Russell's B-Boy Life is a progression game inspired by hip-hop culture and breaking. You control a street dancer who levels up through training, performances, and passive hustles across the city.

The game runs in both Telegram (Mini App) and browser, and integrates with the WAX blockchain for real NFTs. Playing in a browser on a big enough screen, the game can also show an expanded, dashboard-style layout.

What changed in the game, most recent first.

Because the game has players from many countries, every numeric value shown (balance, market prices, XP, stats) always uses the same international format — no matter the game's language or the device you're using.

Energy is the core resource for training and performing. Each action costs energy. When it runs out, you need to wait for it to recharge.

Training sessions are active actions that cost energy and reward XP and money. Different training types become available as you level up.

Each action has a duration. You can queue up to 10 actions at once — training and performances, in any mix — and the cost (money, for training) plus the energy are deducted the moment you add one to the queue, not just when it starts running. Queued actions run one at a time, in the order you added them: when one finishes, its reward is credited automatically and the next one starts right away.

The 8 training moves aren't just names — each one represents something real in breaking culture. Here's what each level actually means, explained the way a battle judge would:

Every day (at UTC midnight) the game draws a secret code of 4 training moves, repeats allowed. You see the 1st move revealed directly on screen, plus a riddle for each of the other 3 positions — the riddle describes the move without ever naming it.

You can only discover the code once per day — repeating the right sequence again doesn't give a duplicate reward. The code changes at UTC midnight.

Performances are live shows at venues like clubs, festivals, and cultural events. Like training, they cost energy and take time to complete.

Performances tend to earn more money than training, but also cost more energy. They're ideal when you want to focus on stacking cash.

Hustles are the passive system of the game. Your dancers head out into the city on their own, travel between neighborhoods, and run hustles while you're offline.

Dancers cycle automatically: travel → hustle → rest → repeat. When you open the game, the server calculates everything that happened since you were last online. Even with the game closed, a background process runs every few minutes, so your hustles keep progressing while you're offline.

Beyond Vibe, you can import character NFTs from the raslhaslnfts collection on the WAX blockchain as active workers.

Each imported character joins the passive hustle loop alongside Vibe, operating independently — with their own current neighborhood, active hustle, and cooldown.

NFTs from the raslhaslnfts collection can have configured bonuses that automatically apply to your dancer. Bonuses stack per copy — the more of the same NFT you hold, the greater the total effect. Common (non-NFT) copies of the same gear items, earned from hustles and events, count toward the same bonuses too — just at a fraction of an NFT's value. Owning the real NFT is a head start; grinding common copies catches up over time.

Available bonus types:

Playable characters from the raslhaslnfts collection ("characters" schema) can be imported as hustle workers, exactly like Vibe. Each one has its own lore — and, increasingly, its own configured gear bonus matching the character's theme.

Producer Beatmaster

"Beatmaster builds beats the same way a dancer builds a round—with precision and purpose."

Money +10%/copy + Daily Energy +2/copy

Producer Dyna

"Dyna collects rhythm from the city and turns it into fuel for circles and battles."

XP +10%/copy + Daily Energy +3/copy

Producer Soul B

"Soul B fills the project with warmth and makes every track part of the story."

Bonus Chance +10%/copy + Daily Energy +1/copy

B-Boy Vex

"Vex turns the beat into a puzzle and wins through unexpected movement choices."

Street +1.5%/copy + Daily Energy +2/copy

B-Boy Kairo

"Kairo hears the beat through his feet and turns every count into a precise movement."

XP +0.01%/copy

B-Boy Riko

"Riko is the shockwave of the street. He doesn't come to ask for attention—he takes it with the first move."

Street +0.01%/copy

B-Boy Zephyr

"Zephyr dances like gravity is only a suggestion, not a law."

Hustle Duration +0.01%/copy

B-Boy Voltaren

"Voltaren lands freezes like a final stamp—clean, strong, and impossible to argue with."

Energy Efficiency +1%/copy

B-Boy Nyxo

"Nyxo comes out of the shadows not to perform, but to break the tempo and leave a mark."

Creative +0.01%/copy

B-Boy Jax

"Jax is not tied to one trick—he builds his round so he is ready for any answer."

Universal +0.01%/copy

B-Boy Ren

"Ren does not jump into battle blindly—he reads the circle and moves exactly when needed."

Teaching +0.01%/copy

B-Boy Kage

"Kage steps out of darkness, steals attention with one precise entry, and disappears again."

Fame/Reputation +0.01%/copy

B-Girl Laura

"Laura proves that powerful breaking can be beautiful and precise at the same time."

Energy Recovery +20%/copy

B-Girl Nova

"Nova arrives like a flash—fast, bright, and impossible to forget."

Speed +0.01%/copy

B-Girl Lira

"Lira makes strength visible without noise—through form, precision, and clean rhythm."

Social +0.01%/copy

B-Girl Fox

"Fox hunts not for effect, but for the moment when the opponent loses control."

Bonus Chance +0.01%/copy

B-Boy Spike

"No lore published yet."

Bonus Chance +0.01%/copy

Besides NFTs from the raslhaslnfts collection, certain partner collections also grant real bonuses to your dancer — same mechanic as Gear, each NFT stacks per copy. It's a way to give extra value to players who already collect these other WAX collections.

Tournaments are single-elimination bracket competitions where dancers face off. There are two types: auto-generated events (four per day: 01:00, 08:00, 13:00 and 20:00 UTC) and admin-created events with special prizes.

When the event closes, the system fills empty slots with bots (always at least 4 participants) and runs the bracket. Winning a round depends on your combo vs your opponent's, plus a random element.

The Infinite Circle is a sequence of 1v1 battles against bots, each one tougher than the last. You decide how far to go — keep pushing your luck for more rounds, or cash out anytime with what you've already banked.

Losing a round normally ends the run. But the first time that happens in a given run, you can pay energy to revive and move on to the next battle instead of stopping there — this only works once; losing again after reviving ends the run for good. Everything you already banked from previous wins stays yours — only what was at stake in the round you lost is discarded.

Every character has hidden affinities and rivalries — with certain moves, and with certain opponents. A combo that crushes one bot might not work nearly as well against another, depending on who your dancer is and who's standing across from them. There's no single universal right answer: it's worth trying different moves and paying attention to how each dancer does against each kind of opponent. On top of that, the more times you've completed a specific training, the stronger that move gets in the Infinite Circle — a visible, player-driven way to power up your favorite move, even if it isn't the one your character is naturally suited to.

The Arena has two direct 1v1 battle modes with money bets: Rock/Paper/Scissors and Break Dance.

The inventory has three parts: game items, pending NFT deliveries, and your WAX collection.

When you win an NFT in a tournament, it enters a pending delivery queue. To receive it in your WAX wallet, you need to claim it.

Up to 30 NFTs per transaction are processed. If you have more, simply claim again until the list is empty.

The Log tab in your inventory shows the full claim history with a link to each blockchain transaction — serving as a permanent proof of delivery.

Challenges are progression goals split by category, each with 10 levels. As you play normally, challenges are completed automatically.

Challenges are per season — each new season resets your progress. This means each season's history is preserved, but you start fresh on challenges in the new season.

Some challenge tiers grant a reward when completed — it can be an NFT, a token, or a collectible item. When a rewarded tier is reached, a claim button appears on it; claimed NFTs go to the pending NFTs list in your Bag. When more than one reward is pending, a "Claim all available" button appears at the top of the tab, claiming everything at once and showing what you received.

The ranking shows the top players of the current season across different metrics.

Once a season closes, its final results (each player's position, XP, podiums, champions, etc.) stay saved forever — tap the History button at the top of the Ranking tab to see past seasons' podiums. The current season's ranking is cached for up to 1 hour — a recent achievement can take up to that long to show up in it.

SQS is a partner token of the game (see the Partners section), and there's a WAX/SQS swap pool on both Alcor Exchange and Taco (swap.tacocrypto.io), two decentralized exchanges on the WAX blockchain. Adding liquidity to either one is entirely optional, happens outside the game, and isn't required to play — it's just a way for the community to support the token's market.

Whoever is among the Alcor pool's top 10 liquidity providers (with a verified wallet) gets a cosmetic flair on the Ranking: their name shows in gold, with an animated coin next to it, visible to everyone. It's purely visual — no game bonus, money, or hustle advantage. This specific ranking only considers Alcor, since it's the only one of the two exchanges that supports listing every position at once.

Your position, for tier purposes, is always the sum of what you hold on Alcor plus what you hold on Taco — it doesn't matter which one you added it to. The SQS cost (a token from the sqsmodelsnft contract, sent to the same deposit address used for WAX, in the Convert tab) is required on every virtual-dancer-to-NFT conversion, with or without a liquidity position — only the amount changes: no position means paying the full SQS amount, and each LP tier lowers that cost on top of the WAX discount.

Each tier tracks its own streak independently — a higher tier never resets progress already earned on a lower one. If your position drops below a tier you already hold, you don't lose it right away: the game shows a warning at the top of the game and gives you 24 hours to top the liquidity back up. Only after that window, if the position is still short, does the tier actually drop — and if the drop is big enough (say, going from a tier-5 position down to a tier-1 one), you land directly on whichever tier your current position supports, without stepping down one tier at a time. That's how the game prevents someone from adding liquidity for a moment just to grab the bonus and pulling it right back out, without punishing a player who just had a brief dip in their position's value.

The Market (menu, next to Ranking) is where you buy and sell in-game gear items. Prices move on their own: the more people sell an item, the cheaper it gets; the more people buy it, the pricier it gets.

Use the Market to buy more copies of the items that boost the bonus you want to stack, or to sell items sitting unused in your inventory for money.

Craft (menu, next to Market) lets you turn gear items from your inventory + money into a virtual dancer, without buying a real NFT.

Craft is an alternative way to get more dancers working for you without relying on buying NFTs — just gather the requested items and money.

The Energy Drink is a craftable NFT in the Craft tab ("Craft Drinks" sub-tab, next to Craft Dancer) that spends energy and SQS from your balance. Once crafted, it goes into your Bag as a pending NFT, same as other prizes, and can be sold on the secondary market.

Burning an Energy Drink grants 50 energy directly in-game — it's a way to turn spare energy into something sellable on the secondary market, and also gives other players an extra way to earn energy.

Coffee is a second craftable NFT in the same "Craft Drinks" tab, next to the Energy Drink — it costs a bit less to craft, but also gives back a lot less energy when burned.

Burning a Coffee grants 17 energy directly in-game — much less than the Energy Drink (50), so it's worth comparing both costs before deciding which one to craft.

The Energy Bar is a promotional NFT, handed out manually by the team during special events — unlike the Energy Drink and Coffee, it can't be crafted in the Craft tab.

Burning an Energy Bar grants 2 energy directly in-game — a much smaller amount than the craftable NFTs, since it's a promotional giveaway.

Every gear NFT has two possible lives: keep it in your wallet so it counts toward your NFT bonus, or burn it and receive 100 units of the matching virtual item, ready to use in Craft recipes.

The burn happens straight from your wallet (like any AtomicAssets burn). The 100-item credit shows up in-game the next time you log in — same as the Energy Drink.

Street Market (menu, next to Craft) is a direct item-for-item trade board between players — no money involved, no price curve.

Use Street Market for the exact swap you want instead of relying on the Market's price curve — there's no cap on how many offers you can have open, only on how many items you actually own to back them.

A virtual (crafted) dancer can become a real, mintable NFT — in the Bag tab, under the "Convert" sub-tab.

It's an alternative path for players who want the real NFT of a character they already crafted and leveled up as virtual, without losing the progress made so far.

Your dancer evolves as you accumulate XP in training and performances. Each level unlocks new content.

Linking your WAX wallet unlocks all NFT features in the game. Without it, you can still train, perform, and join events — but you won't have access to NFTs.

Besides the NFTs awarded in tournaments, you can buy new dancers and items directly with WAX through packs and drops — sold on AtomicHub/NeftyBlocks, the official WAX blockchain marketplace, outside the game.

Every dancer and producer has a rarity — common, rare, or legendary — which affects the odds of it dropping. Energy and gear items don't have differentiated rarity within a pack.

Available packs:

Don't have a WAX wallet yet? No problem — the Store (Menu → Store) sells the same dancers, gear, and energy items as the packs above. In the browser you pay by credit card; inside Telegram, with Telegram Stars.

If you connect or create a WAX wallet later on, you can convert dancers bought in the Store into a real NFT — see the Convert section above, it's the same process used for any virtual dancer.