XLand — Redefine Play To Earn

X Land #GameFi
8 min readAug 8, 2023

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2022 was a downturn period for the GameFi industry, as it faced several black swan events, including the rise and fall of StepN, Luna’s collapse, 3AC bankruptcy, FTX’s scandal, DCG’s liquidation, among others, resulting in an 87% market cap shrinkage for the tokens.

The majority of GameFi project tokens experienced over a 90% drop. At the beginning of 2022, GameFi token market cap accounted for 0.9% of the overall crypto market, but by the end of the year, it only represented 0.5%, underperforming the crypto market as a whole.

In this challenging situation, 85% of GameFi projects had fewer than 1,000 users. Despite a 49% increase in the number of GameFi protocols compared to the previous year, the count of active protocols with over 100 daily active users (DAU) kept decreasing, with only 14.5% of GameFi protocols attracting more than 1,000 users.

Additionally, 98% of GameFi protocols had an average weekly retention rate below 10%, and the bear market resulted in a decline in return on investment (ROI), causing most games without engaging gameplay mechanics to stagnate and face an impending demise. In response to these challenges, XLand emerged to bring new vitality and rejuvenation to the GameFi sector.

What is XLand?

Xland is an adventure GameFi based on blockchain technology, where players can earn cryptocurrency and access rare exploration resources through various in-game actions.

These rewards can be used for various trading activities. All players exist within a virtual maritime exploration world, where they can embark on sea adventures by acquiring different character NFTs. They must follow clues and hints on the map to locate targets and face various dangers and challenges. All game data is recorded on the blockchain to ensure fairness and transparency.

Xland offers not only the thrill of exploration and adventure but also combines blockchain technology and digital assets knowledge to help players gain a deeper understanding of both.

The project utilizes blockchain technology to establish the true value of in-game tokens, enhancing the game’s sustainability and player engagement. Furthermore, Xland emphasizes community building by organizing online and offline events and facilitating community interactions to attract user participation and enhance user retention.

As a GameFi, Xland’s core value lies in the seamless integration of gaming and blockchain technology, providing users with a more enjoyable, secure, and efficient gaming experience with economic rewards. The launch of Xland is expected to be a significant contribution to the blockchain gaming space, attracting more attention and participation from users and investors.

Redefine P2E

The core of the Play-to-Earn model is the integration of the in-game virtual economy system with blockchain technology, enabling the in-game economy to possess real value and tradability.

Players can earn virtual currency or other digital assets by completing tasks, challenges, and competitions. These earnings are recorded on the blockchain, ensuring transparency and fairness in the game economy.

The foundation of the Play-to-Earn model is to allow users to invest and earn profits while continuously acquiring in-game items. In Xland, upon registration, users receive an initial capital of 3600 GPP, which can be used to exchange for the Novice Sailor NFT and participate in the game’s exploration activities.

Through this approach, players can continuously acquire more items and earnings within the game while enjoying the excitement and fun of exploration.

Great dreams begin with GameFi

Xland is an adventure-themed GameFi game, with the core gameplay focused on acquiring and nurturing XLand Alliance Guardians. There are six different characters in the game, including Novice Sailor, Sailor, First Mate, Chief Engineer, Captain, and Navigator.

Each character possesses unique attributes and abilities, allowing players to enhance their position and earnings in the game by nurturing these characters. Additionally, players can experience different game content and enjoyments with each character.

In addition to character nurturing, Xland offers various regular gameplay features, including fleet training, sea exploration, and fleet formation. In fleet training, players can enhance the strength and combat abilities of their fleet by training and upgrading their crew’s skills. During sea exploration, players can follow clues and hints on the map to locate targets, face various dangers and challenges, and earn different rewards and profits.

In fleet formation, players can purchase and synthesize different NFT ships to form their own fleet and utilize the fleet’s strength to participate in battles and exploration activities.

Role Nurturing

When users enter the world of Xland, they receive 3600 GPP as initial capital. These GPP can be used to exchange for a Novice Sailor character card, officially beginning the Xland exploration journey. Through exploration, completing tasks, participating in competitions, and other means, players can earn more GPP and other digital assets, thereby improving their position and earnings in the game. Additionally, players can use GPP to upgrade their characters, unlocking more gameplay and profits.

In Xland, each character has their own quality limit and level cap. Players can choose different characters for cultivation and upgrading based on their needs and preferences. Details are as follows:

Different characters unlock various gameplay and earnings, such as higher-level missions, rarer items, and digital assets, among others. By continuously upgrading their characters, players can gradually improve their position and earnings in the game while enjoying a more diverse and enriching gameplay experience.

Fleet Formation

Xland fleet is a gameplay feature based on NFTs, where players can form fleets to earn more rewards and increase the fleet’s level. Players can join a fleet by spending 100 XC and holding at least 1 Captain NFT.

In a fleet, players can use XC to participate in fleet voting, which increases the fleet’s level and expands its membership. It’s important to note that fleet members can only vote for their own fleet, while non-fleet members can vote for multiple node groups.

There is a relationship between the fleet level and the number of members, and the higher the fleet level, the higher the GGP points, which can be used to upgrade NFTs and participate in other gameplay features. By participating in Xland fleets, players can earn more rewards, increase the fleet’s level, and team up with other players, enhancing the fun and interactivity of the game.

Fleet Training

Xland training mode is a gameplay feature based on NFTs, where players can upgrade their NFTs to unlock the training mode and earn XC rewards.

First, players need to obtain a character and then upgrade the NFT to unlock the training mode. Initially, the NFT starts at level 0 and cannot be trained. Once the character reaches level 1 or above, training mode becomes available. VIP0 players can train for 8 hours, and after training, they can collect XC rewards.

The collected XC is distributed to the player’s XC account and dividend reward account in a certain proportion and can be converted to GGP for character upgrades. The training mode follows a “sailor going to sea” concept, where level 0 sailors cannot go to sea, but sailors at level 1 or above can go to sea for 24 hours. Completing the training mode once a day allows players to earn XP, with the quantity varying based on the character’s level.

How to Participate:

Fleet Exploration

Xland fleet exploration missions are adventurous activities to search for the Naga, offering rewards such as XP, NFTs, and GGP points. The exploration takes place in XlandCrypto Land, with the Naga God’s Island at its center, surrounded by multiple smaller islands to be explored.

The exploration missions open for registration every Monday from 9:00 to 21:00. Only after the fleet leader registers, fleet members can participate in the exploration missions. From Tuesday to Saturday, between 9:00 and 21:00 each day, team members can independently explore each island. Each small island can be explored once for free per day, and using XC, a maximum of 10 explorations can be conducted. The number of exploration attempts is also limited by the number of NFTs with expedition levels.

Xland islands have endurance points, with a total of 100 islands and a total endurance value of 210 million HP. The endurance points consumed during each exploration are equal to the total HP value of the summoner NFTs. The summoner who completes the exploration last on each island receives an NFT reward, and the team receives XP rewards proportionally. The GGP points are equivalent to the conversion amount of destroyed XC based on the account level and are distributed on the settlement day.

There are also team reward rules for fleets. The top three teams’ top three members receive an NFT each, while the remaining members evenly split the GGP. Other winning team members split the team’s GGP points proportionally. Based on their ranking, winning team members receive GGP rewards at different ratios.

By participating in Xland fleet exploration missions, players can earn various rewards, increase the fleet’s level, and join forces with other players, enhancing the fun and interactivity of the game.

A comprehensive layout based on Web3

Xland aims to create an open ecosystem consisting of multiple components, including Xland DAO, Xland Pocket, Xland Chain, Xland Swap, Xland Token, and Xland Meta.

Xland DAO is an important part of the community ecosystem, building an active ecosystem through community contribution evaluation mechanisms and reward rules. Ecological crowdfunding rules serve as an early reward distribution method, while Xland DAO-VC rewards DAO members through ecological investments.

Xland Pocket is a decentralized cryptocurrency wallet that enables storage of various digital currencies, cross-chain transactions of encrypted assets, NFT minting and storage, and serves as an important tool for linking the Xland ecosystem to the Ethereum ecosystem.

Xland Chain is the foundational public chain of the Xland ecosystem built on the Ethereum ecosystem. It adopts a POS+POC consensus mechanism for mining, and the mining quantity follows a negative growth rule with proportional reduction and gas fee destruction.

XlandSwap consists of XlandToken Swap and XlandNFT Swap. XlandToken Swap adopts a DEX+CEX trading model, while XlandNFT Swap allows fee-free transactions and utilizes a royalty incentive mechanism to encourage NFT creators and minters to participate in NFT ecosystem development.

Xland Token is the native token of the Xland ecosystem, initially obtained through DAO community rules and ecological incentives. After the launch of the Xland Chain mainnet, Xland Token is obtained through mining as the native token of the network.

Xland Meta is an important component of the XlandCrypto ecosystem, led by ABC Labs to promote the landing of GameFi, SocialFi, NFT, and other ecosystems on the Xland Chain mainnet. The Web3.0 governance mechanism provides corresponding reward mechanisms to all ecosystem builders.

By redefining GameFi, Xland has achieved the integration of the gaming world and the crypto world, providing players with a more realistic, enjoyable, and valuable gaming experience. Through the Free to play model, Xland allows more players to participate and enjoy the fun and value of gaming, while also providing more earning opportunities. As a trend in the future gaming industry, GameFi will gain wider application and development under the promotion of Xland, bringing innovative and diverse development space to the GameFi sector.

We look forward to the future development of Xland and believe it will inject new vitality and momentum into the gaming industry, becoming a pioneer and leader in the GameFi field.

XLand is a GameFi to redefine the play to earn, bring a chance to users for free to earn.

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