Genesis Is Live: Our On-Chain Quest City Opens

On 10 September 2026 we opened Genesis, the first season of DENSHIN. It is a live Web3 quest city: a neon map that opens up as you do real things on a blockchain. You don't tick boxes on a checklist. You take a quest from a quarter of the city, do what it asks on-chain, and watch that part of the map light up. This post explains what is inside the season, how the quests work and how to start.

What DENSHIN is, in one minute#

The city is a single district of 100 quarters. At the start of the season only the 4 quarters in the centre are open. The other 96 are sealed, and every one of them is held by a quest. When you finish a quest, its seal lifts and those quarters stay open on your map for the rest of the season.

Quests earn points. Season points decide your place on the leaderboard. Lifetime points decide your rank, which never falls. Your marker walks the same map as every other player, so the city is also a live view of who is playing right now.

You can look around before you commit to anything: the map and the quests are open to guests, no wallet needed. Open the app and scroll the city.

What is inside Genesis#

• Window: 10 September → 31 October 2026, 23:59:59 UTC.
• Quests: 33, worth 1,800 points in task rewards. 23 of them are verified on-chain, and the other 10 cover signing in, linking accounts and inviting friends.
• Team quests: 3, with teams of 3, 5 and 7 seats filled by other players. A team quest pays once the whole team has finished, and the bigger the team, the more each seat is worth.
• Waves: four chapters called Arrival, Everyday, Ties and Close. All of them are open from day one, so a player who arrives in the last week can still take the most valuable quests on their first evening.
• Prize pool: $100 USDT for the whole season, split across the top 50 places.

The full season rules are in the handbook: Seasons and waves.

Three networks, one city#

Genesis runs on Base, Soneium and Sonic. 11 on-chain quests are on Base, 8 on Soneium and 4 on Sonic. They cover swaps, lending deposits, liquidity positions and balances. Network fees on all three are a fraction of a cent, so a quest never costs more than it is worth.

We price repetition honestly. If you repeat in a second network a move you have already made in the first, it pays half. Full price is kept for work that is new to you.

Every quest is checked on the chain#

This is the part we care about most. We verify quests by reading blockchain data: balances, swaps and positions. You never send us a screenshot and we never take your word for it. Three rules keep verification honest:

1. An action counts only from the block where you pressed Start mission, so an old transaction cannot complete a new quest.
2. Every accepted transaction hash counts once, for everyone and forever.
3. Signing in is not a transaction. It costs nothing, moves nothing and grants no spending permission.

When a task will not tick, the handbook's Proof and verification page lists the usual reasons in order of likelihood.

Daily Check is on-chain now#

On 21 September the Daily Check became an on-chain action. Once per UTC day a point appears somewhere on your map. You take it with a Denshin Sync: one small transaction on Soneium, Base or Sonic, you pick which. It goes to our own contract, DenshinSync, which has the same address on all three networks. The contract holds no funds, has no owner and cannot be upgraded.

The day pays points equal to your streak, capped at 30. The streak survives the change of season. More detail is on Daily Check.

How to start#

1. Open app.denshin.io and look around as a guest.
2. Connect a wallet and sign the login message. It is free.
3. Take a quest from the Arrival wave. It starts with a signature and a little gas on Base.
4. Link X, Discord and Telegram. Your reputation score multiplies every quest payout, by up to +90%.
5. Join the white list before it closes on 31 October 2026. Every listed wallet gets the permanent Genesis badge and 100 bonus points.

Want the thinking behind the design? Read why we believe on-chain quests are a better way into Web3. And on 22 September we also launched DENSHIN on Product Hunt.

See you in the city.