## Star Atlas DAO คืออะไร?

Star Atlas DAO เป็นการผสมผสานที่ทะเยอทะยานของเทคโนโลยีชั้นนำหลายอย่างเพื่อสร้างเมตาเวิร์สเกมรุ่นถัดไป โครงการนี้โดดเด่นด้วยการผสานรวมเทคโนโลยีบล็อกเชน, กราฟิกแบบเรียลไทม์, กลไกเกมวิดีโอหลายผู้เล่น, และเทคโนโลยีการเงินแบบกระจายอำนาจเพื่อสร้างประสบการณ์ที่ไม่เหมือนใครและน่าดึงดูดสำหรับผู้เล่น

ในแก่นแท้ของมัน Star Atlas ใช้โปรโตคอล Solana เป็นฐานบล็อกเชน ทำให้มั่นใจได้ถึงสภาพแวดล้อมที่ปลอดภัยและมีประสิทธิภาพสำหรับการทำธุรกรรมและการเล่นเกม การเลือกใช้บล็อกเชนนี้มีความสำคัญสำหรับความสามารถในการจัดการกับปริมาณธุรกรรมที่สูงด้วยต้นทุนที่ต่ำซึ่งเป็นสิ่งสำคัญสำหรับการรักษาความเหลวและความเคลื่อนไหวของเศรษฐกิจในเกม

ประสบการณ์ทางภาพของเกมได้รับพลังจากเทคโนโลยี Nanite ของ Unreal Engine 5 ซึ่งช่วยให้มีภาพที่มีคุณภาพเทียบเท่าภาพยนตร์ ระดับความเที่ยงตรงทางกราฟิกนี้ไม่เพียงแต่เกี่ยวกับความสวยงามเท่านั้น แต่ยังมีบทบาทสำคัญในการดึงดูดผู้เล่นเข้าสู่จักรวาลกว้างใหญ่ของ Star Atlas ทำให้การสำรวจกาแล็กซี่ที่ห่างไกลและการโต้ตอบกับองค์ประกอบต่างๆ ภายในเกมน่าสนใจและสมจริงยิ่งขึ้น

ส่วนประกอบสำคัญของ Star Atlas คือองค์กรอิสระแบบกระจายอำนาจ (DAO) ซึ่งให้พลังแก่ผู้เล่นในการมีส่วนร่วมในการกำกับดูแลและทิศทางในอนาคตของเกม

### Star Atlas DAO มีการรักษาความปลอดภัยอย่างไร?

Star Atlas DAO ใช้วิธีการหลายด้านในการรักษาความปลอดภัย เพื่อให้แน่ใจว่าผู้ใช้และทรัพย์สินของพวกเขาได้รับการปกป้องอย่างดีผ่านการผสมผสานระหว่างนวัตกรรมทางเทคโนโลยีและความร่วมมือกลยุทธ์ ดาว DAO ได้รวมมาตรการความปลอดภัยหลักหลายประการ รวมถึง POLIS locker และ Proposal Improvement Proposals (PIPs) ซึ่งออกแบบมาเพื่อปกป้องทรัพย์สินและกระบวนการกำกับดูแลของชุมชน POLIS locker เป็นกลไกสำคัญในการป้องกันโทเค็นการกำกับดูแลของ DAO, POLIS โดยการล็อคโทเค็นอย่างปลอดภัยและป้องกันการเข้าถึงหรือการจัดการโดยไม่ได้รับอนุญาต

นอกจากนี้ Star Atlas DAO ได้จัดตั้งความร่วมมือกับตลาดแลกเปลี่ยนและกระเป๋าเงินที่มีชื่อเสียง ความร่วมมือเหล่านี้มีความสำคัญสำหรับการให้ผู้ใช้มีแพลตฟอร์มที่ปลอดภัยสำหรับการซื้อขายและเก็บรักษาทรัพย์สินดิจิทัลของพวกเขา โดยการเชื่อมโยงกับหน่วยงานที่มีชื่อเสียงในพื้นที่สกุลเงินคริปโต Star Atlas DAO เสริมสร้างกรอบความปลอดภัยของตนและสร้างความไว้วางใจภายในชุมชนของตน

เทคโนโลยีพื้นฐานของ Star Atlas ซึ่งใช้โปรโตคอล Solana มีบทบาทสำคัญในความปลอดภัยของ DAO บล็อกเชน Solana มีชื่อเสียงในเรื่องการประมวลผลสูงและความล่าช้าต่ำ ซึ่งไม่เพียงแต่ช่วยให้ประสบการณ์การเล่นเกมไหลลื่น แต่ยังช่วยให้สภาพแวดล้อมการทำธุรกรรมปลอดภัยและมีประสิทธิภาพ การใช้เทคโนโลยีบล็อกเชนรับประกันว่าการทำธุรกรรมทั้งหม

### Star Atlas DAO จะถูกใช้อย่างไร?

Star Atlas DAO มีบทบาทสำคัญในเกมมิติ Star Atlas โดยทำหน้าที่หลายอย่างเพื่อเพิ่มประสบการณ์การเล่นเกมและระบบนิเวศโดยรวม หลักๆ แล้ว มันทำหน้าที่เป็นสื่อกลางในการแลกเปลี่ยนภายในเกม ช่วยในการซื้อขายและการซื้อสินค้าต่างๆ ซึ่งรวมถึงทุกอย่างตั้งแต่ยานอวกาศไปจนถึงอุปกรณ์ ช่วยให้ผู้เล่นสามารถปรับแต่งและอัพเกรดประสบการณ์การเล่นเกมของตนเองได้

นอกจากการใช้เป็นสกุลเงินแล้ว Star Atlas DAO ยังเป็นส่วนสำคัญในการกำกับดูแลการพัฒนาเกมและโมเดลเศรษฐกิจหรือโทเค็นนอมิกส์ ผู้เล่นที่ถือโทเค็น DAO มีสิทธิ์ในการมีอิทธิพลต่อการตัดสินใจเกี่ยวกับอนาคตของเกม ตั้งแต่การอัปเดตและคุณสมบัติไปจนถึงการปรับเปลี่ยนนโยบายเศรษฐกิจของเกม ระดับของการมีส่วนร่วมนี้ช่วยให้ชุมชนมีส่วนร่วมในทิศทางของเกม ส่งเสริมฐานผู้เล่นที่มีส่วนร่วมและลงทุนมากขึ้น

การใช้เทคโนโลยีบล็อกเชน โดยเฉพาะผ่านการใช้โปรโตคอล Solana ให้กรอบการทำงานที่ปลอดภัยและมีประสิทธิภาพสำหรับการทำธุรกรรมและการกำกับดูแลภายในเกม เทคโนโลยีนี้สนับสนุนโครงสร้างการจัดการอัตโนมัติแบบกระจายอำนาจ (DAO) ทำให้กระบวนการตัดสินใจเป็นไปอย่างโปร่งใสและประชาธิปไตย

นอกจากนี้ การใช้โทเค็นที่ไม่ซ้ำกัน (NFTs) ภายใน Star Atlas เพิ่มความลึกให้กับเศรษฐกิจของเกม NFTs แสดงถึงการเป็นเจ้าของสินค้า

### เหตุการณ์สำคัญใดบ้างที่เกิดขึ้นกับ Star Atlas DAO?

Star Atlas DAO ได้ประสบกับหลายเหตุการณ์สำคัญที่ได้รูปแบบการเดินทางในพื้นที่เกมบล็อกเชน หนึ่งในนั้นคือการที่ Aephia Industries ได้ซื้อหุ้นส่วนใหญ่ใน Atmta ในเดือนเมษายน 2022 ถือเป็นช่วงเวลาสำคัญที่แสดงถึงความเชื่อมั่นอย่างแข็งแกร่งในโครงการ Star Atlas และศักยภาพของมันในชุมชนเกมและบล็อกเชน

การพัฒนาที่สำคัญอีกประการคือการตัดสินใจใช้ Unreal Engine 5 สำหรับการพัฒนาเกม การเลือกนี้เน้นย้ำถึงความมุ่งมั่นของโครงการในการส่งมอบภาพที่มีคุณภาพสูงและประสบการณ์การเล่นเกมที่ล้ำสมัย Unreal Engine 5 และเทคโนโลยี Nanite ช่วยให้ Star Atlas สามารถบรรลุระดับรายละเอียดและความเป็นจริงที่ไม่เคยมีมาก่อนในเมตาเวิร์สของมัน สร้างมาตรฐานใหม่สำหรับสิ่งที่เป็นไปได้ในเกมบล็อกเชน

การเปิดตัววิดีโอการเล่นเกมรุ่นพรี-อัลฟ่าในเดือนธันวาคม 2021 ได้ให้ชุมชนได้เห็นภาพรวมแรกของสิ่งที่คาดหวังจากเกม การดูเบื้องต้นนี้ที่การเล่นเกมและจักรวาลของ Star Atlas เป็นสิ่งสำคัญในการสร้างความตื่นเต้นและความคาดหวังในหมู่ผู้เล่นและนักลงทุนที่มีศักยภาพ มันแสดงให้เห็นความก้าวหน้าของโครงการและผลลัพธ์ที่เป็นรูปธรรมของความพยายามในการพัฒนา

นอกจากนี้ การเปิดตัวเมตาเวิร์สเกม Star Atlas พร้อมกับการนำเสนอสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลต่างๆ เช่น PudgyPenguins, BoredApeYachtClub และ Lil Pudgys ได้ช่วยขยายระบบนิเวศ กิจกรรมเหล่านี้ไม่เพียงแต่เพิ่มความร่ำ



Star Atlas

Star Atlas DAO

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of [Star Atlas](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-star-atlas-atlas-polis-the-next-generation-of-blockchain-gaming).

Star Atlas is a next-gen gaming metaverse emerging from the confluence of state of the art blockchain, real-time graphics, multiplayer video game, and decentralized financial technologies.

Real-time graphics technology using Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite allows for cinematic quality video game visuals. Blockchain technology using the Solana protocol established a largely serverless and secured gameplay experience. Non-fungible tokens obtained and traded within Star Atlas creates an economy that replicates the tangibility of real world assets and ownership.

SolFlare

Backpack

Phantom

Solana

dogwifhat

Bonk

Pyth Network

Jupiter

Green Satoshi Token (SOL)

JPool Staked SOL (JSOL)

Silly Dragon

GameStop

Crown by Third Time Games

Metaplex

Shadow Token

Bonfida

Smog

DUKO

MooCat

Peanie

Chinu

Guacamole

ThoreCoin

Illuvium is an open-world fantasy battle game built on the Ethereum blockchain. Often touted as the first AAA game on Ethereum, Illuvium looks to provide a source of entertainment to both casual gamers and hardcore DeFi fans through a range of collecting and trading features.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Illuvium.

The world of Illuvium is inhabited by creatures known as Illuvials, who can be captured by players that best them in battle and nurse them back to health. From then on, they become a loyal part of the player’s collection and can be used when battling other adventurers as part of Illuvium’s auto battler gameplay.

The game is a fusion between an open-world exploration game and a PVP battle game. Players can spend their time exploring the expanses of the game world or building up their team of powerful beasts.

Illuvium has been in development since 2020, and is being built by a worldwide team of more than 40 individuals, including the co-founders; serial entrepreneur and early cryptocurrency adopter Kieran Warwick, and experienced game designer Aaron Warwick, who are brothers. (And who are coincidentally also the brothers of Kain Warwick, the co-founder of DeFi platform Synthetix).

The ILV token has a number of uses within the Illuvium ecosystem. It’s the main token used to reward players for their in-game achievements, entitles players to their share of the Illuvium Vault and is used for participating in the governance of the game via the Illuvium decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).

Illuvium

Aurory is a next-generation studio building a universe of interoperable web3 games. Two original IP’s were born from this universe, which are actively shaping the future of the Aurory player experience.

The first of these two IP’s are Aurorians. A collection of 10,000 anime style NFT characters that double as both a PFP, as well as a playable avatar with various in-game perks.

The second are Nefties. These magical creatures have been designed as non-fungible tokens NFTs with a unique set of stats that influence their performance in-game. They serve as companions on each player’s journey, and can be hatched, traded, collected, and used in battles.

Aurory currently hosts two playable games (both in alpha) which continue to evolve in a live-ops development format:

Seekers of Tokane: A JRPG, where players embark on a dangerous rogue-like adventure through the world of Tokane, collecting and battling fierce Nefties in epic turn-based combat.

Aurory Tactics: A PvP timeline-based battling game where players must learn how to best use their Neftie creature's abilities, competing against opponents to rise to the top of the leaderboard for rewards and glory.

The project proudly boasts one of the most experienced executive and development suites in blockchain gaming, with dozens of talents from established gaming studios, such as Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Rovio, Warner Bros, and more.

Aurory

Raydium is an automated market maker (AMM) and liquidity provider built on the Solana blockchain for the Serum decentralized exchange (DEX). Unlike any other AMMs, Raydium provides on-chain liquidity to a central limit orderbook meaning that funds deposited into Raydium are converted into limit orders which sit on Serum’s orderbooks. This gives Raydium LPs access to all of Serum’s order flow as well as their existing liquidity.
RAY is the native utility token used for:

Staking to earn protocol fees

Staking to receive IDO allocations

Governance votes on protocol decisions

Raydium

Wilder World

Bloktopia is a decentralized metaverse backed by and built on Polygon. In Bloktopia, a decentralized virtual reality skyscraper made up of 21 levels (as recognition to 21 million Bitcoin) acts as a central hub for users to have access to crypto information and immersive content in one place. The so-called Bloktopias can educate themselves in the basics or more advanced crypto learnings, earn revenue by owning virtual real estate, play games, build networks and more. Moreover, advertisers and sponsors can monetize the platform’s userbase through a dedicated NFT mechanism. By providing a VR experience for the crypto community, users can engage in an immersive environment according to Bloktopia’s four core pillars: learn, earn, play and create.

Bloktopia

Ultra is a publishing platform and ecosystem for video games and video game content. Ultra’s mission is to do away with the current monopoly held by publishing platforms like Steam and provide new opportunities to game developers, players, and influencers. Ultra promises a solution that is more equitable to players and developers alike. Players can benefit from immediately playable games, earn UOS by using the platform, and access platform-exclusive games. At the same time, developers benefit from access to more effective marketing tools and the potential for 20% higher sales revenue.

Besides content and game publishing, Ultra offers a demand-side and service-side platform for advertisers, the opportunity for players to resell their used games, and a platform-exclusive app.

Ultra

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is the world’s first and biggest web3 gaming guild where players can find their community, discover games and level up together. Its mission is to become the leading community-based user acquisition platform in web3 gaming.

As a network of gaming guilds focused on web3 games, YGG is committed to providing opportunities for its members to achieve success in web3 gaming through questing initiatives such as Superquests and the Guild Advancement Program (GAP). These enable members to build their on-chain identity through its achievement-based reputation system.

From its roots in the Philippines to its global network of regional guilds and partnerships with over 80 blockchain games and infrastructure projects, YGG caters to an ever-expanding community of gamers and blockchain enthusiasts.

Yield Guild Games

Launched in 2011 by Pixowl, The Sandbox is a blockchain-based virtual world allowing users to create, build, buy and sell digital assets in the form of a game. By combining the powers of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the Sandbox creates a decentralized platform for a thriving gaming community.

According to the official whitepaper, the Sandbox platform’s main mission is to introduce blockchain technology in mainstream gaming successfully. The platform focuses on facilitating a creative “play-to-earn” model, which allows users to be both creators and gamers simultaneously. The Sandbox employs the powers of blockchain technology by introducing the SAND utility token, which facilitates transactions on the platform.

The Sandbox

Axie Infinity is a blockchain-based trading and battling game that is partially owned and operated by its players.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Axie Infinity.

Inspired by popular games like Pokémon and Tamagotchi, Axie Infinity allows players to collect, breed, raise, battle and trade token-based creatures known as Axies.

These Axies can take various forms, and there are more than 500 different body parts available, including aquatic, beast, bird, bug, plant and reptile parts. Parts from each type class come in four different rarity scales: common, rare, ultra rare and legendary — and Axies can have any combination of body parts, making them highly variable and often rare and unique.

Each Axie is a non-fungible token (NFT) with different attributes and strengths and can be entered into 3v3 battles, with the winning team earning more experience (exp) points that are used to level up an Axie's stats or evolve their body parts. These Axies can be bred together to produce new and unique offspring, which can be used or sold on the Axie marketplace.

The Axie Infinity ecosystem also has its own unique governance token, known as Axie Infinity Shards (AXS). These are used to participate in key governance votes and will give holders a say in how funds in the Axie Community Treasury are spent.

Axie Infinity

Enjin Coin is a project of Enjin, a company that provides an ecosystem of interconnected, blockchain-based gaming products. Enjin's flagship offering is the Enjin Network, a social gaming platform through which users can create websites and clans, chat, and host virtual item stores.

Enjin allows game developers to tokenize in-game items on the Ethereum blockchain. It uses Enjin Coin, an ERC-20 token, to back the digital assets issued using its platform, meaning that items can be bought, sold and traded with real-world value.

Enjin Coin was first announced in July 2017, and it launched on the Ethereum mainnet in June 2018.

Enjin Coin (ENJ) is a digital store of value used to back the value of blockchain assets like non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Every asset minted with the Enjin Platform contains ENJ, a minting resource which is locked inside NFTs and removed from circulation. Minting blockchain assets with ENJ provides a variety of benefits to creators and users:

Infuses them with a reserve value

Ensures their transparency and scarcity

Gives them instant liquidity

Provides utility in games and apps

Anti-inflationary

Enjin's "melting" functionality allows users to destroy their blockchain assets at any time to retrieve the ENJ value from within.

The Enjin blockchain ecosystem aims to offer software products that make it easy for everyone to develop, trade, monetize, and market with blockchain.

Founded in 2009, Enjin has roots in the gaming industry, with the company’s first product, a gaming community platform called the Enjin Network, growing to 20 million users over the course of a decade.

In 2017 following an ICO, Enjin established itself as a leading blockchain ecosystem developer, building a suite of software products that enable anyone to easily mint, manage, trade, distribute, and integrate blockchain assets.

Enjin’s co-founder Witek Radomski wrote the code for one of the first ever non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and is also the co-author of the ERC-1155 Ethereum token standard.

Built on top of an on-chain infrastructure, the Enjin ecosystem enables game developers and businesses of all sizes to use tokenized digital assets as part of their acquisition, retention, engagement, and monetization strategies. The Enjin ecosystem is fueled by Enjin Coin (ENJ), a cryptocurrency used to back the value of blockchain assets.

Enjin Coin

Gala is a web3 ecosystem powered by a layer-1 blockchain (GalaChain) built to power the Gala entertainment ecosystem that originally included Gala Games, Gala Music and Gala Film. More recently however, GalaChain has opened its doors to external developers and projects from any applicable industry, providing open source developer resources to simplify the process.

On a mission to empower users and creators across multiple industries throughout the world, Gala’s goal is to become the first billion user blockchain in the world. Innovators can extend the benefits of web3 to their users and communities more easily than ever before by leveraging open source tools like the GalaChain SDK and Creator Portal.

By elevating their ideas to web3 through GalaChain, developers can create custom tokens, smart contracts, reward opportunities and node networks for their communities and projects. Assets built on GalaChain can also be bridged to other blockchains, such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and more. Developers who wish to learn more about getting involved with GalaChain are welcome to reach out via GalaChain.com.

The core of GalaChain is powered by its DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) of Founder’s Nodes, whose operators earn daily $GALA rewards for actively providing resources to the ecosystem and enjoy governance voting rights on certain core Gala decisions. In addition to the Founder’s Node network’s foundational workload, individual projects can also create Node networks on GalaChain with more specific workloads.

Gala.com
News.Gala.com
Games.Gala.com
Music.Gala.com
Film.Gala.com

Gala

Secret (SCRT) is a privacy-oriented blockchain built on Cosmos. Its smart contracts are called Secret Contracts and allow DApps to use private data on Secret, similar to how smart contracts operate on other blockchains. However, Secret Contracts transfer encrypted inputs into encrypted outputs without exposing data. This is made possible thanks to the encrypted contract states during the execution.

Data privacy is guaranteed by combining encryption protocols and key management within a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). This allows Secret Contracts to compete for several privacy-related use cases that traditional blockchains have found difficult to accommodate. For instance, private voting mechanisms or credit scoring applications become possible since they do not expose sensitive user data on-chain with Secret.

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Serum is a decentralized exchange (DEX) and ecosystem that brings unprecedented speed and low transaction costs to decentralized finance (DeFi). (DeFi).

Serum is the only high-performant DEX designed around a fully on-chain central limit order book and matching engine. Ecosystem partners can compose with Serum’s on-chain orderbook to share liquidity and power their trading features for institutional and retail users.

In light of the popularity of DeFi and the growth of DEXes on Ethereum, users and developers are limited by high gas costs and slow transactions. Serum aims to resolve these traditional problems of DeFi, as well as issues of centralization, low capital efficiency, and liquidity segmentation.

The SRM utility and governance token enables users to receive discounts on protocol fees and voting rights; 100% of exchange fees flow back to SRM via buy-and-burn, staking rewards, and ecosystem grants.

Serum

Vulcan Forged is a blockchain game studio and NFT marketplace. They are the makers of VulcanVerse.

PYR  is the native utility token that is used for:

Fees for marketplace settlement

Staking in VulcanVerse land and other assets

Upgrading and sustaining game asset levels

Play-to-earn rewards

Access to our game developers and NFT dapp incubation program

Vulcan Forged Platforms and games include:

*VulcanVerse, a Grece-Roman fantasy metaverse made up of 10,000 plots of land

Anvil, a crypto-less and gas-free NFT engine for easy game and dApp onboarding

Vulcan Market, a gas free NFT marketplace for all Vulcan Forged games

Berserk, an NFT online TGG

Frenzy, a create-your-own tournament platform with PYR as it’s reward token.

Vulcan Forged (PYR)

Immutable positions itself as the first layer-two scaling solution for NFTs on Ethereum. According to Immutable, its blockchain does away with Ethereum’s limitations like low scalability, a poor user experience, illiquidity, and a slow developer experience. Instead, users benefit from instant trading and massive scalability while enjoying zero gas fees for minting and trading NFTs without compromising user or asset security.

Thanks to this technology, users will be able to create and distribute assets like ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens on a massive scale. Chris Clay, the game Director of Gods Unchained, a project already building on Immutable, stated that Immutable allows Gods Unchained to implement a new meta-system that was previously impossible. In this fashion, Immutable aims to create a world-class experience for users and developers alike.

Immutable

Decentraland (MANA) defines itself as a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications.

In this virtual world, users purchase plots of land that they can later navigate, build upon and monetize.

Decentraland was launched following a $24 million initial coin offering (ICO) that was conducted in 2017. The virtual world launched its closed beta in 2019 and opened to the public in February 2020. Since then, users have created a wide range of experiences on their parcels of LAND, including interactive games, sprawling 3D scenes and a variety of other interactive experiences.

Decentraland uses two tokens: MANA and LAND. MANA is an ERC-20 token that must be burned to acquire non-fungible ERC-721 LAND tokens. MANA tokens can also be used to pay for a range of avatars, wearables, names, and more on the Decentraland marketplace.

Decentraland (MANA) is a decentralized virtual world platform with software based on the Ethereum blockchain, where users create, test and monetize content. In short: users buy virtual plots of land as NFTs with MANA tokens on the Decentraland platform. Progress in the game depends only on players themselves, their efforts and their imagination.

The digital platform is completely owned by its users. Within the Decentraland metaverse, participants can explore the virtual world, purchase plots of land that can be monetized, create works of art, own non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and take part in a decentralized autonomous organization of the platform Decentraland DAO. Due to the DAO, the community influences the development vector of the project.

In addition, users have access to interactive applications, in-world payments and peer-to-peer communication. The 3D world resonates with many participants as Decentraland has many applications, both entertainment for gamers and business for investors.

Two types of tokens called MANA and LAND govern operations in Decentraland. They also allow users to interact with the platform.

MANA is the official currency of Decentraland. It’s an ERC-20 standard token that powers the Decentraland platform. With MANA, users can purchase plots of LAND, as well as pay for in-game items and services.

MANA gives its holders the right to vote in Decentraland DAO. MANA can be purchased on a cryptocurrency exchange or by selling collectibles on Decentraland Marketplace. The owner of tokens converts them to wrapped MANA, or wMANA, and then commits them to the DAO. One wMANA equals one vote. MANA can be exchanged for fiat currency and other digital assets.

As for LAND, it’s a non-fungible token (NFT) based on Ethereum (ETH). It is used to track ownership of land parcels aka digital real estate. Like MANA, LAND is part of the protocol and confers voting rights, but LAND does not need to be fixed in the DAO. One LAND is equal to two thousand votes.

Players choose what to do with their land. Owners store tokens in crypto wallets and buy necessities with MANA tokens on the Decentraland Marketplace. Moreover, on the marketplace, participants can manage or exchange LAND tokens (priced in MANA). Holders use the marketplace to transact or transfer in-game items. All transactions are conducted, regulated and registered via the Ethereum blockchain.

Decentraland combines an online gaming space and blockchain technology. All control over the rules is given to the players, and token holders vote on in-game and organizational policies. The original goal was to form a decentralized virtual reality, but in practice, Decentraland has turned into a massive NFT market.

A special role in Decentraland is assigned to NFTs, such as collectibles, virtual equipment and real estate (LAND). However, for new players who want to join the universe and seize NFTs, the entry barrier will be high.

The Decentraland protocol is built on three levels using Ethereum smart contracts. On the consensus layer, the ownership of LAND is tracked and managed. The land content layer displays the content of the Decentraland virtual world. Finally, on the real-time layer, participants interact with each other.

The platform was co-founded by two blockchain experts, Ari Meilich and Esteban Ordano, in 2015. Officially it was launched a year later and became available only in February 2020, gradually turning from a 2D experiment into a full-fledged 3D world.

To sum up, Decentraland is a decentralized game and a 3D virtual reality platform where players own lands and create limitlessly. Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) software is at the core, and governance is in the hands of the community. Through the native token MANA, players participate in any proposals for managing and improving the ecosystem, the auction system, and the in-game policy.

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Audius is a decentralized music streaming protocol initially built on POA network, but now living on Solana. Audius was launched to remedy the inefficiencies of the music industry, which is plagued by intransparent music rights ownership and intermediaries standing between artists and their audience.

Audius aims to align the interests of artists, fans, and node operators through its platform powered by its native AUDIO token. Artists can upload music, stored and distributed by content and discovery nodes, that fans can listen to for free. Currently, Audius rewards content creators through rewards like featuring in the weekly trending lists. In the future, it plans to integrate stablecoins for artists to offer paid content, as well as artist tokens that give fans the ability to access exclusive content, potentially cooperating with platforms like Rally.

Audius

My Neighbor Alice is a farming-themed play-to-earn builder game built on Chromia. The game bills itself as a place where “players can buy and own virtual islands, collect and build exciting items while also making new friends.” Each player has their own avatar representing them in the game, which they can modify as they please. Players can buy virtual real estate from Alice, the game’s eponymous central figure, or the internal marketplace. All purchased land is represented as an NFT.

My Neighbor Alice aims to introduce blockchain to millions of players and targets a diverse gaming community within the traditional gaming market. Although the game is blockchain-based and integrates DeFi features, it does not require prior knowledge of cryptocurrency and blockchain. My Neighbor Alice takes inspiration from several popular sources. For instance, daily in-game tasks and social aspects are inspired by Animal Crossing, whereas Minecraft serves as a role model for building mechanics. The artwork was inspired by the Swedish children’s book Pettson and Findus.

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Verasity is an open-ledger ecosystem designed to fight advertising fraud, provide open access to infrastructure for publishers and advertisers, and reward users for watching video content. Verasity also provides payment solutions and a rewarding staking ecosystem with 15% yields guaranteed through to April 2024.

Powered by a mix of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cutting-edge blockchain technologies, Verasity is building the most powerful advertising ecosystem in the world through VeraViews; developing an open-access payments platform through VeraWallet, the VeraCard, and VeraPay; and enhancing the attention economy through its patented Rewarded Video module.

Verasity

Gods Unchained is a free-to-play tactical card game that gives players true ownership of their in-game items. Led by the former game director of Magic The Gathering: Arena, the game focuses on competitive play, which means players must strategically outsmart their opponents by building decks that are able to combat a wide variety of tactics. In Gods Unchained players completely own their digital items, giving them the freedom to trade, sell and use their cards any way they like – just like owning real, tangible cards.

GODS is an ERC-20 token used as premium currency within the GU ecosystem. The tokens will be used to:

Create an NFT.

Used within the marketplace and for in-game purchases.

Distributed as a reward to players.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Gods Unchained.