The Aurory team has been growing steadily and as of June 2022, the project is composed of over 60 talents, many of them former Ubisoft, EA, and Gameloft employees that collectively garner over 400 years of experience in building AAA video games. The project is also advised by Tristan Yver, co-founder of Backpack, Darren Lau and Daryl Lau, of Not3Lau Capital, and Grégoire Le Jeune, General Partner at Geometry.

Aurory utilizes the same play-and-own game mechanics that have made other projects like Axie Infinity (AXS) wildly successful. One of the key differences with Aurory is that it is free-to-play, giving it a low barrier to entry that allows anyone, regardless of their crypto experience or financial situation, to start playing Aurory and owning their in-game assets, with zero up-front investment.

The team is taking the approach of prioritizing creating a fun game, with a sustainable economic model to attract gamers who will stick around and reinvest, rather than farmers only looking to extract value.

Some notable features that reinforce this idea consist of the following:

• Seasonal releases of content every 6 months will allow for new regions to be explored, new characters and quests, and new revelations about the greater Aurory Universe. • Seasonal competitions and e-sports tournaments. • Deflationary mechanisms engineered into the economy to balance the supply of inflationary assets like Eggs and Nefties.

The native ecosystem token, $AURY, is at the heart of the economy and fuels all operations. It represents a financial stake in the game, and will ultimately be used to access dungeons through land fees. It has a fixed supply of 100 million tokens and can be earned from both PvE and PvP game modes as well as through staking. The initial token circulation was 9.5% of total $AURY supply, with 7% coming from public sale (IDO), and another 2.5% that went to exchanges as liquidity.

Additional $AURY Use Cases:

• Buying and selling of assets in the Aurory Marketplace. • Required as a fee for hatching eggs to obtain Nefties. • Will be the currency used for Aurory land sales. • Used for sending Aurorian NFTs on Expeditions (NFT Staking), • In the future, it will also act as Aurory’s governance token, allowing holders to vote on important game-development decisions.

The $AURY token also has two of its own sub-currencies: OKA and TOKE. In their most basic form, these sub-currencies behave as an accounting mechanism that allows the distribution of revenues generated by players and can only be found in-game (not as SPL tokens). At the end of each week, both are exchanged for a corresponding amount of $AURY.

• OKA is the sub-currency used in PvE and PvP to reward players that own at least one NFT Nefty. Depending on difficulty levels, victorious players will receive varying amounts of OKA that will be converted to $AURY at the end of each week from the reward pool for financially invested players.

• TOKE is the sub-currency used in PvE and PvP as the reward mechanism for victorios players who don't own any NFT Nefties, or who have expended all of an NFT Nefty's OKAnergy for the day. Like with OKA, the amount of TOKE received by victorious players will be based on the difficulty level and will be converted to $AURY at the end of each week from a reward pool for F2P players.

Aurory is powered by the Solana blockchain. The team selected Solana for its fast transaction times and minuscule transaction fees as well as the minimal environmental impact compared to other blockchains.

Solana is a layer one blockchain with a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism with partial Byzantine Fault Tolerance. It has 200 nodes operating worldwide that can, at their peak, process up to 50,000 transactions per second. Solana performs a set of coordinated optimizations to achieve such impressive performance and processes transactions in a multi-threaded way, which sets it apart from slower blockchains.