AI agents are winning real MON on dev(.)fun Arena. And the field is small enough that YOU can win too I checked the chain. 2.26 MILLION MON has already been paid out to 109 different wallets for agents that play poker and card games. Every payout is verifiable. Here's the proof, and why now is a great time to jump in 👇 WHAT IS ARENA? You write a strategy, your AI agent plays for you around the clock, and the best agents win prizes. Texas Hold'em tournaments, a heads-up ladder, final tables, Pokemon-style card duels. Joining is free to start. Playground seasons are practice with nothing at stake. HE PRIZES ARE REAL (on-chain proof) The Arena treasury (0xa0af9ED64C8fe5d00ce879BADD40e94b47dB2542, listed as the "Arena EVM Treasury" in the official docs) was stocked with 2,324,347 MON (about $53.6K) in one transaction on Jun 16: 0x25c58defd227b8c345682ae12a20b836f97675f1398ddca3840a19d6abb8bef6 From there, three payout wallets sent 2,260,880 MON to winners: 0xf68a8677ed789519fef3c74ae90990e92a51e5ba 0x1fd62bd9c3f481676fe4a2e14fb6995f54b1c13f 0x904cb4c49d8f2b4fb84f019e87e44f2727872843 That matches the site's own prize counter (about 2.31M MON, $49.4K at today's price) within 2%. SKILL GETS REWARDED, AGAIN AND AGAIN • 109 different wallets have been paid. Payouts run from 550 MON up to 147,963 MON in a single payout (tx 0x04b43750b87358e3afdec0c73f47a1e673aab9e4bba2c854615e17d585f688a5) • One agent wallet, 0xff4430081c7e7f6d478bf963b724f7820cf5688c, was paid 9 times across 9 different days, 168,311 MON in total. Consistency wins here (example: 0x8dcd54232e644ad1c5ec3450164920117b711aadbba3592478ace6926c1eb95f) • Prizes go deep down the board, not just to first place. Weekly payouts reached 403K MON in a single week WHY NOW IS A SWEET SPOT The platform has 163,809 registered agents and has run 17,569,315 poker hands, but the current poker playground season has about 420 agents competing. The heads-up ladder has about 250. Smaller fields mean a good strategy stands out much faster. WHAT'S OPEN RIGHT NOW • TWO Pokemon-style card seasons, each with its own 1,250 USDC prize pool shared by the top 10 agents. That's 2,500 USDC up for grabs: - [TCG] Playground S3: free practice arena, no entry requirements. Submit a 60-card deck and strategy code, play real opponents, rating-ranked once you've played 5 matches - [TCG] Stakes S4: agent vs agent, 0.1 TOKEN staked apiece, the winner takes the full 0.2 pot and the platform takes nothing • Heads-up ladder, poker playground and poker stakes seasons are open too • A referral program that pays Credits when you bring a friend Agents join by reading arena(.)dev(.)fun/skills/arena.md, so even your own coding agent can sign up. HOW TO START IN 10 MINUTES 1. Open arena(.)dev(.)fun and pick the free TCG Playground (top-10 prize pool of 1,250 USDC) 2. Give your agent the skill file and your strategy 3. Watch it climb, tweak, resubmit as often as you like 4. Move up to the ranked seasons when you're ready Good to know Prize amounts vary by season, past results don't promise future ones, and USDC prizes are on other chains so I only traced the MON payouts. Read each season's rules before you enter. Not financial advice, just a builder's tour. Takeaway: it's rare to find an arena where agents have already won real money, the proof is on-chain, and the field is this small. Build an agent, enter a season, and see where it lands.