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• Establish a Twitter account and run it with content in your language

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• Test and give early feedback for product testing

• Assist in organizing online and offline events and meet-ups

• Maintain and moderate online and offline communities

• Translate and proofread content

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• Able to host campaigns in your local community

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• Get invited to all of our events, as a privileged guest or organizer

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• Be invited to exclusive meet-ups, with only Gametaverse team members

• You will receive limited edition gifts/surprises, made only for Elves

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Selection Criteria: Passionate about gamefi/web3 gaming/FOC games and understands how they generally operate; already a supporter of Gametaverse; Owning some connections with KOCs/Newsletter or communities such as Facebook group, Telegram group, Reddit forum, Quoras, Discord, or other social media platform communities & knows how to use ChatGPT

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Here is a recap of this AMA session:

Session One: The rise and fall of the token price should not be the focus

Q1: How do you view GameFi as a new category/subset of crypto or the blockchain system? What concept attracted you to join this sector in the first place?

GameFi is a good way to show the features and technology of blockchain. Players can learn about blockchain/liquidity mining/DeFi/NFT by playing. I am a gamer myself, and I especially like games with mythological backgrounds. Genesis Universe combines legends and myths from all over the world and brings in the technology of blockchain. I think the future development of this project is exciting.

Q2: What major pain points or opportunities did you identify and decide to leverage with your project?

We found that players are generally distrustful of projects in a bear market. And there are even many projects that are scams. Fortunately, our project is not only recognized by multiple projects and the web3 Community, but also our development team is strong enough. The Genesis Universe is a fusion of cultures from all over the world, aiming to remove geographical restrictions and allow everyone to communicate with each other on the Genesis Universe.

Q3: What are the unexpected obstacles you’ve encountered and insights/best practices you’ve learnt along the development and marketing process?

I must say that the current bear market situation is indeed a problem, but I believe not only our project, but all web3 users are also looking for ways to break through. We also see this as an opportunity to focus on developing the game, listening carefully to the community, and when the problem at hand is resolved, we will be ready for a bull market.

Q4: What’s your business model and how’s it different/innovative compared with other projects in the same category?

P2E will remain the essence of GameFi. We continue to improve the economic model of the game, in order to provide players with a good and long-term playing environment. Genesis Universe has a variety of ways to play, no matter what kind of player you are, you can find your favorite way to play here. 

Q5: What’s your opinion on the current GameFi market? Bullish or bearish? Why?

I think that compared to other types of projects, the GameFi project can attract a group of players whether in a bear market or a bull market.

The rise and fall of the token price should not be the focus of the project, (of course we have plans to protect the price, which is very important). We hope our users can focus more on gameplay and get rewards naturally. We think that will be the right way.

Session Two: User Experience & Partnerships

Q1: What are the security measures that have been made so far to make the platform secure from hackers as the hackers are now a days getting stronger to stole the data of the investors?

We also attach great importance to the user's security experience. All contracts in the game have passed the inspection of audit institutions. You can find relevant information in our white paper.  We believe only safety can make each other closer.

Q2: Why did you build Genesis Universe, what was your motivation to start this project? What is the difference between the Genesis Universe project to attract the interest of investors?

Genesis Universe is a Web3 card battle strategy game, with mythical characters exploring and fighting in an uncertain world. The development team builds a virtual world based on the BSC chain that integrates strategy, DeFi, luck, and trading. In the game, players can participate in different camps and draw hero NFTs to go on an adventure and upgrade heroes by finding different materials. We hope to create a good entertainment and refined economic model to contribute a new P2E game to Web3.

Q3: User experience is a very important issue in most projects. Does Genesis Universe focus on this? What has Genesis Universe done to bring the best user experience, especially to new users?

User experience is a very important issue, I totally agree. We accept feedback from the community and allow community members to participate in the construction of our project. I believe that a good user experience will come from listening carefully to user feedback.

Q4: Currently, most investors only focus on price of token in short-term instead of the real value of project. Could you tell us the benefits of holding your token for long-term?

If you hold the tokens of our project for a long time, you will grow with the Genesis Universe project, and you can enjoy all the rewards during this period such as token airdrops/game NFT card draw/liquidity mining...etc. The most important thing is that you will be family with us.

Q5: Partnership is one of the most important elements to affirm the trust and reliability of any project to the community. Can you share about your commercial partnership? How will they influence Genesis Universe development?

We have indeed reached cooperation agreements with many projects, including GameFi project/wallet project/exchange project/cross-chain protocol/game guild, etc. These collaborations are carefully selected resources that can make us stronger.

Session Three: Main Focus & the Name

Q1: Do you have a Token Burning plan to increase Token value and attract Investors to invest?

We have a liquidity pool to support the price of coins at any time.

Q2: I find in the Twitter that HIRING program is going on. Can you give me information about that? What are the requirement to be hired?

discord.gg/dVdHyfVN

You can check all of ambassador program info here。

Q3: Where can I buy $GUT? Is it listed and if not do you have any presale or fair launch plan? Can you explain me more on this?

We will list our NFT by exchange next month, then will going to token public sale.

Q4: What's your main focus right now, are you focused on the community or market/Exchange or the products?

We focus on development & community now. And we will try to do our best!

Q5: The name of your project is really great. So what is the reason behind choosing this name as project name? Are there any special stories?

We will create a whole new universe. There is no longer any difference between people. The story of the god’s war and us. That’s Genesis Universe.

At last…

We’re proud of each and everyone in here, showing support and enthusiasm towards our project and Genesis Universe. Hope you enjoy this recap! Follow us on social media to receive timely news, and stay tuned:

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About Gametaverse

Gametaverse aims to be the One-Stop GameFi Portal for everyone who wants start their gaming journey. Gametaverse provides users with an easy-to-use, real-time dashboard that aggregates all GameFi data and tracks the entire industry. It also selects individual games which you may want to closely monitor. Gametaverse keeps building customizable yield tracker for popular games, so players and guilds can track their NFT yields and game records.

Here is a recap of this AMA session:

Session One: An environment that’s for the co-existence of both Web2 and 3

Q1: How do you view GameFi as a new category/subset of crypto or the blockchain system? What concept attracted you to join this sector in the first place?

For me, GameFi is not a new category with the hype from 2021. I believe gaming and entertainment will be always attached to a lot of concepts of the Web3 due to a lot of similarities in natural.

We are attached to this aspect because we believe the infrastructures of Web 3 will be the next gen of how gamers will be engaging with the game/developers.

We had been amazed by the early, direct communication and feedback from a much early stage from our players/ players-to-be. We believe that will be driving our way towards the game development and operation, and we believe the best game designer will actually from the gamers, power to the DAO is what we believed.

Q2: What major pain points or opportunities did you identify and decide to leverage with your project?

For us, as we had been developing mobile games from Web2, we know the barriers and what it takes to make great games - exciting but never easy. From what we have seen from GameFi is most are a transformation of DeFi products. For game side, we think it is important to back to basic - to make games that are fun to play and more than just play to earn. We are seeing more fellow developers are making great products, while we believe from where we are, we can create games that truly embracing Web3, fun to play and earn at the same time.

Q3: What are the unexpected obstacles you’ve encountered and insights/best practices you’ve learnt along the development and marketing process?

There are a few, I will highlight some.

First is the marketing logic, the whole marketing and promotion is totally different from where we are from. Web2 is more about ad-buy, conversion and retention. While Web3 is more about creating hypes, collabs, twitter and DC - so call community management, the community position is way more important than anything else.

The best practice that we have learn is how, as a Web2 developer, to integrate our gaming logic on chain, and also we need to think of the other side - the players. How we can also create a seamless touch for them in the potential transformation from Web2 to 3 - We have some amazing partnerships that really widen our vision and helped us with that.

Q4: What’s your business model and how’s it different/innovative compared with other projects in the same category?

Due to our background, we know the profit model from Web2 - the top up and in-game purchase and a common barrier from Web3 - the sustainable growth and values and utility of the tokens.

While in order to create an environment that’s for the co-existence of both Web2 and 3, we decided to contribute a major portion of the revenue we will create in the game from Web2 (in real USD - 20%) to support the DAO and the value support our tokens, I believe we are the first to doing this. And we believe it is what we fulfilling our commitment of building great games not only to earn but continues growth.

Also a trio tokens in correspondent to Web2/3 players, about how we adopt the tokenomics to both sides, will be a bit lengthy to extend here, while please refer to our white paper for details.

Q5: What’s your opinion on the current GameFi market? Bullish or bearish? Why?

Frankly bearish, as what we can see from the recent market downturn, but for us it is not a completely negative thing, as during the hype it is really difficult to distinguish great games/projects as there are just new to the market day to day.

We are not seeing this project in short term, one of our game HOTA had been developed for 18+ months, I personally think that it is a good timing for polishing our product, and let our gamers choose what is the game that they want to stick for long run.

Session Two: Tokenomics & Marketing Strategy

Q1: You say you want to create a blockchain-based game that users love and are interested in. However, is the Ideaverse games easy to understand for all types of players, especially those who are new to cryptocurrencies? What steps were taken to make this game suitable for everyone?

I see two questions, so I'll try to answer each briefly!

All IDV games will be released as free-to-play, not NFT or wallets required, it will run for sometime before we launch the sales of NFT - personal choice of whether player want to join as play and earn model. If they want to enjoy the game as free-to-play, we welcome that. 

So - no barriers or whatsoever, just like any mobile game to start with.

Q2: Many investors only care about the value of the coin. However, when most projects start listing, the value often drops seriously. Investors often have to suffer heavy losses. So you how do you prepare for this situation?

We are aware of that question. We have our main investors Metora Game invest 7M in the very beginning, and we have common values in terms of game making. So MG's investment will be locked for at least 2 years from IDO. And for the IDO, we will do a fair launch as no major investor will purchase the token in advance at major discount, everyone at the same start line, of course it is the market to decide the value of tokens, but from the launch side we aim to keep it fair for our investor and players.

Q3: What is the $IDVT token's functionality and tokenomics? Is staking a viable option for retaining investors and rewarding users in your project? What are your biggest hopes for the project you're working on right now in terms of product development?

$IDVT will be used both in game and governance of the DAO, in a deflation model. Staking will be also available, as an investment options for the studio, while honestly I will look more into the DAU (daily active users) than the staking tokens.

My hope will be, at some point after the launch of the play and earn/NFT, the environment will reach an equilibrium of Web2+3 players, with health and sustainable growth.

Q4: What are the strategies followed by you for promoting the project so that it reaches everywhere? Are you planning to use more third party platforms for effective promotion of the project other than the crowded platforms that you are utilizing at present?

True, we are promoting the project with a decentralized team. As culture and how gamers perceive a game could be very difference. For now, we are bonding with guilds, communities, marketers and influencers. We are creating our in-game content, as I feel, a game play video works 1000 times than text. Further step will be looking for offline events, say guilds gathering and walkthrough, in more developed community.

Please do stay tuned with our social media for more release and game content.

https://linktr.ee/Ideaverse.Games 

Q5: What is Ideaverse top priorities in 2022? Could you share some plans for the upcoming year? Which part of the project are you most focused on right now?

The launch of two games - FH and HOTA - website and trailers available at above link! As these are the two games for IDV brand in Web3 - definitely the top priority. Did I mention these are the first game of their series? NFT and tokens will be cross game and inter-playable in the same series of game. Say Fortune Heroes - monopoly and its second game Texas poker. These are also our plans and understanding of how to create values, and already in development for 2023 launch.

Session Three: Upcoming & Flagship Products

Q1: Can you tell us about how we can get our IDV Club Pass? What are the benefits of belonging to the IDV Club? What are the requirements to be a member of this club? Does this pass have any cost?

Thanks for reading and in order to get IDV Club Pass, you’ll need to participant in our community, be active and join our daily events, also we are in collab to great communities for WL giveaway, stay tuned in our DC.

Q2: What’s the current state of IDEAVERSE in terms of partnership and alliances with other projects? And most especially what are your plans for IDEAVERSE now that the bear market has been prolonged?

We are open to collab as long as it is meaningful and worth it, my DM is open if it is from IDV DC, any incoming proposal is welcome and we are also proactively looking for good partnerships.

Q3: Out of all the product development plans Ideaverse has including the upcoming, what do you consider as a flagship project - if there's any - and why so?

HOTA for now, from the trailer you can tell we have put great efforts towards the development of this game, I am most grateful we have got a great dev team, and they are really working to their 110% to make this happen.

Q4: In your official White Paper it says that two products will be launched in 2022, and at least two others in 2023. First, what difficulties did you find launching this year, when most of the major countries are experiencing a monetary crisis? Second, what is your best solution?

True, the bear marketing is hitting the crypto/NFT/GameFi side, but we are glad that we have MG supporting us, and we are also investing from our stable revenue from our established game from Web2, so I think we are in a good position in terms of liquidity. 

Q5: Is your project a community only for English speaking countries or for uses not of other languages?

Not only to English, from our DC you can tell we have set target for global market and more localization marketing and ambassador will be in place for other languages.

At last…

We’re proud of each and everyone in here, showing support and enthusiasm towards our project and Ideaverse. Hope you enjoy this recap! Follow us on social media to receive timely news, and stay tuned:

Twitter: twitter.com/GametaverseDAO

Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCDOjqmiPOPAqQYSCUev-I0w

Discord: discord.gg/px9EY6zz2W

Telegram: t.me/gametaverse

About Gametaverse

Gametaverse aims to be the One-Stop GameFi Portal for everyone who wants start their gaming journey. Gametaverse provides users with an easy-to-use, real-time dashboard that aggregates all GameFi data and tracks the entire industry. It also selects individual games which you may want to closely monitor. Gametaverse keeps building customizable yield tracker for popular games, so players and guilds can track their NFT yields and game records.

Here is a recap of this AMA session:

Session One: “A Revolution in Gaming“

Q1: How do you view GameFi as a new category/subset of crypto or the blockchain system? What concept attracted you to join this sector in the first place?

There are two things that really drew me to GameFi on the blockchain 1: Economic tools and advantage 2. Ownership & partnership with the community of players.

Game economies are very tricky and can be hard to manage in traditional spaces. The gameplay feeds inflation and your success/reward as a player diminishes. As an example, in FarmVille, coins were inflationary by their very nature vs. Farm Bucks which were pay to play.

Players ended up earning millions and millions of coins because the game design gave them constantly but offered no real use. "Buy another cow for 10 million coins please!" Boring!

Blockchain is letting us take advantage of GameFi and build a better economic model with anti-inflationary game loops that make sure the coin you earn ($ROL in our case) holds value better. Because people can buy a token to get in, we don't need to have the "Hard money currency" in a game and the inflated "Oh it's fun! Coins."

Game ownership and partnership are even more impactful. In web2 games the goal is to get you into the game and paying within minutes. That's why you see all the "New player bundles" on a mobile game.

Very few people ever pay in web2, like single digit %'s. So the game company will do almost anything to get you to convert and then, in six months or so when you are done. You've got nothing but time spent and (hopefully) entertainment. GameFi obliterates that. Our players are our partners. Our community are our advisors.

We can talk with them openly about our game and its economy because they are all "payers" in web2 language - and they all stand to benefit if we get it right. On top of that, you own the tokens. We don't. So we get to focus on building a great game around those tokens. We don't have to take them back or force you to buy more.

Q2: What major pain points or opportunities did you identify and decide to leverage with your project?

Opportunity: Economic tools

Like I mentioned before, the economic tools of web3/GameFi are very attractive compared to web2. I want to be clear, the economic tools in web2 are much more developed and robust right now vs web3 where the creation of tools is in it's infancy.

That noted, a well run web2 analytics and economic setup is focused almost entirely on "What's it going to take to get people to give us money today?" GameFi, as we build it out (as a community of developers) is letting us ask new, better questions. "Is our economy under control and protecting our players’ investments to the best of our rational ability?" "What value do the players and community at large see our project and game offering?" (holders) "Are we returning an interesting and compelling reward for the time invested?"

Because Blockstars is a management sim, the game is all about spending time reviewing your financial results as a player - and trying to find opportunities to have your songs do better on the singles charts vs. other managers.

Another perk in the Opportunity category is that reward for investing in a project. 100% of a projects holders are "payers" in web2 parlance - so that's not a point where we need a robust GameFi economic model to tell us when someone is frustrated enough to buy and play to win. Instead we get to monitor their play and ask ourselves if we are making it fun and rewarding. It's about making a fun game that people don't want to quit. And all of the behavior and player activity monitoring that you expect from a web2 game is just flipped to "Are we providing value and entertainment."

Nobody is going to get a Lambo flipping a Blockstar, but they can play our game as we continue to build it, earn rewards in the game that can transfer out of it, and - when they get tired and want something new - the option to hold for future value, or exit for the liquidity.

This is a revolution in gaming. It's the reason, I believe, that web3 is going to become dominant. We are, by every measure, doing the right thing when we think about making something fun and rewarding for our players.

The last opportunity that's major is that It's.Your.Toke. That ownership is more than just the "Oh 100% have paid" factor. It's yours. You can take our tokens to the metaverse (we give 3D files). Everyone says that, but it's interesting and true. More important: You can use them how you see fit.

Another gaming project could literally be making a music game and say "Instead of funding an art budget, let's make a game that let people who hold a Blockstar play. Let's save on art, get existing web3 gamers and make Super Mario Blockstars Brothers.

If you made a game to use the actual Minecraft art in the same way, Microsoft would (rightfully) sue you into oblivion. They own the game. You just play it. Web3, the opportunity, perhaps the most important one - is that you own it. We made thee tokens, we minted them, and now they are yours. We're just making a game that uses them.

Q3: What are the unexpected obstacles you’ve encountered and insights/best practices you’ve learnt along the development and marketing process?

There are two significant obstacles we've found since we got started (we minted in February). Both of them can be summed up with "While we are going to web3 for GameFi, we are not a hype project poised to pump & dump and leave anyone holding the bag." When we minted, the Discord/Twitter accounts blew up to about 30,000 people each.

The activity was crazy and yeah, fun – BUT everyone was in full WEN MOON mode and we had to quickly focus on making it clear that we weren't sending. We were, and still are, building a game - you can play and earn for sure, but it's a game first. It has to be fun.

Axie is play TO earn and a trap. People started playing it as a job. It didn't have to be fun, they were drawn to a better paycheck, which meant the development team now has this burden of somehow staying alive as a game project, without turning all the people who rely on it for income away. That's almost impossible over time due to economies

We are, adamantly, play AND earn. Nobody is going to quit their job to play Blockstars as the primary income. BUT we hope everyone who does play has a very fun time AND manages to exit with value when they are done. If you play for a year and have a great time and then liquidate for enough money to get into another game? That's awesome. it's an ideal.

A paycheck? Nope. That's not Blockstars and, especially at mint, it was a huge obstacle to communicate. Because people were too busy flooding the channel with hype that we ended up needing to counter with very clear language. Our goal is to make a game, which is, the other side of the coin. Not only did we need to teach people that we are not a pump and dump... we had to explain that we aren't pure P2E with a promise of profits.

All along the way everyone has asked us to chase the meta of the week. Conflip, Casinos, Marketplaces, Auction Houses, A Rugged TOkens Tool, etc. "Why aren't you X like ?" and it's because we are building the game. That's what we do. We are doxxed - go look (Craig Dalrymple on LinkedIn). We make the games. We don't pump and dump and we don't chase trends of the week. That would distract us from making the game. A bit back "gameplay" was meta of the week and that was nice. This has been an obstacle because a lot of Solana GameFi players aren't used to that so they don't know what to think when they see us. We end up being "Boring" but the secret there is that boring is good. Bear market? We didn't change our plans. Solana Summer Slump? We didn't change our plans. Meta of the Week? We didn't change our plans. We know what we are making, we communicate it clearly to our players and talk with them about other ideas, and then we get it done. I had people point me at hundreds of projects who did meta of the week "Why aren't you like these people?" At this point my answer is "They didn't have focus and have collapsed over the summer." A great thinning of the ranks has happened - Blockstars stuck to the plan and it carried us through. Making sense of that for people who expect us to pump and dump or meta out like crazy is a challenge - but I love it because our plan has integrity. We make games that are (hopefully) fun. Q4: What’s your business model and how’s it different/innovative compared with other projects in the same category? At the risk of being repetitive - we are play AND earn instead of play TO earn. That difference speaks a LOT to the business model. We are working on a game business that's self-sustaining, tuned well economically, and is rewarding to our players. I don't think we are the only play AND earn team out there - it's beginning to pick up steam as play TO earn starts to show its weaknesses......but that's what we've been from the start, so our roadmap didn't have to adjust to this change. It's also what makes us different than web2. If we did Blockstars on web2, we'd have to figure out how to get people to play to win. That entire platform/model is just how it goes there. It's proven. Investors will fund that. Web3 let's us partner with the players instead of forcing them to pay to enjoy it. Another differentiation is that we are a music management simulation game. The only one on the blockchain to our knowledge. There are games focused on music, but they aren't a management sim. If you don't know what that is, look up Football Manager. The game is about managing an entire team as a business. Blockstars is like that but you are the manager of bands. Epstein to the Beatles as an example. You win when your bands win. Management sims are HUGE but a small corner of the mainstream gaming market. So we are different by working in that (sizeable) niche, and by embracing the strengths of web3. In both cases, the answer to "What are you doing?" is "Making a game that thrives on Solana." Our governance token, $ROC has been vetted by one of thee top U.S. legal firms in crypto. So we are absolutely taking care of that side of the business and keeping it legal ...but we are making a game. This is the best link if anyone is genuinely interested and I'm not speaking clearly https://whitepaper.blockstars.gg/. I was hired the week after this dropped. I read it on Sunday and was all in. On Monday we started talking offer letter. Beyond that, absolutely follow @Ana|Twitter Host on Twitter. She showcases Blockstars and so many other projects. Q5: What’s your opinion on the current GameFi market? Bullish or bearish? Why? I'm a BULL. I have not flinched at all with the bear market and slump. It's real and it's created projects with a ton of potential - but that's the nature of marketplaces. This is an extremely good time to ape into projects that will stand the test of time (NFA, DYOR) and that's the approach I'm taking. Right now GameFi is at the "I play Snakes on my Nokia phone!" level of success. People know about it, but it's not all compelling and nobody at the time would have imagined the iPhone creating and defining the truth strength of mobile games. Taking this assumption as the foundation of my view on the market? I want to find the Web3 Apple. None of us know who that is, they may not exist yet. I'm making my marketplace bets with that in mind. I got burned on one last week, I'm still alive and as far as that pertains to Blockstars. Like everyone else, I need a paycheck to pay the bills. I feel secure in what we are doing. I can’t promise we are going to be that iPhone app store for web3 (we aren't making an app store), but I believe we will be here in five years - which is a few web3 lifetimes. Is it hard times right now? Yes. That said, I think the hard times are just pulling weeds. People who didn't have a plan, or are hit with unfortunate surprises they can't adapt to are being culled. It's no fun, but it's reality in any market, including GameFi. Session Two: About Blockstars Q.1 A lot of NFTs projects are trending now. A lot of projects come out related to NFT. If we are to rate the potential of the #blockstars, what can it bring and how do you deal with security threats of your project? I see two questions, so I'll try to answer each briefly! What's the potential of Blockstars? Only our community knows! If we do our job well, it'll hold value while delivering fun and we will continue with new sets to add new game features and value dynamics to the game. We minted a "Buy One Get One Free" price of 1.0 SOL (0.5 each). Right now we are at 0.45 SOL after the entire summer, a bear market, and people who only wanted pump and dump to fade. In terms of that kind of value, we've held even when others have tanked. I'm proud of that and confident that it speaks to our future. How do we deal with security threats? We have this creature known as Cojo. He's our CTO, very experienced in online gaming, and security. Nobody is bulletproof, but he and the team work hard to make sure we are as secure as can be, both in terms of codebase/network stuff, and us other humans making mistakes. Ultimately, that's more than several projects have right now (it's early). We do security reviews and other things you'd expect. Note: We are two tokens away from 0.5 in terms of value - at which point it's a break even on the SOL price (though SOL is still down of course), i.e. I think we are showing our community of player owners the long term path! Q2. How necessary is ROL for your project and what is its role and objective, and what are the benefits of letting it hold? Full details here for the curious: https://whitepaper.blockstars.gg/tokenomics/gameplay-token-usdrol. Shorter answer: $ROL is mandatory for gameplay. If you are managing a single Blockstar and you tell them to go practice their instrument, you have to pay their daily wage for every day they practice. Why do that? Because they'll be better and when they perform they'll earn more $ROL. So, the goal of a manager is to quickly get their Blockstar(s) in a state of $ROL generation. This is why we run a lot of community contests for the $ROL prizes. To help people start, someone also listed $ROL in a liquidity pool on Raydium so you can buy in or sell out. Https://raydium.io/swap/?inputCurrency=sol&outputCurrency=4k3Dyjzvzp8eMZWUXbBCjEvwSkkk59S5iCNLY3QrkX6R&outputAmount=0&fixed=in. The baseline $ROL to get started is not a crazy amount - and varies by Blockstars. The best way to assess earning potential and the salary, before buying, is to check the Oracle. A tool made by some of our friends (free). Pop in a Blockstars token # and you can see all kinds of gameplay info https://blockstars.tools/oracle/. Q3: How do you plan to spread awareness about your project in countries/regions where English is not spoken well like Indonesia, Vietnam India Bangladesh and Iran? Do you have local communities for them to make a better understanding of your project? We absolutely have drawn in players from around the world to Blockstars. I think it'd be almost impossible to make a web3 game that doesn't cross borders. That said, right now our only focus is on getting the game to v1.0 which can be thought of like this: "I can buy a Blockstar(s) and profit as a band manager by having them work. If I work hard and figure out the optimal path, I can even have my Blockstar(s) cut singles that chart well and make me significant $ROL returns!" That's a LOT of work, starting from zero last December. So we don't plan to localize outside of English until the game is actually complete. Localization is a hard process that's well worth it - but we need to get a game built first. THEN we show the world. Right now on our Discord (https://discord.gg/blockstars), we have language based channels for Chinese and Spanish because there was enough demand to build them a room to speak about the game and help each other translate our English. The actual gameplay won't be localized yet, but when we do...I have several contacts in the countries mentioned who want to help us promote! Q4: The crypto market has expanded rapidly. Many sectors and new technologies have been incorporated in combination with the traditional one. Who are the strongest competitors that Blockstars has and how can they develop in that regard? That's a great question and really hard to answer. I think that the strongest competitors have yet to emerge. It's all so early. In several of our spaces we like to use this quote: "A rising tide lifts all boats." And we take it to heart. Any time a Solana project wins and brings new people to our blockchain, we win with them! We thank them! Any time a GameFi game/project brings a web2 gamer over to web3 and they finally see that it's more than PFP's, we win with them! It's not about driving anyone out of the market (competitor); it's about building the market with them. The more we all do that, the better. One day it'll get competitive. Right now I think that's a bad business plan. There are a few million people gaming on the blockchain. There are HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS in web2. Why compete? Work together to convert (from web2). Every music game or sim game that comes to Solana is a treasured friend and gift. Q5: Do I need to hold an NFT or hold a certain amount of tokens in order to enjoy or play your game? Yes, anyone new to Blockstars needs to hold two things: A Blockstar they want to manage (https://magiceden.io/marketplace/blockstars). Sufficient $ROL to pay their salary. Magic Eden Blocstars are FP 0.45. 100,000 $ROL on the Raydium LP is 0.14 SOL. https://raydium.io/swap/?inputCurrency=RoLLn5qBN4juQ1D2KFpJyAcC7Deo3cYotXi4qDooHLU&outputCurrency=sol&inputAmount=100000&outputAmount=0.141935184&fixed=in So for under 0.75 SOL you can get in and play. Solana's sitting at just shy of $38 bucks so that's less than a new game on Steam or your console. Short answer is "Yes, at least one Blockstar and some $ROL". Longer answer, I just linked the tools you need to DYOR! Also join us on Discord and you can ask the crew anything before you ever buy. Session Three: The Team & Gameplay Q1: Does your NFT rarity have some hidden benefits in game or is it just some aesthetics? This is a very good question and important to understand! The cosmetic rarity of a Blockstar is hard coded to the chain and will not change. It's exactly what you might expect from the PFP perspective. Certain looks, instruments, etc. are rarer. Only one PFP element impacts the game (to my current awareness). The background color for the Blockstar. It's somewhat of a reflection of their personality, which will play into our upcoming Bands features and more. We haven't shared deeply about how it all works, so that's something you'd want to come ask about at a Town Hall ("How does the color work") EVERYTHING ELSE about a Blockstar's ability to play music and improve is independent of their starting rarity. i.e. You can't change their hat, but you can make them a better Tuba player. Q2: How many blockchains are supported by #BlockStars? Do you plan to integrate more? Currently just Solana. The team spent a good amount of time (this time last year) researching all the different chains and what they offered for GameFi. We chose Solana and will develop there as a priority - but are not against the idea of cross chain later in the development path. Q3: Could you please tell about your team members? are they qualified and professional in their fields? what are the recruiting qualifications for team members for your extraordinary project? In general, we are all doxxed so it's easy to quality check our ability to make a game. Our founder and CEO is Niko Vuori who has been in gaming since the early 2,000's and successfully built and sold the mobile game company Rocket Games. Sherrie Chen is our Chief Product Officer and worked with us at Zynga back in the day. She's also been with other Silicon Valley companies/startups and is well tuned to being here. Cory Johonson (Cojo) is our CTO and was also at Zyga - he also worked on EVE Online so coding for an economic game is something he's done before. Our credentials are strong, we've done this before and are realistic about what it takes. We can do it; we just stay focused. Q4: What are the requirements or qualifications for playing your game, and who is eligible? Is there a step-by-step guide or tutorial available for those new to your game? Anyone with a Solana wallet and enough $SOL to buy a Blockstar and some $ROL can play. Solana + Wallet + Internet Access on a web browser We aren't building for mobile until some future date. We are uploading the tutorials on Discord later this week (https://discord.gg/blockstars) and have a sponsored YouTube stream/show that teaches gameplay. Plus, we'll help anyone. Q5: Will you intend to recruit non-crypto investors to your project? Because a project's success invites new investors to the crypto sector. What are your plans for getting the word out about your initiative outside of the cryptosphere? Yes, our main goal is to appeal to management simulation gamers. Right now we need to make noise for the ones who are also into crypto, but as the game gets to v1.0 and releases we will push out of crypto into the mainstream and say "Hey! Here's a good/fun game that you can consider and here's why! Also look at this amazing community. It's better than you'd ever know!" It means some traditional marketing, press releases, interviews, etc. Anyone that wants to know, please ask us on Discord or join us this Thursday on Twitter. We do a weekly Town Hall/AMA for our players. At last… We’re proud of each and everyone in here, showing support and enthusiasm towards our project and Blockstars. Hope you enjoy this recap! Follow us on social media to receive timely news, and stay tuned: Twitter: twitter.com/GametaverseDAO Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCDOjqmiPOPAqQYSCUev-I0w Discord: discord.gg/px9EY6zz2W Telegram: t.me/gametaverse About Gametaverse Gametaverse aims to be the One-Stop GameFi Portal for everyone who wants start their gaming journey. Gametaverse provides users with an easy-to-use, real-time dashboard that aggregates all GameFi data and tracks the entire industry. It also selects individual games which you may want to closely monitor. Gametaverse keeps building customizable yield tracker for popular games, so players and guilds can track their NFT yields and game records.

Here is a recap of this epic AMA session:

Session One: About Meta Apes

Q1: Please give an introduction to Meta Apes.

Meta Apes is a free-to-play, play & earn MMO strategy game designed for mobile. It is set in a post-apocalyptic world, in which humanity has come to an end and a new era ruled by Apes has begun. Next on the agenda is space domination, and each player will have to work closely with their gang to win the ultimate race to space.

Meta Apes launched at the very end of May, and it is currently available on both Google Play & App Store. Additionally, it is the first gaming application to launch on the BNB Sidechain.

If you’ve played any other games of this genre, you’ll be generally familiar with the core gameplay, which boils down to 4 key components - 1) building, 2) competition, 3) community & 4) exploration.

Q2: Tell us about NFT fighters. Do players need NFTs to play Meta Apes?

Firstly, Meta Apes is a free-to-play game and there’s no entry fee and can be played without NFT fighters as well. Anyone can play by downloading it for free on their Android or iOS smartphone. This approach helped us build a strong community of 375k+ players from around the world.

NFT fighters fuel the play-and-earn aspect of Meta Apes. By holding them, users generate SHELL tokens, the in-game currency. Using this, players can speed up their gaming progress. Furthermore, the NFT fighters come with additional skills & increased power that give them an edge over other players. Non-NFT fighters have 4 skills, whereas the NFT fighters get additional 1-3 skills.

On top of this, they also have some cosmetic effects, such as different backgrounds, lighting, halo & display of the user ID. Soon we will be introducing a fighter pairing system that you can benefit from if you have an NFT fighter.

Meta Apes NFT fighters can be bought from Galler.io now. We will soon be launching a blindbox event where you can buy new NFT fighters right from our marketplace on the website. Stay tuned to us on social media for updates.

Here’s a detailed guide on how to get an NFT fighter:

https://medium.com/meta-apes/how-to-get-a-meta-apes-nft-fighter-d8e3584e832b

Q3: Meta Apes is the first project/game using BNB Sidechain. Why have you chosen it and how have you managed to use this technology?

We decided on using BNB Sidechain because by having our own chain, we are able to achieve much greater customization, higher performance and greater scalability, all with the sound architecture and security of the BNB chain. Ultimately, this allows both the developers and the gamers to have a much better experience by helping avoid some of the common issues, such as network congestion, which leads to a poor gaming experience. Making sure the players have the best experience possible is our #1 priority & something we’ll continue to work on to achieve long-term success as a community.

Q4: Please explain the tokenomics.

We believe a two-token model helps us create a more sustainable economy for Meta Apes.

The two tokens are - 1) SHELL, our utility token and 2) PEEL, our governance & native gas token.

SHELL is the utility token or the in-game currency of Meta Apes. There are multiple ways to earn/generate SHELL. One is by holding NFT fighters, and the others are via in-game rewards, in-app purchases, or on PancakeSwap. As mentioned earlier, it is used in a variety of ways in the game, such as upgrading buildings & NFT fighters, accelerating building & researching, as well as buying in-game resources (e.g., iron, food, etc.). This diversity of emission & consumption channels makes the SHELL economy have a lot more sustainability and flexibility.

Here is the official contract address of $SHELL:

https://bscscan.com/token/0x208cfec94d2ba8b8537da7a9bb361c6baad77272

PEEL is the governance & native gas token of Ape Chain (which is the name of our own chain on BNB Sidechain). The Meta Apes token economy is designed such that all of the revenue & value generated inside the game accrue to our governance token holders, even including the gas fees as we operate on our own chain. PEEL will be used for NFT purchases/trades, performance-based rewards (i.e., rewards for top performing gangs & players), select critical in-game activities (e.g., final upgrade of NFT fighters, etc.), gas fees, staking & in-game validators, and last but not least, governance & voting.

$PEEL IFO took place on PancakeSwap on August 4th, and we raised over 235.17% of our target.

And here is the official contract address of $PEEL:

https://bscscan.com/token/0x734548a9e43d2D564600b1B2ed5bE9C2b911c6aB

Q5: What can we expect from Meta Apes in the near future?

Our player base and community are growing. We plan to support this by adding a new server. In the new server, the whole progress will restart, making it an even playing field for newbies. Also, we will be adding cross-server NFT support so that players can use their NFT fighters wherever they want. As mentioned earlier, we will be promoting the win-to-earn feature of the game through various in-game events. You really don’t wanna miss that.

Also, we are going to add more utility to $PEEL with the new blind box sale that will take place on our own marketplace.

Meta Apes was recently selected to participate in BNB Chain’s MVB V Accelerator Program. We are super excited about this and looking forward to leveraging the learnings from the program to continue improving our product.

Over the course of the next few months, we plan to introduce a variety of in-game features that drive additional value for our players, such as the fighter pairing system, NFT collectibles and PEEL staking. As always, we will be sure to communicate with our community constantly and keep you posted on all of the updates so stay tuned!

Session Two: Utilities & Risks

Q1: Hey team, what's your design process like?

We have in house web3 and web2 team in charge of different aspects of the game. Our web2 team designs gameplay and works on new features for the game. Our Web 3 Team ensures our blockchain technology is strong and provides the users with easy-to-use web3 features.

Q2: Can players earn PEEL?

Yes, we will be introducing events in the game that reward players that actively participate and engage, AND perform well. It is not just about “play-to-earn” or individual gameplay - you have to collaborate & strategize with the other players in your gang/clan and “win-to-earn”, which means actively battling against other players, completing quests, leveling up your fighters, taking over the launchpad, and more.

Q3: What advantages for long-term players & investors and how do #MetaApes keep the way? Is it risky when the whole current market is down?

We gonna launch more new servers, not only to attract more new players, but also for long-term players & investors' stable income, and those NFT may cross server, or we will hold some cross server contest, and no matter which server, players and investors can get good experience, we launched at the bear market, and we survive, players trust us, and we won't betray!

Btw a new server is going to be launched very soon, and we have some events in mind that can promote & showcase the win-to-earn feature of Meta Apes. Stay tuned for more info!

Q4: Could you explain more about your own NFT marketplace? Can I sell or exchange my NFTs in that marketplace? Are there any certain requirements for users who want to buy and sell their NFTs in that marketplace?

Yep our marketplace is on our official website, besides that, Meta Apes NFT fighters can be bought from Galler.io now. We will soon be launching a blindbox event where you can buy new NFT fighters right from our marketplace on the website.

Q5: Can you explain the business model and the in-app purchase of SHELL?

Meta Apes has a unique and innovative business model that differentiates itself from the other Web3 games. The in-app purchase of SHELL helps us create real revenue for the community. In general, all of the revenue from the ecosystem will accrue to the PEEL DAO, who will then decide how to use that revenue (e.g., burn/buyback PEEL).

And w recently announced a quarterly $PEEL burn program. The first quarterly $PEEL burn was completed on 8/29, in which 1,670,199 PEEL (50% of our quarterly revenue of ~$580k USD) were burnt.

Session Three: Achievements & the Community

Q1: Why you chose to build on #BNBSideChain and what do you think about future of GameFi Projects cause right now many of projects have gone out of liquidity and attention?

We decided on using BNB Sidechain because by having our own chain- Ape Chain, we are able to achieve much greater customization, higher performance and greater scalability, all with the sound architecture and security of the BNB chain. Ultimately, this allows both the developers and the gamers to have a much better experience by helping avoid some of the common issues, such as network congestion, which leads to a poor gaming experience. Making sure the players have the best experience possible is our #1 priority & something we’ll continue to work on to achieve long-term success as a community.

Q2: Is your project a community only for English speaking countries or for users not of other languages?

Not only in English, in our Dc there are several language channels~

Q3: What is your project's biggest achievement so far? Can you share it with us?

Meta Apes is recognized as 1 of 11 dApp stars on BNB chain of May, here is the news:

https://www.bsc.news/post/check-out-the-11-bnb-chain-dapp-all-stars-for-may

Q4: Social media is one of the tools to bring in community, get information about the project and gain exposure and recognition, can you drop MetaApes active social media platforms links and website links?

Official Website: metaapesgame.com/

Twitter: twitter.com/MetaApesGame

Discord: discord.gg/metaapesgame

Linktree: linktr.ee/metaapesgame

Whitepaper:  meta-apes.gitbook.io/meta-apes-whitepaper/other/community

Q5: About your Game do we need a team to play it? or only 1 NFT to play it?

You don't need to team up, but there is Gangs you could join in.

At last…

We’re proud of each and everyone in here, showing support and enthusiasm towards our project and Meta Apes. Hope you enjoy this recap! Follow us on social media to receive timely news, and stay tuned:

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About Gametaverse

Gametaverse aims to be the One-Stop GameFi Portal for everyone who wants start their gaming journey. Gametaverse provides users with an easy-to-use, real-time dashboard that aggregates all GameFi data and tracks the entire industry. It also selects individual games which you may want to closely monitor. Gametaverse keeps building customizable yield tracker for popular games, so players and guilds can track their NFT yields and game records.

Here is a recap of this amazing AMA session:

Session One: GameFi Insights & Pikaster Visions

Q1: How do you see GameFi sector becoming a major branch of the wider crypto universe? What was the initial point of attraction of GameFi?

In 2020, we have begun to notice Axie Infinity's enormous popularity, and this has sparked our interest. Obviously, we would like to participate in sectors that are fast-growing.

DeFi has been fast growing since 2017, and by 2020, it is mainly saturated and leading players within the space have been formed.

The opportunities for DeFi innovations are there, but at a much slower rate as compared to GameFi/NFTs space.

We are excited and constantly paying attention to other spaces in crypto, but GameFi for us is an attractive space to participate - It has elements of tokens, NFTs, and gaming all together, and we feel that there are lot of components to control/innovate.

At the same time, our founding team members consists of outstanding game developers with a wealth of experience in game development. So we thought, it would be a perfect match as we have the expertise, and the timing is right, and our team has that same interest and vision at the exact moment.

That’s how most projects start: people, timing, vision. Our founding team members are specialized in different fields, crypto-natives, coders, marketing, BD etc.

Our vision is that games are the best way to bridge more people from Web2 to Web3, because it is the easiest for the average player to understand. Most gamers are familiar with buying equipment and virtual assets in web2 gaming anyway, and GameFi is nothing dissimilar.

It is a similar logic, but runs on-chain, but what's interesting in web3 gaming is that we provide earnings/returns to gamers for their time and their investment.

Q2: Can you introduce Pikaster and let us know what is special about it?

Pikaster is a leading play-to-earn GameFi project developed by Metaland and powered by Unity Engine. It is built on KuCoin Community Chain (KCC). A card-based battle strategy PvE and PvP game, featuring Pikaster (as NFTs).

The game includes a range of features, including innovative NFTs Staking and Evolution mechanisms, Scholars system, Guilds, World Trees, Marketplace and in-game wallets.

A cool point to mention is the NFTs staking and evolution, releasing in V2.0.0. It is one of the innovations which our team has made. By evolving the NFTs via retired NFTs, it will take out the NFT in the in-game circulations; therefore, generating a deflationary trend overall.

While NFT staking encourages potentially lower NFTs liquidity, which lowers the supplies when NFTs are bred and minted. All in all, these are the ways which the team has innovated in order to balance the in-game economy, to reach sustainability in the long-term.

We care about fair game-play, with players’ earnings generally having a safety-net, and earnings upper-bound is very high.

In-game earnings are correlated to players' skills. We are dedicated to eliminating all kinds of anti-competitive behaviors such as cheating programs.

Obviously, we have also got an exceptional community-base. Our community bonding and interactions are strong, and that we think is really special.

Q3: During the stages of development and marketing, what are some of the unexpected hurdles faced by the team?

During the phase of developments, as early as back in February, there have been a lot of arguments, different views and perspectives about the directions and mechanics of the game.

I guess disagreements are always expected, but the frequency of disagreements is unexpectedly high. Issues such as whether to establish an independent account system, whether to establish a vitality system and an evolutionary mechanism to force NFT consumption etc.

Back in June, we closed our marketplace for almost a month due to upgrades in graphics. Users had to trade in the marketplace in app. That created some anger among our players that we did not expect. However, the team believed the upgrade was necessary and it was worth it in the end.

The hack of one of our in-game wallets was devastating, and another expected event.

However, players are everything to us and therefore we coped with all of our players, reimbursed for all of their losses and moved on.

We strengthened our securities, investigated the culprits, stabilized our token prices through relisting new game tokens etc. All of these were executed immediately without a doubt. Financially-speaking, we took a large hit during the hack obviously, but the hit should never incur on our players.

Or the fact that we were very time-tight for our deployment on BNB chain: we initially thought the process was shorter and quicker to execute, but it was longer than expected.

So our team is dedicated to rushing through the process, meanwhile making sure all our work and communications are maintained at the highest possible level.

Just a reminder: Our INO is on the 29th and listing on DEX 31th of August, so stay tuned!

Q4: What is your business model?

Our main sources of income derive from 3 ways：

A) the unlocking of tokens owned by the team,

B）the fee income from the NFT marketplace(5%) and assets withdrawals and transfers,

C) the income from the INO of NFTs.

Part of these incomes will also be used for user incentives, in buyback and burning in the secondary market. Advertising and co-sponsorship fees will also be one of our important revenue streams.

At this stage, our most important considerations for us are:

A) optimizing the product experiences

B) building the underlying tool infrastructure

C) optimizing the economic system within the in-game and Metaland ecosystems

D) expanding marketing influences to gain support from more users.

E) developing multi-products on multi-chains - our next football-themed game will be releasing BETA this October to match the World Cup! Stay tuned and don't miss out!

These are the foundations of our development, and large-scale commercialization is currently not our main goal. Our team vision from day one is to

A) Build products that people want and like

B) Build with the highest attention to details

C) Users experiences and satisfactions ALWAYS come first.

Q5: What is your opinion on the current GameFi market? Bullish or Bearish? Why?

The general crypto market is bearish, but that is okay, we all COPE. We still think the GameFi sector is bullish overall: ultimately we are a gaming product, the gameplay is always first, as it is a window to attract players.

Closely after, it is players’ earnings. Game token prices are not as susceptive to bull-bear market cycle in general, vs other projects in the field of DeFi or investments related protocols. Our token prices depend largely on minting vs burning of the in-game economy.

And as we said before, we think that gaming is the best way to get more people into web3.0, but GameFi itself is not without its problems:

A) in-game token inflation

B) NFT lasting forever and not retired (NFTs need to be recycled somehow)

C) maintaining players’ earnings in a satisfiable way, while being sustainable

D) continue to release updates and new features to maintain our attraction to players.

These are the problems that we face and combat, as a project builder. Bear markets are when quality projects, like Pikaster or many others, really build on our product, improve player experiences, improve game details, economic model circulations, players’ earnings etc., but most importantly, for projects to really think about, what people need, what users want, what players like.

Session Two: Benefits of Being Early

Q1: Where or how is Pikaster's name inspired?

Everyone must be familiar with Pikachu. That's what inspired our images. You can see many of our NFTs are so cute just like Pikachu. So we choose the "Pika" as the part of its name. And the "ster" from the word "master". Each our NFT is like a pet and waiting for our masters.

These are our new images on BSC.

Q2: What is the benefits for being early investor in your project?

For early investors, they can join our INO on BSC, and the price for INO is $60/NFT, which is affordable to many people. Pikaster is just the first project on Metaland, and our 2nd, 3rd projects are under preparation. Early investors of Pikaster can gain huge benefits to our 2nd and 3rd games.

As we all know, if you invest early, you can earn more.

Q3: Visuals/Graphics from blockchain projects are often disappointing, but you’ve been working hard to develop your gaming graphics. However, 3D visuals are a heavy load on most phones and PCs, so would you tell us what are the minimum technical requirements needed to run a game?

I think the most important thing for running a game is the community. Any projects with good community and many supports will definitely win!

Btw, our game now can perfectly run on PC and mobile (both iOS and Android).

Session Three: Pikaster Updates & Partnerships

Q1: How does the vitality system help the game in the long run?

Vitality system is like there are no forever-existing NFTs anymore. Each NFTs will be burned without any vitality. As we know many projects died of token or NFT inflation. And this can help to prevent the NFT inflation, as well as token inflation.

Burning - earning - burning - earning. That’s what we look for.

Q2: Can we do breeding in the game?

Yes of course, we can. Breeding is like another token burning mechanism in-game. Players can use 2 NFTs and some tokens to breed one new NFT. This is also one way for players to re-gain vitality to earn.

Q3: What partnerships do you currently have? What qualities do you seek in a relationship? Which initiatives or groups are you already connected to?

Currently we are partnered with KuCoin, MojitoSwap, KCC, BSC, BSC Daily, GameFi.org and other many platforms, guilds and DAO.

And recently, we are reaching more platforms on BSC.

For qualities, we want long-term cooperation. And trust is also important for both parties.

Q4: What is the relationship between Pikaster & KuCoin?

KuCoin is Pikaster’s best friend and strategic investor. We 100% trust KuCoin.

KuCoin always supports us in many aspects, such as we launch INO on KuCoin again. in the future we will still keep touch with KuCoin.

Q5: How many NFTs do you plan to release overall? Will it be limited?

On KCC chain, we have 18,000+ original eggs. And for this time on BSC, there will be 5,000 NFTs in INO and also some airdrop to our old investors on KCC chain. All these NFTs will be minted step by step.

Accurate number of the NFTs on BSC will be announced soon. You can follow us on Twitter to get the latest info: twitter.com/PikasterNFT.

At last…

We’re proud of each and everyone in here, showing support and enthusiasm towards our project and Pikaster. Hope you enjoy this recap! Follow us on social media to receive timely news, and stay tuned:

Twitter: twitter.com/GametaverseDAO

Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCDOjqmiPOPAqQYSCUev-I0w

Discord: discord.gg/px9EY6zz2W

Telegram: t.me/gametaverse

About Gametaverse

Gametaverse aims to be the One-Stop GameFi Portal for everyone who wants start their gaming journey. Gametaverse provides users with an easy-to-use, real-time dashboard that aggregates all GameFi data and tracks the entire industry. It also selects individual games which you may want to closely monitor. Gametaverse keeps building customizable yield tracker for popular games, so players and guilds can track their NFT yields and game records.

Here is a recap of this epic AMA session:

Session One: CHILL & the GameFi Landscape

Q1: How do you view GameFi as a new category/subset of crypto or the blockchain system? What concept attracted you to join this sector in the first place?

GameFi is a huge progress of the crypto world, it started to put token/NFT to be functional, however many GameFi has become a simply money making tool, and there are lot of fraud in this field, the app like StepN introduced MovetoEarn which will finally lead people to have a better life while making the earning of tokens.

However, StepN is focus on running, in the whole fitness part we haven’t get a project in the market, so we are here.

Q2: What major pain points or opportunities did you identify and decide to leverage with your project?

Chill is a Web3 Indoor AI-Fitness App.

Chill provides users with challenging fitness tasks. We adopted AI visual technology to identify and guide users to conduct effective exercise, and provide them with tokens for doing so. At the same time, users can use Chill to share their web 3.0 fitness life and socialize with other users.

Our Vision: To be the bridge between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 users

The Chill team hopes to attract more people to enter the world of Web3.0 through the model of Move-to-Earn, combined with our own strengths, to educate traditional web2.0 users to understand tokens and NFT, and inject new blood to the blockchain industry.

Q3: What are the unexpected obstacles you’ve encountered and insights/best practices you’ve learnt along the development and marketing process?

The Market. We have actually developed this app for 6 months from Q1, since we adopted AI vision technology, it's a huge development and cost compare to other projects, we have faced the funding problem, but now we have resolved the seed funding at 400,000 USDT! And team has made through it, now we are about finish the app and launch! Also YC capital, Sequoia Capital and Tencent investment are reaching us for the possible collaborations.

Q4: What’s your business model and how’s it different/innovative compared with other projects in the same category?

We are the first Move2Earn project that adopted AI Vision technology, which made us the first app able to make the fitness to earn including pushup, jumping jack etc. to be true.

Also, we have get Chill app majorly developed, will be estimated test in end of this month and officially online at mid of sept.

In the marketing part, we have gather over 30000 emails that wanted to participate in the app, we will send download and using guidance when we officially launching the app.

Q5: What’s your opinion on the current GameFi market? Bullish or bearish? Why?

Personally I will say the whole crypto market might be keeping bearish due to the overall global downturn, especially when many governments facing financial problems like now, the harsher blockchain industry censoring and control will be applied for government facilities to prevent cash flow out from current economy ecosystem, also they will try to absorb funds back from crypto to actual world economy.

It’s my personal judgment for next year market, however, the worse market will stimulate people to find better, safer, more stable product to invest in crypto, so a good project, which I believe we are will have more chances to attract attentions.

Session Two: Marketing, Utilities & Tokenomics

Q1: Marketing is a central element for every project so that everyone knows the potential that a project, can bring is vital to achieve the goals set. What is your strategy to attract new users and Investor, to your project and keep them in long term?

We are having an overall marketing plan to build up community metrics, including global partners and volunteers, also we will push our app in global gyms, transferring the traditional fitness scenario become our battlefield, that's all we are doing now, and we have already see the outcomes.

Beside we will have an presskit promotion, kol kit promotion, lanchpad collaborations and so on upcoming.

Q2: What will be their major utilities that can make them magnificent that everyone wants and make holder proud? What does #chillweb3 have for NFTs? How would they function in App’s ecosystem?

We have two types of tokens: SDD and XDD and 3 types of NFTs: NFT Watch, NFT CHIP and NFT CPU.

User have our watch are able to take tasks to earn tokens, better watch will lead better rewards, to get better watch, except buy from market, user could also consume chips and cpu to update better watch.

A better watch will consume a giant amount of SDD, and other NFTs, which will show the holder's priority!

Q3: Could you please share detailed token metrics of $SDD? Is there any requirements to participate in the IDO sale of SDD to contribute over $1M? What are your next big steps for expansion and product upgrade in the next quarter of 2022?

SDD is our in-wallet token, it will be launch on Pancakeswap. SDD will be used to consume for minting better watch.

About XDD, let me show the tokenomics.

XDD Total: 5,000,000,000 XDD

XDD LOCK

Private 16%: 12 months lock

Adviser 2%: 24 months lock

Team 15%: 24 Months lock

Ecology 20%

Launchpad 7%

Market 5%

Adviser:2%

AI-Fitness&Earn: 35%

NFT Watch 30% of Sales will be used as XDD Buy Back.

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About Gametaverse

Gametaverse aims to be the One-Stop GameFi Portal for everyone who wants start their gaming journey. Gametaverse provides users with an easy-to-use, real-time dashboard that aggregates all GameFi data and tracks the entire industry. It also selects individual games which you may want to closely monitor. Gametaverse keeps building customizable yield tracker for popular games, so players and guilds can track their NFT yields and game records.

Gametaverse frens,

This is the first and official Twitter Space Recap.

We are happy to share recaps of our discussions and update you on latest news and insights in the GameFi space.

This time we invited @hiCaptainZ, @321bigcat, @xueqiu88, @wangdadou2, @FEIlXIE, @daixiexie and @SKARKS3 to join us to explore areas including. To listen, you can follow the link here.

Q1: We all know that we are currently in a bear market, but according to statistics, there are nearly 1,000 games to be launched. So in your opinion where are we in the evolvement of GameFi?

Xueqiu: Although the current market is relatively bleak, GameFi still has a lot of potential. It can also be defined as a segment that fares well through both bull and bear. In the first half of the year, from StarSharks to StepN, the narrative has been complete, and there will still be many opportunities among plenty of games in the second half of the year. Judging from some of the games we have cooperated with recently, games launched in the second half of the year may be on a completely different path compared with those in the first half of the year. Today, in our conversation I also hope to see if we can spark new ideas and find some opportunities from the perspective of ourselves or our projects and communities. Because the importance of the Fi in GameFi has decreased, blockchain games started to attract more attention gradually. The chance of getting rich by playing the game is no longer that great. Maybe P2E games will evolve into traditional games like World of Warcraft. It may require a massive participation in the form of guilds in order to gain benefits in the future.

CaptainZ: First of all, GameFi is part of the crypto world, which also falls into the category of finance. In the case of a general bear market, this market segment will certainly not perform so well. Both the token price and the price of specific NFTs have fallen sharply. This naturally has made people a little anxious. But if we look at the price of the same time last year, starting from the same time on 19th of May, it is highly possible that we repeat the history and trade sideways at the bottom price for a while. Last year, Axie Infinity stood out in the bear market, and this time, there may be a new gaming project that will lead the whole segment out of the bear market. Indeed, GameFi projects, such as Axie and StepN, have gradually penetrated into everyday lives of the public, and many of the users involved in are not from the crypto space. I think there will be a trendy theme every quarter in crypto, and I think this trend will still start in the GameFi segment because this is the most attractive sector to users from incremental markets outside the crypto space.

Dai Xiexie: I’ll sum up in one sentence: It’s going to be difficult but worth looking forward to and “setting up an ambush.” Putting aside the fact that the market is in a real bear market, the host just mentioned that nearly 1,000 games will be launched in the GameFi field in the second half of the year, which shows that there are still many projects seeking opportunities in GameFi because of its popularity. But I want to say that it is still very difficult to navigate in the GameFi sector for both VCs and projects. Since last year, I have invested in dozens of projects with my VC friends, and now I haven’t recouped my investment. The projects are also in dire straits. Many projects invested by top investors with an investment amount of more than $3 million are also attracting little attention right now. Very few users interact with them on Discord and Twitter. Why do I say it's worth looking forward to and setting up an ambush? Because the quality of the project teams is getting higher, and there are dozens of projects obtaining financing for an amount of more than $10 million. The playability of future blockchain games is not necessarily worse than that of traditional games. Many of the teams are traditional web2 game makers, and what is needed now is time to figure out how to combine Game with Fi. If we can set up an ambush for high-quality projects now, it will be the same as hoarding ETH at a low price in the past few years.

Q2: I would like to ask: What dimensions do you usually choose to “set up an ambush?”

Dai Xiexie: In fact, I look at two dimensions: The first dimension is the financing amount. Only a well-funded team can survive, especially in a bear market. I think projects with an investment amount of more than $10 million are worthy of attention and follow-ups. The second dimension is whether the team has ever made phenomenal products in traditional gaming market.

321bigcat: I choose to invest in games that have well-known investors. Like Dai Xiexie, I have also made a list of projects invested by prominent investors before. Thanks to my work relationships, I can have direct conversations with many leading projects such as Illuvium and investors such as Animoca Brands. I think investors generally invest in two directions: One is infrastructure, and the other is the application layer. Because the market is bleak at present, most projects can’t attract many users. There are no more than 20 GameFi projects that have more than 10,000 DAU, and even fewer are token/NFT holders. Now Chinese players are facing relatively more obstacles, such as the requirement to download VPN, the ban on fiat-to-crypto transactions, etc. Mainstream players are unable to enter the market. The reason why traditional games like World of Warcraft can be popular is that it has tens of millions of players, so there are huge demands for trading. The dilemma that needs to be solved now is how to bring more non-crypto players into the blockchain gaming world.

0xKEY-FEI: The most important thing in a bear market is to survive. I can share some useful experience on how to find a high-potential project with newbies. Now I analyze a project mainly from 4 perspectives: 1) The guild. Pay attention to the official Twitter of each major guild; 2) Major crypto-focused funds, such as a16z and Binance Labs; 3) Game-related media channels, e.g., Gametaverse or DappRader, as well as some domestic media outlets, such as BlockBeats and ODaily; 4) Some launchpads, such as DaoMaker.

SKARKS3: I am still very bullish on GameFi although it is very difficult to survive now, and it is even more difficult to break through key bottlenecks. But if that day comes, games left in the end will certainly become our industry leaders. I think current projects are basically competing in terms of operation, and whoever is better at telling stories will be able to get ahead other competitors. Because the current gaming ecosystems and economic models are not perfect, most of them seem like Ponzis, and they need to constantly rely on new users and funds to keep them alive. Compared with the DeFi feature of GameFi, the playability is still too weak. I will pay more attention to and look forward to some triple A games and more traditional games moving to blockchain in the future. You should accumulate in a bear market and take profits in a bull market. Now the bear market is providing good opportunities for the gaming community. Many game makers that are relatively small and unknown take the initiative to find communities to publicize their games. It becomes easier to asks for benefits for our fans, such as free NFTs. In the bear market, game projects will also lower the requirements for players. In the bull market, the game project itself will become a platform, but it is difficult for the community to develop. The gaming community still needs to do due diligence, prepare project tutorials, and negotiate for benefits. My own approach to finding high-potential projects is also based on four dimensions: 1) Investors. I will pay more attention to traditional investors such as Sequoia Capital and some investments aimed for trading; 2) GameFi tools to search for on-chain data of each project; 3) The popularity of each KOL; 4) The community. Try your best to join as many communities as possible. Many OGs may hide in the community and do in-depth analysis.

Q3: Do you think GameFi projects can achieve sustainable development in the long run by constantly improving their economic models so that players can continue to make profits, or by improving their gameplay and playability?

Dai Xiexie: Who has put forward the three concepts of blockchain games, GameFi and Play-to-Earn? We all subconsciously feel that that both blockchain games and GameFi need to be play-to-earn. But for GameFi, the original idea was to decentralize game assets. In the future, phenomenal blockchain games will not be made by previous DeFi or public-blockchain teams. They are still more oriented towards earning money by speculation. It will be a gradual process of traditional games moving to the blockchain, and it will be phased, from the upper chain to the tokenization of game assets.

Romantic Rick: In fact, blockchain games are in their early stage, which is why I am willing to be deeply involved in it. Everyone knows that this is a Ponzi, but it's just in the guise of web3. What we all know is that we are willing to participate in this Ponzi because it is profitable for both the community and the individuals. From last year's GameFi boom to the present—many projected are affected by the bear market, people are reluctant to do anything. As it stands, I think there is no playability to speak of in GameFi. At present, almost none of the people who come to GameFi to play games. They all come to make money. If Ponzis can’t survive the bear market, more projects will spend time on improving playability and driving mass adoption outside the crypto world. If GameFi projects want to offer applications outside the crypto space, they need to rebuild their who ecosystem.

Q4: We also want to talk about GameFi review today. Are there any guests who know about this area?

Dai Xiexie: I think the community and KOLs are good candidates for GameFi reviews. I once set up a CP DAO, but then I got a little lazy, because at this moment, such a Dao doesn’t generate any revenue. In fact, there is no mature and distributed organization for blockchain game reviews now. But I think if we are bullish on GameFi, the reviewing business is worth studying and discussing.

Snowball: I'll follow up on Dai Xiexie. We have tested some products before and there is no mature review mechanism now. We met problems from touching base with team leaders and front-line testers to the final revenue distribution. But we can learn from traditional games to take their approaches. Can we take over the review task as investors or platforms, let professionals touch base with the projects, and then distribute the tasks to the community. The community will select candidates to alpha test the games and ensure that the proceeds can be successfully distributed. Most game assets are NFTs, but if the incentives are NFTs, it doesn’t mean too much. If a game succeeds, then its NFTs are valuable; if it does not, then their NFTs are of no value. It only means the community works hard for nothing. If the incentives are distributed as stable coins, it is a better approach at present.

At last.

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About Gametaverse

Gametaverse aims to be the One-Stop GameFi Portal for everyone who wants start their gaming journey. Gametaverse provides users with an easy-to-use,  real-time dashboard that aggregates all GameFi data and tracks the entire industry. It also selects individual games which you may want to closely monitor. Gametaverse keeps building customizable yield tracker for popular games, so players and guilds can track their NFT yields and game records.

DeFi Land is a multi-chain agriculture-simulation game created to gamify Decentralized Finance (currently only available on Solana). Players will be able to start playing the game for free, grind their way up to the play-2-earn tier, compete with others, craft, trade and more.

DeFi Land gamifies decentralized finance by turning investment activities into games. While there are games that make use of the blockchain, DeFi Land is novel in that it takes DeFi as a whole and aggregates the various actions that can be taken on each DeFi platform and turns them into an interactive game that can be played. This enables all DeFi protocols to be accessed in a single location rather than having to visit each one individually. Furthermore, DeFi Land adds an incentivization layer on top, making participating through DeFi Land better than through each platform’s native UI.

DeFi Land is built by an experienced anonymous team who have been researching& exploring the Decentralized Finance industry. They have a background in multiple industries such as AR, VR, AI, gaming, Fintech and ERP. The team members have worked with the biggest companies such: NVIDIA, AWS, Magic Leap and have vast experience and computer science backgrounds, giving a strong edge to quickly deliver high quality products.

Overview

House

It serves a variety of functions. You can check your portfolio, achievements, leaderboard and inventory, etc.

It serves a variety of functions. You can check your portfolio, achievements, leaderboard and inventory, etc.

Mini-Game

DeFi Land currently has four games: “Memory Game”, “Farm Invaders”, “Shooting Gallery” and “Fishing”.

In Memory Game, you flip 2 cards at a time and try to flip matching cards by remembering their positions. The difficulty increases as you beat each level.

Farm Invaders is like Space Invaders, but instead crows have come to steal your crops!

In Shooting Gallery you could shoot wild ducks with a shortgun.

In fishing game, you will need to use keyboard to simulate fishing.

Seed Laboratory

The “Seed Laboratory” is where users can combine different crops (assets) to produce seeds (LP tokens). Currently, DeFi Land only supports Raydium’s LP tokens, but expect more integrations in the future!

Farm Board and Farms

Once you make some seeds, they can be planted in “Farms”. Once planted, the crops can be harvested or unplanted. You can check the ROI in “Farm Board”.

Harvesting corresponds to harvesting on Raydium, where the accumulated emissions are transferred to your wallet.

Market

The “Market” is where you can swap between assets (through Raydium).

Tokenomics

DFL is the native token in our game that is used to govern DeFi Land as well as reward our players in-game, allow them to stake, compete, bet, and much more. DeFi Land will enable users to customize their land, buy skins, purchase NFTs from the marketplace, tip their friends and various other features that are coming in v2.

• Token Name: DeFi Land Token

• Ticker: $DFL

• Total Supply: 10,000,000,000

• Token Standard: SPL

• Token Type: Utility, Governance

• Blockchain: SOLANA

Guide to Play

1. Registration

Head to https://play.defiland.app/, register with your Solana wallet.

2. Find proper ROI token pair

Click “Farm board”, choose a proper ROI token pair. Remember that, the more the APR, the more risky the token pair. Be sure you know the token well before entering.

3. Produce seeds

Click “Seed Laboratory”, produce seeds (LP) based on your assets.

4. Farm

Click “Farm” and choose your seeds to plant.

Conclusion

In the opinion of DeFi Land, DeFi lacks mass adoption. Newcomers, especially retail users, are afraid of using it as it seems too complex to understand. There is a huge deficiency of information and user on-boarding processes. Then they create the product that would introduce newcomers to decentralized finance in an interactive, fun and easy-to-learn way. Therefore, DeFi Land is actually an finance product not a game. It’s totally different from those typical Play-to-Earn game like Axie Infinity. To play in DeFi Land, what you need to do is to combine token pair and deposit into AMM liquidity pool and earn yield like other typical DeFi projects.

StarSharks is an NFT-GameFi ecosystem based on the BNB chain. The game integrates different types of game mechanism and allows players to use the same character to enter the Shark-metaverse. StarSharks.Warriors, as its first game, is a turn-based card game. The sharks on the platform are NFTs that can be battled, raised, and synthesized. Designed for both newbies and experts, the game combines simple combat rules and skill mechanisms with exciting and challenging infinite strategy combinations.

The StarSharks.Warriors has two modes: PvE and PvP. Each player begins with six skill cards allotted randomly. Players can install the StarSharks.Warriors official version from the StarSharks homepage (Only Android version available now).

The team behind StarSharks is a talented team from Timi Studio Group, which has an entrepreneurial track record of making games that attract more than 1 million daily active users within 3 months. Through strategic investment, Star Sharks plans to attract more talent to join them in creating the next generation of blockchain games.

Based on the consideration of “team has deep gaming expertise and extensive product design experience”, Binance Labs makes the strategic investment in StarSharks to grow the BNB Ecosystem. After that, a 4.8 million private funding round was made by prominent investors like DAO Maker, Gate.io Labs, Kucoin Labs, YGG SEA and others. In the past three months, the game has generated over $10M in daily on-chain transaction revenue and the marketplace has facilitated over 38K daily active users.

Source: https://gametaverse.io/hubble/starsharks

From the chart above, we can see that both rentee and purchaser transaction volume are increasing very steadily.

Tokenomics

Like the tokenomics of Axie Infinity, The economy of StarSharks is also powered by a sustainable dual-token economy system:

• SSS: The governance token that authorizes stakeholders the rights to share the value of the StarSharks metaverse IP via DAO and the rights to define the future of the StarSharks metaverse

• SEA: The game token for players to enjoy and build their own metaverse experience

SSS is the StarSharks governance token. The total supply of SSS is 100 million. Players and investors can get SSS via exchanges/swaps, winning the battles and getting a higher ranking in games, and contributions in community building and referrals. The team designed a “releasing-staking-recycling“ system to stabilize SSS value and to ensure its long-term value while constantly releasing new SSS to the market. The quantity of SSS to be released depends on the monthly revenue of the platform and floats within the set range with the specific quantity determined by given algorithms.

Source: StarSharks Official White Paper

SEA token is the in-game currency. Its issuance is unlimited, but the balance between its production and consumption is the prerequisite to the design of all the games on the platform as its stability is the cornerstone of the whole platform. The team will initially issue 100 million SEA tokens to create a trading pair on PancakeSwap and maintain token price stability. Subsequently players can only get SEA tokens from games.

What are the differences between Axie Inifinity and StarSharks

Axie Infinity is the pioneer of play-to-earn, turn-based card games that incorporates non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies. Similar to Axie, players need to have 3 NFTs (Sharks) which can be purchased at the Market. After that, players can form a team of three to fight (either in PvE or PvP).

Of course there are many differences, like 3D design, multiple genres, community engagement, and referral system, but in my opinion, the most special and highlighted feature of StarSharks is the built-in NFT rental market, which allows players to easily and quickly organize guilds on the platform and rent NFTs to other players for P2E. This feature can fully activate the liquidity and utilization of NFT assets, and bridge the gap between NFT holders who don’t have time to play and active players who don’t have enough initial capital to purchase entry NFT.

Source: StarSharks Official White Paper

As of 10 March 2022, the game has over 38K unique daily active addresses holding over 141K Sharks with 80% of those addresses holding rental sharks other than purchase, to partake in in-game activity. The number of DAU has been on a steady increase, and much faster for rental than purchase. This is likely due to players being able to earn more rewards with less investment and less risk through rentals.

Source: https://gametaverse.io/hubble/starsharks

Source: https://gametaverse.io/hubble/starsharks

Source: https://dune.xyz/gametaverse/StarSharks-Gametaverse

A hybrid account means the player both buys and rents sharks, and it is the best strategy to earn. I will explain it in the next section.

Play-to-Earn Strategies

Currently there are four strategies a player can use to earn: leasing sharks, playing by purchasing sharks, playing by renting sharks and playing by both purchasing and renting.

Leasing: buy sharks and rent them out. For example, the current floor price for a 1-star shark is $700 and daily rent is 14 SEA (around $22). A player can get their principal investment back in almost 31 days.

Playing by purchasing sharks: for example, if a player buys one 2-star shark and four 1-star sharks to form two teams, the investment will be around $4,500, but the player can get 20 SEA for daily task rewards, 52 SEA for Adventure Mode rewards and 22 SEA for Promotion Campaign Rewards, which gives the player total of 95 SEA ($150), the ROI (in days) is around 30 days as well.

Playing by renting sharks: for example, if a player can rent one 2-star shark and four 1-star sharks to form two teams, the total rent is 85 SEA. Similarly, the total rewards to the player after playing should be 95 SEA; therefore the daily profitis 10 SEA without any risk.

Playing with purchasing and renting: to be consistent with above examples, a player can buy one 2-star shark and rent four 1-star sharks to form two teams. The ROI (in days) is also around 30 days.

From the above discussion, we can conclude the “play by renting sharks” strategy is very suitable for small investors and newbies with almost no risk. That’s the reason why DAU is increasing so fast and over 80% of them are rentee accounts. Furthermore, many new players jumping into the game results in a deflation of the SEA token, since SEA token will be burnt after converting to NFT sharks.

Source: https://dune.xyz/gametaverse/StarSharks-Gametaverse

But here is a question: will those players keep playing in the long run or just play to test water? Let’s see the metric of User Active Days Distribution. From the chart below, we can see that most of the players are scoped in 1–3 days, excluding the players that just want to give a try, one important reason is due to the rewarding mechanism: the minimum requirement to claim SEA is 100 SEA and it takes 14 days to be able to claim the next batch. That’s to say, to avoid the 14-day waiting time, most of the players, be it a rentee or a purchaser, will play for 1–3 days to accumulate rewards to make more than 100 SEA and then transfer the NFT sharks to other addresses.

Source: https://gametaverse.io/hubble/starsharks

Let’s look at the days to be profitable for rentees and purchasers: compared to 1–2 days for rentees, it is more widely distributed for purchasers because purchasers are of different types, some are short profit chasers which prefer cheaper sharks and high ROIs, some the long term holders and collectors, short time profit is not of their highest interests. However we can see that even for purchasers, most of them can cover their spending in less than 40 days.

Source: https://gametaverse.io/hubble/starsharks

Since StarSharks is in a virtuous cycle currently: around 80% of players have made a profit so far, and most rentee players make a net profit of $20 per one wallet address.

Source: https://gametaverse.io/hubble/starsharks

Conclusion

Axie Infinity is the pioneer in the blockchain gaming space. StarSharks is trying to offer more fun in gameplay and introduce the built-in rental market to balance the risk and investment return. Upcoming updates will unlock new mechanics and features, such as raising simulation, land, and shark racing, which will take the game to the next level. Will StarSharks lead the way into the GameFi 2.0 era and accelerate growth of the whole gaming economy in the future? We will have to wait and see how that develops.

The Bomb Crypto game is a Play-To-Earn NFT game, where players manage a group of bomb heroes of cyborgs programmed to search for BCOIN and fight monsters. Each bomb hero has different stats, if you’re lucky you can find bomb heroes with good attributes to sell or upgrade them to increase performance and battle ability.

The game is built by Senspark, which is an indie Vietnamese game developer founded in 2011, but started developing games many years before that. Senspark developped more than 40 classical games like Stickman Battle 2021, Gold Miner, Tank 1990, Bomb Squad, etc, and reached more than 100M in total download. Now this time they took the “Bomb Squad” out and make it shift to crypto space.

Senspark CEO, LAM HO, spent dozens years in developing game since Jave game era and win a lot of academy/industry awards. The tech lead, HAI HOANG, has 6 years of experience in game development and win 1st Price in 2014 ACM-ICPC Vietnam National Programming Contest.

Those background bring Senspark a success on fundraising of $300K in private round fundrasing, including Kardia Ventures and VNDC Verntures.

Overview

Game Modes

There are three modes as below:

Treasure Hunt Mode

In Treasure Hunt Mode, players can send bomber heroes to the mining areas and have them plant bombs to destroy blocks to find BCOIN. These heroes can work automatically without players’ having to be there all the time, which helps players save plenty of time to do other tasks.

The hero also consumes energy each time a bomb is placed. When he runs out of energy, the hero will enter a resting state to recharge his energy. If you buy a house, it will increase the charging speed.

Story Mode (Not Available Now)

Players choose a bomber hero of their own to participate in each level in Story mode. The player needs to destroy all the monsters to pass each level. Breaking blocks and killing monsters also give players a chance to drop BCOINs.

Battle Mode (Not Available Now)

In Battle mode, players join a bomb battle to fight against other players. In order to join, not only do players need a specific type of energy, but they also need to pay a certain amount of tokens as entry fee which will later be used as rewards. The final winner takes the majority of the losers’ tokens.

Heroes

Bomber heroes have 5 attributes, and each bomber hero will be different.The higher the rarity, the stronger these 5 power attributes will be

𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛’𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫

𝐁𝐨𝐦𝐛 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚: 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨’𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲

𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝: 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝

𝐁𝐨𝐦𝐛: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝

𝐀𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡

Bomber hero can be upgraded to release all of his potential power. When upgrading a bomber, he will take other bombers of the same level as his own material. The upgrading process also consumes some BCOINs.

House

Each bomber hero has his own stamina. And when it is drained out, the bomber hero will go back to the house, to recover before continuing working again.

Tokenomics

BCOIN is the main currency used in game:

• Buy Hero

• Reward to players

BCOIN basic information

• Token Name: BCOIN

• Ticker: $BCOIN

• Total Supply: 100,000,000

• Token Standard: BEP20

• Token Type: Utility, incentive

• Blockchain: Binance Smart Chain

Guide to Play

1. Connect to you BSC wallet

Head to official website and connect your BSC wallet https://bombcrypto.io/

2. Buy Hero with BCOIN

Click “Shop” and then click “10 BCOIN”, a pop-up windown will show up to let you sign the mint transaction. If you want to buy house, just need to click “buy” button under “Buy House”.

3. Setup Hero NFT in Working status

In dashboard, click “HEROES” and you will see you bomb hero. Click “WORK” to let your hero in working status.

4. Play to Earn

And then go back to dashboard to click “TREASURE HUNT”. You will see your hero is searching for BCOIN in the map automatically.

If click the box icon in the up-right corner, you can claim your rewards as below:

Strategy

While deciding what heroes are the best, you should know that Power is Key!

Power is the most important attribute in a hero, higher the power, higher the profit.

The best skills are “+0.5 energy regen” and “+20% chance of not losing energy”, following by “+2 damage on chests”.

Your profit is based on your time and strategy, In order to take full profit and be working all day, you have to rotate your heroes by working in teams of five. You can send your heroes to work with energy 80%+, and send them to rest at about 30%. When a new map starts, you should use your 5 best heroes, and change them to the next team once their stamina hits 30%. By doing this all day your heroes never stop, they are always working and resting.

Suppose you have a common hero (82% drop rate) and daily profit is around 0.5 BCOIN. Based on the estimation from https://bombcryptosimulator.com/. The ROI will be around 60 days.

Thetan Arena is an MOBA game based on Blockchain technology like Arena of Valor, and League of Legends. You can gather your friends, form a team, battle with others and earn token rewards with just your skills. The game features an environment and characters that are minimalistic in design and have a retro touch. In each round, players will use their fighting skills and teamwork to finish with maximum rewards.

Thetan Arena team brings together members who are both prominent and experienced in the field of game development as well as blockchain technology. The game development team is founded in 2014 under the name of Wolffun, with a specialty in Online PvP games for mobile platforms.

CEO Khanh Nguyen spent 7 years in game development as part of Wolf Fun Studio, where he was working together with other members of the founding team. CTO Hoang So has over 8 years experience on PvP game. CEO fo My DeFi Pet and CEO of KardiaChain will be amongst the core team members and the advisors of Thetan Arena. Overall, Thetan has a very well-rounded team, with complementary skill sets and backgrounds, with each co-founder having a deep understanding and exposure to blockchain too. Currently, there are over 50 Thetan employees supporting the founding team.

Those background bring Thetan Arena a massive success on fundraising of over $2.1 million USD, including numerous tier-1 investment firms: Animoca Brands, Formless Capital, DFG, Spark Digital Capital, Vixen Ventures, Axia8, Clovers Ventures, Everest Ventures Group, Kardia Ventures, AU21 Capital, K300, Decom Holdings, and many more.

Overview

Game Modes

Thetan Arena’s gameplay is designed to revolve around the combination of your personal skills and teamwork with several modes: MOBA & Battle Royale. Specifically speaking, there are five modes as below:

Battle Royale (Solo / Duo)

Number of Players: 12 Players

Time Limitation: 4 minutes

12 players joining a battleground try their best to survive and to become the last man standing. After a short period, a ring-shaped borderline will appear and start closing in, trapping everyone inside. Whoever staying outside it gets eliminated. All the players have the same mission. Destroy the supply boxes to gather bonus power points and eliminate others to become the last to survive.

Tower Siege

Number of Players: 8 Players

Time Limitation: 5 minutes

In this amazing mode, players are divided into two teams. Their mission is to bring down the rival’s tower. Players have to collect items called Battery to summon the Siege Robot. The tower can only be damaged whenever the Siege Robot reaches the tower.

The game will end when either one of the towers is destroyed. If the time runs out and neither of the towers is destroyed, the team whose tower has more health will be the winner.

Super Star

Number of Players: 8 Players

Time Limitation: 4 minutes

Players join and try to own the Superstar. The “mother” Superstar produces Point Stars which give match points to the team which collects these. The team that has more match points will be the winner. In the case that a team has more than 50 match points than their rival, it will be instantly announced as victorious.

Deathmatch

Number of players: 8 players

Time Limitation: 3 minutes

In this mode, the main target of all players is “Eliminating others as many as possible”.

Whoever has the most elimination points before the time runs out will be the winner.

In the case that a single player has more than 25 elimination points, the game will end immediately and he will be announced as the winner.

Custom Battle

Number of Players: Customizable

Time Limitation: Up to the chosen game mode.

Want to create a game and play with your friends only? You can create a custom battle and invite them to play together. The host can freely choose any option among available possibilities of game modes, maps and can decide the number of in-game players.

Heroes

Heroes in Thetan Arena are categorized into 3 other groups according to their signature skills and statistics, including Tank, Assassin, and Marksman.

Tank

Tank heroes are responsible for becoming frontlines facing up to the enemies and prevent their teammates from receiving damages.

Basic Attributes:

• Health Point: High

• Attack Damage: Normal

• Speed: Slow

Assassin

Assassins are deadly and silent killers who can engage the fight, eliminate the target in a single combo, and retreat without being noticed.

Basic Attributes:

• Health Point: Low

• Attack Damage: High

• Speed: High

Marksman

Marksmans are the main damage dealers and are responsible for maintaining the DPS amount during the fight.

Basic Attributes:

• Health Point: Normal

• Attack Damage: High

• Speed: Normal

Rarity

The Rarity of a hero is determined by 2 elements: the base rarity of that hero and the rarity of its skin. Heroes with a higher rarity have more unique playstyles, abilities and will have a chance to get bonuses in battle rewards.

There are 3 different levels of rarity:

• Common Hero

• Epic Hero

• Legendary Hero

Skin Rarity: Skin rarity is determined by the frequency of the skin in the selling pool. The rarer the cosmetic is, the better it looks like, with more visual effects and bonuses in battle rewards. There are 3 different levels of skin rarity:

• Default Skin

• Rare Skin

• Mythical Skin

Trophy class

Trophy Class represents the mastery of using a hero, which means that hero has been played in thousands of matches. Besides, Trophy Class increases the power of the custom skills chosen by heroes in the game. The Trophy Class will be graded from H to SS, and the respective benefits.

Skills

Before joining the battlefield, players are requested to select 2 skills in addition to choosing a hero. Each skill belongs to a different kind of skill sets, which requires players to make decisions more carefully to use them effectively.

Skills in Thetan Arena are categorized into 3 different skill sets based on their main attributes. Each skill set is also divided into 3 different levels of rarity which are default, rare and mythical. Three skill sets include:

• Effect Skill: Inflicting status on self, allies, and enemies.

• Damage Skill: Used to greatly increase the amount of damage in a short period.

• Support Skill: Aiding you against attacks of enemies.

Every week, there are randomized 15 skills to be selected in the skill pool. Players can only choose the skills which are available. The skill pool will be refreshed weekly.

Tokenomics

Thetan Arena is using a dual-token system as economic incentives to encourage users to participate in the ecosystem activities.: Thetan Gem (THG) and Thetan Coin (THC).

$THG is a functional utility token which will be used as the medium of exchange between participants on Thetan Arena in a decentralized manner.

• Token Name: Thetan Arena Token

• Ticker: $THG

• Total Supply: 420,000,000

• Token Standard: BEP20 & ERC-20

• Token Type: Utility, Governance

• Blockchain: Binance Smart Chain & KardiaChain

Thetan Coin ($THC) is the main currency used in Thetan Arena’s operations. $THC is used in the following activities:

• Buy Thetan Box: Thetan Box is the source of Hero for the entire Thetan Arena system

• Reward to streamers: $THC can use for reward streamers when they stream games

THC basic information

• Token Name: Thetan Coin

• Ticker: $THC

• Total Supply: unlimited

• Token Standard: BEP20 & ERC-20

• Token Type: Utility, incentive

• Blockchain: Binance Smart Chain & KardiaChain

How to earn THC?

• Battle: The amount of $THC bonus in each battle depends on the trophy class and hero rarity

• Quest: When you complete the quests in the game, you will receive Quest Points. After receiving enough Quest Points, you will be able to exchange them for $THC

• Battle Pass: players can earn $THC through the Battle Pass. The Battle Pass will collect the most valuable items in a season.

• Ranking Rewards: Players can earn $THC if they rank up

• Guild War: Players can earn $THC in guild war (the function is expected to be developed in 2022)

• Tournament: Players can earn $THC in tournaments organized by the system or the players themselves for their guilds.

Play to Earn

In Thetan Arena, you can Play to Earn in many ways:

1. If you don’t want to invest money into the game, you can use Free (Normal) Hero to participate in battles so to accumulate enough in-game rewards of Thetan Coin ($THC) for playing. You may also sell $THC in a peer-to-peer manner to the market or use it to open more Premium Hero, and its take time.

2. If you can’t wait, a combination of $THC and $THG may be consumed to open Thetan Box to get Premium Heroes. With Premium Heroes, players can dedicate playing hours to level up, and possibly trade them for $THC. In addition, you can also use Premium Heroes to participate in various special events to earn more $THC and $THG in reward. If you want more, let sharpen your skills and conquer the leader-boards.

3. As a digital asset holder, you can treat Premium Heroes as digital assets that may earn rewards/income by active battling in the Arena. The owner of premium heroes can enter into private arrangements with the actual players, entering into direct peer-to-peer arrangements for rental of heroes or sharing rewards obtained cooperatively. Players who are unable to obtain these Premium heroes may also work together to earn digital tokens, because they have the time & skills to optimize your digital assets.

4. As a Player, who spends time to sharpen their skills & ability to optimize any Heroes and become partners in the ecosystem.

5. As a streamer, you can stream games to attract game players to support you and receive rewards from Thetan community.

Battle Rewards

After each match, all NFT heroes get gTHC rewards. This reward is based on the match results and the rarity of the hero and skin (win bonus).

gTHC bonus for each won battle, varies by hero and skin rarity.

Players are rewarded with Win bonus when:

• Win in team modes

• Rank 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th in Battle Royale Solo

• Rank 1st, 2nd in Battle Royale Duo

Gametaverse is trying to give reward estimation based on token price and different hero rarities and levels, you may have a check here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRF-IdKAl38gP75ZnOJdkeE1o7DIpkiX1VIGZZiojRjTm2rF6dcjWWQgLkJBJaoUcp4ITcnOIvz7tK-/pubhtml

Ranking

The Ranking is a system that sorts players’ ranks based on the trophies they get in matches. The goal is to create groups of players with the same standards of skills in order to get battles with great quality. The Ranking also helps others recognize top player’s achievements.

The ranking system consists of 11 ranks, and players need to achieve a certain amount of trophies to advance to the next one. Each rank will be divided into many small tiers, helping players keep track of their progress more easily. It also provides a better classification for match-matching.

Every day, top 20 Champion level players will become Super Champion. At this rank, players will get exclusive items for the Super Champion rank and be honored on the leaderboard for 24 hours.

Guide to Play

1. Registration

Head to https://thetanarena.com/ and download the APP. Currently they are only supporting iOS, Android and PC. Then open the APP and register your account with email.

2. Pick Free Hero

After login the game, you will have a chance to pick a free hero randomly. Or if you want to buy a premium hero, just need to go to marketplace and connect your wallet:

https://marketplace.thetanarena.com/

3. Battle Matching

On the homepage, you will see the basic information like hero, sill, friend, shop, in-game currencies and battle modes, etc. Choose the battle modes and click “FIND MATCH”, you will be directed to the battlefield.

Conclusion

Thetan’s Creator wants Thetan to become the first Blockchain-based MOBA game that is truly owned and governed by the community. The rise of play-to-earn game modes on the blockchain space is becoming more and more noticeable. Thetan Arena looks like a refreshing addition to the array of blockchain-based games we are enjoying today.

The user portraits in GameFi are dominated by “gold-farming” users, and the profitability is the main driving force. Given that the game is expected to be easy to play, it might not face many hurdles when it comes to attracting new players. The challenge, therefore, is how the game will be able to create an incentive model for players that will entice them to stay and keep playing the game.

Alien Worlds is a free, play-to-earn NFT metaverse card game based on the WAX chain. It allows players to own land, collect tools and avatars, use minions in battle, and earn crypto assets through Alien Worlds’ gigantic system.

According to data from DappRadar, Alien Worlds’ user base has grown by 19.67% in the past 30 days, adding more than 960,000 users. In addition, it has accumulated USD 466 million in transactions (September 2021).

The two co-founders of Alien Worlds are Sarojina McKenna and Michael Yeates. They both worked for EOS before and worked with Liberland, a small country of 8 square kilometers along the Danube River, to help govern the country with blockchain and DAO. Now, they have applied their expertise in the metaverse.

Mining and staking have been opened in the game, and the battle feature will be launched soon. The items in the alien world are all minted through Atomichub’s NFT protocol and can be traded on the Atomichub market. At present, five categories of NFTs, including tools, weapons, soldiers, characters, and land, have been issued. Tools and land NFTs can be used in mining systems. Users can equip tools to mine TLM on the land, and landowners can charge a certain percentage of taxes from miners who mine on their land. This percentage can be set by the landowners themselves. Soldiers and weapons are prepared for the battle system. As for the character NFTs, it more or less serves as the skin of the character at present and has no practical effect. This may change in the future when the battle system is introduced and the character NFTs will classify different camps. In addition, it is worth mentioning that Atomichub’s NFT protocol can be interoperable with other NFT projects of the same protocol. Currently, Alien Worlds has interoperated with the Dark Kingdom. Players can use the cards of Alien Worlds in the game of Dark Kingdom. This can be regarded as one of the highlights of the game.

The game also integrates Staking and DAO gameplay. Every planet in Alien Worlds can be chosen by the users to stake TLM to increase the planet’s TLM output. Another advantage of staking TLM is that users can get voting rights for the planet’s DAO and can vote on the planet’s development plan and other issues.

In the past few months, Play-to-Earn’s blockchain games have grown exponentially, as seen by Alien Worlds. In March of this year, the game raised more than $2 million through TLM sales to private investors. Some of its famous investors include Animoca Brands, Meitu app creator Longling Capital, 3Commas and Digital Assets Group. The metaverse of Alien Worlds is expanding globally. Co-founder Saro McKenna told CoinDesk, “Metaverses is the new social media, people will socialize here.”

WAX Blockchain

WAX is a public chain that focuses in-game items and NFTs. The homepage of its official website “unhumbly” crowned itself King of NFT. The WAX ​​mainnet was officially launched in June 2019. Based on the EOS transformation, it follows the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism to support the high volume required by the game and attract chain game developers. The theoretical TPS of WAX is more than 3000. The WAX ​​public chain is developed by the founding team of OPSkins, an online game item trading platform. The team claims that it could process approximately 2 million transactions per week, which guarantees the operating speed of WAX. Based on this, the WAX ​​team cooperated with well-known companies in the industry such as Xsolla and Animoca Brands, and launched NFTs of well-known IP including deadmau5, Atari, William Shatner and Capcom. Among them, Garbage Pail Kids (the old American cartoon trash can boy in the 1980s) will jointly issue digital collections with WAX. According to a Cointelegraph report, trading card giant Topps issued NFT cards based on WAX in April and sold 70,000 packs of NFT cigarette packs within one hour after the sale started, setting Topps’ NFT sales record. In terms of the team, WAX CEO William Quigely served as the co-founder of Tether and has a wide range of investment portfolio in the blockchain field.

The WAX ​​public chain did not choose to become a general-purpose public chain but focused on the NFT track like FLOW. At the same time, WAX is officially committed to promoting the interconnection of NFT assets on the chain between independent DAPPs within the ecosystem, which undoubtedly enhances the liquidity and “life cycle” of assets. In addition, the WAX ​​public chain also has a lot of investment in cross-chain technology, which is also attractive to other chain game developers.

Game strategy

Register wallet and account

Before registering the game, we first need to register a WAX wallet and buy the appropriate token WAXP to the wallet in exchange for resources, and we can use the social network account to directly bind the wallet. Wallet address: https://wallet.wax.io/

Buy WAXP After entering the wallet, click Resources to exchange for CPU, NET and RAM resources through staking tokens. If you don’t exchange resources in advance, it’s easy to encounter various mistakes when you enter the game.

After setting up the wallet, you can enter the game, URL: https://alienworlds.io/, click Play&Earn, you can set the name of the character.

Select Avatar

The characters in Alien Worlds are called Avatars, and players can choose an Avatar for NFT mining. Characters include human, grey, reptiles, LGP, Nordic, and Human Augmented. Players can participate in the game by setting a username after selecting a character. The character image is aesthetic and does not currently have any influence on the game itself.

Choose planet and land

Planets are the first thing you will see upon starting the game, and they have two main metrics you need to be aware of:

• Mining Pot, which determines how much TLM you will make from mining. Higher is better.

• Fill rate, which is the rate at which the TLM on the planet is being replenished. Higher is better.

If you worried you aren’t making as much TLM as you could be, choose the planet with a good balance of Mining Pot and Fill Rate.

Lands are an essential part of Alien Worlds and the basis of income. Players can choose the planet they want to be stationed on. There are currently 6 planets for players to choose from. After selecting the planet, players can either mine on the land they bought or mine on the land of other players. Therefore, the player can be both a miner and a “landlord.”

Like the earth, the world of Alien Worlds also has various types of landforms such as mountains, hills, forests, basins, plains, and volcanoes. Alien Worlds has a total of 20 land types, different land types, their mining power and the charging time of mining tools are different.

For example, if a player is mining in a snow mountain, the charging time will be extended by 2 times, and the mining power will be increased by 1.9 times. For players who mine in active volcanoes, the charging time will be extended by 5 times, the mining power will be increased by 2.5 times, and the NFT chance will also be increased by 2.5 times. This means that players who mine in active volcanoes will have a significantly higher chance of obtaining NFT. Therefore, for players, it is necessary to make a trade-off between mining power and charging time. Often the higher the mining power, the longer the charging time and the longer the waiting time between two mining phases.

Lands also have rarities, with determines their stats. The rarer the land, the more likely all the states will be higher. The downside is that they also have higher charge times, meaning you will have to wait longer before you can mine again. The Rarities go in this order:

1. Common (Gray)

2. Rare (Blue)

3. Epic (Purple)

4. Legendary (Yellow)

Players who own the land can allow other players to mine on their land, and the system defaults that the landowner can get a 20% mining reward from it. If the landowner thinks that his land is valuable, he can increase the percentage, but at the same time he will face the problem of reducing the number of miners.

In addition, landowners need to consider the competitiveness of their planet among all planets. If their planet ranks too low, it may affect mining rewards. Therefore, landowners need to invest TLM tokens in their planet to ensure mining income.

Choose tools

After selecting the land for mining, the player needs to choose the appropriate mining tool. Players can get TLM token rewards and NFT through mining, so players need to consider three factors when choosing tools: mining power, charging time, and the chance of obtaining NFT.

Mining efficiency and charging time need to be considered together. Because players can have 3 mining tools at the same time, they need to weigh the mining power and charging time to determine the best tool combination. The hammer value in the upper left corner of the card is proportional to the number of TLM tokens that can be mined. The larger the value, the more TLM tokens the player can get. The lower left corner is the POW multiplier. The higher the number, the higher the mining efficiency.

If the three tools with high mining efficiency are put together at one time, then the single TLM reward is considerably high. The problem with this situation is that the charging time is generally longer, which reduces the frequency of mining. Conversely, if you pursue the frequency of mining, the TLM reward and NFT reward for a single mining will be relatively reduced.

Like Lands, all tools have rarities, and they are ranked as follows:

1. Abundant (Light Gray)

2. Common (Gray)

3. Rare (Blue)

4. Epic (Purple)

5. Legendary (Yellow)

6. Mythical (Red)

Mining tools are NFTs. In addition to card packages, players can purchase these mining tools in the secondary market, and the most direct way to obtain them is through mining. There is a snowflake sign in the lower right corner of the mining tool card. The larger the value, the higher the chance of obtaining NFT. Therefore, players try to choose tools with larger values when choosing mining tools, which will help to obtain more valuable tools when mining, upgrade their own equipment, and get greater benefits.

Mining

Mining is the key element of game play in Alien Worlds. There are two phases of mining:

1. Mining

2. Waiting for your tools to recharge

In order to mine, press the Mine button and follow through the process. The game will reward you with TLM and a timer will be displayed in the top right corner of the UI. You can’t mine before this timer runs out. The time you must wait to mine is dependent on your Tools and Land cool down. The amount of TLM you mine depends on your Tools and Land, as do your NFT chance and POW

Shining

Shining is a system in which you can increase the visual appeal and stats of an NFT. The shining levels go like this:

1. Stone (Gray)

2. Gold (Gold)

3. Stardust (Little specks)

4. Antimatter (Holographic)

All cards start at Stone level shine. Shining your NFTs requires a large amount of Trillium, depending on the Rarity of the card and on the current shine level. Shined NFTs have better resale values, but it does cost a handful of TLM to shine. The exact cost can be found here:

Thunderdome battle (in development)

Thunderdome battle is a feature being developed by Alien Worlds. The minions and weapons of NFT items can be used in this feature.

First, players need to choose minions and weapons. Each minion has different attack power, defensive power and combat characteristics, and the weapons that need to be equipped are also different. Players need to choose the strongest character in their formation to fight with other players. After being equipped, players need to choose planets to fight, and each planet has different ability bonuses to the battle.

Players can also select props and give instructions. Instructions include evade, defense, attack strongest, and attack weakest.

Each round has a limit on the number of minions. For example, if the start number is 20, when the 20th minion enters the battle, then this round of battle will start.

Rounds will continue until only one minion remains. The result will be sent back to the chain where the on-chain actions will be affected.

The top minions (the number will vary according to the number of minions in the battle) will get their rewards and NFT drops (declining in quantity and quality depending on position)

All losing minions lose their health and their weapons will be damaged

NFT transactions

All NFT transactions are conducted on the Atomichub platform. Atomichub’s NFT protocol can be interoperable with other NFT projects of the same protocol. Currently, Alien Worlds has been interoperable with the Dark Kingdom. Players can use the Alien World’s cards in the Dark Kingdom’s games, which can be regarded as one of the highlights of the game.

Website: https://wax.atomichub.io/

Earning strategy

There are two types of cards in the card slot of Alien Worlds’ mining system, one land card and three tool cards. Both cards have three important attributes, namely the mining power in the upper left corner of the card, the POW in the lower left corner and the NFT chance in the lower right corner. The mining power determines the number of TLMs that are produced. The higher the efficiency value, the more TLM will be obtained each time. The POW determines the speed of mining. The higher the value, the faster the mining. The shorter the time required however this has not yet been well reflected. The NFT chance represents the probability of mining NFT, the higher the value, the greater the chance. The specific calculation rules are shown in the figure below.

For the combination of land and tools, please refer to this website:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rJF6ahuhfjvhphikOwueQJ1IAHfaFIY3Cb0med33EJ8/edit#gid=39370172

After multiple tests, the current best mining strategy is to use the most basic tools for multi-account mining, which means that “high-level equipment is not as good as multi-account low-level equipment.” But the problem is that the management of multiple accounts is very troublesome. If it is done with the help of scripts, the accounts will be blocked. Recently, Alien Worlds has continued to reduce revenue. On the one hand, it is due to the official reduction in production. The other reason is that the increase in the number of participants leads to the decrease in revenue which shows the popularity of the game.

Summary

Alien Worlds was the first chain game on the blockchain to exceed 100,000 users, followed by 1 million users, and then quickly reached 2 million. Now the number of users has surged to 2.5 million, and it shows unlimited potential for continued growth. McKenna said: “Metaverse is a new type of social media platform where people will socialize. We create another world for users, or more precisely, people can get together and talk about what they want and what they achieve. The world of Alien Worlds. The competition between the Alien Worlds planets has prompted many interesting conjectures.” Although the current application scenarios of TLM are slightly thin, once the battle mode is online, it will trigger a greater demand for tokens. We look forward to this very soon.

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance, for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its basic premise — to identify which of two or more horses is the fastest over a set course or distance. Although the rider’s own ability is also important, the performance of the horse mainly depends on the speed, endurance, breedtype and the bloodlines.

Zed Run, which combines games and blockchain, is trying to replicate the horse racing game to the virtual meta-universe space. Zed Run is an online horse racing game that uses NFT. Players can buy, breed and race with digital NFT horses.

Zed Run’s parent company Virtually Human Studio (VHS) has so far sold more than 30 million U.S. dollars in digital horses (NFT), and has just closed a $20 million Series-A round of fundraising led by TCG Capital Management, in addition Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z ) and Red Beard Ventures also participated.

Zed Run was launched in 2019, and boomed in this NFT spring. According to different characteristics, the current price of digital horses ranges from $130 to $45,000. These horses are not just collectibles, but can also participate in cash racing challenges. The top three in each race will receive ETH rewards. In June 2021, Zed Run introduced the breeding system to the platform. Zed Run claimed to have 14,000 unique stable owners in July.

Laurent believes that the reason for ZED’s success is “you can bring things familiar to users to blockchain applications”, so there is no need to explain the game too much: you buy a horse, spend money to participate in the competition, and if you succeed, you can take home money from the pool.

Unlike the real racing, the Zed Run racing is played on a floating track full of futuristic landscapes in Tron style. Each racing depends entirely on the innate ability of a dozen competing horses, and an algorithm is used to determine the outcome based on thousands of possible outcomes.

These abilities are based on the horse’s DNA and are determined by three things: its bloodlines (Nakamoto, Szabo, Finney or Buterin, each has its own characteristics), genotype (a number that indicates how far away it is from its ancestors, Z1 is the minimum value, Z268 is the maximum value) and breedtype (Genesis, Legendary, Exclusive, Elite, Cross or Pacer).

Zed Run has not issued tokens yet, but if there are any plans, I believe it will be airdropped to current NFT horse owners.

Registration

Official link: https://zed.run/

Before registering, you need to install the Wallet Metamask using the Chrome browser. Zed Run is running on Polygon, so veterans can directly send ETH to the Polygon address, and novices can follow the instructions on webpage to switch it.

After entering the website, click Start in the upper right corner, click Wallet Metamask in the pop-up window, and then click the signature “Sign” in the subsequent pop-up window to obtain wallet authorization, and you can register and log in to your account. “RACING” at the top of the website is a place for horse racing, “BREEDING” is a place for breeding offspring, and “MARKETPLACE” is a place for horses to be bought and sold.

NFT Horses

You can see that there is no horse in the stable page, so you need to go to the market to buy a horse. Click “MARKETPLACE” at the top of the page, and click “Opensea” on the following page, and you will be redirected to the Opensea market. You can choose a horse to buy according to your own situation. The key points of high-quality horses are “Bloodline” and “Genotype”.

Bloodline

Within ZED RUN, there are four bloodlines: Nakamoto, Szabo, Finney and Buterin. Each bloodline possesses different qualities that affect how a racehorse’s ability is calculated during the birthing (minting) process.

The Nakamoto is the most celebrated thoroughbred given that they are the purest racehorses that exist within ZED and are often known as the Samurai breed, and only exists in horses with Z1 and some Z2 genes. Although Buterin ranked last, the official said that it is the one most likely to run a surprise on the racetrack.

Genotype

Genotype refers to the number indicating how far down the lineage (or family tree) a racehorse is from its original ancestors. From Z1 to Z268, the lower the number, the higher the purity and speed your horse will inherit, which means that the rarer the horse, the more expensive it is.

Breed Type

Breed Type is a hierarchy system used to help identify genotype. There are six breed types in total: Genesis, Legendary, Exclusive, Elite, Cross and Pacer. All early release Genesis racehorses (Z1 to Z10) are the purest breed and cannot be reproduced (total 38,000 units). The Genesis breed of racehorses is sold by ZED RUN and they play a pivotal role in determining a racehorse’s racing ability. It should be emphasized that horses within Z10 are not necessarily Genesis. For example, the offspring that Genesis Z2 and Genesis Z3 can bred is Legendary Z5 (the gene type of offspring can be obtained by adding the number of parents Z).

Coat Color

Coat color is an important element in terms of the collectibility nature of racehorses in ZED RUN. Every newborn offspring in ZED RUN is minted with a coat color. There are 7 coat color groups: Neptune, Earth, Wild, Moon, Fiery, Classic and Mystical. Each group can affect the temperament and personality of a horse, however it does not affect a horse’s performance. Each group is broken down into three tiers: Super Rare, Rare, and Common.

When breeding horses with different coat colors, the coat color of the offspring is random within the family color range. If the parent color is the same, there will be a very rare (0.5% ratio) Super Coat, so better to choose the same color horses to breed. The rarity is shown in the figure below (from top to bottom are super rare, rare and common):

Gender

There are four options, colt, stallion, filly or mare. A colt or stallion is a male racehorse. A filly or mare is a female racehorse. A colt or filly means the racehorse has not yet produced any offspring. A stallion or mare means the racehorse has produced at least one offspring.

Racing

After purchasing a horse at Opensea, it will appear in the stable, and then we click “RACING” to find a lot of competitions to be held. Each racing allows up to 12 horses, and you can choose the suitable race to participate in according to your own horse level.

In the horse racing section, we can see that the competition is divided into different levels. The levels from low to high are Griffin, Class V, Class IV, Class III, Class II, and Class I. The initial level is Griffin, and every horse that has not participated in the race has a basic rating related to its genotype. As shown below:

We can find matched level in RACES (Griffin level racings are free of tickets). Then select the racing you want to participate in, select the track, and then select the horses to participate. Once your horse finish the Griffin level, it will be classified into level 2, level 3, level 4, or level 5 based on its performance.

The ranking of the competition will increase or decrease the horse’s score.

The specific data are as follows:

After you have decided on the horses that will participate in the competition, you can initiate a purchase transaction through the wallet on MetaMask. When your transaction is confirmed, you will see your racehorse next to the track number.

Your racehorse will appear here immediately, but if the transaction is delayed or failed, your racehorse will disappear and another racehorse may take its place. Where there is a yellow horse icon next to the game, it means that a horse in your stable has entered.

When participating in the racing for the first time, you can observe the approximate distance for the best performance. This will help you decide whether to participate in short-distance or long-distance racing when later.

Breeding

The breeding system of ZED is a bit similar to CryptoKitties, but two horses (a male and a female) can be put together for breeding, and their characteristics can be combined to create another horse. Although there are differences between Genesis and non-Genesis racehorses, non-Genesis racehorses are also very likely to create championship racehorses by breeding high-quality racehorses in the stallion market.

Click “BREEDING” at the top of the website, you can see the horses waiting for breeding in the public farm “Stud Farm” temporarily, choose the stallion you want to match, pay a certain amount of “breeding fee”, after a few days of waiting, and finally you can get offspring. Breeding completely simulates the real world, mares can retain offspring, while stallions need to pay “breeding fees.” ZED collects part of the fee as the middleman.

It is a very interesting thing to determine the genetic matching of different racehorses. The breeding of different pedigrees is shown in the figure below:

The breeding of different genes is simply the addition of numbers. For example, the combination of Z8 and Z10 will give Z18. The breeding of different breed types is more complicated, as shown in the figure below:

The gender of the offspring is random, and the breeding of coat color is more complicated. It is necessary to distinguish whether the parents are the same color, or in the same color group, if they are in different color groups, random mixed colors will appear. It is recommended to use the same color parents, the offspring will produce rare super coat (0.5% ratio).

Watch Racing

Zed Run has excellent UI design for watching horse racing. There are two ways in total. One is 2D style, a simple form with a few dots (NFT horses), The other is the form of 3D cyberpunk style.

You can click “Next To Run” to find your race. Click on “Watch 3D” on the detailed page, and then you can watch it.

Strategies to Play

ZED Meta-Universe provides players with three money-making strategies, winning competitions, earning breeding fees, and breeding offspring to sell money.

Winning the competition is the simplest way: players buy high-quality horses, pay a few dollars in entrance fees to participate in the competition, and win a part of the bonus if winning. So what you need to do is to choose those racehorses with smaller Z number, the purer the pedigree, the closer breeds, so as to maximize the victory of the racing.

Earning breeding fees is the source of income for stallion owners: players can send their stallions to Stud Farm. If other mares owners are interested, they can pay for breeding, and stallion owner earn the breeding fee, instead the mare owner keeps the offspring. ZED will collect a part of the fee from the middle, and the specific rate is as follows:

The sale of the offspring is the source of income for the mare owner: chooses suitable stallions on the stud farm, and the mare owner can name and sell the new-born offspring. In the Opensea open market, the price of mares has always been much higher than that of stallions, even 2–3 times, this is because the profit income of mare owners will be higher.

Based on the above analysis, we believe that the best strategy at present is to buy a Genesis stallion and at the same time buy three mares with the same coat color. According to your investment budget, you can choose from Genesis, Legendary, and Exclusive with a minimum Z number. The mare with the smallest Z number can maximize the breeding of offspring during the breeding cycle.

For example, we bought a Genesis Z5 common color stallion at a market price of 1.2 ETH, and then bought three Legendary Z4 common color mares at an average price of 0.9 ETH, for a total cost of 3.9 ETH. Then three Exclusive Z9 racehorses can be bred every month. I assume that two of them are stallions (market price 0.12 ETH) and one mare (market price 0.2 ETH). The total income is 0.44 ETH, and the breeding fee is the lowest 0.075 ETH. , The monthly income can be calculated as 0.44-0.075×3 =0.215 ETH

The annualized income APR is 66%. Because participating in the competition to win a prize is a probabilistic event, we only consider the stable income of breeding offspring as the only source of income for the time being. It can be seen that, in contrast to the purely avatar NFT project, ZED NFT has its intrinsic.

In Cryptoslam data, ZED’s total transaction revenue ranked 11th, reaching more than 80 million USD, and ranked seventh in terms of owners (Owners).

As of the beginning of September 2021, the number of daily buyers is slightly more than that of sellers. However, the number of newly bred (newly minted) horses every day is less than the number of buyers, indicating that there is good room for growth in the future. Considering that ZED has not yet issued token, if a dual tokens system similar to Axie is adopted in the future, it will boom in substantial growth.

Comparasion with Axie Innifity

Currently, Axie Infinity is the game with the highest market cap value in the GameFi space. Zed Run is very similar with Axie in game mode.

Axie Infinity is a digital pet metaverse. Players can breed and trade fantasy creatures called Axies in this world. They can also use them to fight against other players. They can obtain game tokens by winning battles and completing necessary tasks. It is a very interesting and profitable game. Axie pets, like Zed horses, have different initial attributes, such as HP, Morale, Skill and Speed. The game has two tokens, SLP and AXS. To get started, players need to buy 3 Axie NFT pets. These 3 pets form a team to fight with others. After winning, they will receive SLP rewards (the highest monthly ranking will receive AXS rewards). Or players can breed offsprings to get more NFT pets, so as to make economic circle in the ecosystem. Players can generate income by selling NFT or winning SLP and AXS tokens through battle.

New players simply buy these tokens from exchanges. Money enters the system through the purchase of tokens to obtain NFT to play the game. When the player sells the existing NFT or AXS tokens obtained by winning the game, money leaves the system. As the end of August, Axie’s annualized APR was about 2000%.

In comparison, entering ZED also requires players to purchase horse NFTs, participating in horse racing to “battle” each other to get ETH rewards, and two horses can breed to have offspring, which can also earn income. The only difference is that ZED has not yet issued token.

Future Prospect

According to VHS, in the next few years, ZED will introduce track conditions, weather, fatigue, levels, and possibly even avatars, and there will be new game modes. Laurent is also planning to try other ideas, such as fences and jumps, track ownership, and even 1,000 horses racing at the same time, but this is a long-term vision.

ZED recently acquired a piece of land in the game Decentraland, where players can socialize with each other, discover new horses and watch racing. Future games may introduce AR and VR. Players can wear headsets and see some horses running on the Las Vegas Strip, or take out their phones and watch the horse racing in the actual environment in front of you.

ZED is an NFT game with a certain imagination. The vision for the future is to establish a creator economy in the Zed Run meta-universe. Players can engage in occupations such as stable owner, track owner, breeder, and accessory designer.

Currently, the price of a Zed Run racehorse ranges from $120 to $45,000. There are 58,000 members on the Discord channel and more than 100,000 stable owners. There are nearly 45,000 Twitter followers. It is considered a very popular project in the GameFi. If token is issued in the future, the market cap can be comparable to that of Axie Infinity.

Editor: @JaylenChan, @axwagmi

Recently, Pixel Metaverse - Worldwide Webb has drawn attention to virtual land through airdrops, resulting in a rise in transaction volume in connected sectors. Not only that, but Yuga Labs, the parent firm of BAYC, which started the PFP NFT trend, held a virtual land sale in April, propelling metaverse land to the top.

According to WeMeta, a metaverse land information aggregator, the market size of six land-based projects in the last month, including Decentraland, The Sandbox, Cryptovoxels, and NFT Worlds, peaked around the end of April and is now drawing down alongside the broader NFT market. Monthly sales in these virtual territories totaled more than $28 million as of mid-May.

What is NFT Virtual Land

Since 2020, the field of crypto has grown at an exponential rate, with hot sectors like Defi, GameFi, NFT, and Metaverse forming the foundation for the virtual land market's success.

Virtual land is essentially a component of the "metaverse," the next generation of the internet in which the actual and virtual worlds mix, complete with hyper-realistic VR experiences and their own ecosystem. Sandbox, Decentraland, and Cryptovoxels are examples of virtual worlds and games that allow players to own land in their games.

If the PFP project solves the problem of the user's metaverse image (who am I), then the virtual land tackles the issue of the user's metaverse address (where do they live). Although the metaverse is digital in itself, it is meant to mimic the actual world. It should be noted, however, that the metaverse's objective is not to replace reality but to enhance the digital space we experience today. As a result, the essential needs in real life, "food, clothes, shelter, and transportation," are frequently also the basic needs of Metaverse users. Since the virtual world does not require food or transportation, clothes and shelter have become the two most fundamental necessities.

NFT virtual land is a self-owned digital land area on the Metaverse platform. Decentraland, The Sandbox, and Otherdeed are popular NFT land initiatives. Because each NFT is unique and digital ownership can be easily confirmed, NFTs are ideal for expressing land ownership. NFT land may be utilized for advertising, socializing, gaming, working, and a variety of other purposes. Individual plots are frequently used by landowners to enjoy online activities, exhibit material, or monetize in-game. Big businesses and celebrities, such as Adidas and Snoopy, have also begun to invest in and use NFT property.

Grayscale, a venture capital firm, considers the Metaverse to be a $1 trillion potential opportunity, while others, more optimistically, estimate it to be a $30 trillion opportunity! In comparison, the world's top internet corporation now has a market worth of roughly $900 billion, while Apple was once valued at $2.8 trillion.

Virtual Land Valuation

Fundamentally, virtual land is the transport space for social scenes. While most price swings may be ascribed to speculative properties, there are still methods for evaluating virtual land and quantifying the underlying worth inside a specific plot. PangeaDAO makes an attempt to analyze virtual land based on the following factors: location/use, size, scarcity, popularity, team and roadmap, organizational structure, and investors.

Location

Real-life assets are valued primarily by their location, and virtual land is no exception: the market price of a parcel incorporates neighborhood value and distance from popular lots. Before 1950, Las Vegas was nothing more than a desert. It grew immensely important after WWII when hotels, casinos, and other forms of entertainment were erected. "They will come if you build."

Some metaverse initiatives are focused on games, while others are broader. Many Metaverse projects integrate sections with similar functions. Decentraland, for example, contains areas like Fashion Street, Vegas City, and Festival Park that incorporate the business case into the project.

The first land auction in Decentraland generated 34,358 parcels. The light gray plots correspond to the nine squares, the dark gray plots are for the road system, the dark yellow plots are for the 56 blocks, and the white portions are for unsold plots. "The Economics of Blockchain-Based Virtual Worlds: A Hedonic Regression Model for Virtual Lands," Goldberg, Kugler, and Schär, 2021

Land Size

Many metaverse virtual lands provide variable lengths, widths, and height plots. The greater the parcel cluster in some metaverse projects, the more flexibility to construct. The height of a Decentraland structure, for example, maybe determined using the logarithmic formula log2 (n+1) x 20, where n is the number of parcels. The 2x2 stands 46.4 meters tall, while the 2x3 stands 56 meters tall. This is a big distinction, especially if your structure is intended to be viewed from a distance.

All apartments at Worldwide Webb are separated into four sizes: large, medium, tiny, and attic. Different sizes have various rights. In general, the higher the size, the more tokens may be given, and uncommon things are easier to drop.

Rarity

Like a cryptocurrency with a limited total supply (such as Bitcoin), most virtual world creators restrict the quantity of their territory. As more companies enter the virtual world, developers build games, and artists give exclusive concerts or experiences, there will be an increase in consumers desiring to consume content, and prices will climb as users and demand expand.

Otherside is a metaverse gaming environment created by Yuga Labs and NFT game publisher Animoca Brands that combines several NFT projects. According to public information, the total number of land contracts Otherdeed is 200,000, with the first batch of 100,000 copies distributed in May and the final 100,000 copies due in August.

Popularity

The popularity of a project is an important factor in determining the value of virtual land. The number of users is, without a doubt, an important metric. The popularity of a project may be described by its daily/weekly/monthly active user growth, user engagement and churn, and the number of time users spends on the project.

Although a given metaverse virtual land is restricted, multiple metaverses can exist concurrently, thus we usually consider the project's popularity when selecting a virtual land. This is also simple to grasp. A city with a net population influx will almost certainly see an increase in housing prices, whereas a city with a net population outflow would see a substantial decline in housing prices. The Metaverse is a social environment in and of itself, and every one of us is hesitant to stay in a sparsely inhabited virtual area, right?

Team and Roadmap

A clear roadmap will keep followers interested, and a good team will guarantee that the roadmap is executed. Projects are destined to expand beyond what we are acquainted with, especially now that the metaverse is in its early phases, and when that happens, the tone and style of the development team and the core community of builders becomes crucial.

Organizational Structure and Investors

In the Web3 period, should you use the traditional corporate system or the DAO? Are there any celebrity investors available for an endorsement? Users will have varied psychological expectations as a result of diverse organizational structures and investors, which will impact the project's future development.

Typical Project Introduction

Virtual land is broadly divided into two types: metaverse virtual land and in-game virtual land. The former is often represented by Decentraland, and virtual space users' activity is mostly social. The latter is often represented as Otherside, and games dominate user behavior in virtual space.

Metaverse Lands

Decentraland

Decentraland is an Ethereum-based 3D virtual environment and community where users may buy, build, and decorate residences, attend events, and start crypto companies. Decentraland is split into 90,601 LAND parcels, each measuring 16 meters by 16 meters. Its height is determined by Cartesian coordinates and is connected to the topography where the land is located (x, y). Users must buy and sell using the MANA token, and these tokens may also be used to purchase wearables like as clothing, shoes, avatars and names, and so on. Virtual exhibits have already been launched by well-known businesses such as Estee Lauder, Tommy Hilfiger, Samsung, Skechers, Sotheby's, and Honda.

Comments: The first metaverse project, with an early entry, a good image, but a high building threshold, sluggish loading, and poor progress after DAO.

The Sandbox

LAND is the name of Sandbox's virtual land. The total amount of accessible LANDs is 166,464 blocks, which compose the whole Sandbox map and never expand or decrease. 123,840 of these are for sale, 25,920 are provided as incentives to Sandbox partners, producers, and users, and the remaining 16,704 are utilized for events and games. Once a person buys a plot of land, he or she may populate it with games and objects. Each LAND token is an NFT created with the ERC-721 standard. A 11 piece of LAND is 96 meters wide, 96 meters long, and can sustain a maximum height of 128 meters, which is large enough to accommodate all forms of blockchain game experiences but not so large that it cannot be handled by a single person. An ESTATE (land group) is made up of many parcels of LAND (see the Sandbox map below).

The Sandbox ecosystem is made up of three key components: VoxEdit (creation editor), GameMarker (game creation), and Marketplace (trading market), with users able to log in using encrypted wallet Metamask or social sites like Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Atari, Adidas, Square Enix, Crypto Kitties, Atari, HSBC, and Shaun The Sheep are among The Sandbox's partners. Furthermore, NFT ventures such as Bored Ape Yacht Club, CyberKongz, Party Degenerates, and others have bought land on The Sandbox.

It has excellent financial connections and operational capabilities after many rounds of investment. Simple to construct, constructed in vox format, no complex 3D modeling necessary. However, it is still in the Alpha stage and has terrible playability. Furthermore, the app loads slowly and provides a bad user experience.

Cryptovoxels

Cryptovoxels is an Ethereum-based metaverse, similar to Minecraft, in which players may construct, produce, and trade digital goods on the streets using bespoke pixel monochrome blocks. Former Decentraland member Ben Nolan founded CryptoVoxels, and he is the only developer of the whole project.

In the near future, CryptoVoxels intends to introduce Scarcity Island, a virtual region with autonomous voting scenarios. The land may be built with a basement, users can dig beneath the earth, and it can be utilized as an asset in autonomous voting. Furthermore, according to Cryptovoxels' 2022 strategy, it plans to establish the Origin City land repurchase program, introduce the official trading and leasing platform by the end of this year, and reduce the formerly infinite land maximum to 70,000. The graphic below depicts a map of user-built structures as well as the whole metaverse.

Comments: The web page opens rapidly, there is no need to download special software, it is simple to use, simple to develop, simple to take the capital, and it has great team autonomy. However, the image is hazy and insufficiently detailed, and the team's marketing skill is lacking.

NFT Worlds

NFT Worlds is a fully decentralized, fully configurable, and coachable gaming platform that lets users all over the world build monetized games and experiences. NFT Planets include 10,000 randomly created worlds with an extent of 500 square kilometers. It is based on Minecraft and comprises 10,000 distinct 3D pixel worlds that are produced procedurally and have diverse attributes. NFT Worlds also introduced the novel concept of staking, which allows NFT holders to stake their NFTs in order to earn the token WRLD as interest. Furthermore, in the near future, NFT Worlds will release the second NFT series NFT Worlds Genesis Avatars, with a total of 15,000 NFTs, which will be utilized as playable avatars in the NFT Worlds ecosystem, as well as a beta launcher. The diagram below depicts the essential attributes of each virtual country as well as the virtual worlds that have been created thus far (about 30).

The holder of an NFT world owns rights to that world in the NFT world ecosystem, the power to create anything in that world, the in-game experience, and so on. The environment may be converted into anything, such as a racing game, a fighting game, a role-playing game, a blend of two or three genres, or a map for other people to play, experience, and more. All of this takes place in a massively multiplayer setting.

The project is based on "Minecraft," the development pace is quick, the player conversion is quick, the vox voxel block is utilized, and the building is easy. However, due to the vast size of the land, the quantity of development work required is enormous, and there are legal hazards involved.

Somnium Space

Somnium Space is an open-source social virtual reality environment powered by blockchain and totally designed by users, allowing them to purchase digital land on which to construct VR houses and structures. In early 2020, Somnium 2.0 was released, bringing the project one step closer to a genuine Ready Player One virtual experience. Somnium 2.0 hosts all players in one large universe, unlike other multiplayer VR games, which divide players into sub-servers and mirrored instance rooms.

Players may purchase virtual land and create anything they want on it: nightclubs, art galleries, residences, the options are unlimited, as are the benefits for earning users. Somnium Space is available on PC and mobile devices. WORLDS, PARCELS, AVATARS, and ITEMs are examples of Somnium Space items. Somnium Space is made up of 5026 plots positioned along the river that vary in size and shape and are classified into three sizes: S-type: 200 square meters, 10 meters high; M-type: 600 square meters, 25 meters high; XL type: 1500 square meters, 50 meters high. The price of a plot is determined mostly by its size, features, and closeness to desirable factors. Somnium Space offices have already been launched by companies such as Nifty Gateway, FTX, and others. The virtual world and all of the maps are depicted in the image below.

Worldwide Webb Land

Worldwide Webb is a 9508-player interoperable pixel art virtual environment in which people may own land, equip their own NFTs, and so on. Land, having multiple properties of space and time, is a major asset of Worldwide Webb. At the same time, Worldwide Webb may be used as metaverse/in-game props in other NFT projects, such as in-game avatars, pets, lands, objects, and quests, and has now incorporated CryptoPunks, Cool Cats, CrypToadz, PunkCats, Cypher City Pets and Neko, and other prominent NFT projects. It is worth noting that Worldwide Web just stated that it will deliver landowner-based airdrops of resources, tokens, voting rights, uncommon objects, and hints to unique events.

On November 29, 2021, the first NFTs symbolizing Worldwide Webb homes were coined. It began with 5,000 little residences priced at 0.069 ETH (about $300 at the time); 3,000 medium-sized homes were provided for 0.12 ETH (about $522); 1,000 big units were sold for 0.24 ETH (about $1,044); and 69 penthouses were auctioned for 1 ETH (about $4,350). Using Worldwide Webb's Apartment Editor tool, these are incredibly customizable. The graphic below depicts the virtual space's scene and map.

Otherside

The PC version will be released first by OTHERSIDE, a new project from the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club. Popular NFT projects such as BAYC, Mutant Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, Meebits, CoolCats, World of Women, and Nouns have appeared in previously announced promotional videos. According to the official plan, the Otherside project Ape Land would have 200,000 pieces of land available for sale in April and August. Otherdeed is a unique new NFT created specifically for this game, a token representing some sort of virtual land.

So, how can you tell the difference between the worth and rarity of land that has been acquired or is about to be purchased? Otherside NFT's scarcity system has multiple Koda categories, including geography, level, and artifact. The land's location is critical for the connection; for example, closeness to the core/central region is more rare, which also benefits BYAC/MAYC holders. Otherdeed plots are graded from 1 to 5. The greater the grade, the higher the floor price, although the distinction is subtle. There are eight functional land types and 29 environmental kinds in terms of land types.

The most central position in the Otherside universe is an island with just 294 pieces of land on it. This is considered the most central place in the "Ape Universe," comparable to Manhattan in New York. Within 300 but not on the island: 244, 246, 259, 260, 267, 273, 277, 281, 285, 290, 293, 294, 298, for a total of 13; over 300 but on the island: 304, 308, 311, 313, 315, 329, 335, for a total of 7.

Arcade

Arcade is a metaverse realm with social and GameFi components. Users may earn token prizes by engaging in different activities with their favorite NFTs, chatting with other users, building houses, and playing games. Arcade Land includes a total of 10,000 pieces of digital land among them, which are classified into four sorts and differ in terms of space and application. Landowners have access to Token, NFT, metaverse, and gaming resources, and may also be used for renting, advertising, and building projects, among other things. Arcade is developed by the same team that created the BAYC mobile game "Apes vs. Mutants," and the game will employ the BAYC token ApeCoin in the future. BAYC, CryptoPunks, Meebits, Cool Cats, Mfers, and Phanta Bear are among the current Arcade partners. Recently, well-known musician JJ Lin declared on his own social media that he owns Arcade Land's virtual land.

Status of Current Landholders

By analyzing land supply, land transactions, and the number of landowners, MetaCat produced the following statistics (as of April 30, 2022):

(1) Landlords of metaverse platforms are often lesser. The total number of landlords on the leading metaverse platform is around 35,000.

(2) The total number of landlords in SomniumSpace and NFT Worlds is fewer than 1000.

(3) The terrain in NFTWorlds is densely packed. 88 percent of the total land plots sold, the number of sales is 8816, but the number of landowners is only 779; further investigation revealed that NFT Worlds has the most land plot holders with 8988, the address In actuality, it is the contract address; 89 percent of the total parcels are covered by the contract. There are over 3,900 landowners that purchased the LAND and promised it to the contract to mine $WRLD, therefore the platform is extremely data-focused. From another angle, 89 percent of the plots are in the same contract, implying a significant danger of plot concentration. It will suffer massive losses if assaulted.

(4) SomniumSpace is an extremely narrow market, with just 5,000 plots available, only 1,957 sold, and only 852 landowners.

(5) Cryptovoxels is the sole platform that offers on-demand extra issuance, and sales volume provides for the greatest amount of supply, accounting for 92 percent;

(6) The Sandbox is top in terms of land supply, sales, and landowners, but because it has the most supply, the percentage of sales and supply is the lowest, at only 13%.

Due to a lack of data statistics channels, we can only observe that the monthly platform traffic of Cryptovoxels is 1 million, and the monthly active users (MAU) of Decentraland is around 500,000.

Project Progress

Platforms with a high degree of completeness include Cryptovoxels, Decentraland, and Worldwide Webb Land. Looking at the present completeness of the project from the standpoint of the player's experience, Cryptovoxels and Decentraland belong to the higher degree of completion in the 3D metaverse. Players can enter any plot to play, and Cryptovoxels' loading time is quicker than Decentraland's. Although these two projects have a high degree of completion, when entering the world, there are still wide open places that have not been developed (the completion degree of the project party's building project is high, but the completion degree of player construction is still relatively low). Because of its 2D interface, Worldwide Webb has a very rapid loading speed, and players may freely enjoy it.

Platforms with a lesser level of completion: The Sandbox, NFT Worlds. At the moment, The Sandbox includes only two games that regular users may access via the official website. With hundreds of thousands of acres and the first cumulative land purchases, this is a fairly low degree of completeness for the metaverse platform; NFT Worlds currently has only 19 acres. The world is operational (although multiple projects have declared collaboration with NFT Worlds, it is possible that it is still under development), you must download the relevant version of the client to enter, and there may be a long line.

Otherside and Arcade are examples of idea platforms. These two initiatives, which both focus on game experience, have lately gained popularity, although they are still in the idea marketing stage and have not created actual and functional goods.

Conclusion

Virtual land, in essence, reflects users' social demands, and its main value stems from the advertising impact based on social space. The bigger the value, the more popular the project. From a larger viewpoint, the PFP project and virtual land address two basic challenges in the metaverse, namely "Who am I" and "Where do I reside," or, to put it another way, "identification" and "group borders."