An advertising board on Avalanche
There is no arcade machine.
Just an advertising board shaped like one. Your logo goes on a panel of the cabinet, the better the panel the more it costs, and the placement is recorded on Avalanche where nobody can quietly edit it later.
Free, no wallet, nothing sent anywhere: upload your logo and watch it land on the panel you picked.
30 panels, $10 to $250, settled and refunded on Avalanche C-Chain
0 / 30
panels taken
- Auction closes
- not open yet
- On the board for
- 6 months
Opening prices
- Marqueex1$250
- Bezelx3$120
- Panelx6$60
- Trimx12$25
- Back panelx8$10
Paid in AVAX or USDC. Get passed at any point and your whole deposit is yours to withdraw the same second.
The board
Turn it, pick a panel, put your logo on it.
Every numbered rectangle on this machine is for sale, front, side and back. One marquee at $250, eight plates round the back at $10, and everything in between. You can try your own logo on any of them right now without a wallet.
1 / 1
Marquee
from $250
3 / 3
Bezel
from $120
6 / 6
Panel
from $60
12 / 12
Trim
from $25
8 / 8
Back panel
from $10
Loading the cabinet
Try before you bid
See your logo on the cabinet.
Pick a panel, drop your file, and it goes straight onto the board above at the real size for that band. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is sent to me. It stays in this browser until you clear it, and tapping the panel on the board shows the listing it would carry.
Marquee1 placement
The lit header across the top of the cabinet. One placement, at the largest size on the board.
$250opening
- 1Marqueeopen
Bezel3 placements
Three strips framing the screen, where a cabinet normally carries its title.
$120opening
- 2Bezel topopen
- 3Screen pillar, leftopen
- 4Screen pillar, rightopen
Panel6 placements
Six flat panels across the control surface and the cabinet front.
$60opening
- 5Bezel bottomopen
- 6Control panel leftopen
- 7Control panel centreopen
- 8Control panel rightopen
- 9Front panel leftopen
- 10Front panel rightopen
Trim12 placements
Twelve small plates on the speakers, coin door, kick plate and side art. Small, but on the face of the machine.
$25opening
- 11Left speaker grilleopen
- 12Right speaker grilleopen
- 13Coin door leftopen
- 14Coin door rightopen
- 15Kick plate leftopen
- 16Kick plate centreopen
- 17Kick plate rightopen
- 18Side art, headeropen
- 19Side art, screenopen
- 20Side art, waistopen
- 21Side art, baseopen
- 22Side art, footopen
Back panel8 placements
Eight plates on the back of the cabinet. Nobody walks behind a real arcade machine, but this one turns, so they do. The cheapest way onto the board.
$10opening
- 23Back door, upper leftopen
- 24Back door, upper rightopen
- 25Back door, leftopen
- 26Back door, rightopen
- 27Cable run, leftopen
- 28Cable run, rightopen
- 29Vent plate, leftopen
- 30Vent plate, rightopen
Opening prices are fixed in the contract at deployment and cannot be changed by anyone, including me. The minimum raise is the greater of $5 or 5 percent.
Why bid now
Four reasons, none of them a countdown.
The board is empty, so every panel is at its floor
All 30 placements sit at their opening price right now. Bid once and the next person after you has to clear the greater of $5 or 5 percent above you, forever. The cheapest this panel will ever be is the moment before somebody else takes it.
The comparable costs five to sixty times this
The campaign that started this format sold its stickers for roughly EUR 370 to 1,715 each to small independent products. The back of this cabinet opens at $10, and the marquee, the single best placement on the board, opens at $250.
Being outbid costs you nothing at all
There is no fee, no cut and no waiting period. The second someone passes your bid, your entire deposit becomes a credit you withdraw yourself, in the asset you sent, down to the last wei. I cannot hold it, slow it down or take a slice.
Launch attention is front-loaded and you are early
Every campaign in this format gets most of its traffic in its first days. The board is new, the first sponsors are the ones who appear in the posts announcing it, and they are the only ones who will ever have been first. After that it is 6 months of a link that is already paid for.
The mechanism
One auction, three things that can happen to your money.
- Leading
While your bid is in front
The contract holds it and nobody can touch it, me included. There is no function that lets me take a live bid, and the 30 day clock runs on its own. A bid in the final 10 minutes pushes that one panel's close out by another 10, which is the only extension that exists and I cannot trigger it.
- Outbid
The moment somebody clears it
Every unit of your deposit becomes a credit in the same transaction that beat you, in the asset you sent, and you withdraw it whenever you like. It is a pull payment, so there is nothing for me to approve, delay or forget. Bid again on the same panel or take a different one.
- Won
When the clock runs out with you there
The panel settles on chain, and anyone can trigger that, not just me. Your logo is drawn at the position you won and linked to your site, the placement is written to Avalanche permanently, and the board stays up for at least 6 months from the close.
The deal
Exactly what you get, and what you do not.
You get
- Your logo drawn on the panel you won, at the size that panel carries, linked to your site.
- A permanent Avalanche record of the placement: your address, the panel and what you paid, plus your brand name and link if you choose to write them yourself.
- The board online for at least six months from the day the auction closes.
- A listing on the sponsors page for as long as the board is up.
I am not promising
- A traffic number. I will not quote one, because the only honest figure I have is zero so far and anyone quoting you a projection is inventing it.
- That this gets attention past its first week. It might run hot at launch and go quiet, and that risk is priced into what a panel costs.
- Anything physical. There is no cabinet, no sticker, no object and nothing to ship.
- That the site outlives the six months I have committed to. After that it stays up as long as I keep paying for it, which is a hope, not a promise.
The money
It goes to me. That is the whole arrangement.
There is no funding goal on this page and no progress bar creeping toward a target, because nothing is being funded. I am not buying a laptop, I am not buying a bike and I am not building a cabinet. There is no machine, no workshop and no trip.
You are buying advertising space on a page I built, that I own, and that I will spend my own effort pushing in front of people. What you pay is what I earn for that. Every business that sells an ad slot works this way. The only difference here is that most of them do not say it on the page.
I am writing it down because the alternative is worse. Campaigns in this format usually attach the money to a purchase or a trip, and then quietly never show the receipt. If I told you this funded an expedition and then did not go, that would be fraud. Telling you it is ad revenue is simply what it is.
If every placement sells at its opening price the board takes $1,350. Bids above the opening price go the same way. Decide whether the placement is worth that to you, and if it is not, do not bid.
Control
What the contract lets me do.
I can
- Turn a sponsor down. The bid becomes a refund credit and the panel reopens. I gain nothing by doing it.
- Pause new bids. Refunds, settlement and withdrawals keep working while paused.
- Withdraw the winning bids from spots that have closed and settled.
I cannot
- Touch a bid while its auction is still running.
- Block, delay or reverse a refund you are owed.
- Change an opening price, or extend the auction by hand.
- Move any asset that is not a settled winning bid. There is no sweep function at all.
- Upgrade, replace or destroy the contract.
None of that is my word for it. The contract is verified on Snowtrace, so the source of the bytecode holding your money is public and you can read every one of those functions yourself. The full trust page has the accounting rule and the one thing this campaign deliberately does not offer.
Questions
The awkward ones first.
Why is the back of the cabinet cheaper?
Because it is the back. Nobody walks behind a real arcade machine, and this one only shows its reverse when somebody turns it. Those eight plates are $10 for exactly that reason, and they are the cheapest way onto the board. The record on chain is identical to the marquee's; the attention is not, and pretending otherwise is how these campaigns go wrong.
So I am just buying a picture on a website?
Yes. A numbered placement on a drawn arcade cabinet, linked to your site, kept online for at least 6 months, with the placement written to Avalanche permanently. If that sounds thin to you, it is priced accordingly and you should not bid.
Why would that be worth anything?
Because attention is the product, and it always was. The campaigns this format comes from sold stickers on laptops and bikes, and their real buyers were small independent products paying for the launch moment rather than for the sticker. None of them has published proof the sticker was ever applied. Here the placement is the deliverable, so there is nothing to fail to deliver.
Where does my money actually go?
To me, as advertising revenue. There is no goal, no purchase and no trip. It is written in full on this page rather than buried, because a campaign that hides this is the kind that ends badly.
What stops you taking the money and deleting the site?
Nothing in the contract, and I will not pretend otherwise. What exists instead is a permanent on-chain record of every placement, which stays readable whether or not this site does, and a public account that has to answer for it. My commitment is 6 months of uptime, and that is a promise you can hold me to in public.
Can someone outbid me?
Yes. To take a panel off you they have to clear the greater of $5 or 5 percent above your bid, so nobody moves you for a cent. The same transaction that beats you credits your deposit back in full, and only your address can withdraw it.
AVAX or USDC?
Either. Bids in both compete on one dollar scale, converted with the Chainlink AVAX to USD feed at the instant you bid, and that valuation is then locked. Refunds always come back in the asset you paid, in the exact amount you sent. If AVAX halves after your bid you still get every wei back.
Can you reject my logo?
I can, and I look at all of them against the panel they won before anything is drawn. If I say no, the contract turns your bid into a refund credit you withdraw yourself and reopens the panel. A rejection pays me nothing, which is the only reason you should believe I would not use it to shake anyone down.
Is this a token, or an investment?
No. There is no token, no share, no yield and no secondary market. You are buying an advertising placement.
Why Avalanche?
Because that is the room this is for. The contract runs on Avalanche C-Chain mainnet, settles in AVAX or native USDC, and every movement of your money is a public transaction anyone can pull up.
Right now the whole cabinet is blank.
30 panels, $10 to $250, and the only thing separating the marquee from the back of the machine is what somebody decides it is worth. Put your logo on any of them first. Looking is free and takes ten seconds.