everest poker had a similar system where you could join a free tournament and win a small prize like 2-10 usd, then you could join the next tier on the tournaments like 2-5 usd entry and win a bigger prize, maybe 2x-10x the entry amount,
I've heard of people who build up from there and now live off playing poker only
would be interesting to see that with crypto options as well
Every poker site has this feature (freerolls). The main problem is if the site doesn't have much players to play. So there will be not much sense in freerolls, because tiers above (with bigger buy in) will be empty or close to it. This what is SwC looks like now (and semi-empty cash tables)
probably crypto-only websites are way more niche than the big ones like everest and pokerstars, right?