create.
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NFT Quality – High-grade karts, drivers, parts all amplify rewards.
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Staked Governance Tokens (COLONY) – Stake tokens and you boost your cut.
If you lack on any one of these, your rewards will lag behind those of players who have all four working in tandem.
Token Allocation & Reward Pools
COLONY tokens are the backbone of rewards. Daily, a fixed supply is distributed across several pools:
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40% to the Orbitals Pool
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25% to the Ranking Pool
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10% for tokens you can find on the track during races
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5% for the Referral Pool
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20% reserved for the Seasonal Pool
The Seasonal Rewards Pool, in particular, gathers 20% of the daily COLONY allocation and is distributed based on leaderboard performance over each 10-day cycle, rewarding consistent excellence.
There are several paths to rewards:
Collecting COLONY tokens on-track and finishing the race with them. Lose them or the race, and no payout.
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Climbing in the race rankings (via ELO/skill) earns you shares of daily and seasonal pools.
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Orbitals: awards for picking up items on the track. Your NFT-loadout matters—better parts, better driver, etc., give you multipliers, so you can earn more Orbitals (and thus more rewards).
Referrals & Future Features
MoonKarts also offers a Referral Program: share your invite code, and when referees spend (especially via fiat or non-COLONY/SCRIPT tokens), you score points. These points map to your portion of the daily Referral Pool (5% of total rewards). Caps prevent abuse (you can’t claim more than 0.5% of the total Rewards Pool or more than 10% of the Referral Pool in one day).
Additionally, a future feature named Moon Domes is planned: owning one would yield 10% of tokens from any race held in your Dome.