Pirate Dice (BOOTY): What Happened — History, Status & Token Today

What it was

Pirate Dice was a yield farm on Polygon with small gambling games. Users staked liquidity tokens to earn BOOTY, which was used to bet in games such as Pirate Dice (with Chainlink VRF randomness), Captain's Coin (heads or tails) and Crown and Anchor. In the dice game, 5% of the BOOTY bet was set aside for burning.

Its roadmap also listed a single-asset BOOTY pool, an NFT treasure game and community governance of all contracts. The developer used the pseudonym “piratejeff” on GitHub and Telegram; we found no real names or company.

Timeline

1. 20 May 2021pirate-dice-contracts GitHub repository created; the X account dates from the same day. [11]
2. 1 Jun 2021Pirate Dice announces it is live on Polygon. [2]
3. 2 Jun 2021Roadmap published: staking pools, dice game, single-asset BOOTY pool, NFT treasure game, community governance. [18]
4. 3 Jun 2021Farm rewards start; the first BOOTY burn takes place. [3]
5. 5 Jun 2021Pirate Dice reports $1 million in total value locked. [4]
6. 7 Jun 2021Pirate Dice reports $5 million locked and a market cap above $2 million; a timelock with a minimum 4-hour delay becomes owner of the MasterChef contract. [5]
7. 7 Jun 2021BOOTY reaches its all-time high of $17.88. [15]
8. 8 Jun 2021Pirate Dice reports $8 million locked and 2,000+ Telegram members. [7]
9. 9 Jun 2021The Pirate Dice game launches. [8]
10. 10 Jun 2021Pirate Dice posts “Ride out the storm pirates!” with the hashtag #buythedip. [9]
11. 15 Jun 2021Dual BOOTY and DFYN reward pools go live on Dfyn. [17]
12. 17 Jun 2021Captain's Coin game launches. [10]
13. 1 Jul 2021Last post on the official X account: Crown and Anchor has been played 3,000 times. [1]
14. 29 Jul 2021Wayback capture: “Pirate Dice : Polygon Yield Farm and Dice Game”. [12]
15. 20 Apr 2022A Wayback capture still shows the Pirate Dice site. [13]
16. 19 Jun 2024Wayback capture: piratedice.xyz is listed for sale on Dan.com. [14]
17. 19 Oct 2026piratedice.xyz no longer resolves; BOOTY trades for about $0.0019 with a few dollars of daily volume. [15]

How it ended

Pirate Dice never announced a closure. Its X account stopped posting on 1 July 2021, about a month after launch and after the BOOTY price had fallen from its 7 June 2021 high. On 10 June the project had posted “Ride out the storm pirates!”.

The website was still online in April 2022. By June 2024 the domain was listed for sale, and in October 2026 it no longer resolved.

No official reason has been found.

Token today

BOOTY is a token on Polygon. CoinGecko's project description says rewards were 1 BOOTY per block and that total supply would be capped at 1,000,000. On 19 October 2026 the BOOTY contract reported a total supply of about 1,347,967 BOOTY. We found no documentation explaining the difference.

CoinGecko still lists a QuickSwap market. On 19 October 2026 BOOTY traded at about $0.0019, more than 99.9% below its all-time high, with a few dollars of daily volume. No official claim or migration process has been found.

Market and holder figures are snapshots from the date shown and change over time. This is not investment advice.