Decentral Games Newsletter #61

Weekly Update - March 20, 2022

Mar 20

Welcome to the 61st 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 Accessories Launch
ICE Spartan Drop
Chips Bug Fix
Assigned Seating Progress
Misc Updates
Development Focus
Treasury Snapshot
DG Governance
This Week’s Events

💎 ICE Accessories Launch

On Friday, we officially launched ICE Accessories! ICE Accessories are cosmetic items that enhance your avatar’s appearance while playing ICE Poker. The items are priced in ICE and purchasable from the DG marketplace.

With this initial batch of 12 Standard and 12 Gold ICE Accessories, a total of 24M ICE will be removed from circulation.

The Start of Many ICE In-Game Purchases

The ICE Accessories marketplace paves the way for many other cosmetic in-game purchases with ICE that we plan to launch, including custom NFT emotes, custom card backs, custom guild names, and much more.

Read the full announcement here.

🛡 ICE Spartan Drop

On Tuesday, the ICE Spartan Drop sold out in 5 minutes, raising $4.7M for the treasury and distributing 1,250 ICE wearables to the community.

Allocation of Funds

Following this passed governance proposal, we’ve:

Added $2M to the ICE-USDC LP, bringing the total ICE-USDC LP held 100% by the DG treasury up to $9m
Added $3.7M to treasury stable reserves

♠️ Chips Bug Fix

On Monday, we patched a bug that was causing inflated end-of-day leaderboard tier scores, resulting in much more attainable levels for the rest of the week. We appreciate the community’s help in identifying and patching this issue!

👾 Assigned Seating Progress

We ran heavy community tests of assigned seating in our Osiris staging environment on Friday, preparing for a Monday/Tuesday release in Osiris production!

🛠 Misc Development Updates

The following development updates were included in last week’s release:

Added Shop to DG Menu

We added “Shop” on the navigation bar for easy access to the ICE Wearables drop page and the new ICE Accessories marketplace.

Player Lookup Tool Improvements

We improved the Player Look Up Tool usability and cleaned up the “Check In” And “Finished Challenges” data in the player look up results.

Player Card Premium Status

We updated the player card on the DG account page to show xDG held and premium status.

💻 Development Focus

This week, the DG team is continuing work on:

Assigned Seating/Cooldown Period

We plan to deploy assigned seating to production Osiris on Monday/Tuesday this week, then to all venues following a bit more community testing in the production environment.

Additional Premium Guild Features

We are continuing work on two additional Premium ICE Poker Guild features:

Assign A Manager

The assign a manager feature allows any Premium guild owner to enter an ETH address and give access to their delegation dashboard.

Guild Leagues + Leaderboard

The guild leaderboard will rank top ICE Poker guilds by Guild Score to further gamify the ICE Poker Guild experience.

ICE Cyberpunk Drop

We will conduct the ICE Cyberpunk drop Thursday, March 24th at 6pm UTC.

This mint will be priced at a special rate of 10k ICE per wearable for 202 top delegated players who checked in 20 out of the last 30 days and were hodling 10k ICE at the time of snapshot. For the public, wearables will be priced at 30k ICE.

ICE Cyberpunk on ICE Wearables Marketplace

Read the official announcement for the full details.

Diamond Hands City

We will continue development of Diamond Hands City, our first Diamond Hands exclusive ICE Poker venue.

ICE Poker Mobile

We’re continuing development on a lightweight, mobile-focused ICE Poker experience that will enable greater accessibility and exponential scaling.

DG Website Optimization for Mobile

We are continuing development on bringing all website functionality to your mobile browser.

Decentraland Desktop Client Optimization

We will continue to test all ICE Poker scenes and features to ensure that the new Decentraland Desktop Client Beta will run ICE Poker smoothly.

💰 DG Treasury Snapshot

The DG treasury now holds $63.92M.

Weekly Revenue

ICE Poker NFT Royalties - $44,721.80
ICE Wearable Activations/Upgrades - $133,362.88
DEX Trading Fees - $36,378.86
ICE Accessories Sales - $87,244.39

Visit the Treasury Dashboard to view DG Treasury balances in real time.

🏛 DG Governance

Active Proposals

The following governance proposals are active:

Pay for Upgrade from Public to Private Polygon RPC (Alchemy)

DG DAO treasury covers the cost of moving to the Alchemy Platform with Gold service level and Alchemy VIP Support out of the DAI Treasury.

Passed Proposals

The following governance proposals passed:

Focus Decentral Games Development and Branding Entirely on Play & Earn, End Crypto Gameplay & Licensing of Crypto Games

Focus development and branding of Decentral Games entirely on Play & Earn (ICE Poker - Metaverse and Mobile) to onboard the next 1M users to Web3/The Open Metaverse, and solidify Decentral Games as a household brand and pioneer in the space.

Officially and permanently shut down the operational support and licensing of blackjack, roulette with crypto-gameplay.

Partnership with Mutant Cartel

(1) Do a single-item 500-count set in partnership with Mutant Cartel, priced at ~25% discount to the OpenSea floor (e.g. 1.5 ETH at time of writing), with whitelist addresses provided by Mutant Cartel.

(2) 100% of ETH proceeds go to the DG DAO and will be converted to USDC and paired with $ICE to add liquidity to the $ICE-USDC pool. (For clarity, secondary sale proceeds go to the DG DAO as well.)

Delegated Player Reputation Multiplier to Incentivize Governance Participation and Reduce Abuse

Establish a new delegated player reputation multiplier that starts at .5x for all new delegated addresses, increases by .05x for each day the delegated player checks in while hodling 100 xDG in their wallet, and ultimately reaches a max of 1x.

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, entertainment and win prizes! Make sure to swing by Decentral Games for the following events this week:

Monday, Mar 21

FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 11am EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 9pm UTC / 5pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in

Tuesday, Mar 22

FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 11am EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
DG x Guerilla Music present META-VERZUS Episode 8 w/ Host King Mizo, featuring this week’s AUDIO NFT BATTLE to face-off in Stronghold $ICE Lounge! Vote for your favorite w/ $RAP token @ 10pm UTC / 6pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in

Wednesday, Mar 23

FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 11am EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 9pm UTC / 5pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in

Thursday, Mar 24

FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes up for grabs in the Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 11am EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
King Mizo’s Party & Bullish Weekly Meta Party in Stronghold $ICE Lounge @ 9pm UTC / 5pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Slavik Fruit Farm Mint Mania w/ Live performance by BUFALO @ 11pm UTC / 7pm 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, Mar 25

Immerse with DJ Pop RoXxX w/ song requests in Discord, @ 7pm UTC / 3pm 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 / 7pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in

👉 Check our events page for easy access to upcoming events!

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 and ICE Accessory 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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