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Hero Chain (HEC) is the most 'chuunibyou' project in the crypto world, simply put, it is a blockchain version of the superhero universe.
Launching in the second half of 2024, it focuses on a trinity of hero NFTs + on-chain games + DeFi, with the core selling point being: what you buy is not an ordinary NFT, but a hero character that can battle, level up, and earn money on-chain.
The project is inspired by comics and games, and each hero on the chain has unique skills, rarity, and background stories. Players can put heroes into games for PVP, exploration, and team dungeons, and winning can earn HEC tokens and rare equipment, even bringing them to other games via cross-chain. The team modified the Move language to create a Layer 1 optimized specifically for games, boasting high TPS and low latency, claiming to be the on-chain League of Legends.
$HEC is the lifeblood of the platform: gas fees, governance, staking rewards, hero minting, and in-game consumption all rely on it. In the early days, airdrops provided holders with many hero fragments, and community players formed guilds and held tournaments, creating an atmosphere reminiscent of early Axie Infinity, but leaning more towards hardcore RPG.
Why did it suddenly become popular? Because GameFi is warming up in 2025, players are tired of simple 'raising pigs and running away' gameplay. Hero Chain directly packages cultivation + competition + earning, and collaborates with some traditional game studios to license on-chain hero IP for peripherals, mobile games, and even comics.
TVL surged into the top twenty, with the community daily posting images on X, drawing fan art, and debating which hero is the strongest. Hero Chain does not sell technology; it sells the 'chuunibyou' dream of becoming an on-chain superhero. The next explosive point in GameFi may very well be hidden among these heroes.