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P2E game Nyan Heroes aims to save 1 billion sheltered cats

January 7, 2022No Comments


Nyan Heroes, NFT's play-to-win (P2E) cat-themed game, aims to save 1 billion cats from euthanasia in animal shelters across the US.

Nyan Heroes is an upcoming NFT Battle Royal Shooter style game based on the Solana Blockchain that will allow players to compete against each other using NFTs representing animated cats that are used to pilot NFTs of mechanical robots in the game.

The US-based project has been in development since October and the game will launch in Q4 2022. Its first NFT installment is currently available for hodling and trading on markets like Fractal.

According to data from Solana Art, Nyan Heroes is the fourth highest NFT project in Solana in terms of seven-day volume and market capitalization, at $ 279,000 and $ 18.2 million, respectively.

In an interview with Cointelegraph, Nyan Heroes co-founder and Australian Wendy Huang outlined the company's charitable vision for moving forward, as well as providing an overview of the upcoming game.

Huang has been involved with cryptocurrencies since 2016 and has also built a successful career as a content creator ranging from vlogs to DIY videos, pranks, and music, and has amassed nearly 14 million. subscribers in Youtube.

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Huang stated that his love for cats and that of fellow co-founder Max Fu was a key factor in linking animal-centered charity work with Nyan Heroes. She said they have an ambitious goal of "saving one billion cats" from euthanasia in animal shelters through charitable donations generated from portions of the project's NFT sales.

Nyan Heroes revealed their first efforts in this area on December 24, when Announced a $ 250,000 donation from the proceeds of his first NFT installment to the nonprofit Best Friends Society. "That was one of the proudest moments I've ever had on this project," he said.

Best Friends Society offers a "no kill" sanctuary for orphaned animals and also prevents the death of cats and dogs in US shelters through its charitable work. The group estimates that their "do not kill" movement has helped reduce the number of dog and cat deaths in animal shelters from 17 million annually to around 347,000.

Huang revealed that the game project will launch a DAO that will give its members voting rights on where Nyan Heroes donations will be allocated in the future.

โ€œWe will be creating a young DAO hero. And part of DAO's responsibilities will be deciding where to donate funds, to which animal shelter, and to what causes in that particular area. " she said.

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Huang noted that a major sticking point for P2E blockchain games it is sustainability over a long period of time. She said that many P2E games depend on a steady stream of new users to remain profitable and suffer from players continually charging for and taking value out of the game.

โ€œWe don't know how many players will enter the economy. So we have to realize that building a game is not just about the game, but about the economic system and how sustainable everything is, "he said.

Huang said that Nyan Heroes' sustainability model is based on several factors, such as introducing a stablecoin in the game to reduce the volatility of its assets, wagering rewards on NFT, and a Fortnite-like triple-A gaming experience that " historically it has attracted players "who want to spend money on the game:

"The way we approach it is to create a better game that users really want to play in and inject value into the system to balance the players who enter the ecosystem to extract value."

โ€œWe keep the in-game token stable so that the value of in-game items doesn't crash and burn. And we think that's what players need to want to keep a game. You don't want your in-game items to be worth $ 1,000 one day and then $ 10 the next, โ€he added.