IDENTITY

There is no name field in Gauntlet. Wherever a player is named, the name is their wallet: 0x1a2B…9fD0, first six, last four, checksummed, monospace.

YOU ARE YOUR WALLET

Every surface that names a player shows the same identity: the kill feed, the in-game leaderboard, the season board, the chat, the global board. In the pit itself, your cell shows your live position instead of your name. Hover a name anywhere in the UI and the full address appears; click it and it is in your clipboard, ready for the block explorer.

WHY WE KILLED PSEUDONYMS

• Impersonation is structurally gone. A name you could type was a name anyone could type. Your display name is now derived by the server from the address that signed your entry; chat messages are stamped with it server-side. A client claiming to be someone else gets corrected, not believed.
• Reputation compounds. The wallet that tops the leaderboard is the wallet that mined the points, the wallet that claims at the vault, the wallet you saw eat three whales on Tuesday. One identity, verifiable everywhere, on-chain and in the pit.
• It reads like trading. Boards full of addresses and a pit full of live positions are honest about what this is: traders, on the record, hunting each other's collateral.
• One field less between you and the arena. Connect, stake, enter.