Derby Stars was a free-to-play NFT horse-racing and breeding game that operated across the Terra, Polygon, and Immutable ecosystems before announcing its termination on March 24, 2025, after unsuccessful attempts to secure further investment. Derby Stars's Twitter Score is 30 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #31,884 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Derby Stars was developed by Hypedream, which originally built the game for the Terra blockchain before migrating to Polygon following the Terra ecosystem collapse, an event that wiped out the entirety of its NFT-sale revenue and erased roughly one-third of its seed funding. The project raised a $6 million seed round announced on March 4, 2022, co-led by Patron and Galaxy Interactive, with additional participation from Hashed, Arrington Capital, Jump Crypto, and Mechanism Capital. The project was formerly incubated by UNOPND.
Derby Stars launched its $DSRUN token in August 2023, with listings on Bybit and trading availability through Uniswap. The game allowed players to breed, borrow, train, and race horses to earn rewards. When services were terminated in March 2025, Hypedream's CEO and project director Ham Seon-woo stepped down alongside the shutdown. Derby Stars has published 2,558 posts on the platform.
Derby Stars has been mentioned by 77 accounts, with 287 total mentions.
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Derby Stars has 83,631 followers as of August 2026 on the platform. The accounts that follow Derby Stars include 106 founders, 36 angel investors, 75 influencers and 10 VCs, among them Ansem, Andrew Kang, Andy, Ryan Wyatt, Michael Arrington and Do Kwon.