🏆 LEAF BLOWER CUP — PAYOUT & FAIR PLAY UPDATE

Thank you to everyone who competed. The Cup prizes (top 5 share 2 SOL) will go out over the next few hours.

First we're verifying the top of the leaderboard so every reward reaches a real player who earned it. Played honestly? Your prize is on the way, this is just the final check.

On fair play: we have checks running in the background. A score submitted without being earned through real play gets caught on our side, and we can see when accounts are linked to the same person.

If you think you crossed the line, come to us first. Reaching out before the review wraps will always be handled better than being found out, and the linked accounts are already visible to us.

Cheating has no place in the Cup. Flagged entries won't be paid. Those prizes go to the players who earned them.

Honest grinders, nothing to worry about. Rewards incoming. Tomorrow's Cup runs with clear rules and tighter protection. 🌱

🏆 Leaf Blower Cup: Results & Full Transparency

Thanks to everyone who played. Before paying, we checked the top of the board and most of the top scores were not real. Here is who won, how the fakes worked, and how we can actually prove it, not just "trust us."

✅ Real winners (prizes incoming in a few hours: 1 pm UTC):
🥇 3Kuf…fHen · Level 24 · 0.70 SOL
🥈 93wR…GHav · Level 23 (94.9%) · 0.50 SOL
🥉 6jxb…uavc · Level 23 (94.2%) · 0.40 SOL
4. 8k6g…k7zG · Level 23 (93.4%) · 0.25 SOL
5. 3Euw…9iut · Level 20 (94.1%) · 0.15 SOL

🔍 Fake #1: claiming a level you never reached
The game is the same for everyone, and every level drops a fixed number of leaves: Level 1 = 70, and each level adds exactly 16 more. So a real run is always:
• Level 20 = 374 leaves
• Level 24 = 438 leaves
• Level 25 = 454 leaves
• Level 26 = 470 leaves
The game saves how many leaves were actually in your run, next to your score. So we do not guess the level, we read the real leaf count. One entry was posted as Level 25 (needs 454 leaves) but its run only had 150 leaves, which is a Level 6 run. So they claimed Level 25 without getting past Level 6. Another claimed Level 26 with a leaf count that matches no real level. It is like claiming the 25th floor when the photo shows the 6th. The numbers do not lie.

🔍 Fake #2: scores from wallets that were never real players
A real player connects the wallet they actually use, which has a history (funds received, transactions, all dated and permanent). Solana is a public record nobody can edit. Several top scores came from addresses with zero transactions ever, completely blank. A real wallet cannot be blank, because just getting set up leaves a trace. Those were never real players, just addresses pasted in to post a score.

🔍 Fake #3: one person, many accounts
A few fakes were one person on several accounts. The record shows it: those accounts all received their starting SOL from the same single wallet, and played in a fixed back-to-back order within minutes, night after night. That is one person cycling through their own accounts.

Why we are 100% sure: two simple checks, pass or fail. (1) Does the leaf count match the claimed level? (2) Does the wallet have a real history? No guessing, no judgment call.

One note: one player had a real run and a separate faked Level 26. We keep real results and remove fake ones, so their genuine score stands and the fake was dropped.

We do not reward cheated results. We reward real results. The five above earned it. Tomorrow's Cup runs with clearer rules and tighter protection. 🌱

🌿 POLLINATORS starts in about 18 hours

Pollinators carry the word flower to flower. This week, so do you.

Opens Tue June 9, 8PM ET (Wed June 10, 00:00 UTC). Runs 7 days.

Show up daily, share the grove, grow real trees, bring friends.

🏆 $400 USDC

Join Zealy 👉 zealy.io/cw/sprout
Play 👉 i.playsprout.org

The forest grows when you spread the word. Ready? 🌱

🐝 POLLINATORS SPRINT IS LIVE

Seven days. Our biggest Zealy sprint ever. Top 50 players split $400 USDC, and everyone who plays earns collectible badges.

HOW IT WORKS: complete quests on Zealy to earn XP. The more you do, the higher you rank. Most quests check your wallet automatically, so if you did it, you pass instantly. Nothing blocks you.

🌱 GET STARTED
• Connect your wallet & set your username
• Grow your first tree & harvest your first LEAF
• Follow us on X, join Discord & Telegram
• Take the Sprout 101 quiz

🌳 GROW YOUR GROVE (auto-verified on-chain)
• Grow to 5 trees
• Own a Community Tree (your first paid tree), a Conservation Tree, or a Legacy Tree
• Own 3 paid trees
• Build a 3-day streak & plant a new tree

🌍 PLANT REAL TREES
• Fund your first real tree, then fund 3 real trees
Spend SOL in-game and we plant real trees on Earth.

🍃 THE LEAF TOKEN
• Buy LEAF on a DEX, hold 10, hold 100
• Donate LEAF to the Yield Pool

🔥 FEED THE FOREST (new this sprint)
Burn LEAF to grow a shared community forest. Every LEAF you burn:
• Fills the milestone bar (100 → 500 → 1,500 → 5,000)
• Earns a Patron badge: Seedling (5) → Sapling (50) → Forest (250) → Ancient (1,000)
• Adds +1 XP to your rank, so burning climbs the leaderboard

📣 SPREAD THE WORD
• Like, reply, quote, and repost our pinned launch post
• Post a meme, share your grove, write a thread, tweet why you grow
• Watch & share @EduOnChain's video to support a fellow player

🔁 DAILY QUESTS (reset every day)
• Nurture a tree
• Post with #SproutGame
• Reply to & like/repost today's post (a new one goes up daily)

🏆 THE PRIZE
Top 50 split $400 USDC, plus badges for everyone who takes part. And because every burned LEAF adds XP, scores stay unique, no ties and no midnight scramble.

👉 Join the sprint: zealy.io/cw/sprout
👉 Play: i.playsprout.org

The forest grows when you spread the word. Let's grow. 🌱

🌍 DAY 2: PLANT REAL TREES

Today's post is live, and today's daily quests now point at it!

TODAY'S XP (resets at 00:00 UTC):
💬 Reply to today's post (60 XP) — tell us where on Earth you'd want your tree planted
🔁 Like + repost today's post (30 XP)
🌱 Nurture a tree (50 XP)
🐦 Post with #SproutGame (250 XP)

👉 Today's post: https://x.com/PlaySproutGame/status/2065079390992581016
👉 Quest board: https://zealy.io/cw/sprout/leaderboard/67b38576-74ff-4e5f-8c1b-311fb996766c

Day 1 recap: first Feed the Forest milestone SMASHED — 143+ LEAF burned by 23 Patrons 🔥 Next stop: 500. Every LEAF burned = +1 XP on your rank, automatically.

Six days left. $400 USDC to the top 50. Let's grow 🌱

🌱 UI REFRESH IS LIVE

The whole game just got a visual glow-up. Same Sprout, same trees, one clean hand-drawn look across everything.

What changed:
• Fonts fixed for everyone. Some players saw weird text on certain phones. The game now ships its own font, so it looks identical on every device, in every country.
• Tablet layout fixed. No more overlapping buttons in the header.
• Cleaner buttons, menus, and popups that match the ink style of your grove.
• A performance fix under the hood.

Your trees, LEAF, and balances are untouched. Visual only. If anything looks off, do a hard refresh or clear your cache.

👀 And one more thing... this refresh sets the stage for something very exciting dropping soon. Keep your shovels ready. 🌳

▶️ https://i.playsprout.org

🌱 PHASE 3 IS DELIVERING. THE UPDATE IS LIVE.

The grove just got its biggest update yet:

🛒 The Shop: Trees · Land · Grow · Style, all in one place
🏆 New Leaderboards: Weekly, Monthly, All-Time, every name clickable
⚡ Fast Nurture: one glowing green button, your whole grove in one tap
👤 New Profile hub: public profile, wallet, account

And the big one...

🌿 GREEN RUSH OPENS IN 24 HOURS

A weekly tree planting race. Boost your grove with SOL (0.10 / 0.25 / 0.50) and every boost plants REAL trees on-chain. Your eco points = the real trees YOU planted that week. Top 3 take the Rush Laureate badge.

You play. Real trees get planted. The board remembers.

👀 Next week: the first tree skins drop. The preview is already in the Shop...

🔗 Play: https://i.playsprout.org

🌿 GREEN RUSH OPENS IN LESS THAN 3 HOURS — 14:00 UTC

The weekly tree planting race is almost here, and this one is built to make you earn more.

Why it is bigger than a leaderboard:

🌳 Plant trees with SOL → real trees on-chain
📈 Every real tree raises your EcoScore → the permanent multiplier on your whole grove's daily LEAF (up to 2x)
🏆 Climb the weekly board → top 3 take the Rush Laureate badge

When the gun fires, one move does three things: you plant real forest, you set your grove up to earn MORE LEAF every day from here on, and you climb the standings. All upside.

The edge: the EcoScore curve is steepest at the start, so the first trees give the biggest jumps. At 14:00 UTC the board opens with nobody in front. Fastest movers set the pace.

Get ready: load your wallet and open Shop → Grow for the boost calculator to see what your SOL will plant.

🌱 In under 3 hours → https://i.playsprout.org

🌱 GREEN RUSH BOOST: BRIEF DELAY

The Green Rush boost button will be delayed until 17:00 UTC.

We identified a small bug in the backend, so there is a short delay while we get it sorted.

Sorry about this, everyone. Thanks for your patience. 💚

⚡ BOOST IS LIVE

Spend SOL to plant real trees and boost your EcoScore, directly, any amount.

🌳 Shop → Grow → ⚡ Boost with SOL
📈 Every boost plants real trees on-chain (7.6% to real planting) and raises your EcoScore, the permanent multiplier on your whole grove's daily LEAF (up to 2x)
🏆 Those trees are also your Green Rush eco points this week, so one move climbs the board AND grows every tree you own

No slot needed, no cap, one on-chain transaction. The Grow-tab calculator shows exactly what any amount does before you spend.

Green Rush is live now. Boost, climb, compound. 🌿

→ https://i.playsprout.org

📣 TODAY'S ZEALY TASK IS LIVE

Today's daily quests point at our Green Rush post — go show it some love for XP:

💬 Reply to today's post
🔁 Like + repost today's post

👉 https://x.com/PlaySproutGame/status/2065759776689066451

🏆 POLLINATORS — 2 days left, $400 to top 50. It's tight up top:
1. Shinrai — 9,501
2. xoticdream — 9,114
3. SnowNox — 9,100
4. Shaher21 — 9,100
5. Lupin0001 — 9,040

Want to climb? 🔥 Every LEAF you burn in Feed the Forest = +1 XP on your sprint rank, automatically. Burn your way up.

👉 Board: https://zealy.io/cw/sprout/leaderboard/67b38576-74ff-4e5f-8c1b-311fb996766c

🌱 Phase 3 continues: your grove comes alive

Hey everyone,

Phase 3 has been delivering fast: the Shop, the new Leaderboards, Fast Nurture front and center, Profiles, and Green Rush. Here is what comes next, and we want to be fully open about the why.

📊 Straight talk on the economy
We watch LEAF closely, and we are not going to talk around it: the sell pressure on the token has been running higher than the grove can comfortably sustain. We take that signal seriously. The features below are built with it squarely in mind, to give LEAF more to do inside the game so it is not only harvested and sold, and to keep the economy healthy for the long run.

🌿 Your grove comes alive
A grove is a living thing, and soon yours will behave like one. We are adding a new way to tend your trees: they respond to how you care for them. A tree you look after stays healthy and thrives, and keeping your grove in good shape becomes part of the daily ritual, with your LEAF playing a meaningful role in that care.

🎨 The first skins are almost here
The Style tab is about to stop saying "coming soon". The first tree skins drop next week, and there is already an unnamed preview sitting in the Shop right now. Another real place for your LEAF to go, on your grove, your way.

To be clear: this adds depth to how you grow, and it is meant to steady the economy for everyone. It does not touch the LEAF you have already earned.

We will share the full breakdown tomorrow, how each piece works and the thinking behind it. We would rather move in the open and bring you with us than make quiet changes and hope nobody notices. Tell us what you think, we are reading.

Thank you for growing this grove with us. Phase 3 is about to get a little more alive.

The Sprout team

🌱 Phase 3: time to save your LEAF for the shop

Hey everyone, here is the full breakdown, no spin.

The idea behind Phase 3 is simple: give your LEAF real things to do inside the grove, so it is worth holding and spending instead of selling the moment you earn it. The shop is opening, skins are dropping, and your grove is becoming a place worth investing in. Start saving.

🎨 Skins, rolling out this week
The Style tab stops saying coming soon. The first tree skins start rolling out this week, bought with LEAF and worn by your grove. An unnamed preview is already in the Shop. The LEAF you earn becomes your grove's style.

🏡 Visit other groves, this week
Step into other players' groves and see what they have built. The grove becomes a place you share, and one worth making your own.

🌿 A grove that asks for care (still shaping this)
Your grove is becoming a living thing. Some trees will need a little care from time to time. We are still shaping exactly how it feels, with you, so no overpromises today. The direction: a grove that rewards the people who show up for it.

💧 On the withdraw fee (live today)
The honest part. Because we want LEAF to live in the grove, the fast exit now costs a little more. A time fee starts at 50% and decays to 0% over the 5-day cooldown, so patience is rewarded, and underneath it a permanent floor we raised today from 10% to 20%. None of it is burned, none goes to the team. Every bit stays in the Yield Pool that funds everyone's withdrawals, including yours. Patient players keep the clear majority, and the claim screen shows exactly what you receive before you confirm.

Caring for a tree only changes future yield, never your balance. The withdrawal fee is the cost of cashing out, and yes, we raised it for now.

📈 Why this way
A token is only as strong as the reasons to hold it. Phase 3 stacks those reasons: skins, style, a living grove, a place to belong. The more LEAF has to do here, the less reason to rush it out the door. We will not promise you a price. Anyone who does is selling you something.

🌍 What makes Sprout different
Real SOL in Sprout still plants real trees on-chain, verifiably, and new players are finding the grove this week. Every one makes the forest bigger.

So: hold your LEAF, get ready for the shop, dress up your grove, and visit your friends. Phase 3 is the foundation.

🔗 Play: https://i.playsprout.org

🐝 POLLINATORS HAS ENDED — what a week.

1,222 of you showed up. You burned LEAF into the forest, planted real trees, and brought the grove to life. Thank you 🌱

🏆 FINAL TOP 5
🥇 Kotaewo — 10,286 XP
🥈 Shinrai — 10,285 XP
🥉 xoticdream — 10,284 XP
4️⃣ SnowNox — 10,270 XP
5️⃣ m1shGun — 9,990 XP

ONE XP separated 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. One. The closest finish we've ever had 👏 Final standings are being verified now, and the $400 USDC goes out to the top 50.

———

Now, something important. This coming week is a RESTRUCTURING WEEK — we're rebuilding parts of Sprout to make room for something bigger. And we don't want to do it without you.

🌱 Living Skins are here

After months of work, it's finally here.

Spend LEAF to give a single tree its own world. Four hand-drawn scenes to choose from:

🍄 Mushroom Hollow
🌾 Cattail Marsh
🌿 Fiddlehead Glen
🌼 Wildflower Drift

5 LEAF each. One skin dresses one tree, and you can move it between trees whenever you like. Pay with earned in-game LEAF or burn it from your wallet. It even shows in the nurture animation.

Visit Grove is live too: open any player's profile from the leaderboard and walk through their grove.

It's finally here. Go dress your forest.
👉 i.playsprout.org

🌱 A note from the Sprout team

We've been taking some time to think carefully about the road ahead, and we want to be open with you: we're brainstorming how to make Sprout stronger and more sustainable for the long run.

What's not changing: the soul of the game. The chill daily loop, your groves, and the real trees we plant together aren't going anywhere. We're just making sure the foundation underneath is built to last.

We're listening: we're reading every idea in our Discord #suggestions channel, and a lot of the best ones have come from you. Keep sharing them, they genuinely shape where Sprout grows next.

More soon. Thanks for growing this with us.

🌱 An update on the LEAF economy

We've worked out a plan to make Sprout's economy sustainable for the long haul, built mostly from your ideas, and we want your vote on it. The picture above shows the heart of it.

In short:

• Payouts now follow the real money flowing into the game. More activity, more LEAF. Quieter times, a little less, but never below a floor, so it never crashes to zero.

• LEAF gets real, everyday uses that burn it. The Furnace, Feed the Forest and the World Tree all become one shared forest, and the burns and badges you've already earned carry over. Nothing resets.

• The chill loop, your balances, and open withdrawals stay exactly the same.

Straight with you: this makes the economy steady and fair, but it does not pump the price by itself. Only real growth does that, more players and real-world tree planting, and we're pushing hard on that too.

We've laid the whole thing out, with a poll to vote in, over on Discord. Come read it and tell us what you think:
https://discord.com/channels/1415868116113555569/1518366398794039326/1518366404246769795

Nothing is locked. Sprout has been a community build from day one, and the next step is yours.

Fixing the LEAF economy 🌱

First, thank you. The suggestions thread was full of sharp points, and a lot of this came straight from you. We're doing things one step at a time, and this is step one.

Why we're doing this
The game gives out more LEAF value every day than real money comes into it. That gap is what has been pushing the price down. We're closing it, honestly and for good.

What's changing
Daily payouts come down to a level the game can actually sustain. From here, what you earn rises and falls with the real money flowing into Sprout. More money in, you earn more. Quieter weeks, a little less, but never below a floor, so it never hits zero.

Because the economy is slower right now, yields will be lower for the next few days. As activity grows, they climb back up.

What this means for you
We're spreading your returns, not cutting them. The launch rate was too high to last, and a big number that loses value faster than you earn it was never real return. We're pacing the same grove so the value holds.

Joined early? You earned at the highest rate Sprout will ever have. That head start is real. Your loop, balances, withdrawals, and badges do not change.

What it does for the game
It lengthens the life of Sprout, years instead of months. It stops the bleed and keeps LEAF honest. It does not pump the price by itself, only real growth does that, which is exactly why a Sprint is coming next.

The vote, and what's next
30 of you voted "let's build it, I love it" and 9 said "not sure yet." The majority is clear, so we are building it. If you are one of the unsure ones, drop a comment and tell us why, because if we do not know what is holding you back, we cannot fix it.

One thing at a time: we ship this patch first, then we launch the Sprint very soon.

The update goes live tomorrow, Wednesday at midnight UTC. Full picture in the image below. Thank you for growing this with us.

The night the forest gets stronger

Tonight at midnight UTC, we ship the update we have been talking about. Here is the truth, straight and hopeful.

What changes
The daily LEAF you earn comes down to a level Sprout can truly sustain, with a floor so it never hits zero. Your existing LEAF is 100% safe. Nothing in your pile changes, only the rate you earn new LEAF from here. The yield was set too high at launch, and a big number that loses its value faster than you earn it was never real. We are spreading your returns so they last, not cutting them.

Why we are doing it
Because we are not here to chase a chart. We do not measure Sprout by the price of LEAF. We measure it by real trees in the ground (over 4,700 donated and counting) and a calm game that is still here years from now. That is the win. And hear this clearly: we will do everything in our power to support LEAF and the people who hold it.

This is the moment
Every project has a night like this, the night the real ones show up. If the forest means something to you, this is when you stand with us. Hold the line. Keep planting. And get ready: a Sprint launches 24 hours later, tomorrow at midnight UTC, with real rewards for the people who hold and believe in the forest.

We are not going anywhere. Let us grow this thing for real. 🌱

🌱 *BUILD TO LAST opens at 00:30 UTC*

A 7-day sprint for the growers who plant deep and hold the line.

*THE GOAL*
Build a grove that lasts. Plant real trees. Hold your LEAF.

We are bringing LEAF emissions to a level the forest can sustain. This sprint rewards the players who carry the forest, not the ones who flip and leave.

*WHAT TO DO*
• Plant trees with SOL (every purchase funds real tree planting)
• *Buy LEAF on a DEX and hold it in your wallet.* The Hold 10 and Hold 100 quests check real wallet LEAF, not in-game balance.
• Nurture daily, build a streak
• Burn LEAF in the Furnace
• Share what you grow

*$500 USDC PRIZE POOL — Top 50*
1st $60 | 2nd $40 | 3rd $30
4-10: $17.14 each | 11-25: $10 each | 26-50: $4 each
Distributed by Zealy after the sprint.

*WHY HOLDING MATTERS*
Steady holders carry the forest. If you can hold through the week, do.

We do not chase the chart. We plant real trees and build to last.

Join → https://zealy.io/cw/sprout

🌿 How the Hold Quests Work

The Hold 10 LEAF and Hold 100 LEAF quests are verified on-chain at random times throughout the day.

They are built to reward holding, so your XP is tied to your wallet actually holding the LEAF:

• Keep holding and your XP stays yours.
• If your balance drops below the required amount, the quest XP is removed automatically, every time it falls short.
• Buy back and hold again and the XP is restored.

That is by design: the board reflects genuine holders. If you are holding, there is nothing to do. Hold your LEAF, keep your XP, climb the board.