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mikelewis

(4,595 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 05:28 PM 4 hrs ago

I am experimenting with unique market dynamics and would love some players.

I am trying to learn how to program in Solidity and it's not simple. So I decided to start with a token that has been percolating for some time.

And please try it before you judge the idea... but I wanted to see if I could use concepts from engineering in a defi environment. To do that, I created a trainer that let's you play with the actual system I envisioned using real market mechanics. It's more of a game and a teacher than anything.

When you start, you have 4+ players and they can invest different amounts of USDC and just see how the market dynamics react. You advance time and see how the yeild farming evolves over time and you can also change the settings to make the system more or less constrained. So this is more of an experiment than anything...

I do know a lot of people on DU don't really like crypto but what's cool is... if I can port it properly, I can actually create this token on the blockchain. I don't need permission or even a group of coders. I can dream up some scheme and do it myself.

I will deploy it but I don't plan on actually pushing it much farther than a free page on Github but... if you're into Defi and you want to play with a completely unique idea... click the link.

https://gemini.google.com/share/e6d0da2235ee
Well... links... that first link was a quick overview. It's not great.

https://gemini.google.com/share/059f8b69d282
This is the link to the trainer. Consider it more of a video game... and hit F11 and run it in full screen or it's hard to see it all.

The Poseidon token is just a token that I'm deploying to learn how to actually build a real token on the blockchain that's tied to yeild farming and also using Uniswap's V4 webhooks. Those two things are not really simple to do and getting the Solidity code just right is even harder. I built this trainer so I could build the actual token and see what would work and what wouldn't.

Once it's live... I would highly caution against investing in it. When you play the game, you will see you can easily get wrecked if you don't know what you're doing. While getting wrecked sucks... it does mean your errors fed the rest of the holders who know the system better. That was the idea anway...

So I hope you get a chance to play with it. Please don't take it too seriously and if there's bugs... there's bugs... it's a massive file to build and I only needed it for the Solidity contracts so I won't be fixing much. I do hope you enjoy it. And I hope it sparks some debate as I put some hard rules in this token and it's brutal to the untrained trader. Good luck😬

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