Decentral Games Newsletter #83

Weekly Update - August 21, 2022

Aug 21, 2022

Good morning and happy Sunday to the 3,953 people reading this newsletter 👋

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This Week’s Highlights

ICE Poker Flex Launch
Milk Road Feature
LootBolt
Macro Hackathon
Community Spotlight

📱 ICE Poker Flex Launch

On Thursday, we held our open beta launch for ICE Poker Flex and Tournament Mode!

For this initial launch we opened up testing from 1pm EST to 3pm EST for all existing ICE wearable owners.

Thanks to everyone who joined and provided valuable feedback. Overall the testing session was smooth, and we’ve identified a few high-priority bugs to fix.

Stay tuned for an update this coming week on our next beta test session.

Learn more about ICE Poker Flex and Tournament Mode:

🥛 Milk Road Feature

Decentral Games was featured in The Milk Road’s Thursday newsletter.

The Milk Road is a free, 5-minute daily web3 newsletter with 150,000+ subscribers.

Be sure to read their Decentral Games deep dive until the end for a surprise… 😉

⚡️ LootBolt

Decentral Games has partnered with LootBolt to launch fun and engaging xDG community bounties in our Discord server.

Look out for more information on what LootBolt is and how it works soon.

LootBolt Bounty: Post a Screenshot Winning With a 7 - 2

👩‍💻 Macro Hackathons

On Tuesday, Macro Hackathons launched their NFT Finance hackathon featuring $25k+ in prizes and $31k+ in bounties.

Decentral Games is thrilled to sponsor the hackathon with a $3k bounty to build an ICE Wearable raffle smart contract and frontend.

The hackathon is live and taking place in their Discord until August 30th.

💻 Development Focus

This week, the team is continuing work on:

ICE Poker SNG (Tournament Mode)

We're continuing to test and fix bugs for the Metaverse gameplay to prepare for our first community alpha test.

ICE Poker Flex (Mobile)

We held our initial open beta launch on Thursday. The team is fixing bugs to prepare for the next open beta testing session.

Delegation V2

We’ve begun developing the Banked ICE Redemption Marketplace.

💰 Financial

Treasury

The DG Treasury now holds $20.54M.

To view treasury balances in real-time, visit the DG Treasury Dashboard.

Revenue

Decentral Games generated $59,308.25 in revenue last week.

ICE Buy and Burn

Last Monday, we bought and burned 2.1M ICE from:

Metaverse advertising — 6,000 USDT
Polygon validator node rewards — 23,002 MATIC
Secondary sale royalties — 2.97 WETH

These weekly ICE burns are part of our ongoing efforts to stabilize the ICE ecosystem following passed governance proposals.

MANA Staking Rewards

MANA rewards for staking ICE are currently yielding 200% APR.

Check out our blog for a guide on how to stake ICE.

🏛 Governance

Active Proposals

Passed Proposals

[DCL DAO] Add Official Nyan Cat to Linked Wearables Registry

To submit and vote on proposals, visit the DG Snapshot Dashboard.

👥 Community Spotlight

ICE Calculator

Looking for an easy way to calculate your ICE rewards?

Try out this simple ICE calculator created by @tryandthrive and @chansy.

Enter in your wearable bonus(es)
Select your role: playing with your own wearable, delegating out wearable, playing with a delegated wearable
Click Calculate

That’s it! It’ll list out your ICE rewards for each leaderboard tier.

We love seeing what our community builds 🫡

ICE Calculator — Rewards for Each Leaderboard Tier

Babydolls Tominoya Takeover

On Wednesday, we partied with the Babydolls community at Tominoya. It was a fun night of free games, wearable prizes, and live music by DJ TRAX.

Check out these photos taken by the community!

📆 Events

There’s always something going on at Decentral Games.

Come hang out, enjoy live music, check out NFT galleries, and win free prizes:

Sunday, August 28

Slappin’ Sundays w/ Gucci Toe LIVE
- Stronghold $ICE Lounge @ 10pm UTC / 6pm EST

For full event details and venue location links, visit our DG Events page.

👤 We’re Hiring!

For all open positions and more information, visit the DG Careers page.

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

We build games and social experiences in the metaverse that reach hundreds of thousands of visitors every month.

Our flagship game is ICE Poker — a free metaverse poker game. We own and operate 12 live venues in Decentraland where we host daily events featuring live music, NFT galleries, comedy shows, and more.

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