Welcome to our 201st newsletter on Star Atlas! This weekly newsletter, published by Aephia Industries, focuses entirely on the development of this ambitious game. Here, we attempt to aggregate all the newsworthy tidbits revealed, primarily by the team, throughout the past week.

It had been a relatively quiet week in Star Atlas, but the team did unveil a surprising new initiative, Iris’ Blessing. This six-month campaign introduces Double XP weekends and monthly raffles worth $5,000. Meanwhile, DAO voting for PIP 20 & 21 is open for a few more days, fresh INK rewards have been distributed, and preparations are underway for a community meetup in Bangkok during Gamescom Asia!

Let’s dive in!

Star Atlas - Iris' Blessing Campaing Poster

Star Atlas – Iris’ Blessing Campaign Poster

Iris’ Blessing

The (community) team has kicked off a brand-new, 6-month-long campaign to keep the community engaged with two activities:

  1. Double XP Weekends — Once a month, earn twice the amount of XP in UE5 while playing the officially designated Gunplay and/or Racing gamemodes. Double XP also means double the amount of INK earned. On top of that, soon the extra XP will also count towards your future z.ink airdrop!
  2. Monthly Raffles — On every second Friday of the month, the team will do a raffle where you can win $5k worth of prizes. You’ll have to claim tickets on Discord through the Sola qint bot, after which you will automatically participate in the raffles that follow with those tickets.

The double XP weekends speak mostly for themselves, but using the bot and earning tickets is a little more involved. Below, we provide a short how-to to get started:

  1. First, go to the #sola-qint-bot channel and click the Set Wallet button. Enter your Solana wallet.
  2. Next, go to the #daily-check-in channel to type !gm, and then type /claim followed by Iris Blessing. This should give you 1 and 100 tickets, respectively. Note that, instead of typing /claim, you can also use the Claim Code button in the #sola-qint-bot channel.
  3. Every day, head back to this last channel and type !gm. The number of tickets earned will steadily grow over time.
  4. When events take place, such as the Atlas Brew, Economic Forum, or Game Night, a code will be published that you can claim using the /claim command.
  5. Joining the raffle is fully automatic. You do not have to do anything for it.

Good to know: After every raffle, the tickets collected will be reset to 0 for the next month. This means everyone starts back from scratch after a raffle concludes.

Planning

The planning for the Double XP Weekends is as follows:

  1. October 24th, 2025 — October 26th, 2025
  2. November 28th, 2025 — November 30th, 2025
  3. December 26th, 2025 — December 28th, 2025
  4. January 23th, 2026 — January 25th, 2026
  5. February 27th, 2026 — March 1th, 2026
  6. March 27th, 2026 — March 29th, 2026

And here is the planning for the Monthly Raffles:

  • November 14th, 2025
  • December 12th, 2025
  • January 9th, 2026
  • February 13th, 2026
  • March 13th, 2026
  • April 10th, 2026

Star Atlas - Iris' Blessing - Prizes November 14th Raffle

Star Atlas – Iris’ Blessing – Prizes November 14th Raffle

Raffle Prizes

Every raffle will come with $5k USDC (VWAP) worth of Star Atlas assets. This means that the total prize pool over the next 6 months is $30k. Below is the prize pool for the first drawing on November 14th.

If you are curious about the prizes for the next months as well, the official Medium article by the team has a full list of all of these.

November 14th Prizes:

  • 10 Fimbul ECO Unibomba
  • 10 VZUS solos
  • 5 Fimbul Lowbie
  • 7 Crew Gold 5
  • 10 Crew Gold 1
  • 10 Crew Silver 5
  • 10 Crew Silver 1
  • 5 Crew Platinum 5
  • 5 Crew Platinum 1
  • 1 Busan Thrill of Life
  • 1 Calico Shipit
  • 1 Opal Rayfam
  • 1 Pearce R6

DAO Update

There are two PIPs open for voting for a few more days. If you’re a POLIS staker and you haven’t already, consider casting your vote before the deadline this Wednesday (end-of-day).

PIP-20

PIP-20: Establishment of the DAO Casters Program — Elected Content Creators for Star Atlas Ecosystem Promotion seems to get pretty overwhelming support. Here is the lowdown:

This proposal introduces the DAO Casters—a structured program of five elected content creators dedicated to promoting the entire Star Atlas ecosystem, including the DAO, the game, and broader community initiatives. DAO Casters will be elected through a formal election process (self-nomination, 1 STV round) as a once-off measure (any further extension of this program would require a new proposal). Each Caster will receive a monthly stipend of 360,000 ATLAS, plus an additional 360,000 ATLAS per month to fund giveaways, contests, and promotions. Caster responsibilities will include weekly content, monthly community livestreams, and regular collaborations. This program provides the ecosystem with consistent, engaging, and professional media representation.

  • Requested funding: 10.8 million ATLAS over 3 months
  • Structure: 1-off PIP
  • Author: Signal
  • Voting Closes: Wednesday, October 15th (end-of-day UTC)

Current state (~71M PVP committed):

  • For: 77.02%
  • Against: 22.69%
  • Abstain: 0.28%

PIP-21

The fate of PIP-21: Rogue Data Hub hangs by a thread! The community seems split 50/50 on whether this PIP should be approved. Here are the details:

We request $8,820 USDC for Year 1 from the DAO treasury to fund the Rogue Data Hub (RDH) — a community-operated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product that indexes, processes, and exposes on-chain Star Atlas data. ($2,100 initial, $6,720 yearly maintenance)

RDH ensures developers, DAOs, and community members have reliable, structured, and real-time data for dashboards, tax reports, visualizations, bots, and decision-support tools.

  • Requested funding: 8,820 USDC
  • Structure: 1-off PIP
  • Author: Lorddo & Solwalker
  • Voting Closes: Wednesday, October 15th (end-of-day UTC)

Current state (~91M PVP committed):

  • For: 50.60%
  • Against: 49.38%
  • Abstain: 0.02%

News Bits

Before we wrap this issue up, here are a few additional bits of news from last week:

  • The second batch of INK Claim airdrops went out last week. If you participated in any of the “official” UE5 matches, head over to your inventory to claim your INK!
  • The Z.ink Airdrop campaign testing has started with a few hand-picked community testers. Once that goes well, the team will update us on what’s next.
  • Holosim data is being cleaned up (removing alt accounts and those who did some “shady” stuff). Everyone’s main account will remain untouched. But all Alt accounts will be removed from the leaderboard. After this is done, rewards will go out.
  • There is a Community meetup taking place on October 18th in Bangkok, Thailand, during Gamescom Asia.

From the Engineering Bay

Chip (VP of Game Product) posted two new development updates this past week:

You’ve reached the end of this week’s issue. Thanks for reading!