The Hero’s Hold #17 — March 7, 2022

6 min readMar 7, 2022

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The Hero’s Hold — A DeFi Kingdoms Hero Report

Introduction

Well met, adventurer — welcome to The Hero’s Hold! In this series, we track the details about heroes in DeFi Kingdoms, with game news, statistics, metrics, and more!

The snapshot for all of this week’s data was taken on 3/7 at 8am ET.

In this Issue:

Heroic Happenings (Game News)
The Summoner’s Circle (Hero Stats)

Today’s issue is slightly abbreviated — we’ll be putting the Adventurer’s Guild (Hero Wallets) section on hiatus for a bit, since the Perilous Journey makes those numbers much less meaningful. But once heroes return, we’ll get right back to it!

So, let’s dig in!

Heroic Happenings

All eyes are on the Perilous Journey and the forthcoming release of Crystalvale! With Heroes returning on 3/16 and the Avalanche Summit in Barcelona from 3/22–3/27, we know there’s a lot of big news right on the horizon. But here are a few things that happened this week!

The Perilous Journey Begins

Signups for the Perilous Journey began on Wednesday afternoon, and will close in just a few hours at 2pm EST!

At the time of publication, over 32k Heroes from 3.7k wallets had been committed to the dangerous trek to discover Crystalvale — nearly 20% of all Heroes, and around the same for Hero-holding wallets.

Once the boats have been loaded up, we’ll be sure to bring you more data about all of the Heroes sent off in to the unknown. Look for that article later this week.

And as a reminder, Heroes will return — or not — on March 16 at 2pm EST, at which point they will be claimable along with all earned rewards.

Stamina Regeneration Update

Long awaited, this week’s patch adjusted the way that Hero stamina regeneration works:

Heroes no longer regenerate missing stamina while questing
But they now begin regenerating stamina once questing is complete

This is great news for those of us who like to get some sleep, and start a bunch of quests before going to bed!

The team is also still looking toward an additional change to allow stamina regeneration while a Hero is queued for questing.

Hero of the Week

With all of the summoning happening this week, we also hit a big hero milestone — the 150,000th Hero summoned from the Inner Grove!

A warm welcome to Giphus Fudhúll, and congratulations to EJG! If sent, may he survive the Perilous Journey!

In Smaller News…

Some other news, announcements, and content from the past week:

Weekly Community AMA

DFK Community AMA w/Dev Team (Video | Writeup)

A few notable takeaways from the AMA:

Reworking Hero auctions is still in progress, with new styles of auction in the future
Plans for players to be able to tag their own Heroes for searching/filtering
Approximately 8 lands will be made available only to survivors of the Perilous Journey to compete in land tournaments. Given that these tournaments will involve contests of a specific Hero stat, it would not be a stretch to think that these 8 lands will be one of each stat. Details still to be released, however.
CRYSTAL airdrops will provide most of the initial liquidity of CRYSTAL. Details still forthcoming, but there may be other incentives as well.

Grant Program Update

The first application for the DFK Grant Program was released to the community this week — DFK Arena. After initial community feedback, and broader concerns about the ability for 3rd-party applications to adjust hero states (and particularly to use stamina and award XP), FriskyFox held a community listening session (Notes | Video | Writeup) to lay out his vision of DFK as a metaverse platform and to hear community feedback both to this vision and to the grant program.

In response, the community vote for funding the grant proposal has been postponed, while Grant Program itself will be revamped to better align with community expectations.

Official Medium

DeFi Kingdoms Token Burning and the Perilous Journey

From the Community

The Summoner’s Circle

Let’s take a look at some statistics for all of the heroes that have been summoned so far.

Total Heroes: 150,524 (+9,788 / 6.95%)

Hero Growth

Hero summoning went wild this week as people worked to finish off summons before the Perilous Journey. The total number of heroes increased by 9,788 (6.95%), with an average just shy of 1,400 new heroes summoned every day, and 1,642 in the previous 24 hours — the highest number since mid-November.

Total Heroes (Weekly Change / % Change)
• Mar. 7: 150,524 (+9,788 / 6.95%)
• Feb. 28: 140,735 (+7,433 / 5.58%)
• Feb. 21: 133,302 (+5,945 / 4.67%)
• Feb. 14: 127,357 (+6,306 / 5.21%)

Tavern Volume

Tavern volume likewise spiked again this week to numbers that we last saw in January. The average number of sales this week was 1,188, with a total weekly volume of 817k JEWEL. The average sale price this week was 99.5 JEWEL vs. 96.7 last week.

Note: As with the other data, the daily numbers represent the 24 hours prior to 8am ET on the listed day.

Hero Stat Breakdowns

The number of Level 1 Heroes spiked this week from all the new summons. We also saw large increases in Levels 5 and 6. These numbers will be very interesting once heroes return from the Perilous Journey!

That’s it for today! Thanks for reading, and please subscribe and stick around for future editions of The Hero’s Hold. If you like what you’re reading here, I’m happy to accept tips at: 0xf543311360d1072873D627B06ffe85587e8fc41a.

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