The whole run, at a glance
every on-chain series in one place - volume, treasury, battles, trades. each line is scaled to its own peak so they share one axis; toggle any of them and hover for the real number.
WaveWarZ / on-chain overview
Every pool, fee, and payout settles on-chain, so here is the whole run in one place - volume, treasury, battles, trades - decoded from program 9TUf. Trades come from a complete chain scan; Dune, which counts failed transactions as trades, supplies the rest. Each line is scaled to its own peak so they share one axis; hover for the real number.
For live battle-by-battle browsing, leaderboards, and song charts, WaveWarZ's own Intelligence dashboard ↗ already does that well - this tracker focuses on the treasury/financial history and record-keeping side instead.
treasury unavailable. volume and battles from the baked Dune snapshot. trades are from a complete chain scan; traders are decoded via Dune (336 active days through 2026-09-05, generated 2026-09-09T11:52Z). each line is indexed to its own peak so they share one axis - the Growth and Floor sections show the same series at true scale.
What WaveWarZ is
start here. what the platform is, and how a single song-vs-song battle actually plays out on-chain.
WaveWarZ / the brief
A decentralized music-battle platform on Solana. Artists go head-to-head song-vs-song; fans trade SOL on who wins. Everything settles in native SOL - there is no platform token. Each battle mints two ephemeral per-artist tokens on a bonding curve; you buy the side you back and claim winnings after settlement.
since 2025-05-26 - snapshot 2026-09-09T11:52Z. On-chain vs the wavewarz.info app: 1,643 battles (app ~1,500); 921 ◎ traded, both sides (the platform reports 921.29 ◎); app 408.73 ◎ claimed by traders (1928 withdrawals). Trades and claims are from a complete chain scan; the rest is decoded via Dune, whose own trade counts include failed transactions.
- initializeBattle - a battle is created with two artists, a SOL vault, and two token mints.
- buyShares / sellShares - fans trade SOL for the side they back on a bonding curve. Volume feeds the Charts score.
- Winner = best 2 of 3: Poll (community vote) + Charts (SOL volume) + DJ Wavy (AI judge).
- endBattle - settles; the loser pool is distributed.
- claimShares - traders manually withdraw winnings.
Formats: Quick Battles (nightly) and Main Events (catalog vs catalog).
| Per trade - total fee | 1.500% of trade |
| That fee splits, artist / platform | 67 / 33 |
| So per trade - artist | 1.005% of trade |
| So per trade - platform | 0.495% of trade |
| Settlement - winning traders | 40% of loser pool (pro-rata) |
| Settlement - losing traders refund | 50% of loser pool |
| Settlement - winning artist | 5% of loser pool |
| Settlement - losing artist | 2% of loser pool |
| Settlement - platform | 3% of loser pool |
Platform revenue = 0.495% of every trade + 3% of every loser pool -> the treasury wallet and its ~3.5 SOL operating floor.
FNj is the platform / team operations wallet - the team launches battles and trades with it, which is why it's the top program signer and shows up as the #5 "trader" (448W-154L) on the leaderboard. So its activity mixes platform ops with real trades. (Confirmed by the team.)
- hurric4n3ike (Ikechi Nwachukwu) - founder / lead developer. Also an artist.
- BetterCallZaal (Zaal Panthaki) - cofounder, head of ecosystem. Founder of The ZAO.
- candy (Samantha Kinney / CandyToyBox) - design, promo, marketing.
WaveWarZ is the music-battle application layer of BCZ -> The ZAO -> WaveWarZ — The ZAO is a web3 music/creator collective with 100+ consecutive Fractal governance weeks and onchain Respect scores. Related surfaces in the ecosystem:
- ZABAL - streaming + coordination engine across the ecosystem.
- ZAO Fractals - weekly community governance ritual.
Live programming: battles stream Mon-Fri ~8:30 PM EST on X Spaces / YouTube.
WaveWarZ / how it works
A battle is two songs going head-to-head. Fans buy SOL-backed shares on the side they think will win; the winning side splits the loser's pool. Everything is on-chain in native SOL - no platform token.
| Each trade -> total fee | 1.500% |
| That fee splits, artist / platform | 67 / 33 |
| So each trade -> artist | 1.005% |
| So each trade -> platform | 0.495% |
| Each trade -> stays in the pool | 98.5% |
| Settlement: winning traders (pro-rata) | 40% of loser pool |
| Settlement: losing traders refund | 50% of loser pool |
| Settlement: winning artist | 5% of loser pool |
| Settlement: losing artist | 2% of loser pool |
| Settlement: platform | 3% of loser pool |
Settlement per the on-chain IDL. The trade fee and its split were measured on chain at exact lamports across 14 trades in 7 battles - the platform's own fee schedule still says 1.00 / 0.50. So even a losing artist earns, and the artist takes twice what the platform does on every trade.
- Quick Battles - single song vs song, run nightly.
- Main Events - catalog vs catalog across multiple rounds / tournament brackets.
- Shares - per-artist tokens you buy on the bonding curve; your stake on a side.
- Vault - the on-chain SOL pool for a battle (a program PDA).
- Loser pool - the SOL staked on the losing side, redistributed at settlement.
- Claim - manually withdrawing your winnings after a battle settles.
- Floor - the ~3.5 SOL the treasury keeps; founders skim the excess.
The treasury floor
the headline. the platform wallet's daily balance held against a 3.5 SOL operating floor - live from Dune, refreshed every morning.
Growth over time
cumulative SOL traded since the platform's first battle in May 2025 - the real shape, at true scale.
Where every SOL goes
the fee schedule made visible: 1.5% per trade split two-to-one in the artist's favour, the settlement waterfall, and the skip-queue auction.
Profitability + the split
once the wallet is past the floor, the excess distributes: 33% operations, 22% each to Hurricane / Candy / Zaal.
Weekly revenue analytics
real weekly inflow to the on-chain fee wallet - this week's revenue, the trend, and the per-battle fee.
The program itself
the program as a state machine - every battle walks create, mint, trade, settle, claim. the gaps between those stages are the interesting part, and no other WaveWarZ surface shows them.
Reading the market
when the money shows up, which artists pull it in, and how often the crowd is right - measured across every battle rather than picked out by hand.
Take it with you
every chart here is a standalone iframe. one line, no key, themed to match - drop them anywhere in the ecosystem.
The artists behind it
the roster, live from Audius - who they are, what they have released, and how much of it people are actually playing.
The newsletter
posts from the WaveWarZ blog on Paragraph - fetched live, never copied. new posts appear here on their own.
Who builds what
three surfaces, three owners, one standard. what exists, what is blocked, and what is blocking it - measured, not planned.
In the ZAO ecosystem
where WaveWarZ sits in the bigger picture, what's coming up, and the questions people ask most.