Zahra
@zahrah.near
Introducing grinddistrict.app
A free 3D city where you learn Web3 by living it.
Walk the city, sit in class, practise trading on a real floor, dress up, and build a home. Finish short lessons and every pass goes on your CV. Certificates are soulbound on NEAR and open doors in the city.
No install needed. Works on phone or desktop with 14 native languages and voices.
I started building Grind District before the NEAR hackathon was even announced 🥹
It took months to build from scratch. I started with Cursor because I know I started something huge that my grok bot can't handle alone without exhausting my weekly limit. Then continued with grok bot and later used Claude to improve the 3D and other features.
The game is multichain, so for this hackathon I decided to make NEAR the main chain.
The problem the game is trying to solve is that course certificates are PDFs nobody can verify, there's no similar functioning games currently live in web3 and learning Web3 feels boring.
Grind District game tries to fixes this by allowing you to learn web3 from scratch, as a beginner or intermediate or advanced, inside a 3D city. Pass a lesson and mint the certificate as an NFT on NEAR.
The game reads it back, so your profile shows "Verified on NEAR" and a members-only room opens.
How to play the game:
1. Open grinddistrict.app
2. Sign in with Google, 𝕏 or any NEAR testnet wallet (learning needs no wallet but claiming nft does)
3. Walk to Campus, pass a lesson
4. Mint your certificate on NEAR
Code: github.com/0xzahra/Grind-district
Built at NEAR HACKATHON
#NEARHackathon
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