Ascend

Ascend is an on-chain rock-paper-scissors game built with Zama using fully homomorphic encryption. Moves are submitted in encrypted form and the contract compares and resolves them directly on ciphertext, leaving only encrypted inputs and outcomes on chain, so neither the opponent nor observers can infer strategy from transactions. The design targets a familiar problem in fully public on-chain games, where visible actions degrade play into front-running and scripted bots. Seasons structure play, lives and Gems pace it, invites cap at three people and a leaderboard ranks the season.

The champion of each season receives a Zama OG NFT. A first phase ran as a closed beta, and a second phase opened 1,000 seats, with disclosed match counts exceeding the planned capacity, which indicates encrypted play holds up between real opponents. It is a consumer-facing sample inside the Zama ecosystem, putting FHE originally built for privacy computing into a minimal-rule competitive game as a stress test.