ChainGuardians: The Road So Far
A comprehensive overview of sustainable business development efforts since ChainGuardians’ IDO.
A Brief Overview
ChainGuardians is moving fast. Not the wrong kind of fast — quality isn’t sacrificed for quantity; in fact, our team works endlessly to prioritize sustainable growth, business development, and community-oriented initiatives. So what does that mean? Actions, not words, reflect growth. Since IDO, our internal team size has doubled, the operational budget has expanded, and the received collaboration requests have continued to increase. Most importantly, while ChainGuardians encompasses several competencies, our vision remains mass adoption of blockchain gaming! This article is constructed to illustrate our recent efforts, celebrate successes and articulate our unwavering dedication to building a community-oriented ecosystem.
Growth Since IDO
Quality and quantity often juxtapose elements; however, central to our belief, ChainGuardians move to maximize both while prioritizing sustainable growth. Five critical pillars can highlight continued areas of development for ChainGuardians.
- Exchanges that have listed $CGG
- Collaborations
- Tech updates
- NFT mining integrations
- ChainBoost
Exchanges that have listed $CGG
- Kucoin
- Gate.io
- Uniswap
- Pancakeswap
- QuickSwap
- DinoSwap (coming July 2021)
Collaborations
- Elrond — Allows our visual presence to be seen by more crypto-oriented advocates through their web-friendly technology tools. This will help advance DeFi and blockchain gaming ecosystems to make them more creative, user-friendly, and seamless.
- Bondly — Both ChainGuardians and Bondly will bring new NFTs to our respective communities and provide interoperable use cases across our ecosystems. Moreover, Bondly will be contributing 750,000 Bondly tokens as rewards across the NFT Mining Platform and ChainGuardians RPG, further illustrating ChainGuardians’ commitment to expanding NFT DeFi opportunities.
- Tidal — Tidal Finance will employ its decentralized insurance model on the entire ChainGuardians ecosystem. In doing so, this will be a fail-safe mechanism for everyone that uses our ecosystem in the case of unforeseen events. Ultimately this integration will help manage another layer of risk and help protect ChainGuardians NFTs.
- Refinable — As part of the rapidly growing DeFi-based ecosystem, Refinable is a NFT platform built on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) that allows its users to create and transact NFTs. This collaboration will connect ChainGuardians’ users and Guardian-based NFTs with Refinable’s cross-chain platform, giving Refinable users direct access to the ChainGuardian ecosystem.
- Bridge Mutual — This partnership creates a pathway for NFT owners to lend and borrow NFTs with a risk coverage protocol supporting potential losses due to malicious smart contract activity.
- Netvrk — ChainGuardians will explore integrating Guardians into the Netvrk VR world, which has shown to be a diverse blockchain-based virtual reality. NFTs have a healthy future in VR as blockchain makes gaming and entertainment experiences more robust.
- NFTFY — The exchange of technology and knowledge acts as the highlighting features of the collaboration. Both projects aim to leverage technological advances in pursuit of mass adoption and improved user experiences.
- Mogul — Mogul Productions is a decentralized film financing (DeFiFi) and movie-based NFT platform. The scope is to increase the utility of movie-based NFTs and provide additional gamification opportunities for users.
- Orion — As a vital aggregation tool in DeFi, Orion Protocol is a gateway for all crypto markets on one decentralized platform. Thanks to the integration with Orion Protocol, ChainGuardians users will be able to exchange any ERC20 token for ChainGuardian NFTs.
- Reef — The Reef collaboration opens the pathway for ChainGuardians to explore continued chain interoperability, unique use case development, and the creation of a Reef-oriented NFT. More details regarding this collaboration are set for release soon.
- Roseon — Roseon will integrate ChainGuardians’ $CGG token and art into its mobile app. Additionally, ChainGuardians will adopt the Roseon Mascot as a character inside the RPG game, infuse $ROSN rewards into the NFT mining, and create a Roseon collection in the ChainGuardians art gallery.
Integrations & Tech Updates
- World’s first NFT portal [ETH x BSC] — ChainGuardians and pNetwork are proud to introduce the world’s first NFT Portal to our communities, enabling our users to move ChainGuardians NFTs from Ethereum Mainnet to Binance Smart Chain. Moreover, users can also move them back to Ethereum Mainnet. Developing this world-class interface also enables the opportunity to provide portals-as-a-service to our ecosystem partners and beyond.
- pNetwork token bridge — ChainGuardians and pNetwork developed strategic integration with the cross-chain composability solution through a pNetwork token bridge between Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. The collaboration worked in parallel to create the world’s first NFT portal between ETH x BSC — demonstrating unwavering commitment to NFT chain interoperability and use case expansion. Furthermore, ChainGuardians will also run a pNetwork Node to support the sustainable implementation of $PNT into the ChainGuardians ecosystem.
- pCGG/BNB staking — ChainGuardians, in collaboration with Pancakeswap, created the opportunity to stake pCGG/BNB to farm CAKE. Continuance of CGG utility development and DeFi elements furthers ChainGuardians efforts towards a community-oriented ecosystem.
- ChainLink VRF tech integration — By integrating Chainlink VRF, we ensure that all players have a provably fair and unbiased chance at generating any one of the 16 predefined unique color aesthetics possible within our newly released Chainlink Guardian NFTs. The use of Chainlink’s VRF means the generation of each Chainlink Guardian NFT is provably fair.
- Fractionalized NFT farming — ChainGuardians and PancakeSwap collaborated to create fractionalized NFT farming opportunities; a smart contract was created for MIX, which is the only redemption token to mint a Mixie NFT. MIX was acquirable through ChainGuardians’ NFT mining game and Pancakeswap’s syrup pool, where participants could stake CAKE to earn MIX. The creative pathways to mint a ChainGuardians native NFT underscore our commitment to cutting-edge innovation.
- RPG Updates — At present, a group of dedicated beta testers is fine-tuning the CGC (in-game currency) reward system. Soon to follow, the conversion rate will enable users the ability to participate in the free-to-play, play-to-earn loop. ChainGuardians are implementing multiple CGC burn functions to expand CGC use cases beyond CGC: CGG conversions. Critically, several high-profile NFTs have been made available for use, including; Idosan, Sushi Chef Reo, Eren and Sushi Chef Morimoto — the increased speed of RPG-related deliverables highlights a series of game-oriented changes designed to increase workflow efficiencies and quality assurance.
- Charity Donations — ChainGuardians aims to make charity a centerpiece as we continue to expand and evolve. Therefore, YTD, ChainGuardians, has donated a current-day worth of $40,000 to Binance Charity campaigns and Sandeep’s (Polygon Co-founder) Covid Relief charity campaign. These efforts have facilitated a continued and cohesive relationship with both Binance Charity and Polygon.
NFT Mining Integrations
ChainGuardians created the world’s first NFT mining game where people can stake their NFTs for a chance to earn on-chain rewards. Central to our beliefs, NFTs need to do more than look pretty — the NFT mining game has implemented $CGG, $MIX, and $BONDLY as rewards to further underpin our resolve for expanded NFT DeFi capacities. Shortly, additional on-chain rewards are set to be added.
Mining pools led by Captain Devex are soon to be implemented, which will further gamify and unite the community by allowing for distributed community rewards. #staytuned
ChainBoost: The Ultra-Innovative BoostPad & Incubation Protocol
ChainBoost is a gamified, comprehensive incubator protocol tailored to optimize the success trajectory of NFT and Defi-oriented projects. ChainBoost’s purpose is to connect long-term early-project supporters with quality, promising projects. As such, the BoostScore has been developed.
ChainBoost’s BoostScore aims to analyze a member’s involvement in the ChainGuardians ecosystem to differentiate speculators from supporters. Through the connection of these parties, the vision is to simultaneously nurture sustainable growth for projects while rewarding supporters for their loyalty. Critically, the BoostScore represents the likelihood that a user is selected for whitelisting and a contribution slot. Naturally, the higher a BoostScore, the greater odds a user has to be invited to contribute. The following factors determine the BoostScore:
- $CGG staked
- $CGG holdings and trading history habits
- ChainGuardians’ NFTs & trading habits
- Member behaviors after receiving contribution slots
- Partner tokens and NFTs staked and trading (phase 2)
A more comprehensive list of factors affecting a user’s BoostScore and constituting desirable behavior can be found here.
$CGG Utility Expansion
Both ChainGuardians and ChainBoost are underpinned and powered by $CGG — we have and continue to work tirelessly to expand $CGG functions while ensuring, protecting, and scaling the ecosystem. Often the following question appears, “What can I do with my $CGG?”
- DeFi opportunities on PancakeSwap, QuickSwap, and DinoSwap (coming July, 2021)
- Purchase NFTs
- Bridge between ETH x BSC x Polygon
- Powers the ChainBoost protocol for an IDO/Pre-IDO contribution opportunity
- Internal staking & Governance(coming soon)
Conclusion
ChainGuardians have many esteemed, industry-changing accomplishments during our short time since IDO. Our past achievements do not dilute our efforts for future growth. Our team is expanding, capacities growing, and opportunities elevating — we have been and continue to be honored to work for our fantastic community. Bottom-line — ChainGuardians and ChainBoost are crafted for communities by communities to maximize value-added. After all, ChainGuardians is set to be anything NFTs for everyone.
