Two tokens, one loop — The Onyx Story

2026-05-20·The Onyx Council
How a single black stone became the ONYX × CORE economy — and how each realm tells its own story.

Two tokens, one loop

In the elder telling, there was one stone. Polished obsidian, the size of a fist, kept on the high table of a city that has since fallen into the desert. The stone was called Onyx, and it was not magic — it was older than magic. Magic was just one of the things that came out of it.

What the stone left behind is a single thread running through many separate worlds. Today that thread is the economy: two tokens, one loop.

The loop

You play and earn ONYX — the earn-side token, credited by every game. You stake ONYX for a fixed yield (APR), or swap ONYX for CORE to reach the treasury side. CORE is the treasury-side token: the treasury's 1,000,000 KLV stake is delegated, and its weekly KLV rewards will fund CORE's FPR pool once CORE is live. Play → earn ONYX → swap for CORE → CORE draws on that pool. One wallet carries all of it.

The realms — each its own world

These are not fragments of one map. Each game stands on its own, with its own lore:

Shadow Realm. Descend into a pact-bound dungeon where every step costs a memory.

Lightbringer. A solar campaign to break the curse of seven caged Heretics.

AetherDrift. Pure reflex — drift, glide, snake through neon.

Iron Frontier. Forge, refine, survive; every item you craft becomes legend.

Glyphfall. Master the sigils, break the seal — the deepest study.

The Vault. Games of chance that settle provably on-chain; odds published.

And the Onyx Core

Not a game — the stone. Your Onyx Core is your account-wide rank, forged across every realm. Spend KLV to attune it and you earn more ONYX everywhere at once. It is the through-line: the one thing every wallet shares, no matter which world you play.

— The Onyx Council