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PARADOX REALM
Recruit your gang
Build your empire
Rule your world
Welcome to the Paradox Realm
Good Luck…
Table of Contents
Introduction…………………………..…………………………………………………………P3
1. The Vision Thing………………..……………………………………………………………P4
2. Key Features……………………………………………………………………………………P6
At A Glance………………………………………………………………………………………P6
2.1 An Expanding Universe of Perpetual Possibility…………………………………….…….. P6
2.2 Game Features……………………………………………………………………………….P8
2.3 Playable Characters………………………………………………………………………….P9
2.4 Special Events………………………………………………………………………………P10
3. Pre-Release (Pre-GEN2 NFT Mint)………………………………………………………………………….P11
3.1 Pre-NFT Mint Initiation………………………………………………………………….…P11
3.2 A Fair & Simple Winning System for Cipher/Riddle Challenges………………………….P12
4. Registration & Later Stages…………………………………………………….………….P13
4.1 Initial Registration of NFTs…………………………………………………………………P13
4.2 Stage 1: Players & Registration Keys……………………………………………………….P13
4.3 Later Stages…………………………………………………………………………………P14
5. NFT Breakdown & Tokenomics……………………………………………..…………….P15
5.1 How The GEN2 Mint Will Work……………………………………………………………P15
5.2 In-Game Currency vs. Real World Currency……………………………………………….P15
5.3 Token Utilities………………………………………………………………………………P16
5.4 PARA Tokens on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC)………………………………………………………P16
5.5 Staking of BSC Tokens……………………………………………………………………..P17
5.6 How To Purchase In-Game Currency………………………………………………………P17
5.7 “Cool Down” Periods………………………………………………………………………P18
5.8 Airdrops & In-Game Purchases…………………………………………………………….P18
6. Additional Revenue Streams……………………………………………………………….P19
7. Metaverse…………………………………………………………………………………….P20
8. Artist & Character Development…………………………………………………………..P21
9. Road Map……………………………………………………………………………………P22
10. Team…………………………………………………………………………………………P25
11. System Requirements………………………………………………………………………P26
Introduction
The Cobalt Lend team is delighted to present Paradox Realm, a pioneering and cutting-edge NFT game primed to take Play to Earn (P2E) to a whole new and unprecedented level. Paradox Realm will build out a continually evolving metaverse that will redefine the possibilities of gameplay and will make strides in P2E with its revolutionary method of allowing in-game assets to become real-world assets.
Not only does the Paradox Realm game push the boundaries of what may be achieved with NFTs — way beyond their status as static artistic or proprietary indulgence — it also promises to be an innovation that will transform the use- and exchange value of gaming itself, increasingly connecting the virtual and physical worlds.
How? For years, developers have sought to crack the riddle of how to refine P2E to ensure a more seamless equivalence between in-game earnings and real-world remuneration. By using open-source code from Grand Theft Auto 5, Cobalt Lend has been able to build on the advances made by RockStar Games and 5M Labs to offer the ultimate reward for in-game dedication: the underwritten ability for in-game tokens to have real-world financial value.
Basically, this means that Cobalt Lend has figured out how to finally make P2E real. In the immersive, all-encompassing Paradox Realm gangster underworld metaverse, tokens and assets earned in game can be taken outside the game and used in the real world. This has been made possible by Cobalt Lend’s pioneering role as the first genuine metaverse intermediary bank.
Game progress will enable players to make in-game purchases that forward their cause — but in addition, as they forward that cause, they will have the increasing opportunity to turn their in-game assets into real-life assets. And it doesn’t stop there: the Paradox Realm metaverse is just that: a world that is continually building outwards into yet more worlds and metaverses, and in which Paradox Realm inhabitants, partners, and affiliates can rent space, erect buildings, open their own commercial branches, sell their own advertising space, and much much more.
All this is set against the backdrop of the 1920’s to 1950’s gangster underworld, running from the end of America’s first robber baron gilded age to the rise of the mob and through to its 1950’s supremacy. It’s a killer game, in which players experience the paradoxical consequences of their own choices and actions within the metaverse in their own evolving reality.
Paradox Realm is not just a fun game. It’s a game where players will make crime their business… and where business is good.
1. The Vision Thing
Cobalt Lend is developing a unique approach to blockchain gaming that will engage, captivate, and enthrall the player in an eventually fully self-contained metaverse.
The first world of the Paradox Realm metaverse is set in 1920’s to 1950’s Prohibition-era gangster America. Players embody gangster avatars navigating this harsh underworld of guns, gambling, booze, and broads, selecting “jobs” to complete in the process of creating their own “Gallow Gang”. The player progresses along the storyline by solving challenges, riddles, and puzzles related to each job.
The Paradox Realm immersive experience is initiated through cipher challenges. Solving these challenges grants access to a competition-based NFT syndicate-style “gang” in the game that takes place in the autonomous, immersive online world of Paradox Realm. While playing the game, players are invited to solve ever more challenges set forth by the Paradox Realm team to earn additional trophies & rewards — or other tokens. These NFTs are linked to online, in-world rewards, such as in-game tokens, Solana, or other NFTs that allow users to interact and buff their NFT player avatar, empowering them to change the entire nature of their gaming experience.
These items therefore possess the potential to change (potentially for the worse!) the gamer’s main avatar. And yet, the riddles and tasks unlock access to rewards the player will find it hard to refuse. The choice, then, is the player’s paradox: risk it all by accepting the challenge, and, as in the real mob world, either lose — or win big…!
Other challenges lead to opportunities to be transported to alternate hidden corners of the game universe and even for players to challenge or befriend opponents while assembling their gang. In addition, respective gangs will have the possibility periodically to unite and work together to complete especially challenging tasks that can lead to even bigger bounties, making them worth the personal investment and additional team effort.
Further expansion of the Paradox Realm metaverse is planned for Q3-Q4 2022, as is transitioning to making real estate within this metaverse available for purchase. We expect that the availability of this real estate will enjoin creators to build out together with us using our blockchain applications.
The Cobalt Lend team set out to develop this Play To Earn (P2E) armed with an essential understanding of the power of bringing the concept of gangland grit ’n’ glamor to fun-seeking communities. Players can immerse themselves in their alter egos in a battle of wits to further their quest for survival, infamy — and fortune and glory, online — and even in the real world. We have mapped out unprecedented and astonishingly innovative ways to give our community members ways to deploy both cutting-edge technology and their own cunning to experience the thrill of creating Gallow Gangs, perform intellectually stimulating and financially rewarding jobs, and experience the thrill of a mafia-style existence within a self-contained gaming universe.
The benefits for community members also include further rewards, such as good deals on the merchandise they have unlocked while solving challenges, as well as the ability to earn substantial, real-world money.
Gang up with Cobalt Lend’s Paradox Realm — the paradox of choice is the path to reward.
2. Key Features
At A Glance:
- Immerse yourself in one of the biggest action-adventure games of all time
- P2E guaranteeing real transactions from in-game earnings to live blockchain assets
- NFTs continually being taken to a new level of game utility, increasing value further
- Earn tokens and assets in-game that can be used in the real world
- Enjoy unique maps with keys dividing the game into different worlds in which you must recruit your own gang to fight, gradually take over the city, and eventually run your own mafia empire. Don’t expect it to be easy!
- Choose your play style by either focusing on story missions, becoming a sidequest mogul, or exploring the underworld while performing day-to-day jobs.
- Arm yourself, purchase weapons, cars and clothes, and become a partner or owner of multiple buildings and establishments
- Take part in the multiplayer feature with your friends and cooperate or compete in missions (if you own multiple NFTs, you could almost build your raid team by yourself)
- Staking action by letting your NFT character wander off to do more mundane jobs to collect more ingame currency
- “Jobs system” for PARA Dollars, used for character maintenance.
- Special events whereby players can earn PARA which has a real world value
2.1 An Expanding Universe of Perpetual Possibility
The first world players encounter is set in 1920’s to 1950’s gangster-era America. Each player will navigate this underworld via their NFT-generated character, choosing the job(s) they wish to complete in the process of creating their Gallow Gang. Players then progress along the storyline by solving challenges related to each job. The completion of each job contributes to building a character “skill tree” set, making the player’s character a valuable team member for specific jobs based on their game experience. A new trait obtained through an NFT will multiply exp. NFTs with differentiated attributes, experiences, and skill sets acquired in gameplay may thereby come to complement each other, with the ultimate objective of making the player’s NFT Gallow Gang powerful enough to complete the tasks — and reap the rewards.
All challenges lead the player to a specific wallet address or end goal. Once the player has uncovered or solved a cipher, they obtain a wallet address. When this is accessed, they will be required to submit a small transaction to lock in a time stamp that will accurately and fairly determine the true winner of the challenges depending on who solved them first (see: 5. NFT Breakdown & Tokenomics below).
In order to participate in the game, each player must hold at least one (1) Paradox Realm NFT. The more Paradox Realm NFTs the player holds, the better their statistical outcome in any gaming event within the Paradox Realm universe. Each NFT is essential to building a Gallow Gang and represents a member of said gang in the Paradox Realm game. Those holding NFTs will also be airdropped PARA tokens for purchase of in-game assets (see: 3.5 below).
The first character NFT the player mints, or purchases from the secondary market, will be the character they control within the gamespace. This character possesses the initial skills that the player controls (to be revealed upon mint via an open scene-style mint, or “intro class”). However, the NFT may then be complemented by additional NFTs that provide more attributes to the player’s NFT character. For example, if their NFT character does not yet possess a weapon, it will be advantageous to the player to purchase more NFTs or weapons in-game.
Players may only perform one (1) job per in game character. If they wish, they may drop one job to pursue another, but in certain situations it could reset their expert level. If they possess the necessary trait, it will allow them to level up their specialized NFT character faster. Gameplay consists of daily jobs, tasks, exp earning and farming for in-game or irl tokens. Once each player has minted their character(s), they must visit the Paradox Realm Discord channel to receive instructions detailing how to play each level within the game. These will be updated continually as we continuously build out new, distinctive, and expansive worlds on Cobalt Lend’s dedicated Paradox Realm website.
Some examples of in-game jobs may include (but are not limited to):
· Chemist/scientist
· Political lapdog
· Media Mogul
· Gun/Fingerman
· Brawler
· Tech Wiz
· Shiner/Bootlegger
· Getaway driver
· Taxi Driver
· Garbage Collector
· Assassin
· Don
· Snitch
· Dirty Cop
· Doctor
· Mechanic
The next world is already planned and outlined for Paradox Realm to expand to the 1800’s old American Wild West. These are only the first of the multiverse of worlds the Cobalt team will eventually create, ultimately expanding our metaverse to manifold realms.
2.2 Game Features
Popular Gameplay Elements
Paradox Realm features many gameplay elements made famous by the Grand Theft Auto games. The Cobalt Lend team has implemented the FiveM & CFX code in order to build upon supplied assets made popular by GTA5 & Rockstar games. This was done to be in a position to implement universally beloved and popular features: car theft and carrying multiple weapons at once are some of the most prominent features built upon.
P2E
Powered by Cobalt Lend, Paradox Realm features the most advanced P2E system yet devised. In-game progress will allow players to make in-game purchases that forward their cause, and as they forward that cause and earn tangible tokens and assets, they will have the opportunity to transform these into real-life assets.
Multiple Player Perspectives
Paradox Realm is played from either the third-, or, for the first time in the series, the first-person perspective. In the single-player game, players play as one of two main characters, male or female (see: 2.3 below). Players have the option to change their character at any moment, so long as they are not currently engaged in a mission.
When players enter the Paradox Realm world, they have the possibility of completing story missions that play out from the perspective of one of the main characters central to the plot taking place at any given moment.
Secondary Missions, Secondary Worlds
In addition, players may encounter secondary missions while “free roaming” the Paradox Realm world, as well as supplementary bounties and part-time jobs that can earn them money for their gaming expenditures. Exploring Paradox Realm worlds and the rural areas known as “Sub Worlds” surrounding them while recruiting a gang is a big part of the game, and players may end up spending a great many hours doing solely that, without even picking up a single story mission.
Wanted!: Combat and Crime
Players may use any means necessary to fight their enemies, including, but not limited to, guns and explosives. Arming oneself with several of the available weapons in the in-game shops is a good method of spending hard-earned in-game money, which will help the player become ever more efficient in shooting their way to real (in- and out-of-game) capital in the process. Paradox Realm implements auto-aim to help fight foes and also provides a cover system that consists of shielding oneself from an enemy’s bullets by (for example) hiding behind obstacles.
When a player commits a crime, the “Wanted” meter appears, symbolized by stars visible on the screen. The more stars a player has, the more “Wanted” they are. The bigger the bounty on their head, the more advanced class of law enforcement is on their tail — for example, Government forces if a player’s “Wanted” level reaches 5 stars. If players are gunned down and killed during an on-the-run fight, though, they needn’t worry — hospital personnel will make them right as rain and respawn them on the spot. They may also land themselves in prison, where networking with others and expanding their skills via activities in the prison yard will be crucial to executing their jailbreak.
Multiplayer
Playing together with friends or other people online allows players to partake not only in the standard single player “free roam”, but also to do certain jobs and undertake several missions in which they can cooperate or compete to achieve certain objectives that ultimately allow them to earn money. Advanced tools created by the developers allow players to create and customize quests, giving the game a much larger variety of activities to complete for the purposes of both entertainment and monetary compensation.
2.3 Playable Characters
Examples:
· Lawyer
· Doctor
· Techie/Code breaker
· Scientist/chemist
· Soda shop / pharmacy
· Preacher/deacon
· Warden
· Cop
· Driver
· Assassin
· Movies/media
· Mechanics
· Gas station operators
· Yard operators (ship/construction)
· Vet
· Bruiser
· Bootlegger
· Club owner
· Politician
· Construction worker
· Radio/media personality
· Racketeering
· Extortion
· Loansharking
· Tailor
· Bar back
· Look-out
NPC Characters:
- Diner staff
- Pedestrians
- And more…
- Train operator
- Paper boy
2.4 Special Events
Big-sized special events will be held quarterly for big bounties like NFTs or a good-sized SOL/token heist. These events will consist of:
· Raids
· Art heists (NFTs of any type) or Portal/enviro rooms
· Bank heists
· Car heists (panzer dog tanks/war riders)
· Zoo or aquarium heists (animal NFT)
· Illegal poaching expeditions (animal NFT)
· Boss battles
· Shakedowns
These events will be time-sensitive and verified by a database.
Of the special events, the bank and art heists are especially noteworthy. The bank heist will involve intricate challenges (like a real bank heist would), such as stealing hard drives and other dares that give access to the bank, and in which winners are rewarded with PARA- or Cobalt (CBLT) tokens (see: 5. NFT Breakdown & Tokenomics below).
The art heist is even more fascinating, as it will allow Paradox Realm to set up its own metaverse gallery to be stocked with other real NFTs, such as Exiled Apes, United Aliens, and many others. Players will be able to steal these actual NFTs from the metaverse gallery on art heists, creating a real cross-community effort and common elements of the metaverse between ourselves and other NFTs, thus also automatically expanding the appeal of Paradox Realm to other metaverse communities.
3. Pre-Release (Pre GEN2 NFT Mint)
3.1 Pre-NFT Mint Initiation
Following the mint in December 2021 of the original GEN1 Gallow Gang club character NFTs, a GEN2 mint of 5,000 NFTs is set to occur in Q1 that improves on the first GEN1 test run while the game is being restructured and awaiting release.
To initiate the community into the Paradox Realm concept during this waiting period, a series of coded messages, or ciphers, have been released on the internet that must be deciphered to claim a small prize, such as winning $10 in SOL. Each cipher is a time-sensitive race where there can only be one winner. During this pre-release phase, the numerous ciphers are open to the general public to solve while we prepare the minting of the GEN2 NFTs that will grant access to the game. Solving these ciphers, meanwhile, gives us the opportunity to familiarize the community with the game concept.
Check out some of the ciphers on our Discord channel:
Example #1:
Fig. 1: Cipher
Pre-game cypher challenges to break wallet seed phrases provided by: https://twitter.com/CryptographyNFT
Cobalt Lend will continue to run these cipher-challenges after game launch and throughout its existence. Cipher puzzles will be hidden throughout the entire in-game city at any time for players to find and solve, enabling them to win additional prizes.
3.2 A Fair & Simple Winning System for Cipher/Riddle Challenges
The cipher and riddle challenges will continue to appear throughout the entire game (and therefore in perpetuity, as the game metaverse develops) in order to stimulate community interaction as well as provide continual opportunities for players to earn money. The following is a simplified outline of how the winners of cipher contests are identified:
1. Players enter the Paradox Realm metaverse and search for concealed ciphers hidden throughout the city.
2. Players solve cipher challenges and/or complete jobs that uncover specific Solana wallet addresses.
3. Players submit a transaction to the selected Solana address to timestamp the blockchain with their transaction.
4. The winner of a cipher challenge is determined fairly based on the transaction hash that is now immutable on the Solana blockchain.
4. Registration & Later Stages
4.1 Initial Registration of NFTs
Registered wallets will have access to one (1) Rockstar Game key and all the further access that comes with it. Only one Rockstar Game key will be permitted per wallet in the effort to safeguard the secondary market’s ability to play the game.
Following the initial mint, all NFT holders must register their NFTs or “Gallow Gang” via paradoxrealm.com to receive a username and game key. All NFTs from the Paradox Realm mint in the player’s wallet will be combined through attributes, traits, and abilities to form the best “Gallow Gang” possible for the player. AI will be responsible for determining advantages or disadvantages based on traits from the player’s NFT.
NOTE: If a player sells their NFTs on the secondary market, their game play will be restricted until they re-register their gang. The game key will be randomly attached to one of the NFTs in a player’s collection.
Registration Steps
STEP 1: Buy NFT(s)
STEP 2: Register NFT collection at paradoxrealm.com:
a) Register phantom wallet holding Paradox Realm NFTs
b) Register Metamask wallet for use of currency in AND out of game (NOTE: complete directions for installing wallets, RPCs & token addresses will be available on paradoxrealm.com)
c) Select available username
d) Register email address for game key
STEP 3: Prompt to buy in-game currency with Metamask
STEP 4: Join Discord (this completes the connection)
STEP 5: Download and install the game
4.2 Stage 1: Players & Registration Keys
Game keys will be issued to coincide with the 5,000 NFTs to be minted, which is also the absolute maximum number of players in order to keep the game both manageable and scalable at the same time.
However, this is the absolute upper limit of players and is purely theoretical to match the number of NFTs minted. In practical terms, it will be necessary not to overburden the servers, so we are aiming for around 2,500 players or less for Stage 1 gameplay. The Paradox team will then gradually expand our metaverse in later stages and the number of players. Additionally, we are expecting — and encouraging — players to purchase multiple NFTs from GEN 2.
In addition, given their cost and to keep the game manageable, registration keys can only be issued to and activated by players one at a time. This means a player will have one registration key no matter how many NFTs they buy. This also prevents NFTs bought on the secondary market from being registered, and so discourages players from selling their NFTs on the secondary market. Concurrently, when a player loses their NFT because they registered on a secondary market, our mechanism of airdropping PARA-tokens to the Metamask wallets of the original NFT holders allows us to know when an NFT has been put on the secondary market for sale. This in turn lets us know that the new holder of the NFT will require their own registration key when they come to paradoxrealm.com to play the game.
Cobalt Lend reserves the right to suspend or decline issuance of any game key we deem necessary in order to preserve the integrity of the Paradox Realm gameplay.
4.3 Later Stages
Stage 2 (PC Game)
Stage 2 of the Paradox Realm gameplay will use CFX BackEnd (interactive game play) and FIVEM modification elements (handled by the Cobalt Lend Artificial Intelligence Team). These will be based on the code base of the popular RockStar game series Grand Theft Auto 5. Each player who purchases a Paradox Realm NFT will have access to both Paradox Realm and Grand Theft Auto 5. In the future, players will have access to other popular games such as Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar and other game spaces created by Paradox Realm.
5. NFT Breakdown & Tokenomics
5.1 How The GEN2 Mint Will Work
1. We will mint 5,000 unique NFTs on the Solana blockchain
2. Of these, the general public will be allowed to mint 4,000 unique NFTs directly from the Paradox Realm website.
3. Of the remaining 1,000 NFTs:
- The original 247 GEN1 Gallow Gang Club character NFTs minted in December 2021 are being re-released. Cobalt Lend has provided the funding and support to ensure a game that will be able to scale with the Metaverse and compete with other P2E games.
- An additional 253 NFTs are reserved for the Cobalt Lend Team
- 250 NFTs are reserved for in-game prizes won through Paradox Realm gameplay
- 250 NFTs are reserved for exchanging rugged NFTs from other projects
5.2 In-Game Currency vs. Real World Currency
There will be three (3) main currencies for the Paradox Realm game:
1) PARA Token — operates on BSC. Supply: 1 billion
2) Paradox Dollar (Para-Dollar) — operates in-game ONLY; may be exchanged for BSC PARA
3) XPARA — In-game special event reward currency that never leaves the game.
E.g.: Stake CBLT or PARA to earn the XPARA in-game currency
The in-game currency referred to as the PARA-Dollar or Dollar may be redeemed for out-of-game currency — PARA, that operates on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC)
5.3 Token Utilities
- Buy in-game assets (weapons, vehicles, buildings, homes, etc.)
- Purchasing gas to run vehicles
- Purchasing marijuana or alcohol to lower anxiety levels that maintain health meters
- Participation in any event or game (bank heist, gang activity…etc.)
- Buy registration to assimilate, become part of, or lead a gang
- Buy-in of “rugged NFT”
- Purchase of future Paradox Realm NFTs
- Trading / Farming / Staking
5.4 PARA Tokens on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC)
The Paradox Realm team will be deploying a total of 1 billion PARA Tokens on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC).
Breakdown:
70%: Exchange for PARA Dollars in-game currency
10%: Reserved for airdrops to NFT holders (GEN 2 ONLY)
10%: Future Liquidity Pools
10%: Staking (Stake CBLT To Earn PARA)
The PARA Token will be paired (at a conversion rate) with the stable coin within the game. The PARA Token will be separate from the simulated tokens we create inside the game for partners. There will be an infinite supply of PARA Tokens controlled by us inside the Paradox Realm game. Regular gameplay is used for character upkeep and not monetized, whereas special events are monetized. There will be a fixed supply of 1 billion PARA Tokens outside of the Paradox game on BSC. We will gradually decrease the amount of live BSC / PARA tokens that can be claimed in exchange for in-game currency as the game progresses and gains popularity in order not to dilute the supply of live PARA Tokens on the actual blockchain. We will use a series of API bots to read from the database inside our games designed to trigger transactions outside the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) to release or pay out live PARA Tokens to game players who are redeeming their in-game rewards in the real world.
We will also create a small liquidity pool for PARA tokens to be paired against WBNB. This allows us to use outside oracles to call the price of our PARA Token. We will encourage the community to contribute to this liquidity pool. The sole purpose of this liquidity pool will be to allow pre-existing oracles to pull prices for us to be able to read (for our own distribution purposes) the amount of PARA tokens players are cashing out in the real world.
5.5 Staking of BSC Tokens
Staking contracts will be set up at both paradoxrealm.com and cobaltlend.io to:
- Stake Cobalt & earn XPARA
- Stake Cobalt & earn PARA (BSC Token)
- Stake Cobalt & earn PARA + XPARA (Extended Staking Contract)
- Stake PARA & earn XPARA
Staking Cobalt (CBLT) on BSC to earn XPARA Tokens:
XPARA tokens are not permitted to leave the game and can only be used as in-game currency for Paradox Realm games. At the end of the staking contract the original staker / game player will be able to redeem their original CBLT tokens outside the game via their staking contract while being able to keep and spend XPARA tokens in-game.
Partner tokens from the NULS SCO platform that also operate on BSC will partner with us in order to have their token represented in our metaverse, and their token will only be distributed in-game for special purposes. For example: if the SCO partner contracts a specialty shop inside our metaverse, then their token can be the exclusive payment type for their shop. We will automatically keep 50% for the treasury, while the other 50% will be distributed in-game according to the Cobalt Lend and SCO Partner plan. The 50% distributed to the community will be airdropped within the game to use as purchasing power at the retail shop that the SCO partner setup within our metaverse. If the SCO partner does well and all assets are used in-game, the SCO partner will receive 10% of the amount from the treasury. The other 90% will be distributed along with the PARA token to the community members wishing to cash out of the game.
5.6 How To Purchase In-Game Currency
- The player will be able to purchase in-game currency using CBLT, PARA, or BNB tokens
- The player will be able to buy PARA tokens directly from paradoxrealm.com using their Metamask wallet (must have BSC RPC added to the wallet)
- The player can purchase BSC PARA tokens and stay on blockchain to trade in the real world
- The player can also purchase in-game currency (PARA Dollars) which are automatically credited to their game account
As the player earns in-game currency that they wish to cash out in the real world, they are required to go to the Cobalt Bank inside the game and submit a withdrawal ticket. Cobalt Lend staff will then check the player’s account to verify that the withdrawal ticket is valid and that the player has observed the “cool down” period.
5.7 “Cool Down” Periods
There is a “cool down” mechanism in place in order for us to be able to follow the transactions that take place inside the databases and to ensure that the databases are secure. This means players can’t just go in the game at any time and rob a bank for a large amount of CBLT tokens all at once. Instead, missions like bank heists are special events where we determine what the reward is (CBLT tokens, PARA tokens, etc.). These “cool down” periods — provisionally every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — enable us to read the database logs and follow transactions to ensure that players are not automatically spawning their tokens or cheating by other means. Players cannot cash out immediately. Each player will have to abide by the “cool down” period, meaning at least one (1) day must lapse before cashing out is available.
After withdrawals are approved, the API Bot will make the conversion and deposit the appropriate amount of PARA or other tokens into the player’s Metamask wallet.
5.8 Airdrops & In-Game Purchases
10% of the total supply of PARA tokens on BSC will be reserved for airdrops to NFT holders (registered Paradox Realm GEN 2 ONLY). This is how NFT holders will initially obtain in-game currency and how they will be incentivized to not only hold their NFTs but also to hold multiple NFTs to obtain airdrops for each one. There will be various incentives for holding multiple NFTs including, but not limited to, registration for gangs, leadership of gangs, specific car types, and special weapons.
The Paradox Realm team will make sporadic airdrops throughout the first year after the mint. Only NFT holders that have NOT placed their NFT on the secondary market for resale will be entitled to these weekly airdrops of PARA tokens. The API bot specifically designed by the Cobalt Lend Tungsten team will be monitoring actions on the Solana blockchain to airdrop the PARA token to registered Metamask wallets with the BSC RPC.
6. Additional Revenue Streams
The Paradox Realm metaverse experience will have multiple revenue streams. For example:
1) Advertising space on billboards, benches, radio broadcasts, etc.
2) Rental of retail shops to sell specialty in-game assets and items
3) Promotional events: E.g., “art heist” or “bank heist”
4) Partners provide liquidity for game play & cash out
5) Integrating social media promoters as NPC
Specifically selected partners contract a specialty shop inside our metaverse to sell select items or run approved promotional events. Cobalt Lend makes their token the exclusive type of payment for their shop.
The partner transfers 100k of their BSC token to the Cobalt treasury and Cobalt creates a new in-game currency for them. PR automatically keeps 50% for the treasury to pay people who cash out of the Paradox Realm game, and distributes the other 50% in-game according to the Cobalt Lend & Partners plan.
The 50% distributed to the community may be airdropped or sold within the game to use as purchasing power at the retail shop that the SCO partner set up within the Paradox Realm Metaverse.
If the partner shop is extremely successful, and more than 80% of their newly created in-game currency is spent within the game on non-refundable assets, the partner will be entitled to the return of 10% of their locked treasury funds.
7. Metaverse
As Cobalt Lend builds out its metaverse deploying the R.A.G.E engine, we have established partnerships with other teams using the Unity engine to build out, allowing us to collaborate to secure space within ANY environment beyond the immediate one we are in the process of creating.
The 3D aspect of Paradox Realm is currently being developed by the Cobalt Artificial Intelligence team, who will be working in conjunction with partners to develop additional 3D assets.
Fig. 2: 3D
8. Artist & Character Development
Fig. 3: NFT character
The Cobalt Lend team has chosen a carefully selected commission artist to develop characters and scenes for the paradoxrealm.com website.
A scene artist has also been commissioned to provide an alternative take on both the paradoxrealm.com website and the game itself. This alternative take will ultimately become part of the game metaverse. It is our expectation that the combination of styles will provide the aesthetic we require to definitively engage the community while exhibiting our overall vision and message.
9. Road Map
Q1 2022
Milestones for Contract Development — BSC (Binance Smart Chain)
- Bot creation to read database & trigger transaction on blockchain
- Bot testing with server communication
- Bot & Binance contracts testing
- Final bot connection
- Frontend connection & launch for player registration
- Storefront (frontend project)
- Treasury — staking Cobalt
- Testing
- Beta
- Launch contracts on BSC
Milestones for Contract Development — Solana
- Testing of Generative AI script for artwork production
- Testing of “Candy Machine 2.0” code base from Metaplex
- Series of tests on DEVNet Solana prior to main deployment
- Set up of frontend for “Minting” page of NFT collection
- Frontend connection and launch of player registration (Discord)
- NFT registration in Discord to link Rockstar KEY & NFT to game
- Testing of Registration Portal (Discord)
- CLOSED Beta Testing of Paradox Realm multi-person perspective Metaverse PC game
- OPEN Beta Testing of Paradox Realm multi-person perspective Metaverse PC game
- NFT launch on Solana blockchain (Gallow Gang 5k Mint)
Milestones for Game Development (5M Code Base)
- 8 months of prior testing on several servers
- January 2022: Launch of Paradox Realm game using 5M code (Beta)
- Beta testing open to team while team continues build-out
- Asset creation & replacement of existing libraries
Milestones for Game Development (QbCore Framework {open-source project})
< > Key:
> (T) — Tyler | Project Manager / Lead Game & Engine Developer
> (X) — Xander | Game Asset & Resource Developer
> (NO) — Needs Outsourcing (will be handled by Michael, required developer parameters)
> (ND) — Natively Done, does not require user interaction/maintenance, is autonomous
> (OH) — Overhead, Michael, Core Team, Executive Decisions, High Priority issues
> (EA) — Era-Appropriate (1920’s-1950’s)
> (RP) — Referred to within the FiveM Community as RolePlay; deterministic of the character played by a user to engross themselves in the immersive online world with other online players
< > 8 months of prior testing & maintenance on several servers
< > Wide scope objective of 1,000 users simultaneously playing the server at one time (vulnerable)
< > Short scope objective of 100–250 users simultaneously playing the server at one time (stable)
< > Quarter 1 2022:
- Launch of Paradox Realm game (closed Beta V1.0) (T)
- Limited testing parameters of framework stability, graphic restrictions, item/vehicle distribution mediums (T) (X)
- > Begin Open Beta testing
- Paradox Realm game elevated to Open Beta V1.1.0 (restricted to members of the Paradox Discord / access restricted through backend Discord API verification methods (ND)
- Testing Parameters:
- ~ Weapon Damage (X)
- ~ Weapon attachments / Attributes / Removal of unrealistic weaponry (X)
- ~ Vehicle removal & addition to obtain (EA) presence (X)
- ~ Vehicle adjustments on handling, speeds, collision algorithms, density, pricing, etc. (X)
- ~ Economic balancing through job pay, robbery payouts, item buy/sell prices, etc. (T) (OH)
- ~ Location adjustment including drugs, vehicle sell points, shops, spawn points, purchasable houses, garages, fishing locations, nightclub(s), fight night, etc. (T) (X)
> Conclude Open Beta Testing
- Conduct multiple user surveys on game performance, general curb appeal, feedback, insight, what more could be desired? (OH)
- Issue Beta Tester Exclusive Item (could be a car, weapon {handheld}, exclusive Discord role, etc. Limited to one {1} reward| unannounced) (T) (X)
> One week recess
- Evaluate user feedback to enhance current and future aspects of gameplay development to implement during recess (T) (X)
- Paradox Realm Official Public (exclusive) Launch
Q2 2022
- OPEN Beta Testing of Paradox Realm multi-person perspective Metaverse PC game to Partners for monetization
- Deploy self-service “candy machine V2” at paradoxrealm.com for NFT community to mint and resell their own projects in turnkey-type solution that will automate and assist with process for a nominal fee
- Initial build-out of Old West based on Red Dead Redemption (RDR)
- NFT launch on Binance Smart Chain (Gallow Gang 5k Mint)
Q3 2022
- Beta Testing of Old West based on Red Dead Redemption (RDR)
- Additional Farming, Staking & Trading set up on other DEX’s and centralized exchanges to increase PARA token presence
10.Team:
GAME TEAM:
Christian Roque — — — — — — — — — — — — — -Contract integrationWeb3 DEV
Tyler Zimmerman — — — — — — — — — — — AI Support / Game Development
Julian Beltz — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -Discord Support
Mr. OneDay — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Scenic & Character Artist
Mike Fraiser — — — — — — — — — — — -Beta Tester & Apprentice Game Coder
Cory J. (X) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Beta Tester Support
HeVee18 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Beta Tester Support
Phil (Mr.Squigs) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -Marketing
Casey J — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -Marketing
Moochein — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Marketing
David Lindsey — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -Marketing & Market Analysis
Xander Zimmerman — — — — — — ESport Team Leader /Server Developer
Joseph — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Server Developer
Ninja Crew — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 3D Character / Asset Development
Cobalt Lend — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Supporting Team
Crypto Cryptography — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Cypher Developer
Glenn Leaper — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -Writer
Partners & Collaborators:
NULS
NULS Foundation
8Bit Gaming
Exiled Apes
United Aliens
Chicken Tribe
NinjaSwap
5M (Partner Affiliate)
RockStar Games (Partner Affiliate)
Grand Theft Auto (Partner Affiliate)
Pub Genius (Coding Team)
11. System Requirements
Below are the minimum and recommended system specifications for both Paradox Realm and Grand Theft Auto V (PC) — Rockstar Key — GLOBAL. Due to potential programming changes, the minimum system requirements for Grand Theft Auto V (PC) — Rockstar Key — GLOBAL may change over time. (This is the minimum PC requirement / You will also need access to the Paradox realm Discord server)