Blockchain sport builders are arising with new methods of gifting away tokens whereas additionally incentivizing gamers to not instantly promote them off. That is evident each within the case of Pirate Nation’s PIRATE and Mocaverse’s MOCA tokens and their respective staking choices.
As for the most recent instance, Boomland has labored out an progressive methodology to reward gamers of Hunters On-Chain’s present play-to-airdrop marketing campaign.
Crucially, its BOOM token isn’t but reside on the Immutable zkEVM blockchain, which the sport is working on, which suggests Boomland can’t give away any BOOM proper now.
To resolve this concern, Boomland will as a substitute give away BOOM tokens within the type of bundled ERC1155 NFTs.
Known as BOOM Baggage, these can be demarcated in items of 1,000 to 100,000 BOOM tokens. Present Season 1 luggage can have a redemption date of month 0 or month 1. Month 0 refers back to the token technology occasion for BOOM on Immutable zkEVM, someday later in 2024.
Season 2 luggage will both have month 1 or month 2 redemption date.
These NFTs will, nonetheless, be instantly tradeable, like another NFT in Hunters On-Chain.
This implies gamers can promote their tokens however as a result of they’ll solely be bought as discrete NFTs – and time dependent ones at that – value discovery will probably be extra nuanced.
As well as, any BOOM Bag NFT can be instantly burnt for offchain BOOM tokens which are used to degree up in-game hunter characters.
Given the sport has its forthcoming Season 2 play-to-airdrop marketing campaign due quickly, this can drive demand for offchain BOOM for gamers who wish to maximize their place in Season 2, and therefore their subsequent future allocation of BOOM.
And neatly, this strategy ought to prohibit the promoting of BOOM NFTs, whereas additionally offering a robust in-game utility for the token, which is precisely what sport builders wish to see once they launch a token.