Yakkamon loses control of its X account, moves to a new handle

In Brief:

• Ronin said the @playyakkamon X account was compromised and told followers not to interact with any links coming from it.
• Yakkamon has abandoned the handle and now posts from @yakkamon_game, which the team calls its only X account.
• The takeover hit during Season 0 pre-registration, the sign-up that gates early access and a Monster NFT airdrop.

Ronin warned users that Yakkamon’s X account had been compromised, telling followers not to interact with any links from the account and saying it would let people know when the team regained control.

Yakkamon has since walked away from the handle entirely. The team says its official account is now @yakkamon_game, that the old account is no longer under its control, and that posts, links and messages from it should not be trusted. The old handle now returns X’s account-suspended notice.

Adam Hannigan, founder and CEO of developer Thought Farm, also told people not to click anything from the account, according to warnings circulating as the compromise spread.

What the team told players

Points are safe, the team said. Everything earned stays with the player, and an X account already linked to a Yakkamon profile keeps its weekly points.

X quests were pulled offline and are due to reopen on the site. When they do, players are being asked to reconnect and follow @yakkamon_game so the quest credits the right account.

The team listed three official channels and nothing else: yakkamon.com for the site, @yakkamon_game on X and docs.yakkamon.com for documentation.

Bad timing

The account went down in the middle of Season 0 pre-registration, which opened recently on Ronin with 3,000 first-come, first-served access codes set aside for the Ronin community.

Pre-registration is free and asks only for an email address. No wallet is required, and players don’t need a Sunflower Land (official site) account to sign up.

There’s no new token. Yakkamon uses $FLOWER, the same token across Thought Farm’s games, and depositing $FLOWER early earns pre-registration points. All of it can be withdrawn or spent in-game once a player gets access.

Everyone who signs up gets a Monster Egg, an in-game item rather than an NFT. The top 5,000 trainers on the points leaderboard receive a Monster NFT through the Trainer Point airdrop, and the top 1,000 receive Legendary Monster NFTs. Pre-registered trainers also get access to a free mint of 10,000 Monster NFTs on Ronin.

Early access opens in waves in Q4 2026, capped at the top 100,000 trainers on the leaderboard. That combination, a live points race with an NFT airdrop attached and a hard cap on who gets in, is exactly the kind of setup phishing operators target, because followers are already primed to click a claim link.

Who is behind the game

Yakkamon is a creature collector and idle farming game from Thought Farm, the Sydney studio Hannigan runs. He’s listed as CEO and founder as well as game designer and solution architect.

The studio started as a side project between three friends under the name Sunflower Farmers. The game went viral in January 2022 and congested Polygon for a week.

Sunflower Land, its current title, counts more than 1 million players and over 100 open source contributors across five years of open development. Yakkamon is the studio’s first game on Ronin.

One quest remains down for reasons unrelated to the hack. The Discord quest is temporarily disabled while the team reworks its reward structure, though points already earned stand and every other quest still works.

Yakkamon will never ask for a seed phrase or a private key, the team said. Pre-registration only ever asks for an email address.