Its condition is your validator's record
Missed blocks make the fairy hungry. Jailing puts it in hospital. A double-sign turns its house into a grave. You see how your validator is doing just by looking at your fairy.
A fairy lives in your validator's node.
Node Fairies turns the stake you already delegate into a small fairy you raise. When your validator signs every block, the fairy is full of energy. When it gets jailed, the fairy goes to hospital. Your delegation is never handed to the contract; you only pay small fees in ATOM.
The free checkup and the field guide work with no wallet. The free checkup covers the five Cosmos chains, not Solana or Ethereum.
- Cosmos Hub
- Osmosis
- IRIS
- Chihuahua
- Babylon
- Solana
- Ethereum
- 7
- chains supported
- ≈370,000
- possible silhouettes
- 7
- rarity tiers
- 0
- delegations held by the contract
What makes it new
A pet whose health is real chain data
Most on-chain pets live on numbers the game invented. A node fairy lives on what your validator actually did.
Your look is decided by who you are
The shape comes from your address and the validator you chose. 27 tribes, 26 wings, 30 head ornaments and 16 held items give about 370,000 silhouettes, so two fairies rarely look alike. The free checkup shows yours before you hatch it.
Your stake stays where it is
The contract never holds or moves your delegation. It only reads that the delegation exists. You sign in with Keplr, and you can undelegate at any time as usual.
Paying more is not a path to strength
Fees are fixed amounts, and actions have waiting times and limits on how often they can be done. There is no way to become stronger by paying more. Strength comes from daily care, from how long you have delegated, and from how well your validator works and votes. Small validators even get their own bonus.
Draws nobody can steer
Rarity, battles and expeditions use public randomness from drand. The contract checks the signature itself, so neither the operator nor a player can pick the result.
Seven chains, one home
Delegations on Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, IRIS, Chihuahua, Babylon, Solana and Ethereum can each give you one egg. All fairies live in a single contract on Cosmos Hub, so they can meet and battle each other.
What you get out of it
- A reason to look at your validator every day, without reading dashboards.
- Look at your fairy and you can tell something is wrong long before a jail.
- A companion that remembers your history: moves, recoveries, long stays.
- A small community around each validator: the fairies of one house play as a team.
Node Fairies is a game. It is not an investment product and it gives no financial advice.
How to start
From delegation to your first fairy
Six steps. The only waiting is one day while the egg warms.
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Install Keplr
Keplr is the wallet used to sign in. Keep a little ATOM in it for fees and gas. There is no account to create and no password to give us.
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Delegate to a validator
Stake with any active validator, as you normally would. That validator's node becomes the fairy's house. If you already delegate enough, you are ready.
Minimum per chain: 50 ATOM, 100 OSMO, 50,000 IRIS, 500,000 HUAHUA, 100 BABY, 50 SOL. On Ethereum you need your own validator.
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Receive your egg
Ask for an egg (0.01 ATOM). It warms for one day, and during that day the delegation has to stay in place. The shell already hints at who is inside.
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Hatch it
After the day has passed, hatch the egg for free. A rarity draw happens once, right here, with public randomness. The result arrives a few minutes later.
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Care for it every day
Pet it, feed it, nurse it when the house is in trouble. It grows from child to adult in about twelve days of steady care.
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Play with others
Challenge other fairies, enter the weekend cup, take on the weekly guardian together, or send your fairy on an expedition.
Good to know before you start
- You can hatch up to 7 eggs per address yourself, one per chain. Fairies you receive by transfer and rebirths do not count.
- If the delegation disappears during the warming day, the egg is removed, the fee is not returned, and you can try again on that chain after seven days.
- Solana and Ethereum wallets are linked by signing a message with both keys. The message moves no funds.
- Not enough delegation yet? The free checkup still shows your egg and what will hatch from it.
The manual
Raising your fairy
A few minutes a day is enough. Neglect makes a fairy limp, but it never dies from neglect.
Daily care
| Action | How often | Effect | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pet | every 8 hours | Affection +10 | Free |
| Feed | every 20 hours | HP +10, affection +15, trains one stat | 0.03 ATOM |
| Nurse | every 12 hours, while the house is in hospital | HP +15 | Free |
| Move | every 7 days | New house (another chain is fine), HP −10 | Free |
| Rename | any time | Up to 12 characters | Free |
"Free" means no game fee. Every action is a transaction, so network gas is always paid by you. You can care for a fairy only while you delegate to its house. Affection drops by 5 every day whether or not you care for the fairy, and care raises it.
Food decides what grows
Each meal trains one stat. Every fairy has a favourite food that doubles the growth. One stat can gain up to 50, and all five together up to 120, so you choose a build instead of maxing everything.
- Sweet nectarStamina
- Spicy berryPower
- Bitter leafDefense
- Sour dewSpeed
- StardustLuck
The house tells the truth
The house's mood is its satiety: how much room is left before jail, from 0 to 100, worked out from the blocks its validator recently missed.
A fairy is lost only when its house becomes a grave (the validator is tombstoned for a double-sign). Even then it can be reborn.
Four stages of growth
The estimates assume daily care at a house that signs every block.
Evolution follows the life it lived
At level 25 the fairy evolves. The form is not chosen and cannot be bought. It comes from what really happened to it.
Fusion
Two of your own fairies (both level 5 or higher) become one. One stays as the parent and receives the other as a soul, up to five souls. A soul from another chain counts double. Rarity becomes the higher of the two, plus one more draw. Fee 0.01 ATOM, once every 7 days. It cannot be undone.
Rebirth
If a house becomes a grave, the gravestone can be turned into a new egg at another house. The new fairy inherits 30% of the experience, the souls, half of the battle power and its rarity tier. Fee 0.01 ATOM.
Stats, natures and the five elements
- Five stats: stamina, power, defense, speed and luck.
- Every fairy is born with the same total aptitude of 40, only spread differently. There is no "bad roll".
- 20 natures, each raising one stat by 10% and lowering another by 10%.
- 8 battle styles. A fairy is born with three and unlocks them at birth, level 10 and level 25.
- Skills are learned from real events, such as recovering from hospital or a long stay in one house.
What the validator adds
- Signing record: from 104% at Sparkling down to 72% when Fainting.
- Governance voting rate of the validator: ×0.92 at 0%, ×1.00 at 50%, ×1.08 at 100% (Cosmos chains, after three finished proposals).
- Days you have delegated: +2% at 30 days, +4% at 90, +6% at 180, +10% at 365.
- Small house (under 1% voting power): speed +6%, luck +4. Large house (5% or more): defense +6%.
Wood
Earth
Water
Fire
Metal
Wood → Earth → Water → Fire → Metal → Wood. With the advantage you deal 108%, against it 93%. Chains have a milder cycle of their own (104% / 96%).
27 tribes
Some look human, some are animals, and some are lamps, gears, jellyfish or boxes. The field guide lets you browse them all.
Rarity
Seven tiers, with the odds in the open
Rarity is drawn once when the egg hatches. It cannot be re-rolled for the same owner and house. Here is the same fairy in all seven tiers.
| Tier | Odds at birth | Trait | All stats |
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| Normal | about 54% | — | — |
| Glitter | 1 / 4 | Dazzling Light: critical rate +5% | +1% |
| Aurora | 1 / 8 | Sky's Blessing: every weather is in its favour | +1% |
| Golden | 1 / 16 | Golden Armor: critical hits against it deal 130% instead of 160% | +1% |
| Starry Night | 1 / 64 | Shooting Star: removes 5% of the opponent's HP at the start | +2% |
| Phantom | 1 / 256 | Afterimage: 60% chance to dodge the first attack, luck +5 | +2% |
| Super Legend | 1 / 10,000 | Blessing of the Heavenly Stars: both Afterimage and Shooting Star, luck +6 | +3% |
The bonuses are deliberately small. A well-raised Normal fairy beats a neglected rare one.
Awakening: a second chance later
A fairy can rise one tier later in life: 1 in 150 each time it challenges a battle, 1 in 5 at a fusion, and 1 in 5 once at evolution. Those are the odds from Normal. Each tier up is four times harder, and awakening stops at Phantom. Super Legend comes only from the birth draw, at 1 in 10,000. Fusion and rebirth keep the tier a fairy already has.
Things to do
Play together
Nothing here can take your fairy away, and nothing pays out money.
Battle
Challenge another owner's fairy; they do not need to be online. The result is settled a few minutes later with public randomness. Up to 3 challenges a day, 0.035 ATOM each, paid by the challenger. Both sides gain experience, and the challenger's battle power also grows (+2 for a win, +1 for a loss). Only the rating can be lost: no HP is lost and no fairy is taken. A challenger that loses cannot challenge again for 3 days.
Weekend cup
A free weekly tournament in three divisions: child, adult and evolved. Entries are open from Monday 00:00 to Saturday 12:00 UTC (about five and a half days), and up to 64 fairies fight. Prizes are crowns, laurels, titles and experience. There is no prize money.
House League
Every fairy of one validator is one team. Care, visits and battles earn points each week. The ranking divides by the square root of residents, so small houses can win. The top three houses share experience.
Guardian raid
Each week one guardian appears for everyone. All fairies attack it together, once a day per fairy. Separately, when a house with residents is in hospital, that house's own guardian appears, and fairies from other houses can come to help. Your fairy loses no HP and there is no ranking. Rewards are experience and a medal to wear.
Expedition
Send your fairy to the forest, the cave, the star hill or its home town for 8 to 12 hours. It brings back one of 37 souvenirs, and 15 of them can be worn. Free except gas, and it has no effect on strength.
Visits and daily quests
Visit other fairies three times a day, bring get-well wishes to a house in hospital, and pay respects at a grave. A daily quest gives extra experience, and a care streak keeps count of your days.
For validators
A validator is the landlord of its house. Landlords can greet residents, post a notice and give a weekly treat. No fee revenue is shared with validators, and a validator cannot buy strength for its residents.
Seven chains
The five Cosmos chains are towns, each with its own sky and lights. Solana and Ethereum houses have no town picture.
The amounts are the minimum delegation for one egg. On Ethereum the withdrawal address of the validator must be yours; pooled staking does not count. Playing always needs Keplr and a little ATOM, because the fairies live on Cosmos Hub.
Disclosure
Fees and odds, all of them
Five actions have a fixed fee in ATOM. Everything else is free. Gas is always paid by the player.
0.03 ATOMFeed
0.01 ATOMReceive an egg
0.01 ATOMFusion
0.01 ATOMRebirth
0.035 ATOMBattle challenge
FreeHatch, pet, nurse, move, rename, cup, guardian raid, expedition, visits
Where the fees go
Fees pay for the gas of the reporting bot and for the servers. Nothing is distributed to validators or players. The operator does not pay players' gas.
What does not exist here
- No token of our own.
- No rewards that can be turned into money.
- No marketplace run by the operator, and no buy-back.
- No betting and no prize pools made of entry fees.
A fairy is an NFT (cw721) on Cosmos Hub and can technically be transferred. That is a fact about the standard, not a suggestion to trade. Of the paid actions, three include a draw: receiving an egg, fusion and battle. Rebirth keeps the earlier tier. All odds are on this page.
Questions and answers
Do I have to send my tokens anywhere?
No. You delegate to a validator in the usual way, and the delegation stays yours. The game only reads that it exists. You pay the small fees and gas listed above, nothing else.
What happens if I undelegate?
The fairy stays yours and stays the same fairy, and while its house is healthy it keeps gaining experience. Until you delegate again (to its house, or after moving it to a house you delegate to), you cannot care for it, battle, make visits or use it in a fusion. For other chains, the record of a delegation can last up to 7 days before it is updated.
Can my fairy die?
Only if its validator is tombstoned for a double-sign. Neglect makes it limp, not dead. A gravestone can be reborn as a new egg at another house.
Is it pay-to-win?
No. Fees are fixed amounts, actions have waiting times and limits, and stat growth has a cap. There is no way to become stronger by paying more.
Can I see my fairy before paying anything?
Yes. The free checkup needs only an address: no wallet connection and no signature. It shows the fairy that address would get and how its validator is doing. It covers the five Cosmos chains, not Solana or Ethereum.
Can I earn money with it?
The game never pays out money. There is no token of our own, no prize money and no buy-back by the operator. Trades between players (see “Can I buy and sell fairies?” below) have nothing to do with us, and no one promises any price. Please do not treat a fairy as an investment.
I use Solana or Ethereum. Can I play?
Yes. You link that wallet by signing a message with it and with Keplr. The fairy itself lives on Cosmos Hub, so you still need Keplr and a little ATOM.
Can I buy and sell fairies?
Yes. Each fairy is a standard NFT (cw721) on Cosmos Hub, so you can send it to another address, or list and buy it yourself on Stargaze, the NFT marketplace on Cosmos Hub. (We tested listing, buying, cancelling and bids with Stargaze's marketplace contract on our test chain.)
- Node Fairies does not run a marketplace, set prices, or buy fairies back. Trades happen between players, under Stargaze's fees and terms.
- While listed, the marketplace holds the fairy, so you can't care for it or battle with it. Cancel the listing to get it back. Getting it back counts as a transfer: for one day you can't care for it or battle, and it can't enter the weekend cup for 4 weeks.
- An address can hold one fairy per house, so you can't receive a fairy from a house where you already have one.
- Eggs are not NFTs and can't be traded.
- No one promises any price or value. Please don't treat fairies as an investment.
Screens
What it looks like
Captured from a test build. The live screens may look slightly different.
Meet your fairy first
It is already waiting in the address you use. Looking is free.