From the emergence of encrypted trading cards in 1993 to the outbreak of GameFi in 2021, to sort out the historical development of NFT, there are four main stages.

In terms of the industrial structure, there is still a lot of room for casting at the infrastructure layer of NFT; and the vigorous development of NFT is mainly reflected in the protocol layer in the middle, and mainly art/collection casting; at the application layer, the development is relatively uneven For example, in the field of NFT data, a comprehensive data provider has not yet appeared. As more and more eyes focus on the NFT track, the NFT industry map will be pieced together at a faster pace.

From the perspective of various data latitudes, compared with the overall level of 2020, the NFT market has now achieved a big step. This shows that in this round of craze, user participation has continued to deepen, and the entire market has begun to reassess the value of NFTs.

The biggest difference between "Play-to-Earn" and the traditional Internet game "Free-to-Play"-in the focus economy, users should receive corresponding rewards: the time and labor paid are also assets, which are part of personal wealth. When the game becomes a bridge linking up and down the chain, this value can be reflected in reality.

In the context of "GameFi", NFT has become a productivity tool. It not only produces value (SLP / AXS), but also carries value condensed in labor (Axie NFTs), and changes production relations through the flow of chains ( Game developers, guilds and players).

In the world of three-dimensional chain-network integration and meta-universe, NFT is not only an extension of real assets, but also the starting point of native virtual world assets. It will also become a "token" representing identity, assets, rights and interests, and various attributes.

When discussing the future direction of NFT, we found several exploration directions: the application of NFT in the DeFi space; the combination of DAO and NFT; the growth space of NFT infrastructure tools.

The infrastructure layer includes the underlying public chains such as ETH, Flow, Polkadot, NEAR, EOS, Solana, side chains/L2 such as Polygon, ENJIN, WAX, RONIN, iMMUTABLE, etc., token standards such as ERC-721, ERC-1155, and development Tools, storage, wallets, etc.

The protocol layer is divided into NFT casting protocol and primary market. They are: a comprehensive trading market (Mintable, VIV3, Mintbase, etc.) that can trade a variety of physical objects (Mintable, VIV3, Mintbase, etc.) Art/collection-based casting (CryptoPunks, NBA Top Shot) , Bored Ape Yacht Club, etc.) and primary market (Makersplace, Rarible, etc.) NFT games (Axie Infinity, Gods Unchained, Alien Worlds, Sorare, etc.) Meta universe (Cryptovoxels, Decentraland, The Sandbox, etc.) ) And fan economy (BitClout, Rally, etc.).

In the beginning, Gameland only focused on the development of NFT lease agreements and community DAOs in the game market, and was committed to providing users with the lowest experience threshold to participate in different chain game products.

Our original idea was to use "experience" innovation to leverage the blockchain game service market, and it hasn't changed since then.

In three months, Gameland has launched two versions of the lease protocol, which has won the attention and support of many users. While developing the technology, Gameland has also established a game community and game guild, and the game guild has also officially recruited for the Southeast Asian market, and many users have signed up to participate.

At the same time, Gameland carried out an overall technical architecture update in the original lease agreement, integrating the Ethereum agreement of ERC-1155 and EIP-2615. As a result, Gameland has evolved from the initial lease agreement to a chain game infrastructure platform that integrates game NFT distribution and rental and sales. Provide a low-gas loss and high-expansion infrastructure platform for the development of chain games.

Let's introduce in detail what kind of ultimate experience the innovative Gameland can bring to users:

1.Scalable Distribution Protocol for Game NFT

One smart contract, multiple tokens

Gameland provides a standard contract interface that can manage multiple tokens. Game producers can issue and manage any number of homogeneous tokens, non-homogeneous tokens or semi-homogeneous tokens by deploying only one contract.

An ERC-1155 standard game contract can consist of a large number of items or components, representing everything from weapons to armor to health and mana. All of these items or components are repeatable, and you can get more than one. Repetitive tokens are often used as splittable currencies (most ERC-20 tokens), and repetitive tokens are very useful for stackable items (they do not need to be distinguished), such as a bow with a barrel of arrows.

Another type of token is called non-repeatable tokens (NFTs). This structure allows each token to have its own unique parameters, history and mapping to the real world. A pet dragon in a video game can be an NFTs that has its own unique name, level and history in the game.

Scalable metadata

No more old-fashioned metadata

Symbol: (invented by ERC20 and ERC-721 standards) is no longer included because it is no longer part of the data related to the data of virtual items/assets. This three-letter symbol can be normally used in reports or currency transactions, but they are no longer useful when tokenizing general items (components).

Name: The name has also been removed from the current core standard. Why? In many applied scenarios, storing a name on the blockchain is a luxury. As an alternative, the name of each token can now be defined in the json metadata standard.

ID replacement

By using the replacement string "{id},", an ERC-1155 contract can point to an unlimited number of token URIs without storing any additional data on the link. For each pass, this replacement can even be used to point to a web service with a dynamic host that can be generated from the pass json. This replacement string itself can also be used in json itself to automatically link the icon of each token. This greatly reduces the overhead for developers to display the metadata of a large number of types of tokens.

Localization

Since the pass information is defined in json format, it makes it possible to localize by using {locale} to support multiple languages. Wallets or software that support multiple languages can now display alternate versions of token names, images, or other data.

Guaranteed log tracking

As the Ethereum ecosystem continues to grow, many dapps rely on traditional database and browser API services to obtain and classify data. The ERC-1155 standard ensures that event logs triggered by smart contracts can provide enough information to create an accurate record of all current token balances. A database or browser can monitor events to provide indexable and categorizable queries for each ERC-1155 token in the contract.

Smart contracts no longer need to store the index of each token ID, and these IDs do not need to be serialized in any way.

This is a complete separation of enumeration (the ability to browse all the tokens on the chain), but it brings a huge improvement in efficiency, and even allows a complete standardization of each token's additional issuance, burning, and transactions. record. This standardized method has not been implemented until today, and it can benefit some ecosystems through in-depth data analysis of the token and a large number of holders.

Imagine that you can quickly advance or retreat in completely different ERC-1155 token time, usage analysis mode, and life cycle, regardless of which smart contract is parsed.

Token owners can obtain more information about their assets, such as the precise moment when their token is issued. And in the future, more tools will be developed, and they can provide more useful references for companies that build such skills.

NFT can be nested mode (NFT can be combined)

Any item Token owned by the player can be combined and packaged into a "Token package", which also has its own independent id. The concept sounds a bit abstract. In fact, under this mechanism, game developers can easily implement gameplay such as equipment upgrades and perforated gems. Let’s compare the diamond-encrusted mechanism in the dark, a weapon with two holes, and Two perfect gems, these are three tokens. When we embed these two gems into a weapon, it becomes a token bag—that is, a new weapon.

At the same time, this mechanism can also simplify complex transactions. For example, if player A and player B want to trade 20 items, if one transaction requires 20 transactions, if 20 item tokens can be packaged, only one transaction is required. After the transaction is unpacked, the efficiency and experience are improved a lot. A simpler understanding is to pack things into a backpack and trade all the items in the backpack at once.

If you want to form the basic form of the meta universe. We must need a standard that can completely simulate real-world objects. This standard needs to be able to map the attributes of real-world items to the blockchain, such as the functional combination and splitting of items (different from sharding), and changes in the properties and attributes of the items (the item itself remains unchanged, but the attributes change) . Even the function of items over time (weathering, rusting, decay). Once these magical features on the blockchain can be truly born, then this will also signify that the purpose of all combinations and splits is to produce more valuable and powerful NFTs. This value is not just the way NFTs are combined. (Two NFT combinations, the value is superimposed, 1+1=2 or 1+1=2.5), and more is how to combine valuable things to produce the following effects.

The combination and splitting of NFTs is not to allow more people to own expensive NFTs, but to allow NFTs to produce unique functions due to disassembly and assembly. The purpose of splitting the Gundam is to upgrade its components to obtain a cooler and more powerful Gundam, instead of just splitting the Gundam into several pieces with a knife to sell. Combining the sailfish electromagnetic gun with the Gundam is not for packaging and selling. It is for Gundam to have more powerful weapons against the enemy. (Note that the most important point of the demolition agreement is that the purpose of the demolition agreement is to enhance the NFT attributes and value, so the upgrade logic is the most important part of the demolition agreement.) The NFT demolition agreement gives each NFT component Meaning, also gives meaning to each assembled NFT component. As the formula expresses, the use value of NFT is maximized by the split agreement, and the value of new products assembled by NFT is increased, rather than just speculating prices.

Bundled transactions

With ERC-1155, you can send multiple items to one or more recipients at one time using only one transaction, which can effectively reduce Gas fees and Ethereum's congestion.

The functions Transfer, approve, melt and trade can accept variables in the form of arrays, allowing users to complete 100-200 batch operations in one currency transaction.

In summary, ERC-1155 combines the characteristics and advantages of ERC-20 and ERC-721. Developers can create thousands of different types of props for their games. According to needs, each item can have its own independent id or can be homogenized like ERC-20 tokens.

2.Game rental and sales platform

The current chain game market still lacks a role. That is a platform that can be rented and rented out. Players can rent out idle items to others to obtain stable income. The precious game items owned by game players can be leased to obtain passive income without having to sell them. At the same time, game players can also greatly reduce the cost of using game props, no need to purchase, only need to rent game props.

Gameland is an integrated distribution platform for rent and sale. After game manufacturers use the agreement to issue NFTs, they can choose to sell NFTs directly on the Gameland platform. Community users can obtain trading opportunities in the primary market through the platform. Game NFT can also get a quick marketing opportunity.

For idle NFT products, users can choose a passive income model, which is the leasing model. In the chain game ecology, players have idle game NFT equipment, and they can rent out the service through the Gameland platform to revitalize the idle resources to earn additional funds.

By lowering the price, time and other thresholds, gamers' acceptance of the scarce attributes of high-value accounts is improved, and a better gaming experience is obtained; at the same time, many krypton players can also use the "sharing" mode to revitalize account assets and reflect account returns value.

Game asset leasing can be said to be a subversive creation, which not only allows asset owners to realize game revenue through asset leasing, but also reduces the threshold for initial players and the cost of the game, and improves the attractiveness and competitiveness of the game. More importantly, the liquidity brought about by asset leasing will also create multiple possibilities for the appreciation of game assets.

Game asset leasing can be said to be a subversive creation, which not only allows asset owners to realize game revenue through asset leasing, but also reduces the threshold for initial players and the cost of the game, and improves the attractiveness and competitiveness of the game . More importantly, the liquidity brought about by asset leasing will also create multiple possibilities for the appreciation of game assets.

The great significance of the asset leasing function owned by Gameland lies in the innovative separation of asset ownership and use rights, which is a popular thing for players. On the one hand, sellers can make money by leasing their own game assets and realize game revenue generation; on the other hand, before users enter the game, players can experience game assets at a lower cost.

When we chose the EIP-2615 agreement, we also introduced the over-mortgage lease agreement developed by ourselves. EIP-2615 can bring a new unsecured leasing model to our leasing, but this agreement is still in the process of continuous revision. As a result, we provide users with two models of over-secured leasing and unsecured leasing. After the game asset is leased out, the asset owner does not have to worry about asset recovery at all, because the NFT owner's authority has been written into the leased smart contract. After the time limit expires, the smart contract will be automatically executed, and the asset will naturally return. To the owner's account address.

3.Community

The launch of Gameland has received a good response in the Southeast Asian market. We have already started building AXIE's gold trading guild in the Philippines. In the early days of its establishment, we received hundreds of registrations for users. The local community members spontaneously promoted different modes for the Gameland Guild, such as Gameland’s meme production and Gameland’s t-shirts.

In the game DAO model, we will attract different members to participate in management. The game DAO is mainly to select high-quality game projects or NFTs in the market for investment and incubation, and become a member of Gameland's development ecology.

4.Summarize

In the future, whether it is consensus, market and technical foundation, or landing applications and creators, there is a high probability that it will continue to strengthen. The prosperity of the NFT market will no longer be attached to the crypto market. NFT itself is a sunrise industry with extremely bright prospects. Therefore, the strong rise of the NFT market will be a definite trend.

From the emergence of encrypted trading cards in 1993 to the outbreak of GameFi in 2021, to sort out the historical development of NFT, there are four main stages.

In terms of the industrial structure, there is still a lot of room for casting at the infrastructure layer of NFT; and the vigorous development of NFT is mainly reflected in the protocol layer in the middle, and mainly art/collection casting; at the application layer, the development is relatively uneven For example, in the field of NFT data, a comprehensive data provider has not yet appeared. As more and more eyes focus on the NFT track, the NFT industry map will be pieced together at a faster pace.

From the perspective of various data latitudes, compared with the overall level of 2020, the NFT market has now achieved a big step. This shows that in this round of craze, user participation has continued to deepen, and the entire market has begun to reassess the value of NFTs.

The biggest difference between "Play-to-Earn" and the traditional Internet game "Free-to-Play"-in the focus economy, users should receive corresponding rewards: the time and labor paid are also assets, which are part of personal wealth. When the game becomes a bridge linking up and down the chain, this value can be reflected in reality.

In the context of "GameFi", NFT has become a productivity tool. It not only produces value (SLP / AXS), but also carries value condensed in labor (Axie NFTs), and changes production relations through the flow of chains ( Game developers, guilds and players).

In the world of three-dimensional chain-network integration and meta-universe, NFT is not only an extension of real assets, but also the starting point of native virtual world assets. It will also become a "token" representing identity, assets, rights and interests, and various attributes.

When discussing the future direction of NFT, we found several exploration directions: the application of NFT in the DeFi space; the combination of DAO and NFT; the growth space of NFT infrastructure tools.

The infrastructure layer includes the underlying public chains such as ETH, Flow, Polkadot, NEAR, EOS, Solana, side chains/L2 such as Polygon, ENJIN, WAX, RONIN, iMMUTABLE, etc., token standards such as ERC-721, ERC-1155, and development Tools, storage, wallets, etc.

The protocol layer is divided into NFT casting protocol and primary market. They are: a comprehensive trading market (Mintable, VIV3, Mintbase, etc.) that can trade a variety of physical objects (Mintable, VIV3, Mintbase, etc.) Art/collection-based casting (CryptoPunks, NBA Top Shot) , Bored Ape Yacht Club, etc.) and primary market (Makersplace, Rarible, etc.) NFT games (Axie Infinity, Gods Unchained, Alien Worlds, Sorare, etc.) Meta universe (Cryptovoxels, Decentraland, The Sandbox, etc.) ) And fan economy (BitClout, Rally, etc.).

In the beginning, Gameland only focused on the development of NFT lease agreements and community DAOs in the game market, and was committed to providing users with the lowest experience threshold to participate in different chain game products.

Our original idea was to use "experience" innovation to leverage the blockchain game service market, and it hasn't changed since then.

In three months, Gameland has launched two versions of the lease protocol, which has won the attention and support of many users. While developing the technology, Gameland has also established a game community and game guild, and the game guild has also officially recruited for the Southeast Asian market, and many users have signed up to participate.

At the same time, Gameland carried out an overall technical architecture update in the original lease agreement, integrating the Ethereum agreement of ERC-1155 and EIP-2615. As a result, Gameland has evolved from the initial lease agreement to a chain game infrastructure platform that integrates game NFT distribution and rental and sales. Provide a low-gas loss and high-expansion infrastructure platform for the development of chain games.

Let's introduce in detail what kind of ultimate experience the innovative Gameland can bring to users:

1.Scalable Distribution Protocol for Game NFT

One smart contract, multiple tokens

Gameland provides a standard contract interface that can manage multiple tokens. Game producers can issue and manage any number of homogeneous tokens, non-homogeneous tokens or semi-homogeneous tokens by deploying only one contract.

An ERC-1155 standard game contract can consist of a large number of items or components, representing everything from weapons to armor to health and mana. All of these items or components are repeatable, and you can get more than one. Repetitive tokens are often used as splittable currencies (most ERC-20 tokens), and repetitive tokens are very useful for stackable items (they do not need to be distinguished), such as a bow with a barrel of arrows.

Another type of token is called non-repeatable tokens (NFTs). This structure allows each token to have its own unique parameters, history and mapping to the real world. A pet dragon in a video game can be an NFTs that has its own unique name, level and history in the game.

Scalable metadata

No more old-fashioned metadata

Symbol: (invented by ERC20 and ERC-721 standards) is no longer included because it is no longer part of the data related to the data of virtual items/assets. This three-letter symbol can be normally used in reports or currency transactions, but they are no longer useful when tokenizing general items (components).

Name: The name has also been removed from the current core standard. Why? In many applied scenarios, storing a name on the blockchain is a luxury. As an alternative, the name of each token can now be defined in the json metadata standard.

ID replacement

By using the replacement string "{id},", an ERC-1155 contract can point to an unlimited number of token URIs without storing any additional data on the link. For each pass, this replacement can even be used to point to a web service with a dynamic host that can be generated from the pass json. This replacement string itself can also be used in json itself to automatically link the icon of each token. This greatly reduces the overhead for developers to display the metadata of a large number of types of tokens.

Localization

Since the pass information is defined in json format, it makes it possible to localize by using {locale} to support multiple languages. Wallets or software that support multiple languages can now display alternate versions of token names, images, or other data.

Guaranteed log tracking

As the Ethereum ecosystem continues to grow, many dapps rely on traditional database and browser API services to obtain and classify data. The ERC-1155 standard ensures that event logs triggered by smart contracts can provide enough information to create an accurate record of all current token balances. A database or browser can monitor events to provide indexable and categorizable queries for each ERC-1155 token in the contract.

Smart contracts no longer need to store the index of each token ID, and these IDs do not need to be serialized in any way.

This is a complete separation of enumeration (the ability to browse all the tokens on the chain), but it brings a huge improvement in efficiency, and even allows a complete standardization of each token's additional issuance, burning, and transactions. record. This standardized method has not been implemented until today, and it can benefit some ecosystems through in-depth data analysis of the token and a large number of holders.

Imagine that you can quickly advance or retreat in completely different ERC-1155 token time, usage analysis mode, and life cycle, regardless of which smart contract is parsed.

Token owners can obtain more information about their assets, such as the precise moment when their token is issued. And in the future, more tools will be developed, and they can provide more useful references for companies that build such skills.

NFT can be nested mode (NFT can be combined)

Any item Token owned by the player can be combined and packaged into a "Token package", which also has its own independent id. The concept sounds a bit abstract. In fact, under this mechanism, game developers can easily implement gameplay such as equipment upgrades and perforated gems. Let’s compare the diamond-encrusted mechanism in the dark, a weapon with two holes, and Two perfect gems, these are three tokens. When we embed these two gems into a weapon, it becomes a token bag—that is, a new weapon.

At the same time, this mechanism can also simplify complex transactions. For example, if player A and player B want to trade 20 items, if one transaction requires 20 transactions, if 20 item tokens can be packaged, only one transaction is required. After the transaction is unpacked, the efficiency and experience are improved a lot. A simpler understanding is to pack things into a backpack and trade all the items in the backpack at once.

If you want to form the basic form of the meta universe. We must need a standard that can completely simulate real-world objects. This standard needs to be able to map the attributes of real-world items to the blockchain, such as the functional combination and splitting of items (different from sharding), and changes in the properties and attributes of the items (the item itself remains unchanged, but the attributes change) . Even the function of items over time (weathering, rusting, decay). Once these magical features on the blockchain can be truly born, then this will also signify that the purpose of all combinations and splits is to produce more valuable and powerful NFTs. This value is not just the way NFTs are combined. (Two NFT combinations, the value is superimposed, 1+1=2 or 1+1=2.5), and more is how to combine valuable things to produce the following effects.

The combination and splitting of NFTs is not to allow more people to own expensive NFTs, but to allow NFTs to produce unique functions due to disassembly and assembly. The purpose of splitting the Gundam is to upgrade its components to obtain a cooler and more powerful Gundam, instead of just splitting the Gundam into several pieces with a knife to sell. Combining the sailfish electromagnetic gun with the Gundam is not for packaging and selling. It is for Gundam to have more powerful weapons against the enemy. (Note that the most important point of the demolition agreement is that the purpose of the demolition agreement is to enhance the NFT attributes and value, so the upgrade logic is the most important part of the demolition agreement.) The NFT demolition agreement gives each NFT component Meaning, also gives meaning to each assembled NFT component. As the formula expresses, the use value of NFT is maximized by the split agreement, and the value of new products assembled by NFT is increased, rather than just speculating prices.

Bundled transactions

With ERC-1155, you can send multiple items to one or more recipients at one time using only one transaction, which can effectively reduce Gas fees and Ethereum's congestion.

The functions Transfer, approve, melt and trade can accept variables in the form of arrays, allowing users to complete 100-200 batch operations in one currency transaction.

In summary, ERC-1155 combines the characteristics and advantages of ERC-20 and ERC-721. Developers can create thousands of different types of props for their games. According to needs, each item can have its own independent id or can be homogenized like ERC-20 tokens.

2.Game rental and sales platform

The current chain game market still lacks a role. That is a platform that can be rented and rented out. Players can rent out idle items to others to obtain stable income. The precious game items owned by game players can be leased to obtain passive income without having to sell them. At the same time, game players can also greatly reduce the cost of using game props, no need to purchase, only need to rent game props.

Gameland is an integrated distribution platform for rent and sale. After game manufacturers use the agreement to issue NFTs, they can choose to sell NFTs directly on the Gameland platform. Community users can obtain trading opportunities in the primary market through the platform. Game NFT can also get a quick marketing opportunity.

For idle NFT products, users can choose a passive income model, which is the leasing model. In the chain game ecology, players have idle game NFT equipment, and they can rent out the service through the Gameland platform to revitalize the idle resources to earn additional funds.

By lowering the price, time and other thresholds, gamers' acceptance of the scarce attributes of high-value accounts is improved, and a better gaming experience is obtained; at the same time, many krypton players can also use the "sharing" mode to revitalize account assets and reflect account returns value.

Game asset leasing can be said to be a subversive creation, which not only allows asset owners to realize game revenue through asset leasing, but also reduces the threshold for initial players and the cost of the game, and improves the attractiveness and competitiveness of the game. More importantly, the liquidity brought about by asset leasing will also create multiple possibilities for the appreciation of game assets.

Game asset leasing can be said to be a subversive creation, which not only allows asset owners to realize game revenue through asset leasing, but also reduces the threshold for initial players and the cost of the game, and improves the attractiveness and competitiveness of the game . More importantly, the liquidity brought about by asset leasing will also create multiple possibilities for the appreciation of game assets.

The great significance of the asset leasing function owned by Gameland lies in the innovative separation of asset ownership and use rights, which is a popular thing for players. On the one hand, sellers can make money by leasing their own game assets and realize game revenue generation; on the other hand, before users enter the game, players can experience game assets at a lower cost.

When we chose the EIP-2615 agreement, we also introduced the over-mortgage lease agreement developed by ourselves. EIP-2615 can bring a new unsecured leasing model to our leasing, but this agreement is still in the process of continuous revision. As a result, we provide users with two models of over-secured leasing and unsecured leasing. After the game asset is leased out, the asset owner does not have to worry about asset recovery at all, because the NFT owner's authority has been written into the leased smart contract. After the time limit expires, the smart contract will be automatically executed, and the asset will naturally return. To the owner's account address.

3.Community

The launch of Gameland has received a good response in the Southeast Asian market. We have already started building AXIE's gold trading guild in the Philippines. In the early days of its establishment, we received hundreds of registrations for users. The local community members spontaneously promoted different modes for the Gameland Guild, such as Gameland’s meme production and Gameland’s t-shirts.

In the game DAO model, we will attract different members to participate in management. The game DAO is mainly to select high-quality game projects or NFTs in the market for investment and incubation, and become a member of Gameland's development ecology.

4.Summarize

In the future, whether it is consensus, market and technical foundation, or landing applications and creators, there is a high probability that it will continue to strengthen. The prosperity of the NFT market will no longer be attached to the crypto market. NFT itself is a sunrise industry with extremely bright prospects. Therefore, the strong rise of the NFT market will be a definite trend.