The Evolution of Games to the Blockchain: Nine Chronicles
In today’s article we are going to explore why and how games are moving into the blockchain, charting the meteoric rise of the game Nine Chronicles.
(1) WHY BLOCKCHAIN
Massively multiplayer, but decentralized and perpetual
Nine Chronicles is one of the very few games that is truly peer-to-peer. All players will be helping to maintain the decentralized network that is known as “serverless”. Those players who opt-in to “mine” while playing the game are helping to keep the network secure and in turn they earn rewards for their efforts.
A huge advantage of working with our Libplanet blockchain engine is that it is now easier than ever to create multiplayer games on a blockchain.
The inherent decentralized architecture removes the developer as a single point of failure. As a result, the network is more robust and less likely to be knocked offline. Even without the developers, the player community can perpetually power the network — so your items, characters, and the world they live in will always be available.
Liplanet is written in C# and is fully compatible with Unity (the most popular game development engine). It is our hope that more game developers are inspired by our journey and which to collaborate on building an ecosystem of inter-connected and massively peer-to-peer online worlds.
Open source and fully moddable
Planetarium as the game’s developers have written the initial code to get the game launched, but the entire codebase will be open sourced so anyone is free to fork it and start fresh. (We’ve already open sourced the API client and the game logic. The frontend client will follow soon.) This freedom to start over puts pressure on us as developers to keep the game running in line with community expectations.
Variations to the game that do not affect the in-game economy (e.g. character appearance changes) can be used simultaneously on the same mainnet. This allows the community to freely mod the front-end without changing the nature of the game.
Should the modifications and variations affect the game economy, players can choose to start a new mainnet, or hard fork from a specific block of the current mainnet to create their own Nine Chronicles network. All of this does not require permission from our team.
This marks a huge difference between Nine Chronicles and traditional MMOs where game modifications, reverse engineering, and running private servers are often against the End-User License Agreement. We are giving players the freedom to experiment.
Player centric: Monetizable
Keep what you earn! Blockchain is all about being in control of your assets. This is the notion of “true ownership” that you might have heard about in the blockchain gaming community. If you buy or earn tokens, they are your tokens. Likewise, if you find or craft items then they are your items.
For instance, there were nine limited edition mythical-class Black Valkyrie costumes available in the presale, which were quickly grabbed by the community members who each invested $10K. These hugely valuable gaming assets are tied to unique tokens on the Nine Chronicles blockchain, and each token is owned by a player.
You are free to keep, destroy, or trade your assets to any other player without our permission. Due to the decentralized nature of the network, Planetarium does not have control over any player’s account.
Nine Chronicles Gold (NCG), the mineable base currency, has a capped supply and will power the content, market, and governance of the network for years to come. As Nine Chronicles can be enjoyed without initially purchasing cryptocurrency, we can onboard mainstream audiences into the game as shown by our player base already. We are excited to grow the user base to build up a thriving virtual economy where players can be involved from the very beginning.
(2) HOW IT WORKS
As Nine Chronicles is a fully decentralized game that uses blockchain technology things happen a little differently from what happens in a traditional MMO.
Actions become transactions
In the game client, once you have loaded your character, you will see the main game screen. This is the familiar screen where you can see the marketplace, the workshop, combat rankings, the entrance for elemental dungeons, and the portal to enter the different worlds (also called dungeons).
The graphical interface provides a nice way to interact with the data that sits on the Nine Chronicles blockchain. All game data sits on the chain which means a copy of this data is stored by all people who run the blockchain software.
One thing that happens here, but don’t see, is the data from the blockchain is parsed into a local database which holds the latest state of the Nine Chronicles gaming world. This is done to improve the performance of the game.
Combat transactions
From the main screen, whenever a player clicks on the portal they are led through a couple of screens that lets them choose which level they wish to fight in as well as choose their equipment. Finally, a player must press the “Start” button to proceed to combat.
Start button: enter into one of the Worlds of Nine Chronicles to begin combat
The game client interprets this clicking action and turns it into a transaction ready to be sent to the blockchain. Each action has to be signed by a player’s private key. This way everyone knows who has performed which action. A private key is like a password and is unique to every account.
Transaction Broadcasting
This signed action (read: transaction) is prepared by the game client and sent to the blockchain node running on your computer, which in turn broadcasts your transaction across the Internet to all other computers who have joined the Nine Chronicles blockchain network.
Nine Chronicles Launcher
This node software is managed by the game Launcher, which is the program you start when you press the Nine Chronicles icon on your computer. As all players run the Launcher before starting the game, all players are also running a blockchain node and helping to sustain the game. As mentioned above, anyone who runs the blockchain software stores the history of all transactions.
Energy Cost (“Prosperity” and “Action Power”)
Players start with 120 action power but use up this action power when entering combat.
Action Power has a max of 120
Pressing the Start button has a cost of 5 energy (“action power”); however, this is not a financial cost to the player as energy naturally restores every 1700 blocks. Every single block, players rejuvenate 1 prosperity. After 1700 blocks, players have full prosperity and can refill their action power back to 120.
Prosperity meter: it refills every 1700 blocks
This energy mechanism is how we prevent players from spamming the network with too many actions at once. Players who send too many transactions will have their extra transactions ignored by the other players in the network.
Determining the battle result
The outcome of a battle follows a formula that depends on a player’s equipment stats plus an element of randomness. The source of this randomness is the block hash of the block where your transaction is included. As this happens in the future you won’t know the block hash that corresponds to your combat until that block is added to the chain.
As all data in a blockchain is public, then all players running the software know the stats of your player and will also see the block hash for combat too. This means that all players can calculate the result of your combat in a deterministic way once the random value is known. What’s also implied here is that all players calculate the combat results in the exact same way. This is how we prevent cheating in a decentralized game.
Transactions and blocks
When you send out your transaction across the network it will be included in a future block, but you won’t know which block until miners have had a chance to include the transaction within the blocks they create.
Once a miner creates a block, they broadcast it to all other computers within the network. If the block is valid then the other computer will accept this block as part of the chain. Due to the nature of the global scale of the Internet, these blocks cannot be transmitted instantly from one computer to another. There is always a chance that another miner will produce a competing block. As blocks within the chain must be sequential, there can’t ever be 2 blocks at the same position. This means that there is some period of time when a block is at risk of being removed from the chain, and the transactions inside being held until a new block is created. This is known as block reorganization, or “reorg” for short.
Visualization of Nine Chronicles players connected globally
How to be sure that your combat result is completely lost? If your transaction is not included in a winning block then it is cached by miners to be included in another block. At some point your transaction will be inside a winning block such that you won’t have to fear a reorg. The point at which we can be sure is when enough blocks have been added on top of the block containing your transaction. In Bitcoin, it is suggested that users wait for 6 blocks to follow on. In Nine Chronicles, the game has a 3 block confirmation time.
Anti-Rollback protection
While 3 block confirmation times should be good enough, there is still a risk of a deep reorganization where multiple blocks become invalidated at once. This is a problem for a game as players don’t want to wait a long time in order to progress. Our solution to this problem is to use authorized miners. These are special mining nodes that were set at Genesis and provide a checkpoint of correctness every 50 blocks.
While this may not be the perfect, it does provide a practical solution to the problem. This is only a temporary solution until we rebuild our consensus engine to use Proof-of-Stake.
Advantages
Our network is peer-to-peer such that it should not be dependent on Planetarium and should run 24/7. In this early access phase of the game, we have faced a number of challenges such that we haven’t quite met this ideal. A number of improvements are constantly being made in order to improve the network’s stability and the player’s gaming experience.
The biggest advantage of decentralization is that no player can cheat the game rules. All players help to prevent cheating by running a Nine Chronicles blockchain node. This means all players check the actions of every other player.
Marketplace
Almost everyone reading this blog will know how to access the marketplace. This is, of course, the place where players can buy and sell items with each other. This is basically a global auction house but without a singular price for each item type.
Upon opening the marketplace screen we can see the items in our inventory on the left and items for sale on the right.
As mentioned in the previous blog, the graphical interface provides a nice way to interact with the data that sits on the Nine Chronicles blockchain. All game data sits on the chain which means a copy of this data is stored by all people who run the blockchain software.
Querying the database
It is worth noting that the storage component of any blockchain is a database. Whenever we want to extract data from a blockchain we are actually querying a database. The game client (where you see the marketplace) is one obvious example of a piece of software that can query the database to find certain lists of data, such as “all items for sale”.
All of the filters that you see inside the marketplace are basically queries coded into the game client itself. However, it is possible for anyone to write their own software that queries the database. Our code is open source and anyone who runs the Nine Chronicles software will have their own copy of the game’s database.
Marketplace filters
One of the big improvements is the newly released API which is an enhanced set of queries that can be performed against this database. This will be huge for the ecosystem as it will enable players who enjoy dabbling with a bit of code to perform their own queries and even build their own marketplace! This is something that Planetarium would consider funding in the form of a grant. Reach out to the team on Discord to discuss!
One lesser known point is that all of the game items are unique items on the blockchain, this means that all items are NFTs (non-fungible tokens).
Making a purchase
Once you have searched the market and found something you want to buy, then you click on the item and agree to the price by pressing “Buy”. This is perhaps the most obvious time that you expect to make a transaction to the blockchain since you are purchasing something.
Buying an item from the marketplace
As all actions that are stored on-chain, players sign their transaction with their private key. The game client signs the transaction and then sends it to the blockchain node software managed by the launcher software, which in turn broadcasts the transaction to the whole Nine Chronicles network.
This procedure is the same as for combat, except this time the transaction is a purchase of an item rather than the desire to enter combat. All game actions that change the state of the game are recorded as transactions on the blockchain. Our previous blog looked at this process in more detail.
Making a sale
The process of selling is similar to buying. You select an item from your inventory then press “Sell”. This marks the item as “for sale”, which is also a transaction that tells everyone to update their database.
Selling an item on the marketplace
When items are marked for sale, or change ownership, there is an update to the game’s state. It is important that everyone playing the game agrees upon such changes, which is why all such changes are signed by your private key.
Only you have access to your private key which is one reason we have strong guarantees about the authenticity of actions within a blockchain.
True Ownership
In a fully decentralized game, all of the items belong to players in a provable way and given the anti-cheat protections in Nine Chronicles no one can steal or destroy your items. Not even the developers are able to take your items. Anti-cheating protection mechanisms are only found in fully decentralized games, which means that true ownership can only be possible for fully decentralized games.
Many contemporary blockchain games run all of the game logic on a centralized server meaning that the player actions can not be fully verified independently. This is the architecture of traditional online games, which have proven vulnerable to cheating in the past and is in addition to having a centralized point of trust. While the game items should be NFTs on a blockchain, it isn’t so easy to completely verify this, which is why we think true ownership can only exist for fully decentralized games where the entire game logic can be checked independently by anyone.
For more information about our software please see our documentation hub.
(3) Partnerships
MakerDAO
Nine Chronicles’ developer Planetarium is integrating with MakerDAO, the global stablecoin project.
MakerDAO offers the decentralized stablecoin called ‘DAI’ which is pegged to USD at 1:1 ratio. MKR, Maker’s native governance token, is used to increase stability and utility of its ecosystem in order to establish blockchain-based decentralized financial system of the future.
Through this partnership, users will be able to participate to our upcoming 2nd presale round using Maker’s DAI stablecoin. Additionally, both parties will actively look for ways to enable users to use DAI for making in-game item transactions and offering payment benefits after the official launch of Nine Chronicles.
Everyone involved in Nine Chronicles’ ecosystem should benefit from stable in-game asset payments and other benefits that is made possible through the DAI stablecoin. Planetarium will continue to secure partnerships that could help to expand our infrastructure and enable new gaming experience for our players.
ChainLink
Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network using smart contracts for safe access to the off-chain data feed, web API, and existing online bank payment system. It recently introduced Verifiable Random Function(VRF) for on-chain operation for game developers, providing randomness that is both verifiable and fair in their decentralized applications at low cost.
Through this partnership with Chainlink, Planetarium plans to integrate off-chain data feed and bridging technology which could enable Libplanet-based blockchain networks to exchange information with existing blockchain networks through smart contracts.
Applications can include, but are not limited to:
Accessing global raid and event progress from any Libplanet-based games.
Accessing character information and commodity pricing from independent game networks.
Triggering payment or asset exchange after observing in-game events.
The initial implementations will be applied to the Nine Chronicles network, which has 70,000 players on the waitlist and will be launching its mainnet in October.
Also, we are exploring Chainlink’s VRF (Verifiable Random Function) to create randomized NFTs that can be imported into Libplanet-based networks, which will allow studios to mint and sell items with random properties on the Ethereum network. Later, players can import these items to the specific mainnet to enjoy fully decentralized gaming. These items, though created from a separate network, will still retain provable fairness due to Chainlink’s tamper-proof RNG.
These integrations will enable Planetarium to tap into the vast possibilities that Chainlink’s ecosystem has to offer. We look forward to investigating further opportunities to connect Libplanet-based networks with Chainlink’s oracle technology.
(4) Play to Earn Portal
The Play2Earn portal is an external website designed and developed by Planetarium to make the game play more fascinating and rewarding, including the following features: ⏯ Play, ➕ Invite, 💰 Earn, 📥 Transfer
Play ⏯
By clicking the play button you can download and install the free-to-play Nine Chronicles game. After installing the game, do not forget to use your invitation code to activate the game.
Invite➕
Invite your friends and earn crypto together! 🤝For every new user successfully referred to Nine Chronicles, the referrer will receive additional rewards in terms of 20 NCGs, anytime the new referred user reaches level 20 in the game play. This means you can now freely invite users via sharing the Referral Link. Only direct referrals would be counted as a referral. It is not a multi-layer referral system, where you get additional rewards from the users your friends get to invite. Thus only direct referrals would be counted as a referral!
This new feature would allow you to invite 3 of your friends at the beginning (default setup). Whenever you invite a friend, both you and your friend receive 20 NCGs immediately.
When a friend achieves Level 20, both you and your friend receive 20 NCGs additionally.
As it is shown in the diagram above, the users would have 3 Initial referrals to invite friends. When one of the invited friends reaches level 20, you would get 3 additional referrals automatically. So, in this scenario you will have 6 referrals.
Be aware! 🛑
Keep in mind that there is a limited amount of gold, so we distribute these rewards on a first come, first served basis which means that the faster you jump into referring friends, the higher is the chance to get the rewards in terms of NCG.
Example:
If 90% of the people get the limited amount of NCG then instead of 20 NCG you would be getting 18 NCG.
If 50% of the people get that limited amount of NCGs — then instead of 20 NCGs you would get 10 NCG.
Copy the referral link and share it with your friends. Keep in mind that there is a limited amount of gold, so we distribute these rewards on a first come, first served basis. Which means that the more people you invite, the more gold you get. 💨
Earn Gold💰
First connect your Nine Chronicles account and start earning gold!
Having different offers such as taking the quiz related to Nine Chronicles, joining Discord & Twitter accounts, crafting & trading items would allow you to earn additional NCGs. By completing each step, you will be getting 20 additional NCGs ⬇️
Transfer 📥
Allows you to send over your earned NCGs to your integrated game account. You may continue your game play, trade different items or withdraw and swap transferred NCGs. Stay tuned for the news related to swapping NCGs!
If you wish to withdraw, NCGs would be sent to the connected account ID. Transfer may take 10–30 mins depending on network conditions. Once the transaction occurs, the request cannot be cancelled. Keep that in mind before transferring NCGs.
NCG will be tradable peer-to-peer, and anyone could be able to build a bridge and exchange for it since the mainnet code will be open sourced. You will be able to earn gold and swap your cash with the Play2Earn portal.
(5) Initial Game Offering
Introducing Wrapped NCG (ERC-20 token)
Launching Ethereum Bridge on September 6th
MISO IDO on Aug 10th
Trading on 🍣 SushiSwap on Aug 17th
We are here to announce the big step that is going to change how our players interact with our game economy in a fundamental way: by making our base token Nine Chronicles Gold (NCG) publicly tradable and permanently immutable.
Yes, we are stepping into the big league. Nine Chronicle Gold is making its debut on the Ethereum network!
We are proudly announcing Wrapped NCG (WNCG), an ERC-20 token that delivers the power of NCG with the flexibility of an ERC-20 token.
This initiative will expand the NCG landscape beyond just our 20,000 players — but to the entire ETH ecosystem. 164,942,136 ETH users* can now hold, trade NCG and participate in NCG governance — making it truly decentralized.
*Ethereum Unique Addresses on 1st Aug on Etherscan
Not only will this give NCG more liquidity, but is going to make every WNCG transaction verifiable on the ETH network, hence more secure.
👋 Introducing WNCG
ERC-20 tokens remain the most widely used standard for token design, and ensures that the rules of smart contracts remain compatible with applications like decentralized exchanges or individual protocols.
We will soon be releasing a “Wrapped NCG” token (symbol WNCG) on the Ethereum blockchain which is directly tied to the value of NCG. This token will have two very important effects on the Nine Chronicles Network.
First, it allows NCG to participate in the Ethereum smart contract ecosystem. Users can handle NCG by using Ethereum wallets like Metamask, and any De-Fi protocol that supports ERC-20 can support NCG. For example, you can sell NCG through SushiSwap, or borrow or lend NCG through the Aave protocol.
Second, it allows the value of NCG to be directly stored on the Ethereum blockchain. Tokens will be backed by NCG reserves while investors will be made aware of exactly what they are holding. For example, if one were to hold 1 WNCG, this would be the equivalent value of 1 NCG.
🌉 ETH Bridge (Aug 17th)
Nine Chronicles Mainnet has served over 2M blocks and 4.5M transactions since Oct 27, 2020
We have created an Ethereum ↔ NCG Bridge that allows users to seamlessly migrate assets to ERC-20 wallets and trade with greater liquidity and flexibility.
WNCG will be backed 1:1 with NCG. This means that if you send 1 NCG through Ethereum ↔ NCG Bridge, you will get 1 WNCG as a result.
Using the bridge, users can send WNCG assets directly from MetaMask or other Web3 wallets to NCG wallets and apps, and vice versa.
The bridge will be available through onboarding.nine-chronicles.com from September 6th, and will utilize Planetarium’s open source project NineChronicles.EthBridge. In the future, we plan to decentralize the operation of the bridge in the form of a consortium.
We will also share a guide of the Ethereum ↔ NCG Bridge in the coming week.
Lastly, here’s a way to directly purchase WNCG prior to the launch of the bridge:
🍣 Batch Auction on MISO IDO (Aug 10th)
We are collaborating with the leading de-fi protocol SUSHI to present our token to the world for the first time! WNCG token will be offered in a public sale via SushiSwap’s MISO Launchpad.
Total offering amount for MISO launchpad: 2,000,000 WNCG / $0.07 minimum price
The public sale will begin Tuesday, August 10th, at approximately 1PM UTC and run until Monday, August 17th, at 00 UTC.
The public sale will commence on 2021, August 10th, at 1PM UTC in a batch auction that lasts for 7 days. Immediately after the auction is concluded, the first WNCG/ETH trading pool will be launched on SushiSwap.
What is a batch auction? Essentially, it is an auction format where the price of a token is determined by dividing the total available by the total value commited.
For example: If 200,000 USDC are committed by the end of the auction, the final price of WNCG would be 200,000 divided by 2,000,000, or 0.10 USDC per WNCG.
We believe this form of price discovery is fair because all market participants have an equal opportunity to contribute with the guarantee that no other participant will pay a lower price, and it ensures that the team is not in an authoritative role of determining what the price “should” be. This path also avoids a select party purchasing the entire offering in minutes, while giving new users time to learn more about Nine Chronicles.
We will also share an in-depth how-to-purchase guide in the coming week.
(6) Token Sale: How to Buy?
IDO Date: August 10th — 17th, 2021
Public Sale Token Allocation: 2,000,000 WNCG
Minimum Token Price: $0.07 (USD/ETH conversion ratio set on Aug 6)
Auction Type: Batch Auction
Raised Currency: ETH
Minimum Total raise: $140,000
We are happy to inform you that commencing on August 10th 1PM UTC / 10PM KST Nine Chronicles will conduct an Initial DEX Offering (IDO) at MISO by SushiSwap 🍣
The batch auction will be held for 7 days starting from August 10th at approximately 1PM UTC and run until Monday, August 17th, at 00 UTC.
During this special event, users will have the opportunity to acquire Wrapped Nine Chronicles Gold (WNCG) through SushiSwap’s MISO marketplace. Do not miss this opportunity to participate in the public sale, as this event will not last long!
Please note that you will need to change WNCG back to NCG if you want to use them on the Nine Chronicle network. You can change WNCG to NCG by sending them to the ETH Bridge developed by Planetarium.
💰NCG Token Sale: How to Buy?
IMPORTANT: Before the sale begins, make sure to download and fund your MetaMask wallet. If you do not have MetaMask, please install it before connecting the wallets. You can Download MetaMask from the official website.
Be careful: Not to use your Nine Chronicles address inside MetaMask.
MetaMask at a glance
Keep in mind that you will need some ETH to cover gas fees for multiple transactions. Each time you purchase WNCG tokens during the public sale, it would involve two transactions, and for both, you will need to pay gas fees.
In this guide we’ll tell you everything you need to know in order to participate in the WNCG sale!
#1. Create a MetaMask wallet
Be sure to download MetaMask from its official source: https://metamask.io
#2. Fund your wallet
#3. Connect your MetaMask wallet to SushiSwap’s MISO Launchpad ➡️ https://miso.sushi.com
To connect MetaMask, click the “Connect” button in the upper-right corner of the screen. The extension will pop-up, requesting you to select the account you would like to connect to!
Once you connect to MetaMask, please make sure to double-check that you are connecting your account to the official WNCG MISO on Sushiswap, and not to any other fraudulent websites. Keep in mind that Nine Chronicles would never ask you to send any amount of money to different addresses or platforms other than SushiSwap.
#4. Click on the Nine Chronicles Banner to get to the Auction and place a bid
WNCG Tokens will be sold through Batch Auction, ensuring that the set amount of tokens are divided amongst all of the contributors in the auction, weighted according to their contribution to the pool.
For example: If 200 ETH are committed by the end of the auction, the final price of WNCG would be 200 divided by 2,000,000, or 0.0001 ETH per WNCG.
⚠️ Please note that the image above will not be entirely the same as what you are going to see during the live auction, as this screenshot was taken for the test purposes only.
#5. Confirm the placed bid
Click “Confirm” to allow your MetaMask to commit the required ETH to purchase your WNCG tokens.
#6. Finally, check your transaction
If you cannot find your bid in the list of commitments, check your address on Etherscan to see if ETH has been withdrawn from your wallet.
A successful transaction would look something like this:
An example of a successful transaction recorded on Etherscan
Here are some additional links that may be helpful.
And please beware of scammers or phishing sites! The only platform that hosts WNCG IDO is https://miso.sushi.com. If you have questions, do not hesitate to join our Discord and Twitter where you can also keep up to date with the Nine Chronicles developments.
(7) ETH Bridge
We are here to announce the big step that is going to change how our players interact with our game economy in a fundamental way: by making our base token Nine Chronicles Gold (NCG) publicly tradable and permanently immutable.
Yes, we are stepping into the big league. Nine Chronicle Gold is making its debut on the Ethereum network!
We are proudly announcing Wrapped NCG (WNCG), an ERC-20 token that delivers the power of NCG with the flexibility of an ERC-20 token.
This initiative will expand the NCG landscape beyond just our 20,000 players — but to the entire ETH ecosystem. 164,942,136 ETH users* can now hold, trade NCG and participate in NCG governance — making it truly decentralized.
*Ethereum Unique Addresses on 1st Aug on Etherscan
Not only will this give NCG more liquidity, but is going to make every WNCG transaction verifiable on the ETH network, hence more secure.
Nine Chronicles Mainnet has served over 2M blocks and 4.5M transactions since Oct 27, 2020
We have created an Ethereum ↔ NCG Bridge that allows users to seamlessly migrate assets to ERC-20 wallets and trade with greater liquidity and flexibility.
WNCG will be backed 1:1 with NCG. This means that if you send 1 NCG through Ethereum ↔ NCG Bridge, you will get 1 WNCG as a result.
Using the bridge, users can send WNCG assets directly from MetaMask or other Web3 wallets to NCG wallets and apps, and vice versa.
The bridge will be available through onboarding.nine-chronicles.com from September 6th, and will utilize Planetarium’s open source project NineChronicles.EthBridge. In the future, we plan to decentralize the operation of the bridge in the form of a consortium.
We will also share a guide of the Ethereum ↔ NCG Bridge in the coming week.
Lastly, here’s a way to directly purchase WNCG prior to the launch of the bridge:
🍣 Batch Auction on MISO IDO (Aug 10th)
We are collaborating with the leading de-fi protocol SUSHI to present our token to the world for the first time! WNCG token will be offered in a public sale via SushiSwap’s MISO Launchpad.
Total offering amount for MISO launchpad: 2,000,000 WNCG / $0.07 minimum price
The public sale will begin Tuesday, August 10th, at approximately 1PM UTC and run until Monday, August 17th, at 00 UTC.
The public sale will commence on 2021, August 10th, at 1PM UTC in a batch auction that lasts for 7 days. Immediately after the auction is concluded, the first WNCG/ETH trading pool will be launched on SushiSwap.
What is a batch auction? Essentially, it is an auction format where the price of a token is determined by dividing the total available by the total value commited.
For example: If 200,000 USDC are committed by the end of the auction, the final price of WNCG would be 200,000 divided by 2,000,000, or 0.10 USDC per WNCG.
We believe this form of price discovery is fair because all market participants have an equal opportunity to contribute with the guarantee that no other participant will pay a lower price, and it ensures that the team is not in an authoritative role of determining what the price “should” be. This path also avoids a select party purchasing the entire offering in minutes, while giving new users time to learn more about Nine Chronicles.
We will also share an in-depth how-to-purchase guide in the coming week.
(8) Content Creators Program
A community of blockchain gaming enthusiasts who enjoy sharing their valuable experiences and positive vibes — isn’t it exciting?
Do you want to spread the blockchain gaming revolution with others? Anyone can write a post, and anyone can make a video. Content creation is not hard, maybe the decision to be a creator could be the hardest.
We’re welcoming all enthusiasts who cannot live without creating something interesting every day. Be a part of the Nine Chronicles content creators community and turn your time and effort to real value!
Level 1: Nine Chronicles Content Creators
This is for entry level creators. Anyone can join and start creating content for Nine Chronicles. Even if you have never created before you are welcome to start with us 👶
What content is eligible? We encourage you to be as creative as you want: article / video / fan art / NFT / stream / dance / food recipe — chances are, if you have a means of expression, this program will cover it.
Minimum 2 creations per month, $30 in $NCG stipend per month.
How to join:
Create 2+ creations per month
Share the creations on your socials or aggregation sites (e.g. Reddit) and tag Nine Chronicles
Outstanding effort can be further rewarded!
Level 2: Nine Chronicles Content Partners
This is for experienced content creators.
You should have at least 500 subscribers and previous content creation experience to be considered as a partner. You can also qualify after spending 3+ months as a Nine Chronicles content creator with outstanding performance.
Previous experience with blockchain or crypto games is a plus :)
Minimum 2 creations per month, $150 in $NCG stipend per month
How to join:
Create 2+ creations per month
Share the creations on your socials or aggregation sites (e.g. Reddit) and tag Nine Chronicles
Outstanding effort can be further rewarded, and we understand there is a wider variety of experience here. If you think you over qualify for this category, please email marketing@planetariumhq.com with your background and we’ll discuss how to accommodate you! Do not hesitate to ask in case you have any other questions.
📢 Notes
If you do not have an invitation code, we will invite up to 50 content creators per week — This invitation code will be given to the content creators who are interested in creating content for Nine Chronicles but cannot have it due to the current limitations. Please, fill out the content creation application form!
We reserve the right to review and reject content that does not meet a standard. It doesn’t have to be professional quality, but you should invest some time and care to represent Nine Chronicles in the best light! 👍
Thanks for having interest in the Nine Chronicles Content Creators program. We are here to support you and create a unique community of creative enthusiasts. Looking forward to hearing from you!🚀🚀