At 4:00 pm on February 4, 2021, Seascape, invested by Binance, visited the Uniswap Chinese community. The co-founder of BlockArk, the captain, had a conversation with Nicky, the co-founder of Seascape. Topic sharing, this live broadcast event is supported by BlockArk, ChainNews, Odaily, Block Beats, Encryption Pavilion media support, the content of live sharing is organized as follows:
Captain: Hello everyone! Our AMA starts now.
Before the event begins, let me briefly introduce BlockArk. BlockArk is an investment bank and marketing agency in the encrypted asset industry. It manages ArkStream Capital, a primary and secondary fund focused on cryptocurrency. BlockArk integrates investment, branding, market growth, and strategic consulting, and is committed to promoting the growth of Web3.0 unicorns.
Before the event begins, let me briefly introduce BlockArk. BlockArk is an investment bank and marketing agency in the encrypted asset industry. It manages ArkStream Capital, a primary and secondary fund focused on cryptocurrency. BlockArk integrates investment, branding, market growth, and strategic consulting, and is committed to promoting the growth of Web3.0 unicorns.
The topic of today's AMA is: Polkadot's first NFT platform Seascape, how to detonate the cross-chain ecology, the guest is Seascape COO & co-founder Nicky Li, welcome Nicky!
Nicky: Hello everyone! I am very happy to be here today to share this AMA with you!
Captain: Today's AMA event is divided into two stages. The first stage is the theme question and answer. I will ask 8 prepared questions in the form of one question and one answer. After the 8 questions are over, it will enter the second stage, free question and answer. Group friends can freely ask guests questions, and guests are free to choose 3-5 questions to answer. The small partners who are selected will share the CWS token reward worth 50 USDT.
Welcome Nicky! Then our AMA officially begins.
Captain: Hello Nikcy, first of all, give us a brief introduction of Seascape and your team. What is the vision of Seascape?
Nicky: Okay, hello again to the community friends! I'm Nicky, co-founder of Seascape. Our team members come from all over the world, and the core members have worked in top game studios, including Paradox, Youzu Network, Shanda Games and so on. You can visit here to learn about us:
https://game.seascape.network/index/about.html
At the end of 2017, inspired by "Crypto Kitties", we started the development of blockchain games and hoped to bring a new PLAY TO EARN trend to the game industry, subverting the traditional relationship between game developers, publishers and players , so that everyone can participate in the ecology of game projects and benefit from the digital economy. This is also our vision for creating Seascape Network.
Seascape is a game ecological platform that combines NFT and DeFi. We mainly develop based on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain BSC and Substrate, Crowns (CWS) is our core token. The team will continue to release self-developed games in Seascape, and try the in-depth combination of NFT+DeFi+games. At the same time, the Seascape SDK kit is provided for game developers, so that they can connect their games to the blockchain world at a lower cost. Players can enjoy the fun in the games on our platform, get NFT and token incentives, and even participate in the governance of game projects and other activities.
Captain: Okay, to sum up, Seascape is a game ecological platform developed based on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain BSC and Substrate. I saw that your team originally made a game called BLOCKLORDS. Now I click on Seascape’s twitter and find that this game is still on your homepage. Can you introduce this game to us? What kind of opportunity did you turn to develop the Seascape platform? Will Seascape re-empower the original Dapp games in the future?
Nicky: BLOCKLORDS is the first MMO war strategy blockchain game we started developing in early 2018. In it, players can control their own medieval hero, conquer the enemy's land and build their own kingdom on the open map.
Let me show you some in-game animations and our original paintings:
In the process of developing and releasing "BLOCKLORDS", the team has cooperated with many institutions and teams in the blockchain ecosystem and reached strategic partnerships, including ChainLink, MakerDAO, Tron, NEO, OpenSea, DappRadar, etc.
Everyone sees the great possibility of games as a way to acquire users and convert players into blockchain users. And together with our partners, we have completed many experimental activities and functions in BLOCKLORDS, which have received good responses and the team has also accumulated a good reputation. BLOCKLORDS has also won many awards from blockchain leading institutions in the past two years.
At the same time, we also believe that the current development environment of the entire blockchain is relatively difficult for game developers. There is no relatively mature SDK solution, let alone the scarcity of user acquisition channels and promotion services after the game is developed. So we put forward the idea of Seascape Network, hoping that through the team's own efforts and years of influence in the game industry, through continuous high-quality product output, SDK development support and blockchain game publishing services, more developers will be guided to start Great game to make PLAY TO EARN.
When we proposed the concept of Seascape, we quickly won the favor of some investment institutions that have been following our dynamics. Here we need to thank Liade Capital, PAKA fund, Spark Digital Capital, Nabais Capital, TRGC and other institutions. They supported us very much in the early days and gave the team a lot of valuable advice.
Further reading:
Further reading:
BLOCKLORDS as one of our long-term products. The content and gameplay will definitely be updated for a long time, so everyone is welcome to experience it haha.
Captain: Okay, thank you Nicky for your detailed reply, telling us about their journey along the way.
Captain: For the third question, I want to talk about the NFT market. NFT is a topic that has been discussed for a long time. There are some popular games such as Decentraland (MANA) and Axie Infinity (AXS), as well as trading platforms such as OpenSea and distribution platforms such as Enjin. Recently, the FLOW public chain developed by the CryptoKitties team And NBA Top shot has also been strongly sought after by the market. Compared with these projects, what role does Seascape play in the entire NFT ecosystem? How will it complement these projects?
Nicky: In most encrypted games, NFTs are used as simple collectibles or trading items. Regardless of the blind box mode or the card draw mode, users often can only go to Opensea to trade or collect NFT collections after obtaining them. At Seascape, we aim to change the way this kind of NFT works. We hope that Seascape NFT is a real game asset and a digital financial asset at the same time. Through our continuous introduction of various types, different gameplays and even different styles of games, the usage scenarios of NFT are continuously increased.
For example: we just launched our own liquidity mining game PROFIT CIRCUS (https://game.seascape.network/index/product/8.html), and other general yield farming, we have made a breakthrough in the form of game expression, and no matter how much value LP tokens the player has saved, they can get a random 0th generation ordinary quality Seascape NFT. And this NFT can be used in our upcoming game Staking Saloon to get more CWS income through Staking NFT. While the player is receiving the benefits, we will destroy this NFT to maintain the rarity of the entire Seascape NFT.
https://game.seascape.network/index/product/8.html
Welcome everyone to try haha
https://opensea.io/assets/0x828e2cb8d03b52d408895e0844a6268c4c7ef3ad/29
For example, this is the NFT rewards that players get in PROFIT CIRCUS, which will be used in our other subsequent games
Of course, we will also continue to develop and mine Seascape NFT content to provide more NFT usage scenarios, including leasing, pledged lending, etc. Let NFT not only collectibles and one-way trading items.
The team is also very happy to cooperate with other NFT projects, interact and communicate, and even jointly develop some products. We do not consider many of the teams mentioned in the previous question to be competitors in private, and are very open to cooperation, and we are looking forward to it.
For example, if a partner can bring some heavy IP series authorization, and cooperate with us Seascape to release several games that can interact with NFT, it will be very attractive and full of imagination.
Captain: The recent boom in the DeFi market is also reflected in the NFT sector to a certain extent. Projects such as AXS/FLOW have strong market performance. I look forward to your cooperation with more NFT projects.
Captain: Next question, most of the projects we just mentioned are built on Ethereum, and a few projects will build their own public chains. At present, very few projects are developed based on Substrate, or built on Polkadot over ecology. Why choose Polkadot? With the improvement of the Polkadot cross-chain network, is there any possibility of cooperation with projects on Ethereum in the future?
Nicky: We chose Polkadot because we value its native cross-chain properties. One of our visions is that users can decide which value platform or blockchain platform their digital assets will eventually go to, and we can build such a cross-chain bridge for users. Substrate's framework is very suitable for such a vision.
With the improvement of the cross-chain network, we will inevitably cooperate with more projects on Ethereum. Whether it is a DeFi financial project, an NFT project, or a game project, we all hope to work with more small partners to weave the ecological network more intensively, so that their respective token economies can have better application scenarios and long-term value.
Captain: Okay, let’s go on to ask Polkadot-related questions, which is a part that the market has been very concerned about recently. Polkadot's parachain auction is coming soon, does Seascape have any plans to participate in the parachain auction? If the parachain is not auctioned, will it have an impact on future project development?
Nicky: We have plans to participate in parachain auctions, but we will wait for a time that is relatively suitable for us. The first batch of auctions should not participate. For Substrate, our development plan is also in an orderly manner. First we are working on a RNG (Random Number Generator), and then we will develop cross-chain NFT. More hopes to improve some infrastructure that is conducive to game development.
If there is no parallel chain in the future, we will continue to improve our platform and cross-chain content on Kusama.
But I think if we have enough high-quality game products, an excellent game mall ecology, and a huge user and developer base, it is only a matter of time before the parachain auction succeeds.
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Captain: Cut in and ask, have you considered running it as a parallel thread or running it with other projects that have captured the parachain?
Nicky: Such a cooperation model can also be considered :)
Captain: Okay, next question, Seascape’s token CWS was launched on Uniswap on February 1, and it has increased by nearly 30 times so far, which is an excellent result. Next we want to talk about Seascape’s token economy. What role does CWS play in the whole product? Which users will use CWS?
Nicky: CWS is equivalent to the core token of Seascape, heart🫀 haha
The main uses are as follows
-Purchase game products and services
-Staking to generate PCC (Player Created Tokens)
-Participate in NFT ecology (forging and purchasing, etc.)
-Participate in game project governance
- Exchange value on external exchanges
Basically, as long as you participate in Seascape's game projects, you can have a considerable opportunity to obtain CWS. 50% of the CWS are dropped through in-game activities and mining to give players incentives.
Here I can post a picture of our token economy, so that everyone can have an intuitive feeling:
In addition, the total amount of CWS tokens is 10 million, and it has just launched on Uniswap.
https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap?outputCurrency=0xac0104cca91d167873b8601d2e71eb3d4d8c33e0
The circulating supply is 528,000
Captain: The token economy of CWS is well designed, and the supply and demand models can be well nested.
Captain: Just now you mentioned that your liquidity mining game is online, can you give us a detailed explanation of your games? What development plans does Seascape have in the future?
Nicky: Yes, starting today, our brand new website platform has just launched (https://game.seascape.network/) and in the next few weeks we will release several DeFi games
The first mini-game called PROFIT CIRCUS
https://game.seascape.network/index/product/8.html
Just went live this morning.
You must have participated in many Yield farming projects, this mini game is actually our official Yield farming activity of Seascape. You can go to Uniswap to increase the fund pool and get the liquidity CWS-ETH LP token to participate in this game and get CWS rewards. At the same time, each participating player will be able to get a free casting opportunity of Seascape NFT, and get a free and random Seascape NFT, which can participate in other subsequent mini-games.
Here is a screenshot of the game for everyone, the current APY is over 400%, don’t miss it if you like us
The second mini-game to be released is NFT BRAWL (NFT Prison). In this mini-game, players can spend CWS to cast random NFTs (somewhat like opening a treasure chest or a blind box). Chance to create a very rare Legendary Seascape NFT. At the same time, we also have a leaderboard that rewards players who mint times and spend the most CWS.
Give everyone an exclusive preview, the animation of the internal test version of this game:) Take a peek
The third mini-game is STAKING SALOON (STAKING Salon). In this mini-game, players can stake up to 3 Seascape NFTs obtained in previous games at the same time and obtain CWS benefits. The quality and combination of NFT will affect the APY percentage. Players need to find the best combo to increase the APY percentage. When players choose to receive CWS rewards, Stake's NFT will also be destroyed, making the Seascape NFT on the market even rarer.
Of course, we will continue to update BLOCKLORDS and make it our flagship war strategy game with more in-depth gameplay. We will launch the season system in subsequent updates, allowing players to enjoy building and fighting on the medieval map with a high degree of freedom At the same time, it will bring you limited-time season settlement rewards.
At the same time, we are also cooperating with a number of independent game development teams, and will launch their games of various gameplay and styles on the Seascape platform one after another this year, so stay tuned :)
Captain: Okay, thank you Nicky for introducing us to these games on the Seascape platform. If you are interested, you can also experience them. The last question is about a topic that I am personally interested in.
Captain: You often post some screenshots of classic games on twitter, and attach some words, such as the classic CS map desert 2, or the brontosaur that stops at Olympus in WOW. Is there any deep meaning?
Nicky: Aha, because everyone on the team is actually a player too. Like myself, I am still a wower, and we also have team members who love FPS very much. My partner David is an avid strategy game lover. We still pay attention to the current developments in the game market, and occasionally feel inspired to release some content. It contains the game youth and our ideals.
In general, PLAY TO EARN games have not really come to the fore. We're still working on it, and we don't think we're any different than when Valve or Blizzard started. We hope that we can keep our original intentions, make PLAY TO EARN games that are really fun and can be recognized and participated by more players, and truly become participants in the game ecology, not just players.
Captain: Haha, okay, I look forward to you becoming the next V agency! Thanks to Nicky for his wonderful sharing, our first phase of Q&A on the theme has come to an end, and then we will enter the free Q&A phase.
【Free question and answer session】
【Free question and answer session】
Q: How does Seascape motivate players and developers? I heard that you have an interesting mechanism called "Rebasing", can you introduce it to us in detail?
Nicky: Our mechanism is called PayWave. Rebasing is an older naming scheme and has been abandoned. Looks like you've been following us for a while lol.
Generally speaking, PayWave is a dividend mechanism in our CWS contract. In games on our platform, developers can use a function called spend to allow players to consume CWS to obtain some assets or services. These consumed CWS will be accumulated in the PayWave pool. After reaching a certain amount, we will release it.
The release rule is to redistribute the amount to all CWS holding wallets, and distribute according to the holding ratio. This PayWave function is actually to encourage everyone to hold our CWS :)
Q: At present, you can buy tokens on uni to participate in your games. Can you join these games in the later stages of the bsc chain?
Nicky: Soon we will land on BSC and bring these games to BSC. If you feel that the gas fee of Ethereum is too expensive, you can wait for a wave of BSC. And we will launch some exclusive and optimized content for BSC, that's for sure.
Q: Binance invested in you, will you list Binance in the future?
Nicky: Regarding the issue of listing, we are currently in contact with major CEXs and will announce them one after another. Please pay attention to our official information channels:)
Q: Are blockchain games really not false propositions? All those games platform projects failed, cocos, EGT, and finally EGT relied on funding. Why do you think you can do it?
Nicky: I think blockchain games are more appropriate than XXX games that use blockchain technology. Personally, I don't really agree with category terms like 'blockchain games'. Generally, games are classified by operating platform (PC game, console game, mobile game) or gameplay (FPS, SLG, RPG). . . The category of blockchain games. . . emmm Different people have different opinions.
As for the previous platforms you mentioned, maybe the methodology is different. In fact, our team does not pay much attention to the very bottom of the blockchain. We use it more rationally. We use whatever is easy to use. Wherever it is valuable, we will actively develop there. Moreover, we pay more attention to the game product itself. The attribute of the team is to continuously launch products and achieve the set goals. Let our players actually be able to play things. And pay attention to the quality and quality of the game. At the same time, break the circle by lowering the barriers to entry and cooperating with more cutting-edge blockchain institutions and other game studios.
Q: On which chain is the NFT casting on Seascape, and does it require a high gas fee?
Nicky: Currently it is Ethereum, the gas fee is really high these two days. You can lower Gwei down a bit or wait for the BSC version.
Q: Besides adding liquidity, is there any other way to get NFT
Nicky: It can be obtained in other games in the future. For example, in the upcoming NFT prison game mentioned earlier, NFT can be minted directly by spending CWS.
Captain: Okay, Nicky has answered a lot of questions. Due to time constraints, today’s AMA is over here
Thanks again for Nicky's wonderful sharing, and the extra winners can privately chat with @Sumi registration information, thank you for your active participation! For other questions about the project, please follow the Seascape official account.
Nicky: Thank you everyone. Welcome everyone to pay attention to our official account [Seascape Network], which will publish Chinese announcements and news articles as soon as possible.
In the future, BlockArk will bring you more high-quality projects and content sharing. As long as you keep an eye on the Uniswap Chinese community, or follow @BlockArk Block Ark, you can get relevant information as soon as possible. The content review of this AMA will also be published on Weibo and major media platforms, so stay tuned!
In the future, BlockArk will bring you more high-quality projects and content sharing. As long as you keep an eye on the Uniswap Chinese community, or follow @BlockArk Block Ark, you can get relevant information as soon as possible. The content review of this AMA will also be published on Weibo and major media platforms, so stay tuned!
