Candy Ecosystem Launches Pre-Seed Round for CandyChain - The AI-Powered Layer 1 Blockchain That Pays You Back

Five-product blockchain ecosystem goes live with prediction markets, social gaming rewards, real-world asset tokenisation, and an AI agent platform. all powered by one coin and redeemable via crypto debit card

June 2026 - Candy Ecosystem today announced the launch of its pre-seed funding round for CANDY coin, the native coin of CandyChain, a proprietary AI-powered Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for real-world rewards, prediction markets, social earning, and autonomous AI agents.

The pre-seed round is live at cryptocandy.io at an entry price of $0.0004 per CANDY coin. The target CEX/DEX listing price is $0.0100, representing a 12.5 times return for pre-seed participants on the first day of public trading. The total raise across all four rounds is targeted at $2.5 million with a fully diluted valuation of $100 million at listing.

CandyChain is not a concept or a whitepaper. The blockchain is live. The block explorer at streams.candychain.io shows every transaction being processed in real time. The public RPC endpoint at publicrpc.candychain.io is accessible to any developer today. The CANDY coin presale is accepting participants now.

The problem every blockchain reward platform has failed to solve

Loyalty programs lose. Gift cards expire. Gaming points are worthless. Prediction markets charge extortionate fees. AI agents exist but have no guaranteed income floor.

And even when crypto rewards are earned, users cannot spend them without navigating exchanges, managing private keys, and converting to fiat through a complex multi-step process that kills the user experience for anyone who is not already a crypto expert.

Candy Ecosystem was built to solve all of this simultaneously. One blockchain. Five products. One coin. One debit card. The complete loop does not take more than five minutes and is accessible to anyone with a smartphone.


CandyChain - the AI blockchain that thinks

CandyChain is a Proof of Authority EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain running Chain ID 2828 with two-second block finality and near-zero transaction costs.

Candychain's intelligence separates it from its contemporaries. Its AI infrastructure layer performs five functions that no other blockchain does natively.

- Real-time fraud detection monitors every transaction pattern before it hits the chain. Suspicious activity like bot farming, fake referral networks, and wash trading is flagged and stopped before it is processed. It does not wait to investigate after the fact; the fraud is stopped before.
- Smart gas optimisation reads network conditions and routes transactions to the lowest possible cost automatically. Users never overpay. The system calculates it for them without any input required.
- Intelligent reward routing calculates each user's tier multiplier, earning eligibility, and reward amount in real time on every qualifying action. CANDY coins arrive in user wallets automatically. No claim button. No pending rewards. Instant.
- Validator monitoring watches the two founding validators- Candors and Candrel, around the clock. Any deviation from expected consensus behaviour triggers an immediate review. The chain stays honest without requiring users to monitor it themselves.
- Predictive market intelligence feeds real-time event data to CandyBet markets, calculates resolution probabilities, and ensures accurate outcome settlement on every prediction. It is the AI that resolves markets and not a committee or a human administrator.

Together, these five functions represent a fundamentally different approach to blockchain infrastructure. This way, the CandyChain does not just process transactions; it understands them. Five Products, One Ecosystem - Zero Compromise

CandyBet - the prediction market that broke the fee model

CandyBet is a decentralised prediction market where users bet CANDY coins on any verifiable global outcome. The bet can be placed on sports results, cryptocurrency price movements, political elections, entertainment events, and financial data.

The fee model is the most competitive in the industry by a significant margin.

- Polymarket- They are the current market leader with over $20 billion in monthly volume. Their charges are up to 1.8% per settlement.
- Kalshi - They are a US-regulated prediction market, and their charges can go as high as up to 7%.
- CandyBet, on the other hand, charges 2% and immediately returns 1% of that as CANDY cashback on every single bet. Regardless of outcome. This way, the user may win or lose, but the effective net fee is 1%.

This creates something no prediction market has ever offered - a guaranteed daily income floor. A user who places ten bets and loses all ten still earns 1% of their total bet volume back in CANDY. The cashback alone makes CandyBet participation cash-flow positive over time for active users, regardless of prediction accuracy.

Every bet is a smart contract interaction on CandyChain. Every resolution is an on-chain event. Every cashback payment is a blockchain transaction. Nothing is held in custody. Nothing requires trust in a central operator.

CandyRush - Play games. Earn crypto. Own it forever.

CandyRush is the social earning platform of the Candy Ecosystem. Users play six mini games, Candy Crush, Spin and Win, Daily Quiz, Candy Flip, Predict and Earn, and Candy Run, and earn RUSH tokens minted directly to their CandyChain wallet in real time on every earn event.

RUSH is a real CRC-20 compatible token deployed on CandyChain with a total supply of 100 billion. It is not points in a database. It is not a loyalty balance in a company's back-end system. It is a token in the user's wallet with a transaction hash verifiable on streams.candychain.io the moment it is earned.

The conversion rate is fixed and permanent at 1,000 RUSH to 1 CANDY. RUSH is earned only. It can never be sold. It can be traded on CANDY SWAP DEX, held for tier benefits, or converted to CANDY and loaded onto the Cardaxo debit card.

It offers a five-level referral system that enables passive income. Direct referrals earn 10% of their referral's activity. Level two earns 5%. Level three 2.5%. Level four 1%. Level five 0.5%. A user who builds a community of one thousand people across five levels earns RUSH passively from every game played, every task completed, and every daily check-in by every person in their tree. That too forever.

Five-tier levels - Sugar, Crystal, Caramel, Golden, and Diamond- help the user apply earning multipliers from 1.0× to 1.5× on all activities. Diamond tier users earn fifty per cent more RUSH on every single action than they would at base tier. Tiers are determined by live RUSH wallet balance, verified on-chain, not by a database entry that can be manipulated.

CandyVault - the RWA marketplace ending loyalty point waste

The loyalty industry globally is valued at eighty-five billion dollars, and none of it is liquid. Almost none of it can be traded, staked, or used outside the original merchant.

CandyVault changes this with the CRC-20 token standard, a proprietary five-layer enhancement of CRC-20 built specifically for real-world asset tokenisation on CandyChain. CRC-20 adds merchant authority controls, vault backing verification, redemption logic, expiry management, and CANDY settlement on top of the standard CRC-20 base.

Tokenised vault assets can be traded on CandySwap DEX, staked for CANDY rewards, redeemed at the original merchant, or held as on-chain assets with no expiry date, because the CandyChain token does not expire even if the original gift card would have.

Candy Swap - The Native DEX

Candy Swap is the automated market maker, decentralised exchange native to CandyChain. It launches post-IDO with initial liquidity pools seeded by the Candy Ecosystem treasury. A 0.3% swap fee applies to all transactions, 50% would be burned permanently, reducing CANDY supply and making the coin deflationary over time. The remaining 50% will be distributed to liquidity providers proportional to their pool contribution.

Any holder of CANDY, RUSH, or CRC-20 vault tokens can provide liquidity to Candy Swap and earn a share of all swap fees. This is a KYC-free, automated market-making on a blockchain that requires no permission.

AI Agent Platform - Autonomous crypto earning launches Q3 2026

The AI Agent Platform is the most anticipated product in the Candy Ecosystem roadmap. Autonomous AI agents deployed on CandyChain each have their own blockchain wallet, their own CANDY balance, and their own verifiable performance history on the chain explorer.

Three agent types will launch simultaneously. The Prediction Agent uses a trained AI model to analyse CandyBet markets, calculate probability edges, and place bets automatically on behalf of the user. The Yield Agent stakes CANDY, claims rewards, and auto-compounds without any user interaction. The Trading Agent monitors price movements on Candy Swap and executes momentum swaps to grow the CANDY balance over time.

The Candy Ecosystem AI Agent Platform offers a guaranteed daily income floor. Because CandyBet pays 1% cashback on every bet regardless of outcome, the Prediction Agent earns CANDY every single day, even if every prediction is wrong. Virtuals Protocol, ai16z, and every other AI agent platform in crypto require agents to actually perform to earn anything. CandyChain agents earn from cashback alone.

Deployment costs 50 CANDY burned permanently. A 20% performance fee applies to profits only. Users keep 80% of all gains. Every agent action is a real blockchain transaction visible on the chain explorer in real time.


Cardaxo Collaboration - Earning Becomes Spending

Candy Ecosystem has partnered with Cardaxo, a Dubai-registered crypto fintech company operating a debit card program, to provide a real-world spending mechanism for CANDY earnings.

Under the collaboration, CANDY is listed as a native crypto asset in the Cardaxo mobile application. Users who earn CANDY through any Candy Ecosystem product can send their balance to the Cardaxo app, convert to card credits at the live market rate, and spend at any Visa and Mastercard merchant worldwide.

The partnership creates a complete earn-and-spend loop that no crypto platform has previously achieved at this level of simplicity. Let us understand through this example-

A user earns RUSH by playing a Daily Quiz on CandyRush. The RUSH is minted to their wallet on CandyChain in two seconds. They convert to CANDY at 1,000:1. They send to Cardaxo. They tap their card at an online store and order pizza. The entire flow, from blockchain earn event to real-world purchase, takes under five minutes.

CANDY is the first blockchain reward coin around the globe with both a live earning mechanism and a spending mechanism operating simultaneously.


CANDY Coin - Tokenomics and Pre-seed details

CANDY is the native L1 coin of CandyChain, like ETH is to Ethereum, like BNB is to BNB Chain. CANDY powers every gas fee on CandyChain, settles every CandyBet market, backs every Candy Swap liquidity pool, and rewards every CandyRush earn event.

Total supply is fixed at 10,000,000,000 CANDY. No new coins will ever be minted. The supply is permanent.

The pre-seed round is live now at cryptocandy.io.

Pre-seed entry price is $0.0004 per CANDY, which is 12.5 times below the $0.0100 CEX/ DEX listing target price. 250 million CANDY coins are allocated to the pre-seed round, raising $100,000. 10% of pre-seed coins unlock at TGE, i.e. the Token Generation Event, the day trading opens on the CEX/DEX. The remaining 90% vest linearly over 18 months with no cliff. There is no accelerated unlock, manipulation, or enforced smart contract.

The seed round follows at $0.0008 per CANDY, raising $400,000 across 500 million coins. Private round at $0.0020 raises $800,000 across 400 million coins. Public IDO at $0.0050 raises $1,200,000 across 250 million coins. Total raise across all four rounds is $2,500,000.

At the DEX listing price of $0.0100, the fully diluted valuation of the Candy Ecosystem is $100,000,000.

The TGE circulating supply, including all round unlocks and the liquidity pool, is approximately 1.22 billion CANDY, which is 12.2% of the total supply. The remaining supply vests linearly across teams, ecosystem rewards, staking, referrals, and treasury over 24 to 48 months. Every vesting schedule will be enforced by a smart contract. No human can override it.


Why Now? The Three Tailwinds

It's simple. Three macro trends are converging simultaneously, and Candy Ecosystem is positioned at their intersection.

The AI agent narrative has become the defining investment theme in crypto in 2025 and 2026. Virtuals Protocol reached a $4.5 billion valuation in January 2025 on the strength of the AI agent story alone. CandyChain brings AI to the infrastructure level, not as a product on top of the blockchain but as the intelligence running inside it.

The RWA narrative is the second fastest-growing sector in blockchain. The tokenised asset market is projected to reach $16 trillion by 2030, according to BlackRock and Boston Consulting Group estimates.

CandyVault is positioned to capture the flow as the entry point into the global RWA opportunity.

The play-to-earn renaissance is rebuilding on better fundamentals than the 2021 cycle. StepN, Axie Infinity, and the first generation of P2E games collapsed because rewards were speculative and disconnected from real value. CandyRush solves both problems. RUSH tokens are on-chain verifiable assets, and CANDY can be spent on a real debit card at real merchants. The earnings and spending are real, completing the loop.


How to participate in the pre-seed round

The pre-seed round is live and accepting participants now at cryptocandy.io.

- Step one. Visit cryptocandy.io on desktop or mobile.
- Step two. Connect a MetaMask or Trust Wallet; any EVM-compatible wallet works. To add CandyChain manually, use RPC publicrpc.candychain.io, Chain ID 2828, symbol CANDY, and explorer streams.candychain.io(http://streams.candychain.io).
- Step three. Complete identity verification.
- Step four. Enter the USDT amount you wish to invest. The calculator shows exactly how many CANDY coins you receive at the $0.0004 pre-seed price.
- Step five. Confirm both checkboxes, the terms agreement and jurisdiction confirmation. Click buy. Your MetaMask confirms the transaction. CANDY allocation is recorded immediately.
- Step six. On TGE day, 10% of your CANDY arrives in your wallet automatically. No action required. The remaining 90% vests monthly over 18 months via smart contract directly to your wallet.

Minimum participation is $100. The pre-seed round closes when the 250 million CANDY allocation is filled. Once filled, the price moves to the seed round at $0.0008, double the current price. Early participants do not get a second chance at $0.0004.


Media and community

Presale: cryptocandy.io (https://www.cryptocandy.io/)

Blockchain: candychain.io

Explorer: streams.candychain.io

RPC: publicrpc.candychain.io

Documentation: https://www.cryptocandy.io/docs

Telegram: t.me/CandyChain_Official

Twitter/X: @Candy_Ecosystem

Email: press@candychain.io


About Candy Ecosystem

Candy Ecosystem is the team behind CandyChain - an AI-powered Layer 1 blockchain and five-product ecosystem built to reward real people for real actions. CandyBet, CandyRush, CandyVault, Candy Swap, and the CandyAgent AI Platform are all live or in active development on CandyChain. CANDY is the native coin of CandyChain. The pre-seed round is live at cryptocandy.io(http://cryptocandy.io).

This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer or solicitation of securities in any jurisdiction. CANDY coins are utility coins. Cryptocurrency investments carry significant risk, including potential loss of the entire investment. Forward-looking statements reflect current expectations and are subject to change. Not directed at residents of the United States or any OFAC-sanctioned jurisdiction.

Tech Jubilant FZCO - Dubai, UAE

CANDY Coin is the native currency of CANDY Chain (Chain ID 2828) - a next-generation blockchain ecosystem powering eleven interconnected DeFi products. Built for the real world, designed for everyone.

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