DeFi Land

DeFi Land is a farming game on Solana that turns decentralized finance (DeFi) into mini-games. You run a small farm in your browser. Swapping tokens happens at the market, yield farming looks like planting seeds, and staking sits in the bank. The game is made by Kind Knight Studios. It uses two tokens: DFL, the main token, and GOLDY, a reward currency used inside the game.

The game is free to start. Owning a starter NFT, such as a fishing rod or a pet, unlocks the "Play and Earn" tier with token rewards. The official site still offered the public beta in October 2026, but news from the team has been sparse for more than a year.

How the DeFi Land game works: a farm as a front end for Solana DeFi

DeFi Land is a game layer on top of other DeFi apps. It does not run its own exchange or lending market. The DeFi Land docs say the DeFi features in your village are "powered by existing protocols". Each farm building stands in for one financial action.

The buildings map out like this, according to the docs:

The docs list Serum, Raydium RAY$1.90+9.1%, Orca ORCA$1.94+1.9%, Tulip TULIP$0.034+1.3% and Saber as integrations. They quote a 0.07% fee on swaps made at the market. That list was written around the game's launch, so check that a given integration still works before you rely on it.

The game is built in Unity and runs in the browser. Game accounts and rewards run on DeFi Land's own servers on Amazon Web Services, per the technology page. That split matters. Your NFTs and tokens live on Solana, but your game progress and unclaimed rewards live with the studio.

DeFi Land gameplay: fishing, shooting, harvesting and pets

DeFi Land gameplay is a set of short skill games plus an idle pet mode. The official site lists fishing, a shooting gallery and crop harvesting as the active games. Pets (cows, ducks, chickens, dogs and cats) earn rewards over time if you look after them.

Around those games sit crafting and forging, where you combine NFTs to make better tools. There is also a marketplace for trading tokens, crops and items. Seasonal leaderboards pay prizes to top players.

Each NFT tool has Energy and Health Points. The docs give each NFT between 2 and 25 energy points, depending on its attributes. Playing a session uses energy and health. Energy comes back after a cooldown, while health has to be repaired, which costs GOLDY. So a better tool lets you play more sessions a day, and heavy play carries a running repair cost.

Free players can use the same mini-games without an NFT. They earn experience points and compete on leaderboards, but they do not get the token rewards of the paid tier.

Gen-0 NFTs and the DeFi Land NFT marketplace

Gen-0 NFTs are the tools and animals that unlock Play and Earn in DeFi Land. There are four kinds: fishing rods, shooting guns, harvesters and pets. You need at least one to earn token rewards. Each tool has four parts that set how rare it is and how much it can earn. A fishing rod, for example, has a body, reel, hook and float.

The collection began as 7,500 "NFT seeds" minted on 9 February 2022. The seeds matured into Gen-0 NFTs after 30 days, per the Gen-0 docs. The same page puts the number of Gen-0 NFTs in circulation at about 21,000.

DeFi Land runs its own NFT marketplace. The marketplace docs state that NFTs listed in DFL carry no trading fee, while NFTs listed in SOL carry a 1% fee.

You can also rent an NFT to another player instead of selling it. The docs put the commission on rentals at roughly 5% to 10%.

DFL token: supply, utility and DFL staking

DFL is the main DeFi Land token. It is a Solana token with a maximum supply of 10 billion, per the tokenomics page. You use DFL to buy and upgrade NFTs, to boost energy in the game, to stake, and to vote on how the game develops.

DFL staking has no fixed yield in the docs. The DFL token page lists three benefits for stakers. Larger stakes get earlier access to whitelists. Long-term stakers can earn community NFTs. Stakers also share revenue from the DeFi Land treasury, though the docs give no schedule or formula for that share.

DFL staking is separate from staking SOL with a validator. It is a token program run by the game, and its rewards depend on the game earning revenue.

The token went on sale on 24 November 2021. DeFi Land sold 100 million DFL, or 1% of the supply, through Raydium, Gate.io and Solanium. DFL began trading the same day on FTX, Gate.io, Raydium and Serum, according to the project's sale announcement.

On 5 October 2026, Phantom's token page showed a total supply of about 9.59 billion DFL, all of it circulating.

GOLDY (DeFi Land Gold), the in-game reward currency

GOLDY, listed on exchanges as DeFi Land Gold, is the second DeFi Land token. It pays for small in-game actions such as NFT repairs and attribute upgrades. The DFL token docs describe GOLDY as minted only to pay player rewards, with some burned on every transaction.

The two-token design keeps day-to-day game spending apart from DFL. You earn GOLDY by playing with a Gen-0 NFT, then spend it to keep that NFT working.

The reward model has changed since launch. The earning docs say that from Season 2 the game moved away from token cash-outs. Rewards shifted toward raffles and loot crates, with prizes of NFTs, DFL and partner rewards. Older guides that describe farming GOLDY to sell no longer match how the docs describe the game.

Rewards sit in a "gaming wallet" held on DeFi Land's servers until you move them to your own Solana wallet.

Alpaca Dash and other Kind Knight Studios games

Alpaca Dash is a racing game from the DeFi Land team. You race alpacas from the Almighty Alpacas NFT collection against other players. The Kind Knight Studios site calls it a racing game of skill. It has live races, power-ups and NFT skins.

The studio lists four games in total. Besides DeFi Land and Alpaca Dash, there is Alpaca Run, an endless runner for mobile. The fourth is Crypto Farm, a mobile game the studio calls "the next evolution of DeFi Land". The studio site does not say when each game came out or whether it is live.

The latest DeFi Land news on game tracker PlayToEarn is dated 22 July 2025. It covers an Alpaca Dash season with more than $10,000 in prizes.

Who DeFi Land is for

DeFi Land suits a newcomer who wants to see how swaps, liquidity pools and yield farming fit together. The free tier needs only a Solana wallet. The docs also include a plain education section on topics such as impermanent loss, which is the cost of prices moving while your tokens sit in a pool.

DeFi Land is a weak fit if your goal is income. Token rewards require buying a Gen-0 NFT. The reward model moved from cash-outs to raffles, and repairs cost GOLDY.

It is also a weak fit if you already use DeFi. You get more control by using an exchange or lending app directly.

If you want a browser farming game with collectible tools, DeFi Land offers that. Go in expecting a game, and treat any tokens you earn as a bonus.

Is DeFi Land safe? Risks, audits and activity

The main risk with DeFi Land is that the project looks quiet. The official site was online on 5 October 2026 and still linked to the public beta. But its footer carried a 2025 copyright, and PlayToEarn's latest update for the game is from July 2025.

Our check of the official DeFi Land account on X on 5 October 2026 found no posts in the previous 180 days. A quiet game can still run, but support and fixes are less likely.

We found no public audit of DeFi Land's on-chain programs. The docs have no security or audit page, and no audit report turned up for the staking or marketplace programs. We could not confirm who controls upgrades to those programs.

Game rewards sit in a wallet on DeFi Land's servers until you withdraw them. If the game goes offline, unclaimed rewards may be out of reach.

DFL lost its largest launch venue when FTX collapsed in November 2022. FTX and Alameda Research were also investors, per the docs. Check the live figures on this page before you assume you can sell DFL at a quoted price.

Parts of the docs are out of date. The FAQ still describes plans for early 2022. The multichain page promises versions on Terra, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche and Ethereum layer 2s, and the docs show no live version outside Solana.

DeFi Land history, funding and team

DeFi Land raised $4.1 million in a round announced on 9 September 2021. Backers included Animoca Brands, Alameda Research, Jump Capital, the Solana Foundation and Gate.io, CoinDesk reported. The docs also name Sebastien Borget of The Sandbox as a backer.

Key dates since then:

• 24 November 2021: DFL token sale and first exchange listings.
• 9 February 2022: NFT seed mint, which became the Gen-0 collection.
• 19 May 2022: Play and Earn opened to Gen-0 NFT holders, per FinanceFeeds.
• July 2025: an Alpaca Dash season with prizes, the last update we found.

The team uses pseudonyms. The project lead goes by DFL Erwin, and the team page lists 15 members. They cover design, blockchain, back-end and game work.

The official site credits the game to Kind Knight Studios. It reports 450,000 players over the life of the game.