When playing the popular first-person shooter game Ev.io, players may come across a fresh addition within the action-packed corridors: collectibles adorned with the distinctive logo of Solana's BONK meme token. These collectibles serve a purpose beyond mere decoration, as picking them up can reward players with millions of BONK tokens. However, there's a catch: to claim these tokens, players must have a specific NFT-based player skin equipped.

Ev.io, a competitive web-based shooter that recalls past hits like Halo and Quake, launched the in-game BONK event late Wednesday. As a teaser video shows, a player spots the floating BONK orb and picks it up, and then sees a bounty of 8 million BONK tokens added to their connected Solana wallet.

Although each token holds a value that is only a fraction of a penny, similar to the widely known Shiba Inu (SHIB) on the Ethereum blockchain, receiving 8 million BONK tokens currently equates to approximately $4. These tokens are given to players without any cost and are automatically transferred to their digital wallets, providing them with free cryptocurrency.

There is a twist to the situation: The token rewards are exclusively accessible to players who possess one of the BONK NFT character skins in the game built on the Solana blockchain. These unique digital assets are available for purchase on the secondary marketplace Magic Eden, with prices starting at 2 SOL (equivalent to approximately $41).

When Ev.io released its skins on May 18, the developers took to Twitter to announce that they would ultimately distribute billions of BONK tokens. Additionally, players who equip the BONK NFT skin will earn tokens for each kill they make. Ev.io prides itself as a play-to-earn game, where holders of its NFTs are already rewarded with SOL tokens for their in-game kills.

Decrypt attempted to contact Ev.io for further information on the matter but has not received an immediate response.