Welcome to the 68th edition of the Decentral Games Newsletter!
Our goal 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
Top Priorities
Stabilizing ICE
Mutant Cartel Mint
Development Focus
We’re Hiring!
📋 Top Priorities
In our Discord’s announcements channel, our CMO Matt posted an excellent introduction video outlining our top 4 priorities:
Stabilizing ICE and the in-game ecosystem
Delivering an outstanding gameplay experience
Increasing transparency with the community
Removing onboarding friction
The Decentral Games leadership team will provide more frequent video updates to the community going forward.
💎 Stabilizing ICE
Following two passed governance proposals, we deployed additional initiatives to stabilize ICE:
These updates immediately improve our burn-to-earn ratio by 11-12%.
Update Polygon Node Fee to 5% and Convert to ICE
We’ve updated our Polygon Node Fee to 5% which will be converted to ICE and burned.
Update Leaderboard Multipliers
We’ve updated the ICE Poker leaderboard multipliers:
Top 30% percentile — unchanged
Middle 50% percentile — slightly decreased
Bottom 20% percentile — significantly decreased
This lowers the mean multiplier from 0.83 to 0.75 and decreases total ICE emissions by ~10%.
👾 Mutant Cartel Mint
Last Thursday, The Mutant Cartel Mint distributed 250 hat wearables, burned 10M ICE, and welcomed hundreds of apes to our community.
This was our first collab drop and we look forward to more community partnerships in the future.
📞 Messari Analyst Call
Last Wednesday, Ryan and Miles joined the Messari Analyst Call to discuss Decentral Games’ current state and future roadmap.
You can listen to the recording here if you missed it.
📄 Cointelegraph GameFi Report
Decentral Games ICE Poker was featured in Cointelegraph’s GameFi report: “Can blockchain-based gaming redefine the industry?”.
You can view the full report here.
💻 Development Focus
This week, the DG team is continuing work on:
Chip Exploit Fix
There’s currently a chip exploit that causes users to lose more chips than they checked in with.
We’ve developed a fix but it requires extensive testing to ensure it doesn’t affect other gameplay experiences. We’ll update the community when it’s ready to go live.
In the meantime, our support and security team are working extra hours ensuring that all users using this exploit are getting banned.
ICE Poker SNG
We’ve started development on the backend architecture of ICE Poker SNG, a new game mode that lets existing wearable holders compete in single table Sit-n-Go tournaments.
ICE Poker SNG delivers:
More competitive, fun, higher stakes gameplay
Massive ICE token sink for the ecosystem
Quicker path to player-ownership for skilled players
Players can burn ICE to enter SNG tournaments and compete for larger prizes such as:
ICE wearables
ICE accessories
ICE
xDG
In our Discord’s development updates channel, Leo (Head of Product) posted a great video sharing more details and giving you a sneak peek of how the experience looks and feels.
Updates to the Hard Challenge
We’re nearly finished with implementing the new Hard Challenge.
We’ll be removing "Get a Straight, a Flush, a 3oak, and a Full House" and updating it to "Win X Amount of Hands".
We’re aiming to push this live early next week.
Guild Leaderboard/Leagues
We’re continuing work on guild leaderboards and leagues which adds another layer of competition and gamification to the guild owner experience.
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’re continuing early development of a native Decentral Games NFT Marketplace.
The marketplace will support secondary sales of wearables in ICE and all marketplace fees will be used to burn ICE.
This serves as an additional ICE sink and saves hundreds of thousands of dollars from leaving the ecosystem in OpenSea fees each month.
💰Treasury
The DG Treasury now holds $42.09M.
Weekly Revenue
Decentral Games generated $506,527.14 in revenue last week.
Visit the Treasury Dashboard to view DG Treasury balances in real time.
🏛 Governance
Active Proposals
Passed Proposals
Visit the Decentral Games Snapshot Dashboard to make a new proposal.
📆 Events
MegaCube
Decentral Games is sponsoring MegaCube, a collaborative multiplayer experience in Decentraland.
MegaCube is a gigantic cube composed of 100 layers of small cubes. Players can mine cubes to find hidden tokens and NFTs. Each layer is sponsored by a different NFT project or artist.
You can also check out the MegaHall, an entertainment area with 50 booths, NFT galleries, DJs, and more.
The event goes live on Sunday, May 8th @ 5pm UTC. You join the event here.
Decentral Games’ 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 this week’s events:
Monday, May 9
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes
Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 11am EST - Learn more
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes
Tominoya venue @ 9pm UTC / 5pm EST - Learn more
Tuesday, May 10
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes
Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 11am EST - Learn more
D’strict ARTE META x The Guild - DAWN OF ETERNAL SPIRITS's Artist Showcase
Tominoya venue @ 9pm UTC / 5pm EST - Learn more
Wednesday, May 11
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes
Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 11am EST - Learn more
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes
Tominoya venue @ 9pm UTC / 5pm EST - Learn more
DJ Raedo LIVE Weekly EDM Party - 2hr Set
Stronghold $ICE Lounge @ 10pm UTC / 6pm EST - Learn more
Thursday, May 12
FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes
Tominoya venue @ 3pm UTC / 11am EST - Learn more
King Mizo’s Party & Bullish Weekly Meta Party
Stronghold $ICE Lounge @ 9pm UTC / 5pm EST - Learn more
FREE PLAY Game Night - Up Late w/ DG featuring HIP HOP Night, featuring $250+ USD in crypto prizes
Tominoya venue @ 1am UTC / 9pm EST - Learn more
Friday, May 13
Immerse with DJ Pop RoXxX w/ song requests in Discord
Stronghold $ICE Lounge @ 7pm UTC / 3pm EST - Learn more
Spanish Speaking Community FREE Play Game Night featuring $250 USD+ in crypto prizes
Tominoya venue @ 11pm UTC / 7pm EST - Learn more
Sunday, May 15
Slappin’ Sundays w/ Gucci Toe, 2hr weekly event
Stronghold $ICE Lounge @ 10pm UTC / 6pm EST - Learn more
Visit our events page to see more info, RSVP, and hop into events!
👤 We’re 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. 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 ICE Poker – a metaverse native, play and earn poker game that gives players economic freedom through self-custody and delegation of wearables. xDG hodlers vote on DG Treasury allocation and economic policy to grow and strengthen the DG ecosystem.
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