Level up your Aura this month
The Pre-Season starts April 4
Aura staking and rewards go live April 4. Your collection is about to start working for you.
Weekly SOMI raffles with real prize pools. Weekly draws for Ultra Rare Variants at the higher Aura tiers. Staking that turns every Variant you own into Seasonal Aura the moment you lock in. And when the beta launches, in-game cosmetics kick in starting at just 500 Aura. The Pre-Season runs five weeks through May 10, and every week you’re staked is another draw you enter.
TL;DR
A lot is launching this month. Here’s what matters and when:
Staking goes live April 4. Normal Variants earn Seasonal Aura at 50% of their Variant Aura. Legends earn at 100%. Soft staking, stays in your wallet, locked through May 10.
Weekly gameplay raffle starts this week. 500 SOMI + 1 Variant, 11 winners. Your best score of the week is your raffle weight. Variant or Genesis Portal owners only.
Weekly Aura draws run the full Pre-Season (April 4 through May 10). 50k+ Aura: Ultra Rare Variant raffle on weeks 1, 3, and 5. 100k+ Aura: Aura Vault, 200 SOMI to 1 winner, every week.
In-game rewards coming with the beta. Cosmetic rewards tied to your Aura tier, starting at 500 Aura. Nothing that touches gameplay balance.
The weekly raffle is fully owner-gated. Void Protocol flagged 7,500 bot accounts in one window. Rewards are for real players.
What your Aura unlocks
We designed the reward system as a ladder. Every tier has something concrete attached to it, and every Variant you own moves you closer to the next one.
Own a Variant or Genesis Portal: You’re in the weekly gameplay raffle. 500 SOMI and a Variant every week, 11 winners. First raffle goes live on April 6.
500 Aura (Attuned): When the beta launches, in-game rewards start here. Any single Variant gets you to this tier. We’re building cosmetic unlocks that scale between 500 and 5,000, so even at the entry level the game recognizes what you own.
5,000 Aura (Resonant): The gameplay reward cap. Full access to cosmetic items, profile frames, and personalization. Purely cosmetic, nothing that gives anyone a gameplay edge. A single Legend puts you here, or a couple of staked normal Variants.
10,000 Aura (Harmonic): Platform rewards begin. Raffle entry into partner events, with more partners joining in Season 2. One staked Legend gets you here. With normal Variants, you’ll need a few staked.
50,000 Aura (Convergent): The weekly Ultra Rare Variant draw. Three draws over the Pre-Season (weeks 1, 3, and 5), one ticket per 10,000 Aura. Getting here takes a collection: four or five staked Legends, or a dozen+ staked normal Variants.
Right now, the only way to get an Ultra Rare is through this draw.
100,000 Aura (Ascendant): The weekly Aura Vault. 200 SOMI to one winner, every week of the Pre-Season. One ticket per 10,000 Aura. If you’re at 100k+, you’re automatically in the Ultra Rare draw too.
This Pre-Season is the first live run. We’re turning on the core reward systems now so we can see what works, tune what doesn’t, and come into Season 2 with real data. More partners, expanded in-game rewards, and bigger pools are all on the Season 2 roadmap.
How to climb: Staking
If you went through Phase 3 and built a Legend, this is the moment that decision was for.
Your Legend already carries the Aura from the Variant you sacrificed to create it. On top of that, it stakes at the full 100%. A Legend with 6,000 Variant Aura gets 6,000 Seasonal Aura. A normal Variant with the same base gets 3,000. Every Variant you own adds to the total, so your collection determines how fast you climb.
You stake, we apply it instantly. No drip, no waiting period, no checking back tomorrow. Your Seasonal Aura counts toward your tier the moment it lands.
In “The Alpha Ascent,” we targeted March 31 for staking. Analyzing data from the Somnia event pushed the timeline by a few days, and staking now goes live April 4.
How it works:
Soft staking. Your Variant stays in your wallet the whole time.
This first staking period locks through May 10, five weeks. You’re committed for the full Pre-Season. Staked Variants can’t be transferred or sold until it ends.
When the Pre-Season ends, all Variants automatically unstake and your Seasonal Aura resets. When Season 2 opens, you restake to start building again.
Permanent Aura from ownership, sacrifices, and Relics is never touched by season resets.
The earlier you stake, the more weekly draws you enter. Staking April 4 puts you in every draw for the full five weeks. Staking late means fewer chances at both the SOMI pool and the Ultra Rares.
How to climb: Playing
In “The Alpha Ascent,” we described a weekly competitive series. We’ve refined it into a weekly gameplay raffle: your best score still determines your weight in the draw, but prizes are drawn instead of awarded top-down. More players get a real shot each week.
Your best run matters more than how many hours you grind.
50 SOMI each (10 winners)
1 regular Variant (1 winner)
Your best score during the week earns you tickets: 1 ticket per 5,000 score. Play as many runs as you want, we only count your best. Staking adds a 50% bonus to your score weight, and a Genesis Portal adds another 50% on top. Those two stack to a 2x cap.
One entry per owner. Staked Variants are automatically eligible. If you’re not staking, your Variant needs to have been in your wallet for at least 7 days.
Aura Streaks
We built streaks into the weekly raffle because we wanted consistency to feel like a power-up, not just a habit.
Play consecutive weeks and your bonus tickets stack:
Level 1 (2 consecutive weeks): +5 bonus tickets
Level 2 (3 consecutive weeks): +10 bonus tickets
Level 3 (4+ consecutive weeks): +15 bonus tickets
Miss a week and you drop one level, not back to zero. We didn’t want one missed week to wipe out what you’ve built, so we designed the streak ladder to forgive it.
How we protect this community
During the latest playtest, one operator ran 7,500 bot accounts through the quest system. Void Protocol caught and flagged every one of them. Owner-gating is how we make sure rewards go to the people who actually showed up.
In “The Alpha Ascent,” we originally planned a 50/50 split between an owner bracket and an open bracket. The bot data made that call for us. Any prize pool open to non-owners will attract bot farms at a scale that drowns out real players.
Nothing about access has changed. The alpha is still open to everyone. You still show up on leaderboards. Every run still drops lootboxes with materials that will jump-start your character progression when the beta launches. The gate only touches prize eligibility.
Genesis Portal owners
If you own a Genesis Portal, here’s what this means for you.
50% extra weight in the weekly gameplay raffle. 25% extra tickets in both Aura draws. One Portal is all you need, owning more than one doesn’t stack. This is on top of what you already have: Closed Beta access, the private Discord channel, and Void Protocol allocation.
Your raffle weight and your draw tickets both get a boost, whether you’re playing for the weekly SOMI or building Aura toward the Ultra Rare pulls. Portal owners are positioned at every level of the reward system.
What to do now
Stake April 4. The Pre-Season runs five weeks through May 10. The first Ultra Rare draw is week 1. Every week you’re staked is another draw you’re in.
Play this week. The first 500 SOMI + Variant raffle runs April 6-12. Your best run is your entry.
Build toward 50k Aura. That’s where the Ultra Rare draws start. Every Variant you own gets you there faster.
The window is five weeks and the first Ultra Rare draw is week 1. Don’t sleep on April 4.
What’s next
Here’s exactly what’s dropping and when:
April 4: Staking goes live
April 6-12: First weekly raffle + first Ultra Rare draw (Convergent+) + first Vault draw (Ascendant)
April 13-19: Weekly raffle + Vault draw
April 20-26: Weekly raffle + Ultra Rare draw + Vault draw
April 27 - May 3: Weekly raffle + Vault draw
May 4-10: Final Pre-Season week. Weekly raffle + Ultra Rare draw + Vault draw
May 10: Pre-Season ends. Variants auto-unstake. Seasonal Aura resets.
May: Beta details and Aura Season 2 breakdown
The beta is being built. Season 2 is being designed. This Pre-Season is the on-ramp, and it starts in four days.
Genesis Portal owners get first looks at what’s coming in the private channel. See you in Discord.