The blockchain industry has never lacked for innovation.

Following Defi, NFT, and Metaverse, a new concept came out: Gamefi, which is the combination of games and Defi.

The project we introduced today extends the game to the Gamble industry.

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DeRace

Because the game mechanics of the two projects are very similar, and currently only ZED RUN has products to experience.

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ZED RUN

What is ZED RUN?

Buying a horse is the first threshold of the game

After each player registers for the game, he will have a stable. The stable is empty at first, and your first task is to buy a horse.

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stable

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in-game market

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Horses at the OpenSea Market

In the world of ZED RUN, horses are divided into four bloodlines.

The rarity of the bloodline itself, as well as the purity of the genetic type of the offspring, will indirectly determine the final price of a horse.

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introduction of horse

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Horse racing, feel the passionate sports online

Once you have a horse, you can let him race.

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Games

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horse class

Entrance fee: Before the game, different types of games need to pay different entry fees. Of course, you can also participate in free-entry competitions. This type of competition has an unlimited number of participations per day, but the number of games is less and the prize pool is also lower.

Prize pool: The top three players in each game can distribute the rewards of the game, and the proportion of rewards is generally 60%, 25%, and 15%.

Horse racing itself is the core of the game.

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Breeding horses, enjoying the fun of being a horse owner

In the game, each horse is divided into four types according to the degree of breeding.

colt：foal, a colt that has not been bred;

stallion：a stallion, a bred stallion;

filly：Fillies that have not been bred;

mare：Breeding mares.

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Griffin competition

Another great fun of the game is also born from this.

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Breeding services provided by players

If she is a mare, you can choose your favorite male partner in the breeding service, and finally get the crystallization of love after breeding.

Of course, you can also sell your crystallization of love in the market, bloodline and purity will determine its price.

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breeding restrictions

The above is the whole picture of ZED RUN. From buying horses, racing horses to raising horses, a complete mechanism has been established.

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What are the upgrades for DeRace?

Although DeRace has no products to experience yet, judging from the white paper, what ZED RUN has, DeRace also has.

At the same time, DeRace also mainly added the following three ways to play:

1- Buying a horse:The buying of horses mentioned here is to bet on the horse. Even if you don't have a horse, you can make a profit by betting.

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Benefits of holding tokens

Regardless of whether DeRace can make this game, in terms of game mechanics alone, DeRace has indeed lowered a lot of participation thresholds, and it has also given players more ways to make profits.

From a gameplay perspective, DeRace does look a little more fun.

But the richness of the gameplay is not the only indicator to discuss whether such games have prospects.

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DeRace most likely has more players

There is a fact that ZED RUN has been available for almost three years, and there are still very few people who know about it. At the same time, the price of "horse" in OpenSea has also been tepid. Perhaps it all boils down to two reasons:

1- Participation Threshold

Everyone who participates in ZED RUN, the first thing is to buy a horse. The quality of the horse determines your income, and the income also requires you to pay the corresponding cost.

2- Token economy

For a Play To Earn game, if it wants people to speculate, it needs to have enough profit expectations, but ZED RUN lacks this basic model.

Of course, with the token, it is also necessary to empower the token, and DeRace has done this.

At the same time, the low threshold for players to participate and the multiple profit methods will surely allow DeRace to attract more players.

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The size of the market determines the upper limit of the game

DeRace claims to have brought about changes in three types of markets,

For traditional horse racing, DeRace is more fair and open.

For video games, assets in DeRace have better liquidity.

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Advantages of DeRace

Although this project seems to have entered three industries, it is impossible to attract players from three industries at the same time.

Traditional horse racing pays attention to the passion of the scene. Hardcore gamers pay more attention to the playability of the game. People who like Gamble, horse racing is only one part of it.

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DeRace white paper

Reasonable data should be the proportion of horse racing in the online gambling market. And this data, there is no relevant information.

You can only know the difference between online gambling and horse racing, but it is difficult for you to know how many horse racing people are willing to come to online horse racing, and how many people who like online gambling are willing to spend time online horse racing.

Data that cannot be calculated rationally requires our emotional judgment.

It may not be easy to make this judgment, but perhaps we can feel from the lessons learned from ZED RUN that this market may not be as big as we thought.

At the same time, DeRace and ZED RUN are also competing with each other.

ZED RUN has already taken the lead, even if DeRace catches up from behind, he may not get much from the prize pool.

This article is from: DiamondHands (WeChat ID: DIAHands), reproduced with authorization