Tryhards: A Scalable and Rewarding Play-To-Earn Blockchain Gaming Model
Consumers spent a massive $143 billion on mobile apps in 2020, from which, close to $100 billion of that spend, went to mobile gaming applications. Running estimates are that gamers will spend another $120 billion on mobile app-based games in 2021. For each dollar a mobile device holder spends on Google play or the iOS store, 70 cents of it goes to mobile game developers and their businesses.
How much of this revenue trickles down to the gamer? Virtually none. Despite spending an average of 4 hours each day playing these games, players hardly earn a penny for their work. Yet, this lucrative market could cross the $259 billion mark by 2023!
It is no wonder then that investors are falling over themselves trying to get a piece of the pie, as gaming becomes the world’s largest entertainment industry. In sharp contrast, to make a return on the time invested in gaming, mainstream gamers have to turn to the industry’s infamous black market. Here they attempt to sell off in-game assets for real-world fiat, often getting scammed.
Most centralized games could block an account that engages in-game trading of assets with other traders. In their defense, these games are regulated businesses. The rules of real-world government agencies govern them. To facilitate the exchange of real-world currency with virtual in-game assets, they would be liable to legal liabilities and financial regulation.
The blockchain gaming difference
Blockchain games like Tryhards are changing this status quo. They support a play-to-earn model of gaming, putting an end to this lopsided relationship between gamers and the game developers. Tryhards is part of the blockchain gaming movement that is creating a new economic model known as the play-to-earn model.
Here, players can spend their time in gaming metaverses, play in their avatar forms and buy and sell in-game assets in the open and decentralized NFT market. Everything they need to trade in-game assets are other non-fungible tokens or cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain games have native cryptocurrencies that facilitate seamless transactions and reception of gaming incentives and purchases. These cryptocurrencies are built on the ERC 20, ERC-721 token standards, giving them a medium of exchange quality on the vast cryptocurrency market.
Tryhards take place on Planet X, a fantastic metaverse created by the game’s Satoshi Massacre backstory. Fanatics from the asylum planets of Esperanza, Magma, Talosium, and Simios, converge here and battle, earning precious crystals while earning a top spot on the Tryhards leaderboard.
In Tryhards, gamers accumulate weapons and train their Fanatics to make strategic decisions as they fight for honor on Planet X’s arena in a perpetual shooting metaverse. Tryhards Fanatics NFTs have four factions that include the Apes, Robots, the Undeaded, and Survivors.
Tryhards USP
One of Tryhard’s outstanding features is its unique combination of NFTs and DeFi features to create an exceptional and rewarding gaming environment. Tryhards, however, has one other ace up its sleeve; the Polygon Network. Tryhards is powered by the Polygon Network and is interoperable with the Binance SmartChain and Solana.
Simple acts, such as the trade of trading cards, are sluggish and poorly rewarding. This environment cannot appeal to mainstream gamers that play their games in minimal friction setups. Tryhards developers are adapting the blockchain gaming experience to a fun, magical, and fandom user experience.
With Tryhards, gamers will not have to grapple with complex network constraints and UX frictions to enjoy their favorite pastime. Polygon is an Ethereum interoperability and scaling protocol that has 65,000 transactions per second speed.
It is a Layer 2 scalability protocol that harnesses Ethereum’s top-notch decentralization features but brings in unique benefits such as low transaction costs and high confirmation speeds. To this end, Polygon is becoming a gamer’s paradise.
How to play Tryhards
It’s the year 1337 on Planet X. Humanity’s last remnants, the Apes, Robots, the Undeaded, and Survivors, have returned to Old Earth, now known as Planet X, to stake their claim on the ancient, potent tech that lies beneath its ruins.
Centuries earlier, Satoshi Nakamoto’s minting of the Genesis block had brought Earth to a new technological age. Advancement to a technological singularity, however, turned humankind on itself, giving rise to the crypto chaos that culminated in the Satoshi massacre.
Humankind murders the Old Earth, and the lucky few leftover factions are forced off the planet into the depths of space. These factions have mutated into the Apes, Robots, the Undeaded, and Survivors. Old Earth is now regenerating, and each faction wants to take over its tech, resulting in a fresh war for Planet X, the setting of the TryHards battle for Planet X.
To play Tryhards, you need to purchase a Fanatic and Weapon NFTs. Tryhard’s NFTs are available on third-party NFT marketplaces and the Tryhards in-house marketplace. All Tryhards NFTs have uniqueness and benefits.
Use your NFTs to play a PVP or PVE. To upgrade your Fanatic and Weapon LvL, you need crystals. Upgrading your NFTs assigns you more Universe power and hence more staking power and rewards on the Tryhards ecosystem. Alternatively, purchase rare and higher LvL Tryhards NFTs and enjoy higher staking rewards automatically.
In Tryhards, all the weapons and Fanatics are stored securely in the Polygon blockchain as NFTs. Thus, a player assumes full ownership of their universe. At the Refinery, you can level up your Fanatics using better quality Craft Crystals.
Prepare for the battlefield at the Tryhards MarketPlace, on the other hand, by trading Crystals, Fanatics, and Weapons with other players. Gamers earn $Try Tokens when they stake their Universe Power. The higher your total Universe Power, the more your tokens.
To lower its gaming and NFT creation transaction costs, Tryhards smart contracts support the Fanatics & Weapons NFT Farmer with unique cost-cutting measures, such as the storage of Fanatics & Weapons on smart contracts. These features ease NFT trading since players can trade their in-game assets without the need to unstake them first. They will save on gas fees.
More so, Fanatics & Weapons NFT Farmers can leverage the Tryhards NFT Bundle System and trade multiple NFTs at a time. The game also has a 5% exchange fee feature that profits the gaming community via the Buyback and Burn pool.
On top of that, Tryhards is a community-driven blockchain platform. The Guardians of the Armory (DAO) members that hold $TRY, its native ERC-20 Matic token asset, will attain governance rights. Tryhards also leverage Chainlink’s Verifiable Random Function (VRF) for its NFT drops and chain transparency.
Tryhards features
Tryhards Crystals
Crystals come in a myriad of varieties and drop rates like Fanatics and Weapons. You can get crystals by buying loot boxes or providing liquidity to the metaverse. Additionally, you can purchase crystals from the secondary market.
Crystals are not sold to the community but can be obtained by providing liquidity. A decreasing drop rate mechanism exists and depends on the liquidity provided and therefore, earlier adaptors are better placed to get cheap crystals.
Tryhards Refinery
Decompose or compose crystals in the Tryhards refinery. Crystals are available in various rarity drops and you can compose or decompose as per your needs.
Special Tryhards NFTs
Tryhards believe in the crucial role partnerships play towards the success of the game. The strategic alliances with projects, protocols, and influencers promote Tryhards to a broader community. For that reason, the platform is soon implementing special NFT sets that reflect these partnerships.
Tryhards yield farming
Supply stablecoins such as USDC or USDT or other Tryhards-supported LP tokens to the Tryhards platform and earn crystals. Crystals yield rates depend on value locked.
Tryhards staking
Stake your Tryhards NFTs in the NFT mining Proof-of-Stake (POS) protocol and mine $TRY from the staking pool.
$TRY buyback mechanism
70% of the Tryhards marketplace transactions go to the $USDC based “buyback and burn” pool.
Guardians of the armory (DAO)
Tryhards is a user-owned game with its decentralized organization known as Guardians of the Armory. The DAO is in the hands of the Tryhards community and will enhance decision-making power in the game. The DAO will particularly address in-game issues and also future game development proposals and funding.
Tryhards Plaza
This is Tryhards’ marketplace, where you can exchange in-game items with $TRY Tokens. The platform also supports other marketplaces, e.g., opensea.io, so the Tryhards community will enjoy a broader reach. Currently, at the Tryhards plaza, gamers can exchange items such as Fanatics, Weapons, Crystals. Many more items for exchange will soon be added here.
Supporting Tryhards
The Tryhards team has a very broad experience in Web and Game Development, Blockchain and in the corporate world, making us believe they have the skillset required to make it a winner and get its game to the next level.
We are very happy to support this experienced team since early stage alongside other investors and advisors, and will be looking forward to see their success in the long run.
