Grand Arena Fires Off Its Biggest Update With bRON, 60 Champions, and Revamped Rewards

Moku's Grand Arena has deployed a comprehensive mid-season update to its AI-powered fantasy collectible card game running on the Ronin Network. The update introduces Bonded RON (bRON) as a live in-game currency, distributes a 650,000 bRON airdrop to the existing player base, expands the Season 1 card pool with 60 new Champions, and restructures the performance leaderboard and contest schedule across the board.

Grand Arena launched Season 1 earlier in 2026 with a $1 million prize pool, positioning itself as a 24/7 AI fantasy sports platform where players collect Moki cards, build five-card lineups, and enter daily contests to accumulate mXP. The mid-season update marks the game's most significant content drop since launch.

bRON Goes Live With a 650K Airdrop

Bonded RON (bRON) is now live on Grand Arena through a partnership with Ronin Network. bRON is a spend-only token backed 1:1 by RON, currently usable to purchase Gems inside Grand Arena. Players earn it through gameplay, pack openings, jackpot wins, and sponsored contest pools.

The airdrop distributes 650,000 bRON across four ranked categories. The top 100 players by mXP receive the heaviest allocation. The top 250 players by contest entry volume claim the second tier. Mokis with at least 50 training XP qualify under the Moki Training category, where each player's qualifying Mokis are summed across their full Grand Arena account. Any Snack Spending since Season 1 began also qualifies for a share.

Going forward, players can earn bRON through card packs at approximately a 4.9% pull rate across three tiers: 20 bRON from a Blue reward, 500 from Gold, and 10,000 from Pink. Higher-tier packs carry a greater probability of landing Gold or Pink drops. A top-up bonus is also running while supplies last, offering a 10% bRON bonus on purchases under $100, 15% on purchases under $1,000, and 20% on purchases above $1,000, with bonuses calculated in tiers.

Daily Jackpot and Sponsored Prize Pools

A 7,000 bRON daily jackpot is now active. Each day, one player wins the jackpot based on a randomized daily roll tied to their total tickets. Every 400 Gems spent on contest entries generates one ticket, and every 400 Gems lost as a loss bonus adds another. The following day, players find a Daily Jackpot scratch card inside their Lineups History section. The ticket must be scratched before 00:00 UTC or it expires.

Certain contests now also feature bRON-sponsored prize pools layered on top of standard entry fee rewards, with each sponsored contest carrying its own reward structure depending on the format.

60 New Champions Enter Season 1

Sixty new Champion cards earned from Weeks 8 through 13 are being added to the Season 1 card pool immediately. They will appear in card packs including Booster Boxes, show up as opponents in matches, and function with their synergistic Scheme cards. This expansion significantly broadens the available meta and gives players access to a much wider range of lineup combinations.

Two Scheme card changes accompany the update. Malicious Intent now matches with Horns and TMA Noble Skull. Dress to Impress no longer matches with School Uniform.

Moki Training Doubles mXP Per Hour

Moki Manager has received two changes that make training significantly more rewarding. Training now earns 2x mXP per hour, doubling the rate at which players level their Mokis through in-game activity. Additionally, purchasing snack boosts for Mokis during training now generates a direct 25% bRON kickback on the spend, active while supplies last.

Future snack spending will no longer contribute to the performance pool and will instead return directly to the spender as bRON at the same 25% rate.

Leaderboard Rewards Go Bi-Weekly, Prize Pool Doubles

The performance leaderboard is switching from weekly to bi-weekly reward distribution, with prize pools scaled to match. USDC rewards move from $2,000 weekly to $4,000 bi-weekly, split evenly between the Non-Champion and Champion Leaderboards. The top 50% of locked and actively trained Champion Mokis earn cash rewards, while the top 200 locked and actively trained Mokis compete on the Non-Champion side. Both distributions remain top-heavy, with higher placements taking a larger share.

Card series mXP snapshots will also shift from every four weeks to weekly starting the following Monday, with the per-snapshot mXP amount remaining unchanged.

About Grand Arena

Grand Arena is Moku's AI-powered fantasy collectible card game built on the Ronin Network. Players collect Moki and Scheme cards, build five-card lineups, and enter daily contests where autonomous AI-driven Moki characters compete nonstop in Moki Mayhem auto-battles. The platform blends card collecting, management sim mechanics, and fantasy tournament formats into a single live economy. Season 1 launched with a $1 million prize pool distributed based on mXP share, and the presale for Booster Boxes raised over $2.4 million in its first three hours, with more than 122,000 total tickets purchased from 20,000 unique buyers.