The year was 2500 AD. Humanity had transcended the limits of Earth, spreading colonies across the solar system. Yet, some things never changed: the desire to gamble, the allure of memecoins, and the immutable blockchain that powered them all.
In the neon-lit underbelly of Martian Station Theta, gambling wasn’t confined to dice or cards. Here, fortunes were won and lost in the digital ether, where Bitcoin ruled as the supreme currency. But alongside Bitcoin, a new craze had emerged: memecoins, digital currencies created as jokes but now the backbone of interstellar speculation.
The most infamous of these was ShibeX, a memecoin launched centuries earlier to commemorate a long-forgotten dog meme. Despite its origins, ShibeX had survived economic collapses, solar flares, and even the Great AI Uprising of 2347. It was now the preferred currency for "Holo-Pits," virtual gambling dens where avatars fought in simulated battles, stakes funded entirely by blockchain wagers.
At the heart of it all was The Infinite Bet, a legendary gambling AI said to run on a private fork of the Bitcoin blockchain. No one knew who created it, but rumors claimed it could predict markets, manipulate memecoin prices, and even alter the odds of Holo-Pit battles.
Zara Ray, a cybernetically enhanced gambler, had spent years searching for The Infinite Bet. After losing her family’s fortune in a disastrous ShibeX crash, she was desperate to uncover its secrets. She’d heard whispers of a high-stakes tournament on Titan’s moon base, where The Infinite Bet would appear to crown a new "Blockchain Overlord."