What's new

November 3, 2026

A rich list, sleeping giants and wake-ups

See who holds the most Garlicoin, which big piles of coins have slept for years, and hear it when one wakes up.

New

• Rich list: the 100 biggest Garlicoin addresses with their balance, share of all coins, worth in your currency and when they last moved, plus how many addresses hold at least 1, 10, 100 and up to a million GRLC. Counted from every block by our own node.
• Sleeping giants: the biggest balances that haven't moved in two years or more, and how long each has been asleep.
• Wake-ups: whenever coins at least a year old move, it's noted on the rich list, shown on the home page's Happening now and as a banner on Live blocks, plays a deep new sound on the chain radio, and gets its own card in TV mode.
• Your place on the rich list: the address checker and Your garlic now show any address's rank among all holders, how long its coins have been asleep, and whether it's a sleeping giant.

October 31, 2026

Score certificates, trophies, a garlic collection and the day's best game

Top games get a certificate of their own, Your garlic gains trophies, faucet streaks and a garlic collection, and the home page plays the day's best game.

New

• Score certificates: a game in the top 10 of its day gets a printable certificate with the player, the score, its place on the board and a garlic drawn from the game itself. Get yours from the link after posting, or from the Certificate button when watching a game.
• Holiday hats: the garlics in Flappy Garlic, Garlic Run, Super Garlic and Garlic Golf wear a pumpkin in October, a Santa hat in December, and more on other holidays.
• Faucet certificates now say when a roll was special: a lucky roll, a holiday treat, or a roll doubled by a holiday or a happy hour.
• The home page plays back the day's best game, without sound, with a link to watch it properly or play it yourself.
• Chain radio: listen to Garlicoin. Every new block rings a little tune drawn from its hash, each mining pool on its own instrument, and faucet rolls, game scores and Block Lotto entries play along. Leave it on in a tab.
• Every block has a song: hear any block's tune on the radio and download it as a ringtone, from Live blocks, Adopt a block or a faucet certificate.
• Block fortunes: every block cracks open a fortune, shown on Live blocks with the fortune of the day.
• TV mode: a full-screen view for a spare screen or a stream, with the newest block's garlic, the clock since the last block, what's happening on the site and, if you like, the radio's sounds. The next block bakes in an oven while you wait.
• The Block Lotto draw is now a live show on the radio and TV mode: a countdown in blocks, a drumroll, then the winner with a fanfare and confetti.
• Stream and website widgets: put TV mode in OBS (with a see-through background if you like), or add a Happening now ticker or a little radio player to your own site, from Badges and widgets.
• New blocks now show up within seconds on Live blocks, the radio and TV mode.
• Your coins' story: enter an address and follow its oldest coin back, hop by hop, to the block where it was first mined, with each block's garlic and song along the way.
• Block haiku: every block now has a little haiku as well as its fortune, on TV mode, the radio and Live blocks.
• In December, gentle snow falls on the site, in TV mode and the radio's sky, and on the loaves on Live blocks (switch it off in the footer).

Garlicoin Wallet

• Sender jingles: with sound on, every address that pays you plays its own little tune, so regular senders sound familiar. Tap ▶ Jingle in a payment's details to hear one.
• Savings and savings jars show their value in your currency too.
• Clove grows up with you: a baby sprout in a new wallet, then a bulb, a plump bulb and a braided bulb as the weeks go by, with a sparkle for a faucet streak. Away for a while? Clove dozes off and is happy to see you back.

Your garlic

• Trophies on Your garlic: every top-10 game, lucky roll and holiday treat, each with its certificate, and a ▶ to watch your best games.
• Your garlics: every faucet payout grows a garlic from the block that holds it, and so does every top-10 game. Collect them all and look out for the rare golden, black and twin ones.
• Faucet streaks: roll on days in a row to build a streak, shown after each roll and on Your garlic.

October 30, 2026

Watch any high score, holiday faucet days, and what's happening now

Every game's high scores can now be watched move by move, the faucet celebrates holidays, and the home page shows what people are doing on the site right now.

New

• Watch the game behind a high score: on every game's board, scores with a ▶ open a replay of that exact game, at 1×, 2× or 4× speed, ending with a check that it reached the same score. Try it on Clove Crush.
• Scores are now checked before they go on the boards: the server plays each posted game again from its moves and only accepts the score it gets itself.
• Holiday faucet days: on Halloween, Christmas, New Year's Day, Garlicoin's birthday (January 21), Valentine's Day and National Garlic Day, every faucet roll pays double, and some rolls are a treat worth 10 to 18 times the roll.
• "Happening now" on the home page: the latest faucet rolls, game scores, Block Lotto entries, wall messages and new garlic names, as they happen.

Garlicoin Wallet

• Choose light or dark in the wallet's settings, or keep it following your device.
• Clove, the wallet's mascot, dresses up for the holidays.

October 23, 2026

Your garlic, this week in Garlicoin, and an easier site on phones

One page for everything about your address, a weekly round-up on the home page, and a layout that fits phones better.

New

• Your garlic: type your address or @name to see its balance, garlic names, faucet rolls, Block Lotto days and wins, your best game scores and what you paid for on this site (wall messages, names, adopted blocks and more), with what to try next.
• The Garlicoin Wallet home screen links to Your garlic for your wallet's address.
• The home page has a "This week in Garlicoin" card: blocks found, what the faucet paid out, Block Lotto winners, new garlic names and the week's best scores.
• No address yet? The faucet now offers a free wallet first. The wallet's Faucet button brings you back with your address filled in.

Easier to use

• On phones, Start, Faucet and Price sit in a bar at the bottom of the screen, so the four menus at the top are easier to tap. Game pages keep the old layout, so the bar never covers a game.
• Languages are now in a globe button in the header, on every page that has translations.
• On phones the site map at the bottom of each page folds into five headings you can tap open.
• The home page links each place once, and the games grid ends with a tile for all 16 games.

October 22, 2026

A clearer home page, and fewer pages to hunt through

The home page now starts with what you came for, a few pages that covered the same ground are now one, and the site is quicker to load.

New

• The home page has three ways in: get some GRLC, use it, or get paid in it. Below them, what's happening right now: the price, today's Block Lotto and the latest on the wall.
• Get paid in GRLC puts every way to take payments on one page: a payment screen, selling a file or code, stickers, badges, and getting your shop listed.
• The home page and How to get GRLC are now in Spanish, Portuguese, German and French. The links at the bottom of every page go to the home page in each language.

Pages that moved

• Redeeming a gift card is now part of Got a gift card?, with the wallet and Garlicoin Core steps underneath.
• The halving countdown is on Supply and halvings, and the tip badges are on Badges and widgets. The old addresses still work.

Around the arcade

• Bread Kart sits right after Clove Squadron in the Play menu and on the Play page.

Faster

• Each page now loads only the styles it uses, so a first visit downloads much less, and the offline copy of the tools is fetched only once you visit them.

October 21, 2026

Bread Kart

A new kart race in full 3D through Crust City by night, and Clove Squadron moves to the top of the games.

Bread Kart

• Bread Kart is the GRLC GP: three fast laps of a Crust City street circuit by night, past neon towers, coin billboards and packed grandstands, through a tunnel and off a ramp, with GRLC Tower and its searchlights over everything.
• Race five bread rivals, each with their own style: Baguette is quick on the straights, Croissant drifts everything but slips up, Pretzel loves the twisty bits, Bagel never gets flustered and Toast is new in town.
• Drift through a bend until the sparks turn blue, then orange, then pink, and let go for a mini-turbo. Boost pads and the ramp give you more speed.
• Collect the GRLC: spinning Garlicoins line the track, each worth points and a little burst of speed. They're points for the board, not real GRLC.
• Play it your way: on a phone the kart drives itself and you drag to steer, upright or sideways; with a mouse the pointer steers and a click drifts; or use the arrow keys or a gamepad.
• A fly-over of the track before your first race, its own soundtrack with a volume slider that remembers your setting, and fireworks with a giant coin when you win.
• Daily and all-time high scores, listed on the Play page. Add ?practice to the address for a quick race that never goes on the board.

Around the arcade

• Clove Squadron is now first among the games in the Play menu and on the Play page, right after the Block Lotto.

October 21, 2026

Small fixes

Two things visitors spotted.

Fixes

• The Block Lotto page shows the draw's entry count live. It could lag a few minutes behind, so right after entering from the faucet you might see one entry fewer there than the faucet told you.
• On phones, the German lotto page's address box hint is no longer cut off.

October 20, 2026

Easier to use on phones and keyboards

A pass over every page: bigger tap targets, pages that hold still while they load, numbers in your own language's format, and clearer messages when something goes wrong.

Home, the faucet and the lotto

• The "Get free GRLC" box on the home page now takes your @name as well as an address.
• The faucet says plainly how often you can roll ("One roll per 8 hours from this connection") instead of showing your IP address, and refreshing it after a roll no longer offers to resend the form or tells you that you already claimed.
• On phones, the Block Lotto entry box sits right under today's prize, and after you enter it tells you when to come back for the result, in your own time zone.
• Old garlicoin.org/price links now open the price and market page.
• The home page leaves out the Marketplace and shop directory tiles while they're empty; they come back by themselves as soon as something is listed. The empty shop directory has an "Add your shop" button, and a marketplace search with no results says so.

Phones and keyboards

• Menus, footer links and buttons are bigger and easier to tap on phones.
• Pages hold still while they load instead of jumping around: home, price, uptime, the games, @name pages, the faucet books, halving, activity, lotto, the State of Garlicoin report, receipts and the tipbot page.
• If you use the keyboard, you can always see which box or button you are on, including the Buy/Sell choice on the price page.
• The amount box on Send GRLC by link is a proper full-size box, and address boxes on the address checker, tip badges and certificates fit on phone screens.

In your language

• On the Spanish, Portuguese, German and French pages, numbers and prices use your language's format (5.566,92 GRLC, 0,0108 $), and the price box is fully translated.
• The language picker fits on one line on phones.

Clearer messages

• A page that isn't found now offers a search box, already filled in with what you were looking for.
• Trying to send from an empty Garlicoin Wallet tells you how to get coins.
• An @name page for a name that can't be registered points you back to the name search.
• The gift card guide starts with the quickest way, claiming the card in your browser in about a minute, and the claim page explains that an empty card may not have been loaded yet.
• Clearer menu names: "Track a transaction" and "History of Garlicoin".

October 20, 2026

Clove Squadron, and a livelier arcade

A new shoot-'em-up with its own soundtrack, music and effects across the other games, and a fairer supporter badge.

Clove Squadron

• Clove Squadron is a new shoot-'em-up with a garlic clove for a fighter. Fly four stages (the breakfast table, the wheat fields at sundown, Crust City by night and the great oven), beat eight bosses, then go round again, harder.
• Your guns fire by themselves, so you just fly and dodge. Drag on a phone, move the mouse (the fighter stays right under the pointer, and a click drops a bomb), use the arrow keys, or plug in a gamepad.
• An original soundtrack, with a theme for every stage and every boss.
• In Crust City you kick up a gear every ten seconds or so, until towers are whipping past the canopy and the music is racing, then brake hard as GRLC Tower rises for the boss.
• Shoot a boss down and its bullets turn into gold cloves for you to collect. Chains, grazes and a tally at the end of each stage add to your score.
• The first time round is fair for most players: an extra life at 40,000, 100,000, 200,000 and 350,000 points, then every 200,000. The second time round is the real test.
• Beat all four stages and you get a victory lap before round two: fireworks over Crust City, a shower of gold cloves to fly through, the title theme as a victory tune, your loop's numbers and a bonus, plus an extra ship and full bombs for what comes next.

Around the arcade

• Every game opens on the new garlicoin.org Arcade title screen.
• New music for Flappy Garlic, Clove Catcher, Bread Breaker, Hash Sniper, Whack-a-clove and Clove Crush, and a calm tune for Garlic Golf and Garlic 2048. M turns sound and music off in every game.
• Bursts, score pop-ups and punchier sounds throughout, and a "New best!" badge when you beat your record. Screen shake and flashes stay off if your device is set to reduce motion.
• Play Garlic 2048 with the mouse: drag across the board to slide the tiles.
• Fixes: the Sound button in Bread Beat now mutes the song, and the song no longer stutters as it starts. In Super Garlic, the garlic stands still instead of jittering. Clove Crush pieces no longer fall in over the score. Music comes back when you return to a game's tab.
• Several games run noticeably smoother, Clove Crush and Bread Beat most of all.
• On the high-score boards, a name that matches a garlic name links to that name's page.

Play your way

• Every game's title screen, and its card on the Play page, says how to play on the device you're using. Enter or Space on the game-over screen plays again.
• Super Garlic works with just a mouse: the garlic runs toward the pointer and a click jumps (hold it for a higher jump). It has a Pause button too, scrolls more smoothly, and moving trays no longer jump at the start of a level.
• Clove Crush, Garlic Golf and Whack-a-clove can be played with the keyboard, and a Golf putt let go outside the game still counts.
• Games pause when you switch tabs and wait for you to come back; Bread Beat's song picks up in time.
• In Garlic Dash 3D a swipe changes lane straight away, and if your browser has 3D graphics switched off it says so and points you to other games.
• Flappy Garlic: holding Space no longer flaps by itself. Clove Squadron: M mutes the sound and music together, and Select does on a gamepad. Touch-screen laptops get the on-screen game buttons after a tap.

Garlic names, the faucet and the lotto

• A supporter badge now lasts as long as you pay for: 60 GRLC is a year, 30 is six months, and any amount from 5 to 600 GRLC counts day by day.
• You can type a garlic name without the @ (just gary) in the faucet, the Block Lotto and the wallet's Send, and it finds the name.
• One day in 60, the Block Lotto pays a 100 GRLC jackpot instead of the usual prize.
• Pressing Enter in the lotto before the robot check has finished loading now tells you to tick the box, instead of doing nothing.

October 19, 2026

A smoother wallet and clearer books

Lots of small improvements to the wallet and around the site.

Garlicoin Wallet

• A back button at the top left of every screen, and settings grouped into your key, your coins and preferences.
• The daily lotto shortcut says whether you're in today and how long until you can enter again.
• Your lotto history on the home screen: days entered, wins and GRLC won.
• The wallet opens faster, with a little loader while it gets ready.
• Install app keeps working if you dismiss it the first time.
• 12 new badges (the faucet, the lotto, garlic names, the marketplace and more), progress toward the ones you're working on, and a Share button that turns any badge you've earned into a picture.
• Pay again on a past payment opens Send with the same person, amount and note filled in.
• Split a bill on Receive: enter the total and how many people are sharing, and send everyone one request link for their share.
• New wallets get three quick tips from Clove (and Settings can show them again).
• Block Lotto winners get a "You won!" notification, and there's an optional reminder an hour before the draw closes, only on days you haven't entered (Settings, under notifications).

Around the site

• Search: the magnifier at the top of every page (or press /) finds pages and games, and goes straight to an address, a transaction, a block or an @name you paste in.
• The faucet page loads much faster: the captcha waits until you start on the form.
• Yesterday's Block Lotto winner on the home page.
• Marketplace listings show their photo when you share the link.
• The faucet's open books split payouts into faucet rolls, lotto prizes and network fees, and say how the runway is worked out.
• Higher-contrast text and links, and a clear outline on whatever has keyboard focus.
• Start here and How to get GRLC are rewritten around the wallet, and Verify a message is in the menu.

October 19, 2026

The Garlicoin marketplace

Buy and sell things for GRLC, with no middleman holding the money.

What's new

• The marketplace: list anything legal from the Garlicoin Wallet with up to 4 photos, and browse, search and buy here. Your wallet is your account, so there's nothing to sign up for.
• Deposit escrow for shipped items: the buyer puts in the price plus a deposit and the seller adds a deposit, in one transaction to an address that needs both of them to sign. When it arrives, the buyer releases the payment and both deposits come back. Until they agree, nobody can move the coins, not even us.
• Or pay on pickup, on delivery, or up front, straight from wallet to wallet.
• Messages between buyer and seller are encrypted in their wallets, so only the two of them can read them (shipping addresses included).
• Ratings come only from finished trades, and wallet notifications tell you about new orders, messages and payouts.
• Every listing has a report link, and the marketplace rules say what can't be sold.

Also new

• In the wallet, opening a gift link you sent shows whether it was claimed, and you can take it back right there.
• The uptime page no longer counts our own node's restarts against the community light wallet servers.

October 16–19, 2026

The big rebuild

garlicoin.org grew from a faucet and a bootstrap download into a home for everything Garlicoin. It's all free to use, and nothing here holds your coins: keys stay in your browser, and payments go straight to the address they're for.

A wallet in your browser

• Garlicoin Wallet (beta): make a wallet in seconds. Your key is created and encrypted on your device and never sent to us.
• Send to an address or a @name, pay several people at once, scan QR codes, make gift links, and receive on classic or SegWit (grlc1) addresses.
• Unlock with your fingerprint or face (passkeys), get a notification when you're paid, and set price alerts.
• A price line on the home screen, the network fee in your currency, and an extra check before large payments.
• Contacts, notes, payment details, CSV export, combine small coins, and a backup file that keeps your contacts and notes too.
• If the servers can't be reached, the wallet still shows your last known balance and activity.

Free GRLC and games

• The faucet starts right on the home page, speaks plain English, has a 1 in 1,000 jackpot of 10 GRLC, sponsored happy hours, and open books showing where its coins go.
• Block Lotto: a free daily draw where a block's hash picks the winner, and this site re-checks the result in your browser. Enter straight from the faucet.
• 13 games with high-score boards, from Super Garlic and Clove Crush to Garlic Dash 3D and Flappy Garlic.
• Garlic of the block: every block gets its own garlic art, with seasonal editions (it's Halloween right now).
• Retired along the way: Oven Clicker, Breadris, Garlic Garden and Garlic Roulette.

Spend it and get paid

• The Garlicoin wall: messages written into the blockchain for 1 GRLC, with replies, pins, and shout-outs on Live blocks and Block Lotto. The fees go to the faucet.
• Garlic names: garlicoin.org/@you, a link-in-bio page with a QR code and tip buttons. A name works anywhere you'd type an address.
• Proofs that timestamp a file on the chain, and claim a block for yourself.
• Sell a file or code for GRLC, paid straight to your own address.
• Where to spend GRLC, a directory of shops that take it, and printable pay-with-GRLC stickers.
• Website widgets, tip badges and a payment screen for taking GRLC in person.

Handy tools

• Printable gift cards, send GRLC by link, and claim a gift card or paper wallet right in your browser.
• The address checker shows balances, plus Where's my transaction? and Found an old wallet?
• Vanity addresses, and signing or verifying messages.
• How to get GRLC, and a step-by-step guide to redeeming a gift card with Garlicoin Core.

Price and network

• The price straight from the exchanges (FreiExchange and FreiXLite), with order books, a what-would-it-really-cost calculator, a year of history, and 14 currencies.
• Network status with a node map, live blocks, uptime, activity and mining charts, a halving countdown, and a monthly State of Garlicoin.
• For builders: a free data API with live README badges, a transaction decoder, a developer reference, a node guide and the chain bootstrap.

For everyone

• In Español, Português, Deutsch and Français: Start here, the faucet, Block Lotto, gift claims, the redeem guide, Spend and Price, and the wallet.
• Dark mode, installable as an app, and faster pages: the captcha now only loads where it's needed.
• A privacy page listing exactly what our server keeps, and terms of use.
• Every page is now checked automatically each day, and browsers report script errors, so problems get fixed before anyone has to tell us.