Floki is a decentralized community run project.

It was initially launched by an anonymous dev who abandoned the project shortly after it launched. The community rallied, took over, and relaunched the project -- making it a globally recognized crypto brand with 400,000+ holders in its first year.

Floki has a core team representing the interests of its community. The core team consists of pseudonymous personalities B, Sabre, and MrBrown Whale. The project’s lead developer is Jackie Xu, who, according to Floki, is a “well-respected and doxxed figure in the industry with over a decade of blockchain experience.” The team announced that Valhalla, the NFT gaming metaverse, was being developed by a team of 20 people with over 50 years of combined team experience.

Key decisions affecting Floki as a project are also made through a DAO vote where people vote with their FLOKI tokens.

Floki wants to set itself apart from other meme coins by combining the memes with utility. The team’s long-term vision is to create an autonomous and decentralized ecosystem, including strategic partnerships, building utility on the token itself, and developing use cases for the Floki brand through NFTs, games and decentralized finance features.

Its main flagship product is the NFT gaming metaverse called Valhalla. Floki Inu envisions it to be a play-to-earn gaming metaverse, where you can earn rewards for battling and trade or hold on to assets obtained in the metaverse. The team plans to take successful elements from games like Pokémon and Skyrim and incorporate them in Valhalla. Players will be able to capture and battle with creatures called Vera, and the game will also have a gardening system where players can tend to their crops, which can later be sold as NFTs. With Valhalla, Floki Inu tries to follow the path forged by games like Axie Infinity (AXS) that popularized playing and earning on the blockchain through games.

FLOKI is both an ERC-20 token on Ethereum and a BEP-20 token on Binance Smart Chain.

ERC-20 is a token standard most new tokens follow when publishing on the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum is one of the most popular blockchains and the go-to solution for many decentralized applications. Its proof-of-work consensus mechanism requires miners to mine new Ether and ensures that Ethereum is one of the safest blockchains in the crypto industry. A set of decentralized nodes validates transactions and secures the Ethereum blockchain.

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.

FLOKI is available on Huobi, Gate.io, Bybit, Uniswap (V2), BKEX and PancakeSwap (V2).

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