Guide to Degen Coin Flip - A Popular Solana Game

What Is Degen Coin Flip?

Degen Coin Flip is a Solana smart contract that enables users to play "Double or Nothing" with their Solana SOL tokens. The Degen Coin Flip game offers players a 50/50 chance of doubling their Solana SOL, similar to an actual coin flip. The coin flip game is decentralized and anyone can play it. As of September 2022, over 88,000 unique users have flipped 7.39 million times for more than $50 million at Degen Coin Flip.

The Solana smart contract powering Degen Coin Flip is located at the address D6X9pm65p7NuWrgrYQUNU1M4qvAA7ASz4GWymGuPYrtw. The smart contract is public and visible to the world. All Degen Coin Flip game statistics are transparent and easy to analyze.

How Much Does Degen Coin Flip Cost?

Degen Coin Flip charges a 3.5% fee for every player. A separate Solana smart contract exists for the fee account. The Degen Coin Flip fee account is located at DAdbcE5SdqoQArf7V87pYR6jPNmTtEUbR2XeC1kAzZjh. Every time a player interacts with the Degen Coin Flip game the smart contract takes a 3.5% fee.

How To Play Degen Coin Flip

Anyone in the world with a Solana Wallet can play Degen Coin Flip.

Step 1: Connect your Solana Wallet to Degen Coin Flip

You must use your Solana Wallet to connect to Degen Coin Flip. Always verify that you are on the correct site degencoinflip.com before signing and approving any transactions.

Step 2: Sign Nonce

Degen Coin Flip requires you to sign a nonce to prove ownership of your wallet. This is safe - review the program instructions in Avana Wallet before approving.

Step 3: Flip Coin

Choose heads or tails and an amount. Then flip the coin.

The Degen Coin Flip smart contract will immediately tell you if you won or lost. Remember, the chances of winning are 50/50.

Step 4: Claim Reward

If you won you have to claim your reward from the smart contract. This requires signing another transaction.

Only Wager Funds You Are Willing To Risk

Be careful using Degen Coin Flip and respect all local / federal laws where you reside. Only wager funds that are you able to risk. Remember, there is a 50/50 chance that you can lose.

History of Degen Coin Flip

Degen Coin Flip publicly announced its project on Twitter on December 6, 2021. Degen Coin Flip's Medium article outlines the broader vision and game.

"Degen Coin Flip is a smart contract that allows users to play Double or Nothing with their Solana tokens. Odds are 50/50 with a 3.5% fee that goes to DCF NFT holders. There will be 555 nfts at .33 sol."

- @degencoinflip December 6, 2021

Degen Coin Flip sold 555 DCF tokens for 0.33 Solana SOL each. 100% of fees generated from the game's coin flips will are sent to holders in perpetuity. On December 8, 2021 all of the Degen Coin Flip mint sold out within an hour.

The hype surrounding the game was strong from the onset. Within one day one million USD had been flipped.

Degen Coin Flip Statistics

Degen Coin Flip manages an active Mixpanel page with live game statistics. As of September 2022, the game has an on-chain track record of:

• 7.39 million total flips
• 22 flips as longest winning streak
• 88k unique coin flippers

Source: Mixpanel and Degen Coin Flip

Another helpful link to track the game is hosted at DCF.finance.

Is Degen Coin Flip Safe?

All Solana smart contracts can be vulnerable to hackers. Degen Coin Flip was hacked on December 10, 2021 by a white hat hacker (two days after the mint). The Degen Coin Flip team patched the hack by December 11, 2021. No user funds were lost.

Degen Coin Flip offers a bug bounty program for security researchers to proactively find and report potential vulnerabilities.

Degen Coin Flip Support

The Degen Coin Flip team manages an active Discord server. You can join the Discord server with this invitation.

Degen Fat Cats

Degen Fat Cats is an art collection of 20,000 fat cats that benefit from supporting flagship crypto games and tools (view on Magic Eden). Degen Fat Cats' first contract was with Degen Coin Flip. Now, Degen Fat Cats has partnered with nearly 50 of the biggest and best projects and people across the Solana Ecosystem.

Degen Fat Cats partnerships bring a fun added utility to communities while helping them generate revenue for their projects.

Owners of Degen Fat Cats can receive fee payments from the partnerships. Currently it is estimated that the fee rewards APY for Degen Fat Cats is ~35% (given 17.5 Solana SOL floor currently).

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