Welcome to the 9th edition of the Decentral Games Newsletter! Our objective is to keep the Decentral Games community informed regarding upcoming events, news, product updates, and governance proposals. If you’re interested in learning more about Decentral Games, join our Discord and follow our Twitter.
Last Week’s Summary
Decentral Games hosted a NGHTMRE live performance in the casino last Wednesday, shattering our previous record with 1,155 daily active users! A story detailing Decentral Games’ emergence as the first metaverse employer was featured in CoinDesk, and we received over 100 new applications!
Continual poker beta testing has provided key feedback to deliver chip slide animation to winner, improved UI buttons/logic, and various other optimizations to the gameplay. Join our #beta-testers Discord channel to continue to test and give valuable feedback.
Treasury Update
Last week, the DAO treasury grew from $6.25 to $6.92 million USD in digital assets. A gov proposal was passed to allow the team to allocate up to 350k MANA to ETH and pair with $DG to deposit into the Uniswap ETH-$DG LP, or to DAI yield farm.
For a full breakdown, visit the DAO Treasury dashboard.
Last week, we completed the following:
Monday, March 15
Increased Weekly Player prize pool to $26,000+ USD per week | Blog Post | Tweet
Hosted Casino Night with Eleganto DJ performance featuring $7,500+ USD in prizes | Tweet
Tuesday, March 16
Updated the Uniswap ETH-DG LP rewards to 500 DG per week following this gov proposal
Updated Poker: chip slide animation to winner of hand, correct UI phrasing for bet/raise in upper right, add text for countdown description, interpolate chip slide to winner
Hosted NFT Art Auction featuring $400+ USD in prizes | Tweet
Wednesday, March 17
Increased transactional throughput of blackjack and roulette games through better load balancing, added FREE PLAY top up icon in courtyard
Set up RPC on our own DG Matic Node
Hosted FREE PLAY Casino Night featuring a NGHTMRE DJ Set prior to NFT drop featuring $1,000+ USD in prizes | Tweet
Thursday, March 18
Added instant refresh of user balances on site after deposit/withdrawal, and weekly performance metric to DAO treasury stats
Hosted DG Hodlers Round Table | Tweet
Hosted Mythic DG wearable NFT Art Auction featuring $400+ USD in prizes | Tweet
Friday, March 19
Updated poker: chip stack bug fixes, add 1/2 pot, 3/4 pot, and pot buttons, reset chips on table after walking away from game
Fixed free play competition logic to reset user balances at the start of the event, and replenish prior balances after event
Hosted Wolf Casino Night with DJ performance @ 9pm - 10pm UTC featuring $7,500+ USD in prizes | Tweet
Saturday, March 20
Announced second DG animated short-film NFT and commenced bids for auction ending Tuesday | Tweet
Sunday, March 21
Launched DG Russian Community | Tweet
Press
This Week’s Agenda
Virtual events bring the community together each week to play games, hang out, enjoy live music, discuss $DG governance, and win prizes! Don’t miss out on the following events this week:
Monday, March 22
Crypto Casino Night with DJ performance by Adam Oam @ 9pm - 10pm UTC featuring $7,500+ USD in prizes | RSVP | Add to Calendar | Hop in
Tuesday, March 23
DG Animated Short-film NFT Art Auction (Pepecasso) @ 10pm - 11pm UTC featuring $400+ USD in prizes | RSVP | Add to Calendar | Hop in
Wednesday, March 24
FREE PLAY Casino Night @ 9:30pm - 10:30pm UTC featuring $1,000+ USD in prizes | RSVP | Add to Calendar | Hop in
Friday, March 26
Crypto Casino Night with DJ performance by Xtasik @ 9pm - 10pm UTC featuring $7,500+ USD in prizes | RSVP | Add to Calendar | Hop in
Check our events page for easy access to upcoming events!
Deliverables
We are focused on the following items this week:
Add personal player score during competition mode to bottom of competition UI
Continue Formatic wallet integration to enable wallet creation using an email for easier onboard
Finalize MANA/DAI deposits directly from Decentraland casino client
Continue roulette and blackjack scalability optimization for large events
Implement DAI/MANA based affiliate program + dashboard
Poker optimizations: connect Decentral Games PLAY balance from database, updates in logic and flow, etc
Have a great week! 🚀 $DG
About Decentral Games
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