Ponke and Octo Gaming Join Forces: Ponk Bounce 🎰

4 min readApr 10, 2025

Two Solana giants: Ponke and Octo Gaming are teaming up for a new game that blends meme coin chaos with classic casino thrills 🎲💸

This collab is pure Web3 magic, when Gaming meets one of the most Iconic communities of Solana!

🤝 How It All Started

One of our key investors, The Solana Foundation, played matchmaker, connecting the Ponke team with Octo Gaming. Sparks flew instantly.
- Octo’s mission? Mixing gaming and crypto rewards to onboard millions of gamers from Web2.0 to Web3.0.
- Ponke’s vibe? Pure “degen” energy and community-driven Web3 project.

Together, they cooked up a game revealed during the Paris Blockchain Week at the Solana Product Showcase event hosted by The Solana Foundation, the perfect timing, the perfect match.

🐒 $PONKE Story

Launched in December 2023 with a total supply of 555,555,555 tokens, Ponke started as a crazy idea: A degenerate, angry gambling monkey.

Fast forward to November 2024, and it hit an all-time high of $0.89 and a jaw-dropping $409 million market cap 🚀

Fun fact: Some say “Ponke” is a spin on “honk,” others think it’s a mix of punk and monkey. Whatever the truth, it’s that kind of absurdity that keeps the community hyped 👀

🛸 Powered by Degens

$PONKE isn’t just a token, it’s a movement.
With over 155K followers on X, 489K on Instragram and 255K on TikTok, this monkey is a social media beast 🐵📱

The Ponke community is one of the most active community you can find in the space. They are highly motivated, and their success is no coincidence 💪

🎮 Ponke Bounce Gameplay

Inspired by the Casino Night level from Sonic, the game mixes retro arcade energy with crypto chaos. You play as Ponke, avoiding bears and men in suits. Ponke’s mission? Flip the trend, bring the bull back!

🚀 Why This Collab Just Works

Octo Gaming is known for its free-to-play 1v1 challenges with real crypto rewards.
Players will dive into high-energy, degen-style gameplay with a shot at winning actual real prizes: digital, physical and crypto currencies! 🤑

For Octo, it’s an opportunity to ride the meme wave, bring a new interest to meme coins community, and attract new Web3 gamers.
For Ponke, it’s about going next-level with gamification, community engagement, and viral momentum. It demonstrates that their project and IP are scalable, inclusive, and accessible to all!

Get ready! This game is about to light up the Solana chain!

About Octo?

Octo Gaming is a competitive social gaming platform with 4 million downloads available for free download on the Apple App Store & Google Play Store that enables users to monetize their time spent playing video games.

Already 16 games are available on the app with over 100 million matches played, allowing players to earn real life prizes offered by brand partners and cryptocurrencies playing competitive mini-games.

Octo has built games on its app and created engagement and visibility for world-renowned football clubs (Paris Saint Germain), tokens exceeding the billion dollar valuation (BONK, Samoyed) and NFT collections with millions of NFT sold (DeGods, y00ts, Solana Monkey Business, Claynosaurz, Degenerate Ape Academy, Chimpers etc…).

Here is some key figures about Octo Gaming:

4 million downloads worldwide
Daily Active Users: 30K
Monthly Active Users: 350K
100 million matches played by the users on the app
Backed by Solana Foundation and more