The development team behind Aspo World is from Vietnam and features several experienced entrepreneurs and game developers. Founder Nguyen Ha Minh Thong created Edubox and CaBo Capital before Aspo, and was nominated as a startup influencer by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology. Several other team members boost entrepreneurial experience at Asian startups like DUO company, Callio, and Chatbot.

The Aspo team is being advised by Thi Truong, the CEO of PolkaFoundry and product manager at Kyber Network, and Le Thanh Minh, an owner of four gaming studios across Asia with more than two decades of experience in the mobile gaming industry.

Aspo World strives to set itself apart from similar games in several ways.

Its manga-based graphics and bright color palettes underscore the game’s mythical theme, with its sound design and instructions in standard Japanese adding to the game’s dramatic and powerful atmosphere.

Moreover, the intricate card-based gameplay lures players in with a variety of classes and subclasses of heroes to choose from. For instance, players select a hero that is either a hunter, a fighter, or a witch, with each class having two distinct subclasses:

• Hunters: scouts and snipers
• Fighters: rageblade and guandao
• Witches: enchanter and asura.

Players can then equip their hero with spirits of five different rarity levels: common, rare, elite, ascension, and legendary. Each spirit is further divided into groups according to properties and abilities like stamina, strength, agility, and intelligence. This complex system of rarity levels and attributes is a testament to the game’s tactical depth.

After selecting a hero, players choose from a campaign mode, quests, or competitions. In the campaign, aka story mode, you battle non-playable characters protecting challenging gates and get rewarded for defeating them. Quests are idle games that you can complete each day and include challenges like training, equipment supplement, and patrol. Finally, players can battle other players in competitions and duels or challenges.

In early 2022, Aspo added staking to its gameplay, allowing players to earn weekly rewards if they stake their ASPO for three, six, or twelve months. Staked ASPO can also be used for voting in the game’s governance proposals.

ASPO is the game’s utility token. The team plans to launch several other games connected to Aspo World, for which the ASPO token should be the foundation. Its total supply is 500 million according to the following distribution:

• Treasury (14%): three-month cliff, linearly over 60 months.
• Liquidity, listing, and marketing (15%): two-month cliff, unlocked over 36 months, 3% at TGE.
• Ecosystem (15%): unlocked over 36 months.
• Play-to-earn (20%): in-game rewards
• Team (21%): one-month cliff, unlocked over 36 months.
• Advisors (5%): one-month cliff, unlocked over 24 months.
• Public Sale (1%): unlocked over four months
• Private sale (9%): unlocked over 12 months, 10% at TGE.

ASPO is a BEP-20 token on the Binance Smart Chain. BSC is secured through the proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. 21 validators are elected every 24 hours to validate transactions and maintain blockchain security. These validators have to stake a certain amount of BNB coins with Binance to be eligible.

Aspo World’s smart contracts have been audited by Hacken and have been deemed safe.

ASPO is available on DigiFinex, Hoo, and PancakeSwap (V2).

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