Wanaka Farm (WANA) isn’t just another crypto coin. It was built to be a play-to-earn farming game where you plant digital crops, grow NFT assets, and earn tokens just by playing. Launched on August 29, 2021, it rode the wave of the NFT gaming boom that swept through crypto in 2021. But today, it’s a shadow of its former self.
How Wanaka Farm (WANA) was supposed to work
The idea was simple: buy virtual land as an NFT, plant seeds, water your crops, and harvest WANA tokens. The more you played, the more tokens you earned. Players could also buy and sell farming tools, animals, and land plots on a marketplace-all powered by WANA tokens. It was designed to feel like a mobile game, but with real blockchain ownership. Your crops weren’t just pixels; they were NFTs stored on the Binance Smart Chain. The project raised $395,000 in its early crowdsale. That money went toward building the game, marketing, and locking up part of the token supply to prevent immediate dumps. At launch, the total supply was capped at 500 million WANA tokens. Today, nearly all of them-499,964,148-are already in circulation.WANA’s price history: From $6 to pennies
Wanaka Farm’s price tells a story of hype and collapse. Just weeks after launch, in September 2021, WANA hit an all-time high of $6.15. That’s not a typo. People were buying in, believing this was the next big play-to-earn hit. But the crash came fast. By November 2024, the price had sunk to $0.002708. That’s a 99.5% drop from its peak. Even the most optimistic projections from early 2024 now look like fantasy. Some sites still show inflated prices-like $0.005035-but those are outliers. CoinGecko, one of the more reliable trackers, lists it at $0.002476. The market cap? Around $1.6 million. That’s tiny. For comparison, Bitcoin’s market cap is over $1.2 trillion. WANA ranks #4576 out of all cryptocurrencies. Its daily trading volume is barely $20. That means if you tried to sell 10,000 WANA tokens, you’d likely crash the price. Liquidity is nearly nonexistent.Why did Wanaka Farm fail?
It wasn’t just bad luck. The project had structural problems. First, the tokenomics didn’t support long-term value. Players earned WANA by playing, but there was no strong demand for the token outside of buying more land or tools. No real-world utility. No partnerships. No way to spend WANA beyond the game itself. When players stopped playing, they had no reason to hold the token. Second, the game platform itself seems inactive. No updates since 2022. No new NFT drops. No social media engagement. The official website still loads, but the game doesn’t respond properly. The Discord server is quiet. Reddit threads about WANA haven’t been updated in over a year. Third, the broader market turned. The 2021 NFT gaming craze collapsed hard. Projects like Axie Infinity, which once had millions of players, saw user numbers drop by 90%. Wanaka Farm was one of hundreds of similar games that didn’t survive the correction. Investors moved on. Developers vanished.
Current market data: Confusion and red flags
The data on WANA is messy. CoinGecko says the price is $0.002476. CoinCodex says $0.005035. Why the difference? Because WANA trades on tiny, obscure exchanges with low volume. Prices are manipulated by small wallets. One person buying 50,000 tokens can spike the price for an hour. Technical indicators are all over the place. One site says the RSI is 4.71-deeply oversold. Another says there were 30 straight green days with zero volatility. That’s impossible if the price is dropping daily. These contradictions signal low liquidity and unreliable data. The Fear & Greed Index shows ‘Extreme Greed’-a sign that people are still buying based on hope, not facts. But with a 24-hour volume increase of +387%, it’s likely just a pump-and-dump cycle by a few traders.Can you still use WANA today?
Technically, yes. You can add WANA to your MetaMask wallet by pasting the contract address:0x339c72829ab7dd45c3c52f965e7abe358dd8761e. You’ll need BNB to pay for gas fees since it’s on Binance Smart Chain.
But what can you actually do with it? If you bought land NFTs during the launch, you might still see them in your wallet. But the game’s servers may no longer be running. There’s no way to plant crops, harvest tokens, or trade items. The ecosystem is frozen.
Even if you wanted to sell your WANA tokens, finding a buyer is hard. Most major exchanges don’t list it. You’d have to use decentralized exchanges like PancakeSwap, but the slippage is huge. You might lose 20% of your value just in transaction costs.
Is Wanaka Farm worth investing in now?
No-not if you’re looking for returns. Some sites claim you could turn $1,000 into $3,000 by March 2025. That’s pure speculation. No project with zero development, no updates, and a 99% price drop from its peak deserves that kind of optimism. The 302% ROI prediction is based on backward-looking charts, not real-world activity. If you’re holding WANA from 2021, you’re likely underwater. If you’re thinking of buying now, you’re betting on a resurrection that has no evidence behind it. No team has announced a comeback. No whitepaper update. No roadmap. Wanaka Farm is a cautionary tale. It wasn’t a scam-it was a project that had a good idea but no plan to sustain it. The token was never meant to be a long-term investment. It was a short-term hype play.What’s next for WANA?
Unless someone buys the project and rebuilds it from scratch, WANA will fade into crypto history. It could be revived if:- A new team takes over and rewrites the smart contract
- The game is rebuilt with real gameplay and token burn mechanics
- Partnerships are formed to give WANA real utility (e.g., NFT marketplaces, DeFi staking)
Comments
Ryan Hansen
Wanaka Farm was the perfect storm of 2021 crypto hype - cute concept, zero sustainability. I remember buying land NFTs thinking I’d retire by 2023. Turns out, planting digital corn doesn’t pay rent. The game never evolved, the devs ghosted, and now it’s just a digital graveyard with a token ticker. Sad, but not surprising. The crypto world eats its own.
Still, I kinda admire how it tried. Most projects don’t even bother making a game. They just mint tokens and run.
Now I just check the price once a year. Like visiting a ghost town. Still, the nostalgia hits.
Also, the fact that someone’s still pumping it at $0.005? That’s not optimism. That’s grief trading.
Carol Rice
WANA is the crypto equivalent of a high school prom dress you wore once and now can’t give away - still sparkly, but totally outdated, and everyone’s laughing behind your back.
People still buying this? Honey, you’re not investing. You’re performing a funeral ritual for your own FOMO.
And yet… I still have 12,000 tokens in my wallet. I can’t bring myself to sell. It’s like holding onto a broken toy from childhood. Emotional attachment > rational finance.
Someone please tell me I’m not alone.
Derayne Stegall
Broooooo WANA is DEAD 😭 but I still got my little NFT chicken in my wallet 🐔💸
Still believe in the dream. Maybe the devs are just taking a nap? 🤞
2025 comeback? I’m putting my faith in the blockchain gods 🙏✨
Grace Craig
One cannot help but observe the tragic arc of Wanaka Farm as a microcosm of the broader NFT gaming ecosystem’s ontological fragility. The project, while aesthetically charming, exhibited a fundamental lack of economic gravity - a token without utility is merely a digital trinket, a vestige of speculative fervor divorced from material value. The absence of developer engagement, coupled with the collapse of secondary demand, renders its continued existence not as an investment, but as an archaeological artifact of a bygone speculative epoch.
One might argue that its price fluctuations are symptomatic of micro-manipulation by opportunistic wallets - a phenomenon not uncommon in illiquid markets. Yet, to ascribe any enduring significance to such volatility is to confuse noise with narrative.
The real tragedy? The idea was not inherently flawed. It was the execution - or rather, the abandonment - that betrayed its potential. A cautionary tale for those who mistake novelty for durability.
Aayansh Singh
Are you people serious? Buying WANA now? You’re not investing, you’re donating to a scammer’s vacation fund.
Look at the contract - 499 million tokens in circulation. Zero burns. Zero utility. Zero devs. Zero future.
That ‘Extreme Greed’ indicator? That’s not market sentiment. That’s the last 12 people who didn’t get the memo.
Stop wasting your time. Go learn how to use Binance properly. Or better yet - go outside. The sun still exists.
Rebecca Amy
So… it’s dead? Cool. I knew that. I just kept it in my wallet for the memes.
Also, why does everyone act surprised? This happens every 3 months in crypto. Someone makes a cute game, people buy it, then they forget it exists.
Next up: ‘Crypto Cat Café’ - you feed cats, earn tokens, cats get mad.
Already got my NFT cat named ‘Regret’.
Kathleen Bauer
i still have my wana tokens 😅 i know its worth like 2 cents but i keep them like a little memory of when i thought i was gonna be rich 😂
also the game still loads if you click the right button on a sunday at 3am? maybe its haunted?
anyone else still check it every now and then just to see if the chickens moved? 🐔👀
Laura Lauwereins
They say the market is efficient. Then they sell WANA at $0.005 and call it a ‘buying opportunity.’
How is this not the definition of delusion wrapped in a chart? I admire the commitment to self-deception. Truly, a masterclass in emotional investing.
Also, the fact that CoinCodex still lists it at $0.005 while CoinGecko says $0.002? That’s not data inconsistency. That’s a psychological warfare tactic.
Someone’s got a bot running a 3am pump. And you’re the audience.
Nidhi Gaur
Wanaka Farm was cute, but no one thought about the burn mechanism. You earn tokens, but you can’t spend them anywhere. That’s like getting paid in Monopoly money.
Also, the devs didn’t even update the website after 2022? That’s not lazy - that’s disrespectful to the community.
India has 100 better projects right now. Why are we still talking about this?
Usnish Guha
You people are pathetic. You think a game with zero revenue model deserves to live? You’re not investors - you’re emotional hoarders. You keep WANA like a lucky charm because you’re afraid to admit you made a dumb decision.
There is no comeback. There is no revival. The blockchain doesn’t forgive stupidity.
Stop romanticizing failure. It’s not ‘nostalgia.’ It’s financial PTSD.
satish gedam
Hey everyone, don’t lose hope! WANA is not dead - it’s just sleeping 😊
Think of it like a seed in winter. The soil is cold, but the roots are still alive.
Maybe one day, a new team will come, rebuild the game, add staking, connect to DeFi, and make WANA useful again!
Until then, hold strong. Your patience will be rewarded. The crypto world loves a comeback story 💪🌱
And if you’re holding, share your wallet address - let’s build a WANA revival community!
rahul saha
Wanaka Farm… a poetic metaphor for human ambition in the digital age. We plant seeds of hope in blockchain soil, water them with optimism, and when the harvest fails, we blame the weather - not the fact that we planted in desert sand.
The token was never meant to be money. It was meant to be a mirror. And what it reflected was our collective hunger for magic in a world that no longer believes in it.
So yes, it’s dead. But isn’t it beautiful how we still whisper to its ghost?
Marcia Birgen
Okay real talk - I still have my WANA land NFTs. I don’t expect to make money, but I love the art. The farm designs were so cute. The chickens, the scarecrows, the little watering cans… it was charming.
Maybe one day someone will turn it into a static NFT gallery. Or a digital museum of failed crypto games.
Until then, I’m keeping it. Not as an investment. As art.
And hey - if you’re new here, don’t buy WANA. But if you already have it? Don’t panic. It’s not a loss. It’s a story.
Jerrad Kyle
Let’s not forget - Wanaka Farm was one of the first games to truly integrate NFTs into core gameplay, not just as skins or cosmetics. That was groundbreaking.
Yes, the tokenomics failed. Yes, the devs vanished. But the idea? It paved the way for what came after - like Alien Worlds, or Splinterlands.
They didn’t build a lasting empire. But they planted the first seed.
Respect.
Usama Ahmad
bro i just bought 50k wana for $120 last week
low cap = high potential right?
also the chart looks like a mountain climbing emoji 📈
we gonna be rich by 2025 😎
Nathan Ross
Wanaka Farm collapsed because it had no economic moat. No utility. No community governance. No roadmap. No team. No updates. No liquidity.
Its price trajectory was inevitable.
The only surprise is that anyone believed otherwise.
End of story.
garrett goggin
WANNA is a psyop. The entire thing was designed by a hedge fund to dump on retail. The ‘game’ was never real. The NFTs? Just NFTs. The ‘farming’? A front.
Look at the early whales - they all cashed out at $5.90.
The devs? Probably based in a basement in Manila with a fake LinkedIn.
And now? They’re quietly buying back the token on low-volume DEXs to create fake pumps.
They’re not trying to revive it. They’re trying to lure in the last 500 fools.
Don’t be one.
Bill Henry
so i just tried to open the wanaka farm site and it loaded but the game was just a black screen with a single chicken standing there…
it looked like it was waiting for me
i cried a little
then i sent 500 wana to a friend just to see if it would transfer
it did
so… it’s not dead. just lonely.
Jess Zafarris
They say ‘the market is a mirror.’
Wanaka Farm’s mirror is cracked.
And what it reflects isn’t failure - it’s the illusion of value.
People didn’t buy WANA because they believed in farming.
They bought it because they believed in getting rich without working.
That’s the real story here.
Not the token. Not the game.
Us.
jesani amit
guys i know it looks bad but listen - i’m from india and we’ve seen so many projects die and come back.
remember the crypto mining rigs that died in 2018? now they’re all back as AI farms.
maybe someone will buy wanaka farm’s code, fix the server, add a mobile app, and relaunch it as ‘Wanaka 2.0’.
it’s not over till the devs say it’s over.
and they haven’t said that yet.
so i’m holding. and i’m telling my friends to hold too.
patience, my brothers. patience.
Mike Gransky
WANA’s price is so low, I’m considering buying a whole bunch just to see if I can make the chart move.
Not to profit.
Just to prove it’s still alive.
Like flicking a light switch in an abandoned house.
nikhil .m445
Wanaka Farm is a joke. You people are wasting your time. Real crypto is Bitcoin. Real utility is DeFi. This? This is cartoon money.
Stop pretending this has value. You are not investors. You are children playing with fire.
Go learn about blockchain fundamentals before you waste more money.
Rick Mendoza
WANA is dead
move on
next
Shanell Nelly
Hey if you still have WANA - don’t feel bad! I held onto my first crypto purchase too - it was called ‘Dogecoin’ and I bought it for $0.0001.
It didn’t make me rich. But it taught me more than any course ever did.
Wanaka Farm was your crypto classroom.
Now go invest in something with a team, a roadmap, and a Discord that’s not dead.
You’ve earned it.
Astor Digital
My grandma asked me what WANA was the other day.
I told her it was a farming game from 2021.
She said, ‘Oh, like that one where you grow digital corn and get paid in funny money?’
I said yes.
She said, ‘Then why are you still looking at it?’
I haven’t checked it since.
Laura Lauwereins
Just saw a tweet from someone who bought 10 million WANA at $0.0025.
They’re calling it ‘the greatest bargain of the decade.’
Bro, you didn’t find a diamond.
You found a rock that used to be part of a statue.
And the statue? It’s in a landfill.