Introduction

Ape Street is a chunky 3D city MMO you play in the browser, set in 2021, on Robinhood Chain. You run five districts yourself, scavenge, strip busted rigs, fish, cook, craft and brawl hedge fund suits in real-time action combat, level six skills to 99, run a player shop in the Strip Mall, storm Hedge Tower with the whole server on Squeeze Night, and compete on weekly XP ranks that pay tokenized GME.

Two currencies: gold is earned in the city and never leaves it; $STREET is the on-chain token, launching on Pons v2 paired to tokenized GME. The token's creator fee is paid in GME and fills the Squeeze Fund, which pays the weekly rewards.

Account & Wallet

• Guests play free in the browser with a name of their choice. Guests are not ranked and cannot trade $STREET or claim rewards.
• Wallets log in with a gasless signature on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663). Any EVM wallet works.
• Character: one per wallet. Rename from the Skills panel.
• Sessions last 7 days; logging in from a second tab disconnects the first.

Your First Session

New apes spawn on Ape Street with a Rusty Crowbar, a Screwdriver, a Fishing Rod, 5 Grilled Mackerel. A short intro explains the controls, then a 9-step tutorial guides you with a floating green arrow and an Objective card:

1. Scavenge 3 scrap · +30g. Click a dumpster in the alleys around the plaza. Your Rusty Crowbar works straight from your bag, no equipping needed.
2. Strip 2 copper wire · +30g. Busted GPU rigs sit on the east side of town. Click one with the Screwdriver in your bag.
3. Solder a Copper Coil · +40g. Walk to the solder station on the east side of the plaza and make a Copper Coil.
4. Bop a sewer rat · +40g. Rats scurry around the edge of town. Click one to fight. Eat mackerel from your bag to heal.
5. Visit Silverback Sam · +30g. Store your loot at the Ape Bank, north-west of the plaza. Banked items never drop, even on Wall Street.
6. Sell something at Oswald's · +30g. The pawn shop is north-east of the plaza. Sell scrap or wire for gold.
7. Check the Strip Mall · +40g. The Strip Mall directory is east of The Tape. Rent a storefront and sell to other apes, even while you are offline.
8. Read the DD Board · +200g. Three fresh quests every day, south of the plaza. Claim rewards there when done.
9. Buy a companion · +50g. Oswald also sells cosmetic companions. Buy any one from his Cosmetics list, then equip it from your bag's Pet slot.

Finishing pays 250 gold and a Taped Bat.

Districts overview

Five districts, one shared ape. Walk into a subway entrance or elevator to travel. Safe districts never drop loot on death; Wall Street is open PvP; Hedge Tower only opens on Squeeze Night.

Ape Street

Safe hub. Bank, pawn shop, The Tape, the Strip Mall and the GME billboard.

Exits: The Scrapyard at (44, 24), The Harbor at (24, 44), Wall Street at (3, 24), Tower Elevator at (36, 8).

Services: Silverback Sam (bank), Oswald's Pawn (shop), The Tape (market), Stonk Wheel (spinner), DeeDee the Analyst (sage), DD Board (quest), Squeeze Fund (treasury), Strip Mall (mall).

Landmarks: the paver plaza and fountain, the GME billboard, the Ape Bank, Oswald's Pawn, The Tape, the Stonk Wheel, the DD Board, DeeDee the Analyst, the Squeeze Fund vault, the Strip Mall storefront row, the Solder Station, Workbench and Food Truck, a parking lot, and the Tower Elevator in the north-east.

The Scrapyard

Scavenging and busted mining rigs. Sewer rats, repo drones, paper hands.

Exits: Ape Street at (3, 28).

Landmarks: the drainage canal with plank bridges, the Scrap Heap under the crane, the fenced Server Farm warehouse, and Tire Mountain.

The Harbor

Fishing off the docks and food-truck grills.

Exits: Ape Street at (2, 20).

Landmarks: four docks into the bay, bait shops, food trucks, North Quay, and Golden Pier with its lighthouse and golden ape statue.

Wall Street

Open PvP. ASIC miners, diamond safes, hedge fund suits, The Margin Caller. Die and your briefcase drops.

Exits: Ape Street at (1, 32).

Landmarks: the East River, Short Sellers Row (trading desks), The Exchange (ASIC miners cluster here), Bailout Bridge with its bull statue, and Margin Call Alley, where The Margin Caller guards a bank vault.

Hedge Tower

Squeeze Night raid. The whole server takes down The Short King together.

Exits: Ape Street at (16, 30).

Landmarks: the trading floor, glass partitions, trophy cases, and The Short King's office at the top of the floor.

Dying & Briefcases

Dying in a safe district puts you back on your feet at its spawn. Dying on Wall Street drops your whole bag and half your carried gold in a briefcase for 5 minutes that anyone can loot. Equipped gear and banked items are never at risk.

Movement & Camera

Run with WASD or the arrow keys. Your ape moves freely and the server checks every step. Drag with the mouse to orbit the camera, scroll to zoom, and Z / X turn it. Phones get an on-screen stick. Walk into an exit to change district.

Press E next to a node, station, shopkeeper, exit or briefcase to use it, or click it when you are close. The round minimap turns with your camera and shows you (orange arrow), other apes (white), mobs (red), services (yellow) and exits (purple).

Bag & Quick Slots

The bag holds 28 slots. Click an item to eat, equip, drop or put it in a quick slot (keys 4 to 7). Tools work straight from the bag; the best tier you carry is used. Only weapons and armor equip.

Gathering

Stand next to a node and press E. You keep working until the node runs dry or you move. Each action takes about 2.4 s (faster with better tools and levels) and the node refills in about 25 s.

Skills

Scavenging, Mining, Fishing, Cooking, Crafting, Combat. Levels 1 to 99 on a RuneScape-style curve (level 50 is 101,333 XP, level 99 is 13,034,431 XP). Combat level sets max HP (10 + 2 per level) and base attack.

Crafting & Cooking

Combat

Click an enemy or press Tab to target it, then press Space. Your ape swings every 0.8 s while the target is within 1.8 tiles, so keep moving to stay in reach. Eat food to heal.

Enemies wind up before they hit: a red circle fills under them, and if you step out before it fills the hit misses. Bosses slam everyone inside a bigger circle.

Market Mood

The live tokenized GME price (0x1b0E319c6A659F002271B69dB8A7df2F911c153E) sets the city's mood every day.

Daily Quests

The DD Board gives 3 quests a day (UTC), picked for your levels.

Strip Mall shops

• 8 storefronts, rented for 500g a day, up to 7 days ahead. One storefront per ape.
• Stock up to 10 listings from your bag, priced in gold.
• Buyers shop from the Strip Mall directory whether you are online or not. Each sale pays your till, minus a 2% city tax that is destroyed.
• Collect your till at the directory. If rent lapses, unsold stock and till money wait for you under "Returned".

Squeeze Night raid

• Every Friday at 20:00 UTC the Tower Elevator on Ape Street opens for 1 hour.
• When GME is up 5%+ on the day, a bonus 30-minute raid can open, at most about once a day.
• The Short King has 60,000 shared HP. Damage is tracked per ape.
• On a kill, every ape with at least 0.5% of total damage gets gold, combat XP and loot rolls scaled by their share. Raid damage shows on the weekly board.

Gold & the Pawn Shop

Earned from mobs, quests, the Strip Mall and selling to Oswald (60% of value).

The Tape

Player market for gold and items, settled in $STREET. Sellers keep 95%. Of the 5% fee, 2.5% is burned and the rest goes to the Squeeze Fund.

Stonk Wheel

250 $STREET per spin: half burned, half to the Squeeze Fund. Prizes range from 150 gold to Diamond Knuckles and a 10,000 gold jackpot.

$STREET

Fixed supply of 1,000,000,000, launching on Pons v2 on Robinhood Chain, paired to tokenized GME. Planned creator tax 3%, paid in GME: 2% Squeeze Fund, 0.5% liquidity, 0.5% operations. In game, $STREET is a custodial balance; withdraw at the Ape Bank (daily cap 50,000).

Squeeze Fund & Tiers

The GME the fund holds sets how many ranked apes are paid each week.

Weekly GME claims

Every ISO week (Monday 00:00 UTC) the ranks close. The paid ranks get a signed claim for tokenized GME from the RewardVault contract. Open Ranks, press Claim, confirm in your wallet. Eligibility depends on the token's holder rules.

Cosmetic companions

Keybindings

Item Index

Fair Play

The server is authoritative: every timer, roll and drop is computed server-side; clients only send intents. Wallet login is a signed message, never a transaction. The reward vault has per-token daily caps and a pause switch.