Decentral Games Newsletter #56
Weekly Update - February 13, 2022
Welcome to the 56th 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
ICE Airlines Drop
ICE Poker - Osiris
ICE Poker Leaderboard Updates
Development Focus
👨✈️ ICE Airlines Drop
Last Thursday, the ICE Airlines Drop sold out in a record 40 seconds, distributing 1,250 ICE wearables to the community and adding $6M in ETH to the DG Treasury.
Improved Minting Experience
This drop featured a much better minting experience due to the auto-refresh of the mint button.
Funds Allocation
Following this recently passed governance proposal regarding the capital allocation of proceeds from the February 10th mint, funds have been allocated to:
$5M stable coin reserves
$400K purchase of DG
$500K add to ICE-USDC LP on Quickswap (Polygon)
$500K add to DG-MATIC LP on Quickswap (Polygon)
8,312 Daily Active Players
After the ICE Airlines drop, ICE Poker hit an all time high of 8,312 daily active players in the metaverse.
🚀 ICE Poker - Osiris
To accommodate the influx of new players following the ICE Airlines drop, we’ve launched a new ICE Poker metaverse venue, ICE Poker - Osiris.
Sporting 12 new tables, the ICE Poker concurrent player maximum has increased by 40% from ~2,000 players to ~2,800. Hop in to check it out here!
🔨 ICE Poker Leaderboard Updates
We’ve added logic to the leaderboard structure to remove players who accumulate a negative balance of Chips that exceeds their initial allotted Chips stack for that day.
With these new parameters in place, players with large negative balances are no longer included in the bottom percentiles of the leaderboard.
💻 Development Focus
This week, the DG team is working on:
Assigned Seating
Assigned seating remains our main priority development-wise, as it will most effectively address collusion and check tables. Following implementation, we are eager to add additional features to reward top scoring players and guilds.
Cooldown Period
Alongside assigned seating, we will introduce a cooldown period to further combat check tables.
If you leave a table that has 3 or more players playing, you will enter a cooldown period before you can join another table. The cooldown period will get progressively longer each subsequent time you exit a table throughout the day.
Collusion Prevention
Finally, we’ll add an IP check to ensure that players that share the same IP cannot join the same table.
Guild Management Gamification
Following assigned seating, we’re adding several features to the delegation dashboard to further gamify the guild management experience unlocked by holding a certain balance of xDG.
Name your Guild and Players
We’ve completed development of custom guild name functionality to be displayed on the future ICE Poker Guild leaderboards, as well as the ability to nickname players for easier tracking and management.
Guild Leaderboard
The ICE Poker Guild Leaderboard will rank top guilds by their net chips gain per player during a given time frame.
Player Lookup Tool
The ICE Poker player lookup tool that will allow you to enter an address and see a record of any given player’s historical ICE Poker performance.
DG Website Optimization for Mobile
Currently all Web3 functionality within the DG and ICE Poker ecosystem is only available on desktop. We have started development on bringing all website functionality - staking/unstaking DG, delegating ICE wearables, viewing your ICE Poker delegation dashboard, claiming ICE, upgrading wearables, etc. - to your mobile browser through deep linking to authenticate via Metamask Mobile.
ICE Poker Mobile
We’ve started development on a lightweight, mobile-focused ICE Poker experience that will enable greater accessibility and exponential scaling.
Preparation for ICE Poet Drop
This Thursday, we will conduct the ICE Poet drop, which will distribute 1,250 ICE Poker wearables to the community and remove 31,250,000 ICE from circulation.
This drop will be open to the public and will cost 25,000 ICE per wearable. You can read more information on the ICE Poet drop here.
💰 DG Treasury Snapshot
The DG treasury now holds $61.32M.
DG/xDG LP Moved to Uniswap V3
Following a passed governance proposal, we've migrated all the DG/xDG LP in the DG treasury to Uniswap V3 on Polygon. Now, you can swap from DG to xDG on Polygon with 0.05% fees and minimal slippage.
ICE Poker NFT Mint Revenue
Last week, the ICE Airlines drop generated 1,875 ETH in revenue for the DG Treasury.
ICE Poker NFT Royalties
Last week, the ICE Poker OpenSea collection accumulated 951.901 ETH in secondary market trading volume, generating 46.643 ETH ($134,929) in royalties for the DG treasury.
ICE Poker NFT Activation/Upgrade Revenue
Last week, 368,000 DG ($135,435) was added to the DG Treasury from ICE Poker NFT activations and upgrades.
DEX Trading Fees
Last week, there was $20,366,451 in trading volume across DG and ICE trading pairs, which generated $61,099 in trading fees for the DG Treasury.
Visit the Treasury Dashboard to view DG Treasury balances in real time.
🏛 DG Governance
Active Proposal
There is one active governance proposal:
Incentivize ICE Poker Guild Owners and Players to Participate in Decentral Games Governance
Four initiatives to incentivize ICE Poker guild owners and players to hold xDG and participate in Decentral Games governance:
Airdrop 500 xDG per wearable to ICE Poker wearables owners, and 50 xDG to each delegated player
Make Premium ICE Poker guild management tools accessible only to ICE Poker guild owners that hold 1k xDG per wearable
Create three tiered ICE Poker guild leagues with monthly prizes in xDG
Create player leaderboard with monthly prizes in ICE Poker wearables and xDG accessible only to delegated players that hold 100 xDG
Passed Proposal
The following proposal was passed and implemented this week:
Use of Proceeds From 2/10 Mint
For this week's drop priced in ETH, give the DG Team discretion to use the mint proceeds across the following 3 areas:
(1) At least 50% to stable coin reserves;
(2) Purchase DG, which goes into 'DG Treasury';
(3) Add to ICE-USDC LP
To make a new proposal, visit the Decentral Games Snapshot dashboard.
POAP Integration
We’ve integrated POAP to the Decentral Games Snapshot dashboard, so all future governance proposals will feature a POAP to claim following voting.
📆 This Week’s Events
Virtual events bring the community together each week to play games, hang out, enjoy live music, entertainment and win prizes! Make sure to swing by Decentral Games for the following events this week:
Monday, Feb 14
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 10am EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 9pm UTC / 4pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Tuesday, Feb 15
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 10am EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
DG x Guerilla Music present META-VERZUS Episode 3 w/ Host King Mizo, featuring this week’s contestants UPSIDE BEATS vs DYNAMO to face-off in Stronghold $ICE Lounge! Vote for your favorite w/ $RAP token @ 10pm UTC / 5pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Wednesday, Feb 16
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 10am EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 9pm UTC / 4pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Decentral Games Presents ANJULIE LIVE in the Stronghold $ICE Lounge w/ rare POAP available at the show @ 10pm UTC / 5pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Thursday, Feb 17
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 10am EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
$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 @ 5pm PST (1am - 2am UTC) 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Friday, Feb 18
Immerse with DJ Pop RoXxX w/ song requests in Discord, @ 7pm UTC / 2pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Lil Bitcoin & Crypto Money Records METAPARTY w/ rare POAP in the Stronghold $ICE Lounge @ 10pm UTC / 5pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Spanish Speaking Community FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 11pm UTC / 6pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Sunday, Feb 20
SUNDAY FUNDAY FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 11pm UTC / 6pm EST👉 RSVP | Hop in
👉 Check our events page for easy access to upcoming events!
DG Token Migration
96% of the original $DG tokens have been migrated to the new DG, which now has a supply of 399,067,208 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 ICE wearable 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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