バイナンス・スマート・チェーンがイーサリアムを超えた──今、注目の「GameFi」とは？（CoinDesk Japan）
What is CryptoBlades? (SKILL)
CryptoBlades is described as a revolutionary web-based NFT roleplaying game built upon a dynamic rewarding system, which awards players with SKILL tokens after taking part in in-game challenges.
The year 2021 has seen tremendous development in blockchain-related technologies and ventures. Among the sectors of growth is blockchain gaming. The ongoing influx of gaming projects on the blockchain continues to put on full display the versatility of decentralized technology.
The blockchain gaming industry appears to be on the right path, as it seems that everything the blockchain touches becomes better. The most recent benefactor of blockchain’s unique attributes is the non-fungible token-based (NFT) role-playing game CryptoBlades. CryptoBlades is a unique combination of traditional gaming and finance, built on a decentralized ecosystem.
Background
Philip Devine
Launched in May 2021, the blockchain game CryptoBlades was released by gaming company Riveted Games, an award-winning company founded in 2014, and is composed of 4 members or experts in the field of gaming and blockchain technology.
Company owner Philip Devine has been at the head of Riveted Games since 2014 and has spearheaded his team to tremendous success. Currently, the gaming company is in partnership with influential platforms like steam, BTS Labs, Chainlink, and Unity.
Furthermore, the team behind CryptoBlades believes that all gamers should control their digital assets and play to earn, as they strive to ultimately increase the adoption of blockchain technology in their everyday lives.
What is Cryptoblades?
CryptoBlades is described as a revolutionary web-based NFT roleplaying game. The project was originally launched on the Binance Smart chain system and developed by engineers from Riveted Games. Cryptoblade is built upon a dynamic rewarding system, which awards players with SKILL tokens after taking part in in-game challenges.
Participants will predominately win SKILL tokens when completing in-game raids and defeating powerful foes. Additionally, players have the ability to improve their gaming experience and gain more tokens. Players can hire additional characters and forge unique weapons giving them an edge on their enemies.
CryptoBlade unique system also allows players to ameliorate weapons, increase overall power, and trade characters and weapons on an open marketplace. SKILL tokens holders can also stake their SKILL and earn more.
Overall, the Cryptoblade gameplay is quite simple. There are four elements being, Fire, Earth, Lightning, and Water. All characters, weapons, attributes, and enemies are assigned an element. Furthermore, different elements increase or decrease the chances of success when in battle.
SKILL Token
SKILL is the utility token within the CryptoBlades ecosystem. The token is the instrument responsible for all transactions and activities in CryptoBlades. Through SKILL, players can purchase characters, build weapons, and actively participate in the open marketplace.
Currently, there is a total of 1,000,000 SKILL tokens in supply, with the following repartition:
Gameplay Incentives – 20%
Development – 20%
Initial Liquidity – 15%
Liquidity Incentives – 10%
IDO – 35%
SKILL utilities
Game Health
Gameplay integrity is built upon a game contract, allowing players to earn and maintain enough SKILL tokens to payout players when necessary. A decentralized oracle updates players on the current dollar value of SKILL, as well as stabilizing various in-game operations like NFTs and fight payouts to maintain a stable dollar value.
SKILL Sinks and Faucets
In general, the overall flow of SKILL tokens in and out of a contract is directly controlled by the faucets and sinks present in the game. Here, faucets can be described as activities that distribute tokens to participants. In contrast, sinks are activities that consume SKILL tokens.
Additionally, faucets in CryptoBlades dispense tokens to players, where the rewards pool that faucets use is replenished by available sinks in the game. Currently, the game is structured with a single faucet: Combat. However, we can count a total of 5 sinks being: Recruit Character, Forge Weapon, Marketplace Tax, Reforge Weapon, Early Withdrawal Tax.
A continuous balance of both sink and faucet-related operations is important to the overall health of the game caused by the limited supply of SKILL tokens.
Game developers have assured that future gameplay features and options will accurately determine the balance of faucets and sinks which they will carefully manage. They also plan on using in-game events to control the token’s flow within a contract.
Elements and Characters
There are a total of 4 in-game elements with which players can interact. Understandably, fire has an advantage over earth but is trumped by water. Likewise, the earth element outpowers lightning, yet is tremendously weakened by fire. As for lightning, it destroys water but loses to earth. Finally, water is quite successful against fire, yet helpless against lightning.
Similarly to all weapons, attributes, and enemies, all players start in a place called the plaza, which allows all participants to mint their first character for 4.6 SKILL. All characters minted are equipped with a starting weapon and are assigned with a specific element randomly. Players can have a maximum of four characters during a gameplay
Additionally, each character begins the game with a total of 200 stamina points, enough just for 5 battles. Each battle takes exactly 40 stamina points, which are restored in 5 minutes per stamina point.
Once everything is set up, players can choose any given character to go on raids and fight enemies within the plaza, giving them the possibility to earn SKILL tokens.
Weapons, Forging, and Combat
CryptoBlades offers players a total of 5 weapon tiers, rated from 1 to 5 stars. All players automatically receive a one-star weapon once the very first character is minted. Just like characters, weapons are also minted with a single element.
Players are also given the ability to forge new weapons. This increases players overall combat power allowing them to fight stronger enemies and gain more SKILL tokens. Furthermore, when minting, players have a 44% chance of obtaining one-star weapons, a 35% chance of two-star, 15% chance of three-star, 5% chance of four-star, and 1% chance for five-star weapons.
Before the combat, players can choose their preferred character and weapon. In general, players can choose the enemies they want to face depending on their chosen characters and abilities.
Characters and weapons attributes play a key role in each fight; therefore all players must consider them to maximize their chances of winning, and subsequently gaining more SKILL tokens
Market and Rewards
In CrytoBlades, players have total control over their minted NFTs, as they have the right to sell and trade any given items on the market.
Additionally, the market offers players a wide array of characters and weapons, through which players can ameliorate their inventory and gain more tokens.
In general, a player can receive two types of rewards; after successfully defeating an opponent the player receives SKILL and character experience points. Rewards are directly proportional to the power of the enemy defeated, the stronger the enemy, the greater the reward.
Conclusion
The rise of blockchain-based gaming platforms has definitively facilitated the propagation of blockchain technology, whose continuous impact on the gaming sector cannot go unnoticed.
The introduction of games like CryptoBlades provides blockchain enthusiasts with a unique experience of financial freedom. Through its decentralized user-generated content and its highly interactive marketplace, players are empowered to sell, trade, and uniquely own all their assets supported by SKILL. CryptoBlades has successfully managed to combine both gaming and blockchain within a stunning user-friendly environment. Gaming Projects like CryptoBladesades perfectly portray the tremendous power of blockchain technology and its capacity to positively impact any given sector.
NFT oyunu CryptoBlades’in aktif cüzdan sayısı yarım milyonu aştı!
Riveted Games ekibi tarafından Binance Smart Chain (BSC) üzerinde oluşturulmuş tarayıcı tabanlı NFT oyunu Cryptoblades, sadece birkaç aydır piyasada olmasına rağmen hem kripto hem de oyun severler tarafından ciddi anlamda rağbet gördü.
Öncelikle Mayıs sonunda piyasaya sürülen bu oyun ile ilgili detayları sizlerle paylaşmak istiyorum.
CryptoBlades’te SKILL adlı token kullanılıyor ve tüm hamleler bu token ile gerçekleştiriliyor. Oyuna başlamak için minimum iki SKILL token’ına ihtiyaç duyuyorsunuz, ancak elinizde ne kadar çok token olursa o kadar iyi. Zira hem karakter hem de silah seçerken SKILL harcamanız gerekiyor. Aynı zamanda dövüşler için yapacağınız harcamalarda da SKILL token’ını kullanıyorsunuz.
Peki, CryptoBlades’te sadece harcama mı yapılıyor? Hayır. Oyunda her ne kadar token harcasanız da kazandığınız savaşlardan kripto olarak kazanç da elde ediyorsunuz. Bunun için de oyundaki hamleleri bilmek gerekiyor.
Oyunda ateş, su, orman (ya da ağaç) ve şimşek güçleri mevcut. Hangi gücün diğerinden daha iyi olduğunu ve karakterinizin hangisine daha uyumlu olduğunu savaş sayfasında, en üstte bulunan sıralama ile öğrenebiliyor ve size sunulan düşmanları buna göre seçebiliyorsunuz. Her savaşta harcama yapıyor ve bazı savaşları kazanabildiğiniz gibi bazılarını da kaybedebiliyorsunuz.
30 günde 650 binden fazla aktif cüzdan
Kripto dünyasına olan bu ilgi CryptoBlades’in de yüzünü güldürdü. Zira platformda, son 30 günde 650 binden fazla aktif cüzdan oluşturuldu. Bu cüzdanların hacmi ise 103 milyon doların biraz üzerinde. CryptoBlades, her ne kadar 31 Mayıs’ta kullanıma sunulmuş olsa da oyunun asıl patladığı zaman temmuz ayının başı oldu ve zaten aktif edilen cüzdanlar da bu dönemde artış gösterdi. Bu arada oyunda yapılan harcamalar, yalnızca CryptoBlades için değil, tüm ekosistem için bir yükseliş olduğu anlamına geliyor.
Kazanmak-için-oyna (play-to-earn) modelindeki CryptoBlades için bir kazanç tahmini yapmak henüz mümkün değil. Ancak YouTube’da yeni başlayacaklar için bir sürü rehber videosunun üretildiğini görebiliyoruz. Şu anda aylık düzenli gelir sağlama noktasında en önde yer alan oyun olarak Axie Infinity’i sayabiliriz, onun arkasından ise CryptoBlades geliyor. Play to Earn oyunların önümüzdeki birkaç yılın en önemli konu başlıklarından biri olacağını söylemek mümkün ancak gelir akışında sürekliliği sağlayabilecek oyunların hangileri olacağı şu anda en büyük soru işareti.
Binance Smart Chain Beats Ethereum by Some Metrics Thanks to Latest ‘GameFi’ Craze
It wasn’t long ago when every public blockchain attempted to challenge Ethereum’s dominance in the sizzling decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. After Ethereum-based video game “Axie Infinity” became an instant success, blockchains have blossomed in the $100 billion gaming industry.
In the latest episode of the blockchain competition – just like what happened with DeFi – Binance Smart Chain, the public blockchain supported by Binance, the world’s biggest centralized crypto exchange by trading volume, surpassed the Ethereum blockchain in daily transactions, again.
BSC previously flipped Ethereum on the number of transactions because of the success of PancakeSwap, a decentralized exchange on BSC in the midst of a DeFi craze. This time, however, Binance’s success came thanks to a relatively little known game on BSC called “CryptoBlades.”
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Data from DeFi data tracking firm DappRadar shows that more than 621,000 users were on “CryptoBlades” in the past 30 days, while that number for “Axie Infinity” is a little above 271,000.
On July 31, Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao tweeted: “#BinanceSmartChain handled 10M+ transactions yesterday. #Ethereum handled 1.2M.”
“#DeFi and #GameFi are growing,” he wrote in a second tweet. And in response to a question whether BSC is ready to handle 20 million transactions per day, Zhao wrote: “Not an expert. But I think we will find out soon enough.”
The series of tweets reflected Zhao’s excitement about crypto gaming’s growth on BSC, as someone who has rarely acknowledged BSC’s ambition to challenge Ethereum.
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But what is “GameFi” and why are blockchains rushing to the sector?
“GameFi,” which combines gaming and DeFi into one word, is the gamification of financial mechanisms where users can earn profits by playing games. Another popular term for this sector is the “play-to-earn” model.
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On the surface, the keyword is “gaming,” but at the core, “finance” is what matters the most for blockchains.
Both BNB, the utility token for Binance and BSC, and BUSD, a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin powered by Binance play an important role in crypto games on BSC.
For example, to buy “CryptoBlades’” native SKILL token, gamers must buy BNB first and swap their BNB for SKILL on ApeSwap, a decentralized exchange on BSC. That is a huge boost for BNB demand as well as for liquidity on ApeSwap.
Any transactions made on “CryptoBlades,” such as trading game characters and weapons, will require gamers to pay a certain amount of gas fee with BNB.
In an interview with CoinDesk, Samsul Karim, ecosystem coordinator at Binance Smart Chain, said that BNB is used in many crypto games on BSC, but he also emphasized that game developers need to understand that users should be able to choose between different assets – whether it is BNB or BUSD.
Rather than adding financial value to BSC, Karim said that crypto gaming is bringing BSC “culture value.”
“Similar to how you would value an artwork, for example, like that piece of artwork, what is the economic output that it’s contributing towards society or any particular economy?” Karim said. “It can’t be compared in the same way as a DeFi lending protocol or a bank or something like that. it is producing cultural value.”
An executive from Polygon, a layer 2 product protocol for Ethereum, also appeared to minimize the economic value that gaming brings to Polygon. The India-based product recently launched a unit called Polygon Studios to focus on blockchain gaming and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Shreyansh Singh, head of gaming and NFTs at Polygon Studios, said that the usage of MATIC token, the governance token of Polygon, on NFT and gaming powered by Polygon is not intentional; instead, it comes naturally as gamers in Ethereum-based games seek faster, less costly alternatives.
Binance and Polygon are not the only two eyeing the huge potential of a blockchain-based gaming industry.. Other crypto companies and blockchains are also taking big steps in this direction.
Crypto exchange FTX recently announced several NFT gaming-related investments, including a sponsorship deal with decentralized gaming startup Yield Guild Games (YGG).
A perfect match
But to most people in crypto, the combination of gaming and crypto seems like a perfect marriage.
“Crypto has been looking for a mass market use case,” Andrew Tu, an executive at quantitative trading firm Efficient Frontier, told CoinDesk. “Gaming is a sector that people have been hyping up for a long time. It’s the first area of crypto where the average Joe without a huge understanding of crypto or blockchain can participate.”
Indeed, “Axie Infinity,” the popular crypto gaming platform on Ethereum, has generated more than $220 million revenue in the past 30 days, making it the top revenue generator among all DeFi protocols and blockchains, Ethereum included, according to data from Token Terminal.
“’Axie Infinity’ also demonstrates a working use case for blockchain-based games, which paves the way for new entrants into the space,” Justin Barlow, a research analyst at digital asset data analysis firm The Tie, said. “With ‘Axie’s’ success it is likely we see major gaming conglomerates like Activision Blizzard or EA (Electronic Arts) entering the space in the coming years, bringing blockchain gaming to the masses.”
There are also risks for the hot GameFi industry, given how rapidly it has grown.
“With Yield Guild Games (YGG) token sale netting $12.5 million in 30 seconds, [it] shows that market participants will not hesitate to switch from one hot toy to another, no different to yield farming craze earlier in the year,” Denis Vinokourov, head of research at Synergia Capital, told CoinDesk, adding that the market is still too “nascent” to make any conclusions.
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¿Qué es CryptoBlades y cómo se juega?
- ¿Cómo jugar CryptoBlades?
Para empezar a jugar en CryptoBlades, lo primero que debes tener a mano es un navegador web y una wallet Metamask configurada para usar la red BSC (por defecto, Metamask solo usa Ethereum). Una vez tengas estos dos requisitos cumplidos, todo lo que debes hacer es ir a la DApp del juego y conectar tu wallet al mismo.
De entrada, para poder reclutar tu primer personaje y comenzar el juego, deberás tener a mano el equivalente a unos 0,5 SKILL, que al momento de escribir este artículo son unos 30 $ (53,91 USD/SKILL). Esto significa que la entrada al juego es una de las más económicas en comparación con otras opciones como pueden ser Axie Infinity, lo que lo hace llamativo para quienes recién empiezan en el mundo de los juegos P2E.
Salvados estos dos puntos, podrás comenzar a jugar dentro de CryptoBlades.
Inicio de los jugadores
El juego comienza en la Plaza, que es donde puede acuñar su primer personaje (0,46 SKILL). En este punto, el elemento del personaje se asigna al azar, brindando a cada uno de ellos un aspecto que les diferencia del resto. Adicional, el primer personaje viene con un arma inicial, por lo que no es necesario acuñar un arma antes de entrar en combate.
Cada personaje inicial comienza con 200 de resistencia, que es suficiente para competir en unas cinco batallas, ya que cada una de ellas tiene un costo de 40 de resistencia. Así que a medida que comiences a mejorar tu personaje y su resistencia, serás capaz de participar en más batallas. De esta forma, aumentarás también las probabilidades de recibir más recompensas.
Iniciando también se te mostrará un cuadro con cuatro enemigos, si quieres andar con ventaja, elige primero aquel enemigo que se vea superado por el elemento de tu personaje. De esta manera podrás ganar con mayor facilidad y enfrentar la mayor cantidad de enemigos sin riesgos. Ten en cuenta además que esta selección de enemigos es aleatoria, así que en ocasiones verás enemigos que están muy por encima de tu nivel, y en otros momentos, enemigos que puedes vencer sin mayores dificultades. Este sistema de elección actualiza de forma automática los enemigos cada hora, así que no deberás esperar mucho para ver una nueva tanda de enemigos.
Otro punto importante es que, al seleccionar un enemigo, deberás pagar un pequeño fee en forma de tokens BNB. Así que, debes tener saldo BNB en tu monedero para poder ir a la batalla. Al terminar tu batalla el juego anuncia el resultado del combate y escribe los resultados en la cadena de bloques. El jugador es premiado en SKILL y experiencia de personaje si el resultado del combate es a su favor. El jugador no recibe nada si el resultado es una derrota. El proceso de reclamar experiencia se escribe en la cadena de bloques, por lo que se cobra una tarifa nominal de gas BNB por cada reclamación. La experiencia se aplica automáticamente al personaje correspondiente después de que la transacción de reclamación haya sido aprobada.
Niveles de los jugadores
Cada personaje comienza en el nivel uno, requiriendo la experiencia obtenida a través del combate exitoso para aumentar. Los niveles de los personajes determinan la cantidad de poder que tienen durante los cálculos de combate, y a su vez determina el pago de SKILL en las victorias.
Por otro lado, están los hitos de nivel. Estos hitos de nivel son puntos específicos en los que el personaje recibe un gran aumento de poder, y a su vez aumenta su pago de SKILL. Actualmente los hitos ocurren cada diez niveles, empezando por el 11 y luego el 21, 31, 41, etc.
El mecanismo para calcular si es o no el momento de reclamar, se puede ver dentro de un GDoc que los creadores del juego han hecho público en esta dirección.
En la tabla se ve claramente que el nivel máximo para el “leveling” es de 255, lo que lo pone en un nivel competitivo bastante común para este tipo de juegos RPG.
Elementos de los personajes y artículos
Los personajes y artículos del juego están relacionados con alguno de los cuatro elementos básicos del universo CryptoBlades. Estos elementos son: Fuego, Tierra, Rayo y Agua. Estos elementos son capaces de aumentar o disminuir las posibilidades de éxito en los combates, y de hecho, los elementos pueden anularse unos a otros siguiendo la siguiente relación:
Fuego Supera a la Tierra
triunfa sobre el Agua Tierra triunfa sobre el rayo
Triunfa con el Fuego Rayo Triunfa el Agua
Triunfa con la Tierra Agua Triunfa el Fuego
Triunfa con el Rayo
Forja de Armas
Una capacidad del juego es la de crear o convertir armas en tu almacén más poderosas con la finalidad de permitir una mayor ventaja de batalla. Los jugadores pueden aumentar su poder de combate general forjando nuevas armas en la Herrería. El proceso de forja utiliza RNG y las posibilidades de acuñar cada nivel de armas son las siguientes:
Una estrella, 44% de posibilidades Dos estrellas, 35% de posibilidades Tres estrellas, 15% de probabilidad Cuatro estrellas, 5% de probabilidad Cinco estrellas, 1% de probabilidad
Otro punto importante es la asignación de elementos y potencia de las armas. En ese caso, nos quedamos con la siguiente tabla: