Welcome to the 53rd edition of the Decentral Games Newsletter! Our objective is to keep our community informed of development progress, treasury performance, and upcoming events. Join our Discord and follow our Twitter for more frequent updates.
✅ Summary
Variable ICE Poker Delegation Splits
DG Website Updates
ICE Poker Metaverse Updates
Development Focus
We understand last week was very turbulent in the markets – and we want to ensure the DG community that this marco correction does not impact our ability to continue shipping relentlessly and solidifying Decentral Games as a leading innovator in blockchain gaming, play-to-earn, and the open metaverse.
We remain extremely boolish on all these converging movements, and we have enough funds to continue building for several years, regardless of market conditions. We are just getting started!
🔨 Variable ICE Poker Delegation Splits
Following a passed DG Governance proposal, the player/delegator splits have been updated from a 70 / 30 percentage split for all wearables regardless of rank, to variable slits based on wearable rank:
Rank 1: 60 / 40
Rank 2: 57 / 43
Rank 3: 54 / 46
Rank 4: 51 / 49
Diamond Hands: 48 / 52
Rationale
The rationale for increasing the split share allocation by rank is to further incentivize owners to burn ICE to upgrade their wearables. With these changes, expected earnings for a delegated diamond hands wearable is now ~77% higher. Since the NFT owner is bearing the expense of upgrading the item, it makes sense for more of the incremental ICE earnings to accrue mostly to the owner. This new tiered system accrues most of the increased bonus to the owner yet still gives upside to the player which will incentivize them to want to play with higher ranked wearables.
Additionally, the rationale for increasing the baseline delegator split from 30% to 40% was to further incentivize player ownership. Player ownership and upward mobility (getting your own wearable and then delegating them to build your own guild) are essential for ICE ecosystem sustainability. A jump from 60% rewards as a delegated player to 100% rewards playing with your own item represents a 67% increase in rewards, as opposed to a 43% as it was before. From a delegated player’s perspective, purchasing their own wearable just became a much more attractive proposition.
Finally, wearables owners are more inclined to reinvest their earnings back into upgrading or buying new wearables. Ecosystem long-term sustainability is paramount, and these changes ultimately yield better payouts for everyone over a longer time horizon.
🔨 DG Website Updates
New Landing Page
We went live with a new and improved landing page on Wednesday, now showcasing a few metrics that highlight our growth trajectory and adoption in the metaverse:
As you scroll down, the website now focuses on our core value propositions:
Get Wearable -> Play Free Poker -> Earn ICE
Borrow a wearable for free. Play free poker. Start earning.
Or lend out your NFTs for passive income. All while your assets stay in your wallet.
Stake DG. Vote in the DAO.
We feel this new website landing page better communicates our message, which is essential as we scale ICE Poker.
Load Balancer Back Online
We’ve fixed the load balancer that routes players to open scenes/realms that is utilized upon pressing the “Play Now” button on both the main site and ICE Poker dashboard.
Checked-In Wearable Banner
You can now easily confirm if your wearable(s) have been checked in. On the My Account ICE tab, you now see a green 'Checked In' banner over the wearables that have been checked in for the day.
Upgrade Animation
We’ve added a fun new animation when upgrading your ICE Wearables. Try upgrading to test it out!
Scheduled Undelegation
We improved the process of undelegating wearables with scheduled undelegation.
Website Optimizations
We heavily refactored the My Account page and other parts of the website to improve load times.
🔨 ICE Poker Metaverse Updates
ICE Poker Exploit Prevention
The team’s number one focus is making ICE Poker as fair as possible. We know there are users who have found exploits and we are working hard to block them. In the latest release, we fixed bugs around the multi-tab prevention.
We also fixed the spamming buttons exploit, which has drastically improved the numbers at top of the leaderboard, and we’ve added logging that will help us investigate and fix other gameplay exploits. There are a few more fixes coming this week that we believe will resolve the main cause of the huge negative balances on the bottom of the leaderboard.
Challenge Progress Notifications
When you complete an ICE Poker Challenge, there is now a new banner at the bottom of the screen displaying the updated progress (Example: “Get a Pair - 7 of 15”).
Added POAP and Video Streaming Functionality to Stronghold
Stronghold is set up to start hosting events with the ability to administer POAPs and stream video. Stay tuned for ICE Poker specific events in our events calendar!
Switch Your Camera View
We added a notification to let new players know that they can switch their camera view to first person by pressing ‘V’ for a much better experience.
💻 Development Focus
This week, the DG team is working on:
Improving ICE Poker Gameplay
Following one out of three major ICE Poker gameplay patches to restore integrity to the leaderboard, this week we are improving how we store player chips balances to prevent abuse with large negative balances.
Additionally, we will implement a cooldown period that increases in time every time you leave a table, and IP checks/assigned seating to prevent against collusion. We believe that these three major updates will drastically improve the ICE Poker gameplay experience.
Preparation for Ice Chef NFT Drop
We will be preparing for the ICE Chef NFT Drop, which will be held on Tuesday, January 25th at 6pm UTC.
We’ve added double the amount of minter workers addresses, and have added whitelist logic to deliver a smoother minting experience.
Due to the very small amount of time to prepare and test a new solution, we will not have our full new minting experience with the automatic activation of the ming button ready. Minters will still need to refresh the page at 6pm UTC. Please do not refresh many times else you may be rate limited by our servers.
Read the full announcement including the whitelist logic here.
ICE Poker Mobile
We’ve started development on a lightweight, mobile-focused ICE Poker experience that will enable greater accessibility and exponential scaling. We are excited to start testing this experience with a few community members very soon.
💰 DG Treasury Snapshot
The DG treasury now holds $47.32M.
DG Purchases
We’ve purchased $1.6M of DG following the ICE Poker mint proceeds and a passed governance proposal for reallocation of the MVI-ETH LP position. The DG purchased will be allocated towards future governance rewards for xDG holders.
ICE Poker NFT Royalties
Last week, the ICE Poker OpenSea collection accumulated 761.72 ETH in secondary market trading volume, generating $90,918 in royalties for the DG treasury.
ICE Poker NFT Activation/Upgrade Revenue
Last week, 279,200 DG ($96,546) was added to the DG Treasury from ICE Poker NFT activations and upgrades.
Visit the Treasury Dashboard to view DG Treasury balances in real time.
🏛 Active Governance Proposals
The following proposals have been passed and implemented:
DAO's MVI-ETH LP & INDEX Tokens
Convert the MVI-ETH LP and INDEX Tokens into DG. Time period is flexible to prevent frontrunning but within one week of proposal passing.
Update ICE Poker Rewards Split to Incentivize Wearable Upgrades and Player Ownership
Update the ICE Poker NFT Player/Delegator split to:
Rank 1: 60 / 40
Rank 2: 57 / 43
Rank 3: 54 / 46
Rank 4: 51 / 49
Diamond Hands: 48 / 52
To make a new proposal, visit the Decentral Games Snapshot dashboard.
📆 This Week’s Events
Virtual events bring the community together each week to play games, hang out, enjoy live music and win prizes! Make sure to swing by and claim your Decentral Games POAPs at the following events this week:
Monday, Jan 24
Crypto Game Night with DJ performance, featuring $1,500 USD+ in prizes up for grabs @ 9pm UTC / 4pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Tuesday, Jan 25
DG x Guerilla Music present META-VERZUS Kick-Off Party w/ Host King Mizo, featuring $RAP token giveaways in Stronghold Venue @ 10pm UTC / 5pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Thursday, Jan 27
$DG Hodlers Round Table w/ Miles Anthony, Co-Founder of Decentral Games, discussing biweekly updates, featuring $300 USD in $DG raffles@ 7pm UTC / 2pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
FREE PLAY Game Night - Up Late w/ DG featuring HIP HOP Night, featuring $250+ USD in prizes @ 6pm PST (1am - 2am UTC) 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Friday, Jan 28
FREE Play Game Night Asia & Australia, featuring $250 USD in prizes @ 1pm UTC / 9am EST 👉 RSVP | Hop i
Sunday, Jan 30
SUNDAY FUNDAY FREE PLAY Game Night, featuring $250 USD+ in prizes up for grabs @ 11pm UTC / 6pm EST 👉 Hop in
👉 Check our events page for easy access to upcoming events!
DG Token Migration
95% of the original $DG tokens have been migrated to the new DG, which now has a supply of 386,454,014 DG. Read the full blog post here, and migrate your DG tokens using our seamless step-by-step process here on Ethereum or Polygon if you haven’t already.
Caution: Beware of Phishing
Scammers impersonating the DG Team have been targeting community members through Discord DMs. If you have any doubt, please reach out to a verified DG team member. DG team members will never DM you nor request you to connect your wallet to a non-DG site.
About Decentral Games
Decentral Games builds games that give players economic freedom through aligned incentives, self-custody and delegation of yield-bearing metaverse assets. Decentral Games’ play-to-earn metaverse poker game (ICE Poker) generates revenue for the DG Treasury through NFT mints, secondary sale royalties, activations, and upgrades. xDG hodlers vote on DG Treasury allocation and economic policy to grow and strengthen the DG ecosystem.
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