OUTERs second test chain has more than 10 million interactions, and Crystal Fun ecosystem hopes to become a disruptor of

Original | Odaily Planet Daily

Author | Asher

As the price of Bitcoin continues to rise after a correction of more than 20%, and Bloomberg analysts raise the probability of approval of the spot Ethereum ETF from 25% to 75%, the long-awaited bull market continues, and in this wave of crypto fever, GameFi has become one of the focuses of community discussion. There are nearly 200 GameFi projects this year alone (including projects that have not yet been launched). So, what kind of GameFi project has the opportunity to stand out in such fierce competition, and even promote the revolutionary transformation of the next generation of GameFi? Crystal Fun, which we have recently paid attention to, may become a game-changer for GameFi.

The Crystal Fun gaming ecosystem is very different from other GameFi projects. The first generation of GameFi, such as Axie Infinity and StepN, focused on single gameplay and financial competition, which faced huge challenges in sustainability. To this end, Crystal Fun focuses on high-quality gameplay and innovative incentive mechanisms to attract Web 2 gamers and give full play to the advantages of Web 3. Using a matrix ecosystem, Crystal Fun provides a variety of high-quality games to empower its ecosystem CFUN token . Compared with relying on a single game, this strategy greatly enhances risk resistance.

At the same time, the first game of Crystal Fun鈥檚 game ecosystem, OUTER, achieved remarkable on-chain data during the second test. In less than a month of testing, there were more than 400,000 interactive wallet addresses, and more than 63,000 OKBs were consumed in the X Layer test network, with more than 10 million on-chain interactions.

So, Crystal Fun is committed to creating high-quality games and optimizing Web 3 incentive mechanisms to attract both Web3 and Web2 users . Can it become the next blockbuster product that breaks through the circle at a time when the second-generation GameFi is rising and many blockchain game projects are competing fiercely ? Below, Odaily Planet Daily comprehensively explores Crystal Fun, which has obtained the only IP authorization from Shanda Games, from the perspectives of team information, project playability, token economic model, OUTER internal test data, etc.

Crystal Fun: High-quality games and sustainable economic systems

Basic profile

Image source: Official Twitter

Crystal Fun is a super ecosystem and studio for decentralized games. It is committed to seamlessly integrating multiple high-quality games into a sustainable economic system to bring new gaming experiences to Web 3. Currently, Crystal Fun has developed four space exploration games, which will be launched this year, namely:

• OUTER : A AAA sci-fi open world massively multiplayer online game. Players can pilot spaceships to explore unknown galaxies, compete or cooperate with other players, participate in interstellar wars, create their own glorious journey in a huge space sandbox environment, and shape the eternal universe of the game.

• StarFall : A card-based real-time strategy (RTS) mobile game, and also a casual PvP game. The game innovatively introduces classic PC RTS battles to mobile platforms, providing a variety of card combinations and unit compositions, bringing a rich and varied, fascinating battle experience.

• Endless War : A sci-fi strategy game. Players will play the role of an interstellar ruler and use various strategies to expand their influence. The game starts on a planet. Players need to use existing resources to develop the economy and technology, build fleets, and expand strategic colonization to obtain huge benefits.

• Survivor : A Roguelike shooting game. Players can choose different spaceships and weapons, drive the spaceship to embark on an adventure and battle journey, challenge levels of various difficulties, defeat BOSS and get rich rewards.

Crystal Fun Gaming Ecosystem

According to the team, Crystal Fun is an overseas company incubated by Century Huatong and has obtained the exclusive IP authorization from Shanda Games, as well as full support in terms of human resources, RD technology, art resources, global channels, etc. Its core development team is composed of game development and operation elites from Ubisoft, Gameloft, Glu, Tencent, Shanda Games and Actoz. The game projects participated by many team members have an annual revenue of more than billions of dollars and a DAU of more than millions.

Regarding financing, Crystal Fun completed a $5 million seed round of financing in early 2024, with investors including Kucoin Ventures, Actoz Soft, Waterdrip Capital, Comma3 Ventures, Stratified Capital, Cypher9 Ventures, Aelf Ventures, W Labs and Masverse.

Crystal Fun receives $5 million in seed round financing

CFUN Token Economic Model

The governance token in the Crystal Fun game super ecosystem is CFUN, with a total of 1 billion. The token has the following specific uses:

• Governance: CFUN holders have the right to vote on proposals in the Crystal Fun gaming ecosystem;

• Burning: On the one hand, the launch of some core functions of each game launched in the Crystal Fun game ecosystem requires the permanent destruction of CFUN, which enables CFUN holders to passively increase the value of their tokens; on the other hand, all future revenues in the Crystal Fun game ecosystem (including user draws, top-ups, handling fees, etc.) will be used to repurchase CFUN and reduce the total supply of tokens;

• Staking: On the one hand, CFUN holders can earn income by staking tokens for on-chain mining; on the other hand, staking CFUN can affect the gameplay of the game (for example, staking tokens can change the BOSS refresh position in the OUTER game, etc. ).

So, how to get CFUN tokens? According to official information, there are several ways:

• Participation in early activities: Participate in early testing of Crystal Fun games or activities in the game ecosystem to receive corresponding token rewards;

• Seasonal rankings: After the games in the Crystal Fun ecosystem are officially launched, players can receive corresponding token rewards based on their seasonal rankings;

• Genesis Crystal NFT holders: Holders can obtain corresponding token rewards by staking Genesis Crystal NFT for mining;

• Secondary market purchase: After the token is officially launched, users can directly purchase tokens in the secondary market (DEX/CEX).

CRYSTAL NFT

As the only equity NFT in the Crystal Fun ecosystem, CRYSTAL NFT is divided into three grades, namely Pure Crystal, Passion Crystal, and Dream Crystal, with increasing rarity. Crystal NFT will be launched on Arbitrum with a total of 5,000 pieces, of which 4,225 CRYSTAL NFTs will be directly allocated to SPACESHIP NFT pledgers as pledge rewards, and the other 775 will enter the treasury for community incentives in the future. According to official information, CRYSTAL NFT holders will receive:

• Stake CRYSTAL NFTs to earn CFUN tokens;

• Priority to mint NFTs issued in the Crystal Fun ecosystem in the future;

• Obtain whitelist qualification for future Crystal Fun game testing;

• Get airdrops in the Crystal Fun ecosystem;

• Get different levels of identity in Discord.

CRYSTAL NFT

SPACESHIP NFT

In the universe of OUTER, SPACESHIP plays a vital role. Players drive their own spaceships, fight against space pirates, explore floating objects and unknown galaxies, and engage in large-scale PvP battles in interstellar alliances to compete for limited resources. There are various types of ships in OUTER, and each ship has its own characteristics. Currently, there are six main types: cruisers, battleships, attack ships, plunder ships, exploration ships, and cargo ships. For Spaceship NFT, the total amount is 4225, which are divided into three levels: Level 4 spaceship, Level 5 spaceship, and gold spaceship, with increasing rarity.

Spaceship NFT holders will receive:

• Obtaining advanced spaceships in OUTER has extremely high attributes, giving players the opportunity to obtain more rewards in the game;

• Staking SPACESHIP NFTs can get free airdrops of Genesis CRYSTAL NFTs;

• Stake SPACESHIP NFT to get CFUNs bonus multiplier;

• After the OUTER game is launched, you will have priority access to the server.

SPACESHIP NFT secondary trading website

OUTER Game Test Data and Game Tokens OTT

As the first blockchain game open to players in the Crystal Fun ecosystem, OUTER conducted a one-week game test from October 27 to November 3 last year. This test is specifically for elite players, aiming to collect their professional opinions and feedback to ensure that the game is in the best condition before it is officially launched. According to official data, a total of 184 professional players participated in the first test of OUTER, with an average of 7.9 on-chain interactions and an average daily online time of 12.5 hours . In addition, the number of retained players in 7 days was 181, with a retention rate of 98.3%. The average level of players participating in the test was 32.6, the highest player level was 52, the number of guilds created was 10, the number of expanded planets was 24, and the number of expanded galaxies was 8.

After the first test, the Crystal Fun team actively communicated with professional players who participated in the first test, collected valuable feedback, and made multiple optimization adjustments to OUTER. These improvements made OUTER shine in the second test and won wide attention and praise. During the second test, the number of on-chain interactions exceeded 10 million times, showing the high level of player participation and recognition of the game. Below, Odaily Planet Daily focuses on reviewing the OUTER second test game data from March 12 to April 8 this year.

OUTER Second Test Game Interface

OUTER Second test interactive content

The second test of OUTER is proceeding as scheduled, and compared with the first test, a total of 4,000 players are invited to this test. At the same time, the team will offer generous rewards to qualified players, including: 26,000 USDT, 2,300,000 CFUN, 24 NFT spaceships, OUTER third test qualifications and special in-game gifts.

OUTER Second Test Rewards

In order to enrich the player experience and record the users gaming behavior and achievements on the chain , OUTER designed a variety of interactive activities during the second test. Specifically, three on-chain interactive activities were opened, namely:

• Activity 1: Be active in the game and check in on the chain to get platform incentives;

OUTER Second Test Activity 1

• Activity 2: Complete in-game achievements, check in on the chain, and receive platform incentives ;

OUTER Second Test Activity 2

• Activity 3: Get on-chain lucky draw draws through social media activities, and get in-game props, NFTs and other incentives.

OUTER Second Test Activity 3

OUTER Second Test Data Review

During the second test of OUTER, 3,969 players participated, with an average daily online uptime of 7.1 hours and 101 players at the maximum level.

• First, user stickiness is strong. The next-day retention rate is 85.8%, the 7-day retention rate is 58.2%, and the 15-day retention rate is 50.4%.

• Secondly, the game exploration level has been significantly improved. Compared with the first test, 57 guilds were formed during the second test, and 52 galaxies and 180 planets were expanded.

• Finally, the on-chain data is excellent. In less than a month of testing, there were more than 400,000 interactive wallet addresses, and more than 63,000 OKBs were consumed on the X Layer test network, with more than 10 million on-chain interactions (Note: Due to the 3-day test adjustment of X Layer, OUTERs on-chain interaction activities ended 3 days later than the game beta, and the on-chain interactions exceeded 10 million when the activity ended on April 11, so it is different from the poster released on April 8) .

OUTER Second test data

OUTER In-game Token OTT

OTT is a functional token in the OUTER game and is only circulated in the OUTER game. The token has the following specific uses:

• Upgrade ships, components, modules, and more;

• Purchase materials to build spaceships, space stations, buildings, etc.;

• Teleport to a specific location in the universe;

• Establish a guild, upgrade guild technology, etc.;

• Repair and rebuild damaged spacecraft.

It is worth noting that although there is no upper limit on the total amount of OTT, the daily output within the server will be dynamically adjusted based on the number of players participating on that day, the number of new players growing, etc.

At the same time, OTT token methods include: completing the novice guide and daily tasks in the game, exploring galaxy clues, trading in the game, occupying planets to set taxes, and directly purchasing with USDT on the Crystal Fun platform.

The transition from Play to Earn to Play and Earn

Crystal Fun hopes to build a sustainable economic system to ensure that the economic cycle of the game can continue to be stable. In addition, in order to truly avoid the death spiral effect of tokens, its game economic system can be separated from the basis of constant entry of new users to maintain to a certain extent.

For OUTER, the Crystal Fun ecosystem enables each type of player to earn income that matches their contribution in the game, so that players can earn money while enjoying the game, thus achieving the transition from Play to Earn to Play and Earn. Specifically, in the economic cycle of OUTER, players in different ecological niches have different ways to make money from the game:

• Ordinary players: You can get a stable income of minimum living allowance within 30 minutes of game time every day. Ordinary players earn materials and OTT tokens by completing basic daily tasks. In general, the overall income of ordinary users is not high, but it is long-lasting and stable with minimal fluctuations.

• Advanced players: Spend USDT to purchase OTT and advanced materials from ordinary users in the gold coin trading market, so that they can build rarer items or even spaceship NFTs in the game and obtain greater potential profits.

• Whale players: They seek to monopolize rare resources and obtain the highest honor in the game, so that they or their guilds can grow rapidly, and establish a leading position in the game through PvP or GvG, in order to obtain huge potential benefits.

Since advanced and whale players need to collect a large amount of materials and OTT tokens in the process of pursuing growth, the daily gold output of ordinary users will meet the needs of these players, which ensures that ordinary players have a continuous and stable gold income in the game.

Finally, in addition to users in the game, the Crystal Fun ecosystem will also attract a large number of coin holders who are more concerned about the coin price and whether holding coins can generate a stable rate of return. Through gameplay, numerical models, and game revenue distribution, CFUN is continuously deflated and empowered, so that coin holders have stable coin holding returns and long-term coin price expectations, thereby strengthening the confidence of coin holders and reducing selling pressure.

Crystal Fun Key Points and Recent Developments

The perfect conclusion of OUTERs second test has attracted more and more players to the Crystal Fun super gaming ecosystem, and the second game Starfalls first test, which was launched on May 14, received unanimous praise from senior players.

According to team members, Crystal Fun will form a new blockchain game platform function in the future to enhance the blockchain game user experience, including game user DID, on-chain achievement system, game exchange, etc. In order to achieve this goal, Crystal Fun still has several important time nodes worth paying attention to in the second quarter :

May 13 to May 21: Stake OUTER NFT Spaceship to get Genesis Crystal NFT;

June: Launched Crystal Fun membership growth system;

June 10: Crystal NFT was created and the token airdrop plan was launched;

June to July: The third test of the OUTER game will be launched. At the same time, the gold farming model, in-game trading house and other functions will be opened in the third test.

Crystal Fun 2024 Q2 Roadmap

Crystal Fun will drive the next generation of GameFi revolutionary transformation

Compared with Web2 games, Web3 games face unique challenges. On the one hand, due to the lack of playability, it is difficult to continue to attract Web2 users, resulting in a serious shortage of user base. On the other hand, the token economic model of Web3 games has defects, attracting a large number of mining, selling and withdrawing users. These two factors overlap, causing the token price to continue to fall, shortening the life of the game, and ultimately causing no one to buy the game.

Take Axie Infinity and StepN, the most representative Web3 chain games, as examples. Although they attracted a large number of users through the games themselves at the beginning of their launch, the playability of the games did not continue to innovate over time, resulting in serious challenges in the later stages of the game development. Due to the insufficient number of Web2 users and the high threshold for new Web3 users to participate, there are not enough new users to support the gaming experience of old users. The continuous decline in token prices eventually led to the loss of popularity of the game and the end of its short-lived glory . Crystal Fun may be able to effectively solve the common problems that are prevalent in current chain games by integrating the economic cycle of traditional Web2 games with the innovative Web3 token economic model.

First of all, Crystal Fun is committed to creating high-quality games and sustainable economic systems. Crystal Fun focuses on innovating Web3 game experience and building a blockchain game ecosystem with games first. On the one hand, the team uses blockchain technology to solve the pain points in Web2 games, aiming to create highly playable blockchain game projects and ensure that players enjoy a seamless gaming experience. On the other hand, the team focuses on optimizing the token economic model, building a unique sustainable game economic model by dynamically adjusting token acquisition and token destruction, and avoiding the death spiral of the Web3 game economy.

Secondly, Crystal Fun is committed to building a multi-dimensional entertainment ecosystem with games as its core. Crystal Fun expands its game ecosystem to the multi-dimensional entertainment industry, continuously improving the overall value . This ecosystem covers novels, animations, movies, theme metaverse parks, and various derivatives, allowing players to switch seamlessly between virtual and reality. By integrating various forms of entertainment, Crystal Fun provides a richer and more immersive experience, making players not only participants in the game, but also part of the entire entertainment ecosystem. The continuous expansion of the game ecosystem will become a driving force for players to continue to participate, bringing more surprises and challenges to players.

Finally, Crystal Fun combines with artificial intelligence technology to add depth and diversity to the gaming experience. By introducing artificial intelligence technology, Crystal Fun not only empowers its governance token CFUN, but also enables players to become creators in the gaming ecosystem. Crystal Fun is not only a design for developers, but also a stage for players to participate and co-create . Therefore, the application of AI technology makes the gaming experience more profound and diverse, allowing players to have greater creative freedom in the game by designing levels, creating content, etc. , and participate in the construction of the game world, thereby further enhancing the interactivity and immersion of the game.

In general, Crystal Fun focuses on a multi-dimensional game ecosystem and high-quality games, and is committed to improving the playability of games and ensuring that players get a perfect gaming experience . At the same time, through a cleverly designed token economic model, a sustainable and cyclical economic system is created to avoid the risk of the game economy falling into a death spiral as much as possible. Therefore, Crystal Fun is expected to become a leader in GameFi and promote revolutionary changes in the next generation of game finance. Perhaps GameFis high financial attributes and low playability will soon change . This will bring new vitality and development opportunities to Web3 and open a new chapter for the gaming world.

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