Astra Nova has launched the Shard Frenzy campaign in partnership with Tokenplay AI, running live on its Black Pass platform as of August 10, 2026. Participants complete social tasks, climb a leaderboard, and compete for a share of the reward pool.

The pool combines 1,000 USDT with RVV tokens for winners. Distribution splits across two brackets: the top 5 finishers receive 100 USD each, and the next 20 collect 25 USD each. Entry runs through blackpass.astranova.world.

How Black Pass Campaigns Work

Black Pass is a free soulbound NFT that acts as the entry point to Astra Nova's SocialFi layer. Minting costs nothing, and holding it unlocks the quest system where campaigns like Shard Frenzy run.

The mechanic underneath is shards. Players accumulate shards by completing quests, and those totals determine leaderboard position and qualification for RVV distributions. Quest types have historically covered social media engagement including reposts and content creation, demo completion for the largest single shard payouts, automatic rewards for Deviants NFT holders who mint the pass, and a referral program that pays shards for each friend brought in.

The platform has scaled well past a pilot audience. Black Pass has attracted more than 250,000 users to date, which is the number that makes leaderboard placement in a campaign like this competitive rather than a formality.

Tokenplay AI, the campaign partner, is one of Astra Nova's own products. It operates as a no code launchpad for mini apps, powered by Alibaba Cloud, letting token communities build interactive utilities without engineering work. Running a Black Pass campaign through it puts the tool in front of the audience it was built for.

Inside Astra Nova

Astra Nova is a narrative driven web3 RPG set in a universe where ancient forces of order and chaos collide, built around adventure, strategy, and digital ownership. Gameplay runs on Hedera, with wallet connection handled through Blade Wallet, and Season 1 granted users 20 free transactions to keep shard counts updated without transaction costs eating into rewards.

The studio has grown into a wider entertainment operation rather than a single game. Alongside Tokenplay AI, it runs NovaToon, a webtoon platform where fans co create stories using NFTs, and Deviants: Fight Club, a Telegram based player versus player game that pays out in RVV. Black Pass functions as the onchain engagement and loyalty layer connecting all of it.

Funding has been substantial for the category. Astra Nova has raised 48.3 million USD in total, including a strategic round of 41.6 million USD. Earlier investment was led by Outlier Ventures with participation from family offices and institutional backers across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain. Strategic partners include NEOM, NVIDIA Inception, and Alibaba Cloud.

RVV is the official currency across the ecosystem, used for in game rewards in Deviants: Fight Club and distributed through Black Pass campaigns. It functions as the connective asset between the studio's separate products, so activity in one place carries value into the others.

For players already active on Black Pass, Shard Frenzy is an additional leaderboard layered onto the existing quest loop. For anyone starting now, the pass costs nothing to mint, which puts the entry barrier at time rather than capital.