Third Time

Third Time is a game studio that after 2021 turned to horse racing simulation on Solana, with Photo Finish LIVE, released in April 2023, as its main product. The mechanical pain point it targets is that most horse racing titles treat horses as static collectibles, with no real simulation linking race outcomes to horse attributes, so player decisions do not affect output.

Technically each horse carries virtual genes that influence speed, stamina and track preference, and breeding outcomes are computed from them; a season runs for 28 days. Players enter races with the in-game stablecoin DERBY, pegged at 80 to the US dollar, track owners stake CROWN to take a share of entry fees, and wagering is matched through OpenTote, a parimutuel protocol. It is the official gaming partner of the Kentucky Derby. Between July and August 2026 it opened Season 44 and ran holiday races, with changes opening the MAJOR series to all horses aged three and up, restoring the juvenile Rising Stars series, and restructuring satellite races.