If you received any airdrops of Keso recently, it wasn’t random. We know players are obsessed with rewards, so we figured we’d explain how the recent drops have worked. We’re testing bonus chips now, read this as a sneak-peek to get some alpha before the big feature drops.

Bonus Chips is Almost Here

We’ve got a lot going on with Kizzy development. Last week, after the Privy integration, we saw spend metrics decline starkly on the same day that we saw a number of frontend bug reports. We’ve prioritized and shipped a number of technical changes, with the final batch going out today, and are starting to see a return to growth. With that being said, here’s what our list of roadmap items looks like:

• Technical changes to resolve latency and loading bugs << Prioritizing and nearly done
• Internal testing of bonus chips feature to power bigger rewards
• Kizzy v2 home page (web dev got sick, we shipping this dw)
• USDC (SOL, ETC, Base, Arb) payments (starting development after latency bugs squashed)
• NO KYC deposits (work is ready, just awaiting a final greenlight - could be any day now)
• Secret new 1-sided game mode (starting development after bonus chips is done)

Rewards Stay Coming

Since monad momentum, we’ve had 3-4 weeks straight of rewards. Pure money just deposited to peoples accounts. If you’ve been stacking purple K a lot, you’ve definitely received a healthy amount.

Some of the top players who have been playing daily are collecting amounts day after day recently. What are you waiting for - go bet on Kizzy and earn some purple K!

What Was the Reward Structure?

But, how did this work? It’s a simple method that will be seen in the way bonus chips works. Remember, Kizzy is a business that has to use money to grow the platform. If the way we spend the bonus money on users doesn’t grow the platform, we have to change how it works. We also have to budget funds, so we set aside a specific amount of money for each week’s bonus pot. So, the result is leading up to the release of bonus chips, each week we set aside a budget to reward users and prepared a reward structure strategy to figure out what made the platform grow the best.

1. Week 1: We rewarded users who collected purple K from Monad Momentum, through to mid February. We distributed the entire budget to users all at once, on the same day
2. Week 2: We rewarded users who collected purple K from mid February through early March. We distributed the rewards to 4 sets of users, across 4 separate days.
3. Week 3: We rewarded users who collected purple K from early march through to mid march. We distributed the rewards to every user across 4 days
4. Week 4+: TBD??

You may be wondering, how did we decide how much to give? It’s quite simple. We took the amount of purple K you earned between the dates, and then weighted your purple K earnings against everyone else on the platform. Then, we took your percentage and applied it to the budget, and then sent you that amount in MON.

What Makes Rewards Drive Growth?

When people talk about it. Rewards are supposed to give people a real economic reason to stick around, but there’s a secondary outcome that you really want to optimize. Getting people to share more about Kizzy is really important. So, we’ve been watching closely to see which drops get the most people talking. When you look into the numbers, the story is pretty obvious. Big numbers get people talking, and keeping big numbers popping up across the player base over as many days as you can is what you want.

The Best Strategy in this Experiment

When we compare the recent waves, the answer depends a bit on what you care about most.

If you care most about total betting activity, wave 2 looked the best. That wave kept bettor counts the strongest across the drop window and created the best sustained stretch of action on the platform. Instead of everything happening at once, the rewards kept showing up across multiple days, which helped keep the momentum alive.

If you care most about new depositors, wave 3 actually had the strongest result. It drove the most first depositors across its reward window, which is a strong sign that spreading rewards out can keep people engaged long enough for new users to convert.

So what’s the takeaway? The best setup seems to be one that keeps meaningful rewards showing up across multiple days, instead of doing everything in one shot. One big drop can feel good in the moment, but if you want people checking the app, talking about Kizzy, and seeing other players win day after day, the multi-day format is just stronger.

That’s the direction we’re leaning into.

Bonus Chips is Like this But Made for Bigger and Bigger Rewards

Bonus Chips is basically this idea, but built in a way that can support way bigger rewards over time.

The big difference is that with a straight drop, money just lands in your account and that’s that. Bonus Chips adds a spend guarantee into the system. In other words, rewards are designed to actually turn into betting volume on the platform instead of just being passively collected. That makes the reward budget go way further, we can offer bigger and bigger rewards.

Why does that matter? Because if rewards create volume, and volume helps the platform grow, then we can justify pushing harder and harder on rewards. That means bigger campaigns, more consistency, and a more sustainable way to keep feeding value back to players.

So yeah, Bonus Chips is meant to feel like the same kind of alpha as these secret Keso drops, except way more powerful. The whole point is to build a reward machine that doesn’t just feel good for one day, but can keep scaling with the platform.

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