Star Atlas Announces Iris’ Blessing With 6 Months of Double XP Weekends and $30K in Rewards

Star Atlas has officially unveiled Iris’ Blessing, a 6-month event filled with double XP weekends, community rewards, and over $30k worth of rewards. The campaign invites the blockchain gaming community to participate in a series of in-game and community challenges that celebrate skill, persistence, and social engagement across this well-known web3 gaming ecosystem.

What Is Iris’ Blessing?

Iris’ Blessing is a 6-month celebration campaign designed to reward Star Atlas players for both in-game activity and community participation. The event combines two major components: double XP weekends in the main gameplay modes and monthly Discord drawings for exclusive ecosystem loot.

Beginning this October 2025 and running through March 2026, Iris’ Blessing creates a long-term incentive for both veterans and newcomers to jump into the universe and engage with the community.

Each month brings 2 primary ways to participate:

1. Double XP Weekends where players earn twice the experience and Ink in gunplay and racing modes.
2. Monthly Discord Drawings where participants can claim event tickets through the Star Atlas Discord and compete for over $5000 in prizes per month.

What Can You Earn in Iris’ Blessing?

During this long-running reward campaign, players can join in on scheduled weekends to play to earn double XP and double Ink in official gunplay and racing matches. Ink is a new exclusive resource in the UE5 game introduced during the Summer event for players to play to earn as well as trade with browser players. Every 100 XP earned grants 1 Ink, and during the event, this rate is doubled. These sessions will also tie directly into the z.ink airdrop, meaning players will gain double the XP, double the Ink, and double the z.ink simultaneously.

Here are the scheduled double XP weekends:

• Double XP Weekend #1: October 24 - 26, 2025
• Double XP Weekend #2: November 28 - 30, 2025
• Double XP Weekend #3: December 26 - 28, 2025
• Double XP Weekend #4: January 23 - 25, 2026
• Double XP Weekend #5: February 27 - March 1, 2026
• Double XP Weekend #6: March 27 - 29, 2026

Each event weekend provides players with the opportunity to up their in-game performance, making it an ideal time to refine racing and combat skills. The Ink and z.ink systems seem to be playing an increasingly important role in this ecosystem as part of the z.ink airdrop season, so participating in these events also gives players a head start for long-term progression.

In addition to double XP weekends, this web3-powered series introduces monthly Discord drawings where participants can win valuable in-game assets. A total of $30k in Star Atlas loot is set to be distributed across 6 monthly events, with each month’s draw supposedly featuring rewards valued at over $5000.

To enter, players earn event tickets by joining official community events such as the Atlas Brew, Economic Forum, and Game Nights. Attendees receive a code to submit through the official Discord bot, Sola Qint, which automatically adds their tickets into the monthly prize pool.

Each drawing offers a wide range of ships and crew NFTs, including the Fimbul ECO Unibomba, VZUS Solo, Fimbul Lowbie, and rare Crew Platinum and Crew Gold tiers.

Here’s a full list of what rewards players can expect from these raffle drawings in the coming months:

How to Participate

Participating in Iris’ Blessing is straightforward and open to all players who wish to earn XP, Ink, and prizes through either gameplay or community involvement.

To get started, grab a game key for the flagship Epic Games Store version of Star Atlas by joining their official Discord server and typing /key in the #game-access-key channel. Download the UE5-powered and log in to be ready to participate in official gunplay or racing matches during the 6 designated double XP weekends. All experience earned during these periods is doubled automatically.

For every 100 XP earned in matches, you receive 1 Ink. During Iris’ Blessing weekends, this amount doubles. This not only boosts progression but also strengthens your position for the z.ink airdrop, which rewards consistent activity and engagement.

You’ll also want to hang out in their Discord server and take part in community events such as the Atlas Brew or the Star Atlas Economic Forum. These gatherings reward participants with unique event codes that you can submit to the Sola Qint Discord bot. Simply type /claim or visit the #sola-qint-bot channel to enter your code and receive your tickets, which are automatically submitted to the monthly drawing, giving you a chance to win from the $5000 monthly loot pool.

About Star Atlas

Star Atlas is a blockchain gaming ecosystem and Unreal Engine 5-powered grand strategy and space exploration MMORPG built on the Solana blockchain. The game blends strategy, combat, and economic simulation in a persistent online universe where players can explore, trade, and conquer.

In this sci-fi world, every player is a stakeholder in a vast galactic economy in which ships, crew, and resources are owned as digital assets, allowing players to truly control and own their progress as they dabble in activities that range from mining and crafting to interstellar warfare and diplomacy.

The main Star Atlas game, a third-person MMO built in Unreal Engine 5, is available to download on the Epic Games Store, but only to players who have a pre-alpha game key, which can be obtained through the game's official Discord server.

Alongside the flagship title, this ecosystem also consists of separate browser-based strategy modules that will tie back into the MMO, and these include SAGE Labs and Holosim. These are interconnected online space strategy games where players align with one of three factions and compete to deliver Faction Infrastructure Contracts (FICs) to Starbases within their faction’s territory. To craft FICs, players must gather and manage various resources, each faction offering its own unique materials, missions, and specialized ships. Within SAGE Labs, players can play and earn $ATLAS through gameplay.

Holosim functions as the free to play version of the on-chain SAGE Labs experience. It allows players to try the core gameplay loop without needing to connect a crypto wallet. Those who wish to earn rewards have been able to link their Solana wallet to take part in Holosim Season 1, Chapter 1, which ran from August 20 to September 24 with a $35k seasonal prize pool. Hopefully we’ll soon have more seasonal action to jump into and play to earn in this strategic title.

August this year also saw ATMTA introduce Zink SVM Layer 1 during the Star Atlas Summer event, and it looks like players will soon be able to play to airdrop the chain’s upcoming token through the Iris’ Blessing events.