Moon Mag #1

the adventure and so begins

A note from Lisa…

For ages, I’ve felt there was a need for a positive, uplifting way to deliver the stories of new and exciting developing projects in crypto. Together, Josh and I have formulated this magazine to share with you the very best projects and it has been bought to life with the help of our amazing contributors. Inside, you’ll fnd the projects that I think have a long and lucrative future. Whether you read for entertainment, to be informed or to fnd a project that you also believe will go to the moon and 100X your portfolio, I hope you fnd it inside this issue and the many more to come…. It’s NFT mania this month! Enjoy!

A note from Josh…

How wonderful to have you join us as Lisa and I begin this journey. Each edition of the Moon Mag will contain projects from the cryptoverse that we fnd fascinating, innovative and believe hold true value and potential for the future. This month crypto has seen huge exposure in the niche of NFT’s so we focused the frst edition on some seriously cool stuf happening!

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CON TRI BUTORS

Aldrich Shillian

Aldrich (or Rhys to those in the Signals group!) has been HODL’ing since 2017 and is proud of surviving bear markets, rug pulls and still trading successfully enough to have paid of all debts. Recently, he’s jumped head-on into NFT projects - particularly ones that combine his love of gaming.

Shaun

Also know as XRPChillDaddy, Shaun loves researching cryptocurrencies from a technical and business strategy perspective. He spends his free time either reading, working on his business, or talking about blockchain like it’s a religion!

Eli Tan

Eli is a journalist from Seattle, Washington who loves cryptocurrency, gaming, and sports and writes for CoinDesk. Check out his previous work on elitanwriting.com River

River is focused on healing the mind, body and soul but also has a connection with crypto, which has has brought together the two worlds and her creativity has been capturing the interest of people around the world.

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PMON Polychain Monsters /Polymon

Welcome to Polychain Monsters

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NFT

The showpieces are the Polymon NFTs - of which there is huge variety - while the PMON token itself allows you to stake, open boosters for the NFTs, provide liquidity on Uni/Pancakeswap, and even trade on Kucoin (and Binance is rumoured to be up next).

The NFTs themselves provide utility through collectors challenges and staking, and upcoming play-to-earn games. Polymon is already available on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain networks, with Elrond and Polygon incoming.

Each booster opening (costing 1 $PMON) gives you three NFTs with randomised elements that combine to give the NFT a rarity rating. Rarer NFTs will have/retain higher value on Opensea or in collector staking, and some will be phased out over time as the universe grows. Getting in early is a great opportunity to collect some of these NFTs for the upcoming games, or build a collection for later sale. There are even rare baby NFTs now available on Binance NFT marketplace.

Some of the recent Binance Marketplace NFTs.

There’s so much going on with PMON and they’re adding stuf all the time - including the aforementioned games Polymon Islands and Polymon World. It’s rare to fnd something that seems so well established, and yet still feels so early in its life cycle, and still at a relatively low market cap.

(previously known as Polkamon)

a

universe built around collectible NFT creatures with the addictiveness of oldschool trading card games.

Max supply: 10,000,000

Burned tokens: 427,500 (at time of writing)

Circulating supply: 2,906,000 (Max supply minus staked/burnt tokens)

Each $PMON spent on opening boosters is split into:

• 25% staking rewards

• 10% community funds

• 65% burn

Through this, the $PMON token is defationary - making the circulating supply increasingly scarce over time. With gaming use-cases incoming and extra networks being added to the Polychain ecosystem, there will be more and more chances for further token burns - and more people getting into the Polychain Universe - hopefully driving the price up further.

Website: https://polkamon.com/

Roadmap: https://medium.com/polychainmonsters/polkamon-roadmap-1671a3bf2b5

Coingecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/polychain-monsters

Telegram: https://t.me/polychainmonsters

Booster opening: https://polkamon.com/open-booster

Staking: https://polkamon.com/staking

A rare Unidragon burning up those tokens

Using $PMON

To open booster packs, you’ll need $PMON tokens available in your chosen wallet provider, such as MetaMask or Trustwallet. You can either use a DEX like Uniswap/Pancakeswap to trade other coins for $PMON, or you can buy $PMON on Kucoin and transfer to your Ethereum wallet. Note that Kucoin only transfers to Ethereum, so if you want the cheaper gas fees of BSC, you’ll need to use Pancakeswap at time of writing.

Go to the Booster Opening page on the Polychain Monsters website https://polkamon.com/open-booster

Initialise your account - make sure you select the correct network at the top (this links your wallet to the Polychain Monsters booster opening contract)

3Select Open Booster - and receive your soft-minted NFTs.

4Go to the opening ceremony to see what you’ve got.

The initial mint is a “soft mint” - it’s not a tradeable NFT yet (to keep the gas fees down), but if you’ve pulled something rare, you might want to press Mint NFT by clicking your favoured ‘mon so you can hold and trade it!

It’s that simple!

You can also stake the token for rewards based on the booster openings. In doing so, you’ll be given a portion of the $PMON spent on booster openings - and a Colchian Unidragon NFT which represents your staked tokens. It’s really important you don’t trade or sell this NFT as this is the one that allows you to reclaim your staked tokens! https://polkamon.com/staking

Polychain Monsters

What can I do with them then?

Depending on rarity, you can start working towards the Collectors Staking challenges, or trade them on Opensea. In the future, they will have a part to play in two upcoming blockchain games - with more features to be announced. At the moment, most users are collecting, trading, working on challenges - in a similar way you might’ve collected trading cards before. Holding on to some of the rarer NFTs for now may pay of in the future as they get phased out. You can check out what the diferent ‘mons and rarities are here.

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What’s on the horizon?

Lots! Polychain Monsters has been smashing it on partnerships, having partnered up with Reef Finance, Polygon, listing on Kucoin recently and doing a Mystery Box launch on Binance NFT. Those who were successful on getting an NFT as part of the Binance Mystery Box drop will be getting airdropped $PMON tokens within 14 days (24th August) - and although there’s nothing ofcial so far on how that’s working, it doesn’t seem unlikely that this would coincide with a token listing on Binance - so keep your eyes peeled for next week!

Recently, they’ve connected with Moonie NFT to develop a partnership that will give you early access to the Moonie IDO if you pull one of the super-rare Polymon NFT’s from boosters. This model is interesting as it drives those who want an early in on an IDO to open more boosters, increasing staking rewards and burn rate. I’d be keenly looking out for more of those announcements coming up.

Finally, the play-to-earn games Polychain Islands and Polymon World are coming to give further utility to your NFTs and expand into gamifcation. This will get fresh eyes onto the ecosystem by presenting a visible use-case to potential investors, and driving more people to pick up NFTs of secondary marketplaces to complete their teams for the game.

Conclusion

So many of these exciting developments have happened in just the last month - the pace of development that the Polychain team keeps up is frenetic - and is super-bullish for the token and ecosystem that it supports. There are already plenty of things to do with the token and NFTs in terms of pure collectibility, and with the expansion into a full game coming, the potential for Polymon is huge. With an established, proven track record of delivering consistent updates in just six short months since release, Polymon looks like a very strong project to get involved with and build with over the coming months and years.

Screengrab from the Polychain Islands game

Yield Guild Games and YGG Token

Researched & Written by Shaun

Generations have grown up video gaming over the last few decades, it’s been a multi-billion dollar industry year after year, and yet ownership of your time and eforts have never been weaker. Gamers have spent years playing their favorite video games only to have the game fall of or fnd something new and exciting to switch to. When that happens you’re either stuck with all that time and efort being locked into your previous game, or you sell the physical copy to a certain store for pennies on the dollar (You know the store..). Wouldn’t it be nice to have your eforts locked down with real value attached to the items and accounts you’ve built up over time? To sell them on an open market full of other gamers like you who may be looking to pick up where you left of?

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is bridging NFT Ownership in the Crypto space with the gaming industry, and I have never been more excited for the future of gaming. YGG is a DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, for investing in NFTs that are used in virtual worlds or blockchain based games, providing a ton of utility and features that incentivize gamers to not only play, but to be paid for their time in a way. A DAO is basically a computer program where the rules are outlined as to how the platform will function and behave, where the community will essentially vote on protocols (Rules) that afect the platform through the YGG Token.

So what does having NFTs in gaming mean?

NFTs in gaming mean items, land, economies, can thrive and be worth something. As I mentioned before, if you are a gamer, how many times have you had to put down a game you spent tons of time in only to have everything you built go to waste? NFTs bring scarcity and ownership to the industry, they bring the ability to have in-game economics merged with real world monetary value, either through crypto or fat. It means being able to sell items, or accounts, or land in game on an open market, or with a special use case relevant to YGG I will get into later, renting out property to other players where you earn interest.

Being an investor is about picking winners, and being a gamer is about having fun online...being an investor and a gamer will set you up for a wild ride with YGG that could potentially make earning while playing a lot easier.

Token Allocation

Investors

Community: 45% or 450,000,000 Tokens to be distributed to community members through community programs.

Investors: 24.9% or 249,166,666 Tokens Seed Investors will have 20% of their allocation released at network launch and 80% of their token allocation will have a 1 year lock up, and 1 year vest Series A Investors will have a 2 year lock up and afterward a 3 year lock up period.

Founders: 15% or 150,000,000 Tokens will have a 2 year lock up period, tokens vest linearly for 3 years.

Advisors: 1.8% or 17,500,000 Tokens will have a 1 year lock up period, During 2nd year tokens vest for 12 months.

Treasury: 13.3% or 133,333,334 Tokens will be held with no lock up period and no vesting condition.

What’s the distribution breakdown of the total 1,000,000,000 generated tokens?

Website https://yieldguild.io/ White Paper https://yieldguild.io/ YGG-Whitepaper-English.pdf

Coin Market Cap https://coinmarketcap.com/ currencies/yield-guild-games/

Coin Gecko https://www.coingecko.com/ en/coins/yield-guild-games

Twitter https://twitter.com/yieldguild

Join their Twitter to keep up to date on news and activity!

Telegram https://t.me/yieldguildgames

Where To Purchase YGG Token

Currently there are 5 ways to purchase YGG Token which will involve signing up with an exchange or using a wallet such as MetaMask. I have sorted them by volume from greatest to least for your liquidity easement (This means there is more buy/sell movement on that platform making it easier to get in/out).

OKEx (Exchange) - Paired in YGG/USDT

SushiSwap (Swap Site) - Paired in YGG/ETH

Huobi Global (Exchange) - YGG/USDT

Crypto.com (Exchange) - YGG/USDT

Uniswap V3 (Swap Site) - YGG/USDC

On Swap sites, you will have to have a trusted wallet on your phone with the currency needed to make the swap. For example, if using Uniswap, you would need to have a Uniswap approved wallet such as Metamask to connect with the Swap Site, and you would need USDC in your Metamask wallet. USDC can be purchased most anywhere but is native to Coinbase.

Generally when using a swap site there will be a Gas fee involved that will fund the exchange from one token to another due to people providing liquidity.

Sometimes the fee can be a little high, but if you can fnd a solid project before it hits mainstream it is more than worth the fee.

Glossary

These defnitions are pulled straight from the WhitePaper so as to be clear on vernacular use.

Non-Fungible Token (NFT)

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are provably scarce / unique, digital items with blockchainmanaged ownership. Some examples include collectibles (e.g. CryptoKitties), game items, digital art, event tickets, domain names, virtual real estate (e.g. Decentraland) and even ownership records for physical assets.

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)

A Decentralised Autonomous Organisation is a method of governance where rules are encoded as a computer program that is transparent, controlled through votes of a distributed group of organization members rather than a single entity.

SubDAO

A subDAO replicates the main governance functionality of main DAO but has a narrow focus in its remit typically either focused on one gaming title, or a specifc endeavor, such as esports.

Core Team

In charge of guild operations and other business-related ventures. Creates, implements and manages key guild features for the beneft of the guild. Proposes questions to DAO and also votes.

Dividends

A percentage of the funds gained by the treasury sent to YGG Token Stakers and to the Core Team. The majority of dividends sent to the core team are used to reinvest, build and to progress the guild further.

Functional Team

Consists of YGG community managers (regional and overarching) and “game masters” to help bridge the gap between the game and its players. Helps implement and manage key guild features. Communicates with the core team.

Guild Member Badge

During sign up all guild members receive a guild member badge. The guild member badge (which is also an NFT) is their wallet. This wallet keeps track of all of guild tokens, achievements, levels, and staking status.

Metaverse

The collective term for all the elements that make up virtual worlds, including the ecosystem of people and objects that form economies within those worlds.

Play-to-earn

A term to describe games in which the players are able to generate real-world rewards for their ingame activities. These games are typically limited to NFT-based blockchain games as they rely on the rewards being transferable on an open market.

TGE

Token Generation Event refers to the launch of the DAO network when the governance tokens are released to participants.

Token Stakers

Anyone who actively stakes a set amount of YGG tokens. Holds a voting percentage within the DAO. Actively participates in the DAO, or delegates part or all of their vote.

Treasury

Holds all funds earned by the guild that the guild has earned through its direct operations.

Level Up System

Players level up through quests within their respective game/class to earn achievements, badges, rewards and prizes along the way. As they achieve new levels, players are rewarded with YGG tokens, or other prizes, such as YGG merchandise.

Yield Vault

Connects to the treasury. Consists of guild functions and investments that provide dividends to the treasury, e.g. lending and borrowing, yield farming tokens, staking tokens (AXS), NFT purchases, and other assets.

Gabby Dizon - CEO/Co-founder

Mobile gaming since 2004; blockchain since 2018. In 2014, Gabby founded the Manila-based game studio, Altitude Games, which released the blockchain game Battle Racers in 2019. He is a recognised leader in NFT gaming, an active member of Axie Infnity and Yearn Finance communities, and a board member of the Blockchain Game Alliance.

Beryl Li - CFO/Co-founder

Blockchain since 2014. Cambridge University Alumna and President of Cryptocurrency Society 2016; FX Quants GCP at BlackRock Asset Management; Entrepreneur In Residence at Coins.ph (Acquired by GoJek); Co-founder at CapchainX (Acquired by SMKG: OTC US); Consultant to licensed fnancial institutions.

Owl of Moistness - CTO/Co-founder

Dev since 2016, blockchain since 2018. Built a breeding algorithm for Axie Infnity and many bots on discord to integrate the blockchain for NFTs. Wrote smart contracts to integrate discord tipping, a token wrapper for defationary tokens, and farming strategies to the standard of yVaults.

CoreTeam

Alexei Udall

Head of Partnerships

Blockchain since 2017. 5+ years experience in SaaS sales and partnerships.

Lifelong tech and gaming fanatic. Passionate about leveraging nascent technologies to promote the democratization of wealth creation and fnancial inclusivity.

Brian M. Taylor Operations Director

Blockchain enthusiast since 2014. Former U.S. Air Force Information Technology Manager/Process Improvement Manager. Competitive esports and TCGPlayer. Axie Infnity community member since launch (2018). NFT maximalist.

Nolan Manalo Head of

Gaming Operations

Blockchain since 2016. Active member of Axie Infnity community.

Nate is not only a passionate community member, Nate is the Head Coach of the YGG esports teams across the YGG platforms as well as being a regular Top 10 fnisher in tournaments.

Markets

Currently YGG operates within 3 distinct markets that happen to all involve very high performing revenue on an annual scale.

• DeFi Tokens

• NFT Markets

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The Gaming Industry

The NFT market has recently picked up a lot of steam. I have mentioned this before in other articles that NFTs are here to stay and will be the virtual standard for private ownership, any project being stood up with NFTs built into the foundation will have immense value over time. DeFi currently has over 70 million wallets hitting a total of $50B in funds that are in those wallets.

The gaming industry has been around for decades and will forever be around and evolving. I remember playing 8-bit games with my father and him freaking out when nextgen consoles came out that had “Such amazing graphics” according to him, and at the time that was true. Now we can strap a virtual reality ocular device on and run around our house doing virtual hardcore parkour! The point is the gaming industry is a multibillion dollar industry on the cusp of an evolution yet again, only this time instead of graphics and mechanics, we are merging virtual property with virtual and real world currency.

YGG Partnered Games

YGG launched their platform with partnerships primarily with “Play to Earn” games that have huge community support already instilled into the game. They do have a criteria that needs to be met in order to be considered for selection on the DAO which is great because not any old game will get tossed onto the market.

The selection criteria requires the game to have a virtual land based economy that can be acquired, a native token and economy that backs it in the game, and lastly “Play to Earn” functionality where players can earn the in-game token for playing. All of these elements relate to the SubDAO protocols that we will discuss later.

What Does YGG Do

For Investors?

YGG not only ofers price appreciation through their platform token utilized for governance voting, but there are a ton of elements for gamers to be a part of the community and be rewarded for playing.

Axie Infnity

Axie Infnity is a Pokémon-inspired universe where anyone can earn tokens through skilled gameplay and contributions to the ecosystem. Players can battle, collect, raise, and build a landbased kingdom for their pets. I am seeing a huge rally on these types of games because nostalgia sells. I personally will be buying a few Axies myself along with some other NFTs that are relevant to this genre in other games.

https://axieinfnity.com/

The Sandbox

The Sandbox is a community-driven platform where creators can monetize voxel ASSETS and gaming experiences on the blockchain. This game allows players to create their own worlds and monetize their eforts. They have a TON of partners with the most renowned in my book being Atari...because Atari..

https://www.sandbox.game/en/

League of Kingdoms

This game is amazing, I personally found this game while researching YGG and their partnerships and I have already tested out a lot of the blockchain features. From buying in-game currency with Ethereum through MetaMask, to minting resources to sell on the open market. YGG will fundamentally become involved through the unique aspect of buying land in game, where you will essentially get a percentage of transactions carried out on your NFT Land. I’ve taken the liberty of screenshotting some of the in game blockchain links that I came across playing myself.

https://www.leagueofkingdoms.com/

Their focus is to build a global community of “Play to Earn” gamers, this involves competitions, branding and marketing eforts, merchandise and just with this aspect I can name 2-3 potential partners most of you seasoned crypto veterans can identify of the top of my head.

YGG will produce revenue through renting out, yes renting, or selling NFT owned YGG assets for a markup on partnered blockchain based games. This could be virtual land or items in a game that players covet. By holding YGG Token, you are given a voice to control outcomes through the DAO and SubDAO (More on this later). YGG is also dedicated to being proactive in the industry, having their team conduct research and development for games in the DAO that can provide ample arbitrage opportunities, meaning price diferences in the value of assets between the metaverse, an NFT that can be used in multiple games may be valued diferently between the platforms, creating fast transacted value to the platform.

Value Proposition

Team Focus

The YGG team will work on the following:

• Acquire 4 new players, ambassadors, community managers, and game masters;

• Incentivize 5 participants through ‘Level-Up’ reward program, ‘Max-Level’ reward program, class leaders, guild events, tournaments, and voting participation;

• Distribute token grants;

• Build new guild features;

• Build technology to expand its core activities of rentals and yield;

• Purchase virtual gaming assets.

Value Creation

YGG’s value is derived from the following:

• Yield gained from assets acquired by treasury;

• Yield produced from active play of treasury’s virtual assets;

• % of APY token rewards generated from treasury’s farming activities;

• Rewards generated from esports;

• Rewards generated from raids;

• Rewards generated from sponsorships;

• Rewards generated from subscription fees;

• Rewards generated from merchandise sales.

Token Usage

YGG tokens can be used for the following:

• Stake YGG for token rewards related to its overall activities;

• Stake YGG for rewards related to specifc activities;

• Stake YGG for exclusive content;

• Stake YGG to vote and participate in the DAO;

• Stake YGG to subscribe to exclusive merchandise;

• Use YGG tokens to pay for services in its network.

Protocol Governance and YGG Token

The DAO

Blockchain is wonderful because there is opportunity to create proposals on a platform to which those who have vested interest can have their voice heard. This is what the DAO allows, community governance over the protocol. The YGG DAO early structure is being run by the core team and earliest participants of the DAO, being early investors, players and asset owners. Over time the plan is to transition the YGG token holders as administrators to the protocol, meaning the more YGG Token you own, the more your vote counts towards the following governance protocols.

Governance Protocols:

• Technology

• Products and Projects

• Token Distribution

• Governance Structure

Guild members are able to send their own proposals through the YGG website to be voted on by the community, an incentivized mechanic is to have tokens sent to the author of a won proposal to encourage the activity.

SubDAO

This particular area is what I think is the coolest part of the governance protocols. YGG is able to create protocols for each game that is onboarded to the platform as a SubDAO, think Parent/Child accounts. Assets in game would be bought by the treasury to be maintained and accounted for, and the community would be issued SubDAO tokens that are specifc to that game.

One example happens to be with land management in League of Kingdoms. Players in the Kingdom can send their assets to the Treasury to have the Treasury manage for the community, along with having voting rights to the management of those assets, the players would enjoy the upsides of those assets and yields that would come from the player playing the game. In this example YGGLOK (Yield Guild Games League of Kingdoms) is a SubDAO Token that was generated.

YGG Token

The YGG token operates as a cumulative valued token for all assets held by YGG. They take the index value of all assets being used or rented in their SubDAO and combine that value with the total amount of the NFT dollar amounts plus interest rates. I know that may seem confusing but let’s break that down a bit:

YGG Token = A+B+C

A represents the Index’s value from token yield generated by utilizing the assets of each subDAO.

B represents the value of all NFT assets and its reward yields.

C represents the multiple from its growing user base (Investors holding onto the token as well).

The SubDAO tokens operate the same way, where ‘A’ is the added value of all the tokens minted per each game tallied together. The whitepaper has their formula like so: A = % Axie SubDAO (YGGAXS) + % Lok SubDAO (YGGLOK) + ...+ % Zed SubDAO (YGGZED)

Above we see the formula calculating for the SubDAO tokens minted for each game they are partnered with; Axies, Sandbox, and League of Kingdoms.

Any additional partnered games will be added into the formula.

The Treasury

The YGG Treasury is built to oversee the management of YGG assets in order to bring the most value over time to the DAO. This Treasury is run by 3 of the co-founders and is required to have 2 out of 3 wallet signatures to make any transaction period which allows for security and integrity from the co-founders before token funds are maneuvered.

Economic activities per their White Paper include:

• Purchase of assets in the form of cryptocurrencies, virtual assets in the metaverse, SAFTs, in-game tokens (such as, but not limited to, Small Love Potion (SLP), which is a token earned by winning battles in Axie Infnity and is required in order to breed Axie NFTs), as well as other NFTs to contribute to the development of metaverse economies;

• Arbitrage farms to maximise yields;

• Manage locked, unvested, undistributed tokens of all parties;

• Provide guidance in events that involve debt and interest payments, acquisition of assets including any buybacks and future fundraising rounds;

• Perform fnancial operations such as accounting, audits, reporting and tax.

The Treasury is designed to instill confdence in the network and has already secured funding in the form of $1.325M in their seed round led by Delphi Digital (A research driven frm dedicated to understanding the digital asset markets), and $4M in an A round led by Bitkraft (A global investment platform for venture capital in the gaming industry).

The team prior to the DAO being in place has already had a proposal move forward to have Treasury funds allocated accordingly:

• 83.3% to YGG Funding

• 6.8% to Community Operations

• 6.3% to Technology Tools

• 3.1% to Management

The RoadMap

Phase 1 is where we currently are, YGG being newly formed and all and they have already had successful milestones hit. They have an interactive working dashboard and the capability to create guild badges which operate as NFT Wallets. This is where your assets would be stored if YGG is managing them for you. I went through the process of creating one for myself, which you can see below. They are currently conducting operations through Discord and have events going on all the time within their partnered games. There is an upcoming event on the 28th of August if you are interested! There is a level up system involved for the players where they can complete quests and win token payouts in YGG for leveling up,all of this tracking back to your guild badge.

Phase 2 is where we start seeing the DAO and SubDAO come into efect, we will see voting mechanisms built into the dashboard and proposal submissions. Scholarships will kick of, which is a relative term to their partnered game Axies, this relates to the renting of “Pokemon Styled Monsters” and is where proft sharing in YGG will kick of. The team plans to further take snapshots of Discord for token payouts, and to increase their partnerships.

Phase 3 is where we will see the typical functions we see in most cryptocurrencies being staking, lending, increasing DAO decentralization Lending is where most of us NFT owners will be jumping up and down, as it will give us the chance to take our assets and include them into the YGG Pool to truly become part of the network. Currently the team cannot let players rent out NFT assets without the players being okay to it being managed by a central authority, meaning the team directly. This has to do with the protocol used (ERC-721) that is responsible for NFTs.

YGG is currently creating a proposal to be submitted to the Ethereum Network that will expand upon a previous proposal (EIP-2615) where they will tailor the proposal to their needs specifcally to enable NFT decentralized use. Until the smart contracts are in place, YGG will continue to develop and manage from the team’s Discord Server, where they can engage their community at the heart of nearly all communications for gamers!

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Gabby Dizon CEO/Co-founder

Conclusion

My initial thoughts on this project is one of excitement, I recently have started to witness the power of NFTs and I truly believe that power will be maximized in the gaming arena. Yield Guild Gaming is creating a community that not only plays together, but earns together as everyone contributes to the ownership of NFT assets on the market for others to use. Players can play and earn YGG Tokens for competing in community events while also earning yields of their NFTs they are virtually lending to YGG to manage for them. Virtual gaming is only now taking a leap and we are seeing a merging of two emerging industries.

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I never thought I would be able to own virtual real estate, but during my research of this project I actually went down a rabbit hole for League of Kingdoms. I spent years playing similar games only to put them down, wishing I had a way to pass of my hard work to another player who wanted to step in where I left of. Now I can buy a plot of land and earn crypto for players using it. It’s crazy cool to me.

There are tons of applications YGG can step into later down the road. It’s important to remember that they are just getting started. I see partnerships galore and not just with gaming partners, but E-sports. There’s so many gaming centric projects just now kicking it into overdrive and YGG is securing themselves a seat at the table early, by leading with the community in mind frst. They bring utility to NFTs in a world most of us go to in order to relax and calm down to get away from the daily grind.

I am looking forward to the future of this project and can already tell you that League of Kingdoms is in my future for a while.

The YGG token is going to have it’s value increased from 3 distinct markets being the NFT market with 2 billion in sales in Q1 2021, the gaming industry doing over 160 Billion in 2020, and proactive players who are ready to invest in the future of gaming, which is digital ownership. You are virtually (pun Intended) getting in on the ground foor of an emerging industry.

So what does this mean for YGG Token?

One part NFT, one part staking, and one part 10-year art project, Hashmasks is a unique artistled NFT project that takes the Cryptopunks model of randomly-generated scarcity and ramps it up with hand-drawn art and a unique naming mechanism. The naming system allows you to infuence your masks’ rarity by giving it a one-of-a-kind name - using tokens that are generated by being a holder of the NFT. These tokens can also be sold on the open market to other mask holders - or those in need from other projects.

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Hashmasks

by Rhys

So what exactly is a Hashmask? Hashmasks are randomised NFTs that were issued in January 2021 as part of a collaboration between 70 global artists, creating images that blend diferent artistic styles into unique art NFTs. Whether it’s a Mexican sugar skull, Expressionism, steampunk or otherwise - if you’re into art and want your own unique piece that’s yours, Hashmasks will have you covered.

Researched

So I’ve already mentioned that these were released in January 2021 - so aren’t we late? Why would we buy one now? Well, holding the NFT itself grants you two things:

1. Daily NCT tokens (10 per day) - the NCT token can be used to change the name of your Hashmask, and can be traded to other Hashmask holders so they can change the name of their mask too. Additionally, the Hashmasks team have developed partnerships with other projects which will use the NCT token - all while the mask NFT is the only way to create more tokens! While Hashmasks don’t have an “ofcial” market for the token and are never likely to be on a central exchange, there’s already a liquidity pool on Uniswap for NCT - and the price here is likely to increase over time with more partnerships and exposure to the project down the line.

2. The asset itself - and commercial rights to exploit the image you own. This is relatively unique to the NFT space still - explicit, clear license for the NFT holder to use the Hashmask image for commercial purposes. If you keep holding the NFT, you can create merchandise, content, whatever you like with the image. This is in contrast to other projects that either don’t explicitly spell out your usage rights, or cap them at a certain monetary value. While this isn’t always a huge concern for investors, it’s something that defnitely stands out for infuencers and personalities who might want to snap up your Mask one day.

Hashmasks

These are in addition to the usual holding of the NFT - and again, Hashmasks is doing something relatively unique here. You get your standard NFT on the blockchain, the associated image, the rights as above. But you can rename it - using NCT (Name Change Tokens) - to make it your own, and unique. No Hashmask can be named the same - completing the fnal step into creating rarity amongst the masks, something which could also change over time.

In 10 years, no more NCT will be released to holders - and this is the part where things get really interesting as an investor - ultimate scarcity. Because in ten years, if another Hashmask owner wants to rename their mask, where can they go? Down to the liquidity pools on Uniswap - and who’s selling? Perhaps you? Eventually, all the NCT will be burnt (or near enough) - and then the 10-year art element of the project is fnished. The names are fxed, and if you want a specifcally-named Hashmask - you’ll have to buy it from the owner.

The headline fgures

Number of NFTs: 16,383

NCT tokens per day: 10 per NFT held

NCT tokens needed to rename: 1,830 (equivalent to half-a-year of NCT generated per mask)

On 26th January 2031, the last NCT is delivered, and from then on NCT will only be burnt (through use) - decreasing the supply and making name changes (and use on other projects) rarer and more expensive for those wishing to do so.

Through this, Hashmasks are somewhat yield generating (they give you a token that you can sell), as well as an asset in themselves. And in 10 years’ time, the token could become burn up rapidly. Although clearly we cannot predict how quickly NCT will burn - nor how much will be in circulation at that point - if you’re buying now and holding your mask and NCT for the entire 10 years, there’s a possibility that’ll be worth a good chunk towards the end of the project.

Website: https://www.thehashmasks.com/

Gallery (flterable by the various rarity characteristics): https://www.thehashmasks.com/gallery

Name list (search to see whether your desired unique name is taken: https://www.thehashmasks.com/names

Medium: https://thehashmasks.medium.com/ NCT on Coingecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/name-change-token

Getting a Hashmask

As already covered, the initial ofering of Hashmasks is over - and getting yourself a Mask can now only be done via secondary markets - most prominently, OpenSea. OpenSea’s marketplace is flterable in the same way the gallery on the Hashmasks site is and can be found here: https://opensea.io/collection/hashmasks

You’ll need an Ethereum wallet like Metamask, Trustwallet or Coinbase Wallet to be able to pick up a Hashmask - and at least 1ETH (or higher - depending on your desired mask - the current foor price is 0.75 ETH) to cover the purchase price and the gas fees. Send some ETH to your wallet, and then:

Send some ETH to your wallet, and then:

1Find your desired Hashmask on OpenSea - you can use the left-hand menu to flter by background, mask type etc. to get the mask you want

2Head to the sale page. Every mask is listed on OpenSea, but not every mask is for sale - so bear this in mind when deciding what you make an ofer on. The image below is what you’d be looking for in an on-sale Mask

3Press Buy Now, or Make Ofer. You’ll be prompted to connect your Ethereum wallet. If you’ve then got enough funds, you can check out (through the Buy Now option), or submit your ofer (setting out how much WETH/ETH you want to ofer, and how long you want the ofer to be active for)

When the sale completes, you should receive the NFT direct to your wallet!

Great! Now what??

Now… You hodl! Much like Cryptopunks suddenly spiking in value despite the release being back in 2018, you should expect to hold your Mask for a couple of years - in the way you might with any art piece. In that time you’ll be accruing NCT and you can make a bit of money on the side using this, or you can just hold out for resale value.

Is that it?

I’m glad you asked - and no, it isn’t!

If you check out the Hashmasks website, it was clearly intended to be a project they expected to release and then revisit in 10 years, to see what happened in the interim. It didn’t - at frst glance - seem to be something that was going to have masses of ongoing development. However, their most recent Medium article highlights some amazing additions that the Hashmasks team and community are embarking on, including:

• Galleries in decentralised gaming spaces - including Sandbox, Decentraland and CryptoVoxels (marketing your mask perhaps!)

• New (free) Avatar/Profle Picture images for optimal use of your art as a digital avatar, as mentioned above

• Grants for new artists, game designers and other ideas that resonate with the Hashmasks ethos

• Digital prints

• Partnerships with merchandise creators

• The empowerment of MaskDAO to make decisions on some of the above

• Further NCT utilisation - allowing other platforms to use NCT, even though Hashmasks will be the only project to generate NCT - increasing burn rates and scarcity of the token

Once you’ve got your mask, you’re welcome to set it as your Telegram, Twitter, Discord, GSIC photo… You’ve paid for it, faunt it! In the near future, the Hashmasks team are looking at offering more social-media-friendly images for Hashmasks owners as part of their Expansion Update - so be on the lookout for that.

Once you’ve got your mask, you’re welcome to set it as your Telegram, Twitter, Discord, GSIC photo… You’ve paid for it, faunt it! In the near future, the Hashmasks team are looking at offering more social-media-friendly images for Hashmasks owners as part of their Expansion Update - so be on the lookout for that.

Conclusions

Hashmasks - on the surface - delivered a great NFT project on it’s own, taking a more traditional artistic spin on the NFT model when compared to something like Cryptopunks or Cryptokitties.

The merit of art is something that can always be debatedbut there’s no arguing the craftsmanship that went into these NFTs. What elevates this project for me is the additional utility and clear long-term commitment to this exciting 10-year project.

Passive token generation - while not intended as an income - is a great incentive just to hold a mask, and the fnal rarity of each piece in a decade or so when the last NCT is burnt will lead to a phenomenally interesting journey with the community.

And even if you’re just an investor - it doesn’t seem impossible that if you’re buying at todays’ prices, you could break even just on token sales alone - and your fnal sale of the NFT one day could be pure proft (if you ever sell). If you wanted to get in on NFTs but the more common, degen projects didn’t appeal - take a closer look at Hashmasks.

Charged Particles and IONX

Researched & Written by Shaun

Do you love NFT’s?

Now imagine that NFT is a wallet that can hold any token you put into it from the ERC type.

How about earning interest on them over time? It does that too!

If that was a lot to unfold, stick around and you’ll know all you need to know to speak on NFT’s and more importantly on Charged Particles.

Charged Particles (IONX) allows you to turn your art piece into a Non-Fungible Token, or NFT for short, and then takes it a step further by making that NFT into a wallet holding these types of coins: ERC-20 | ERC-721 | ERC-1155

When the NFT holds tokens, it is essentially a primed unique asset that has not only intrinsic value, but speculative value as well, it’s a charged particle! This charged particle is yield-bearing and capable of earning you a return on holding your NFT, you can also sell the charged NFT for compounded results. On top of having Smart Wallet capability there is the option to have the NFT also, while not exclusively, becoming a Smart Basket. The Smart Basket allows you to drop NFT’s inside the original NFT through the unique Charged Particle process, giving your NFT’s more value as an asset.

The Charged Particle Value is a combined value of a these factors:

• Intrinsic Value (Underlying Asset, DAI)

• Speculative Value (Non-Fungible Rarity)

• Accrued Interest Value (Accrued in aDAI)

• Tokenomics

• ERC Token Types (What are they?)

• NFT’s and How To Mint with Charged Particles

• Protocol Governance and IONX Token

• Charged ParticleA Technical Look

• The Team

For Example:

“Imagine a rare baseball card purchased and loaded with $100 in 1920. Earning 8% / year, this card would now be worth nearly $300,000. Today, this collectible baseball card would have an INTRINSIC value of $300,000 - in addition to the speculative value attached to it (e.g. it sells for $500K)”

What’s even more cool about this technology is it allows you to program your NFT’s to be timelocked for whatever duration you would like to keep your assets secured for, all the while earning interest if you chose to integrate your NFT with Aave. Essentially turning it into a vault or safety deposit box.

Ethereum Contract Address: 0x02d3a27ac3f55d5d91fb0f52759842696a864217 Website: https://charged.f/ White Paper: https://docs.charged.f/ CoinMarketCap https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/charged-particles/ Charged Particles Application https://app.charged.f/go

Where You Can Buy Charged Particles

UniSwap: https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap?outputCurrency=0x02d3a27ac3f55d5d91fb0f52759842696a864217&use=V2 Matcha: https://matcha.xyz/markets/1/IONX/USD Telegram: https://t.me/chargedparticles

Join the Telegram here and communicate with the community Discord: https://discord.com/invite/Syh3gjz

Token Allocation

• Community: 50%

• Airdrop: 3%, 1% unlocked on TGE, 2% boost rewards

• Public IDO: 1% unlocked at TGE

• Rewards: 30% Linear, 24 month vest

• Reserve: 16% 24 month vest

• Investors: 20%

• Pre-Seed: 15% 1 month lock, 18 month vest

• Seed: 5% 1 month lock, 9 month vest

• Foundation: 7%, 10% unlock, 24 month vest

• Team & Advisors: 23% 6 month lock, 24 month vest

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Tokenomics

All Data Is At Time Of Writing

Max Supply: 100,000,000 Total Supply: 100,000,000 Circulating Supply: 6,698,996

Glosary

Non-Fungible Token (NFT)

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are provably scarce / unique, digital items with blockchain-managed ownership. Some examples include collectibles (e.g. CryptoKitties), game items, digital art, event tickets, domain names, virtual real estate (e.g. Decentraland) and even ownership records for physical assets.

IONX Token

IONX is the native governance token for the Charged Particles Protocol.

AAVE Token

Aave is an open source and non-custodial liquidity protocol for earning interest on deposits and borrowing assets.

Particle Accelerator

This is the Charged Particle Protocol app. This is where you’re able to purchase and/or mint Particles, Energize & customize your particles, or discharge your particles.

Particle

NFT ready to be energized. These are NFTs created in the Charged Particles Minting station.

Energizing

Process of adding interest-bearing assets to a NFT.

Charged Particle

A Particle that has been energized.

Charge

Accrued interest in a charged particle.

Discharge

The process of collecting the charge from a charged particle

Release

The process of collecting the principal amount from a charged particle.

Time Lock

Charged Particles allow for you to lock the principal amount deposited into your NFT (time lock). This is available per asset, or for all assets contained by your NFT

Set Price

Owners of the NFTs can Set Price for these NFTs to make them available for sale, at that price, on the Charged Particles Marketplace. Users can purchase your NFT directly from its link even if it is not listed in the Marketplace.

Covalent Bonds

NFTs that are deposited inside of another NFT.

Energizing / Charging Station

Part of the Charged Particle Protocol that allows users to energize their Particles

Mint

Creating a Particle with the Charged Particle Particle Accelerator.

Lepton NFT

A special yield-reward-multiplying NFT made possible by Charged Particles. When deposited into a NFT that is earning interest, Leptons increase the governance token yield-rewards earned by that NFT.

ERC Token Types (What are they?)

You probably have heard these terms thrown around before and not really known what they mean, even to some who have been around the block…chain (Hah! A Pun!), well fear not, let’s go over them briefy!

ERC stands for Ethereum Request for Comment, it means the ERC standards are on the Ethereum blockchain and follows the rules (Smart Contracts) that lie on the ETH protocol, with ERC-20 being the most popular for tokens built on Ethereum. The contract types mentioned all have functions they perform that make them unique.

to. ERC-20

Industry standard, made up of 6 mandatory contract functions and 3 optional but widely used: - balanceOf(): Shows the balance of the wallet for each user holding the token

• totalSupply(): Shows the total circulating supply for a token

• transfer (): Allows for a user to send tokens to another address

• transferFrom(): The smart contract automates the transfer process and can send tokens on behalf of the user

• approve(): Keeps users from generating tokens allowing for a stable supply, approves tokens to be withdrawn from the users address

• allowance(): The point of blockchain is to validate each transaction on the chain by comparing all past transactions up until the present one. Allowance ensures you keep your tokens at the number you should own based on transaction history and validations.

Optional functions are simply Name, Symbol (Ticker) and Decimals that the token goes out

to. ERC-721

ERC-721 is primarily focused on the implementation of an API for NFTs within smart contracts allowing the contract to track and transfer NFTs between wallets and users. In a nutshell this smart contract defnes the storing method for NFTs by tracking the metadata in the contract on top of the original ERC-20 functions by using an Index, giving each NFT an ID Number.

to. ERC-1155

The issue with ERC-20 is the need for a new contract to be issued for every token or NFT (The reason tokens all have diferent contract addresses), ERC-721 brings NFT’s into the equation. 1155 combines it all together into a bundle allowing the separate contracts to be stored together on the same contract with cheaper fees and less data used to store these items. ERC-1155 tokens have immense security and allow for a very secure network. I know this can appear to be a lot to take in but the bottom line is this:

ERC-20 tokens are currencies built on Ethereum, like IONX each one has a unique contract address and follow the same fundamental rules. ERC-721 allows for the creation of NFTs giving them an ID number corresponding to a wallet that can prove ownership. ERC-1155 allows for NFTs and Tokens to sit side by side using less data with cheaper fees and more security.

NFT’s And How To Mint With Charged Particles

So to understand the premise behind Charged Particles, you need to fully understand NFT’s and how they work.

Non-fungible tokens are unique assets and cannot be replaced. An example is if you were a trading card collector, or an art collector, and had a once-in-a-lifetime piece of work that no one else could replicate.

This digital art is unique and is stored on the blockchain, giving ownership of work to the person who has the original copy. Yes, copies can be made and distributed but they will never be the original nor retain the original’s intrinsic value. Owners can earn royalties on such items as the creator and can sell on a wide array of auction houses. There are even NFT’s of Tweets out there from content creators. Artists can create their work digitally and mint the work as a NFT that can be linked to their account via the blockchain and wallets used to originate the transaction.

A NFT can be:

• Art

• Gifs

• Tweets

• Music

• Videos

• Collectibles

• Domains

( See https://unstoppabledomains.com )

If NFT’s sound fun to you already let’s jump into...

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Minting a NFT On Charged Particles

Step1: Go to the Charged Particles application

https://app.charged.f/go

Step 2: Log into your wallet

Step 3: Select Mint

Step 4: Upload the File, Fill out the Name, Description, and other details

Step 5: Select Mint Particle Button

Charged Particles does not charge any fees to mint on their platform but you will be responsible for any and all ETH Gas fees associated with minting

Protocol Governance and IONX Token

IONX is the token native to the Charged Particles platform and is directly linked to the protocol governance of the platform as a whole. In essence the more IONX you hold, the louder your voice is heard when protocols are voted on and implemented.

There is an array of proposal types you will see and can vote on such as:

• Adjusting contract confguration values to adjust the protocol deposit fee

• Implementing scaling solutions

• Adjusting 3rd party integration fees

• Registering

• Adjusting or disabling DeFi protocols as yield sources

• Whitelisting NFT platforms

• Controlling future distribution of $IONX to protocol contributors

Here is where you would click “Energize” to deposit assets into your NFT, the assets need to be these token types:

This is ultimately what you should end up with near the end of the process, it is fairly straight forward, do note that you will be responsible for any and all Gas fees associated with this process and will likely have to sign of on the transactions from your wallet as you move through the energizing process.

Once you are done the next step is pretty simple, head over to the managing tab and select your NFT. This is where you can set your timelock, Energize or Discharge a Particle, and set the price for the NFT. Keep in mind the formula used to calculate your value of the NFT.

Charging and Managing NFTs

The NFTs created via Charged Particles are still standard noncustodial NFTs that can be sold on popular marketplaces like Rarible or Opensea, but you’re enabling them to easily hold other ERC-20 tokens and have programmable interest.

Charging the NFT you just made is the next step and is probably the coolest one you’ll do so far since this is native to the Charged Particles platform only.

This step comes after minting a NFT, or if you own one already, it is pivotal to gaining the utility Charged Particles provides to the NFT space where you essentially turn your NFT into a wallet/ basket that can hold other assets. This step can be found in the Manage section of the page.

Charged Particle - A Technical Look

There are a number of reasons why you would want to hold IONX, as the platform increases in use and market standing, investors would want to ensure that any of the above mentioned protocol adjustments favorably afect the platform so as to safeguard their initial investments and to ensure growth opportunity for the community.

By holding the token, artists can pro actively work towards securing a NFT community that adds real value and utility to their works beyond buying and selling NFT’s

So how does all of this work? To newcomers in the crypto industry this article is a lot to take in, even to some who have been around for a while NFT’s are an area that many haven’t dabbled in. So let’s break down how Charged Particles work on a fundamental level. This will be a very basic look at the WhitePaper presentation with explanations that can relate to common concepts and terms in this environment.

Overview of Contracts

Below is a list of the contracts embedded into the Charged Particle protocol, from creating the Particle to Energizing or Discharging the Particle (which is what the NFT after being integrated into the protocol is called). Everything runs on the Client application which is the Charged Particles website, Point A or B can be your starting point determined by whether you are creating a Proton or Managing a Proton.

SmartWallet/SmartBasket Overview

This area is vital to understand the premise of how a NFT can hold tokens and other NFT’s, by Energizing a NFT into a Particle, you are virtually giving it permission to act as a wallet or basket.

A wallet in the crypto world is similar to a physical wallet you hold cash inside, only with crypto it is holding the keys to your currency. The wallet can be a physical device like a ledger or a software program that you run on your phone or computer like Trust Wallet or MetaMask.

Having a Charged Particle allows your NFT to hold the separate funds inside through the diferent contract types or the another NFT as an “Object” which is where the term “Smart Basket” comes in because the NFT is it’s own token and therefore its own entity.

I love this feature, truly you can create a NFT of a Treasure Chest and deposit all kinds of currency and objects inside and literally hoard it over time to keep for a rainy day or pass of to family.

The majority of the Protocol fows through Point A, allowing the user to set information about the Particles’ permissions, approvals and timelocks as seen below. This is the “How” overview on taking a contract type and applying layered protocols on top of it to evolve from a standard NFT to a Particle that is capable of holding assets inside of it.

The wallets and baskets are a series of chained contracts that all link back to the Charged Particle Protocol and is where the value to the platform comes in, having complete control over your items and fnancial assets. If you see ft, you can disassemble the particle at will, given you have no timelock, and disperse the assets or sell the Particle as a whole.

The Smart Wallet and Basket operate on two diferent channels, which is brilliant because you can deposit NFT’s at will without having to afect the assets or vice versa.

Aave and Yield Bearing Interest

Charged Particles utilizes Aave token as their primary token to swap with if the token inserted into a NFT is compatible. The beautiful part is you do not have to manually perform the swap, Charged Particles takes care of this for you by instantly swapping tokens over into the Aave protocol, making them aTokens. These tokens have a 1:1 ratio to the asset you deposit, the aToken is minted (Created) upon deposit and burned (Destroyed) once retrieved from the

NFT Particle. Aave works on a deposit/borrow system where you can use your assets to earn passive income through interest, or borrow against your assets without giving them up, paying the asset amount back plus interest.

Take for instance a stablecoin such as USDC, this token is always pegged to the US Dollar. If you were to take USDC and deposit it into a NFT for safe keeping, the token would instantly be swapped into the token ‘aUSDC’ allowing your USDC to be on the Aave protocol earning interest in real time due to you providing liquidity.

Providing liquidity means you are a “Depositor” and earn interest based on the borrowers that are paying interest back to reclaim their assets. In essence, you’re storing your assets in a NFT through the Charged Particle Protocol and not using them, if they are compatible to Aave they are swapped into a token that generates passive income for you long term, you can claim earned interest any time to a wallet of choice.

The RoadMap and Security Audit

The project kicked of in Q1 of 2020, throughout 2020 the team diligently went to work releasing a TestNet launch for private use. Later on in 2020 they were accepted into the Gitcoin Kernel Accelerator, a huge accomplishment as the program is “invite only”. The Gitcoin Accelerator is essentially a boot camp for tech startups where the team can network, work on their project with mentors in the blockchain industry and all around get a solid foundation under their feet backed by a fellowship. Kernel also hosts hackathons, a common industry event in the blockchain developer world, think of it like a business seminar designed to incubate ideas, only for developers who all come together to design better solutions collaboratively. The remainder of 2020 was spent expanding the team and working on the Public TestNet that was due to go live in December.

The following year being 2021 is when the project started to gather real steam and move onto huge milestones being achieved for the team. They initiated their pre-seed investment round and launched the MainNet Launch of DApp (Decentralized Applications) followed by the release of the Lepton NFT’s which are essentially NFT’s that have higher yield multipliers giving more rewards, only a total of 1733 will ever exist.

Read about Lepton NFT’s here:

https://medium.com/charged-particles/leptons-nfts-with-super powers-4e830b569c34

IONX was launched with massive success in Q2 as well and has since been a steady gainer in terms of price action. Being the governance token, Investors and NFT Artists want to ensure their voice is heard loud and clear when it comes to modifcations being made to the platform and it’s protocols as it expands. The latest achievements in the RoadMap has been the successful integration of their deposit system to “Charge” NFT’s, being able to deposit NFT’s themselves alongside ERC Tokens, and successfully completing a security audit with The Arcadia Group.

The Arcadia Group is a blockchain consultancy group that specializes in fundamental analysis of blockchain, ensuring security and code stability. On July 5th the Arcadia Group announced that Charged Particles passed their audit with “fying colors”.

The audit consisted of:

• Dynamic and security analysis

• A line-by-line analysis of the in-scope contracts

• Optimization analysis

• Analysis of key functionalities and limiters

• Reference against intended functionality

The quality of code was found to be good and well managed. The contracts are well written and structured. There were very minor comments which were fxed and approved by The Arcadia Group. ”

Future road map plans can be seen below, they have a lot coming that will surely bring even more value to the community such as governance voting going live, hackathons sponsored by Charged Particles, 3rd Party integrations and more UI/ Gas Fee upgrades. The charged Particles team has certainly had a busy year and theres even more to come!

2021

1Q21

• ⁃Announce pre-seed investment round

• ⁃MainNet Launch of App

• ⁃MainNet Launch Party in CryptoVoxels on 17-Feb

• ⁃Team Expands

2Q21

• LEPTON Yield Multiplier NFTs

• ⁃LEPTON vs Stackable Yield-Multiplier NFTs

• ⁃Team Expands

• ⁃Launch of IONX Governance Token

• ⁃Add Additional Features to DApp

• ⁃Deposit NFT

• ⁃Deposit ANY ERC-20 Token

• ⁃Timelock of Mass (Principal)

• ⁃Additional improvements in UI/UX, & Gas Usage

• ⁃Implement Layers Solution for App: Polygon

3Q21

• Successful Protocol Audit

• Whitelist NFTs created on external NFT

• Platforms for Charging (5)

Initial Protocol Voting & Governance Signaling Live

• Additional Features to App

• ⁃Additional improvements in UI/UX, & Gas Usage

• ⁃Drops & Marketplace Redesign

• ⁃DAO Launch

4Q21

• Whitelist NFTs created on external NFT Platforms for Charging (5)

• Protocol Integration into 3rd Party App for Art NFTs - API/SDK Ready

Ongoing / Future

•

⁃Investigate support for additional L2 Solutions

• ⁃Investigate support for additional L1 Blockchains

• Additional Features to App

• Additional improvements in UI/UX, & Gas Usage

• Front-run prevention insurance

• Hackathons

• Protocol

Upgrades:

• Additional Support for more Yield-Bearing Assets & NFT types ⁃3rd Party Integrations:

• Art NFT Platforms

• Blockchain-Based Games

• Financial Product use-case

• Additonal Apps in other NFT verticals launched

The Team

Rob Secord

Founder / Visionary / Technical Lead

Rob Secord is the Founder, Visionary, and Technical Lead at Charged Particles. Rob considers himself a nonfungible human, hacking in the Cryptoverse since 2017. With over 20 years of experience as a full-stack engineer and an additional 5 years spent within Fintech, Rob has quickly become a driving force for the advancement of cryptocurrencies, specifcally Ethereum Smart Contracts, NFTs, and DeFi.

Ben Lakof

CFA / Co-Founder / Business Lead

Ben Lakof is the Co-Founder and Business Lead at Charged Particles. Ben has developed a powerful global fnance network and breadth of experience with over a decade of international assignments spanning 4 continents.

Additional Team

Eric Destaing Front End & Full-stack Engineer

Sam Casey

Front End & Full-stack Engineer

Sumit Rajput Front End Engineer

Vlad Silviu Farcas Full Stack Web3 Developer

Mango Dogwood Community Manager

Steve Neigut Head of Marketing

Jon Kruzeniski Growth Manager

Conclusion

This project is taking core concepts from multiple industries and making their own debut in a fantastic way. You have NFT’s, yield bearing interest through the Aave protocol, governance of the mainframe and a really stylish yet easy to use interface for newcomers to the space. Charged Particles is early and taking steps toward adding Utility towards the NFT market beyond your standard art galleries or auction house items by adding real value to the NFT’s beyond their intrinsic value. By turning your NFT’s into asset holding wallets, you gain the functionality of a virtual deposit box that can be stored/ sold/gifted away. Right now people are spending thousands on NFT’s for just the artwork and ownership claim, adding cryptocurrency assets into the mix is going to up the ante for the entire NFT market and the Charged Particle team will be on the forefront.

Having the capability to earn interest on your assets over time for holding, if compatible with the Aave protocol, brings value in the form of passive income. A wonderful use case to this would be during a bear market with assets you wish to hold long term, you could set the assets into a NFT and they would not only be safe and secure but would be accumulating interest throughout the length of time you decide to hold. You would be able to set a time lock and discharge interest at will if there is no lock. If you want to, you could even use the NFT as a bank to load up on assets over time you know will be trading sideways and could make them work for you. The value as an investor is real considering we are virtually at the ground foor for where this project and team will go.

The team has been very transparent that long term they do not want a minting station or market place. This kind of transparency tells me that they are resolute in their mission to bring this new technology in the space to change how NFT’s are utilized. They bring fnancial leverage and programmability to your NFT’s rather than just minting and selling for an initial ofer which any other platform can do.

The NFT market has been around for some time but they have gained major traction from 2020 to now and the crypto markets further evolved and are now gaining political backing and mass exposure. Charged Particles evolves NFT’s beyond their original intended purpose and brings reasons for investors to get on board, as they can now turn their NFT into an interest bearing asset to hold over time.

The team is incredibly stacked with the visionary and technical lead Rob Secord having over 20+ years in Engineering and 5+ years in Fintech. That combined with the experience Ben Lakof, the CFA Business Lead, brings to the table with getting startups of the

ground with over $50 million raised, this project stands out as the next evolutionary leap for NFT’s and investor opportunities alike.

If you are looking to take your NFT to the next level, head over to the Charged Particle website listed above and create your very own unique Charged Particle. The process is easy and the team has gone above and beyond documenting how to create a charged Particle from scratch and watch your asset grow in more ways than one.

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Lifehouse Angel

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Those involved in the crypto currency space are here for many reasons, but one reason that we can all claim proudly, is that we are here for the future. However as technology evolves, its inevitable that some of us fnd ourselves searching through history and going through a process of re-discovery. We are always trying to fnd balance between our own physical and digital world.

The Lifehouse Angel NFT is the perfect example of bringing the physical world into our digital world. A piece of artwork that might only reach a few instagram followers now has the opportunity to make its mark on an international scale. Artists of all genres now have the opportunity to connect efortlessly with a global market, and we see many artists’ dreams manifesting into reality before our very eyes.

The Lifehouse Angel and Online project hope to do just that. A safe place for people to fnd their centre and heal themselves of all conditioning. Where at the centre of each being is love and connection, unconditionally. True humanity and compassion. Where the metamorphosis of each unique and incredible soul is welcomed and embraced as our collective frequency continues to rise.

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The angel represents enlightenment that has never been more accessible. A perfect balance of new-age technologies and ancient wisdom. The regeneration of our population.

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The term “metaverse” has seen many contexts since being coined in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fction novel “Snow Crash.”

For futurists; a thought exercise. In cryptocurrency; a meme. For gaming companies; an ad campaign.

But when Mark Zuckerberg did an interview with The Verge in July, discussing his vision to pioneer the metaverse as a successor to the internet, many began to see the future of the term as something else –

a reality.

The interview, more than anything, rejuvenated excitement to a years old concept, one that already exists and is in use everyday. If you’ve ever played Fortnite, or Roblox, or Grand Theft Auto, you’ve experienced metaverse-like tendencies.

But the vision Zuck has for the metaverse is not an iteration of these games. It’s a metaverse built frst and foremost by Facebook itself, centered around the future of virtual reality, pioneered by its own company Oculus. In this metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg has anointed himself the protagonist. And there’s a lot wrong with his vision.

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Does the metaverse need VR?

To start, a metaverse built around the capabilities of virtual reality is shortsighted. When it comes to VR, I think Wired’s David Ka said it best. “It never stops failing upward, forever graded on a generous curve, always judged based on its ‘potential’ rather than its results.” When Zuckerberg said that the technological capabilities to run the metaverse will be reached “within the decade,” the only technology he’s referring to is virtual reality. The other components that will fesh out the metaverse – permissionless identity, high-speed exchange of fnancial services, integration of NFTs – already exist thanks to blockchain technology, something Zuckerberg fails to mention a single time during his interview.

If you’re wondering why Zuck leaves out the importance of blockchain and cryptocurrency to the metaverse, it’s probably because he’d prefer his version of the space to exist without them.

Zuckerberg is careful to align the integral aspects of the metaverse’s future with the services Facebook can provide, with a metaverse that requires every user to buy an Oculus headset and sign into Facebook being the target. The key for Zuckerberg is not to convince the masses that this version of the metaverse is necessarily the best, but the most practical. This strategy is far from something unique to how the company has handled its other products.

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The reality of Zuckerberg’s vision

There may be no better example of Zuckerberg’s short sighted vision for the metaverse than Facebook’s recent advertisement for Horizon Workrooms. In the ad, an employee uses their Oculus device to scan their desk, transporting themself into a virtual ofce space where they begin interacting with their coworkers as avatars.

This product was foreshadowed during Zuck’s interview where he mentioned the concept of an “infnite ofce” that can improve productivity.

When you read Zuckerberg’s comments on how the metaverse can be used to increase the productivity of remote work, it comes of as terrifyingly authentic. You can tell this is something he’s passionate about, to no fault of his own. This is a man who for the last decade has had his own vision of innovation driven by stakeholders. And his vision for the metaverse, ultimately, is just that. A collection of products and services that drive profts and can improve his own company.

Horizon Workrooms is not, and will never be, the metaverse. In reality, the metaverse is not Facebook’s future, but its greatest fear. A world with a fully functioning metaverse would render Facebook useless. The company’s greatest asset is its social graph, its datasets, and the ability to monetize its users’ behavior. For years, Facebook’s greatest priority has been one thing – to keep its users on the platform. And when it fails to do this, threatened by other, superior products, it simply uses its resources to absorb its competitors altogether. The metaverse is not about corralling users to the services of a single company, in fact quite the opposite. The metaverse is about exploring an open world of interoperable identities governed by no single individual entity. It could be, in efect, the death of Facebook and companies like it.

A transition of power

If you were to ask me about why the metaverse as a concept is exciting, my answer would be two-fold. The frst part being that as someone who loves gaming, cryptocurrency and digital collectibles, the metaverse has the potential to be a superset of all those things. The idea of meeting my friends who live across the country in the metaverse, arriving in style on the wings of a pterodactyl with my avatar’s new superhero skin on display, is something I will not let go of until it exists for me to experience. I truly believe that the metaverse is the future of entertainment, and everyone is its target demographic.

The second reason I look forward to the potential of the metaverse is that it could lead to the fall of incumbent technology giants, and transform the way society interacts with the digital world in a healthier and more sustainable way. I often contemplate the demise of retail shopping during the rise of Amazon; the destruction it has caused, the way it has revolutionized logistics, and its efect on the world outside of its industry. The metaverse has the potential to achieve similar disruption among the titans of technology and social media, but a direction led by decentralization, interoperability, and most of all creativity. I hope to one day live in a world where my digital presence is not driven by profts, but human connection. While there is no guarantee the metaverse will achieve this goal, its potential gives me hope.