With tens of millions in financing and over 1.3 million registered users, can Solana ecosystem 3A blockchain game Nyan H

Original | Odaily Planet Daily

Author | Asher

This year, as Bitcoin hit a record high, the entire crypto market continued to be hot, and the long-awaited bull market also arrived. In this upsurge, GameFi has become one of the focuses of community discussion. So, with the fierce competition among many blockchain game projects, what kind of blockchain game can truly stimulate the enthusiasm of the crypto market and even break the circle?

During the two-week pre-alpha event, the number of registered users exceeded 1.3 million, the number of daily active users exceeded 45,000, and the number of independent active wallets exceeded 700,000. Such data results made Odaily Planet Daily pay attention to Nyan Heroes, the leading GameFi project in the Solnan ecosystem.

Nyan Heroes is a third-person shooter game built on the Solana blockchain that combines fast-paced competitive gameplay with real-world impact. It is powered by Unreal Engine 5 and blockchain technology and provides a 3A multiplayer experience with unique mechanical characters and game abilities. It is reported that Nyan Heroes is the flagship blockchain game project supported by the Solana Foundation . Below, Odaily Planet Daily comprehensively explores the Solana ecosystem 3A blockchain game masterpiece Nyan Heroes from the perspectives of team information, project playability, token economic model, internal test data, etc.

Why GameFi cannot be widely adopted at present

In the eyes of Web 2 users, Web 3 is seen as a new and unknown field, which contains a lot of potential and possibilities, but also has various challenges and obstacles. How to promote its large-scale adoption has always been the goal of practitioners. If Web 3 will eventually replace Web 2, then there is no doubt that GameFi will become the sharpest weapon in the Web 3 camp.

Therefore, the GameFi sector is favored by practitioners. They have learned from the lessons of the last round of blockchain games and have been constantly polishing them, resulting in a large number of new GameFi projects in this round of market. However, it seems that there is no case of successfully breaking the circle of Play to Earn concept like Axie Infinity, or combining sports with games like StepN, and driving more Web 2 users into GameFi with excellent marketing and operations. Based on the feedback from a large number of members of the blockchain game community, Odaily Planet Daily concluded that there are currently the following problems with blockchain games:

• Token activities are not sufficiently incentivized and there are few participating users.

• The server is unstable and crashes frequently.

• The game is not playable and cannot attract players to participate deeply.

• Web 2 user base is weak and tokens are in a death spiral.

These problems are common in current blockchain games, and the weak user base of Web 2 is a fatal problem . However, when we observed the pre-alpha activity data of Nyan Heroes, one of the data was particularly eye-catching: 20% of players come from Web 2 games . This may mean that we have really found the next GameFi project that may become a hit – Nyan Heroes.

Nyan Heroes: Game playability + token incentives

Basic profile

Nyan Heroes is a third-person shooter game based on the Solana ecosystem. Players play the role of a kitten driving a giant mecha, using unique abilities and advanced feline movements to track targets and defeat opponents in the game.

The Nyan Heroes team has extensive experience in game development. Its members have participated in the development of high-profile masterpieces such as Destiny, Halo, Mass Effect, and Assassin Creed, and have been deeply involved in the game industry for many years. At the same time, Nyan Heroes has strong ecological partners. The blockchain game has been supported by giant companies such as Razer , Xterio, Immutable, Superverse, NeoTokyo, Elixir, Hyperplay, and Saga , and has reached in-depth cooperation with e-sports giants such as G2 E-sports, Fnatic, and Evil Geniuses. In the future, it will hold large-scale e-sports events with the mainstream live broadcast platform Twitch.

Regarding financing, according to CRYPTO fundraising data and official information, Nyan Heroes has conducted multiple rounds of financing, with a total financing amount of up to 13 million US dollars. The specific information is as follows:

On November 3, 2021, it announced the completion of a $2.5 million seed round of financing, led by Three Arrows Capital and others;

On May 10, 2022, it announced the completion of a strategic financing of US$7.5 million at a valuation of US$100 million, with Kosmos Ventures and others participating in the investment;

On March 14, 2024, it was announced that a $3 million investment round had been completed. This round of investment was led by Mechanism Capital, with participation from Sfermion and others.

Nyan Heroes financing

Nyan Heroes gameplay

Currently, Nyan Heroes Season 2 is in full swing. In order to attract more users to join, Nyan Heroes has launched a generous token airdrop event for incentives. Whether you are an old player who has participated in Season 1 or a new player who has just learned about Nyan Heroes, you will have the opportunity to get generous rewards.

On the one hand, for all users, they only need to visit the official website of the event and register through Twitter to participate. Then, by completing a series of simple social tasks, such as following, liking, retweeting, etc., you can get Catnip rewards, and these Catnip rewards can be directly exchanged for NYAN tokens in the future. In addition, by inviting friends to participate in the event, users will also receive more Catnip rewards, contributing to the expansion of the community, so that more people can enjoy the fun and rewards brought by Nyan Heroes.

Register for interactive activities

Activity related tasks

On the other hand, Nyan Heroes will open a two-week game experience event for free to all users on May 8, and users will have the opportunity to experience the game and get more Catnip rewards. It is worth mentioning that in previous game tests, Nyan Heroes is one of the few 3A games that received positive feedback from traditional players. Its fascinating game experience not only attracted a large number of Web 2 content creators and their audiences, but also won wide acclaim. Game experiencers even forgot that it was a Web 3 game for a while.

A live broadcasters game experience interface

Nyan Heroes Economic Model

According to the official information released by Nyan Heroes, its native token is NYAN, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens and no additional issuance. The team said that NYAN will exist as a deflationary token, and will be repurchased and destroyed through market fee income, minting income, and studio income in the future to achieve deflation of the token. The deflation rate will depend on actual network activity and market transactions.

NYAN Token Mechanism

For the initial 1 billion NYAN, the specific distribution ratio is as follows:

• Community rewards: 335,000,000 NYAN, accounting for 33.5% of the total supply. This part of the tokens will be used for airdrop season, in-game rewards, competition pool activities, etc.

• Ecosystem: 165,000,000 NYAN, 16.5% of the total supply. This portion of tokens will be used indirectly for the community through IP expansion, partnerships, and strategic growth opportunities;

• Early investors: 220,000,000 NYAN, accounting for 22% of the total supply;

• Team and Advisors: 180,000,000 NYAN, 18% of the total supply;

• Strategic investors: 70,000,000 NYAN, accounting for 7% of the total supply ;

• Liquidity and Market Making: 30,000,000 NYAN, or 3% of total supply .
  

NYAN Token Economic Model

Nyan Heroes Pre-alpha data and recent developments

Pre-alpha period data review

On March 26, Nyan Heroes was officially launched on the Epic Games Store. All players can download it from the Epic Store and participate in the activity of earning Meow points.

During the two-week pre-alpha event, Nyan Heroes achieved remarkable results. According to official data, the number of registered users exceeded 1.3 million, the number of independent active wallets exceeded 700,000, and the number of daily active users exceeded 45,000. At the same time, Nyan Heroes has been downloaded more than 200,000 times in the Epic Games Store, and has successfully entered the top five most popular games in the Epic Games Store and one of the 30 most popular games in the world.

Pre-alpha activity data statistics (some data have been updated)

These data show that Nyan Heroes not only attracted a large number of Web 3 players during the testing phase, but also organically integrated with Web 2, gaining support and love from a group of Web 2 players and live streamers. This provides favorable conditions for Nyan Heroes to successfully break the circle after the official public beta, and brings opportunities for it to enter the Web 2 game industry.

Season 2 is now live

On May 1, the team announced that the Season 1 token airdrop event had successfully concluded and directly launched the Season 2 token airdrop event. The theme of this quarter is: Hunt For Catnip.

Season 2 Token Airdrop: Hunt For Catnip

Compared to MEOW Points in Season 1, Catnip will be more valuable and harder to obtain in Season 2. Since the threshold for obtaining it is higher, those who work hard will have the opportunity to obtain a richer reward pool.

At the same time, the highlight of this seasons activities is the new Matchmaking Ranking system (MMR) that will be launched on May 8, which is designed to improve competitive skills and distribute rewards to high-quality players. Whether players are battle-hardened veterans in Season 1 or newbies who are just preparing to participate in Season 2, MMR will match players with other players of similar skill levels and improve their strategic capabilities.

Depending on the players ranking at the end of the season, they will receive additional Catnip rewards, and the higher the ranking, the more generous the rewards. At the end of the second season, Catnip will be directly exchanged for NYAN tokens. Finally, the team also stated that the token airdrop event is not limited to two seasons, and more interesting activities will be launched in the future to motivate real players.

Nyan Heroes will lead the next generation of GameFi new paradigm

In the gaming world, whether it is Web 2 or Web 3, any game has a certain lifespan. Specifically, League of Legends is a typical case. This multiplayer online battle arena game developed by Riot Games was released in 2009 and quickly won the love of a large number of players with its rich game content and competitive atmosphere. However, as time went by, the popularity of League of Legends gradually faded. Although Riot Games continued to update content and hold events, the lifespan of the game was still affected.

Compared to Web 2 games, Web 3 games face unique challenges. On the one hand, due to the lack of playability, Web 3 games have difficulty attracting Web 2 users, which leads to a serious shortage of user base. On the other hand, the token economic model of Web 3 games is flawed, attracting a large number of mining, selling and withdrawing users. These two factors are superimposed on each other, causing the token price to continue to fall, thereby shortening the life of the game and ultimately leading to the end of the game.

Take Axie Infinity and StepN as examples. Although they innovated in the token economic model, they faced serious problems in the later stages of the game development. Due to the serious shortage of Web 2 user base and the high participation threshold for new Web 3 users, there were not enough new users to pay for old users, and the tokens plummeted until no one mentioned the game anymore, ending its short-lived glory.

First of all, Nyan Heroes has continuously improved the game, increased its playability, and provided players with a rich gaming experience through rich and diverse game content and gameplay design. This enables the game to satisfy users who truly love games, thus having a good Web 2 user base during the testing phase. This foundation not only maintains the popularity of the game, but also has the potential to extend the life of the game, becoming the core of game development.

Secondly, Nyan Heroes chose the most discussed ecosystem in this round of bull market – Solana ecosystem. In the Solana ecosystem, there are a large number of active Web 3 users, which makes it possible for Nyan Heroes to continue to attract Web 3 users. Through the combination with the Solana ecosystem, Nyan Heroes has been able to gain wider attention and support, providing a strong impetus for the continued development of the game.

Finally, Nyan Heroes has adopted a multi-batch and continuously optimized token incentive measure to further increase user stickiness. In this way, the game can better motivate user participation and retention, laying a solid foundation for the long-term development of the game.

In summary, Nyan Heroes not only made precise decisions in game design and ecological selection, but also continued to innovate in token economic models and user incentives. Therefore, Nyan Heroes is expected to become a pioneer in leading the new paradigm of the next generation of GameFi, bringing new vitality and development opportunities to Web 3, and opening a new chapter in the gaming world.

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