Largest Gaming Dapp on Earth
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PROJECT: Alien Worlds
FOUNDED: Produced by Dacoco (Crypto Valley, Zug, Switzerland)
About Dacoco: Alien Worlds creators Dacoco GmbH are based in Zug’s Crypto Valley and have a strong EOSIO pedigree. The team were instrumental in the EOS chain launch as key members of “Ghostbusters,” the tech group that successfully garnered sufficient token holder backing to launch the EOS blockchain. Dacoco founders were also crucial to the highly successful 2018 eosDAC airdrop and are active workers within eosDAC, the only DAC block producer on EOS, WAX and other chains. Dacoco GmbH is a member of the Blockchain Game Alliance.
WEB PAGE: https://alienworlds.io/
TECHNICAL BLUEPRINT: LINK
FIELD OF INTEREST: DEFI METAVERSE
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Alien Worlds is a DeFi space exploration gaming metaverse where you can collect and play with unique digital items. Explorers engage through mining, acquiring and renting land, voting for Planetary governance to impact Trilium (TLM) tokens and NFT (Non-Fungible Token) payouts and other strategic actions which are likely to proliferate over time as Planets offer their own games and NFTs.
ALIEN WORLDS — first look: VIDEO
CHAIN /TOKEN TYPE:
Alien Worlds runs on the Ethereum and WAX blockchains. Ethereum is a useful blockchain for storing and accessing Trilium, whilst WAX is an EOSIO-based game and NFT-focused DPOS blockchain. All of the land and NFTs are minted on the WAX blockchain. Tokens will also be possibly deployed on another scalable and less expensive chain in the future. Some options are already being considered.
CONSENSUS MECHANISM: PoW/DPoS
LIVE MAINNET: MAINNET RUNNING
DEV ACTIVITY (Github): NA
PRODUCTS:
*live mainnet
*Mining game: Land is the key component of the mining game. The Planet or private landowners where the land has been acquired charge a commission for mining while mining rewards depend on the size of Planet and staked Trilium.
*Fighting game: Players select weapons (NFTs) to use and enter ThunderDome. Players earn NFTs and Trilium if they win.
*ATOMIC ASSETS NFT MARKETPLACE
EXISTING CUSTOMERS AND USERS:
According to DappRadar, Alien Worlds is currently the first biggest blockchain game and 2nd biggest overall dApps. They have 150k users and almost $65M transactions already.
Alien Worlds is the latest Binance Launchpad — on a day before the tokens are listed, there was $10B+ staked in the Launchpool.
COMPETITORS:
*Aavegotchi is a game project built on the Ethereum blockchain and was also recently deployed on Polygon (Matic). It has elements of decentralised finance (DeFi) and NFTs. Players will also get rewarded with GHST tokens for participating in “rarity farming”, the summoning and training of rare Aavegotchis. Aavegotchi allows the player to buy, sell, lend, stake and earn yield all while being part of the AavegotchiDAO. It is not enough that you have an Aavegotchi with the best traits; you will have to continue to monitor and apply the best wearables, consumables, the amount of spirit force it has if you want to stand a chance in this ever-changing game.
*Illuvium is a decentralized NFT collection and auto battler game built on the Ethereum network. Integrated with the hyper-scalable Immutable-X L2 solution, players of Illuvium gain access to zero gas fees for minting or exchanging of assets as well as sub-second transaction times, all with user-maintained custody. Illuvium will offer to collect, trade, battle, and earn rare and valuable assets.
*Chain Guardians. Ethereum Network based ChainGuardians utilises the ERC-721 NFT token standard for all in-game assets. It is a persistent meta-verse turn-based real-time strategy game with desirable rewards and transparent economies. Player rewards are driven by both player purchases and crypto infusionsresulting fromresulting from new partnerships with other cryptocurrency platforms. There is currently a range of different characters in ChainGuardians representing different blockchains that are called Guardians. NFT owners can currently mine CG tokens, and more Defi and gaming features are yet to come.
*Star Atlas, building on Solana, is a massively multiplayer online meta-verse. Players can join a faction, directly influence the course of the meta-verse, and earn real-world income for their contributions.
Star Atlas has all the whisperings of Eve Online. Planet/galaxy ownership via token staking amount is similar to in Alien Worlds, where Trilium can be staked to planets.
You can read more about Star Atlas in Cryp2Gem Research.
There are some other examples of smaller metaverses that have DeFI included in their concept. Projects like Project Nebula & Enoki.
Most of those projects, including Alien Worlds, are covered and highlighted in Cryp2Gem ALT Report — Part 4 that was published on the 31st January 2021.
We also had a fun Christmas quiz about Alien Worlds for our awesome Telegram community.
TEAM: The Dacoco team delivers alien WorldsThe Dacoco team delivers alien Worlds. They are also the team that conceptualised and launched eosDAC and have led the development of DAC software on the EOSIO blockchains. They executed the blockchain design and implementation for the EOS Alliance in its aspiration to be constituted as a DAC. The Dacoco team is advising the Preparatory Committee of Liberland on the implementation of its prospective government on the blockchain, including with respect to company formation as DACs (Decentralised Autonomous Communities).
*Michael Yeates, Co-founder. Michael is one of the best-known and most well-respected blockchain technologists on EOS. Michael has been working in blockchain since 2017 and has been a developer working in eCommerce for much longer. Founder and Managing Director of a successful eCommerce platform. Highly experienced developer and system implementer.
Interviews with Micheal about Alien Worlds:
*Interview 1
*Interview 2
*Sarojini Mckenna, Co-founder. Co-founder of Dacoco — we build tokenised DAOs. Board member of eosDAC, the EOS block producer. Board member of the DAC Foundation. Saro is responsible for legal and company strategy at eosDAC. She was also an Analyst at Rothschild and worked in the Debt Advisory team.
Sarojini McKenna: “I am one of the 3 co-founders, and I come from a corporate finance background before realising I wanted to build decentralised systems that would empower more people. I handle strategy and finance within the project.
Team background before: Previously, we did the 2018 viral eosDAC airdrop, which remains one of the world’s largest DAOs and is a block producer on multiple chains. We’re using much of what we learned in that project within Alien Worlds.
Additionally, our senior developer, Michael, has been involved in the blockchain space since 2017. First with ethereum and then later on the EOS blockchain,, we built eosDAC after airdropping our token onto the Ethereum chain. He is very interested in decentralised governance and cross-chain dapps.” (source)
*Rob Allen, Co-founder. Over 20 years of experience developing and implementing international ICT projects in a wide range of environments.
Rob: “I’ve been a technologist for over 25 years and been focused on Crypto, particularly for the last 3 years and NFTs for the last 18 months — Alien worlds were just the most interesting concept that we could come up with, and we think it is compelling.” (source)
“I’ve been involved in implementing cutting edge technology projects for over 25 years and have been full time on Crypto projects for over 3 years. I successfully managed the eosDAC airdrop and conversion between chains. I’ve also run game servers on niche platforms. Michael Yeates has been a very key person on many blockchain projects over the past 3 to 4 years and is a real alpha techie. Pramod is one of our key game designers who has a masters in video game design and has been working with us for over 3 years. We have worked together for a number of years — on creating eosDAC, a viral 2018 airdrop that seemed to help propel EOS to greater success and is still one of the world’s biggest DAOs are all still involved with. Our co-founder and lead dev, Michael Yeates, is very well known in DPOS circles and was instrumental in chain launch. I come from a corporate finance background — investment banking and private equity for over a decade — before realising I wanted to focus on creating decentralised systems that benefit everyone, in contradistinction to centralised banking and finance. We have a partnership with an Indian Game studio called Sixpep who have done a lot of the UI you currently see.” (source)
PARTNERS: WAX, AtomicAssets, Chintai, Crypto Locally, NonFungible, TokenHead, Binance,
Members of the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA).
INVESTORS: Rarestone, Animoca Brands, Hillrise Capital, LD Capital, Longling Capital, M6, Moonwhale Ventures, OneBlock Capital, DAG, Binance
TOKEN USE CASE:
Trilium is the native token of Alien Worlds and is used to stake to Planets and participate in core games. It exists on the Ethereum and WAX blockchains so that users can store Trilium on either chain subject to their preference.
5bn released to Planets at a rate of 0.025% of the remaining pot per day — Trilium is claimed by Planets every day — release is declining over time
+1bn tokens to support galactic hub communities and content creators
+2bn tokens to incentivize major strategic partners
+1bn to explorers as they onboard
+1bn for the Alien Worlds team
Uses of Trilium
*Trilium can be used to acquire NFTs
*The Federation (and if they chose, Planets) charges Trilium fees for gameplay such as the fighting game
*Trilium is burned (that is, NFTs sent to explorers for mining on the Planet or fighting on behalf of the Planet) when users shine NFTs
*Trilium must be staked by users to receive Planetary DAC tokens and participate in Planet governance
*Trilium is required to participate in Nebula Events whereby users can obtain Legendary and Mythical items
*A proportion of the Trilium proceeds will be burned — 50–60% burn target
Burning mechanics: Nebula events (extremely rare items), Shining (fee to shine up NFTs), Fighting game (half of the fees are paid to the Planet being fought on behalf of and half-burned)
TOKEN METRICS:
TOKEN: TLM (ERC-20, BEP-20, and WAX)
FULLY DILUTED MARKET CAP: $15M at private price $0,003/TLM*
*$30M considering extra 5B TLM released to Planets
INITIAL MARKET CAP: $3,7M at private price $0,003/TLM
INITIAL CIRCULATING SUPPLY: 1,24B TLM
TOTAL TOKEN SUPPLY: 5B (+ 5B*)
*5B TLM released to Planets at a rate of 0.025% of the remaining pot per day (440M TLM/year)
FUNDS RAISING INFO:
Seed raised $1,48M for $0,0021/TLM
Private raise $1,03M for $0,003/TLM
Binance Launchpad — On April 13th 2021, listed on Binance
TOKEN DISTRIBUTION:
13,75% Seed (5% unlocked and linear daily vesting for 18 months)
6,69% Presale (linear daily vesting for 24 months)
2,92%% Public sale (unlocked)
3,5% Developers (unlock over 24 months)
9,24% Marketing (unlock over 24 months)
13,14% Alien Worlds Foundation/treasury (unlock over 24 months)
14,60% Team (6-month cliff and linear daily vesting for 18 months)
5,35% Advisors (unlock over 18 months)
3,89% Governance (unlock over 18 months)
5,84% Liquidity provision
3,41% Staking rewards (unlock over 18 months)
0,78% Participation Rewards
0,78% Security audit (unlocked)
14,24% Ecosystem Grants(unlocking over 60 months)
100% Total — 5B TLM
Another 5B TLM will be released to Planets at a rate of 0.025% of the remaining pot per day (440M TLM/year)!
BURN target 50–60% of Trilium released!
ROADMAP:
*COMPLETE:
-Metaverse design
-Technical Blueprint revealed
-Trilium minted — final immutable supply
-NFTs, Planets and initial smart contracts for core metaverse mechanics created
-Alpha UI developed
-Community NFT pack drops
-Standard Pack sales
-Beta UI released
-Daily Trilium release to Planets begins
-Staking to Planet opens
-Trilium reserves opened for mining
*NEAR TERM:
-NFT shining unlocked
-Nebula events and other quests
-Daily Allocation to Landowners claim function to become automated
-Land Fund pack opening reward initiated
-Planet DAO candidate registrations open
-Landowner-specific NFT mining incentive distribution mechanism
-Monthly Discord meetups
*COMING SOON:
-Thunderdome opens — Let the Battles Commence
-Interactive storyline events & cross-promotions with other games/NFTs
-Artifacts NFTs released
-Collabs with other projects — NFT drops
-Landowners to be able to display items in their window
*GALAXY — FUTURE PLANS:
-“Heroes and Minions” packs and fighting functionality
-Land terraforming and farming by landowners enabled
-Avatar enhancements unlocked
-Selected external NFT collectables gain powers in the Alien World metaverse (NFT interoperability)
-Quests and immersive experiences
-Interoperability between digital items
-The Federation is creating a framework to allow digital items (NFTs) to move across metaverses
-By allowing IP owners to add custom attributes and metadata to external NFTs, a new galaxy of cross promotional opportunities exist
-Imagine your favourite collectables being available to play within games — Alien Worlds plans to make that happen!
-“Services” on land opened
-Additional terraforming (that impact mining attributes)
SOCIAL MEDIA:
Telegram 22k
Twitter 15k
Discord 11k
NOTES
It’s 2055 — Some of Earth’s inhabitants have discovered a way to escape the raging pandemics and systemic collapse on Earth.
The most advanced bitcoin mining community — the Federation — noticed a pattern in its algorithmic solutions. An advanced Alien race was sending messages through bitcoin mining algorithms, and the messages led to a big discovery.
A wormhole was discovered that allowed humans to travel to far-flung exoPlanets, escaping the disasters on their home planet.
The Federation community travelled through the wormhole, gathering a unique supply of hyper rare Trilium as it went. The Federation’s Trilium is the only supply in existence and has a provable limited quantity. On the other side, they found a new interstellar network with many inhabitable planets.
Today there are six planets within the Federation of Alien Worlds, and a Metaverse is emerging where virtual, and real worlds collide; To build a fair economy, everything in the Alien Worlds Metaverse was tokenized — from the Avatars, explorers walk around into the Tools, and Weapons, explorers use in their daily adventures. Even Land, Minions and Artifacts have been tokenized and associated with an ancient AI infrastructure.
Some enterprising explorers mine to earn their share of Trilium and unique items, some like to fight in the ThunderDome, while landowners rent their land to build new products and services to offer to the galaxy. The Federation also sends items to hard-working explorers to assist in their endeavours.
However, there are mysterious alien forces around …
And so your story begins …
Make your own destiny …
Alien Worlds combines the rapidly growing DeFi and NFT industries, creating a gaming environment that includes token staking, mining, and virtual land sales. According to DappRadar, Alien Worlds is currently the first biggest blockchain game and 2nd biggest overall dApps. They have 150k users and almost $65M transactions already.
Alien Worlds is the latest Binance Launchpad — on a day before the tokens are listed, there was $10B+ staked in the Launchpool.
Alien Worlds utilizes both the Ethereum and WAX blockchains to offer players a new way to buy, sell, and earn digital collectables as they work their way through a strategy game across six alien planets comprising 3,343 land packs. They had an early open sale where they sold card packs/land packs etc. You can earn fees from land when someone mines on land that you own.
Each land pack contains a single land NFT and seven other NFTs that accompany it, much rarer than in projects like Decentraland or The Sandbox. Users can acquire other NFTs, like mining tools, to upgrade and enhance their experience and rewards in the game.
Owning land introduces the benefits of Trilium (TLM), the game’s native token. Land owners can earn TLM by mining the land themselves or allowing others to do so in return for a commission, delivering DeFi-like yielding properties. TLM can be staked to earn additional rewards and governance rights, with each planet having the potential to become its own DAO. Planets can then develop more unique games with extra rewards and NFTs on offer, expanding the metaverse.
The metaverse currency — Trilium (token symbol TLM) — incentivises explorers to play games and must be staked by users to participate in governance. Planets within the metaverse are decentralised autonomous organisations that receive daily Trilium from the central metaverse smart contracts. Explorers engage through mining, acquiring and renting land, voting for Planetary governance to impact Trilium and NFT (Non-Fungible Token) payouts, and other strategic actions that are likely to proliferate over time Planets offer their own games and NFTs.
Explorers accumulate and use rare and unique NFTs in their quest to earn more of the native token of the game, Trilium, and grow their influence.
Mining is the first part of the Alien Worlds gameplay. In the future, there will be planet governance, battles, and more.
As you mine, you will earn TLM (Trilium), and you have a small chance to find an NFT. This NFT can be anything from an abundant rarity avatar to a mythical sword.
More Planets can be created; this is intended to be done in a manner so as not to penalise existing Planets. Planets are the means by which blockchain communities can onboard onto Alien Worlds, get their own token and DAO, offer games and services into the ecosystem, and trade NFTs.
Alien World NFTs are already trading at many multiples of their original sale price (e.g. land at 10x).
They would like to create another NFT — possibly more DeFi and less game-related token outside the WAX environment. In the future, we might see planets that can mine even exchange tokens (yeah, another hint right there).
New Planets can be created by the Federation. The terms and conditions of the Planet award will be negotiated between the community and the Federation. This may include, but will not be limited to, Planetary (DAO) Tokens, Land and other NFTs. Alien Worlds is basically a game in two levels:
*Federation as a central game authority who offers Trilium and game contracts;
The Federation pays Trilium at a rate of 1,25M tokens per day (declining over time) to all Planets. Trillium is divided between Planets by # of tokens staked to Planet. Planets with more staked Trilium et more Trilium reward.
*Planets — community hubs and locus of decision-making
Planets chose % of their daily Trilium to payout for gameplay. Planets that offer more rewards may attract more players.
Much autonomy is at the Planet level rather than the Federation level.
Let’s have a closer look at some highlights from the whitepaper.
On-chain components include:
*Trilium token
*All non-fungible tokens (NFT)
*All core gameplay, including the mining game, fighting game and further game actions such as quests
*DAO governance and voting, including staking
*Database of Planets
Off-chain elements include:
*Graphical elements including of NFTs (avatars and other gameplay modifying NFTs)
*User interfaces
*Pack opening
*DAC management interface
*Mining and fighting game interfaces
*Additional games and activities that are not part of the core distribution of TLM and/or NFTs
Alien Worlds Metaverse is composed of Planets, Membership of Planets and Federations.
Planets
Planets are the main locus of activity within Alien Worlds — they are where mining and gameplay occurs and where governance happens. Each Planet sets its own resource strategy and games, and players vote for their own Planetary government with the power of their staked Trilium.
- At inception, there are 6 Planets.
- A Planet is represented by a WAX account and its corresponding smart contract.
- New Planets can be created by the Federation. The terms and conditions of the Planet award will be negotiated between the community and the Federation. This may include, but will not be limited to, Planetary (DAO) Tokens, Land and other NFTs
- The Federation will also provide the Planets with smart contracts to run their mining and fighting games.
- Planets receive a daily flow of Trilium from the Federation which the Planets’ Custodians choose how to allocate down to users
- Planets within Alien Worlds are Decentralised Autonomous Communities (DAOs)
— Each Planet is a tokenized DAO with a dedicated member client portal for Planet token holders to vote for their Governors and allocate Trilium and NFT flows
Membership of Planets
Users become a voting member of a Planet by staking Trilium to that Planet. Users can stake Trilium to an unlimited number of Planets.
-Staking to a Planet
- When a user stakes Trilium to a particular Planet (sends Trilium to a contract address), the contract sends a token for that Planet back to the user.
— This, therefore, means that each Planetary DAO’s token is ‘backed’ by the amount of Trilium staked to that Planet
— Each Planetary DAC’s tokens can be swapped back 1:1 into Trilium at any time.
- The Planetary DAO’s token becomes the token governing that user’s membership of a Planetary DAO.
-Planet Treasury
- The Trilium balance held by the Planet DAO.
Federation
- Comprised of Founding Team (Dacoco)
- Permissions NFTs and approves new Planets in the Federation
— Can remove Planets from Federation in order to comply with legal/regulatory
- Counts each Planet’s staked Trilium daily and allocates Trilium to Planets
- Runs and upkeeps game front-end
Alien World is powered by Trilium tokens but also NFTs.
Core NFTs are the NFTs created by the Federation (Alien Worlds’ creators) at inception.
- The Core NFTs within Alien Worlds are
— Land
— Avatars (types of explorer such as Little Green Men, Norse Gods etc)
— Artefacts
— Tools
— Weapons
— Minions - The elements of the NFT that are recorded on-chain are
— Its name
— Its attributes (including its visual representations and powers)
— Who owns it
— Its history of ownership - NFTs in Alien Worlds are depicted as trading cards; these elements are described in the UI codebase.
- The Core NFTs exist as a row in the database of the Atomic Assets smart contract on the WAX blockchain.
- The Atomic Assets smart contracts run the Atomic Assets protocol.
Land
- The land is an NFT associated with (located on) a Planet.
- Land ownership is represented by ownership of the NFT.
- A land NFT defines modifiers which affect gameplay aspects such as:
— The time between mining calls
— Amount of Trilium that the land generates per mine
— The probability that the user receives an NFT per mining call - Different parcels of land may attract different values (ie Trilium value) based on the desirability
- Planets have a finite amount of land on them at inception.
- Landowners can set a commission (which is the % of Trilium mining rewards the landowner receives)
- Unsold land is owned by the Federation until bought
— Mining on unsold land (i.e. still owned by the Federation) has a default commission of 20%
— This 20% commission is collected into The Land Fund, which pays out to a user upon the user opening a new Land pack
— This is to incentivise opening land packs rather than hoarding them since land is required for gameplay
Alien Worlds Facts
*Fungible token: Trilium (All Planets have their own fungible DAC token)
*Non-fungible tokens: Issued by the “Federation” (game producers). Can be issued by any Planet (may be recognised by other Planets)
*Blockchain: Ethereum, WAX and BSC
*Trilium in issue: Fixed at 10B (of which 5B paid to Planets over the years; 1B given away to Players who buy packs; 1B sold to partners and team; 1B to galactic hubs — other teams to build on Alien Worlds; 2B reserved for major partnerships)
*Incentive: 5B of token supply paid to Planets at a rate of ~0.025% per day
*Planets in existence: Initially, 6 + Binance Gas Planet was introduced later on
*Type of game: Multiple games within a game metaverse. Core play is an open-ended strategy
*Ownership of NFTs: Players fully own their; can transfer NFTs to any wallet or platform DAC structure (Planets): Extensible, decentralised ‘Planetary’ structure — each Planet chooses how to allocate. Trilium, sell the land or charge rent
*Games: Mining game and fighting game smart contracts provided by Federation to Planets. Planets can create their own games. Other games under development by Federation.
*Decentralised features: Running on fully decentralised chains (Ethereum and WAX). More autonomy is at the Planetary level versus the Federation level.
*BSC supports the mission staking functionality, allowing missions to be offered to BEP-20 TLM token holders
*Centralised features: Minimal centralised elements in order to protect gameplay (Planet permissioning, code updates) vested with game founders (the “Federation”)
*Format: Designed for mobile with desktop version running browser
*Protocol: Alien Worlds runs on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Ethereum, and WAX and has deployed the Trilium token contract on all 3 blockchains.
*Smart contract language: Contracts in C++ (Planet contracts open source)
