Sudocat: The Future of Gaming and Trading

Onboarding the masses to DeFi using games as the onboarding funnel

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Dayo Adeosun
March 16, 2025

How It Began

The idea of Sudocat began to crystalize around the 2nd Half of 2024. We had read a Delphi Digital article on how telegram trading bots were the new cash cows. We read that unlike other decentralized trading options this was the first one specialized for mobile and it was all happening in the Telegram messaging app. There had been $30 billion in volume from 1m users since the first trading bots came out in 2023. I was impressed by the benefits it gave the trader: you could trade on the go (mobile), one-click fast execution instead of constantly signing transactions, you could access all the coins on the chain the bot supported, it was the first new trading interface since Uniswap came in 2018, and most importantly for me there were over 10 Telegram trading bots in top fee revenue on defi llama so I saw the market was strong. From my previous startup I knew you needed to get 2 things right to succeed in crypto. Play in the right market and have a high-conviction and adaptable team. 

We had a team ready of builders in Nigeria, UK, and US. TC (who originally coined the idea) and Logan had built 100’s of crypto applications and were still waiting for their big break. I built up the category leading video nft marketplace but was hungry for more. Cross was a Binance ambassador and winner of Big Brother Africa. Cairon and Kola had a stablecoin product doing millions in volume. So we thought let’s tackle this mobile dex/trading bot opportunity with an experienced team and see where it takes us.

How It Started 

We started creating another telegram trading bot with certain principles we knew a trader would always desire: fast execution, vast token selection, and AI+Community assistance to help you buy low and sell high. It took us about 5 weeks to build out the first trading bot on Solana. Right when we released it we knew it wasn’t enough. Cross gave the product to his Big Brother Africa community but they didn’t have enough funds or feel comfortable enough to start trading. This led us to games. Specifically, play-and-earn games.

What We Realized 

Gaming is the best onboarding strategy for crypto. From Axie Infinity to Hamster Kombat. From Coinbase to quests, games/gamification is the number one way crypto onboards users. This has always been the case for crypto projects. Even I, myself, ran a web3 gaming agency to bring more women gamers into web3 gaming in 2023.  Even Vitalik was onboarded into crypto due to his frustrations in gaming with World of Warcraft. Nvidia used games as their onboarding for AI. I was reading a lot of Buffett in 2024 and one quote stuck in my mind, “Warren Buffett has done 2 things for the last 80 years: investing and playing the computer game bridge”. The “best” investor of the last century has been playing games and making trades. That was all I needed to go all in on this idea. Games onboard and engage better than all other categories and they’ve done it for a long time.

What Crypto Actually Needs 

There are two major gaps in crypto: the lack of widely engaging consumer-facing Web3 applications and the difficulty retail users face in executing profitable trades. Crypto needs something that can engage you into a flow state and help you earn more for your time. The early promise of crypto was being able to earn and own the platforms you help build. Crypto first needs a product worth owning and then it needs the right execution that allows its users to earn as the ecosystem grows up. It needs its Facebook FarmVille moment and then it needs its moment where Facebook expands beyond colleges. We believe crypto is closer than ever to this moment. Then we will have engaged and retained crypto users. Maybe more engaged and retained products than any industry we have seen before. 

DeFi’s path to consumer adoption 

Existing DeFi trading tools remain too complex for mainstream adoption, while the play-to-earn model has struggled with sustainability. We believe DeFi’s path to consumer adoption will be through games first that entice and engage the average non-crypto user. Then the ability to earn seamlessly from your phone with minimal effort will get them to stick and tell their friends. As the consumer window for AI agents opens - specializing in AI agentic trading can help facilitate the user experience that crypto needs to have a mainstream application. Now is the time to build for this future. 

Sudocat bridges these gaps by creating an ecosystem where casual gamers can passively generate rewards that integrate into AI-assisted trading strategies. With both gaming and trading driving user engagement, the platform provides a compelling alternative to both traditional trading bots and standalone Web3 games. 

Since launching in October, we believe that Sudocat has gained strong early traction. The company has processed over $3.2M in trading volume through SudoCatBot, its Telegram-based decentralized trading bot, and has onboarded over 122,000 gamers into its ecosystem, and built out the first Telegram trading bot on Flow Blockchain. The trading bot, which initially launched on Solana and Flow, enables users to search tickers, analyze market trends, and execute trades with natural language commands. At the same time, Sudocat’s gaming platform, SudoChase, has attracted engagement by integrating play-to-earn mechanics with tokenized incentives. Backed by Denarii Labs accelerator program, Flow Blockchain, and notable angel investors, we believe Sudocat is positioned to scale its hybrid gaming and trading ecosystem through further AI integration and multi-chain expansion. Most importantly, we will have our community come along and help us drive the play, trade, and earn ecosystem forward with our upcoming games, Super App, and token launch in 2025.

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