Pentagon Chain

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Pentagon Chain: when a game publisher rebuilt its story around agents

Pentagon did not begin with an AI-agent constitution. It began with games, collectible characters and a reward machine. Chain 3344 later gave those experiments a shared ledger; the harder change was deciding what PC meant on each side of its bridge.

Before agents, there were bunnies and mining rounds

In June 2024 Pentagon Games described four layers: publishing, XR, AI tooling and its own EVM chain. The pitch was broad, but by November one concrete loop existed. NFT Mining Alpha let holders assemble up to nine BCSH, Oassy, Chainbunnies or Zombunnies assets and compete for reward blocks.

That system did not make the NFTs proof-of-work miners. It borrowed the language of hash rate and blocks for a probability game, with a reward schedule explicitly limited to about three months. This matters because the later PC story inherited a community and product trail rather than appearing as a blank chain.

Chain 3344 became the common stage

The present network identifies itself as a Polygon CDK zkEVM L2. Its RPC answers as chain 3344, and its explorer continues to produce blocks. Pentagon then placed games, an AMM, a bridge, identity tools and an NFT marketplace on the same fee rail.

Published contracts make part of that claim inspectable. Pentagon Identity names its token factory and PentaSwap contracts; PFP Vault names the marketplace used for signed trades. A working contract does not verify every adoption number, but it moves the story beyond a roadmap.

The project changed protagonists

The current homepage casts AI agents, rather than game players, as the network's central actors. PEG ID supplies names, ANIMA supplies agent-linked identity, AgentCert supplies capability badges and PC pays for actions. The same page links a Pentagon AI download and says the stack is complete, but the tokenomics document still calls the app's agent-orchestration role in development. The sources establish an app entry point but disagree about the completion of its newly described orchestration; they do not independently establish that those functions are finished.

Games did not disappear. Gunnies and Ether Fantasy are marked live, and BCSH Hero Squad Showdown beta. The product mix therefore records a pivot in emphasis: an existing entertainment stack is being reorganized as an agent economy, with uneven maturity across products.

Restricted bridge exits and manual exceptions

The official bridge terms describe deposited Ethereum PC as permanently locked in exchange for non-transferable platform credit, with no open self-service route back. Tokenomics §03 separately publishes manually administered exceptions: verified contributors may receive approved payouts in tokens or fiat, or temporary bridge-out access, after eligibility checks and any applicable balance deduction and platform fee. The team may also arrange refunds for accidental or unintended bridge-ins. These are case-by-case policies, not a general holder facility; holding PC alone creates no payout or bridge-out entitlement, and this review did not independently verify exception executions.

Zero founder allocation did not remove administrators

Pentagon says the million-token distribution has no founder or team allocation. Its own table nevertheless places large amounts in strategic reserve, infrastructure, partner, faucet and exchange-access wallets. Those pools have purposes, signers and policies; they are not the same as tokens already dispersed without operator influence.

At the review snapshot, the verified contract makes the remaining power concrete. A 2-of-3 Safe owns minting, maximum-supply changes and transfer toggling. The Safe itself, or a moderator it appoints, can freeze an address from both sending and receiving. The tokenomics document misdates the ownership transfer by one year; the transaction fixes it at 24 May 2026. That mismatch changes who controlled the token during the intervening year and makes the ledger the stronger date record.

How the project changed

  1. 2024-06-03
    Pentagon Games sets out four product layers

    The publisher describes distribution, XR, AI and Web3 around its own EVM chain.

  2. 2024-11-20
    NFT Mining Alpha launches

    Four NFT collections enter a probability-based reward game with 20-minute blocks.

  3. 2026-05-24
    The PC contract changes owner

    The deployment key transferred ownership to the Expansion Authority Safe. A separate current snapshot shows three owners and a two-signature threshold; it does not establish that historical configuration.

  4. 2026
    Tokenomics v1.0 separates token and credit

    Documents restricted bridge exits with manual exceptions, purpose-specific wallets and mutable supply powers.

Evidence and primary sources

Last evidence review: 2026-09-05

What is Pentagon Chain?

Pentagon Chain is the network catalogued as CoinGecko id `pentagon-chain`, ticker **PC**, and Ethereum contract `0xA1Aa371E450C5AeE7fff259cbF5ccA9384227272`. Its own RPC returns chain ID 3344. The public explorer was producing blocks and reported more than 4.67 million blocks, 1.50 million transactions and 917,000 addresses at the review snapshot. Those figures show an operating ledger; they do not prove that every address is an independent user.

The public trail begins with Pentagon Games, which described itself in June 2024 as a publisher combining games, NFTs, XR, AI tooling and a permissioned EVM chain. Its current site names Emma Liu and NFTProf as co-founders. The present catalogue puts Gunnies, BCSH Hero Squad Showdown and Ether Fantasy beside PentaSwap, PFP Vault, PEG ID, ANIMA and AgentCert. Product maturity is uneven: the games carry live or beta labels, and Pentagon's two current pages disagree on how much of Pentagon AI's new agent-orchestration role has shipped.

What problem does Pentagon Chain solve?

Pentagon's history creates a classification problem. The 2024 project sold a game-and-metaverse stack and rewarded NFT holders through a mining-style competition. The 2026 presentation calls the same infrastructure a sovereign home for AI agents. The chain is real, but the later story should not be projected backward onto every earlier game or reward.

The official bridge terms describe deposited Ethereum PC as permanently locked in exchange for non-transferable platform credit, with no open self-service route back. Tokenomics §03 separately publishes manually administered exceptions: verified contributors may receive approved payouts in tokens or fiat, or temporary bridge-out access, after eligibility checks and any applicable balance deduction and platform fee. The team may also arrange refunds for accidental or unintended bridge-ins. These are case-by-case policies, not a general holder facility; holding PC alone creates no payout or bridge-out entitlement, and this review did not independently verify exception executions.

How does Pentagon Chain work?

Live Ethereum calls show exactly 1 million PC outstanding and a current maximum of 1 billion. The verified code lets the owner mint up to that maximum, replace it with any number above the then-current supply, toggle global transfers and appoint moderators. Either the owner or a moderator can freeze an address; the same flag stops that address from both sending and receiving. On 24 May 2026—not 2025 as the tokenomics page states—the deployment key transferred ownership to Safe `0x5fBB…abAB5`. Its current configuration exposes three owners and a signing threshold of two.

The public allocation table describes the current 1 million across purpose wallets: 50,000 utility distribution, 50,000 agent faucet, 90,000 AI infrastructure, 50,000 partner/protocol provisioning, 85,000 trading interfaces, 270,000 strategic reserve, 95,000 exchange-access reserve, 50,000 bridge buffer, 16,991.39 deployment gas, and about 243,009 historical/bridge/open-market tokens. It calls founder allocation zero, yet most categories remain managed reserves or distribution programs. That is different from having no operator-controlled supply.

PC pays native gas on chain 3344 and is used by products with observable contracts. Pentagon Identity charges PC to create social tokens and publishes its factory, PentaSwap router and factory, and wrapped-PC addresses. PFP Vault publishes a marketplace contract and describes settlement on Pentagon Chain. Earlier, NFT Mining Alpha let BCSH, Oassy, Chainbunnies and Zombunnies compete in 20-minute reward rounds. The current homepage labels Gunnies and Ether Fantasy live and Hero Squad Showdown beta. It also offers a Pentagon AI download and calls the stack complete, while the tokenomics document calls its agent-orchestration role in development. A downloadable app does not by itself prove that the newly described agent functions are finished.

Key facts

  • Exact Ethereum identity: `0xA1Aa…7272`; native network: chain ID 3344.
  • Explorer evidence shows a live chain, while address and transaction counts are ledger metrics rather than verified people.
  • Current Ethereum supply is 1,000,000 PC; verified code initializes a 1,000,000,000 maximum.
  • The Safe owner can mint, replace the maximum with any value above total supply, and toggle global transferability.
  • The owner or an appointed moderator can freeze an address from both sending and receiving PC.
  • Ownership transferred to the Expansion Authority Safe on 2026-05-24; the tokenomics page incorrectly prints 2025. The separately observed current configuration requires two of three owners, without establishing the threshold on the transfer date.
  • The allocation page says 0% founder supply but assigns most supply to named operational and reserve wallets.
  • The bridge offers no general self-service exit; tokenomics separately describes manually approved contributor payouts and error-correction refunds.
  • Gunnies and Ether Fantasy are labelled live and BCSH Hero Squad Showdown beta; Pentagon AI has a download link, but its agent-orchestration role is still labelled in development in tokenomics.
  • PC holders receive no documented revenue, asset or voting claim; private partner agreements may contain different negotiated terms.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the exact PC token?

The Ethereum ERC-20 is `0xA1Aa371E450C5AeE7fff259cbF5ccA9384227272`; Pentagon Chain itself uses PC as native gas on chain ID 3344.

Is the chain operating?

Yes. Its RPC reports chain ID 3344 and its explorer exposes current blocks and aggregate activity. Those totals do not establish unique users.

Is PC capped at one million?

No. One million was outstanding at review, while verified code had a mutable one-billion maximum and owner-only minting.

Did founders receive zero PC?

The publisher reports no founder allocation. It also reports large purpose wallets under multisig or operational control, so the statement does not mean all supply is public or unmanaged.

Can bridged PC return to Ethereum?

No general self-service withdrawal is offered. Tokenomics §03 nevertheless describes approved contributor payouts in tokens or fiat or temporary bridge-out access, and possible refunds for accidental deposits. Eligibility, any balance deduction and fees, and team approval apply; holding PC alone guarantees neither payout nor return.

What has actually shipped?

The chain, explorer, bridge, social-token factory and marketplace expose live interfaces or contracts. The homepage labels two games live and one beta. It links a Pentagon AI app, but the tokenomics document still calls the new agent-orchestration role in development.

Can an administrator freeze PC?

Yes. The Safe owner and any moderator it appoints can freeze an address, blocking both outgoing and incoming PC transfers.

Does PC convey ownership or voting rights?

The public tokenomics page disclaims revenue, dividend, asset and voting claims. PC's documented role is gas and access, subject to platform terms after bridging.

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