Spread the Seeds Goes Live on Zealy

The Solana on-chain idle game Sprout has switched on a new community campaign called Spread the Seeds, with the board going live this week. The setup is straightforward. The campaign runs for 7 days, the prize pool is 500 USDC, and every participant starts on zero. The studio shared the news through its official channel under a simple call to action: the board just opened, and everyone is even.

The campaign is hosted on Zealy, the quest and community engagement platform widely used in web3 gaming. From there, players can join the Sprout community, sync up their actions, and start racking up points across the week. The studio's framing is deliberately inclusive. Whether a player is brand new today or has been playing since the start, they begin at the same point. The advantage in this run is not how long someone has been around but how much they do during the week.

How to Climb the Board

The leaderboard tracks a familiar mix of social and in-game actions, scored fresh each week so that no historical activity carries over. The studio listed five ways to push up the rankings: like, comment, share, invite, and play. The first four cover community engagement, with players boosting reach by interacting with posts, spreading them to wider audiences, and bringing new players into the fold through invites. The fifth, play, ties the campaign directly to time spent inside the game itself.

That mix is the standard formula for a Zealy quest board. Each completed action awards a set number of points, and the more actions a player completes across the seven days, the higher they climb. The 500 USDC payout is then distributed based on final position when the board closes. The studio has not yet detailed how the prize will be split across ranks, but campaigns of this size typically reward both top finishers and active mid-table participants.

For new players, the campaign doubles as a soft entry point. Because the board resets to zero for everyone, a first-time joiner can realistically aim for a leaderboard slot without having spent months building reputation. The studio's pitch to that audience is direct: climb it with what everyone does fresh this week.

Inside Sprout: A Cozy Tree Game on Solana

Sprout is an idle and incremental web3 game built on Solana, focused on the simple act of growing trees. Players buy a virtual tree, nurture it daily, harvest its yield in the form of LEAF tokens, and use those tokens to expand their grove and increase future earnings. Each tree progresses through 5 stages as a player keeps playing, with consistent attention rewarded over time.

The studio describes the title as a cozy tree game on Solana, and the loop reflects that tone. Rather than competitive PvP or fast-twitch combat, the gameplay is built around showing up daily, nurturing what is already planted, and gradually growing a wider garden. The format is browser-based, with the game running as an HTML5 experience.

Sprout launched on the Solana network and has since moved into what the team calls Phase 2 of its rollout, dubbed the LEAF Economy. In this phase, players can buy trees with either LEAF or SOL, continue to earn LEAF daily, and trade LEAF on the Jupiter decentralized exchange. The token is the central in-game currency, earned by nurturing trees and harvesting them when ready, and spendable on new trees, market trades, or simply held inside a wallet.

The studio also operates a feature called LEAF-Pay, designed to let players buy trees at the same price as SOL while keeping 100% of the value within the in-game economy. There are no withdrawal fees and no protocol fee in that path. LEAF spent through the system goes straight to the yield pool, which feeds future harvests for the entire player base.

Real Trees Behind the Virtual Ones

The hook that has shaped Sprout's identity is its real-world impact layer. A configurable portion of every SOL spend in the game can be routed to a planting treasury, with the resulting tree plantings logged and tracked on-chain. The studio publishes proof logs in a transparency section on its official site, so participants can verify the count of real trees funded by in-game activity.

That counter has been ticking up since the game launched. The team's public messaging in late 2025 highlighted 514 trees and counting, the first marker in a tally meant to grow alongside the player base. The structure ties the casual idle loop to a tangible outcome: virtual trees nurtured inside Sprout translate, at least in part, into real-world tree planting funded transparently through the blockchain.

The studio has been clear that it is not affiliated with or officially partnered with One Tree Planted or any other specific planting organization, presenting its impact treasury as an in-house mechanism. The on-chain logging is the proof element, with each batch of funded plantings recorded so the count cannot quietly drift away from what players have contributed.

Solana, Wallets, and Safety

To play the game, users connect a Solana wallet such as Phantom or Solflare. The mainnet experience is the current focus, with the team previously running a Devnet beta on which devnet SOL and devnet tokens carried no real-world value. That earlier phase was used to surface bugs, test resets, and harden the system before moving to live conditions.

The studio repeats a clear safety line for newcomers. Players should never share their seed phrase or private keys, and should only use the official Sprout links provided by the team. Updates and announcements run through the studio's official channels, including a Telegram group used for ongoing news.

A Familiar Quest Format with a Green Twist

Quest and engagement campaigns like Spread the Seeds have become a regular tool in web3 gaming, used by studios to surface new players, reward existing community members, and time bursts of activity around launches or milestones. The 500 USDC pool sits on the smaller end of the prize ranges seen in the future of play space, but the seven-day window and the from-zero scoring make it accessible for casual players who want a reachable target.

For Sprout, the timing of the campaign also aligns with the project's broader rollout phase. The studio is actively building out the LEAF Economy, encouraging players to engage with trading on Jupiter, in-game purchases through LEAF-Pay, and the recurring nurture and harvest loop. A week-long burst of engagement, paired with social actions and direct in-game play, lines up neatly with that wider growth push.

The board has opened, the 7-day clock has started, and 500 USDC is on the line. New players and veterans alike enter on the same line, and the only edge this week comes from what they do over the next seven days.