Chain Cup explained: play on-chain football for SOL, 1v1 to 8v8
Snake made ChainPot’s name, but it’s no longer the only game in town. Chain Cup is ChainPot’s football game: real-time 2D matches played for a SOL pot, from a one-on-one duel all the way up to full 8-a-side teams. If you already play ChainPot Snake, everything you know about wallets and on-chain payouts carries straight over — the only thing that changes is what happens on the pitch. Here’s how it works.
What Chain Cup is
Chain Cup is a top-down, arcade-style football match. Two teams take the field, chase a single ball, and try to outscore each other before the whistle. It’s fast, physical, and built on the same foundations as the rest of ChainPot: pay a SOL entry for your seat, play live against real people, and the winning side takes the pot — all settled on-chain in seconds.
The key difference from snake is that it’s a team game. You’re not the last one standing; you’re part of a side trying to win together.
Team sizes: 1v1 up to 8v8
Rooms come in symmetric sizes from 1v1 to 8v8 — anywhere from 2 to 16 players in a match. A 1v1 room is a solo duel where it’s all on you. Bigger rooms split you onto a balanced team and reward coordination: spacing, passing, and defending as a unit. Every seat in a room pays the same SOL entry, and all of those entries pool into one pot.
If you’d rather not organize a squad, just join a larger room and you’ll be balanced onto a side automatically. No need to bring friends — though you can, and playing with people who pass to you is a real edge.
The controls: kick and close-control
Two mechanics do most of the work. Kick (the space bar) strikes the ball hard — for shots, clearances, and long passes. Close control (the C key) glues the ball to your feet for a beat, letting you turn out of pressure or dribble past a defender before you commit to a kick.
The players who look smooth are just chaining the two: control to keep the ball, cut past the defender, then kick into the open goal. It takes a few matches to get the timing, but once it clicks, football starts to feel less like chaos and more like a plan.
How the pot is split
This is where Chain Cup differs most from snake. There’s no single winner — the entire winning team splits the pot equally. Win a 4v4 room and every one of your four teammates gets the same share, paid out by the on-chain program the moment the final whistle blows. There’s no captain’s cut, no MVP bonus, and no manual claim: each teammate’s share lands directly in their own wallet.
Because the reward is shared, the smart way to play is for the scoreline, not personal glory. One clean team goal pays everyone; three selfish solo runs that give the ball away pay no one.
What happens on a draw
If the match is level at full time, every player’s entry is refunded — only the small platform fee is kept. Nobody loses their stake on a genuine tie, so a hard-fought draw against an even team costs you nothing but the fee.
The same wallet, the same trust model
Everything that makes ChainPot Snake trustworthy applies here too. Chain Cup is non-custodial — the platform never holds your keys — and every entry, pot, and payout is recorded on Solana, so you can verify the result on a block explorer. Your Solana wallet and balance work across both games, and you can switch between snake and football from the game picker whenever you like.
Ready to take the pitch
Chain Cup gives ChainPot a second competitive game with a different rhythm: teamwork instead of solo survival, a shared pot instead of winner-takes-all. Connect your wallet, pick a team size, and outscore the other side — the pot splits itself the moment you win.