Welcome to the 64th 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 Viking Drop
Assigned Seating
Diamond Hands City
Security Improvements
ICE Poker Mobile
Development Focus
We Are Hiring!
The wider macro conditions are hurting P&E ecosystems more than others, and we’re no exception. We’re working on getting sustainability measures in place in the short term to protect the long term interests of the ecosystem.
We’re focused on getting sustainability measures and gameplay improvements in place in the short term to protect the long term interests of the ecosystem.
The team is hard at work on improving our existing product and building a path to sustainability. Here’s what we’re doing in the immediate future and need your help with immediately via governance:
We’re going to be communicating with you all as frequently as possible over the coming weeks. We want your input to help shape the decisions we make, and we’re building everything out in the open. We've got a ton of ideas of ways we can both improve the overall gameplay experience for players, as we'll as scale the tokenomics of the ecosystem - expect more proposals to be coming your way over the coming days and weeks.
🔨 ICE Viking Drop
The ICE Viking drop burned 37M+ ICE, welcomed 1,000+ new players to the community, and improved our ICE burn-to-earn ratio to .81:
👾 Assigned Seating
Building in the open metaverse is difficult, and our development team has worked hard at delivering a good experience within the Decentraland environment. We’ve made several large improvements to the way we handle assigned seating in Decentraland, and expect the experience to improve even further this week.
Thank you for your support, feedback, and patience through these rough patches. We will continue optimizing the assigned seating feature to deliver an even smoother experience and ensure ICE Poker gameplay is legitimate.
💎 Diamond Hands City
We’ve officially deployed Diamond Hands City, a new exclusive venue that allows access for only Diamond Hands ICE Wearable holders for the main structure, and Diamond Hands Crown holders for the upstairs lounge.
You can navigate to Diamond Hands City through the server switcher:
ICE Diamond Hands Scepters
500 ICE Diamond Hands Scepters are now available to claim.
Users that claim will be added to the diamond-hands channel and be able to use their Scepter to access the second floor of Diamond Hands City.
Requirements to claim
Collect and complete a fully-upgraded set of five level 5 items from a single ICE collection
Hold 5,000 xDG at time of claim
Note: The first 100 ICE Diamond Hands Scepters will be minted and held to claim for first 100 Diamond Hands Club members, who may claim their Scepter with the corresponding number as their crown by Diamond Handing a second ICE Line. This ICE Line must be different than the line they used to claim their crown.
🚨 Security Improvements
Following the minor incident last week, we’ve realized one major way to improve our security/risk profile is to officially burn all the old, upgraded wearables. They’ve been moved to an official burn address you can track here.
We’re still pushing the OpenSea folks to remove these from the circulating supply on their platform, as well as verify our ICE Poker collection.
💎 ICE Poker Mobile
By developing our own frontend for ICE Poker Mobile, we have complete control over the experience. This allows us to build it in a way that removes the difficulties we have with developing in Decentraland.
The proof of concept for the mobile ICE Poker experience is near completion. We’ve added the ability to equip/unequip wearables and gameplay sound effects, on top of general bug fixes in preparation to open up ICE Poker Mobile testing to the community in 1-2 weeks.
💻 Development Focus
This week, the DG team is continuing work on:
Assigned Seating
We’ve identified the remaining sources of issues with assigned seating and we will continue work on these this week.
Guild Leaderboard/Leagues
We are continuing work on the guild leaderboards and leagues, and will soon be accommodating custom guild uniform purchases in ICE on the ICE Accessories marketplace.
ICE Poker Mobile
We’re continuing development on ICE Poker Mobile, which will enable greater accessibility and exponential scaling as we grow to millions of daily active players. All ICE Poker Mobile mints will be entirely in ICE.
Native NFT Marketplace
We will continue early development of a native Decentral Games NFT Marketplace to support secondary sales of ICE Wearables in ICE and save hundreds of thousands of dollars from leaving the ecosystem in OpenSea fees each month.
ICE Poker Tournament Mode
We’ve started designing an ICE Poker gameplay mode that allows players to play for a larger prize in wearables/xDG. Wearables will grant a 1 time access to a tournament and wearables would need to be cleaned by burning ICE in order to enter each future tournament.
💰 DG Treasury Snapshot
The DG treasury now holds $58.60M.
Weekly Revenue
ICE Poker NFT Royalties - $45,362.70
ICE Wearable Activations/Upgrades - $452,049.50
DEX Trading Fees - $35,550.34
Visit the Treasury Dashboard to view DG Treasury balances in real time.
🏛 DG Governance
Active Proposals
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, April 11
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, April 12
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 10 w/ Host King Mizo, for the ROUND 1 of the Semi-Finals, in Stronghold $ICE Lounge! Vote for your favorite w/ $RAP token @ 10pm UTC / 6pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Wednesday, April 13
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
DJ Raedo LIVE Weekly EDM Party - 2hr Set in Stronghold $ICE Lounge @ 10pm UTC / 6pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
Thursday, April 14
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
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, Apr 15
Immerse with DJ Pop RoXxX w/ song requests in Discord LIVE in Stronghold $ICE Lounge, @ 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
Sunday, Apr 17
Slappin’ Sundays w/ Gucci Toe in Stronghold, a 2hr weekly event @ 10pm UTC / 6pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in
👉 Check our events page for easy access to upcoming events!
💎 We Are Hiring!
The DG Careers page features all open positions at Decentral Games:
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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